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Management Team  ±  Professional Consultants  ±  Municipal Land Use Planners

Formed in 2006, CarrierClass Site Development, LLC (CCSD) provides management consulting and infrastructure deployment services to the broadband telecommunications industry.

CCSD delivers a wide range of expertly implemented and managed services and systems to wireless service providers, corporations, public entities and owners of towers and other antenna supporting structure.

We work with wireless service providers, broadband service provides, government entities, tower companies and real estate portfolio owners in the Mid-Atlantic States, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and New York.

With over 20 years combined hands-on experience in the broadband telecommunications arena, CCSD’s founders, Jim Innes, CEO, and Rich Lemanowicz, Esq., have worked directly with every major wireless service provider, including Cingular Wireless, Nextel, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, XM Radio, as well as other broadband service providers such as Comcast, Mediacom, and Level 3, multiple government entities, major tower companies and real estate portfolio owners.

CCSD is unique in that its management team has in-depth expertise in wireless backhaul systems and site hardening.  We have managed hundreds of co-location projects to completion for all the major telecommunication companies.  Additionally, we have managed hundreds of site portfolios, including towers and rooftops.

Our name - CarrierClass - captures our philosophy:  our work meets the most rigorous capacity, performance, scalability, availability and network management requirements of network service providers anywhere.

Management Team
James E. Innes, II, Chief Executive Officer  +  Richard J. Lemanowicz, Esq., COO and General Counsel

CarrierClass Towers' two principals, Jim Innes, CEO, and Rich Lemanowicz, Esq., COO and General Counsel, have more than 20 years of hands-on experience in the broadband telecommunications arena.  Innes and Lemanowicz have worked directly with every major wireless service provider, including Cingular Wireless, Nextel, Sprint PCS, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, XM Radio, as well as other broadband service providers such as Comcast, Mediacom, and Level 3, multiple government entities, major tower companies, and real estate portfolio owners.     >back to top

James E. Innes, II
Chief Executive Officer

Jim Innes is the CarrierClass Group's Chief Executive Officer.  Innes has played an active role in expanding Pennsylvania’s telecommunications infrastructure since 1985 when he joined the pioneering microwave “bypass” carrier MetroNet Communications.  Since then, he has held management positions with Glasgal Communications, MicroNet Communications, Apex Site Management and American Tower Corp., all involving their activities in Pennsylvania.

At MetroNet, Innes initiated managed projects as from a wireless Ethernet connection for a major pharmaceutical company to a broadband medical imaging transmission system, then only the second to be implemented in the U.S.  He was a part of the original senior management team at start up Apex Site Management, later sold to SpectraSite.  At American Tower Corp., he held a variety of positions including management of ATC’s nationwide managed site portfolio and business development for their portfolio of hardened “bunker” telecommunications sites.

After ATC, Innes co-founded Broadband Network Development and joined Wireless Access Technologies as a principal where he started up and ran a successful wireless backhaul systems implementation business serving Cingular Wireless and others.  He also developed and managed WAT’s rooftop management business including clients such as AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals and Advance Realty.

Innes is now founder and president of the CarrierClass Group.  Based in Plymouth Meeting, PA, CarrierClass provides wireless backhaul systems provisioning for wireless service providers, public safety communications network operators and enterprise network managers.  CarrierClass also provides antenna site management services and develops multi-user antenna sites for third parties and for its own portfolio.

Innes, a free-lance writer and commentator on a variety of telecommunications topics, is a founding Board member of the Pennsylvania Wireless Association and a member of the Radio Club of America. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Pennsylvania.     >back to top 

Richard J. Lemanowicz, Esq., Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel

Richard J. Lemanowicz, CarrierClass Group's COO and General Counsel, is a Pennsylvania-based attorney who specializes in wireless site zoning and permitting.  Lemanowicz has extensive experience in telecommunications, land use, real estate, construction and development, and environmental matters.  His areas of practice also extend to business litigation and construction litigation.

Lemanowicz is admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar and the New Jersey Bar.  He is licensed to practice law in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as well as in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Lemanowicz is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the New Jersey Bar Association, the Federal Communications Bar Association, and the American Society of Landscape Architects.

He earned his Juris Doctor from Widener University School of Law.  He holds a Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture from Temple University.    
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Professional Consultants

The CarrierClass Group tailors its use of professional consultants as appropriate and beneficial to our client contracts.  Through our 20 years’ experience in the broadband telecommunications field, we have solid and extensive relationships with outstanding municipal land use planners and site acquisition consultants throughout the mid-Atlantic.  Our consultants are well versed in the nuances of communication tower development projects and the specific permitting and procedural requirements at the state and local levels.

We work with site acquisition consultants in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, Delaware and Virginia to identify and procure viable sites for communication towers.     >back to top 

Municipal Land Use Planners

We work with municipal land use planners in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, New York, Delaware and Virginia who have proven records of success in tower development projects.     >back to top

 

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