Resume of Terry Faugno

 

Professional Experience

 

MasTec Network Solutions

Microwave Radio Technician II                                                                                    Sep 2013 – Dec 2013

Duties

·         Installation and provisioning of Alcatel/Lucent 9500 MPR microwave radio systems in outdoor cabinets and enclosed shelters.

·         Decommissioning of legacy microwave radio equipment from sites located within the California, Nevada and Arizona regional marketplace.

·         OSHA certified to climb and rescue on self-supporting, monopole and guyed towers.

·         OSHA 10 hour workplace safety certificate.

·         OSHA RF workplace hazard awareness trained.

 

 

Qualstaff  Resources (Aethercomm Inc. as temporary)                                          Oct 2011 – April 2012

RF Test Technician

Duties

·         Testing and tuning of high power (500V-1KV/40A) microwave transceivers for military applications.

·         Component  and circuit board level troubleshooting to resolve tuning and functionality issues on devices  under test utilizing RF parametric test equipment (noise figure meters, spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, PXA test sets) and standard electronic test equipment (oscilloscopes, digital multimeters).

·         Testing basic functionality and error density for high data rate military transceivers at subsystem and system level.

·         Interfacing with principal design engineers and test engineers to resolve design and production issues, refine test procedure methodologies and data recording for quality assurance.

 

 

 

Cobham Sensor Systems dba REMEC Defense and Space                            Nov 2010 – Sep 2011

Electronics Technician

Duties

·         Testing, tuning and repair of microwave amplifiers and filters for gain and signal loss.  Tuning specifications obtained from engineering documents specific to each part number.

·         Tuning methodologies include parallel gap welding of gold ribbon to circuit traces to influence gain and return loss characteristics, manual adjustment of inductors using tuning probes and low power microscopes, removal of circuit trace material and resistive material to adjust RF characteristics, circuit power output and power consumption.

·         Calibration of vector and scalar network analyzers, RF power meters, spectrum analyzers, noise figure meters, and swept signal generators to specific frequency range unique to each part.

·         Use of torque wrenches, allen drivers and other hand tools to affix and remove devices under test into test fixtures and attach/remove RF cables to test fixtures.

·         Improvisation of device specific hand tools and fixtures for test and tuning.

 

 

 

 

Harris IT Services                                                                                                   Sep 2007 - Jan 2010

Lead Technician, FTI program

Projects 

·         FAA Telecommunications Infrastructure (FTI) 

·         Providing maintenance, troubleshooting and repair/replacement of telecommunications equipment for the program (FTI) at the Southern California TRACON and the southern California region.

Duties

·         Troubleshoot, repair and document failures of analog and digital circuits, working in tandem with FAA personnel and Harris NOC and engineering personnel.

·         Travel to manned and unmanned FAA sites within the southern California region to perform diagnostic tests and repairs on circuit cards, interconnection cabling and system chassis assemblies during pre-arranged system maintenance windows.

·         Installing cabling and equipment at FAA sites to expand system capacity.

·         Responsible for documentation on Harris owned and controlled circuits carrying FAA voice and data traffic.

 

AT&T Communications Inc.                                                                                     Oct 2000 – Sep 2007

Communications Technician 

Projects

·         Project Pronto: Provide high speed data and dial tone service to end consumers via existing unshielded twisted pair copper facility already in ground in the public telephone network by means of remote terminal equipment distributed within the target neighborhoods.

·         Project Litespeed: Project is ongoing and expanding on Project Pronto to include capability to deliver video content and higher rate data to the end consumer via VDSL and fiber optic based technologies.

Duties

·         Provide support to field technicians during initial provisioning of new DSL circuits to end consumer in a high volume environment.

·         Provide technical support to field technicians during troubleshooting of nonfunctional DSL circuits. Provide technical support to ISP, CLEC and telephone company engineers during test and turn up of ATM switches and Lucent remote terminal facilities in California and Nevada.

·         Methodologies include use of automated provisioning software and directly accessing network elements via remote telnet log in to query alarm, fault and performance status, and reinitialize and reload cross connect databases as necessary to provide or restore data and dial tone service to the end customer.

·         Work with field technicians replacing and configuring defective circuit cards in remote terminals, record changes and initialize and configure cards as necessary.

·         Participate in multi line conference calls to troubleshoot data transmission failures with ISP, local exchange carrier, field technicians, providing remote test and troubleshooting of data infrastructure equipment.

·         Working with network engineers in test and turn up of OC3 and OC12 circuits connecting remote terminals to ATM switches in the central office.

Accomplishments

·         Consistently meet and exceed customer service level requirements as determined by VP of business unit.

·         Contributed input and feedback to web development committee during redesign of corporate intranet pages used by Pronto/Litespeed work group to accomplish assigned job duties.

·         Completion of training and certification on Lucent CBX 500 and GX 550 ATM switches, Alcatel Litespan and Litespan 2000 digital loop carrier equipment, Advanced Fiber Communications UMC 1000 line digital loop carrier equipment, Ciena WaveSmith ATM switch product line and Catena digital loop carrier equipment.

 

Pinnacle Towers Inc.                                                                                                   Apr 2000-Jun 2000

Field Engineer

Projects

·         Contract assigned to survey Pinnacle Towers owned antenna sites and make detail drawings of site layouts, antenna and RF conduit placement on towers and in equipment housing structures, digitally photograph and document status of equipment, fences, buildings and enclosures.

Duties

·         Travel from market to market per work assignments issued from Pinnacle Towers corporate offices in Hollywood FL.

·         Photograph, draw maps of antennas, equipment cabinet placement and fence lines, and apply identification tags to RF conduits at equipment cabinets and at entry point on base of antenna tower.

 

S-Com Computer Systems Engineers                                                                      Aug 1999 - Nov 1999

RBS Engineer                                          

Projects

·         Provided system level installation, configuration and turn up on Ericsson RBS 885, RBS 885 SCCS (Self Contained Cellular System) and RBS 2000 TDMA PCS network infrastructure equipment in a field environment as a subcontractor to Ericsson Inc. Position required 100% travel.

Duties

·         Installed card cages, battery backup systems, voltage rectifiers, data cabling, RF cabling, power cabling, cable trays and other cable management equipment in prefabricated equipment huts utilizing hand and power tools, measure and cut cable tray to fit each individual system as required.

·         Terminated and installed RF conduit connecting antennas to RF subsystems in equipment huts and self contained cabinets.

·         Configured cards in RBS to communicate with central office, downloaded operational software to cards, configured cross connects in tandem with network engineering personnel in central office to establish voice circuits between cell site and central office.

·         Installed and organized power, RF and digital data cabling per Ericsson specifications, including arrangement of cable bundles and specific anchoring methods.

Accomplishments

·         Completed Ericsson RBS Installation course.

·         Noted by supervisor for consistent quality and speed of work

 

 

Qualcomm Inc.                                                                                                   Jan 1994-Aug 1999

Senior Test Technician

Projects

·         RTS Roving Test System: Test and troubleshooting of analog subsystem and digital processing subsystem circuit cards that comprised a prototype CDMA cellular phone system. Then moved into full system level testing. RTS was a proof of concept phone system meant to demonstrate the viability of the CDMA digital air interface to prospective clients considering large scale deployment of 3rd generation cellular network equipment. Numerous variations of this system were produced to meet unique requirements of the different customers. System test consists of installing circuit cards into card cages, cabling card cages together, applying power and configuring the cards with their personalities, and tuning the RF transmitter subsystems to eliminate out of band spurious signals. Final test consisted of placing over the air phone calls with consumer model CDMA handsets, and subsequent hand off of system to field engineering personnel who would then deploy the system at a site determined by the customer for acceptance testing.

·         CDMA One/CBS: Worked with test and design engineers to build and validate production test fixtures for mass production model of CDMA cellular telephone system circuit cards and shelves. All aspects from prototype fixture construction, making custom cabling, and troubleshooting circuit cards to the component level were involved. Followed test fixtures from engineering lab to production floor and trained junior technicians in operating test fixtures for production testing. Transitioned to system level test of commercial cellular network product, performing similar tasks to RTS testing.

·         Globalstar: Satellite based cellular telephone product produced in partnership with Loral Aerospace LLC. Qualcomm responsible for building CDMA signal processing and RF uplink for ground stations to communicate with satellite repeater network. Worked with test engineering department building production test fixture for RF power control module. Transitioning it to the production floor and training junior technicians to operate test fixture for mass production. Transitioned to system level testing and configuration of billing subsystems, call flow control subsystems, and overall data traffic management subsystems. Subsystems consisted of rack mounted single board computers running WindRiver VxWorks real-time OS, sharing a common data and memory bus, all of which were interconnected via Cisco Catalyst 5000 fast Ethernet switches and Cisco 2511 and 4700 series terminal servers.

Duties

·         Perform functional test of various circuit cards that comprise functional block elements of CDMA cellular telephone system. Test equipment utilized includes digital storage oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, high precision signal generators, logic analyzer, RF power meter, Ethernet packet analyzer, GN NavTel protocol analyzer, TTC Systems FireBerd 5000 and 600 model bit error rate testers, and digital millimeters, Windows and OS/2 PCs and proprietary test jigs.

·         Construction and test of prototype test fixtures and low volume production test fixtures.

·         Design and assembly of custom cabling for digital, analog and power interconnections for test fixtures.

·         Assembly, test and troubleshooting of circuit cards, card cages and attendant cabling into operational telephone system for RTS prototype system, CDMA One production system and Globalstar satellite based cellular system.

·         Limited over the air field testing in the San Diego region using prototype CDMA handsets and mapping software to establish baseline coverage maps and evaluate the propagation characteristics of CDMA waveforms in various types of terrain.

·         Assembly and test of SUN SPARC workstations, 1-4U rack mount passive backplane computers, RAID-5 SCSI hard drive arrays, Cisco Catalyst 5000, 2511, 4700 and other Ethernet switching equipment.

·         Limited over the air testing of satellite based cellular telephone system and handsets via LEO (low earth orbit) satellite constellation.

 

Education & Training

 

Palomar College - Certificate in Electronics Technology (1991)

 

Cisco Networking Academy - Third course completed (September 2007); Currently on hiatus.

 

SBC Inc. - Courses in configuration of Lucent, Alcatel, Siena and Advanced Fiber Communications equipment; Courses in application of proprietary software tools for provisioning and tracking of service orders and repairs to end customer data and dial tone circuits. (2005)

 

Qualcomm Inc. - Courses in CDMA air interface; Courses in fundamentals of telephony and circuit switched networks (1999)