Grant N Richardson

Colorado Springs, CO • 80922

Phone (804) 721-1253 • E-MAIL grantnrichardson@yahoo.com

 

OBJECTIVEI’m currently seeking a part-time, late shift and/or weekend position to supplement my current employment. I’m looking for a long term position that provides the opportunity to maintain my Cisco Networking and/or PC repair skills.

 

SKILLSTeam Lead, QA/QC Inspector, Site Property Manager

DOD Secret Clearance with Adjudicated SSBI Investigation

Optical Fiber Installer/Trainer (UniCam, Hotmelt and Fusion Splicing)

Internal and External Copper Cabling Installer/Trainer (Cat5, Cat6, RJ45, RJ58, RJ59)

Cisco Network Admin (3550, 3560 and 6509 switches along with 2811, 2951, ASR1001 routers)

Cisco Unified Call Manager Administration

Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) Installation and Administration

Visio Building and Network Diagrams

Network Engineering and Design

Installation of communications maintenance hole and conduit systems

Normal Bench Technician duties and also responsible for testing and evaluating new hardware and software prior to unit/company wide implementation

Extensive over the phone customer support

EDUCATIONAssociates in Computer Networking and System Administration

Texas State Technical College - Waco, TX

Graduated 2003

CertificationsRetina Network Security Scanner (2008)

CompTIA Security+ (2009)

Cisco Certified Network Administrator (2013)

 

 

 

 

 

 

EXPERIENCE10/2005 – Current 

General Dynamics Information Technology (various assignments)

 

9/2013 – Current   Ft Carson, CO 

QC Field Technician

·  Provide Quality Control and OSP/ISP Engineering support to US Army Information Systems Engineering Command.

·  QC support during design, construction, installation, and integration of the project to include cable infrastructure, maintenance hole and duct systems.

·  Responsibilities include surveillance, inspections, system testing, and review of site-specific construction, contract documents, and engineering drawings.

 

7/2009 – 8/2013   Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan 

Senior Network Admin

·  Maintain network connectivity for sites within the Bagram Area of Responsibility.

·  Analyze, administer and maintain voice, video, and/or data networks

·  Maintain network security and ensure compliance with security SOPs

·  Assist in designing and implementing network changes

·  Setup and maintain Very Small Aperture Terminals (VSAT) dishes

·  Maintain IM inventory for area

·  Serve as the secure systems IMO (SIPR, CENTRIX, Secure Video Teleconference)

·  Coordinate IM (J6) related projects with Area Officer in Command, base personnel and any visiting IM personnel 

·  Install new or upgrade existing networks as necessary

·  Maintain documentation and create “How To” articles for various tasks

·  Layer 1 installation and troubleshooting trainer

·  VSAT installation and operations trainer

·  Generated and maintained documentation for each building as well as designed all the projects in Visio.

·  Provided updated Red Line drawing after the installations were completed

 

4/2008 – 6/2009    Ft Lee, VA 

Associate Network Administrator

·  Primary response technician for the 23^rd Quarter Master School Brigade equipment included over 800 pieces of equipment including computers, laptops, projectors and printers (both standalone and network).

·  Bench technician – troubleshooting hardware and new software issues

·  Evaluating new hardware and software

·  Duties included a mix of customer phone support, remote connection help, weekly IAVA patches, inventory control and onsite troubleshooting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/2007 – 4/2008    Al Asad Air Base, Iraq

Sr. Outside Plant Installer / Team Chief

·  Team Chief of an Outside Plant Optical Fiber Installation Team and later Base-wide Help Desk Team

·  Installed 150 miles of copper and 200 miles of fiber optic cabling in 1400 old and new manholes terminating over 200 buildings.

·  Team Chief for AAAB Base Command Group Help Desk 

 

08/2006 – 3/2007   Bagram Air Field Afghanistan

OSP and ISP Installer

·  Designed, reviewed and installed all original ISP (In Side Plant) cabling for the Joint Operations Center (JOC), Tactical Operations Center (TOC), Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), and close air support (CAS) ramp buildings.

·  Installation and termination of all Cat5E and Single Mode Fiber cabling in new communications closets

·  Generated and maintained documentation for each building as well as designed all the projects in Visio.

·  Provided updated Red Line drawing after the installations were completed.

 

03/2006 – 8/2006   Ft. McCoy, WI

Network Support Technician II/Systems Administrator

·  Maintained 50+ servers for Army Reserve Readiness Training Center

·  Maintained Web servers, File servers, Exchange servers, VM Ware servers and regional level application software (RLAS) servers

·  Maintain various propriety programs.

·  Re-Installed all network cabling to ease troubleshooting and increase esthetic appearance of network/server spaces.

 

10/2005 – 03/2006 Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan

OSP Installer

ADDITIONAL SKILLSWindows 2003 and 2008 server DHCP, DNS, Printer/File Servers installation and operations

Veritas 9.0 Backup Software

RAID Arrays

VMWare 3.0 Servers

REFERENCES Available Upon Request

 

Colorado Springs, CO • 80922 Phone (804) 721-1253 • E-MAIL grantnrichardson@yahoo.com