Experience:

Telecommunications technician with over 15 years of experience with a natural ability to lead and produce quality workmanship.

Highly skilled in performance of equipment, site surveys, installations, and procedures. I have well-developed communication and problem-solving skills, with the capacity to resolve difficult situations under adverse conditions. I thrive in a fast-paced environment.

 

Job History:

Astreya Inc LLC (Assigned to Google) 12/2014 – 11/2015 (Metro Field Technician)

Responsible for the day to day activities to maintain the Google POP Sites in the Dallas Metro area. Duties included installation of new circuits, card adds, Fiber runs for new customers, troubleshoot equipment issues and over all site management.  Quality Control of new Installation work to meet Google’s standards. 

Time Warner Cable 11/2013 – 12/2014 (Fiber Design Engineer)

Responsible for day to day activities of assigned fiber optic routes to design and manage the installation of the local telecommunications network, and coordinate fiber placement and other services to specified customer buildings

 

CorTech LLC, Contractor (Assigned to Google) 3/2012 – 10/2013 (Deployment Engineer)

Installed ALU 1830 PSS-36 DWDM, BTI Carrier Ethernet, Cisco, and Siemens DWDM/ Line Systems; Performed capacity adds on transport networking equipment; Testing end terminal to end terminal utilizing OSA and OTDR; Run and test fibers utilizing scope, power and VFL. Updated ASBUILTS and other engineering documents. Worked with Transport Engineers on new power and ground standards, deployments of switch nodes they had designed, and performed all DC/ground installations.

 

Stake Center Locating 11/09 – 3/12 (Field Technician)

Responsible for the safety and prevention to several carriers’ fiber networks.

 

Tw telecom 09/04 – 10/09 (OSP Engineer) 

Responsible for day to day activities of assigned fiber optic routes to design and manage the installation of the local telecommunications network, and coordinate fiber placement and other services to specified customer buildings.   Duties include; Coordinate with building owner for floor space, power grounding, and inside conduit for cabling, as required.  Manage contractors on actual placing and splicing activities.  Perform site surveys to provide pre-sale cost estimates for servicing a specific building.  Perform fiber characterization testing, such as CD, PMD, ORL, for OC-192 optical networks, Power Meter and OTDR testing. 

 

SportsService Inc. of Dallas 02/01 – 02/05 (Level Supervisor)

 

McLeodUSA/Caprock Communications 04/00 – 11/01 (Field Operations Mgr)

Oversee the daily operations of the Field Operation’s group. Accomplishments included the development of an OSP Operations guideline; assisted in the development of a Preventive Maintenance guideline for network facilities. Utilize Microstation CAD software.

 

MCI/Worldcom 11/88 – 04/00 (Local FOTS/DACS Planning)

Manager of local networks capacity planning for the East Region. My duties consisted of the supervision of four network planners that handled infrastructure capacity requirements for all network local facilities in the legacy MCI, MFS, Brooks Fiber and collocation sites.  Equipment Engineer - Job duties consisted of planning, coordinating, and engineering of all transport equipment; equipment layout, power requirements, cable design, fiber  port assignments, of Lucent, NORTEL, and Fujitsu SONET equipment, Multiplexers, DWDM,  digital loop carrier equipment, timing sources and site/equipment alarm monitoring.  Utilize Microstation software.