NAME: Ramón O. Durán

ADDRESS: 36 Paulding Av, Tarrytown, NY, 10591

PHONE: +1 (407) 453-4228

E-MAIL: ramon.durant@gmail.com

SKYPE: roduto

 

Summary

A dynamic Telecommunication and Information Technology (IT) professional, holder of Project Management Professional (PMP) certification having over 7 years of rich experience, including international assignments in GPON Technology, Fiber To The Home (FTTH) projects, Outside Plant (OSP) constructions, project planning, cost estimation, conflict resolution, stakeholders management, resource management, quality assurance/ quality control. A team player focused in results and solutions. Experience in business areas as: Construction, Government, Food and Services and Telecommunication.

 

Experience

April 2015 – Oct 2015: Calatel (DIGICEL Trinidad & Tobago FTTH Project)

-Project Manager

 

10MM USD project and 2,300 kilometers of fiber construction, including deployment, splicing and As-build documentation, project sponsored by Digicel Trinidad and Tobago. Ensure and show to the client a detailed Project Plan of each work package delivered for execution. Proceed with the work execution based on the latest version of the Standard of Procedure established by the client. Coordinate project activities with all stakeholders (client, direct resources, sub-contractors) involved to ensure end-to-end execution of all project tasks.  Monitor project progress and proactively track bottlenecks and related issues to ensure that project schedules are met. Keep good relationship with the client in terms of communications, and organizational strategy objectives. Ensure the documentation of the deliverable package on timely manner and accurate to claim the payment of the work performed. Manage the team and subcontractors to get the objectives in positive environment. Cost management and report to the direction.

 

In terms of achievement during my management we delivered the first two OLT areas to the client; successfully handover of more than 50 kms of Backhaul areas; completion of the invoice process of 250 kms of fiber constructed; CALATEL was elected to be part of the MDU Project with the same client, during my management we delivered the first locations to offer FTTH services to clients by DIGICEL in Trinidad & Tobago.

 

Dec 2012- Dec 2013: TRICOM, S. A. – Dominican Republic

-Engineering Supervisor.

 

Responsible of the outside plant (OSP)’s design for all FTTx projects planned by the company in the Dominican Republic. Duties included: area surveys, dimensioning taking into account all the loss-insertion that any device, splice or fiber itself introduces by standard to the system, labor and material budgeting, low-level supervision of the construction, quality assurance where we were in charge of monitoring that splicing comply with the standards under were designed. Experience in Optical Power Meter and Fiber Splicer use, we were trained by Commscope, Inc. in Fiber Optics Applications & Constructions for the proper installation, termination and testing of their products. Update, documentation and management of the fiber optic information system.

During this experience my biggest accomplishment was the deployment project of Dark Fiber of Santiago City in Dominican Republic, about more than 50 facilities divided in two stage were designed and strategically located in different points of interest with capacity to serve services as T1, Dedicated, and Voice to more than 200 clients.

 

March 2010 – Dec 2012: Fluor LTD (Pueblo Viejo Dominicana Corporation Project)

-IT Supervisor.

Directly with IT manager we were in charge of planning and scheduling IT activities to ensure effective support to more than 500 users, successfully resolving technical problems and queries both by telephone and in the field in support of internal customer computer hardware, software, networking, and telecommunications systems and documenting them in our knowledge database. Tasks included successful diagnoses, identification, and isolation of problems based upon comments and complaints. Other activities included cabling supervision, network monitor, file and printing server administration, NAS configuration, IT procurement process.

 

My biggest challenge during this experience was be the only IT on duty during the nights, on my shoulders was the responsibility of maintain all the services and infrastructure running successfully.

 

Aug 2008 – Feb 2010: Dominican Republic Supreme Court of Justice – DR.

-IT Engineer Support.

 

Offer preventive and corrective support in Communications, Software and Hardware services to more than 800 users. Additional support to Network Department in activities such as cabling design & deployments, LAN, WAN, WLAN and VPN configurations and PBX (Cisco, Linksys, 3com).

 

An interesting challenge during this assignment was be part of the staff of the Remote Locations Connectivity Project, where we connected 25 remote locations spread in different cities in the Dominican Republic to the central office via VPN over Frame Relay and T1 services.

 

Education

-MSc Data Telecommunications (INTEC University, Dominican Republic) - 2010

-Bs Computer Science (UTESA University, Dominican Republic) - 2005

Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) - License 1655785

 

 

 

 

Skills

AutoCad, Calix, Cisco, Putty, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP /7, EPO McAfee, Dameware, VNC, VmWare, HyperV, Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Citrix, Blackberry OS, Alvarion’s Access Point, MatLab, Ubiquiti, VPN, Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, SQL, SAFO, Microsoft Access.

Additional Information

Training

Mastering Lookup functions in Excel 2013 - (greycampus.com)

Oracle Primavera P6 Program – (Udemy.com)

Operational Challenges with Data in Excel – Demystified - (greycampus.com)

ITIL Foundation Training Certification - (greycampus.com)

Commscope Fiber Optic Application and Installations.

SQL Basic

CCNP Route Training Certification (642-902)

CCNA Wireless Training (640-721)

CCNA (640-802)

Lean Manufacturing

Field Supervision

Linux Training

Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure (6421B)

Basic of Supply Chain Management

 

Languages

Spanish

English