360 Networks(Formally Dynegy) – Denver, Colorado 2004-2006

Responsible for the engineering, installation and design, project timelines, budgets and material selection for approximately one quarter of the network which consisted of 16,000 route miles of fiber covering 15 states and 39 markets. Responsibilities included project management, cost allocation, equipment selection, network design & engineering from collocation to electrical interfaces (T-1, DS3), dark fiber & conduit, DWDM wavelength services (2.5G/10G) as well as optical transport (GigE, OC-3/12/48/192).

§    Creation of Engineering Design Packages “EDP” for the installation of network equipment; this included installation steps and procedures, card location, cable running lists, floor plans, bay lay-out drawings, light levels, test & turn-up information for both network DWDM 10G’s and customer interfaces down to T1’s

§    Dark Fiber Designs in Auto-Cad for the installation of laterals, HH/Splice enclosure placement, splice drawings and fiber testing documentation including OTDR

§    Collocation Design encompassed overhead infrastructure (ladder racking, fiber raceway), bay placement, BDFB installation, cabling, lacing & tapping, site alarm installation as well as alarm augments for customer interface

§    Project Management roles included establishing timelines, creating Allocation of Fund Expenditures “AFE” for approval, cost tracking and coding for materials used on a given project; also included generating financial reports to track payments

§    TBS entailed updates of project timelines, supplements of completion dates as well as newly installed equipment. Additionally, this included TID’s, Fiber connection, Card, Slot and Chassis configurations

Manager Network Engineering

Dynegy Global Communications – Englewood, Colorado 2000-2004

Responsibilities during Network build included Request for Proposal “RFP’s” reviews from vendor, equipment selection and acquisition. This included creating bill of materials as well as purchase order creation. Deployment of equipment included the Engineering Design Packages “EDP” for approximately 80-100 long haul sites as well as 88 Metro POP’s.

§    Managed construction of a 16,000-mile DWDM Long Haul Nationwide Network consisting of 44 POP’s and 229 ILA/REGEN sites in less than 8 months

§     Designed installation specifications for all Metro DWDM deployment for 88 POP sites within 16 Metro Rings

§    Managed numerous installation companies, employees, and multiple projects simultaneously for the Long Haul and

Metro Network builds

§     Provided engineering and migration services on 11 RFP responses with a contract value of $12M

§     Completed a migration of 44 Network Elements and customers to a new platform in less than 3 months

§    Managed the decommissioning of 5 metro rings (21 total POPs). Relocated 9 of our most heavily populated POPs,

thus mitigating a $15M dollar commitment

§    May 2002 to February 2003 my team operated in a zero capital expenditure environment. We continued to find ways to add revenue with minimal cost. Through efficient grooming of services, my team provided capacity for the sales team, which resulted in a $375k monthly revenue increase

National Technical Trainer /Support Engineer

Telsource Communication Services – Strongsville, Ohio 1997-2000

Responsibilities included creation of training documentation related to customer equipment as well as installation. This included visiting customer locations to ensure equipment installation and training was completed correctly. Document creation, class preparation, scheduling as well as training was performed. Installed and serviced equipment with service rates ranging from POT’s thru OC-48 located in all types of environments. State toll road, airports, high-rise office complexes, small business and residual sites were some of the environments and applications.

§    Installation and maintenance of PBX’s, CSU/DSU, Routers, Cable, DSL, Electrical and SONET services

§    Trained all field Technical Engineers on products installed and supported by Telsource Corp.

§    Provided Engineering Project coordination with Telecom customers to train Telsource Engineers per their specifications.

§    Customer site inspections to ensure customer satisfaction which included extensive travel in the US, and Overseas

Senior System Engineer

Marysville Marine Distributions – Marysville, Michigan 1986-1997

Oversaw design, installation and maintenance of LAN/WAN system, PBX, AC/DC back-up systems for multiple nationwide distribution centers. Other duties included training sales personnel on the operation of UNIX Systems and PBX functions.

Apprentice Electrician (Family Owned)

Miller Electric – Saint Clair, Michigan     1985-1997

Installation of AC/DC power in both commercial and residential applications. This included Low Voltage for Alarms monitoring, Voice, Video and Data to high voltage in large automotive manufacturing facilities

General Studies & Criminal Justice

SAINT CLAIR COLLEGE – Port Huron, Michigan           1992