With 15+ years of telecom experience I’m a proven problem solver with excellent technical skills. I have extensive experience in simultaneously managing multiple projects throughout the projects’ lifecycle from RFP to post installation. I work efficiently and effectively across multiple platforms in a leadership or team member role. Experience working with various vendors’ equipment at all levels from Engineering, Installation, Commissioning, Provisioning, Maintenance and Trouble Analysis. Additional experience includes but is not limited to Leadership, Project Management, Operations and Instructing. 

 

§    POTS, Ethernet, DSL, T1/E1 DS3/T3,                                          §     DWDM, SONET, SDH

§    GigE, OC-3/12, OC-48, OC-192                                          §     Network Relocation 

§    Technical Support                                                                       §     Project Management

§    Network Engineering & Design                                                        §     Installation & Service 

§    System Maintenance                                                                       §     System Commissioning

§    Wave services (2.5G & 10G)                                                         §     Collocation Design (HVAC, Power, Alarming)  

 

 

 

Equipment

              §     ONI/Ciena (Online series up to the 9000)                               §    Ciena (Core Director CD/CI)

              §     Cisco (15454, 10200, 8800 and various others)                            §    Fujitsu (FLM150, Flash192, 4k & 7k series)

              §     Nortel (Transport 1600G/MOR & Classic Equipment)               §    Lucent

              §     Tellium Aurora 32/128/512                            §    Various CSU/DSU

              §     Channel Banks/ 1-0 DCS                             §    Sonus

              §     Tellabs                             §    Cedar Point

              §     Sycamore                             §    Datum & Symmetricom

              §     Avaya                            §    Alcatel

              §     Marconi                            

 

              Software

              §     ONI (CIT,MTM.ND)                                §    TBS/Metasolv

              §     Cisco (CTC,CTM)                            §    Fujitsu (FlexrGT)

              §     Nortel (Preside, OCM)                              §    Hyper-Terminal

              §     MS Office (Visio, Excel, etc.)                               §    Auto-CAD

              §     Windows 9x/2000/NT/XP                            §    Ciena (NMS)

              §     BTMon                             §    Marconi (NMS) 

             

              Certification 

              §     ONI                            §   Fujitsu

              §     Nortel                            §    Marconi             

              §     ISO 900:2008 Internal Auditor                             §    Ciena                             

 

 

 

Senior System Consultant II  

WeDo Technologies/Connectiv Solutions                                                                                              2010-Present

 

Responsibilities are: supporting Tier 1 to 3 wireless and landline clients on optimizing traffic routing across Local, IXC & Cell Sites; Internal Auditor for ISO 9001 standards across all WeDo North American division. Project Lifecycle Management: manage client’s requests for support using WeDo’s ticketing system throughout contract term.  

 

·         Assist Client Engineering teams on optimization of traffic which maximizes revenue on their Local, IXC and Cell networks

·         Manage customer relationships by holding or attending weekly/monthly meetings or site visits for WeDo’s netCLARUS platform

·         Assist Sales team by Lead Technical presentations of Company Tools and products to existing and potential clients

·         Participate in internal discussions with the product development team to develop new features and capabilities to the company’s application suites

·         Manage clients that use WeDo’s RAID product. This includes collaborative review of open issues and processing of change requests

·         Internal Quality Auditor ensures all teams and departments are holding to ISO 9001 quality and processes ensuring uniformity across groups

·         As an internal auditor I organized the review of quality documents throughout the year with multiple departments to ensure ISO compliance

 

 

 

Market Design/Transport Engineer II (CDV)                                                                                    

Comcast – Greenwood Village, Colorado                                                                                                  2007-2010

 

Network Design Engineer supporting Comcast VoIP Network Architecture that included design between Media Gateway, DCS, SONET & DWDM platforms. Responsibilities included design of trunks, T1, T3 and OCn facilities to support all inbound and outbound traffic for LOC, IAL, INL & 911. This included all day-to-day augments and capacity planning functions for the Eastern division Digital Voice footprint.    

 

·         Rate Center Designs which included the use of all LERG files to locate, End office switches, Homing arrangements, Tandems, OCN’s, Counties etc… 

·         Creation of Engineering design packages “SICP” to include detail connection to support new switch launches as well as rate center expansions

·         Produce transport as well as design and planning documents and studies in conjunction with Product Development’s market projections for long and short range objectives

·         Day-to-day issue resolution and all other activities associated with capacity planning, design, and management for Telephony initiatives for the Comcast Division footprint

·         Spearhead and completed multiple Fiber direct interconnection projects with local carriers improving circuit deliver time and reducing operating costs

·         Telephony trunk forecasting; telephony trunk/capacity planning & design; traffic & capacity reporting; telephony transport planning & design; facility usage/capacity reporting

·         Assist multiple Comcast Divisions maintain their expense budget at or below forecasted amounts; assist Division and Department Managers with tracking and reporting results and or variances on a monthly basis; contribute to the formation of the annual and other budgets when required

·         Compile and distribute weekly capacity and status reports to be used in the preparation of key performance reporting (KPI) provided for senior management review

·         Wireless direct connect project focused on US North Eastern major wireless carriers with the goal of off-loading wireless traffic to direct connections resulting in an estimated cost savings of $2M+ annually

·         Manage all major network augments to outside third party networks such as LEC and LD carriers within assigned markets

·         Assist ASR and Test/Turn-up team with complex facility ordering and testing

·         Track and monitor Switch Migrations ensuring there is enough TG capacity to execute each Phase of switch to switch migrations

·         Work with Local Market Engineering teams on designs for new switch deployment to insure adequate network diversity, switch survivability, and growth capacity

·         Work with local markets to assess existing fiber assets that could be leveraged for Comcast Digital Voice

 

 

 

Senior Network Engineering                                                                                   

Road9 (Contractor) – Greenwood Village, Colorado                                                                                    2006-2007

 

Primary responsibility was for Network Planning, Engineering & Design for Road9’s Fiber to the Home (FTTH) infrastructure. This included but was not limited to: assessing New Technologies, review Testing & Splicing results, Training, Head End Design, Power Plant, A&G PON equipment (OLT, ONT), Splitters, Video Channel decoders & localized VoIP Network.

 

·         Creation of OSP fiber design using Auto-CAD to layout & track span distances, loss measurement (OTDR) , H/H location, Splitter placement, Splice locations & Drops (building entry) for resort communities in US and Mexico

·         Technical support on Alcatel PON infrastructure this included training local personnel on installation and maintenance from an end-to-end perspective. “OLT-  Splitters (32:1, 16:1 & 4:1) – ONT”

·         Video support and installation (Sky TV). This included SAT down link, descrambles PON aggregate equipment, VOD storage arrays

·         Training of Field Engineering in Equipment installation, Fiber Splicing, Optical Cable installation, Passive Optical Splitters, ONT’s

 

 

 

Network Engineering, Planning & Design/Project Management                                                                                   

360 Networks – 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 – Cleveland, 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 (part-time)

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

General Studies & Criminal Justice

SAINT CLAIR COLLEGE – Port Huron, Michigan                                                                                                             1992

 

Available upon Request