Randal Quintana       

12822 W Dreyfus Dr. El Mirage AZ 85335  

623-205-5369 rquint3711@aol.com

Over 30 years of experience in outside plant construction, fixed wire line copper splicing maintenance repair rehabilitation and restoration, including fiber construction and distribution test and turn up. Well experienced in managing multi-million dollar projects in numerous locations across the United States as well as many international locations. 

US Utility Contractor Co.

·         2007-2013, Project Manager, Copper line conditioning for AT&T Connecticut, aerial line construction, maintenance and restoration, network construction, including FTT. Performing, scheduling of crews, materials management, vehicle maintenance, tracking financials, conducting pre-bid surveys including unit submission, safety audits, quality inspections, sourcing outside resources and administration of unit billing and invoicing, client relations. Project Manager for municipal fiber build in Norwich Connecticut, which included construction of fiber network, all splicing, termination, test and turn-up.

·         Re-assigned to Ohio to correct and reinstate failing line construction maintenance (on call) contract, successfully reinstated contract and relationship with customer, AT&T. Conducted pre-bid surveys and bib submission to client through ACAS , sourcing of outside resources and administration of unit pricing, billing and invoicing.

·         Served as SME representing NORTEL in triple play digital services OSP interface replacement requirements, cabling, and service area reconfiguration and resizing, aerial protected service drop replacement requirements, service qualification and service level test equipment and basic network design reconfiguration to Trinidad & Tobago Telecommunications in concert with NORTEL switching equipment sales representatives. Performed extensive research and business development in conjunction with RFI, RFQ and RFP by invitation to US Utility based upon T&TT confidence in my consulting them as SME in Triple Play Service offerings. 

Comtec Solutions Inc.

 

·         2005-2007, City Manager Las Vegas Nevada, performing management of fiber splicing and testing, engineering site surveys for last mile commercial sites and cell towers for COX Communications. Responsibilities included scheduling, project tracking, financials, field surveys, safety compliance, quality compliance, client relations and pricing negotiations for SOW’s, sourcing of and negotiations of unit pricing for outside resources. 

 

US Utility Contractor Co.

 

·         2004-2005, Project Construction Manager for US Utility Contractor Co in Perrysburg Ohio. Performing network construction, aerial, buried and underground of copper and fiber cables, splicing/termination, test and turn up. Managing client relations, daily scheduling, tracking financials, materials, vehicle maintenance, mobilization and coordination outside resources of crews to various locations, including negotiation and administration of sub contract unit pricing, billing and invoicing on. In various locations in the Mid Atlantic, states. Including Toledo, Cleveland, Akron, for AT&T, and Andrews Air Force Base Maryland.

 

Sound Telecommunications Inc.

 

·         2002-2004, Splicing and Construction Manager for Sound Telecom Inc. for Comcast Inc. in the San Jose area of California, performing lip and gutter saw cut installation of inner-duct and fiber cable for network upgrade FTTH construction in Hillsborough County, Florida. Construction Manager, Puerto Rico, performing CATV aerial and buried installation for expansion project at various locations in Puerto Rico, permitting, sourcing local CATV construction contractors.

 

OSP Consultants Inc.

 

·         1998-2002, Project Splicing Manager for OSP Consultants Inc. and US West, in The Phoenix Arizona metro area performing both copper/fiber splicing termination and turn up, including trunk, feeder, ring-cuts and cabinet splicing, x-box cutovers, VDSL, (triple play services) site preparation and interface cabinet installation.

 

Butler Telecom Inc.

·         1996-1998, Portland Oregon, served as special services copper conditioning supervisor for US West performing testing and conditioning of specials circuits 56KB/64KB, ISDN,ADSL, T-1 defective spans, defective pair recovery and de-loading POTS lines for state Lottery project.

 

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AT&T Outside Plant Systems

 

·         1993-1996, SME Outside Plant Manager, in which time I contributed as a member of the core construction team in OSP methods and procedures, including the deployment and installation of several international AT&T projects including, Egypt (existing network, repair and restoration manager), Guatemala and Ecuador, provided training to host country national telecom engineers, in the use of Micro Systems MS-100 field interface test and records verification system and DaVar test and record verification system. Saudi Arabia, performed fiber route surveys for scheduled AT&T TEP-6 fiber expansion project throughout the Kingdom. Manila, Philippines performed as outside plant construction and splicing manager, building entire underground network from central office to last mile customers. Including the stock exchange located in Makati, Manila for Global Telecom (Singapore).

 

Able Telecom Inc.

 

·         1992-1993, Caracas Venezuela, held position of Area installation and maintenance, cable repair splicing Manager, for G.T.E., CANTV, supervising up to 45 technicians in the Prado Del Este serving area of Caracas. Managed time sheets and verified correct reporting of hours charged. Responsible for dispatching crews to various locations based on priority trouble reports issued by CANTV, single pair troubles, bad section replacement and wet splice locations. Trained local CANTV OSP repair technicians in use of current installation methodologies regarding newly introduced materials and closures/terminals for field deployment. My daily work included Spanish/English translator and bodyguard.

 

 

 

 

Butler Telecommunications Inc.

 

·         1991-1992, Mexico City and Toluca Mexico, held title of Central Office cut-over splicing, Manager AT&T/TELMEX working with 30 host country national contract splicers and ex-patriot splicers, performing central office switch conversions. Responsible for cable vault tip cable splice locations and configuration, cut over sequence in order to facilitate a well, organized end result. Set up of splice openings and tip cable splicing counts due to Mexican 10 pair configuration cable being spliced to 25 pair American pair configuration tip cables. Responsible for scheduling of crews as cut over schedule ran 24 hours 7 days per week. Maintained and verified time sheets for all cut over crews, including status reporting to Central Office Managers responsible for cut over dates to AT&T.

 

Atlantic Telecom Inc.

 

·         1990-1991, Georgetown Guyana South America for GT&T as a training supervisor, training local technicians in outside plant copper splicing (Modular), color code counting up to 3600 pair cables, encapsulated closure installation and defective pair recovery, splicers error identification and corrective actions (split pairs, transposed, stacked pairs, opens) utilizing Dynatel test equipment.

 

Burnup & Sims Inc.

·         1988-1990, Became Splicing Supervisor for Burnup and Sims Inc. while working hurricane Hugo storm restoration in the U.S. Virgin Islands for VITELCO. Responsibilities included dispatching cable repair technicians to priority trouble locations to maximize cleared trouble reports, performed cable repair techniques instruction to junior technicians. Trained local technicians in installation of newly introduced weather resistant building terminals and modular splicing techniques.

 

1978-1987, I began working for General Telephone Company in Baytown, Texas and Saint Petersburg, Florida as a construction copper cable splicer, received additional cable repair and cable conformance acceptance training, conducted testing for load coil spacing, build out capacitor values, noise measurement test rehabilitation and defective pair recovery, performing daily cable trouble orders.

 

1974-1978, I have been in the Telecommunications industry for 30+ years, beginning as a telecommunications specialist in the U.S. Air Force, honorably discharged.

Education

USAF technical training – Advanced Telecommunications

G.T.E. technical training—Advanced Network conformance testing

                                               Trouble isolation and restoration

AT&T corporate international project implementation

           International project management

           International diversity training

 

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