1064 E Ghent St.

Azusa, CA 91702

Email: lmapalo75@yahoo.com

Tel (626) 524-0674

 

 

LORETO B. MAPALO

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILE:

 

Has extensive knowledge and practical experiences in Telecommunications and Electronics industry. Worked in short and long term contracts that involved large projects in Planning, Engineering Design and Construction.  Skills include Underground, Aerial, Building, Records tracking/documentation, Materials/Cost estimates and very thorough with design details.

 

 

Areas of Expertise in the following:

·                           FTTCS/LEC/Outside Plant Engineering and Construction

·                           Able to operate Mapsight survey equipment and interpret data of  Lidar  detectors

·                           Fiber Network Design, DSL and Broadband Services 

·                           FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Homes) Design, Hi-Cap & F2 Conditioning

·                           MDU/SFU, MPOE and Building Industry Consulting Service

·                           CFAS, JAMS, AOTx, EWO, OSP-FM, FIREWORKS, TIRKS, LFACS, IDDS, AAIS, ICGS, ARES/ARAMIS           and GCOMMs

·                           Security Alarm Installation and Pre-wirings

·                           GIS, ArcGIS, OCALC, MRE, AutoCAD/Visio/Microstations Drafting, MapInfo, Create Blueprints and   Records Posting

·               Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Adobe Acrobat             

 

 

EXPERIENCES:

 

March 12, 2015 - Aug. 7, 2015   Networkers, Inc. (for Ericsson projects)      San Jose, California

OSP ENGINEER

·               Involved with the start up operation of fiber deployment project in San Jose.

·               Worked and developed a segment design of a backbone network .

·               Projected locations of FDHs and its boundaries  in conformance with rated capacities.

·               Used GIS application in performing design projects.

·               Presented Permit/Construction drawings done with AutoCad.

·               Hands on experience with the use of Mapsight survey on Aerial facilities.

 

 

July 2011 – Aug. 15, 2014     Engineering Associates (for Hawaiian Telecom projects)      Upland, California

OSP ENGINEER

·               Work on F2 grooming for the different Hubs at Hawaiian Telecom.

·               Provide a complete design detail for the installation of VSEM Projects.

·               Identified  locations of  FDHs and use of existing Underground and Aerial facilities.

·               Working on FTTH projects on selected sites of Hawaii.

·               Worked on projects with Century Link's Fiber to the Tower and done FTTH field surveys to collect data for design.

·               Use of OSP_FM and Fireworks apps in the design process.

June 2010 – Jan. 2012 (contract work for AT&T)          AFL Telecommunications          San Jose, California

FTTCS ENGINEER

·               Performed field surveys to verify and collect data with the use of  measuring, opening, locating and verifying  equipments for design. Sitewalk and FTTH field area reviews with client reps were executed. 

·               Redlined a Design for the provision of fiber services to a cell site location

·               Provide a complete summary of a work activity in a design process.

·               Worked on detailed Engineering design of FTTCS with the use of AT&T Application programs like ARES, JAM  CFAS and MIC.

·               Worked on Permit Drawings of conduit layouts and its corresponding Traffic Control Plans at various proposed VRAD locations of city or county.

 

 

 

March 2010 – May 2010 (contract work for Verizon)         Kenton Group                    Riverside, California

OUTSIDE PLANT ENGINEER/ BAU

·               Prepare a complete job design package for Verizon’s MDU/SFU projects.

·               Perform field/site surveys to obtain required data in the design of new or existing facilities.

·                           Make reference with records and use of  IDDS, AAIS, BDMS and ICGS.

·                           Turn designs into a working drawing in Visio or AutoCad.

·                           Use of  O-Calc in aerial design fields.

 

 

 

Dec. 2008 – Feb. 2009                 Wellsco                                                                          Pomona, California

OUTSIDE PLANT ENGINEER/ BAU

·                           Provide engineering redlined jobs of a DS3 service for the company’s Verizon projects.

·               Site surveys to obtain required data in the design of new fiber cable routes.

·                           Make reference with records and use of Microstations, IDDS, AAIS and ICGS.

·                           Turn designs into a working drawing in Visio or AutoCad.

·                           Provide work permit drawings and traffic control plans necessary for the approval of county or city offices.

 

 

 

Sept. 2005 – Aug. 15, 2008         Northstar Communications                                  Alhambra & San Jose, California  

LEC/OSP ENGINEER

·               Worked with LEC processing litespan/VRAD cards requests, Hicaps, Mux equipments, OCNs/DS3s, Fiber Panels and MPOE designs.

·               Prepare an Engineering design package for all types of outside plant facilities in a Wire Center by the use

of company proprietary computer programs such as :   LFACS, ARES, TELCO, JAM, Fieldview, ExecuStar, TIRKS, MIC, Ring Builder and etc.

·               To plan and execute site design delivery from initial design to final site design acceptance by customer on a site-by-site basis

·                           Implement the use of ARES/Workprints based applications in processing a job.

 

Mar. 2004 – Aug. 2005         AMERISS CORPORATION                                 Riverside, California 

 

FTTH DESIGN ENGINEER 

·                           Designed of FTTH (Fiber-to-the-Homes) networks for Verizon Projects.

·                           Made reference with records and use of Microstations, IDDS, AAIS and ICGS.

·                           Prepared detailed drawings of Fiber feeder/distribution cables and conduit layouts.

·                           Issued permit drawings for Construction detailing Right-of Ways, Traffic Control, Easements and

Subscribers’ property lines.

·                           Made revisions on prints according to new design guidelines and actual field conditions.

 

 

Nov. 2002 – Feb.  2004   TEK SYSTEMS - assigned to Cox Communications Inc.    Las Vegas, Nevada

FIBER OPTICS NETWORK DESIGN ENGINEER

·               Prepares design of Fiber networks, terminations at Headends and Optical Transition Nodes.

·               Overbuilds Fiber cable facilities and recommend Nodes Segmentation processes for construction.

·               Involves in providing High Speed Data Services to Hotels, Casino Establishments and other commercial business services.

·               Use of GNIS2.x application in a computer program to build a network and document all of Cox’s physical outside plant networks in detailed geographical format.        

 

 

Oct. 2000 – Aug. 3, 2002NORTHSTAR COMMUNICATIONS GROUP      San Jose, California

 

TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER

·               Involved in ‘Pronto’ projects of SBC Pacific Bell designing placement of CEVs, Broadband/Narrowband, T1s and all other DSL networks.

·               Provided relief to congested Outside Plant Cable facilities in the South Bay Area supported by a complete job package with list of materials, equipments ordering, labor and cost estimates. 

·               Prepared detailed design of all phases of Outside Plant projects involving aerial and underground Cable   networks, Fiber Optics Layout, Manholes and Conduits.

·                           Used AutoCAD and other proprietary Computer Programs in completing any assigned tasks.           

                                                                                                                                              

 

 

 

 

July 1997 – Oct. 2000         TELUS COMMUNICATIONS           Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

 

INSTALLER-REPAIRPERSON

·                           Pre-wired residential and commercial buildings for telephone, alarms and data lines.

·                           Pulled in cables and terminated them with R66 punched in blocks.

·                           Installed jacks, Telephone and Alarm equipments.

·                           Performed diagnostic tests and troubleshoot line faults.

·                           Gave assistance to other line staff to perform a job safely and efficiently.

 

 

 

 

1981-1995SAUDI TELECOM                                                         Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

NETWORK ENGINEER

·               Conducted field surveys and coordinated with concerned authorities with regards to Telephone Expansion                                           Program (TEP) and POST TEP projects.

·               Designed and prepared detailed layout of manhole and conduit routes, primary and secondary cable distribution networks, MDF allocations plan, Cable Vault and Cabinet Termination Diagrams. 

·               Prepared list of materials, estimated cost of the project and wrote documentations prior to submittal and necessary approvals for construction. 

·               Coordinated with municipal government offices to obtain location maps and hard copies or prints of other utilities for permits.                             

 

 

 

 

1975 -1978                    PHIL.  LONG DISTANCE TEL. CO.                                               Manila, Philippines

 

TRANSMISSION and PROTECTION ENGINEER

·               Conducted routine tests of microwave and radio transmission loss and signal noise level measurements using test instruments, analyzers and oscilloscopes.

·                           Involved in path profiling for new sites of radio stations and locating signal field strength intensities.

·               Reviewed various communications facilities work designs, calculate transmission parameters and check provisions for protection using appropriate codes and standards.

·               Performed acceptance tests of newly installed telephone plants.

 

 

 

EDUCATION:

1969 -1974                    Saint Louis University                                                 Baguio City, Philippines 

              B. S. in ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING

 

1974                    Bureau of Telecommunications                                   Bulacan, Philippines 

              TELECOMMUNICATIONS TRAINING PROGRAM

 

1996                    G R Tech                                                                     Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

              ELECTRONICS SECURITY ALARM INSTALLER DIPLOMA

 

1998                    B C Institute of Technology                                        Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada 

              FIBER OPTICS TECHNOLOGY