Edwin L Holt

474 Hwy 71 W

STE 140-157

Bastrop, Texas 78602

214-500-5517

edholt47@gmail.com

I am willing to relocate at my own expense and do heavy travel.

Fiber Documentation Engineer

Summary

·         Over 20 years of experience in the telecommunication and networking field.

·         Experienced with creating outside plant drawings, route maps and defining the scope of work.

·         Able to work independently with minimal supervision

·         Advanced level of outside plant design knowledge

·         A self-motivated professional accustomed to setting and attaining high goals, able to build, lead and serve on effective teams that get the job completed.

·         Experienced in managing contractors and responsibility for quality assurance, schedule commitments and trouble-shooting problems.

·         Strong leadership, project management, supervisory skills, highly organized professional.

·         Experience in Federal, State, County, City, Institutional and Commercial construction.

·         Ability to supervise multiple mid-size projects.

·         Ability to draft construction prints using several different methods (OPTI-NET, Visio, CAD 2011, Elations and ICGS).

·         Advanced knowledge of copper and fiber splicing design.

·         The ability to comprehend and modify outside plant records drawing.

·         Ability to read, write, and interpret instructional documents

·         Have a advanced knowledge of telephone industry standards, accessing, reading and interpreting mechanized assignment records, PC applications

·         Recent experience with fiber cable facilities, CALIX and ADTRAN products for delivering DSL.

Self-imposed Vacation Jun 2013 to present

Jan 2013 to Jun 2013

Finley Engineering, Bismarck, ND

Contracted to NEMONT

Project Manager

·         Responsible for broadband overbuild of copper of a 24M dollar Rural Utility Services project, utilizing Fiber to The Home (FTTH) or Fiber to the Curb (FTTC) technologies.

·         Worked with the construction contractor and the company representatives on how and where to place the MDU and ONT units.

·         Planning and acquiring all permits from Federal, State, County and cities needed to complete the projects

·         Making sure all drafting of construction prints and maps was completed on a timely manner.

·         Good leadership skills including effective written, oral, listing communication skills and interpersonal skills to work effectively with outside contractors and consultants, governmental agencies, community groups and customers.

·         Manage green-field, rehabilitation, and historical sites

·         Deciding how and where MDU’s should be used in the network.

·         I provided  a single point of contact for the resolution of all problems

·         Understanding infrastructure plans (highway, sewer, bridge, etc.) and survey information for the elimination and prevention of conflicts with existing and proposed underground, site obstacles, and for proper installation location within easements and public right of way

·         Lead cross functional teams to design and build scalable construction, installation and support of all processes.

·         Conducted all project meetings and was responsible for project tracking and analysis.

·         Ensured adherence to quality standards and reviewed project deliverability.

·         Managed project budgets, scheduling, planning and contractor resource assignment and the tracking the contractor’s performance including billing against the budget and the contract.

·         Completed the projects within the allotted time lines and budget.

·         Work with product suppliers to ensure material quantities are met and ensure everything meets the company that I am contracted to design specifications.

·         Responsible for the design, construction drawings and construction build of various road widening projects.

·         Worked with and met with the different Federal, State, county and city governments and organization to make sure all permits and directives was being followed by the construction contractor.

July 2012 to Jan 2013

Kenton Group, Mulberry, FL

Contracted to Century-Lind

DSL Up-grade Planner

·         Preformed all work associated with the engineering, planning of copper, fiber distribution and fiber transmission.

·         Responsible for road widening, new road projects and bridge relocations projects.

·         Responsible for retrofit of cross connect cabinets with ADTRAN and CALIX units for DSL over twisted pair to the home technologies.

·         Made sure that the tails on the cross-connect had the right number of twist per foot to insure the electronics would work.

·         Ordered all material for the project.

·         Attended OSP FM Drafting Training

·         Attended Bid master and fireworks training.

Jan 2012 to July 2012

Mid States Consultants, Nephi, Utah

Contracted to TDS

Construction Supervision

·         Construction supervision of fiber placement to the home.

·         Construction supervision of VDSL cabinets.

·         Construction supervision of fiber cabinets for fiber the home.

·         Insured the adherence of all safety for the trenching, plowing of fiber or conduit and cabinet placement.

·         Insure product deliverability.

·         Interfaced with the land owners to resolve complaints.

·         Made sure the contractor had all permits needed, in his possession on the jobsite.

·         Made sure the running line was adhered to.

Mar 2011 to Jan 2012

Kenton Group, Mulberry, FL

Contracted to Century-Link

OSP fiber and copper Engineer, designer engineer Fiber and Copper

·         I provided  a single point of contact for the resolution of all problems

·         Lead cross functional teams to design and build scalable construction, installation and support of all processes.

·         Conducted all project meetings and was responsible for project tracking and analysis.

·         Ensured adherence to quality standards.

·         Managed project budgets, scheduling, planning and contractor resource assignment and the tracking the contractor’s performance including billing against the budget and the contract.

·         Completed the projects within the allotted time lines and budget.

·         Work with product suppliers to ensure material quantities are met and ensure everything meets the company that I am contracted to design specifications.

·         Responsible for the design, construction drawings and construction build of various road widening projects.

Feb 2009 to Feb 2011

Joseph D Fail Engineering Company, Bay Springs, MS

Project manager and Construction Manager

·         Responsible for the over build of (Fiber to The Home or Fiber to the Curb)66M dollar Rural Utility Services Project.

·         Manage green-field, rehabilitation, and historical sites.

·         I provided  a single point of contact for the resolution of all problems

·         Lead cross functional teams to design and build scalable construction, installation and support

·         Of all processes.

·         Worked with the managers of the communication company to decide when to use a MDU or more than one ONT and the size of the MDU to be used.

·         Conducted all project meetings and was responsible for project tracking and analysis.

·         Ensured adherence to quality standards and reviewed project deliverability.

·         Managed project budgets, scheduling, planning and contractor resource assignment and the tracking the contractor’s performance including billing against the budget and the contract.

·         Completed the projects within the allotted time lines and budget.

·         Work with product suppliers to ensure material quantities are met and ensure everything meets the company that I am contracted to design specifications.

·         Responsible for the design, construction drawings and construction build of various road widening projects.

·         Deciding how and where MDU’s should be used in the network.

·         Worked with the construction contractor and the company inspectors on where to place and how to ground the MDU and ONT units.

·         Worked with the company managers to decide when and how fiber would place to a business,

this was handled for each individual business.

·         Testing of fiber optic cable.

·         Survey all cables, manholes, schematic drawing, for OSP design and planning purposes.

Jun 2007 to Feb 2009

Sudden-Link communications

USA

Fiber Manager

·         Responsible for broadband overbuild of copper of a 24M dollar Rural Utility Services project, utilizing Fiber to The Home (FTTH) technologies.

·         Manage green-field, rehabilitation, and historical sites.

·         I provided  a single point of contact for the resolution of all problems

·         Lead cross functional teams to design and build scalable construction, installation and support of all processes.

·         Conducted all project meetings and was responsible for project tracking and analysis.

·         Ensured adherence to quality standards and reviewed project deliverability.

·         Managed project budgets, scheduling, planning and contractor resource assignment and the tracking the contractor’s performance including billing against the budget and the contract.

·         Completed the projects within the allotted time lines and budget.

·         Work with product suppliers to ensure material quantities are met and ensure everything meets the company that I am contracted to design specifications.

·         Responsible for the design, construction drawings and construction build of various road widening projects.

·         Able to do computerized drafting in several different formats utilizing several different drafting program technologies(OPT-NET,ICGS, CAD, VISIO, ELATIONS)

·         Experienced with creating network drawings, route maps and defining the scope of work.

·         A self-motivated professional accustomed to setting and attaining high goals, able to build, lead and serve on effective teams that get the job completed.

·         Experienced in managing contractors and responsibility for quality assurance, schedule commitments and trouble-shooting problems.

·         Strong leadership, project management, supervisory skills, highly organized professional.

·         Estimate the cost of all projects to be proposed for building.

·         Manhole and conduit design

June 2005 to Jun 2007

Butler Telecom USA

Contracted to Verizon

(FIOS) Planner (Verizon’s FTTC) and Customer resolution manager.

·         Utilized computer drafting system ICGS, and other Verizon systems (ISSD, BDSM, and AAIS) to plan and design Fiber to The Home for Verizon FIOS in Dallas, Lewisville, Irving, Grapevine and Keller Exchanges.

·         Planned and design fiber to the Business.

·         I provided  a single point of contact for the resolution of all problems

·         Lead cross functional teams to design and build scalable construction, installation and support of all processes.

·         Conducted all project meetings and was responsible for project tracking and analysis.

·         Ensured adherence to quality standards and reviewed project deliverability.

·         Managed project budgets, scheduling, planning and contractor resource assignment and the tracking the contractor’s performance including billing against the budget and the contract.

·         Completed the projects within the allotted time lines and budget.

·         Work with product suppliers to ensure material quantities are met and ensure everything meets the company that I am contracted to design specifications.

·         Responsible for the design, construction drawings and construction build of various road widening projects.

·         Experienced with creating network drawings, route maps and defining the scope of work

·         Working with suppliers to solve the problems of provisioning for Multi-family units the solution to the problem would be the development of the MDU.

·         Estimate the cost of all projects proposed to be built.

 

May 2000 to June 2005

C T & T Little Rock, AR, Dynamic Technical Services, Tx and Harris McBurney, OKC, OK.

Contracted to SWB (A T & T)

 

·         Responsible for Engineering VRAD design package utilizing OPTI-NT software (2004-2005) OPTI-NT provided by contracting company.

·         Responsible for producing prints to cut bridge tap out of copper cable using OPTI-NT (2004-2005). Determine capacity/exhaust and relief of existing cross-connect cabinets.

·         Determine capacity/exhaust and relief of existing cross-connect cabinets.

·         Design aerial, buried and underground fiber optic cable placement.

·         Design aerial, buried and underground copper cable placement.

·         Look for the best site to place pair-gain cabinets.

·         Contacted landowners and negotiated acquisition of easements.

·         Contacted surveying company to survey site.

·         Checked with surveying company to determine when survey was complete.

·         Informed my SBC Engineering Manager when survey was complete.

·         Responsible for the design, construction drawings and construction build of various road widening projects.

 

EDUCATION

National Institute of Science, Bethesda MD

Associated with the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences

School of Clinical Nuclear Medicine                                                  1976

Others schools

USAF Air Traffic Controller School (air traffic controller 1969-1973, RAPCON and VFR Tower)

USAF Clinical Lab I

USAF Clinical Lab II

USAF Supervisors Management School

USAF Telecom School