Resume of

William (Bill) G Pritchett

1032 Dagnan Road

Howe, TX 75459

e-mail – wpritchett01@aol.com

CEL (903) 271-7774

 

 

 

 

Bluebonnet Contractors, May 2012 to Present

Utility Superintendent –Industrial Working with multiple contractors relocating utilities, overseeing ITS installation and illumination on the NTE Project from I-35 and I-820 to Hwy 183 and Blvd.

 

Wellsco/Infotech, March 2010 to May 2012

FTTP Engineer – Managing projects and preparing cost estimates in the Dallas Fort Worth, TX area for Verizon FTTP Projects, and designing fiber to the home and MDUs. (Note: same job as with Kenton Group below)

 

Kenton Group, March 2007 to February 2010

FTTP Engineer – Managing projects and preparing cost estimates in the Dallas Fort Worth, TX area for Verizon FTTP Projects, and designing fiber to the home and MDUs.

 

Henkels & McCoy, June 2006 to February 2007

Field Supervisor – Worked out problems ahead of the crews placing Verizon FTTP, worked with the cities for running line changes and assigned projects to crews.

 

TekSystems, May 2005 to May 2006

OSP Engineer – Engineering fiber to the home in the Dallas, TX area for Verizon, also doing on-site engineering making field changes requested by the cities.

Note: this is the same job as with Ameriss, changed contract companies.

 

Ameriss, April 2004 to May 2005

OSP Engineer – Engineering fiber to the home in the Dallas, TX area for Verizon, also doing on-site engineering making field changes requested by the cities.

 

Independent Contractor for LightCore (DTI) November 2002 to March 2004

OSP Engineer / Inspector – contract employee for LightCore (Digital Teleport Inc.) engineered, inspected and maintained asbuilts on projects.

 

ITC, Inc. April 2002 to October 2002

 

OSP Engineer / Inspector – contract employee for Digital Teleport Inc. engineered inspected and maintained asbuilts on projects.

 

 

 

Worldcom / Brooks Communications, November 1996 to April 2002

 

New Building Turn-Ups – Responsible for splicing in new customers to the Worldcom network and verify with OTDR that the path is good after splicing was completed.

 

Field Maintenance – Responsible for outside plant maintenance, locate and repair open fibers and oversee Cable Locators.

 

Regional OSP Engineering and Construction Manager – Managing projects in Dallas – Ft. Worth area, Austin, Waco, San Antonio and Houston making sure deadlines were met and projects were under budget.

 

 

MCImetro, June 1995 – November 1996

 

OSP Engineering Project Supervisor – Managing projects in Raleigh, NC., St. Louis, MO. and Kansas City, MO., contract employee with Volt Technical Services.

 

 

MFS Network Technologies, Inc., May 1991 – November 1994

 

Construction Manager/Field Engineer – Dallas MFS Suburban Expansion, selected, engineered and permitted cable routes. Placed jobs out for bid, worked with Project Manger to select a contractor, tracked progress of contractor and dollars spent to date.

 

One Call Coordinator – started up the One Call System for the Iowa Communications Network with the Iowa One Call system, handling cable locates for 2,700 miles of network.

 

Sr. Route Engineer – supervised route selection, surveys, permitting and drafting. Worked with the Iowa DOT on R/W problems and locations for a fiber optic network for the State of Iowa.

 

 

Jeffries & Associates Employee, June 1986 – January 1991

 

Inspector – on bores, cable plowing and sign placement. Maintained asbuilts on all projects also worked with the Union Pacific Railroad on line changes and R/W locations.

 

March 1990 – January 1991

AT&T Project – Tulsa, Oklahoma to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

 

November 1989 – March 1990

U S Sprint Project – Poughkeepsie, NY. to Albany, NY.

 

July 1989 – October 1989

U S Sprint cable replacement project from North Platte, NE. to Cheyenne WY.

 

January 1989 – July 1989

AT&T Project – San Angelo, TX to Midland TX

 

May 1988 – December 1988

U S Sprint Project – Bismarck, ND to Fargo ND

December 1987 – May 1988

U S Sprint Project – Fort Worth, TX to Terrell TX

 

June 1987 – December 1987

U S Sprint Project – Lubbock, TX to Red Springs, TX

 

May 1987 – June 1987

U S Sprint Flood Damage – Terral OK to Oklahoma City, OK

 

February 1987 – May 1987

U S Sprint Cable audit – Dallas, TX to Houston, TX

 

June 1986 – February

U S Sprint Project – Midland, TX to El Paso, TX

 

 

Finley Engineering Company Employee

 

October 1985 – May 1986

Local Representative for U S Telecom – under contract from Finley Engineering Company, locating cable in the Dallas / Ft. Worth area while AT&T and MCI placed a cable next to theirs.

 

November 1984 – September 1985

Detail Engineer for U S Telecom – all phases of fiber optic route design including: foreign utility location, obtaining permits, R/W locations and project coordination for U S Telecom – Dallas, TX to

FT. Worth, TX to El Reno, OK Project.

 

January 1983 – November 1984

Engineer - General Telephone Company –field survey tasks including customer location, intercity toll route design, conduit, buried and aerial cable design, as well as line and terminal verification, OSP cable layout and staking, and inventory revisions.

 

May 1976 – December 1982

Engineer – Southwestern Bell Telephone Company – supervision of construction and implemented coordinated cut-over procedures and sequences, designed aerial and buried plant and conduit systems.

Designs included SAC area, RAND area and SLC 96 distribution and feeder routes. Crew Chief on various fiber optic conduit route designs.

 

Education / Training:

Numerous seminars and courses during my career Outside plant facilities maintenance, Cable/wire design, estimate & implementation, computer training courses.  Self motivated with in-depth MS-Office applications and PC skills.

 

May 2006 – Completed Texas Real Estate School

June 2006 – Licensed Realtor in the State of Texas