JOHN J. CUFF - OSP NETWORK DESIGN ENGINEER

 

SUMMARY

I am currently employed as a contact OSP Design Engineer in the FTTX and BAU Telecommunications sector. I have been working as an OSP Fiber Network Engineer 32 years, most recently for Byers Engineering Co. as a contract engineer working fiber projects for Level 3 Communications in the Albany, NY district. I have received initial training for FTTH in the areas of reading splitter data sheets, terminal naming, hand hole fiber drop limitations, inner duct fiber drop limitations, conduit inner duct limitations, use of composite cables for powering the ONU and fiber drops, non-composite cables for drops only, grounding at power enclosure locations and non-enclosure locations, cable counts and wire limits for each new ONU location as well as count throws to new fiber count at existing working ONU sites, interpretation of planning documents, work operations for field construction, feeder and distribution fibers for the GPON FTTH network throwing existing workers into new equipment at an ONU site with workers and gutting the equipment in an ONU with no workers in the ONU. I have used BST Cad as the method of customer presentation. I also have experience using Visio drafting and some experience with GIS mapping technology with these drafting tools. Using GIS as a basis for new construction that previous jobs do not exist allows quicker print engineering using the basic street, lot line and easement layouts. FTTH prints can easily have the layout of customer required items showing EOP, ROW, sidewalks, utility easements and driveways to each print with the ONU, hand holes, proposed placement of new inner duct and conduit boring locations where required.

I also have many years of engineering experience designing customer fiber networks where ring technology and equipment was required to meet the service dependability issues.

I am employed part time as NYS Certified Security Officer at Global Foundries Integrated Chip manufacturing plant in Malta, NY until a full time engineering position is obtained. My goal is to find full time employment as either a contract OSP Engineer or a permanent full time W-2 employee in the OSP Network Engineering field.

I am actively looking to relocate to the North Carolina area when a mutually beneficial full time opportunity becomes available. Presently I am available in the area of Albany, NY area.  I have and can continue to work remotely from my home office at my current location if the work assignment permits. I would welcome inquiries for employment in areas other than the Southeast for remote telecommuting work or if an offer of employment was attractive enough consider relocation. My prior experiences include areas such as BAU copper work, DOT road relocations, bridge rebuilds, Railroad crossings, river crossing, manhole and conduit construction within highway limits and outside highway limits, aerial make ready work on joint utility poles, pole line construction while providing cost estimating and estimate preparation for capital, maintenance and retirement expenditures, I am capable of providing customer consultation and start to in service engineering. My knowledge includes but is not limited to equipment ordering, permit and easement procurement, OSS detail input support documentation for customer initiated private redundant fiber ring network construction for the Central Office and OSP requirements and customer or DOT Custom Work Order construction projects. I have experience with fiber optic builds in the underground designing new conduit and manhole or hand hole structures, directional boring and pull backs, road cuts and all easement and highway permit sketches. My FTTH experience dates back to the late 1990”s when AT&T trails were using fiber fed ONU technology both aerially and in the buried environments in the area of Stillwater, NY.

WORK  EXPERIENCE

OSP Network Design Engineer Telecommunications Industry        06 / 2013 - Present

Presently employed by Byers Engineering Co.as an OSP Network Design Engineer working for Level 3 Communications, (formerly known as) - Time Warner Telecom designing Outside Plant and Inter/Intra Building Fiber Optic cable routes.

I am also employed part time by Allied Barton Security Services as a NYS Licensed Security Officer at Global Foundries integrated circuit chip manufacturing plant in Malta, NY.

TEK SYSTEMS / FRONTIER COMMUNICATIONS02 / 2010 - 07 / 2012

Outside Plant Network Design Engineer, Fiber Optic route design, BAU, Project Management

I worked for Frontier Communications as a contract OSP Network Engineer preforming all aspects of daily BAU field design. I designed and engineered a new 15 mile long fiber optic route along existing copper cable routes correcting substandard and hazardous conditions by replacing existing structure, obtaining easements and highway permits for new aerial and buried structures, correcting deficiencies in existing local and NYS DOT cable road crossing height deficiencies. I held joint utility meetings with the local franchised power, CATV and other telecom carriers attached to existing poles correcting separation violations. This work included seeding dark fibers at existing copper DLC sites targeted for conversion to fiber optic transmission equipment. This work was required to eliminate and reverse an existing fiber optic feeder route through an existing bridge that was scheduled to be replaced. The result was completion of the project on time, under budget and providing relief fibers in the existing fiber route enhancing sales opportunities, reducing embedded copper cables lower the trouble report rates, increasing broadband sales opportunities and providing feeder fiber relief in the route that no longer occupied the new bridge. I CAD drafted and submitted all drawings using the MAPCOM M4 Cad Drafting system , priced all Routine, Estimate level projects, provided guidance to the construction crews throughout the project life. I also designed, staked and established new fiber optic routes along local public, NYS DOT highways, private property and within Federal Park Lands. These jobs were associated with the expansion of the broadband wireless carrier network throughout the Federal Park lands of the Adirondacks Mountains National Park in Upstate New York.

This expansion of the Broadband wireless fiber network was required by the major telecommunications carriers of voice and data over the wireless networks enhancing cellular broadband coverage along the I-87, interstate highway system. I also conducted BAU make ready work along existing pole lines for competing telecommunications companies and private networks, designed solutions for new services that became delayed orders, planned and implemented copper distribution and feeder relief jobs for new business and housing developments.

 

VERIZON TELECOMMUNICATIONS - UPSTATE NY08 / 1983 - 02 / 2009

ISP Circuit Design Engineer, OSP Network Design Engineer, Project Manager, Scheduling Engineer, NE Division Staff Budgets, Special Project Initiative Coordinator

During my tenure I worked on as many as 50 small and large projects at any given time honing my skills as a Project Manager, Copper Network Designer, Broadband Fiber Network Design Engineer, Liaison to internal and external customers outside Verizon as well as departments within Verizon. I was corporate level budget coordinator for the Upstate New York analog to Digital Broadband conversions of all the central office entities in the Upstate New York region. I was on the Division Staff as the Budget Coordinator for the Capital and Expense programs. I was in charge of results reporting for a $230M Capital program and a $60M Expense program. Working as a turf engineer I was responsible for all in turf Project Estimates, Budgeting in the correct timeframes and estimate accuracy. Also as a turf engineer it was my responsibility for organizing Contract Bid packages, arranging the bid meetings in the office and in the field locations. I am the overall Turf Administrator and Single Point of Contact for internal and external customers concerns. I represented Verizon in numerous Legal Depositions and Court proceedings as a Subject Matter Expert in the field of OSP Engineering and current standards. My daily functions included Capital Investment Recovery by retiring old embedded plant through use of fiber feed digital remote terminal sites, including the AT&T trial of FTTC in Stillwater, NY back in the 1990’s. My skills with copper plant, MDU Buildings engineering Fiber and Copper feeder/distribution pole line design, underground manhole and conduit systems, air pressure, building cabling- BICS trained will stand up to the best the industry has to offer.

Trainer- new employees in the field of OSP were given to me to mentor, this included newly hired employees and lateral transfers from other disciplines. BAU - OSP subject matter expert Capital recovery by retirement and removal of outdated, abandon and damaged equipment effectively lowering the corporate capital investment base for reduction of corporate tax liabilities Broadband design of SONET Fiber Optic networks, OC-1, OC-3, DS-1, DS-3, VOIP, DSL, PRI DSL and POTS services. I was a manager on Upstate NY Division Staff as the Executive coordinating input data for an Expense budget of $56M and Capital budget of $230M, reporting result variations with explanations based on district input variations. Scheduling Engineer/ District Project Coordinator conducting monthly meetings allocating and prioritizing project workload to each turf managers construction crews as well as providing completion dates to meet customer service dates Corporate PUC/ PSC mandates. DOT Road reconstruction utility relocation expert. Familiar with all OSS- operational support systems for turn up and deployment of Central Office and Remote Terminal electronics.

EDUCATION

STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT UTICA/ROME1981 - 1983

BSEE, Digital Electronics theory and labs – Member IEEE

HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE1979 - 1981

AOS, Electrical Construction and Maintenance

Worked during this time period

 

CERTIFICATIONS – A+, NET+, NYS Security Officer - Licensed