Mark Wilkins

              Professional-Tech+2002A Guadalupe#257 Austin,TX. 78705

              Home-Mobile: 512-708-1787

              markwilkins@sbcglobal.net

             

Experience:              Multiprogram-sales, design engineering, construction planning, project and construction management, Inspection, and implementation including:

 

Ø      Sales Engineering

Ø      Planning

Ø      Design

Ø      Central Office Loop Electronics Material Authorizations

Ø      Estimating, Budget, and Bid Management

Ø      Lease, Permit, and Right Of Way attainment

Ø      Project Management

Ø      Construction Management/Superintendence

Ø      Inspection

Ø      Field Safety

Ø      Field crew supervision

 

Core Proficiencies:              Project Management of both technical and operational personnel

              in all core processes of design, construction, and telecommunications. 

 

Ø      Attention to detail

Ø      Excellent organizational skills

Ø      Strong ability to multi-task assignments

Ø      Excellent presentation and negotiation skills

Ø      Expert in process development, procedures, and matrixes

Ø      Ability to manage multiple departments/clients/vendors

 

 

January 2013 to Present  Ash-Ericsson

 

Ø      Construction Coordinator

Ø      Construction Manager

As Construction Manager:

> Sprint Wireless Network Vision-Construction of the North Texas/Oklahoma Market Cell Site Upgrades-3G/4G conversion- Ericsson LTE-RBS/BBS-Ground & Hybrid Fiber Cable Tower Antennae Construction, P.O. Issue & tracking among 5 General Contractor/Providers averaging three-5 man work crews each. Direct Interface with SAMs-Site Access Managers for Real Estate Access, Building Permits, Civil Tower Modifications, Site Handler & Siterra Data Tracking and Milestone Achievement

> AT&T-Mobility-Microwave-Ericsson Minilink 6G & 11G Cell Site Span Construction Management- Enabling 3G to 4G LTE Upgrades-South Texas. NTP-Notice To Proceed-Site Access  within Crown Castle & American Towers.collocation inside shelters and outside on platforms with microwave installation of radios, routers, cables, & dishes on various cell towers, integration & traffic migration on-air.

 

 

October 2010 to – August 2012 ADB Utility Construction

 

Ø      Construction Management

Ø      Superintendence

Ø      Information Officer

Ø      Inspection

Ø      Chief Safety Field Office

 

As Construction Manager/Superintendent:

> Responsible for Project Engineering, Logistics, Inspection and, Construction Management in relation to a major RUS project.

>Responsible for Construction Management in relation to State Of Colorado Department Of Transportation-CDOT Road & Highway Telecom Projects. Activities Include Utility Obstruction Locates, Traffic Control Management, Trenching, Embankments, Paving, Fencing, Curb & Gutters, Asphalt/Concrete Restoration, Traffic Electronics Node Site Development, Horizontal Directional Drilling, Logging Azimuth-Elevation Depths of Drill head Beacon and Running Line Lateral Offsets, Resetting Traffic Light Controllers, Placing & Splicing Fiber Optic Cable to Include Safety Management, Incident and Redlines

>Responsible for Construction Management in relation to City Of Colorado Springs Fiber To

Traffic Control Highway Intersection Cameras. Activities Included Utility Obstruction Locates, Traffic Control, Horizontal Directional Drilling,, Logging Azimuth-Elevation Depths of Drill head Beacon and Running Line Lateral Offsets, Placing & Splicing Fiber Optic Cable/Cameras to Include Incident and Redline As-Built Reporting.

 

 

March 2010 to – August 2010 Verizon Business

 

Ø      Construction Management

Ø      Inspection

 

As Construction Manager/Inspector: Responsible for Project Management in relation to UPRailRoad Horizontal Directional Drilling and Diversity Fiber Optic Cable Construction to the new Verizon Wireless Data Center in Colorado Springs. Activities included Utility Obstruction Locates, Traffic Control, Measure While Drilling (MWD), Logging Azimuth-Elevation Depths of Drill head Beacon and Running Line Lateral Offsets, Placing & Splicing Fiber Optic Cable, Progress Tracking to include Incident and Redline As-Built Reporting.

 

March  2009 to March 2010-Alltel-AT&T/Verizon Wireless Trust

 

Ø      Field Engineer

 

As Field Engineer-Cell Technologist: AT&T 3G to 4G LTE Wireless Upgrades-Responsible for New Site Turnups, Site Construction, Tower Erection, Storm Repair,Drive Testing, Antenna Sweeps,Voice/Data-EVDO Coverage Electronics and Maintenance Return Material Authorizations of approximately 20 Wireless Mountain Terrain Challenged Cell Sites during the Verizon Divested Trust Resale To AT&T. Activities Include  Site Survey /Walks For New Cell Site-3G to 4G WiMax Coverage Grids. Equipment platforms include Telco T-1s, Harris Licensed & Adtran Unlicensed Microwave Interface Handoffs, Nortel GSM, Nortel CDMA-Equipment FAA Tower Light Power & Generator Alarm Installation-NOC Monitoring, Delta Power Bays, Marconi Power Bays, Generac & Detroit Diesel Generators, Remote Solar & Wind Turban Power Generation Sites. Test Equipment includes Agilent, Anritsu, Midtronics, JDSU.

 

June  2008 to December 2008-Verizon Business

 

Ø      Inspection Rail Runner

 

As Inspector: Performed right of way work for the State Light Rail-Runner on the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Fiber Backbone. Performed Verizon/Qwest/Comcast Utility Locating via Radio Detection Devices and Inspection of Kiewit Construction Crews for the new high speed route from Albuquerque to Santa Fe.

 

January 2008–June 2008-Verizon Local

 

Ø      Quality Control Engineering

 

As Quality Control Engineer: Design review for Fiber To The Premise (FTTP), Mulltidwelling, (MDU), & Multitennant (MTU), engineering projects to include Turnkey Vendor  Premise Access Licenses, Site Surveys, Redlines, Drafting, IDDS, ICGS, RAMS

Coding and Packaging on prem for Verizon Florida.

 

March 2006 to December 2007-AT&T

 

Ø      Central Office & Remote Loop Electronics Specification

Ø      Building Industry Consultant-Right Of Way Attainment

Ø      Broadband Remote Terminal Design & Deployment

Ø      Fiber To The Premise Multidwelling Design & Inspection.

 

As Assistant Manager and Loop Capacity Planner: Performed Unit work on Design and Construction. Activities included F1/F2 Field Design, Materials Ordering, Purchasing,, and Construction Inspection. On Prem Systems Include, EFACS/LFACS, BSTCAD/VERSACAD/OPTICAD,GRANITE-PLANET,OFEI,OSPCM,LEIM. Under sub-contract to the Turnkey Competitive BroadBand Contract providing design engineering, project management, and personnel support for site surveys, servitude acquisition, loop capacity planning (LCM), design engineering, systems provisioning, & construction of BellSouth-AT&T Remote Terminals &Video Ready Access Devices (VRAD) Sites and Fiber To The Cell Site (FTTCS).

 

October 2005 to March 2006-AT&T

 

Ø      Building Broker

Ø      Building Industry Consulting

Ø      Site Survey Appraisals

Ø      Hurricane Restoration

 

As Building Industry Consulting Engineer and Broker: Under sub-contract to investigate and negotiate commercial building and cell site equipment relocation and restoration in the hurricane Katrina & Rita aftermath. Activities include site access and digital photographs of over 250 commercial complexes to include central business district high rises, banks, civic centers, universities, hospitals, schools, military, government installations, shopping centers, manufacturing plants, fuel depots, public transportation yards, aquariums, marinas, shipyards, wharfs etc.

 

May 1996 to October 2005-U.S.Teleport

 

Ø      Regional Engineering and Construction of customer facilities

Ø      Commercial real estate sales and lease negotiation

Ø      Client List included: AT&T, Alltel, Verizon, American Electric Power,

El Paso Networks, Sbc, Ixc, Mci, Tellabs

 

As Project  Manager and Regional TransPort Systems Engineer: Activities included Site Planning, Design, Material Electronics Purchasing Authorizations, Inspection, and Deployment of Wide, Metropolitan, and Local Area Network optical/electrical Transmission Systems including wireless, fiber, and copper Telecom Transport and Digital Cross connects for health nets, intranets, state capitol networks, subdivisions, airport facilities, university campuses, Corporate and NASA complexes, Super Junctions, Regens, Terminals, Switch Sites, IP networks, Physical and Virtual Customer Collocation, Real Estate POPs. Broadband equipment platforms include:CDMA,SDH, SONET, GigE,CWDM-DWDM-Alcatel, Nortel, Ciena, Cisco, & Tellabs.

 

January 1995 to May 1996-MCI Metro

                                

Ø             Environmental Planning

Ø             Building Lease Negotiations

Ø             Power Budgets

Ø             Traffic Planning

Ø             FAA Satellite Superintendent

Ø             Construction Inspection.

 

As Regional Transmission Systems Engineer: Responsible for Engineering , Design, & Deployment of metropolitan area SONET fiber broadband Central Office-Loop Electronics & remote switch facilities for the southwestern region of the U.S. Activities included-lightwave engineering virtual LEC/LD collocation, hub and switch buildout-migration, environmentals, power budgets, traffic planning, fiber assignments, remote building electronics, building cable design, provisioning, and customer sales engineering of Local City Networks (LCN,s).Experienced with Fairchild FAA Satellite Earth Stations, Fujitsu FLM, Nortel: Matched Access Node, OC-192,48,12,3,1,P-P linear,BLSR ring, DMS-100, Lan tributaries-ISDN,ATM, ADSL,Westel, Alcatel 3/1/0, Telabs Titan, Austron GPS timing , Test Support, Alarm Surveillance, and Network Management.

 

October 1993 to January 1995-Electric Lightwave

 

Ø             Acting City Manager

Ø             Sales Engineering

Ø             City Budgets-City Expansion

Ø             Building Route Surveys

Ø             Facilities Construction

Ø             Bid Management

Ø             Real Estate License Agreements

Ø             Right-Of-Way Lease Negotiations

Ø             Disaster Restoration

 

As City Engineer: Acting City Manager. Responsible for entire city expansion budgetaries, hub electronics ordering, buildout and fiber deployment. Performed preliminary route and building surveys, real estate license agreements, Local Exchange Carrier collocations, sales engineering, outside plant design, inside plant design, permitting, bidding, scheduling, supply, build, inspection and turnup. Developed general bid conditions and disaster restoration procedures for local and metropolitan area networks. Participated in Sales Presentations. Experienced in AT&T Lucent, DDM-2000, OC-48,12,3. DACS IV, DS-1, DS-3 Electrical Systems. Video Conferencing, Cisco Routers, Central Office and Remote Loop Electronics Ordering. Teleradiology, Health net Systems.

 

March 1991 to October 1993-Pacific Bell

 

Ø             Building Industry Consulting Engineer

 

As Building Industry Consulting Engineer: Responsible for Planning, Design, and Engineering of cable facilities for new and remodeled commercial, industrial, institutional, financial, and multiplex buildings. Also performed contract design services for U.C. Davis, and the Teleport Communications Group-Bay Area Financial Districts. On Prem Systems Inlcude LROP, JMOS, LEIS.

 

April 1990 to March 1991-Citizens Utilities

 

Ø             Urban and Rural Planning

Ø             Make-ready engineering

Ø             Conformance Inspection

Ø              

As Senior Project Engineer: Performed forecast planning, design, and estimation of aerial, buried, UG manhole, pullbox, conduit and cable projects for urban and remote telephone service areas. Additionally performed district CATV make-ready engineering and conformance inspection, and MCI Longhaul fiber backbone design projects.

 

January 1987 to April 1990-United Tel

 

Ø             Road and House Moves

Ø             Power and CATV Makeready

Ø             Hurricane Hugo Restoration

Ø             Utility Repair

Ø             Right-Of-Way Permits

 

As Project Engineer: Responsible for entire exchange including  fiber projects, T-carrier projects, SLC projects, remote switch cutovers, joint use projects, road and house moves, section replacements, cable pair reclamation, held order and Hurricane Hugo restoration engineering, splicing, installation, and repair of telephone outside plant. Experienced in I &R.

 

July 1985 to January 1987-Southern Bell

 

Ø             Commercial Area Design (CAD)

Ø             Distribution Area Design (DAD)

Ø             Rural Area Design (RAD)

Ø             Job Management Operations System (JMOS)

Ø             Plant Location Records Management (PLRMS)

 

As Project Engineer: Performed Commercial Area Design (CAD), Distribution Area Design (DAD), and Rural Area Design (RAD) as part of the Job Management Operations System (JMOS), Additionally responsible for the development of the work print generation pilot utilizing the Intergraph Interactive Graphics Design System (IGDS), and Autocad.

 

Certifications                                                                                                                    

  Real Estate Appraisal&Brokers Licenses

FCC Licensed Emergency Radio Technician

Registered Designer-R.C.D.D.-Building Industry Consultant Service International