Jimmy Garza              1910 E. Reppto St. Brownfield, Texas 79316

Home 806-637-7881, Cell 806-891-9668

Email: Kidd76@valornet.com

 

Summary_____________________________________________________________________

Efficient, motivated, conscientious, loyal, and dependable individual with hourly, supervisory, and managerial experience bringing pride, integrity to an organization as a team player, while possessing a professional work ethic.

 

Skills_________________________________________________________________________

·         Word, WordPerfect, NetMeeting, Excel, Canon, Xerox printers/copiers and scanners.

·         Proficient in Spanish

 

Professional Experience_________________________________________________________

 

OSP Manager of Engineering and Construction              2007 – August, 2013

Windstream Communications - Hobbs New Mexico

 

·         Outside Plant Manager in New Mexico for 6½ years

·         Oversaw $2-3 million yearly capital, and expense budget          

·         Negotiated easements, rights-of-way with Pueblo tribes and Government entities, including BLM, BOR, State Trust Land, National Forest lands, and NMDOT

·         Implemented spreadsheets to track work order projects to meet monthly, quarterly, and yearly budgetary objectives, as well as meeting scheduled due dates to provide customer service in a timely manner

·         Implemented a cross training exercise whereby hourly and salary employees under my direct supervision could learn each others’ tasks, responsibilities, and duties, allowing each individual a chance to broaden their skills, knowledge, and enrich their experience in other departmental positions, as well as allow the department to meet company objectives during employee absences

 

·         Supervised and managed contractors,  hourly and salary employees

·         Supervised all budgeted, non-budgeted and routine jobs insuring they were engineered properly, and constructed in a timely manner to meet service commitment dates

 

 

 

ISP Manager for Valor Communications               2000 - 2007

Valor Communications - Brownfield Texas

 

·         Supervised and managed contractors, hourly and salary employees

·         Responsible for submitting and awarding contracts to install digital and optical equipment in Central Offices throughout the Panhandle and West Texas

·         Managed Inside Plant budget to meet monthly, quarterly, and yearly objectives consisting of 80% capital and 20% expense

General Telephone Company, Brownfield Texas

 

As Inspector:              1998 - 2000

Oversaw government-mandated fiber projects to every GTE owned central office

·         Managed contractors who constructed over 100 miles of aerial/buried fiber optics throughout West Texas

·         Negotiated unit cost with contractors to come within budget

·         Re-designed fiber routes to better conform to GTE needs

·         Implemented spreadsheets and pie charts to track fiber project status

 

 

As Head Lineman:              1988-1998

Oversaw and supervised crew on a daily basis

Interim Supervisor

As Lineman:              1980 - 1988

Constructed fiber optic and copper cable facilities/plants Texaselland,College rsity - Lubbock throughout West Texas

As Storeroom Keeper:              1979-80

 

·         Responsible for tracking cable; receiving and distributing material to employees and contractors

 

Education_____________________________________________________________________

 

Wayland Baptist University – Lubbock, Texas              2001

B.B.A. - Management/Marketing

·         Received degree while working full-time and attending night school

·         GPA 3.435

         

South Plains College – Levelland, Texas              1994

              Associate of Arts - Behavioral Science

 

·         Received degree while working full-time and attending night school

·         GPA 3.54   

 

References____________________________________________________________________

 

Available upon request