HIGHLIGHT OF TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

Ø       Digital Wireless Networks: Installation and turn-up of GSM, Flex Paging, VHF, UHF and Base station sites.

Ø       OEM’s: Ciena DWDM Fibre Optics;  4200, 6500 Broadband, 7500 Corestream Regional, 9600, 4000 and 1600 systems.  Adva FSP 3000R7 (ROADM), Cisco 4507, Alcatel-Lucent 7750, Tems Drive Testing Software, Huawei G3 GSM,  Anritsu optical Spectrum Analysers and OTDR and Digital Lightwave Test sets, Anritsu OTR's. Motorola Mountain Top Repeaters, Portables, Two Way Radios, Base Stations &  COM-120B Test set.  Zetron Dispatch and telephone interconnect.  Glenayre GL3000, GL3900, C2000, C2010 and 84XX Transmitters.

Ø       Project Management Skills: Monkhead Repeater in Jasper, 50,000 project.  Managed 2 installers and out sourced building construction and completed project.

Ø       Computer Skills: MS Office, TCP/IP, Remedy, Pascal, Excel.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Date:  Jan 2014 – March 2015

Company Name:  American Fujikura Ltd.

Title:  Fiber Optic Tester

Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States

Project Highlights  Turned up Rogers Data Network Connection to existing fiber network.

Technical Environment Working in Telco Office Locations, remote and central offices. Travel away from home several weeks as may be required on demand.  Perform shift work as required upon demand.

Technical Job Duties (Project Scope) Certified on Ciena CN 4200 and Ciena 6500.  Turn Up and Test of Ciena, Fiber optic systems.  Lead test teams/mentor junior testers qnd technicians to accomplish project goals. Power verification and power up of equipment. Perform acceptance checks of equipment to ensure it meets customer specifications. Locate faults and troubleshoot to clear faults to ensure customer satisfaction.  Perform long term, load, stress and performance characterization testing.  Inventory of all job related materials.  Ensure project deadlines, timely service and quality standards are met.  Produce test reports and analysis documents.  Using JDSU OTDR, and JDSU BERT.

 

Date:  March 2012 – Present

Company Name:  Alta Telecommunications (Purchased by AFL Telecommunications)

Title:  On Site Engineer

Brookville, Pennsylvania, United States

Project Highlights  Main Fiber cut so system was turned down and tested before and after.

Technical Environment Re-gen site on Spread Networks Low Latency network 15 minute response during trading hours and 24/7 emergency coverage 50% of the time.

Technical Job Duties (Project Scope) Certified on Ciena CN 4200 and provide Emergency coverage for Adva

FSP 3000 R7 (ROADM).  Test equipment used for testing Fiber Optic system is JDSU 6000 OTDR and EXPO FOT 930.  Also responsible for Shelter, Generator, HVAC and fire suppression equipment.

 

 

 

Date:  April 2011 – March 2012

Company Name:  ATI Telecom Inc. (Alta Group of Companies)

Title:  Field Technician

Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Project Highlights Ciena 6500 training Lithicum.

Technical Environment (Wireless Network) Working in Telco Office Location

Technical Job Duties (Project Scope) Using Netcracker documentation installation of Telecommunications Equipment for Telus inside build.  From ground up, bays, support structure, wiring of DC power, cat5e, fiber optics and all communication cables. Rad Data, Rici-16 Ethernet over T1 line.  Ineo Quest Geminus G2X Probe.  Brix 100 Verifier, Cisco 4507 up to 848 Gbps switch.  Alcatel- Lucent 7750 Service Routers to 2TBs. Ciena 6500, DWDM up to 800 Gb capacity.  Fiber Patch Panels, Inside Fiber splicing – stranded/ribbon.  BIX Wafer blocks. MDF block on Main Distribution Frame for Telus TV.   Using my knowledge of IP/Data networks, I would install and do basic test of the above equipment.

 

 

Date:  January 2010 – February 2010

Company Name:  TEKsystems contract for  (Rogers)

Title:  Drive Tester

Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Project Highlights Drove 8,000 km in three weeks.

Technical Environment (Wireless Network) Driving in Winter conditions from Edmonton to High Level, Alberta

Technical Job Duties (Project Scope) Call testing radio system in Alberta, with another team member either driving or operating software.  Testing quality of 911 locating system. Using Tems software program and two cell phones and GPS.  Tracking was on Microsoft Streets and Maps.  We drove area in density of every street urban, every second or third street suburban and every third county road rural.  Area covered was Edmonton, west of 97 Street, and north of the North Saskatchewan River. Another area covered for drive Testing  High Level to Peace River and the Grande Prairie area.

 

 

Date:  July 2009 – November 2009

Company Name:  Tek Systems contract for (Telus)

Title:  Field Service Technician

Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Project Highlights Upgrade of Telus wireless network from CDMA to GSM using Huawei, tower mounted radios.  Power and Fibre optics for radio's are then connected too building below tower.  Installed connections for radio and then tested system for connections.

Technical Environment (Wireless Network) Field Radio Tower Sites.

Technical Job Duties (Project Scope) Perform installation of Huawei GSM, testing and commissioning new cell sites and identifying deficiencies; maintaining site documentation resulting from engineering activities and contractor work orders and writing incident and fault reports.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date:  April 1999 – October 2001 ... Fall of 2006

Company Name: Alta owned at time by Ciena

Title:  Fiber Optics Tester

Brussels, Belgium;  Denver, Colorado; & Reading, England.

Project Highlights Quest was first company to have OC-192 (10G) line running coast to coast in the USA.  With Bill Boyce in El Paso I trouble shot I repaired all channel problems across Arizona and into California on Quest Network. British Telecom 21 Century, Turned up and Tested Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) fibre optic systems for Ciena.

Technical Environment (Wireless Network) Telco Offices, Computer Rooms, Field shacks.

Technical Job Duties (Project Scope) Began with the installation of Ciena Fiber Optic systems in New Pan European Network build.  Then received Ciena 4 weeks Ciena MultiWave Turn up Test Training in Lithicum Maryland.  Then returned to Europe and Turned up and Tested, Ciena Corestream 9600, 4000 and 1600 in France, Spain and Chezh Republic.  Then in the spring of 2000, I received a work Visa for the United States where I worked on an Nation wide build by Qwest Telecommunications.  Flowed by training in England of CoreStream   Regional Turn-up & Test Network and then installation and Testing of a network for British Telecom.

Turn-up & Test involves, sometimes pretesting fiber optics cables for dispersion characteristics, Using special equipment and also using an OTDR – Optical Time Domain Reflectometer.  Then the equipment is installed.  Once racks are powered up with cards, cables and equipment, it is ready for Turn-up. But first labeling to the standard of the customer is done.  Now we must first turn up the system.  First all sites in the node are turned up to max level and are checked and recorded. Then card information, IP address, operation adjustments, Alarm Clearing and programming is done.  Testing will begin once system is completely configured and operational.  Using an Optical Spectrum Analyzers and BER for 1 hour, 24 hour or as long as the customer demands is run.  All data is then loaded into data sheets and the site is complete.

 

 

Date:  June 1998 – November 1998

Company Name:  SHL System House (EDS)

Title: PC-LAN Support Technician

Edmonton, Alberta

Project Highlights: Upgrade of network hard drives from 500 M to 2 G. Network support  for over 1000 users at CN Railways, scope included software upgrades and repairs on all PC's, printers and network drives.

Technical Environment (Wireless Network) Office Tower, Computer Room.

Technical Job Duties (Project Scope) Upgrades to PC computers. Fixing software problems and Ghosting computers.  LAN network software Banyan Vines and TCP/IP. Software used Lotus Notes,MS Office, Windows 95 and Windows NT. Using Remedy software to document changes.

 

 

Date:  August 1997 – February 1998

Company Name:  Glenayre

Title:  Customer Support Engineer

Milton Keynes, England

Project Highlights Turning up Paging call center for British Telecom in Liverpool and Leeds.  Set up C2000 paging controller to link though satellite, using TSAT in Portugal for Telechamada.  Assisted in trouble shooting setup of paging network for Vodafone paging using C2010 controllers and cisco routers.  Telephone support  and field upgrades and emergency repairs.  Located in Milton Keynes U.K. work area was Europe and North Africa.

Technical Environment (Wireless Network) Telco NOC, Call Centers

Technical Job Duties (Project Scope)  Equipment worked on GL3000 Wireless Messaging Switch (Paging)  and GL3900 Operator Assisted Paging.

 

 

Date:  October 1996 – February 1997

Company Name:  Glenayre

Title:  Field Service Engineer

Beijing, China

Project Highlights Set up Radio paging controller in Chongqing on mountain top site to communicate with remote paging transmitters by radio.  Commission Paging TX across China on phase one of a 12 phase contract and also train Chinese employee's on the operation of the system..

Technical Environment (Wireless Network) Mountain Top Sites, Remote locations, Top of High Risers.  Telco Office.  UHF, VHF, Paging, Flex.

Technical Job Duties (Project Scope)  Using C2000 Transmit controller and 84XX Transmitters.  Motorola test set and Bird Watt meter used to take down information for test sheets.  Also data on installation and grounding recorded for warranty.

 

 

Date:  December 1990 – July 1997

Company Name:  Federal Government - Public Works (Parks Canada)

Title:  Telecommunication Technician

Calgary, Alberta

>     Project Highlights Programmed and installed Zetron Dispatch centers in both Banff and Jasper.  Assisted in Project Management and Design of Mount Monkhead Repeater site in Jasper also installed site.  Trained store man Ron Zinck to operate and program radio's in Jasper National Park. Zetron dispatch center and Motorola and Daniels VHF radio repeaters with UHF links.  Two way radios used Motorola, Icom, Kentwood.  Communications Service Monitor used IFR 1200 and COM-120B, Bird Watt Meter.

>     Technical Environment (Wireless Network)  Mountain Top Sites (Helicopter Access), Park Offices, Out door sites. UHF, VHF, HF, Mobile radio network.

>     Technical Job Duties (Project Scope) My duties range from installation, commissioning, development, maintenance, repairs and assisting in project management and design for a Mountain Top radio communications network in National Parks in Alberta and B.C.  Sinclair Duplexer tunning as sites were shared with RCMP.  Water data collection in Jasper flow controller.  Remote bombing equipment for Sunshine road in Banff.  Weather Telemetry data gathering for national parks.

 

 

Date:  May 1988 – November 1990

Company Name:  Northwestern Utilities Ltd. (ATCO Gas)

Title:  Electronics Technologists

Grande Prairie, Alberta

>     Project Highlights: Tumbler Ridge gas plant was modified so that on an Emergency a series of Valves would shut and the plant would be cut off from the gas transmission line; using Westinghouse PLC.  Programmed and installed Zetron Telephone interconnect in Dawson Creek B.C.

>     Technical Environment (Wireless Network) Gas Plants, Coal Mine, remote data gathering shacks, Offices. UHF, VHF, Mobile radio network, Microwave.

>     Technical Job Duties (Project Scope) Support of a data gathering RTU's, Gas Flow Computers, Westinghouse PLC and SCADA.  Located in Grande Prairie I also served a H2S Gas Plant Tumbler Ridge

>     and the Peace River Region. System included a voice over data radio system using UHF and VHF radios.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date:  June 1987 – February 1988

Company Name:  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Title:  Radio Technician

Edmonton, Alberta

>     Project Highlights: Assisted at the Edmonton Folk Festival for national Saturday night recording.  Edited tape with national reporter for Prime Minsters visit.  Worked the weekend after Edmonton was hit by Tornado.  Made a drawing for staff of wiring of the Edmonton CBC Radio operations on 75 street.

>     Technical Environment (Wireless Network) CBC Radio operations, recording studio's and control room.

>     Technical Job Duties (Project Scope) Summer job relief and relief  during the 1988 Olympics.

 

 

Education

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (Electronics Engineering Technology) 1986  Diploma Obtained

 

Certifications and training

 

Ciena:  6500 Photonics Boot Camp

Ciena:  CN 4200 Remote Network Management for APNs K736

Ciena:  6500 Broadband and PL Commissioning TU&T

Ciena:  Core Stream Regional Test and Turn Up.

Cisco Systems:  Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices

Ciena:  M003 MultiWave Turn up & Test

Zetron:  Installation, Operation and Maintenance of Series 4000 Dispatch Console.

PACE: Advanced Printed Circuit Board Repair

Certified Engineering Technologist (ASET)