JOHN FILLION

510 918 9991

j.fillion@sbcglobal.net

6236 Bennington Dr. Newark, Ca. 94560

 

SUMMARY

John is a Construction Project Safety/Quality Manager with exceptional leadership, management and technical abilities. He has experience working with government officials, understands Wireless construction standards and has done Project Scheduling, including Life Cycle Software usage. 25 years in the Wireless industry

He is currently looking to take his experience to a new project where he can share his abilities and promote growth within

 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Ericsson Contractor  (Fusion Solutions )01/28/2014

11/19/2015

Market Construction Manager for the AWS/LTE build out with Verizon Wireless

  Northern California Market.

Close out /Acceptance for Verizon Wireless AWS deployment

Desktop SITE DESIGN Review for final constructability phase. 

 

SAMSUNG

San Ramon Ca. (contract position)10/08/2012

1/20/2014

·               OSHA 500    10/ 30 hour certified trainer US department of  Labor #C 0072114  

·               Regional Safety/Quality manager

·               Provisioned outage request  CMC

·               Provisioned outage request CSMS Network Vision  & Legacy sites

·               PO receiving for new Equipment to Site

·               Performed Quality training for vendors & General Contractors

·               Managed & Provided direction to closeout team and final acceptance

·               Provided OSHA training  10 & 30 Hour  courses

·               Facilitated in house training to Construction Managers for safety and preventive injury.

·               WFM Submittal’s  for Outages and PO receive tickets

BECHTEL  (contract position)

San Ramon CA06/11/2012- 10/08/2012

·               New Site build ATT Field Coordinator,  Construction , Bid preparation for

turfing drivers

 

FUSION SOLUTIONS, (contract employee for Ericsson)               11/12/2011 - 03/31/2012

Project conclusion (Extension of the AIRCOMM contract below)

NEW SITE BUILD CONSTRUCTION/ FINANCE MANAGER ( AT&T Wireless)

Duties included:

·                                       Norad entries/ OOM submittals Turfing 2.0

·                                       Norad entries/ OOM submittals Turfing 1.0

·                                       Prepare drivers for ATT preapproval

·                                       Prepare bids for Norad entry

·                                       Driver conversions

·                                       Driver understanding  training

·                                       Material Equipment  valuation in Norad

·                                       Capture all initial project cost

·                                       Finical  project True up Norad entries

 

 

AIRCOMM INTERNATIONAL   (Ericsson contract employee)    4/2008 - 10/2011

NEW SITE BUILD CONSTRUCTION MANAGER

·               Plan Of Record

·               Long Term Evolution  (LTE) design, configuration

·               Site Acquisition only site walks.

·               Distributed Antenna Systems  (DAS),   Special Projects

·               Relocation Sites, LTE carrier additions

 

 

PRIMARY CM Roles and Responsibilities

 

The bullet points below are not necessarily listed in the order of which they should happen, as all projects may have different deliverables.

 

·               Directed design input for ATT LTE standards  for adding up to 18 LTE RRUH units.

·               Support RF walk with SA representative, AT&T RF Engineer and AT&T Construction.  CM to confirm all parties are invited to the walk.

·               Support A&E walk with SA representative, AT&T RF Engineer, AT&T Construction, A&E firm and Telco/power representative.

·                DC power Plant Installation  

·   Marconi power systems

·   Argus power systems

·   Lineage/ COMMSCOPE  LTE power system  Marconi,Vortex Emerson, conductor termination , Power plant setup  and initialization.(Bechtel ) (TEPS)  Lorain-Reltec and Ericsson/ Power Systems

·               Review 90% ZD’s.

·               Support any re-walks.

·               Review 100% ZD’s and confirm that all comments from CM and AT&T construction were added.  Forward Create and complete pole order form for sites requiring new pole.  Send to Plano to submit to pole vendors for bids.

·               Review all pole bids received and created bid tab.  Upload pole bids into SH.  Upload all pole bids into

·               Review 90% CD’s.  Forward 90% CD’s to AT&T construction, AT&T RF engineer and Telco/power representative for comments. 

·               Review 100% CD’s and confirm that all comments from CM, AT&T RF engineer,  AT&T construction and Telco/power representative were added.

·               Create bid documents to send to GC’s

·               Perform bid walk with GC’s, AT&T construction, Telco/power representative and if required SA representative and landlord.

·               Review bids and create bid tab. Review Bid award to winninng bidder.

·               Review CNTP from compliance and advise AT&T construction if any phase 2 work required..

·               Review RFDS and request and changes to RFDS from the RF engineer. 

·               Advice GC to pull Building permit and approved plans.  Send scanned copy of each to SA.  Upload into SH.

·               Participate in SA meetings

·               Confirm telco and AC  power designs.

·               Request BP and zoning conditions from SA and forward to GC.  Review for any compliance or construction concerns.

·               Obtain construction schedule from GC and forward to SA.

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·               Perform pre-con with GC, AT&T construction and landlord.  Take pre-construction photos during pre-con and upload into SH.

·               Call out material on BOM plus base plates if required.

·               If new pole required, follow up on delivery of template and bolts from pole vendor.

·               Confirm pole delivery date with pole vendor.

·               Make sure GC has setup pre-con with Telco and power providers.

·               Support GC to get site RTI ready first.  Take photos to confirm RTI ready before claiming milestone. 

·               Support GC to get site green tag ready.  Take photo of green tag for confirmation.

·               Resolve any issues with CD’s for GC.

·               Make sure safety form is filled out and signed by GC on every site visit.

·               Perform at minimum a weekly site visit to check on site progress, workmanship and safety of GC.  Get GC to sign safety form.  Take progress photos on each visit and upload into SH.

·               If PG&E co-lo, make sure AT&T construction is present at time of antenna work to accept the antenna work.

·               Perform site visit to take NTP0 photos.  Then send NTP0 to all parties.  Upload photos and NTP0 into SH.

 

 

 

 

 

ACCELLCOMM INC.             10/1998 - 12/2006        

CEO / President

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

·                      Run ACCELLCOMM INC. client base

·                      Procure new business.

·                      Prepare Proposals, summit request.

·               Negotiate new contract rates. 

·                      Hire and develop new talent.

·                      Approve Budget forecast.

·                      Manage all Projects.

·                      Clear all obstacles that might jeopardize customer target dates. 

·               Forecast and approve materials for projects.

·               Forecast head count for projects.

·               Maintained a positive presents with all Clients.

 

 

Ericsson Inc.             12/2005 - 12/2006 

Project Manager UMTS – RET Project

Implementation Manager II/Construction Manager-UMTS Project

 

 

Ericsson Inc., Hayward, California      9/1999 - 5/2002

Contracted Supervisor for Ericsson  

·                      Develop Ericsson Contractor Staff

·                                       Start up new projects

·                                       Provided Training for Ericsson Staff on 882/884 RBS Hybrid

·                                       Quality Auditor for Ericsson GSM (RTS)

·                                       Project Managed in Fresno market   GSM ROLL - OUT  Quality auditor

 

·                                       Provided a Punch list to all contractors and report any Punchlist activities to his/her direct report.       

 

Field Engineer:          

·         Provided support of Real Estate acquisition, field installation/maintenance, and overall network deployment in the San Francisco geographic service area

·         Responsibilities included new Site turn UP

·         Site surveys,

·         Drive tests,

·         WAN/LAN, TCP/IP, Equipment installation, 

·         Supervised deployment and construction of new system build out for

 

 

BAY AREA CELLULAR TELEPHONE CO., CELLULAR ONE, San Francisco       2/1995 – 6/1998

R.F. Field Technician

Responsibilities include the following:

·                                 Data translation , Scripts

·                                 Routine/Preventive Maintenance for T-1 at the DS0 and DS1 testing level.

·                                 RF testing/troubleshooting

·                  Ericsson Digital TDMA equipment installation test and repair, New site turn on’s.

·                  Digital cross connect, Tellect DSX wiring,

·                                 RBS/MSC signal flow

·                                 Radio Base Station capacity adds, route maintenance,

·                                 Ericsson 880/882/884 cell site Equipment installations,

·                                 Facilitate frequency Re-tunes.

·                                 Lorain-Reltec and Ericsson/ Power Systems,

·                                 Swedcom D-4 channel banks Tellabs T-coder.

·                                 Kentrox T-1 Drop and insert,

·                                 24Vdc battery backup systems

·                                 880/882/884 Data Translation

 

 

BAY AREA CELLULAR TELEPHONE CO., San Francisco, CA.        6/1994 – 2/1995

             Cell Site Installation Technician Group Leader

·               Responsible for the scheduling and installation of new Base stations, and expansions. Additional responsibilities include training of new and existing personnel, maintaining daily schedule logs, upheld “Turn Key” New site installations at all times.             

 

 

BAY AREA CELLULAR TELEPHONE CO., San Francisco, CA.       2/1992 – 6/1994

Cell Site Installation Technician

·               Responsibilities included new cell site installations, rack and capacity adds.

·               Responsible for the deployment of digital cellular equipment.

 

 

BAY AREA CELLULAR TELEPHONE CO., San Francisco, CA.        1/1991 – 2/1992

Installation Technician/Quality Assurance

·               Installing mobile telephones in a variety of vehicles, with less than 1% rate of callbacks.  Troubleshooting and resolving both internal and external hardware and software problems.  Played key role in the 510 area code conversion, and startup of Cellular One Repair Center.  Received 6 “Golden Antenna’’ for most significant RF& System trouble reporting.  Received several letters of appreciation for outstanding customer service.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TECHNICAL TRAINING:

Ø                   ANRITSU

Ø                   Power Wave  Contractor Certification Level III

Ø                   Ericsson CMS 8800, 880,882,884 micro & macro cell 

Ø                   WCDMA UMTS  O&M

Ø                   Ericsson  (RTS) Certification

Ø                   ERICSSON GSM

Ø                   ERICSSON UMTS

Ø                   Nokia Certification

Ø                   LAN/WAN

Ø                   Statistical Frame Relay                   

Ø                   Cisco Router’s 2500 series

Ø                   Electrical Ladder drawings

Ø                   TCP/IP, SNMP           

Ø                   Digital Link CSU/DSU

Ø                   Pacific Bell High-cap.

Ø                   Harris Farinon Urbanet 2/10GHZ microwave

Ø                   DMC Microwave 23 GHZ

Ø                   Ingalls Power Systems 24 DCV. Backup

Ø                   AT&T wireless system  CDPD

Ø                   CTS Black Bird/R.F. Finger Printing  Fraud Protection

Ø                   Forklift Training

Ø                   High lift Certification  (Brook Stone)

Ø                   Defensive Driving

Ø                   Hazardous Materials Training

Ø                   Off Road, defensive Driving

Ø                   Commscope Connector Certified  (gold)                     

Ø                   Andrew Connector certified 

Ø                   SAP

Ø                   TELKORE quality audit training

Ø                   SITE DEVELOPMENT TRAINING for Project Managers

Ø                   Lorain Power systems

Ø                   Marconi power systems

Ø                   Argus power systems

Ø                   Lineage/ COMMSCOPE  LTE power system 

 

 

 

Personal Computer/Application Skills

 

 

·                 CAM TOOL, Site Handler, Siterra,  CSMS, CMC, FSO, DASHBOARD NORAD/Swiftrac, Ericsson AXE IOG11, Swiftrac / NORAD, SAP, Ericsson Einstein/ Albert, Site Handler, CISCO CERT., Cabletron Switch, OMT, FIOL, Winfiol, Map Info Professional, Visio, Self trained on NT4.0 servers  CBTS, Self trained on PC upgrades / repairs and diagnostics, Map Info fortran, pascal