Roberto C. Pena

13011 SW 52 St. Miami FL, 33175

Cell: 305-924-2604

E-mail: RCP411@gmail.com

°         Communication Construction Management

°         Qualified in PIM testing

°         Skilled in Testing with Signal Hound

°         Skilled in RET programming and trouble shooting 

°         Bilingual in English and Spanish

°         Skilled in remote connection over land, and sea by satellite

°         Experience in troubleshooting hardware and software issues with debugger and other tools

°         Knowledge and experience in training and leading other, effective team player

 

o      Anritsu Site Master Certified

o      Andrews connector Certified

o      NSN Tower & Ground Installation

o      NSN Flexi Multi Radio BTS (2G& 3G) Commissioning & Integration

o      OSHA 10

o      ODM Fiber Optic Testing

o      CPR and First Aid

o      ComTrain Certified in Safety and Rescued

o      Project Print Design, Red Drawing and Layout of Equipment

o      Project Management, Scheduling and Coordinate

o      Project Biding, and Closing

o      Site inspections/ Site Surveying

o      Project Reporting and Auditing

o      Proficient in MS Offices and MS Project

 

°         GSM, UMTS, CDMA and LTE

°         802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi

°         Small Cell Networks (SCN) and Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS, iDAS, and oDAS)

 

°         Hybrid (low and High Cap) cabling

°         Single and multi mode Fiber Optics

°         LMR, PPC, and LDF cabling and terminating

 

2003-2005              American InterContinental University                            Weston, Florida

              Bachelors of Information Technology

1996-1998ITT Technical Institute Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Associates of Science Degree, Electronics Engineering Technology

 

°         Gamma Beta Phi Honor Society from American InterContinetal University 2005

°         ITT Technical Institute Honor Roll Student as and National Alpha Beta Kappa Honor Society, 1998

T-Mobile USA, Miami FL

Field EngineerSep 14 to Present 

Staff as a NSN Field Engineer, I was place with the responsibility of performing Router activations and Installations, as well with but not limited to NSN Flexi BTS installation and commissioning,  working amongst the BSS/RAN implementation activities and providing service calls to sites for performances issues within the South Florida market. Many times I’ve be placed to oversee the GC in their site builds to ensure that completed a site with the companies standards of quality and that all equipment is performing and is commission without an alarm nor issues; this maybe from a dispatch service call to a site and a maintains visit. Listed below are some of the other task that I the responsibility of:

°         Commission, integrate, verification & acceptance of NSN BTS (Flexi
and Ultra platform) Network Element in 2G, 3G, LTE, ultra and small
cells technology, oDAS and I iDAS sites.

°         Support the bright and/or RF engineers with any new or changes in the BTS’s SW/ HW New Feature, equipment swap, add on, upgrades and site issues

°         Understand and able to follow project MOP, RFDS, and the site SCF reports and perform work as quality driven process,

°         Thorough understanding of Antenna and Antenna line configurations (MHA/RET ) and connectivity as well as Flexi BTS Feature set ( Rx diversity / Antenna Line sharing ),

°         Perform technology test call on each technology on the site, and schedule drive testing

°         Perform closeout documents report finding and any issue, and completions

 

Catalyst Service USA, Roswell, GA

Field Manager, Forman, Center Support Manager Apr 13 to Jun 14

I was employed to run the market in South Florida in a contract with AT&T. This position required that I take responsibility to take on multiple roles from manager to field tester with the crews.  Later on I was moved forward within the company to another contact with AT&T in Georgia were I would be leading and managing other crews for alarm clearing for 1^st carrier to 5^th carrier as well as LTE; I also worked in another project with AT&T as an auditor. I was moved to another project afterwards for Verizon as a Construction Forman in the build out of Verizon’s LTE project. As the project slow down I was moved over to Sprint’s project were I was managing two parts of the project. First part was the New Vision LTE site survey project over three states and second was the 2.5 GHz LTE build out project. My superiors considered that allowing me to manage all this projects gave me the knowledge to be placed in the call center manager position until present day. This position places me interacting with the customers and FE’s on each market, along with the responsibility insure that every manager and field tech in the field is submitting all needed documents for close out, as well offering support to the crews in the field  and meeting with the partners of the company. Listed below are some of the other task and skills preformed for this company.

°         Meeting with the company customer for the different markets

°         Up loading close out documents, sites redline drawings and any other site documents to the costumer wed services.

°         Performed site Sweep and PIM testing

°         Performed Fiber optic testing and scoping

Civil Solutions Incorporated, Pompano Beach, FL

Post Crew Lead (Foreman)Oct 12 to Jan13

Staffed for on-site super visioning of all related construction activities defined in the scope-of-work both day and night. Also perform site troubleshooting, site integration, and repair site punch items that when needed. Collected all on-site closeout documentations and submit it to the managers as well as upload to site handler per the deliverable timelines. Completed site field reports daily, maintain project timeline, and pre-form daily duties that consisted but was not limited to closing a site and integrating site. All so perform installation of coax, fiber lines, hybrid cable, connector, sweep coax lines and fiber test lines; preformed weather proofing, color-coding, and labeling. My responsible were not just limited to this task, below are some of the other task.

°         Installation of up-top equipment including masts, clamping, bracing, supports, antennas, RRUs, COVP

°         Preformed night time hotslides were RF reading have to be taken with the Anritsu and ½” jumpers had to be build and reconnect

°         Work on the integration on both projects (Sprint PCS w/Ericsson equipment and T-Mobile Nokia equipment)

°         True-ing up, shooting proper azimuth

°         Review all on-site closeout documentation for accuracy, completeness and timeliness

°         Complete daily per site field reports

 

WMS/ AT&T, Miramar, FLDec 11 to Jul 12

Engineer

Staffed with the responsible of deployment, designing, installation, commissioning and operation of Wireless Maritime Services (WMS) mobile cellular services on GSM and CDMA band with at time WiFi 802.11 services. Worked with contactors, vendors, internal and external clients, and schedule, planed, coordinated and executed logistic and technical aspects of assigned mobile cellular system and WiFi installations. Plan, and conducted site surveys for the installation of distributed antenna system (DAS), and GSM/CDMA hardware; as well managed deployment project insuring that the project are smoothly coordinated to the moment of turning up the system. Conducted and attend onsite customer meeting to ensure the project is on time, under budget and meeting the customer expectations. Listed below are some other responsibilities performed:

°         Planned and conducted site surveys to determine DAS equipment and GSM/CDMA hardware installation.

°         Installed shipboard-distributed antenna systems to insure complete mobile radio coverage in designated compartments/areas on cruise ships

°         Installed and tested the CDMA, GSM, and Wi-Fi 802.11 system.

°         Wrote Technical documentation as well as provided project status documentation.

°         Wrote reports and provided connectivity diagrams, of the Distribution Antenna System (DAS).

°         Investigated and resolved customer trouble reports.

°         Fine-tuned switch and network equipment for optimum performance to ensure quality customer service and minimize outages.

°         Trained and supported cruise line staff on the operation of DAS system.

 

Andrews, Mobile, AL Apr 11 to May 11

Communication Specialist

Staffed as a communication specialist tours a project for T-Mobile to perform LMU (Location Measurement Until) hot swap out and site survey though out Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi for a short duration of time. The information that was gather from each site survey was to help in the calculation of the signal lost for the e911 system to provide a accurate system. Listed below are some other task performed on this contract.

°         LMU system programming and system diagnostics

°         Site survey and site reporting

°         Conducted site surveys and provided detailed reporting.

°         LMU hot swap from a true position LMU to a Andrews LMU2U system

°         LMR and power cable repair or rebuild

°         Ensure to remains on schedule to meet delivery targets schedule

°         GPS and or BCCH antenna change out

 

Advanced Integrated Services Inc., Brighton, Michigan May 09 to Jan 11

Construction Manager

Employed to manage the construction development and testing of telecommunication projects for costumers like T-Mobile, General Dynamics and Verizon among others. Coordinated with project managers and contractors for the installations, testing, repairs, equipment delivery, and the scheduling of cranes for the completion of sites; reported findings, project progress, and reported equipment information to the customer(s) as needed. Build and commission all different types of radios and BTS’s cabinets, performed multiple different type testes for various contracts.

°         Assembled Purcell cabinet with the Flex Radio along with its Batteries

°         Field repair and hot swap equipment as LMU, Flex Radio units, and TMAs

°         Commissioned Flex radio, as well configured the Purcell cabinets

°         Performed system power up testing

°         Performed site master sweep testing and HP PIM tested to various sites

°         Build then tested RF jumper with Andrews and PPC connectors

°         Performed site Audits, Site Acquisition/Site Walks, and reporting all findings

°         Review drawings and revise drawings and Created and maintained project tracker

°         Bided and created costs matrix for upcoming and additional contracts

°         Created MOP

 

Independent Contractor, Miami, FloridaOct 08 – Mar 09

Contractor

Independently contracted for mutable contacts tours companies as, TLC, Airband, Ronson net, and a few other smaller companies for projects in telecommunications and in computer support.   Project leader or lead tester for the telecommunication project, for contracts with Comcast, FPL, and Airband. However, as a computer technician for contacts with Airband in setting up the IP configuration for the Cisco switch and router DNS new address for the new client. As a technician, there were many other things that I supported and for several small company and store. Listed below are some of the tasks perform as an independent contractor.

°         Support the company’s computers and backup system

°         Installing wireless equipment for cellular and WiFi 802.11 system

°         Equipment hot swap LMU, jumpers, power rectifiers and est..

°         Repair the company’s e-mail server

°         Lead system sweeper

°         Project lead in contract for Lines and Antennas

°         Report site findings

°         Site Auditing

°         Build, system alignment, and configured point to point wireless system

°         Cables ran and terminated are Fiber, Coaxial, and Ethernet

 

Spriggs Construction, Crossville, TennesseeAug 08 – Sept 08

Project Lead

Responsible for leading several crews in a project for AT&T and for T-Mobile; responsible for their training, scheduling project visits, the crew’s run rate, and setting up the crew with a geographical locations for the site to be visited. These sites were for either-Mobile the 3G kick off or they were critical service sites that needed to be place back up in service by the trigger team. As for the AT&T project, trained crews on how to install the RET cabling and how to program the RET controller with the used RET Cobra software. Also trained them on how to identify issue with their reading and how to flex or test many of these issues. As well trained the crews on how to fill out the documentation for a site close out after they have finished all their work from a site.

 

Advanced Integrated Services Inc., Highland, MichiganMar 08 – Aug 08

Team Lead

Contracted for an Andrews warranty work order on AT&T sites, this contact was to verify which RET were not working and to add a home run RET cable pro sector. All finding were to be documented a long with what sites had been visited. This project was also worked with other contactors, contactor in was I has to train and I have to provide technical support for their and their equipment. Below are other task preformed.

°         Programmed the new RET’s

°         Run new RET cable per sector

°         Ensure to remains on schedule to meet delivery targets date

°         Install, replace, and repair anything with the RET

°         Train and give support the other contactors

°         Document everything

°         Created date and update project tracker

 

AMX Companies, Dallas, Texas Jan 08 – Mar 08

Team Lead/ RF Sweeper

Employed as team lead on a build out project for T-Mobile, this project consisted of the development of UMTS and GSM sites. Responsible for ensuring that the site’s new lines and existing lines along with their connectors met the minimal dB lost as equally I was to ensure that the sites configured was constructed correct with their TMAs and Antennas. In addition, I as was also responsible for the presetting the RET with their site and sector information before the installing the antenna’s. Feather more I documented all the activities, documenting each man-hours and events that had been done on a daily event, also provided the entire document for the close of each job that was completed. Listings below are some of other task I had performed.

°         Perform site Andrews sweep test

°         Installation of the sites lines, antennas and LMA or the duplexers

°         Worked on the close out package of each site completed

°         Created and maintained project tracker

°         RET programmed

°         Site walked, and Site Acquisition

°         Ensure to remains on schedule to meet delivery targets date

 

Interactive Art Services/ Animatic Media, Fort Lauderdale, FloridaNov 07- Nov07

Web Developer/ Designer

 

The Academy, Miami FloridaJun 07- Oct 07

Programming Instructor

 

Royal Caribbean Cruises Line, Miramar, Florida Mar 07- Jul. 07

Product Support Specialist III Shipboard Engineer (SBE) 

 

Steiner Leisure, Miami, FloridaJan 07 – Jan 07

Application Development Support

 

Total Tower, Atlanta, Georgia

Lead System AnalystJul 06 – Nov 06

Inspected and ran diagnostic onto cellular microwave communication systems, reporting findings, take measurements of the site location and tower. Organized and scheduled the projects for the team member and with vendors. Report concerns of site conditions, documenting findings and taken tower measurements for each site visited.

 

GAMO, Davie, Florida Jun 06- Jul 06

Web application Developer

 

FedEx Express, Miami, Florida Feb 06 – May 06

eBusiness Solution Management Developer

 

Total Tower, Atlanta, Georgia

RF Lead System AnalystJun 05 – Feb 06

Installed, tested and reported all work that was done that the cellular communication sites. Installing new coaxial lines and cellular microware antennas tested each line and the complete system setup, creating reports that would indicate all the work that completed with the test result from the site manager. Scheduled meetings with the customer’s technicians, and organized projects.

 

Topp Solution Inc., Doral, FloridaFeb 05 – Jun 05

Software Developer / Analyst

 

Sheridan Health corp., Sunrise, Florida                                                                      Feb 04 – Jun 05

Assistant Clerk

Gator Tower System, Sunrise, Florida                                                                      Aug 02 – Dec 02

Lead System Analyst / Project Team Lead

Tested each communication site that was singed to the companies from the costumer and ensuring that the work that has had been done meets the engineering specification. Leaded a teams to perform repairs that any of site that the customer has an issue with. Organized and scheduled teams to perform installations for their own projects. Organized meeting with the customer to go over the work that has been completed.

 

Seneca Communication, Belmont, NC                                                                      May 02 – Jul 02

Field Communication Technician 

Installed PSAX equipment with patch panel, and T1 as line for the company customer as well tested performed mutable testing for T1 connection and equipment linking. These tasks were performed as an individual communication technician. Organized and scheduled projects of other technicians that were working in the same project.

 

Edd Helms Group Miami, Florida                                                                                    Oct 00 – May 02

Lead Communication Specialist

Leaded teams, train teams, and held meeting with the customers and organized projects with the customer’s field techs, for installation, upgrade and repairs. Tested existing system and new installs, repaired all different type issues, leaded and trained teams on procedure to completion a new installations and repairs; trained others how to document their work for the customer, and answer questions to the customer .