Kurtis Alan Kilponen

1151 County Road 43

Tyler, AL 36785

(334) 875-8470

kurtiskilponen@att.net

 

Summary of Qualifications

              30 years of experience working with various communications systems/suites. Additionally: QA/QC physical Buildings, airfields, HAVC, Power/lighting, Mechanical, plumbing.

              12 years Experience performing in Site Manager and Lead Positions or working independently on installing and managing fiber optic and copper cabling for Inside and Outside Plant.

              5 years Experience as a Certified Field Engineer for Tellabs.

              3M Certified Fiber Optics Technician             

              US Navy (20 years) NEC 2313/2319/9502

              8 years certified Phone Technician

              Certified for Hubble Installation (for 15 year warranty)

              Certified for Levition Category 5

              Certified for Bay Networks, Basic TCIP/IP

              Certified BICSI ITS Technician

 

Employment History:

             Contract Consultant

             IZ Technologies

             March 2014  to Present

             Duties: Assists with Planning, scheduling

             For contracts.

 

            Construction Consultant       

             Veteran of Foreign wars: Post 3016

              Nov 2013 to present

             Duties: Assists with business systems and

             Repairs to building structures.

 

           Network Systems Engineer I: Surveyor

           Centech Group Inc.

           Mar 1 2013 to OCT 2013

           Duties: Inspect, Design and submit Both New and Ads, Moves

           And changes to ISP/OSP Plants on Warner Robins AFB.

           Additional Duties of QA/QC Engineer.

 

           Cable Plant Maintenance Technician

           Centech Group Inc.

           Sep 3 2012 to Feb 28 2013

           Duties: Maintained Fiber/Copper Cabling Plants on

           Gunter AFB.

 

           Cable Plant Maintenance Technician

           General Dynamics

           April 30 2012 to Sep 2 2012

           Duties: Maintained Fiber/Copper Cabling Plants on

           Gunter AFB.

 

          Custom Protection Officer for G4S Secure Solutions

          Selma Alabama

          March 12, 2012 to Apr 29 2012

          Duties: Providing armed security on a part-time basis.

 

          Site Manager/Inside/Outside Plant /structural Plant

          QA/QC Engineer – US Army/Mission1st

           Southwest Asia/Washington DC

           March 2008 –October 2011

           Duties: Managed Sites in Iraq. Designed, managed and QA/QC communications projects for DoD, DoS and OGA, to include: Structure, services, and End to End communications, connectivity. Last assigned to Washington DC, as a subject matter expert to advise Government Contracting officers (PEO PM P2E) on above. Secret Clearance is current.         

         

          Inside Plant Engineer/Installer/Certification – Ellis

          Environmental Group

          Maxwell Air Force Base – Alabama

          Feb 2007 – Jan 2008

          Duties: Engineering design of Communications Hubs, closets and pathways.  Installation to include: entire communications suite, to include Racks, patch panels, switches, power supplies, Fiber optic and Category 6 cabling. Certifications of inside/outside plant and Turnover to customer.

              

         Outside Plant Engineer – DRS/Tamsco

         Baghdad Iraq

         Dec 2004 - Sep 2006

         Duties consisted of Site surveys, Proposals, Designs,

Direction to installers both American and Iraqi. Coordination of Right

of way with DoD/Dos, Iraqi Military/Government. Research and

drafting of needed equipment and install materials. Training of Iraqi

installers to TIA/EIA standards. Secondary functions: of installation

and testing ISP/OSP systems that were classified.  Rehabilitation of

existing Iraqi ISP/OSP systems Damaged by wartime conditions.

 

              Quality Assurance Engineer - General Dynamics

              Oct 2002 to Nov 2004

              Conducted inspections of subcontractor’s installations to insure compliance with EIA / TIA, NEC Standards, Codes and OSHA rules.

Trained and/or Conducted evaluations of site managers, ISP/OSP Leads and subcontractors on compliance with NMCI/BLII infrastructure program. Periodically served, as both site Manager or as ISP/OSP lead technician.  Implemented initial designs and revised as needed designs of Cabling Plants. This Included all phases of contract from initial design walk-through to final As-Built Verification.

Duties Performed Both Across U.S and Internationally.

 

              Field Service Engineer - Tellabs             

              May 1999 to Jan 2002

              Certified as a Field Engineer for the 530/532/532L/5500 TITAN product Lines. Duties included test and acceptance of new installation, troubleshooting, repair and upgrading of older installations, worked nationally at various facilities.

 

              Contract Service Engineer - Butler Communications for Tellabs

              Sept 1998 to May 1999

              The same Duties were performed as previous description.

 

              Fiber Optic & Lead Cabling Technician – Aerotek

              Apr 1998 to Sep 1998

              Assigned as a Technician to both: Lucent Technologies and Rancho Santa Fe. This was for the installation of Category 5/3, Coaxial, fiber Optic cabling. This included testing and certification.

             

              Lead Cabling Technician - Telcom Data

              Jul 1996 to Apr 1998

              Assigned: site Management/Lead position.  Working with other installers or independently. Duties included: Pre-bids and design of cabling plants, installation, testing/certification, troubleshooting/repair of all types of phone/computer installations from Type 1 cabling to Fiber Optic Cabling. Completed contracts included following companies: Pacific Bell, California Dept of Corrections/Transportation.

             

              Technical Support Representative - Home Controls

              Feb 1996 to June 1996

              Technical Support for product lines designed for remote computer control of offices and homes.

 

              Sales Associate/Production Technician - Things Remembered

              Nov 1995 to July 1996

 

              Communications System Controller/Technician

              US Navy (Honorably Retired)

              Nov 1975 to Nov 1995

              Primary duties included: Systems Quality Control/RF Technician, monitoring, maintaining all associated communications for Satellite, (CDMA/TDMA), Microwave, HF/VHF/UHF/SHF/LF Suites and associated equipment.  Experience ranged from Fixed, Mobile, Ashore and Afloat Installations. Secondary responsibility was sending, receiving and distribution of various Voice/Record traffic.

 

Education/Certifications

              Chapman College

          Selma High School

Security Clearance

              Currently: SECRET

              Held TOP SECRET during US Navy career