My name is Brian San Nicolas and I have been working for my current employer Marianas Cable Vision Broadband (MCV Broadband) for the past 12 years.  I am a 32 year old HFC system technician/design engineer.  I will be relocating to the Tampa area in the near future.  I would like to introduce myself to you and present myself as a possible candidate for a position in your technical operation staff.  As aforementioned, I have been working in the technical operations department of MCV Broadband which is the cable TV MSO provider in the US territories of Guam and The Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas (CNMI), providing digital and analog video, voice, internet, and a whole array of optical backhaul service to multiple clients.  MCV Broadband’s current HFC system, services 35,000 subscribers through 863 miles of plant.  The system is highly rich in fiber with 274 optical nodes servicing 35,000 subscribers.  The system is highly unique as we maintain a signal acquisition headend in San Luis Obispo, California.  The signals are acquired processed and packaged through digital groomers and sent to Guam via undersea fiber optical cables.  Upon arrival on Guam, the signals are run through time delay servers so that the programming is delayed six to seven hours (depending on daylight savings) so that they may play at the appropriate time.  MCV Broadband also maintains co-location space in two of the three transoceanic cable stations on Guam and provides numerous backhaul interconnection services to private communication companies, local government, and the United States Federal Government.

 

I started my HFC career as an installer and worked through the various levels of technicians up to forward/return sweep technician.  In this capacity, I have obtained the following skills:

 

·   Residential and MDU Installation.

·   Mainline construction and splicing.

·   Repair and maintenance of the entire HFC OSP from the subscriber’s outlet to the headend.

·   Construction, maintenance, and repair of all aspects of the headend’s RF combining and transmission network.

·   Utilization of test equipment such as spectrum analyzer, JDSU SDA platform, leakage detectors, cable locators, TDR, OTDR.

 

As highlights of my OSP technical skills, I perform bandwidth upgrade splicing and activation as we migrated our upper bandwidth from 550 MHz to 870 MHz.  I also participated in totally rebuilding the entire system following to devastating category 4 or better hurricanes.  Four years ago, I transferred into the engineering department as a design engineer. In this capacity, I have obtained the following skills:

·   Survey and strand mapping of new subscriber areas.

·   Design of all aspects of the RF distribution system from the node to subscriber’s outlet using manual calculations.

·   Design of all aspects of the RF distribution system from the node to subscriber’s outlet using lode data design and drafting software.

·   HFC system drafting using AutoCADD.

·   HFC system drafting using AutoCADD and lode data drafting software.

·   Project management, QA, and QC, of designed projects to ensure efficiency and accurate asbuilts.

·   Tend to queries from technicians in the field in regards to possible design problems.

 

Thank you for taking your time in reading this letter.  I hope that my skills can fill a need within your operations.

 

Sincerely,

 

Brian C. San Nicolas