Gary Scarber

1208 N 21^st St., Duncan, OK 73533, 580-736-4880, gscarber@sbcglobal.net

Objective

OSP Engineer Manager

Experience

10/1/2013 to 1/27/2016

Fiberlight, LLC

Midland, TX

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS – WTX

·        Manage and maintain network to achieve company and customer satisfaction

·        Supervise activities of all subordinates, develop their work schedules and training.

·        Budget and expense management, cost estimating, trouble management tracking.

·        Direct day-to-day activities across approx. 5,000 miles of network.

·        Manage 400 tower sites, including 80 microwave sites and approx. 100 enterprise customers.

10/1/2012 to 10/1/2013

Fiberlight, LLC

Midland, TX

Operations Manager - WTX

·        Manage and schedule equipment installs at cell sites for ongoing WTX network expansion.

·        Coordinate maintenance window work for equipment and software upgrades.

·        Schedule and monitor MOPS for re-splicing and reconfiguring network.

·        Hire and manage LIT technicians and PMs in all WTX markets.

·        Manage locate services in all WTX markets.

·        Manage all facets of day-to-day activities including warehouse inventory management, budgets for projects, sales inquiries, upgrades on customer software and troubleshooting network problems.

9/17/2012 TO 10/1/2012

Fiberlight, LLC

Midland, TX

PROJECT mANAGER - wtx

·        Managed permitting, pole attachment requests, facilities placement, material vendors and construction inspection.

·        Scheduling and training of field representatives.

·        Managed service contracts and directed support services.

·        Cost & control estimating, performed preliminary OSP engineering, production tracking.

·        Trouble management, emergency restoration and disaster recovery of network assets.

5/1/1997 to 9/17/2012

Windstream Communications

Velma, OK

OSP Engineer II

·        Design OSP facilities for new service requests for local customers.

·        Design fiber and copper toll services to interconnect central office facilities.

·        Design FTTT to cell tower customers.

·        Design fiber and copper facilities to repair existing damaged facilities.

·        Obtain city, county and state permits as required.

·        Obtain private easements for plant facility placement.

·        Calculate damages as required during facility placement process.

·        Obtain pole attachment permits and work up make-ready requests.

·        Supervise and inspect new construction and make necessary changes or revisions to engineered drawings.

·        Manage job closeout packages for all plant facilities in my area.

·        Pre-posting and posting of finished plant construction in my area.

·        Maintaining plant records for all of western and southwestern Oklahoma for Windstream.

·        Submitting budgets for maintenance and special projects.

·        Designing remote central office switch facilities, acquiring lease for placement of cabinets and supervising install and setup of cabinet facilities and equipment.

Education

2000

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX

·        OSP Engineering Tech

·        1998 – Engineering Economics & Certification

·        1993 & 2000 – Fiber Optic Fundamentals

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References

References are available on request.