Victor Allen
Senior OSP Engineer
Summary of Work Experience
CTC Technology and Energy 12/2010- 7/2013
Senior Engineer Outside Plant
ADV&V 3/2008- 12/2010 Outside Plant
Engineer Verizon FIOS
SMC Inc 1/2006 – 3-2008 ISP/OSP Project Engineer,
Estimator
General Dynamics 3/2003- 1/2006 Site
Manager ISP Engineer
RRea Corp 6/2002 1/2003 Project Manager
Verizon 3/1972- 6/2002 Outside Plant
Engineer, Cable Splicer, PBX Installer, Installer Repairman, Storekeeper,
Shop Repairman
WORK EXPERIENCE
Columbia Telecommunications Corp. (2010–2013)
Inter-County Broadband Network (ICBN) Project
Senior Engineer in charge of the
design and engineering for the ICBN project
This
project spanned four counties and placed backbone cabling and laterals to
over two hundred sites
Responsible for the initial start up
of OSP Engineering for CTC.
Responsible for setting up the
design criteria for project
Interviewed prospective engineers
Trained
engineers and supervised the design of fiber networks for Anne Arundel,
Baltimore, Prince Georges and Montgomery Co.
Responsible for the QAQC of the
construction work
Provided guidance to other
engineering firms involved in the project
Resolved construction issues as they
occurred in the field.
Built OSPInSight data base for
Prince Georges Co MD
Connect
Arlington Project
Supervised
the engineering of 80 sites in Arlington connecting the backbone to the
laterals
Resolved
engineering issues as they occurred.
Other
Client Projects
· Design high-level fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP)
network, municipal fiber optic ring, and fiber laterals to public safety
sites for St. Louis Park, Minn.
· Design FTTP for Nevada County, California for Spiral
Internet
· Design fiber rings and site laterals for Alexandria,
Virginia municipal network
· Designed high level FTTP network in Westminster
FiOS Design Engineer
ADV&V, LLC (2008–2010)
· Engineered MDU projects for Verizon FiOS
· Conducted field surveys
· Met with Verizon employees and clients for the
initial walk through
· Designed outside plant fiber optic facilities
· Worked with Verizon construction managers to insure
the builds met all standards.
OSP / ISP Project Engineer – Estimator
SMC, Inc. (2006–2008)
· Analysis, design, engineering, pricing, scheduling,
and acceptance of OSP and ISP bid projects
· Develop customer requirements, plans, drawings and
concepts
· Provide analysis, proposals and recommendations to
clients and management
· Prepare timely and accurate proposals addressing
client requirements
Specialist, Field Engineering, Pentagon Renovation
(PENREN)
General Dynamics (2004–2006)
· Engineered fiber network designed to provide fiber
optic facilities for all five wedges of the Pentagon
· Renovated space was cabled with redundant pathways.
Non-renovated space was pre-cabled with fiber cable counts in the appropriate
distribution points to provide redundancy
· Designed passive infrastructure including fiber
optic and structured cabling systems
· Performed site surveys in Pentagon to determine
which cables would be affected by renovation. Marked cables with paint to
prevent cables being removed before working circuits were transferred to a new
path. Perform surveys to determine origin and destination of circuits
transiting through areas marked for demolition.
· Designed new pathways to provide facilities to
transfer circuits to safe paths
· Engineered the infrastructure to facilitate the
transfer of the Red Switch Phones working outside the demolition area
· Engineered new data and voice cabling for clients
moving to renovated space
Site Manager, NMCI Pax River Md.
General Dynamics (2003–2004)
· Scheduled the placement of inside and outside plant
cable for the conversion to NMCI
· Supervised sub-contractors installing cable and
conduit for the NMCI project
· Provided daily reports on work completed to the
project manger
· Prepared and presented milestone reports for review
and payment by EDS
· Provided weekly progress reports using MS project
· Coordinated moves, adds, and changes to the data and
voice infrastructure
· Took over role as site manager for Kingsbay, GA
· Traveled to Whidbey Island, WA to work with subs on
productivity issues.
Project Manager
R. Rea Corp. (2002–2003)
· Prepared and submitted bid proposals
· Conducted site surveys
· Managed projects
· Placed and terminated Cat5e and Cat3 cabling
· Placed and terminated fiber optic multi-mode drops
using Unicam connectors
· Placed and terminated outside plant single and
multi-mode fiber optic cables using Unicam ST, SC connectors and Seicor M90
Fusion Splicer
· Tested outside plant fiber optic cables using Seicor
OTDR, Light Source and Power meter
· Repaired fiber optic cables using OTDR for trouble
isolation
· Placed, spliced and terminated outside plant copper
cables, (Splice with 710 modules, terminate on 66 and 110 blocks)
· Supervised, trained and scheduled work for eight
technicians placing and terminating data and voice cabling
· Ordered equipment ( Cat3,5e, 6 cable, data jacks,
voice jacks, 110 blocks, 66 blocks, tools, cable ties, clamps, j hooks,
wiring troughs, relay racks)
Engineering Assistant, Circuit Provisioning
Verizon (1999–2002)
· Designed DS1 circuits using copper and fiber
facilities to meet customer requirements
· Monitored bandwidth on point-to-point systems and
fiber rings
· Training:
o
Basic outside plant engineering
o
FACS
o
MARCS
o
LEAD
o
Digital Loop Carrier (T1)
o
DLC Litespan 2000
o
Fiber Optic Engineering
o
DS1 Service Design
o
FLM Applications and Equipment
Engineering
o
Microstation CADD
o
DDM OC3 and OC12 turn up
o
FLM OC3 and OC12 turn up
o
Pole Line Design
o
Air Pressure Design
Specialist Facilities Analysis
Verizon (1998–1999)
· Maintained an INGRES database with 3 servers and
approx. 2400 databases
· Wrote Unix shell scripts with embedded SQL to
extract data for user to executive level reports from Ingres databases.
· Training
o
( Lead) Loop Engineering Assignment
Data TELCO
o
Basic C Programming TELCO
o
SQL Structured Query Language TELCO
o
Ingres SQL, Computer Associates
o
Ingres DBA, Database Management
Technologies
o
Oracle SQL, TELCO
o
LAD Loop Assignment Data, TELCO
o
Basic EXCEL and EXCEL 2, Systems Source
o
ACCESS Level 1,Systems Source
o
Beginning HTML, Systems Source
o
Advanced HTML, Systems Source
IOF Capacity Management Engineer
Verizon (1996–1998)
· Engineered and planned facilities for the Inter
Office network, which provides bandwidth for transporting circuits DS0, DS1,
and DS3 between Telco Central Offices. My responsibilities included all of
the offices in Fairfax and Arlington Counties, VA.
· Site surveys to determine the location of new
equipment
· Monitored bandwidth on DACS, EDSX machines and OC48
SONET rings.
· Planned and designed the cabling between the manual
and electronic DSX’s and the cabling from the multiplexers to the Manual and
EDSX.
· Planned and designed OC48 SONET rings to provide
spare DS3 and DS1capacity
· Planned and designed the electronics to provide
bandwidth on the EDSX machines.
· Planned and designed the cabling to CLEC, and long
distance carriers space
· Training
o
Network Evolution Planning
o
Synchronous Optical Network
Architectures (Rings)
o
TIRKS system Synchronous Optical
Network
o
TIRKS, FEPS1 and FEPS2 (Planning and
design of interoffice facilities using the TIRKS database)
o
Understanding Broadband Networks (ATM.
SONET)
Engineering Assistant, Local Loop OSP
Verizon (1988–1996)
· Area Engineer for Parole, Crofton Central Offices
· Designed aerial fiber placing and splicing plans for
the Crofton to Doors Corner Inter Office Cable
· Designed aerial fiber placing and splicing plans for
the Laurel to Beltsville Inter Office Cable
· Designed underground fiber placing and splicing
plans for the Parole to Annapolis Inter Office Cable
· Designed buried copper placing and splicing plans
for all new subdivisions in the Crofton and Parole CO areas
· Designed placing and splicing plans for
rehabilitation and relief work in Parole and Crofton CO areas
· Designed underground and aerial plans for SONET ring
in Parole CO area
· Engineered plans for the placing and splicing of
copper and fiber cables for the OSP network.
· Engineered plans for the placement and turn-up of
electronic equipment for the OSP network (Fujitsu ADM, Lucent DDM 2000, OC3,
OC12, OC48 multiplexers,
DSC Litespan 2000, Lucent SLC5, and
Nortel DMS 100)
· Designed plans using Microstation CAD
· Coordinated the placement of third-party attachment
(CATV, A. A. Co Gov) to Telco and Power company owned Poles. Includes make
ready drawings for the rearrangement of facilities on the pole to establish
the proper clearances and guying.
· Training
o
Basic outside Plant Engineering
o
FACS
o
MARCS
o
LEAD
o
Digital Loop Carrier (T1)
o
DLC Litespan 2000
o
Fiber Optic Engineering
o
DS1 Service Design
o
FLM Applications and Equipment
Engineering
o
Microstation CADD
o
DDM OC3 and OC12 turn up
o
FLM OC3 and OC12 turn up
o
Pole Line Design
o
Air Pressure Design
Cable Splicing Technician
Verizon (1981–1988)
· Performed splicing operations in connection with the
installation, rearrangement, and repair of outside plant facilities.
· Set up cables for splicing
· Spliced copper cables, using ATT 710 modules, B wire
connectors, Scotch Loks, ATT 702 Connectors and Picabond. Used Throwmaster
and other tone and test equipment to identify cable pairs and circuits
· Member of fiber optic splicing team spliced fiber
optic cables and tested loss for the turn up of point to point systems. Used
Sumitomo Fusion Splicer, Thomas & Betts Precision Cleaver, OTDR, Light
Source and Power Meter.
· Installed and maintained multiplexers and SLC
equipment
· Turned up power and electronic equipment in CEVs
· Training:
o
Copper cable splicing (ATT 710 Splicing
machine)
o
Fiber optic cable splicing (Sumitimo
Fusion splicing, mechanical splicing, using OTDR, using Light Source and
Power Meters)
o
Fault locating copper cables
o
Work area safety
o
Using ladders, pole climbing, and
working aloft, working in confined spaces (i.e.: manholes, hand holes, CEVs)
Systems Technician
Verizon (1980–1981)
· Installed and maintained PBX and Key systems.
(Dimension PBX, 1A2 Key systems, Comkey electronic key systems.)
· Placed cables for data and voice circuits
· Turned up access lines for PBX and Key systems
· Worked directly with business customers to provide
telephone and data services
Services Technician
Verizon (1973–1980)
· Installed and repaired telephone service for
business and residential customers. Includes trouble diagnosis and repair,
pole climbing, use of Ks 8455 meter for fault locating, placing inside wiring
for residential telephones
· Placed overhead wires from poles to the customer
premises
· Placed and terminated cables in multistory apartment
buildings
· Placed and terminated inside cables for 1A2 key
systems
· Installed electronic cabinets and cards for key
systems
Storekeeper
Verizon (1972–1973)
· Maintained stock of equipment at Verizon’s
storerooms for residential and business installation crews, PBX repair crews,
line crews, and splicing crews.
· Shop Repair: Tested used telephones removed
dials, handsets and housing replaced with new parts, repackaged rebuilt
telephones and returned to stock.
EDUCATION
Associate in Science, Computer Network Management,
Anne Arundel Community College(AACC)
Unix Sytem Administrator certificate, AACC
SECURITY CLEARANCE
Top Secret
Date of Clearance Granted: 16 Nov 2005
Date of Last Investigation: 2 Nov 2005, SSBI, OPM