BYRON W. JOHNSON

HC 30, Box 517

Concho, AZ 85924

(402) 394-1166

cenecom@yahoo.com

 

Summary of Experience: All phases of underground construction, cable splicing, installation, repair, and troubleshooting of POTS lines, installation and troubleshooting UDC’s, cable locating, wiring single family and multi-family housing, extensive experience in communications construction inspection, drafting, reel and span testing, and splicing of Fiber Optic cable. Outside plant engineering and design for both aerial and underground copper and fiber optic cables. I have done “remote” engineering projects where I am located at home and the work sight was in New Mexico and Oklahoma.

 

Summary of Training: Training provided by US West/Qwest is as follows; 965TD, working aloft, defensive driving, I & M training, and pole climbing, cable locating, fault locating, soil analysis.  I also completed “Concepts of Electricity” through Century College in White Bear Lake, Minnesota,(correspondence course). Also a number of safety sessions on Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, and several other railroads.

 

 

  I began working in the telecommunications field in 1978, in Alliance, Nebraska placing cable, conduit, and manholes, as well as buried service wire placement on Northwestern Bell property. I have been in and around the industry for 36 years, and I enjoy the work I have chosen. I am very good at OSP Design, and I also enjoy working with customers in installation and repairing trouble on their premises. I am including a listing of the various duties I have performed in the last 36 years on telephone property.

  I can also include a list of references from my work past to verify my abilities and my attitude toward work.

  Thank you for your consideration.

                        Byron W. Johnson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1978-1983    Performed all phases of underground construction including pipe pushes, drops,

                       manhole placement(both poured and pre-cast), conduit construction, concrete

                      placement, cable plowing and sign placement.

 

1983-1992   Performed cable locating duties for Mountain Bell, Sprint and Lightnet. I also

                      Worked as a construction inspector on Sprint, AT&T, GTE and on various REA

                      properties. My duties included mainline plow, conduit construction, manhole place-

                      ment, cable pulling, maintaining legal diaries and all the necessary billingpaperwork.

                      Duties also included As-Built drafting, re-drafting other inspectors As-Builts, design

                      Re-routes for cable moves and route alternatives and bridge attachments.

 

1992-1994   Performed fusion splicing  on CATV and REA fiber projects, including pigtail

                      splicing, using Siecor M67 and M90 Fusion Machines.  Also mechanical splicing using

                     Fibrlok Connectors. Reel and span testing with Laser Precision and Tektronics OTDR’s

                     and power meter/light source testing.

 

1994-1995  Worked on Sprint property in Illinois installing new connectors for SONET. Work incl.

                     OTDR and back reflection testing. Also worked on MCI property in Nebraska for    operations doing route surveillance and cable locating. I also worked as an inspector during this

                     this time on MCI construction in Nebraska and Illinois, working mostly with

                     directional boring crews.

 

1995-1996  Worked on Century Telephone property doing cut-over, preparing cut-over sheets, cable address verification, minor copper splicing, taking noise measurements, running jumpers

                     at remote CO’s(slicks) and working cable throws. Also worked on AT&T construction prop erty as an inspector, working with dig-down crews, cable pulling and final clean up. Then

                     went on to other AT&T projects construction staking.

 

1996-1998  Worked as a construction auditor on a Frontier Communications/Qwest fiber optic project.  Also worked as an incidental for USWest Communications in North Platte, Nebraska locating cable and replacing damaged terminals. Also worked on AT&T property on a coaxial cable removal project in Wyoming and Northern Nebraska. Duties included cable locating, route

                      staking, final clean up, re-seeding and cable removal supervision.

 

1998-2002  Worked as a regular employee of USWest(now Qwest) Communications as a network tech in Ogallala, Nebraska, then in Farmington, New Mexico. Duties included installation of primary and secondary POTS lines, jack installation, trouble shooting, repair, terminal rehab, etc. Splicing damaged cable, locating, aerial drop placement, UDC installation etc.

 

2003-2005  Self employed doing communications work in central Nebraska, as well as an electrician apprentice. I also worked on AT&T property in Leesburg, VA.

 

 

 

 

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2006-2008  I worked for Qwest Communications as a network technician, only new skill was DSL               

                 installs My job was eliminated in March of 2008.

2008 -2009 Worked as a Field Engineer(OPT) for Windstream Communications in the Hobbs, NM office. Duties included DSL qualifications for customers, DSL pre-qualification for terminals, Field checks  on cable counts and height. Design aerial and underground cable runs, including fiber optic cable. Duties also included using Micro Station CAD Drafting, Field View corrections,                 cable assignments and field meetings with customers and cable techs to clarify and resolve cable issues. Duties also included investigating court records on property owner ship. Also worked on “FTTP” and comparisons between Copper and Fiber fed subdivisions. In February of 2009 I had to return to Nebraska as our house didn’t sell and we could no longer afford “dual” housing arrangements.

2009-2010 I worked as a subcontractor on Windstream Communications property  doing                                                             OSP Design in Northern New Mexico and Lincoln Nebraska.  Projects included Fiber to the Remote,  held orders, and copper replacement. Much of the work was done in accordance with Indian reservation and power ROW, included securing permits and drafting.

 

2010    I worked on and completed several FTTH projects in Eastern Colorado. I also worked on  AT&T property in Tennessee, on both design  and construction management . for other OSP designers.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

 

 

2011 I also did contracting work on Windstream Communications property again in Nebraska, Iowa and Georgia. Projects included re-routing conduit runs from Manhole to manhole as well as rebuilding manholes and changing complicated cable counts, cable re routes due to railroad intersection changes and overpass construction, held orders, Fiber to the Cell Tower, etc. I permitted these projects as well as drafted them.

 

2011-2013 I worked on Kentucky Data Link property in Ft. Smith, AR and Lawton, OK both in aerial design and support.

  I worked on Frontier Comm. property doing OSP design and drafted in CADTEL systems.   I worked on aerial and buried cable projects ranging from cable replacement to Fiber to the Cell Towers. I also worked on road moves/bridge replacements etc. Met with both customers and technicians to determine cable extensions, cable trouble issues, pedestal moves etc. 

  From October of 2011 to January of 2013 I worked as a contractor to Nebraska Link LLC doing both OSP Design and construction inspection, I designed much of Lexington, NE(mostly aerial, some buried) and Grand Island,NE as well as several other small communities and fiber to the cell tower , I also provided additional inspectors/designers as requested.

 

2013 I worked as a contractor to Frontier Communications in Columbus, NE through Synergy as a Network Engineer(OSP) where  I worked with road moves, bridge replacements, cable extensions,  new subdivisions,  and one major project that I worked with in this time frame was the rearranging and completion of a botched project from a previous engineer in a rural cross box. 

 

2013-2014  We moved to Arizona in June of 2013, I worked on a temp job running CAT5 cabling and terminating on a college campus and also performed inventory on another campus. Then I worked from September  2013 to February 2014 as a subcontractor to the Gila River Telecom south of Phoenix as a construction inspector working on a FTTH project until they had issues with the BIA permits, at which time I was laid off. I also took a course through CenturyLink during this period on Prism TV engineering.

 

 

 

 

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