Kent Pitcher

1659 W 1850 N

Layton, Utah 84041

Ph: 801-500-5860 cell

E: klpitcher@gmail.com

 

Summary

 

A telecommunications technician, transport engineer and project manager with a bachelors degree in telecommunication, and fifteen years of experience installing, testing trouble-shooting transport equipment, designing and managing broadband and transport installation projects.

 

Education

 

• BS Telecommunications Administration, with Business Core, Weber State University, 1997

• Upgrading courses-WSU:   Wireless Telephony, Quantitative Analysis, Statistic

 

Skills and Knowledge

 

•  Line Sweeping (Anritsu S331D)

•  SONET (BLSR , UPSR)  ADM  DWDM  OC48  OC192  DS1 DS3  DSLAMS ATM  ISDN  TDMA  CDMA LTE

•  Ethernet, fiber optics ,  Cat 6, 66 blocks, 110 patch panels, DSX

•  OTDR and BER 100G fiber test sets, (JDSU and EXFO brands)

•  OSA test sets, Video Fiber Scopes,  T-Berd 307 tester, Light Meters,  Volt/Ohm Meters

•  Tellabs UMC 1000, Calix C7, Adtran TA 1248, and TA 5000, Fujitsu Flashwave

•  Infinera DTN, DTC -  DWDM,  Alcatel-Lucent DMX

• Cisco 2900 series routers, basic ALU 7705 Router

•  VISIO,  Excel,    Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook ,  TL1,  Hyper Terminal

•  AC/DC power,  battery testing, rectifiers,  HVAC inspection

•  Metasolv and Granite inventory software

 

Certifications

 

Nortel DMS 100 Switch

NEC 2400V ADM, Hitachi 5192 ADM

DWDMs: Lucent 400/800G,  Alcatel 1648 DWDM,  Hitachi 6100, NEC Spectral Wave  Ciena  4200

OSP and ISP Design Anixter

 

Employment

 

• Collabera,  Verizon Wireless, Temporary  Contract,   March 2014 to July 10, 2015

• Field and Switch Technician, Inventory Manager 

o  ALU 7705, AWS, and eNodeB general maintenance, drive testing.

o  Managed procurement of equipment, payment of bills to vendors

o Managed and audited 30 million dollar inventory for two central network switch offices

o  Managed RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization) system

 

 

• Utah Education Network,  Temporary  Contract,   September  2013 to January 2014

• Field Engineer

o  Install Cisco routers and switches, scope and  run fiber jumpers,  crimp Cat 5 and Cat 6 jumpers cables

o  Conducted  only a few OTDR and BER fiber tests, and fusion splices.

 

• Ericsson Communications, Temporary r through JM Niel,  March  2013 to Sept 2013

• Project Manager

o  Managed site acceptance and system turn up of Samsung  LTE 4G upgrade for Sprint PCS

o  Audited inventory

o Resolved circuit outages of Alcatel Lucent Compact CDMA 4.0 Base Transceiver Station

o Performed  T-1 Augmentations

 

• LTS,  Salt Lake City, Utah,  June 28, 2011- March 2012 

• Field and CO Telecommunications Technician for

o Contracted to TW Telecom, Zayo/360, Comcast, AT&T, Wild Blue -Viasat

o Per engineering specifications and MOPs installed, powered, tested,  configured,  and provisioned

o Conducted site surveys and inventory audits for Zayo and 360 Networks merger

o Maintained satellite uplink and downlink wireless internet transmission systems

 

• TekSystems, Temporary Contract for Wind Stream, KY, May  to June 2011 

• ISP and OSP Engineer, Project Manager

o Using VISIO designed SONET and EBH Rings and Fiber to the Tower installation

o Designed point to point circuits for DSL, T1, DS3 and OC, IMA groups, DSLAMS, GigE circuits, DWDMs

o Wrote  MOPs  and scopes of work for installing and powering  DSLAMS, aggregators, DWDMS, CWDMS

o Wrote circuit requests, selected installation contractors, procured equipment, managed installation projects

 

• Utah Cabling,  Layton UT, September 2007 to March 2011

• Installation Manager

o Managed low voltage cable communications installation projects for remodels and new construction

o Presented bids to general contractors and end users

 

• Global Crossing, Transport Engineer, Field Technician  -NY and Nevada, December 1999 to Feb 2007 •Transport Engineer, Field Technician

o Maintained SONET fiber optic amplifier and regenerator sites,  Configured systems

o Installed, tested, and turned-up, configure, trouble shoot  DWDMS, ADMs and DS-3 and OC circuits, fiber distribution panels

o Provided point to point design for DS3, OC –N,  ADM and DWDM circuits,

o Wrote Methods of Procedure (MOPs), managed projects

 

• LDS Church CES,  Layton, Utah,  June 1998 – June 1999

• OPT Seminary Teacher

 

• Anixter, Sales Representative, Salt Lake City, UT,  May 1997- December  1997

o  Sell ISP and OSP Telecommunications products. Account manager for LDS Church account

o Provided technical support, for OSP and ISP  engineering and consultation to customers

 

 

• LDS Corporate Offices, Salt Lake City, UT, September 1996 – April 1997

• IT Intern o Managed team in installation of campus cable network and sub-elements and fiber optic backbone

o Installed 100 pair cables, laced cables, performed moves, add and changes in campus CO

o Supervised communications cabling installation for 150 drop genealogy computer lab

 

• Weber State University,  Ogden UT, September 1996 – April 1997

• Communications  Intern

o Managed and configured campus PBX, Audix voice mail system, and call recording system

o Supervised the low voltage cabling installation for the WSU book store construction

 

 

 

OTHER EXPERIENCE

 

• Heath Care Facility Administrator Occupational License  UTAH DOPL issued • 1,000 health care administration  preceptorship.

 

• Full Time LDS Missionary

 

• Counselor in Stake Mission Presidency

 

• Heath Care Facility Administrator Occupational License  UTAH DOPL issued

 

• BSA Camp Commissioner two years

 

• Two years Seminary Teacher LDS CES, one year OPT, one hear early morning

 

• Elders’ Quorum President (two Wards)

 

• Ward Executive Secretary

 

• Mortgage Loan Originator Occupational License  Utah DOPL issued

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kent Pitcher’s REFERENCES

 

 

Glade Bradly Howell    LDS Corporate Office CES, Salt Lake City, UT

 

Dwain Saviano, former work associate,   LDS Corporate Office SLC,  Missionary Call Department

 

Don Holliday, Verizon Wireless, Manager, 801-518-7515   Donald.holiday@verizonwireless.com

 

Don Mahaffey,  UEN Field Technician Manager, 801-554-7153, dmahaffey@media.utah.edu

 

Justin Cooley, Ericsson Communications, Field Technician Manager,    justin.cooley@ericsson.com

 

Kevin Brim,  Field Technician,  Ericsson Communications,   435-602-0244  kevin.brim@ericsson.com

 

Kevin Kil, former Global Crossing Transport Engineer Manager, (Global Crossing purchased by Level 3) 585-255-5210  Kevin.Kil@level3.com

 

Jack Blair TW Telecom, Regional Transport Manager,  ( customer to LTS),  503-416-1891, Jack.Blair@twtelecom.com

 

Jared Hicken, LTS  (Ledcor), Technician / Work associate 801-556-1929,  Jared.Hicken@ledcor.com