Sandy Beland

3210 Esperanza Xing

Apt 5348

Austin TX 78758

(843) 685-5757

sandy95hd@yahoo.com

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SUMMARY

 

Telecommunications Network Engineer/Supervisor/Project Manager and Coordinator and strong technical manager with extensive and varied corporate experience including the following:

·   Strong working knowledge of outside plant facilities from central office to end user.

·   Experienced corporate employee manager.

·   Hands-on, application and results oriented field engineer experience.

·   Ambassador and proponent for generation of corporate sales revenue.

·   Effective Communication and Computer Skills; Product Marketing; Labor Relations.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Tesinc LLC07/2015-PRESENT

Telecommunications Contractor

 

Field Supervisor-Austin TX2010 - 2011

Team lead for growing group of OSP FTTH fielders for AT&T brownfield U-verse project.

·   Recruit and process new hires.

·   Prioritize and coordinate distribution of work to six field technicians

·   R/W-easement assessment for PFP staking and general job knowledge including fielder inquiries

·   Informal, formal and approved permit processing for the City of Austin and TxDot

·   Handle reroutes, revisions and corrections as well as field changes

 

GW Communications    12/2014-PRESENT

Design & Engineering Corporation

 

OSP Engineer-Austin TX

Designer for outside plant AT&T Switched Ethernet and make ready pole work orders for multiple central office areas located around the Austin area.

·   Handled customer site visits.

·   Provisioned fiber to businesses on a short term service order basis.

·   Completed field notes and uploaded to drafting department.

·   Initiated and informed company engineer of TxDot and City of Austin permit requirements.

·   Fielding pole transfer situations for clearance violations and new construction.

·   Procured city of Austin municipal permits for aerial telecommunications facility placement.

 

BRIUSTelecom Solutions02/2015-07/2015

International Staffing Solutions

 

Interconnect Engineer-east TX/central LA

Surveyor for Verizon cell sites under contract for Vinculums in the TX/LA market for future conduit placement.

·   Responsible for measuring and determining conduit path from property line to cellular demarcation and transport equipment.

·   Handling various building, platform and shelter sites.

Completed field notes and uploaded work scopes to drafting department.

 

CYIENT10/2014-03/2015

Global Engineering Corporation

 

OSP Engineer-Austin TX

Designer for outside plant AT&T Switched Ethernet work orders for multiple central office areas located around the Austin area.

·   Handled customer site visits.

·   Provisioned fiber to businesses on a short term service order basis.

·   Completed field notes and uploaded to drafting department.

·   Initiated and informed company engineer of permit requirements.

·   Procured city of Austin municipal permits for aerial and buried telecommunications facility placement.

 

ECC Technologies01/2014-06/2014

Telecommunications Tech Corporation

 

Field Engineer-Various NC counties

Surveyor for MCNC rural broadband study

·   Responsible for driving and noting all incumbent and foreign aerial and buried fiber optic cables, water and wireless towers in assigned counties

·   Highlighted and noted these on paper maps that were eventually documented electronically

·   Followed up QC to check for errors in counties that other field engineers had surveyed.

 

Outsource, Inc.09/2011-01/2013

A Voice and Data Communication Services Company

 

OSP Engineer-Whiteville NC

Designer for outside plant work orders for multiple central office areas located around the Whiteville/Fayetteville areas for CenturyLink.

·   Handled all aspects of facility distribution including copper, fiber and circuits.

·   Provisioned telephone service to all new businesses and residential subdivisions in my extensive area.

·   Provide assistance to other work groups to provision facilities for high speed internet requests.

·   Procured DOT, county and municipal permits for aerial, buried and underground telecommunications facility placement.

 

ONUG Communications12/2009-07/2011

Telecommunications Corporation

 

Lead Engineer-Wilmington NC2010 - 2011

Team lead as AT&T designated engineering master contractor for southeastern NC.

·   Lead for team of 13 engineers, drafters, and field technician’s assigned date due work orders.

·   Procured DOT, county and municipal permits for aerial, buried and underground telecommunications facility placement.

 

Lead Engineer-New Orleans2009 - 2010

Contract Lead engineer for AT&T PLS (Project Light Speed) responsible for OSP design of VRAD FTTH video cabinets for the southern LA district.

·   Lead for team of engineers, drafters, and field technician’s assigned date due work orders.

·   Procured DOT, county and municipal permits for aerial, buried and underground telecommunications facility placement.

·   Contact for bid design BAU and rehab work in the central LA region.

 

Verizon Communications04/1984 – 12/2008

National Telecommunications Corporation

 

Network Engineer-Myrtle Beach, SC2005 - 2008

Designer for outside plant work orders for nine central office areas across two counties over 100 geographical miles north to south and up to 50 miles inland from the coast.

·   Handled all aspects of facility distribution including copper, fiber, circuits, road moves and conduit.

·   Screened leads and referrals that created sales exceeding $35K in revenue in 2008 leading the Carolina’s engineering team.

·   Developed effective working relationships with several local utilities for combined placement coordination sometimes resulting in last minute joint placing saving thousands of dollars.

·   Provisioned telephone service to all new businesses and residential subdivisions in my extensive area.

·   Repeatedly provided assistance to other work groups in the Carolina’s to provision facilities for high speed internet requests.

·   FTTH designer for N Myrtle Beach municipal aerial to buried ocean front project

·   Procured DOT, county and municipal permits for aerial, buried and underground telecommunications facility placement.

 

Supervising Engineer-Washington, DC2003 – 2005

Manager of five engineering assistants, two engineering contractors and one facility administrator responsible for requests involving placing, rearrangement and removal of copper and fiber cables and associated equipment in Washington, DC.

·   Point of contact for all high profile government buildings including the White House, the Capitol, and Bolling AFB as well as the Smithsonian Institution museums.

·   Engineering SPOC for the 2005 Presidential inauguration responsible for verification of facilities after four years of nonuse and issuance of work orders to provide all telecommunications connections for security and the international media.

·   Reimbursable engineer garnering payment for billable work orders for my district.

 

Supervising Engineer-southern Maryland2002 – 2003

Manager and project coordinator of eight engineering assistants, two engineering contractors and two facility administrators responsible for requests involving placing, rearrangement and removal of copper and fiber cables and associated equipment in southern Maryland.

·   Handled 20 central office area’s across five counties.

·   Project managed and coordinated statewide outside plant remote switch inventory over a twelve month period resulting in approximately $4M in capital retirements approaching corporate goal for my district in its entirety.

·   Handled virtually all facility, planning and engineering disciplines for our area due to the fact that we were remotely located from Annapolis headquarters over 50 miles away.

 

Engineering Assistant-suburban Maryland1999 – 2002

Maintainer of  several central office areas and performed design of engineering work orders for fiber and copper cable, poles, terminals and digital loop electronics placement, rearrangement and removal.

·   Assisted coworkers and other work groups on a daily basis to insure service deadlines were met.

·   Handled resolution of any delayed service order notices for my area as well as working overtime to provide service within my organization when necessary.

 

Cable Splicing Technician-suburban Maryland1987 – 1999

Responsible for placing, splicing, rearrangement, maintenance and removal of fiber and metallic cables and associated equipment.

·   Accomplished every challenge afforded to me in my years as a splicer.

·   Performed shift work, cable section cuts, repair of cut cables, call outs, maintenance, rush work, large and complicated engineering work orders, resolving delayed service order issues in the buried, underground and aerial environments.

·   Trained in most fiber and metallic cable splicing and maintenance equipment and procedures.

·   Worked closely with other internal departments such as facility assignment, I&M (installation & maintenance) and dispatch.

Customer Service Representative-Washington, DC1984 – 1987

Issued business telephone service order requests.

·   Interfaced with international customers in the Nation’s capitol.

·   Sales experience providing additional telephone features.

 

 

EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

 

General Studies

Prince George’s Community College Largo, MD

 

Corporate based classroom and web based training

Sales/Technology918 hrs

Corporate Policy/Safety260 hrs

Construction281 hrs

Engineering358 hrs

Management277 hrs

Skill Summary

Microsoft Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, PeopleSoft, Lotus Notes, Outlook