Summary

 

1974-1978, I have been in the Telecommunications industry, beginning as a telecommunications specialist in the U.S. Air Force, honorably discharged.

1978-1987, I Began working for General Telephone Company as a construction copper cable splicer, received additional cable repair and cable conformance acceptance training, conducted testing for load coil spacing, build out capacitor values, noise measurement test rehabilitation and defective pair recovery, performing daily cable trouble orders.

1988-1990, Became Splicing Supervisor for Burnup and Sims Inc. while working hurricane Hugo storm restoration in the U.S. Virgin Islands for VITELCO.

1990-1991,Georgetown Guyana South America for GT&T as a training supervisor, training local technicians in outside plant splicing and defective pair recovery, using Dynatel test equipment.

1991-1992, Mexico City and Toluca Mexico, held title of Central Office cut-over splicing, Manager for Butler telecom Inc. and AT&T/TELMEX working with 30 host country national contract splicers and ex-patriot splicers, performing central office switch conversions.

1992-1993, Caracas Venezuela, held position of Area installation and maintenance, cable repair splicing Manager, for G.T.E. and CANTV, supervising up to 45 technicians in the Prado del Este serving area of Caracas.

1993-1996,From Caracas, I accepted a 3 year term management SME Outside Plant assignment for AT&T outside plant systems in Duluth Georgia, in which time I contributed as a member of the core construction team in the deployment and installation of several international AT&T projects including, Egypt (existing network, repair and restoration manager), Guatemala, provided training to host country national telecom engineers, in the use of Micro Systems M-100 field interface test and records verification system and DaVar test and record verification system . Saudi Arabia, performed fiber route surveys for scheduled AT&T TEP-6 fiber expansion project through out the Kingdom. Manila, Philippines performed as outside plant construction and splicing manager, building entire underground network from central office to last mile customers including the stock exchange located in Makati, Manila for Global Telecom. 

1996-1997, Portland Oregon, served as special services conditioning supervisor, Butler Telecom Inc. and US West performing testing and conditioning of specials circuits 56KB/64KB, ISDN,ADSL, T-1 span, defective pair recovery and deloading POTS lines for state Lottery project 1996-1997.

1998-2002, Project Splicing Manager for OSP Consultants Inc. and US West, in The Phoenix Arizona metro area performing both copper/fiber splicing termination and turn up, including trunk, feeder, ring-cuts and cabinet splicing, x-box cutovers, VDSL, (triple play services)  site preparation and installation.

2002-2004, Splicing and Construction Manager for Sound Telecom Inc.  for Comcast Inc. in the San Jose area of California, performing lip and gutter saw cut installation of inner-duct and fiber cable for network upgrade. From California upon project completion, I accepted a position in Tampa Florida with Sound Telecom to manage FTTH construction in Hillsbrough county. Construction Manager in Puerto Rico, performing CATV aerial and buried installation for expansion project at various locations in Puerto Rico, which included permitting, sourcing local CATV construction contractors.

2004-2005, Project Construction Manager for US Utility Contractor Co. in Perrysburg OH, performing network construction, aerial, buried and underground in various locations in the mid Atlantic, states,  including Toledo, Cleveland, Akron and Andrews Air Force base Maryland.

2005-2007, City Manager for Comtec Solutions Inc. and Comcast Inc. in Las Vegas Nevada, performing management of fiber splicing and testing, engineering site surveys for last mile commercial sites and cell towers.

2007-Present, I returned to US Utility Contractors as Project Manager where I am presently employed in North Haven CT, initially performing copper pair conditioning for AT&T, U-VERSE service. Upon completion of copper pair conditioning project I have continued to perform as Project Manager performing daily network aerial construction, strand and cable placement, placing and replacing AT&T poles throughout the state of Connecticut. Managed fiber construction and splicing test and turn up for municipal build in Norwhich CT.

Thank you in advance for your consideration, I look forward to your response.

 

Highlights

 

Speak both English and Spanish

Well versed in all aspects of OSP network construction

Well versed in all aspects of fiber construction, splicing and distribution

Work well under pressure meeting critical path due dates and customer completions schedules

 

I posses 39 years of technical and management experience

Capable of managing  multi million dollar projects

capable of determining skill set requirements for project specific employees

Microsoft Office proficiency

Excel spreadsheets

Meticulous attention to detail

Results-oriented

Self-directed

 

Accomplishments

 

Having extensive network construction rehabilitation and maintenance experience as well as international cultural experience, I appreciate the diversity of living and working outside of my own country. I pride myself on my ability to unite and motivate work groups to achieve the goals at hand with dignity and respect, keeping in mind the overall rule is to always meet or exceed customers expectations.

 

Experience

 

February 1992 to February 1993

CANTV Caracas, Venezuela

Area Manager    

 

Implemented plans to increase technicians productivity, to decrease trouble count substantially improving customer opinion and customer satisfaction, 15 crews of three men each upon my arrival clearing less than 20 out of service repair tickets per day grew to an average of more than 100 cleared out of service troubles per day. Source and provide technical recommendations to Director level Management regarding test equipment, test procedures, training, reporting, including surveying networks to identify noise degradation issues to improve service quality. Provided training to host country nationals regarding new product introductions, terminal, closure and connector, installation procedures in the various applications.

 

Education

 

1973 Heidelberg, W Germany Heidelberg,

High School Diploma General studies

 

US Air Force Advance Telecommunications

G.T.E Buried closure and housing

          Advanced test and trouble isolation

          Cable Conformance testing

AT&T Methods and procedures

          International project management training

          Cultural diversity training

          Project deployment and implementation  

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