RESUME

 

Name:                             Franklin V. Columna

Address:              3124 Bloomingdale Villas CT

Brandon, Florida  33511 

Tel. No.:              Home  (813) 653-0789

                            Cell      (813) 766-2871

E-Mail:             franklin.columna@yahoo.com

 

SUMMARY

Has 8 years experience in Design/engineering of Fiber Optic and Copper Cable Network in USA and 10 years experience in Project Management and 10 years in Outside Plant Engineering Management in the Philippines

                                                                 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

April 15,2013 to June 14, 2013

RJE Telecom,LLC-Walk Out Engineer

Gathered field data  necessary for the provision of fiber optic cable to  buildings including  inspection of building communication’s room ,existing path and verification of available entrance conduits.

 

 

 

March              23, 2012 to Oct.1, 2012

Progressive Communication Services, Inc – OSP Engineer

Designed/ Engineered Verizon‘s Fiber Optic/ Copper Cable Network projects  including removal of cable attachments from power poles/rerouting to buried installation and prepared its permit requirements in Florida

 

May 9, 2011 to March 16, 2012

Engineering Associates Technical Services, Inc- OSP Engineer

Designed/Engineered Windstream’s Fiber Optic Cable Network for Remote Switches and cell sites projects in Florida and Fiber Ring in Georgia and prepared its permit requirements 

 

April 4, 2011- May 5, 2011

Lambic Telecom – OSP Engineer

Designed/Engineered Windstream’s Fiber Optic Cable Network for Remote Switches and cellsites projects in Georgia

 

August 22, 2005 to March 25, 2011

Progressive Communication Services, Inc. – OSP Engineer

Designed/ Engineered Verizon’s Fiber to the Premises (FTTP) Projects (Feeder and Distribution) including FOC provisioning for Cell Sites projects in Florida and South Carolina and prepared its permit drawings

Designed/Engineered AT&T’s Fiber Optic Cable provisioning for Video Ready Access Device and Cell sites , F2 conditioning  and Pair Bonding projects in Chicago and Indiana and prepared its permit requirements

 

April 5, 2004 – Aug. 5, 2005             

Ameriss Corp. – OSP Engineer

Designed/ Engineered Verizon’s FTTP Feeder and Distribution Projects in Florida and prepared its permit requirements

 

Aug.24, 1971- Dec. 31, 2003

Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co

Senior Manager(1993-2003)   Responsible for the project management of the company’s Telecom Network Expansion Project from design/engineering, installation/construction, testing/acceptance to commissioning of Outside Plant, Subscriber Loop Plant and Inside Plant Networks and construction/acceptance of Exchange/Central Office buildings

 

Manager 1983-1993  Responsible for the design/engineering of Feeder and Distribution Cable Network, Fiber in The Loop and Inter Office Trunk Cable projects including its associated manholes and conduits,setting up of guidelines and standards and creation/ development of System Practices on Outside Plant Engineering Design and Construction and preparation of Bidding and Contract documents including technical specifications and Evaluation of Bids and Recommendation to Award

 

Supervisor/Engineer 1971-1983 Supervised/ designed/engineered Outside Plant Network .

 

 

EDUCATION

Graduate in B.S. Mechanical Engineering                                 

Mapua Institute of Technology 1969- Philippines

 

COMPUTER LITERACY

Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point,  Microstation, Blue Beam

 

TECHNICAL TRAININGS AND SEMINARS among others

Construction Management……………Ateneo University - Phil.

Loop Network Evolution .....................  AT&T Bell Lab - USA

Power Line Interference Solutions  ……………     SNC - USA

Engineering of Outside Plant Network….. Ericsson – Singapore

Developments and Trends in ISDN ……..    Siemens - Germany

External Plant Work shops……Asia Pacific Telecommunity – Thailand

Outside Plant Engineering ……………………….NTT – Japan

Outside Plant Seminars ………………….Raychem – USA

International Wire & Cable Symposiums……………USA

Underground Systems   IEEE