PROFESSIONAL summary

Experienced Outside Plant and Central Office Transport Project Engineer and Manager with more than 30 years in the Communications industry.  5 years was direct Supervision of technicians and 25 years were in Engineering.  The previous 10 years involved providing high bandwidth fiber optic service and upgrading services at cell sites with emphasis on the placing fiber optic facilities that includes conduit, fiber cable and lightwave electronics for both SONET and Ethernet services

 

technical skills

OSP and COE.  Have a clear understanding of OSP and C.O. disciplines to produce high service results at the lowest possible costs and schedule timelines. Can monitor and maintain Capital and Expense costs to stay within budget constraints.  Previous experience includes supervising both local and remote installation and repair crews.  Best career success to date involved improving service and reducing service outages at cellular sites and project managing cellular companies such as AT&T, US Cingular, and Verizon.

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Frontier, Durham, NC                                                                                                  Nov 2012 to Current

Project Specialist

Handle large mixed geographic areas such as Michigan, Indiana and Ohio to manage the placement of high bandwidth service to cell sites and Metro Lan business customers.  Remote office is in Durhan, NC but work from Scottsburg, Indiana.  Manage installation projects from customer request, through internal provisioning departments to the delivery of service back to the service request originator.  Actively monitor the progress of the order and implement adjustments due to possible roadblocks.  Overcome any unforeseen problems in a proactive manner.  I am considered to be EXCELLENT in this role.

 

Frontier, Charleston, WV                                                                                                  Dec 2010 to Current

OSP Engineer,

Field check and issue DSL projects and DLC power systems upgrade projects within the state of West Virginia areas.  Work with DLC sites with Nortel, Alcatel Litespans, Alcatel SLC’s and AFC DLC’s to add DSL inside or adjacent at the sites.  Understand Central Office and Transport  facilities to identify transport and DSL equipment in order to augment DSL services at central office and remote sites. 

 

Kenton Group, Carlinville, IL                                                                                    July 2010 to Dec 2010

Senior OSP Transmission Engineer, Client – Frontier NCP, Based in Portage, WI

Investigate and engineer Central Office and Transport facilities to identify transport and DSL equipment in order to augment DSL services at central office and remote sites.  Manage a field engineering team that performs central office site surveys to identify what facilities exist and where to place new transport and DSL equipment.  Equipment evaluated includes Adtran, ADC, Lucent, Nortel, Fujitsu, Actellis and BTI transport equipment.  Understand how to deliver HSI services using broadband transport using both copper and fiber facilities.

 

Qwest, Hermiston, OR                                                                                                  June 2008 to April 2009

Senior OSP Engineer,   Client - Qwest

§         Provide all aspects of OSP Engineering for 10 Local Telephone Exchanges

§         Provide engineering services for customer and cell site facilities from DS0 to DS3

§         Perform site visits and co-ordinate the construction of new facilities for new customer services including cell sites

§         Provide direct engineering to new and cells sites that require updrading

 

Expertec, Portland, OR                                                                                                  January 2008 to June  2008

Senior OSP Engineer,  Client – Qwest)

§         Same duties as shown above

§         Engineer and track 50 construction projects that were either in Engineering or Construction

§         Engineer State Highway relocation projects

§         Process, co-ordinate and obtain permits from local, county, city, state and federal agencies.

§         Provide materials and labor costs to marketing groups such as Business Cases

§         Support multiple cell site vendors

 

 

 

Ledcor Technical Services, Eugene, OR                                                                                  April 2007 to January  2008

Senior OSP Engineer

§         Plan full scale fiber optic cable overlay for cities up to populations of 4,000 for FTTP

§         Meet with equipment vendors and contract construction teams

§         Provide planning layout maps and engineering drawings to construction forces

§         Utilize technical knowledge to utilize aerial facilities and buried construction methods

 

Henkles and McCoy, Pittsburgh, PA                                                                                  November 2004 to March  2006

Project Manager and Supervisor (Client – Verizon FTTP)

§         Plan at an exchange level, fiber cable overlay for complete serving routes of 10,000 customers for FTTP

§         Meet with third party vendor, Osmose, to obtain cost effective field review resources

§         Supervise 10 Fielders, 2 Planners, 6 Engineers and 10 Drafters.  A portion of the drafting was performed in Dallas, TX.

§         Provide direct customer contact to Verizon to represent Henkles and McCoy

§         Provide planning layout maps and engineering drawings to construction forces

 

Verizon/GTE, Multiple States                                                                                                    August 2001 to November 2003

Operations Supervisor (Seymour IN)

§         Supervise 25 Central Office Equipment maintenance and installation technicians for DS1, DS3 and OC3 digital services

§         Achieved a perfect vehicle safety performance.

§         Achieved 0 missed customer desired due dates.

§         Lowered cell site outages to an average of 1 outage per month over 50 cell site locations.

§         Provide customer advocacy when normal channels failed.

§         Worked with DSX-1 and 3 panels, SONET terminals and digital transmission devices.

§         Understand fiber optic splicing and connectors

§         Implemented area wide service improvement process at no additional cost in installation time

                                                                                    

Central Office Construction Supervisor (Lexington, KY)                                                                Aug 1999 to August 2001

§         Supervise 25 Central Office Equipment installation technicians

§         Co-ordinated the transition of DS-1 install from Verizon to the Altel platform

§         Achieved a perfect vehicle safety performance.

§         Achieved 0 missed customer desired due dates.

                                                                                    

Senior Outside Plant Planner/Engineer (Portsmouth, OH)                                                 August  1997 to Aug 1999

§         Originate, Plan, Design and Engineer OSP relief projects

§         Project manage large electronic relief projects

§         Quality review all outgoing construction drawings.

§         Negotiate with contract vendors to correct construction drawings.

§         Subject matter expert for computer based planning software programs.

 

 

Senior Outside Plant Support Engineer (Dallas, TX)                                                              March 1996 to August 1997

§         Review new products at the manufacturer level for implementation within the GTE network

§         Support OSP Engineering at the Headquarters level for 24 states and GTE Canada

§         Conduct nation-wide roll out meetings for implementation

§         Attend T1/E1 quarterly meetings for HDSL development.

§         Supervise a team of 20 analysts from multiple contract firms to perform 100% of all GTE subscriber loops for actual loop lengths..

§         Received 7 outstanding performance awards over 17 month period.

 

 

Senior Outside Plant Planner/Engineer (Perris, CA)                                                               April 1982 to March 1996

§         Perform all Business-As-Usual (BAU) level for multiple metropolitan local exchanges such as Loma Linda, Redlands and San Bernardino

§         Design fiber network to support full motion video for remote learning with the Perris Valley School District at multiple locations using SONET OC3C technology

§         Design fiber ring SONET technology for Loma Linda University to link multiple buildings into a private fiber ring.

§         Received training to design and engineer for OSP and Central Office projects.

§         Perform all fielding requirements to implement any aerial, buried or underground copper and fiber construction projects..

 

 

COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Frontier Proprietary - DPI, QPort and Infinium

Microsoft Office Outlook, XEL, Word and Power Point

 

MILITARY

United States Air Force                                                                      Jul 1972 – Jan 1979

Telephone Equipment/Installer Repairman                           

 

 

Certifications and training

>    Cable splicing techniques and testing (no certificate available)

>    Bellcore Planning Principles

>    Trained as an Ideal Planner/Engineer to work in both the OSP and COE environments

>    OSP Engineering and BELLCORE Planning procedures (prior to Verizon)

 

Education

School, Crafton Hills College, Yucaipa, CA

Degree, Associates in Business Management               Date June 1985

 

 

References (all current)

 

Matt Clayton – Engineering Supervisor, Charleston, WV  304 344-6312

Paul Armetrout – Engineering Assistan – Charlestont, WV 304 344-6496

John Schmitz – Equipment Engineer, Frontier Telecom, Sun Prairie, WI 608 837-1122

Fred Saunders -  Engineering and Construction Manager. Frontier, Charleston, WV.  304 344 -6535