HAROLD M. FLAHERTY

   

5650 SW Hutchinson Way, Redmond, OR 97756 ~ Telephone: Day ~ Mobile: (541) 350-3348

E-mail: Monte.Flaherty@gmail.com

 

Formal Education:

Master of Business Administration-General Finance and Marketing, December 1996

Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA - ABET accredited.

 

Bachelor of Science Degree, Major: Electrical Engineering, December 1994

Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA - ABET accredited

 

Technical Skills:

·  Logic Design/ Controls  ·  Process Design·  Project Management  ·  Energy Analysis ·  Data Communications

·  AutoCAD 2005/ Visio·  Process Improvement I.D.·  DLC Engineer       ·  AM/FM Modulation     ·  Basic Transmission & RF

·  MS Project/Outlook·  SAS Programming     ·  Data Flow Diagrams·  Building Entry Design  ·  Public/Political Budgeting

·  Engineering Economics·  SRS Documentation·  Labor Controls        ·  System Lifecycle I.D.   ·  Bookkeeping/ Auditing

·  Problem Resolution      ·  Process Modeling·  SQL / XPATH·  Communication Skills ·  Sales Engineering

·  Finance / Economics·  Technical Interviewing·  HTML/Web Design · Excel/Word Expertise ·  Business Case Analysis

 

Work Experience:

 

Bonneville Power Administration – (Adecco Engineering & Technical) Electronics Engineer III - July 2011 – December 2014

Communications and Grid Modeling is responsible for developing plans for communications systems including voice, data, control, protection, protective relaying, transfer trip and Remedial Action Scheme (RAS – Main Grid & Local) for network transmission, network interconnections, generation integration and customer service projects.  Develop plans and manage the fiber optic, digital and analog radio systems, microwave propagation, SONET availability, delay calculations and evaluate capacity expansion needs for BPA’s operational communications system.  Develop transmission model base-cases for planning, operational studies, interconnections and customer service projects using consistent data requirements, reporting procedures, and modeling tools as approved by the region reliability organization.  Back of Envelope estimates, feasibility studies and facility availability deliverable reports.  Circuit Planning: DS0, 56K, DSL, T1, HDSL.  Fiber Planning: DS3, OC-3 and introduction to high capacity Ethernet.

 

Frontier Telecom: Project Manager: BAU/ FTTP/ OSP Engineer, January 2006 – July 2011 (Portland/Beaverton, OR area)

OSP Engineer for telephony network in Northwest Region.  Responsible for multiple telecom exchanges. Construction placement, verification, surveying and field notes. Delayed order resolution, design mapping and distribution of cable and facilities. Coordinate jobs and placement of facilities with customers, developers, utilities, and local/state governmental agencies. Aerial design work for poles, anchors, down guys, aerial cables and strand. Buried design for cables, conduits, utility vaults and all related structures. High proficiency with MicroStation, AutoCAD, AAIS, AAID-DS, RequestNet, FIOS Manager, RAMS, NJUNS, Remedy, iVault, IDDS, Requestnet, VHS, ICGS, Lotus Notes, VBUILD, SCCN, CMS, trench detailing, permit acquisition and regulated and non-regulated knowledge. Frontier Telecommunication Circuit Design: Design Lows: DS0, ISDN, 56K, DSL – Design Highs: T1, HDSL – Fiber Circuit Design: OC-3, OC-12, OC-48 and greater.  Planning, engineering and project management for reimbursable/billing fiber optic, FTTP and copper projects – coordinate technical and financial aspects of contracts, projects, agreements and customer interfacing. AutoCAD for Qwest projects for fiber ring construction in Portland, OR. Microsoft Excel expertise required on multiple projects including macros, sheet conditioning and formulas. Use Frontier Engineering guidelines and specifications for design and redesign of Frontier Engineering detailed work orders/drawings.

 

GL SUITE, INC. – Project Manager & Business Analyst – January 2005 – January 2006

Project Manager (promotion – June 2005 – January 2006) Promotion:  Define scope and timelines for projects.  Communicate scope and timelines to customer and Organization.  Conduct place-ware sessions of installation project for customers, develop/program GL Suite workflows; Spreadsheets; Correspondence, PQs and/or Report specifications; Conversion specifications; Web Specifications; and/or Third Party Integration specifications in order to meet project timelines.  Manage third party integration relationships.  Develop and maintain project schedules for customers.  Manage team of at least three to four business analysts. Sales, collections and future projections.

Business Analyst (January 2005 – June 2005) Initial Position:  Applied client use cases to capture intended behavior of business for organization’s software requirements.  Responsibilities included obtaining active stakeholder participation, working with other team members on software representations, software modeling techniques applied with direction of the agency’s process flows, creation of numerous parallel models, posting all obtained documentation relating to project, flows and directives published to database server for team review and input.  Active client participation encompassed technical interviewing of stakeholder/client’s staff, subject matter experts and data retrieval experts. From interviews, break down clients’ human activity processes for terminology, concepts, viewpoints and goals via data and behavioral modeling. Specification-sheet documents created for software development staff to build software application(s) based upon data and behavioral modeling above.  Work flow process design and implementation.  Obtain basic SQL and X-Path programming, configuration and implementation understanding.  Promoted to Project Manager in June  2005. 

 

OREGON PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION: Telecom Analyst/Cost Analysis – April 2002 – December 2004

The primary purpose of this position is to provide auditing, financial, accounting, and economics oriented analytical expertise in the regulation of telephone utility rates; perform operational, and subject specific audits; review annual reports; review company books and records, make recommendations concerning affiliated interest. Review cost allocation agreements and cost allocation procedures for regulated and non-regulated operations.  Conduct analyses of complex, frequently controversial rate and tariff issues affecting telecommunications utilities.   In rate reviews and investigations, identifies necessary data and requests information from utilities, develops recommendations consistent with agency policies and statutes, prepares testimony, and develops proposals for settlement regarding areas of responsibility.  Microsoft Excel used for all accounting, comparison and analytical work.

MERICOM – NAFN : Regional Interconnect Project Manager – EPM – July 2001 – January 2002

National Fixed Network Manager for the Southwest Region.  Oversee the development of wireless networks for Sprint/Alamosa PCS Wireless.  Overall design, development, evaluation and optimization of client’s fixed network in order to reduce net operating cost and improve network efficiency.  Procure, coordinate and test network transport equipment, circuits, and channel facilities assignments.  Manage the acquisition, construction and implementation of fiber entrance points and cross connect locations to insure proper bandwidth efficiency.  Identify serving access tandems, trunk types and the size of trunks needed to meet market requirements. Coordinate and oversee the integration of all microwave hops. Familiarity with regulatory obligations, Telco specifications, issues regarding tax maps/addressing, quality reviews and correcting designed jobs.  All tracking and filing completed using MS Excel. Securing right of ways for DSL placement in Arizona, Central Oregon and Western Oregon (Salem). Coordinated staking/survey of sites, researched existing right of ways and ownership within public records. Executed easement documents for notarization and recordation.  Company filed Chapter 11.

 

XO – Engineering Project Manager (EPM) & Outside Plant (OSP) Field Engineer– July 1999 – June 2001

XO - EPM, Infrastructure Implementation Global Network Development – April 2000 – June 2001 - Promotion

Engineering Project Manager for Midwest Area, North Region.  Oversee the building of inner-city networks in seven-state region.  Oversee the building and design of Inside Plant/ Central Office design for racking, security systems, fraud systems, fire protection, timing sources, GPS, cabling, electrical, floor load/design, HVAC, conduit management, generators, fuel tanks, UPS systems, fiber optic entry/ distribution/ termination, and broadband data equipment.  Time management and cost analysis on all planning, design, construction and completion processes.  Oversee the building and design of Outside Plant design for inner-city fiber rings, CO participation for RBOCs - LECS ­- CLECS, involvement and meetings for permits and ROWs for multiple municipalities and utilities, fiber optic requisition/ distribution, manhole/hand hole placement/design, pole attachments, feasibility studies and building lease review.  Manage over twenty employees, contractors and sub-contractors in multiple cities. Job responsibility between two million to thirty million dollars per city depending on the scope of work.  Traveled five days a week and am quite comfortable with extensive traveling for job requirement.

XO - OSP Field Engineer – July 1999 – April 2000 – Initial Position

OSP & Sales Engineer for fiber backbone for downtown Seattle and outer-lying cities around Lake Washington (i.e. Bellevue, Redmond, etc.). Design fiber building entrances in the Seattle metro area and outlying communities off major fiber rings.  Fiber delivery to Optical Carrier transport equipment in all site locations. Inspection of fiber ring construction for Lake Washington builds. Fiber connectorization.  Fiber testing with OTDR and Siecor light meters. Cable placing, pulling, and termination for fiber-end equipment.  Site surveys, cost justification estimates, and walk-through(s) for fiber ring builds and building penetration for new lateral and riser builds.  Project management/tracking of fiber projects and colocation coordination for OSP department.  OSPInsight - Software management of fiber ring builds and building entrances. Use OSP Insight to create permanent fiber records of fiber rings and customer deployments on fiber rings (collapsed and diversified rings) in Seattle, WA area.

 

CDI - Contracted FIELD DESIGN ENGINEER - October 1997 – July 1999

Field Engineer for telephony network in Northwest Region.  Land Development agreements between QWEST (formerly US WEST) and customers.  Construction placement, surveying, and field notes.  Held order resolution, mapping, and design distribution of cable and facilities.  Coordinate jobs and placement with customer, developer, and utilities.  Aerial design for poles, anchors, guys, aerial cable, and strands. Acquired Platte readability, BELL language proficiency, construction of trench details, permit/easement acquisition, and a familiarity with the regulated/non-regulated sides. Determine financial decisions regarding the payback forecast and worthiness for all jobs.

 

QWEST COMMUNICATIONS (formerly US WEST) - OSP DESIGN ENGINEER/CP - June 1995 - March 1997

Designed and developed jobs to relieve held orders, customer requests, and medical emergency cases. Strategic relief planning for problem areas in wire centers and prevention of future problems.  Project management and project tracking of all jobs.  Cell Team Facilitator: Led discussions of 10 Wire Center representatives, monitored all jobs, held orders, and total budget expenditures.  Design held order-tracking tool for "tri-state" area. Wrote various reports and summaries on projected work force and technical growth for engineering.  Managed consumer demand by coordinating with Construction Management Center, Small/Medium/Large Business Groups, Field Engineers, Electronic Coordinators, Design Planning, Central Office development, and in numerous cases, the customer directly. Responsible for the projection and growth of wire centers. CIMAGE, RTT, OSPFM, CORD, CPD, Pricing Tool, Held Order Resolution, AMC and Bellcore Configurations.

 

TRAINING PROGRAMS:

Project Management, Management Communication, and Effective Management Competency through Qwest and XO.

Basic Wireless and Radio class competency - Qwest

Telecordia Network Fundamentals Certification–Completed Spring 2003, Cisco Web Design Class– Completed Spring 2003,

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

October 1993 -June 1995           May 1996- June 1997            October 1997-Present

IEEE -President of Gonzaga U. Chapter      SOMOS - Vice PresidentUSA HOCKEY - Coach/Member

IEEE -V-President Gonzaga U. Chapter SOMOS - General MembershipUSA HOCKEY - Player

 

REFERENCES:

Suzanne Smith – Iowa Utilities Board -- (503) 551-0222Marylou Hansen – GL Suite -- (541) 246-6014

Joe Mendez – Frontier --(503) 644-9848Kenny Ledbetter – Kentec Heating -- (541) 948-0433

Sharon Askew – Bank of Cascades -- (541) 390-5913Laura Flaherty – Frontier -- (503) 626-3156

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY:

Spanish Language Skills - Read, write, speak, and translate at beginner to intermediate level. 

 

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

PI Guild – Children's Hospital, Member/ Former President – November 2003 – Present

US WEST COMMUNICATIONS - SOMOS VICE PRESIDENT - May 1996 - June 1997

PLURALISM/DIVERSITY COUNCIL- March 1995 - June 1997

 

HOBBIES: Fly-fishing, reading literature, web design, real estate, ice hockey, and cooking.