Resume

 

Name: Joseph M. Filippone, Sr.

Address: 2812 Old County Rd., Newark, DE 19702

Phone: Home: 302-834-0890   Cell: 302-463-7189

 

Clearance: Secret Security Clearance

 

Skill Categories:

Senior Project Engineer/ Country Manager/ Project Manager

OSP Supervisor                

Fiber Optic Technician/ ISP & OSP

Field Operations Manager

Journeyman Electrician/ Telephony Technician

 

Specialized Experience:

24+ years experience in project management

18 years experience as a 1st class electrician, commercial and heavy industrial, with 6 years experience in robotics and electronic equipment

24+ years experience engineering with telephony, voice and data cabling, and fiber optic systems and network infrastructure

21+ years experience with fiber optic installation and testing

10 years experience as an instructor for copper & fiber optic termination, installation, splicing & testing

18 years experience with high reach, bucket trucks, excavators, & backhoes

14 years experience in outside plant construction: manholes, hand holes, duct banks, innerduct & directional boring

6 years in Army National Guard (2 MOS’s: 36K & 36G)

 

Verigent/IES

Duties and Responsibilities

Installed Cat 6 and armored fiber optic cabling in  Amazon buildings.

Mounted WAP’s for system coverage

Connected cabling for LAN camera’s

KY site: Project Lead

Started project, ordered material, layed out work, got crews started 1^st  & 2^{nd  shifts.}

 

Nashita/Vizocom

Duties and Responsibilities

• Managing company's IT department in Afghanistan with up to 10 employees

• Management of IT projects including but not limited to ISP and OSP cabling, microwave, wireless and fiber.

• Control of projects' cash flow

• Managing subcontracts

• Managing site surveys and pre-bid design and cost evaluations and preparation of site survey reports

• Meeting with clients and vendors

• EXPAT with preferred past experience in Iraq or Afghanistan

• Network Design Experience

• Fiber and copper LAN infrastructure experience

• Wireless / MW experience

 

 

 

 

 

L-3 C2S2 Command & Control Systems and Software

2010 to 2011; OSP Senior Project Engineer/ Country Manager in Afghanistan

Responsibilities included:

Overseeing site leads for 50+ technicians in Baghram and Kandahar and throughout various FOBs in Afghanistan

Scheduling operations and coordinating installations with Army personnel

Overseeing logistics, ordering material and equipment, attending meetings with military personnel, scheduling travel and leave for all L-3 personnel, approving new applicants for RC-E and RC-S, receiving and shipping equipment and supplies to FOBs

Scheduling training for soldiers and L-3 personnel for copper and fiber installations

 

ITT Systems:

2009 to 2010: Kuwait-Supply Tech; Iraq-OSP Supervisor 

Responsibilities included:

Kuwait: Chemical supply equipment disposal and management

Iraq: Overseeing engineering and installations of ISP/ OSP systems

Physical Layer Communications Inc. (dba PLC)/Fiber-One Inc.; Newark, Delaware

1996 to 2009; Project Management/ Field Engineering                                                                           

Responsibilities included:

Handling all aspects of bidding jobs, sales, employee supervision, troubleshooting, and installations 

Inspection, managing personnel, field surveys, print reading, directing installation personnel on guidance of installation, following through from beginning to end of job, solving problems on the RFP’s with site engineers and general contractors, and inspecting job completions before turning over to customers 

Inside/outside plant copper & fiber installations including 6-pair to 600-pair copper, 2-strand to 144-strand single & multimode fiber, Sumitomo air blown fiber, and RG6 to 860 coax, aerial & underground installations utilizing lifts, high reaches, bucket trucks, excavators & backhoes

NEWSLine customer premise network analyzing and channel troubleshooting 

Instructor for copper and fiber optic termination and installation

Commercial, industrial & residential backhoe & excavating services

 

Insteel Wire Corp.; Wilmington, Delaware

1995 to1996; Electrical/Electronic Technician                                                                               

Responsibilities included:

Troubleshooting and maintaining electronic motor-drive systems

Troubleshooting and maintaining large wire & steel mesh machines

Operating fork truck on a daily basis to move heavy equipment

 

Johnson Controls N. I. S.; Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

1994 to 1995; Fiber Optic Supervisor                                                                

Responsibilities included:

Field supervision for terminating, splicing, and testing fiber optic and CAT 5 cable

Jobs Supervised:  MSB, Philadelphia, PA; Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA;  Conestoga Valley Schools, Lancaster County, PA;  Easton Schools, Easton, PA

 

Fiber Optic Services, Inc.; Newport, Delaware

1993 to 1994; Fiber Optic Technician                                                                                    

Responsibilities included:

Bidding work, installing copper and fiber optic cabling systems plus terminations

All testing done with Microtest CAT 5 tester and power meters/OTDRs 

Jobs included:  Mississippi Air National Guard Base, Corith, Mississippi-- AT&T mechanical splicing in manholes and termination of AT&T connectors;  Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania-- termination and testing of a new fiber optic system over entire campus.

 

Delaney Companies; Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

1993; Cable Installer                                                                                          

Responsibilities included:

Voice and data installation, termination, testing and maintenance

 

Formosa Plastics Corp.; Delaware City, Delaware

1990 to 1993; 1st Class Electrician in Installation and Maintenance        

Responsibilities included:

Installing and troubleshooting 120, 480, and 4160-volt motor control systems

Troubleshooting emergency generators with transfer switches up to 2400 amps, and maintaining all phases of electrical equipment at an industrial site

Operating fork truck on a daily basis to move equipment around the plant (approx. 300 acre site) 

Duties were in plant electrical construction and maintenance, AC and DC motor control and motor maintenance, maintenance and troubleshooting of six different brands of programmable controllers, installation and repair of the plant telephone system, and instrument loop troubleshooting on the plant Yokogawa and Texas Instruments distributive control system

 

East-Comm Telephone Systems, Inc.; Newark, Delaware

1983 to 1992; President/Field Engineer/Sales

Responsibilities included:

Handling all aspects of bidding jobs, sales, employee supervision, troubleshooting, and installations

Inspection, managing 4-15 personnel, PBX installations, field surveys, print reading, directing installation personnel on guidance of installation, following through from beginning to end of job, solving problems on the RFP’s with site engineers and general contractors, and inspecting jobs before turning over to customers

 

Chrysler Corporation; Newark, Delaware

1980 to 1986; Welder/Repairer (Robotics)                                                                            

Responsibilities included:

Troubleshooting electric and electronic equipment and PLC systems

Repairing electronic equipment and rebuilding robotic equipment

Operating welding equipment in mechanical, electrical & hydraulic systems

Reading blueprints, schematics and ladder logic prints

Operating fork truck on a daily basis to move 25 to 150 KVA transformers, shunt cables, and equipment around the plant

Operating toe motor to move large machines, 5-30 tons, and resetting them

 

Globe Electric; Wilmington, Delaware

1972 to 1980; 1st Class Electrician                                                                                  

Responsibilities included:

Installing wiring on residential, commercial, and industrial installations 

Performing all phases of wiring, and installation of motor control centers Installing conduit  (Rigid, Thinwall, and PVC 1/2 to 4 inch)

 

Military Service:

Military Certificates of Training (Field Wireman, Telephone Lineman and Pole Construction, and Central Office Switchboard Repair-Honor Graduate), U. S. Army, 1971-1977

Education:

Diploma (Electric Trades), DelCastle Technical High School, Newport, DE, 1969-1972

Journeyman Electrician Papers (Apprenticeship/Electrical Trades), DelCastle Technical High School, Newport, DE, 1972-1976

Robotics Training, Chrysler Corporation, Newark, DE, 1980

Programmable Logic Controllers Training, Chrysler Corporation, Newark, DE, 1980

Liquid Drive Training, Chrysler Corporation, Newark, DE, 1980

Fork Truck Operation & Safety Training, Chrysler Corporation, Newark, DE, 1980

Mitel PBX Training, Mitel, Fairfax, VA, 1984

TIE Communications Key Systems, TIE Communications, Fort Washington, N.J., 1985

Comdial Key and Hybrid Systems, Comdial, Charlottesville, VA, 1986 and 1987

Fiber Optics Training- testing, terminating, and splicing, Laser Tech International Fiber Optics Splicing School, Phoenix, AZ, 1989

Fiber Optics Training-Siecor SC and ST Camlite and Unicam connectors, IBEW, Norristown, PA, 1995

CAT 5 and Networking Certification, Lucent Technologies, Fairfax, VA, 1997

OSP Optical Fiber Cabling, AMP Incorporated, Harrisburg, PA, 1997

Sumitomo FutureFlex Air Blown Fiber Training/Certification, 1998

Leviton CAT 5 Installation Certification, 1999

Nelson Firestop Certification, 1999

LeCroy NEWSLine Certification, 1999

CompuMaster How to Troubleshoot, Tune Up & Maintain PCs, 2000

BicSi Certified Training, Voice & Data Cabling & Fiber Optics in the Home, 2008

 

 

Contact Information

Joe Filippone                                                 Cell:  302-463-7189

Home: 302-834-0890                                    E-mail: joe51@comcast.net