FRANK BONGIORNO

16 HILLCREST AVE

ALBANY, NY  12203

518-459-1689

RICKBARRYGOLDEN@GMAIL.COM

 

 

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Proven track record of successful Engineering, Construction, and Project Management in a variety of

Industries and Applications while Utilizing my Technical Expertise and Management Techniques to achieve results. 

 

Effectively collaborated with stakeholders and implemented appropriate techniques to attain project goals and deliverables.

 

 

Extensive experience

·   Telecom Engineering/Project Management	·   Government Election Certification & Implementation of Electronic Voting Systems
·   Construction engineering and management in Co-Gen Power-plants	·   RF licensing mining and Tower Field Assessment

 

 

Telecom Engineering & Project Management

·   Designed and provided layout configuration of collocation facilities and Re-generation Buildings.

·   Provided Engineering for aerial and underground fiber optic cable placement.

·   Reviewed Technical Documentation Packages submitted by vendors.

·   Supervised the installation of several emergency backup power generators used at Network Operation Centers and Re-generation buildings.

·   Scheduled walkthroughs to accept collocation cages and facilities from Regional Bell Operating Companies

·   Tested installed fiber optic cable with an OTDR and Power meter.

·   Performed quality assurance inspection of work performed by construction and installation teams to ensure that company and industry wide standards were met.

 

 

RF Licensing and Tower Assessments

·   Mined FCC data base for prospective licenses to be used in a Statewide Wireless build-out.

·   Gathered antenna and site information at RF towers and transferred information into a database.

 

ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEM CERTIFICATION

·   Performed Certification Testing of new Electronic Voting Systems implemented throughout NYS.

·   Created and modified test cases to ensure both hardware and software conformed to NYS Election Law and Federal VVSG guidelines. Upgraded firmware and tested software upgrades.

·   Trained NYS County Boards on how to use the (Election Management Software) and Hardware.

 

 

FIELD ENGINEERING ON SEVERAL NATURAL GAS FIRED COMBINED CYCLE CO-GEN POWER PLANTS

·   Provided field engineering support to various trades and implemented quality assurance standards

during the build-out of several co-gen power plants.

·   Tracked project deliverables and reviewed change orders submitted by subcontractors.

 

 

 

CURRENT OBJECTIVE

Procure a position within either the public or private sector and utilize my work experience skill sets to provide value added expertise. Continue to obtain new on the job skill sets and expand my knowledge base to provide comprehensive approaches to obtain solutions and improvement in areas requiring attention to details.

 

 

 

EXPERIENCE:

 

New York State Board of Elections Albany NY                                        November 2006 – June 2012

 

Voting System Specialist 2

 

·   Performed functional and acceptance testing on thousands of Electronic Voting Systems.

·   Worked with the ITA (Independent Testing Authority) to ensure extracted firmware versions of the Electronic Voting matched the ITA provide values.

·   Provided training to the County Board of Elections on how to use the software to create an election ballot. Also provide hardware training on the Electronic Voting System. Provided training on how to extract firmware versions of the systems (Scanners and Ballot Marking Devices). Held test deck training classes to ensure logic and accuracy of voting systems performed as expected.

·   Prepared training manuals to assist the Counties with the use of the EMS (Election Management System) create ballots.

·   Posted and maintained information on an SFT site that Counties could use to obtain various utilities and documentation. Mailed out to the Counties various firmware upgrades as they were released by the ITA. Interfaced with the ITA and received firmware and software upgrades via encrypted media using True Crypt as a decryption utility.  

·   Trained and supervised a staff of temporary employees in a warehouse setting to perform acceptance and functional testing prior to shipping Voting Machines to County Board of Elections.

·   Performed test cases on the hardware and software of the Electronic Voting Systems to ensure that they worked as intended. Also tested out changes to both the Hardware and Software to make sure they performed as intended. Recorded any and all discrepancies discovered in the test cases.

·   Operated an asset tracking program (WASP) to scan and record Voting Machine asset tags into a database.

 

NYSTEC Rome and Albany NY                                                                    March 2004 - November 2006

 

(VSA Project) visual site assessment Engineer Team Leader                                                                                                 

 

Ÿ         Led a VSA (visual site assessment) team in performing field engineering assessments of both existing and prospective FCC licensed call signs on various antenna types installed on RF towers, buildings, and water towers to be deployed in a State Wide Wireless network for Emergency Management Systems.

Ÿ         Prepared schedules of sites to be visited and completed assessment reports on visited sites.

Ÿ         Initiated and held kick-off meetings with county agencies prior to conducting field assessments.

Ÿ         Conducted research on an FCC database for prospective RF licenses, collected field data on surveyed sites, and prepared videos with site information collected. Submitted FCC license applications for prospective RF call signs.

Ÿ         Compiled and input data into Microsoft Access Data base used in assisting the build out of a state wide wireless network (SWWN).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J Fletcher Creamer & Son Hackensack NJ                                                October 2002 - March 2004

 

Field Engineer on Phase 1 construction of Multi-million dollar Civil Subcontract and Underground Utilities

 

Ÿ         Submitted weekly, monthly progress reports and tracked change order payments for Electrical, Mechanical, and Civil activities. Administered subcontracts in these disciplines.

Ÿ         Received, logged, and transmitted subcontract documents (Plans, Spec’s, and RFI’s) to ensure current revisions were used in the field. Field engineering support was provided to several disciplines.

Ÿ         Communicated with both PSEG (Owner) and Sergeant & Lundy (Project Engineers) on construction issues via RFI’s by using a software package called “Project Talk”.

Ÿ         Provided shop drawings and sent out RFP’s for anchor bolt embed templates, structural steel frames, steel grating, and pre-cast concrete manholes for storm/sewer piping.

 

 

Fairpoint Communications East Greenbush NY                                             March 1999- September 2002

 

Equipment Engineer and Construction Manger                                                        

 

Ÿ         Designed, supervised construction, and accepted collocation facilities in several states (NY, MA, ME, WA, PA, and OR). Obtained building entrance permits into RBOC central offices and performed quality assurance inspections.

Ÿ         Designed and virtually modeled equipment used throughout the Fairpoint network into a Data Base called “TBS” (Telecom Business Solutions Software) ahead of schedule and received a monetary bonus.

Ÿ         Also designed T1, T3 and OC interoffice circuits into “TBS” and issued DLR’s design layout requests

Ÿ         Cut PO‘s, administered subcontracts, issued weekly and monthly progress reports, trained personnel, reviewed vendor documentation packages from Lucent and Nortel Networks for correct specifications.

Ÿ         Test optical fiber db losses on several build-outs (including an OC 48 Hot Cut project) with an OTDR.

Ÿ         Designed & Engineered the layout of Equipment racks inside collo cages including DC power, fuse

assignments, DSX cross-connects, grounding, shelf positioning, card population, and back plane

cross-connects.

Ÿ         Performed audit of entire network (97 collo’s), including equipment, circuit ID’s, cross-connects, RBOC CFA’s (Circuit Facility Assignments) & Power Distribution for collocation cages.

Ÿ         Was promoted to Construction Manger and was responsible for Inspecting collocation sites under construction in several states to ensure Fairpoint quality standards were met. Coordinated field resources and held weekly progress meetings.

 

 

Telergy Syracuse NY                                                                                       June 1998- March 1999

 

Outside Plant Engineer for a small CLEC, involved with the design and construction of a long haul diverse, redundant fiber optic network. Submitted design work to NYSDOT for approval and permits.

 

·               Provided job cost estimates for optical fiber installation projects.

·               Designed and engineered aerial and underground fiber construction builds for a diverse long haul fiber optic network build-out.

·               Filed for and obtained permits from power and telco utilities for conduit/inner-duct placement and aerial pole attachments. 

·               Designed a major fiber build out from I-87 to I-787 via alternate route 7. Submitted design to NYSDOT Engineering Department for approval and obtained necessary authorization for construction.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MFSNT Boston MA                                                                                          February 1995 - May 1998

OSP/ISP Engineer Designed, permitted, supervised construction, various (Point of Presence) POP’s and lateral fiber optic build-outs in MA & CT for a Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC). Also oversaw the construction of several regeneration buildings along the NYS Thruway.

 

·               Engineered, bid-out, awarded both inside plant and outside plant fiber optic builds. Accompanied MFSNT sales staff and clients for engineering design walk-out in buildings located throughout downtown Boston.

·               Coordinated police details for street opening construction in and around Boston Ma.

·               Issued, administered, and awarded subcontracts up to $25,000 without managerial approval.

·               Tracked work progress via an accrual system before authorizing payment. Permitted, managed, tested and installed (2) two Caterpillar back-up generators in CT (Stamford & Hartford).

·               Supervised the construction of several re-gen buildings used to house various telecom tenants on a multi-million dollar long haul fiber project on the NYS thruway. Provided as-built drawings, permitted and coordinated utility feeds into re-gen buildings (electrical, phone, and fiber).  Ordered and coordinated placement of concrete transformer vaults and utility tie in.

 

 

·               Construction consisted of grading land, concrete slab and underground conduit placement. Installed Caterpillar back-up generators, transformers, Automatic Transfer Switches, DC power-plant, rectifiers, grounding loop, fire suppression system, and telemetry alarms.

·               Tested fiber spans with an OTDR and power meter. Printed out traces and submitted with as-built drawings as part of a turnover package.

 

Education:

 

University @ Buffalo graduated with honors B.S.M.E in 1991 

 

 

Honors:

 

Member of Pi Tau Sigma (Mechanical Engineering Honor Fraternity) October 1988

National Deans List March 19, 1989

 

 

Certifications/Classes:

 

ADTRAN Total Access 850 Certificate March 28, 2001

 

T-Berd Training Class April 2001

 

A + Hardware 40 Hour Course Certificate of Completion October 25, 2002

 

LYNCOLE “Theory & Practical Applications of Grounding & Bonding” Certificate April 11, 2006

 

Professional Development Program “Network Basics” Certificate April 30, 2009

 

Cornell University RRP (Repair Renovation Paint) Lead Paint Safety Certification January 7, 2014