DAVID CRUZ

seabreeze cir, kissimme, fl 34743

davidcruzo@gmail.com

 

As a telecom professional with fifteen years of experience in areas of Engineering, Design and Provisioning I am able to adapt quickly to our changing environment with excellent computer abilities and team playing skills for achieving successful results in any telecommunications environment. I am looking to obtain a challenging position in the field of engineering where I can utilize my knowledge of telecommunications.

 

 

Sept '11- PresentEngage Partners / AlticeUSA f/k/a CBV/LightPathKissimmee, FL

Sr Circuit Designer - Service Delivery Network Operations

 

§ Responsibilities include designing 1 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Metro Ethernet MPLS rings and circuits.

§ Design point to point circuits up to 100Gbit and capture design DLRs in the NetCracker database.

§ Design CWDM and DWDM linear applications using passive PAM, PAL and PON devices.

§ Design pseudo-wire TDMoIP circuits to ride over our metro-E and MPLS networks.

§ Design pseudo-wire IP over TDM circuits to ride over SONET and carrier type 2 networks.

§ Network builds, network augments and enterprise customer site augments.

§ Upgrade 8 channel CWDM to 40 channel DWDM platforms for service and growth.

§ Design enterprise customer TDM networks, private rings and Ethernet services or both.

§ Design T1s and DS3s for multiple services including business lines using Lucent 5E switch or Metaswitch.

§ Design 10mb, 15mb, 50mb and 100mb circuits for IAD devices and pseudo-wire multiplexing devices.

§ Design various circuits at datacenters and provide LOA/CFA for customer cross connect orders.

§ Verify bandwidth availability on rings and at core routers in all markets for new service circuits and facilities.

Jan '07 - Aug '11Amirit Technologies / T-MobileParsippany, NJ

Provisioner - BTS Provisioning                   Network Engineering

 

§ Responsibilities include ordering and augmenting circuits at cell sites for 2G GSM and 3G UMTS networks.

§ Capture all vendor circuits ordered, confirmed and installed in Granite and pull those segments into their parent paths.

§ Capture paths with missing segments in use and populate that Granite segment with the live circuit information.

§ Change parent path CFA ports in use to free ports to be used for cell sites and pulling segment into the path.

§ Updating Granite segment data with VIPTA and demark information for techs to find circuits at sites.

§ Ensure Granite segments and their statuses have all the needed fields populated to minimize discrepancy reports.

§ Synchronize order dates with power company meter install dates and move Telco dates as power dates are pushed out.

§ Worked with Project, Construction Managers and leads to ensure on-air dates were in line with Telco ready dates. 

 

Apr '06 - Jan '07Amirit Technologies / T-MobileParsippany, NJ

Network Cost AnalystNetwork Engineering COS

 

§ Responsibilities included securing credits for all circuit outages on T-Mobile’s network month over month.

§ Submitted disputes to Verizon for all disconnected T1 and T3 circuits which continued to bill in error.

§ Followed up on all individual disputes submitted to Verizon for credit on circuit billing discrepancies found in BTP.

§ Saved T-Mobile over $2 million dollars within 6 months through effective cost savings and cost recovery efforts.

§ Tracked Engineering requests to cross-functional departments via Remedy ticketing system.

§ Audited circuits used for IMT's, UMTS network, voicemail, TDMA, GSM, E911 for billing and reconciliation.

 

Feb '04 - Apr '06Nextel CommunicationsWhite Plains, NY

Provisioning Specialist IIW.I.S. - Engineering

 

§ Responsibilities included processing T1, T3 orders for cell sites, microwave towers and trunk traffic using TBS.

§ Track orders using personal MS Access database for cell sites, temporary microwave cell site and DS3 orders.

§ Follow up to completion on all New England market orders while working closely with Verizon team reps.

§ Update several different database programs including Metasolv with daily statuses of orders as they change.

Nov '03 - Feb '04Virtual Corporation / AT&T WirelessParamus, NJ

Provisioning SpecialistTransport Engineering

 

§ Responsibilities included processing T1, T3 orders for cell sites, microwave towers and trunk traffic using TBS.

§ Responsibilities included processing T-1 orders for cell sites and microwave towers using CSG ordering system.

§ Submitted site survey inquiries for initial cell site T-1 circuits at power/communication towers, monopoles and buildings.

§ Follow up to completion on all Washington DC market orders working closely with Verizon team reps.

§ Track orders using individual tracking spreadsheets for cell sites and temporary microwave cell site orders.

§ Update several different database programs with daily statuses as the statuses of the orders change.

 

Apr '03 - Jul '03Arline Simpson Associates / RadianzNew York, NY

Business AdministratorBusAd

 

§ Responsibilities included processing equipment orders for T-1/T-3 routers for high speed financial data feeds.

§ Processed purchase orders for Cisco routers, switches and all cables needed for resilient network company application.

§ Followed up on all special materials requests needed for project managers orders inside the US and overseas.

§ Assisted in closing out final TBS tasks for the purposes of billing activation of newly installed circuits and hardware.

§ Responsible for electronic location data archive build and location data reconciliation project.

 

 

Nov '02 - Apr '03BlueCanopy.com / Nextel Comm.White Plains, NY

Network EngineerNetwork Operations

 

§ Responsibilities included designing DS-3 and DS-1 circuits in TBS Metasolv database using ASR processes.

§ Responsibilities included data cleanup for Cell sites and Microwave towers using ASR and ISR orders from migration.

§ Reconciled T-1’s and trunk traffic circuits for data clean up of a previous North East region TBS data migration project.

§ Reconciled and built new 3/1 DACS circuits into the TBS database for database implementation project errors.

 

Apr '02 - Jun '02MODIS, Inc. / Cablevision LightpathBethpage, NY

Network EngineerEngineering

 

§ Responsibilities include designing T-3 and T-1 circuits on high-speed SONET networks.

§ Reconciled DS-0 and DS-1 Switch circuits into the database for new Metasolv database rollout and implementation.

§ Reconciled and migrated DS-0, DS-1and DS-3 DACS circuits into the TBS database for Metasolv implementation.

§ Acted as production support personnel and provided engineering assistance for Project Managers and Design Engineers.

 

Nov '01 - Feb '02MCR Comm, Inc. / GlobalCrossing New York, NY

Design EngineerEngineering

 

§ Responsibilities included designing circuits on low-speed and high-sped TDM networks.

§ Provided Operations with customer interface circuit handoff information for network mapping of circuits.

§ Responsibilities also include updating database with all terminating equipment and port assignments on the network.

§ Insert echo cancellation for all long distance trading circuits in America, Europe, and Asia areas.

 

Jan '01 - Sept '01FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc.New York, NY

Design EngineerEngineering

§ Responsibilities included designing circuits and low-speed rings off of OC-48 and OC-192 Backbone SONET rings.

§ Provided customer interface circuit handoff information to internal departments for circuit completion.

§ Responsibilities also included ordering equipment and all optical, electrical cables required for given Telco project.

§ Input infrastructure, equipment, and rings into TBS for all carrier and collector rings in the NYC, LA, and Chicago areas.

 

May '99 - Jan '01FiberNet Telecom Group, Inc.New York, NY

Senior Technical AssociateNetwork Operations

§ Responsibilities included provisioning DS-1, DS-3 electrical circuits and OC3, OC12, and OC48 optical circuits.

§ Provided Common LanguageÔ Location, Facility, Equipment, and Circuit naming identification.

§ Input and maintain TBS database inventory of all optical, electrical and collocation equipment.

§ Re-assigned work according to staff workload and provided CLLI codes for new “fiber in building” FIN build outs.

 

Dec '98 - May '99BroadView Networks, Inc.Queens, NY

MAC SpecialistProvisioning

 

§ Responsibilities included provisioning High Capacity circuits (ISDN, DSL, and T1) electronically.

§ Provisioning cutover procedures and flipped lines onto the Broadview owned DMS100 Switch.

§ Followed up with all provisioned POTS, Centrex, ISDN, DSL, and T1 orders.

§ Provided support for 94 customer service representatives at the call center.

 

 

 

 

Purchase CollegeState University of New YorkPurchase, NY

Degree: BachelorMajor: Liberal StudiesMay 1998

Minor: Spanish / Sociology / Psychology

 

 

 

Systems: Granite(Xpercom, Xng), Common Language CLONES, Visio, Metasolv / TBS, Microsoft Windows and Office 365, Groupwise,

Lattis PRO, Remedy, Business Objects, CSG, Nokia Siemens Aspen, NetCracker, MapInfo 7.5, 8.0.

Switching: DCS/DACS (Tellabs 532L, 5500, Alcatel 1630/31) Channel Bank: NewBridge and Force10 ADIT600

Transport: TDM (Fujitsu FLM 150/600/2400, DDM 2000, Nortel OC-48 Classic and Optera Metro 3100, 3300, 3400 and 3500

Pseudowire: TDM Emulation- Rad Gmux, Rad IPmux216 IPmux24, MITop DS3 / Adtran IAD 924e / Cisco IAD 2432

Routing: Cisco 7609, 4900, 3750, 3845, 3400, 2911, 2432, 1841, 1941, 881, 851, 831 - Atrica 8100, 4100, 2140

 

 

v       Telcordia Common Language: CLLI, CLFI, CLCI, CLCI/SS

v       Telcordia: Granite Xpercom 3.7, 6.3, WebXng Gui, CLONES / LocateIt

v       Cisco: ICND1- Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices

v       SONET: Nortel Networks (OC48 Classic and Optera Metro 3100, 3300, 3400 and 3500), Cisco (Cerent ONS15454)

v       METASOLV: PSR Order Entry, PSR Acct Maintenance, PSR Infrastructure

v       CompTIA A+ Certified Professional - Computer Technician

v       RAD Pseudowire Gateways: TDMoIP GMux2000, IPmux216, IPmux24 and RADView

v       MapInfo 7.5