SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished in the implementation of fiber optics for LAN/WAN networks.
• Superior customer service, total quality management, organizational and administrative skills.
• Successful at managing and implementing timely and cost - effective completion of multiple projects.
• Extensive analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to achieve strategic objectives.
• Proven leadership skills with ability to motivate and encourage peak performance.
• Skilled in training, coordinating and supervising personnel to achieve optimal efficiency.
• Excellent verbal and written communications with strong interpersonal skills at all levels.
• Goal-oriented, dedicated professional, highly motivated self-starter and decision maker.
• Team player capable of performing independently in a telecommunications environment.
• Consistently manages project crews; assumes responsibility for effective performance and productivity of crews, and provides necessary training; assumes responsibility for adherence to Company and customer safety and quality guidelines; holds weekly safety meetings; provides regular feedback to installers and technicians; and implements formal corrective actions as needed.
• Communicates regularly with Project Manager ensuring project deadlines and specifications are met.
• Fully completes all project paperwork accurately and on time (specifically time sheets, DWR’s, material transfers, work orders, tool transfers, etc., as required).
• Ensures that safe work practices are followed by crews.
• Manages successful job completion, ensuring productivity, job completion and compliance to project budget.
• Extensive knowledge of cable infrastructure installation (copper & fiber) and testing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Test equipment; Fluke 4300
• DTX1200 Cable Analyzer
• Optical Time Domain Reflectors
• Link Runner. Net Tool Series II
• TS 250. JDSU HST-3000
• Fiber Optics; fusion splicing-single/multimode. Terminating FC
• SC
• ST
• MTRJ Unicam
• Nordx
• epoxy & polish
• fan out kits. ABF and ribbon fiber.
• Copper connections; 568A/B
• USOC
• BNC
• F-connectors
• DB-25
• wire wrapping
• RJ-45
• RJ11
• Stewart connectors. 110
• 66 and Krone Blocks.
• Cables; High count fiber and telephone
• Cat6
• Cat5e
• Cat3
• coax
• Newton cable tray
• snake tray and assorted mounting hardware.
• Advanced knowledge of the Remedy IT Service Management software.
• Network Hardware Installation
• Fiber optic installation
• termination & testing
• Voice & data installation
• termination & testing
• Microsoft Office
• Excel
• Power Point

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Foreman

• Working as a Foreman for Passive infrastructure projects throughout the State Department and State Department Annexes.
• Department of State, State Annex, Instrumental in the installation, testing and documentation of over 5000 Single and Multimode fiber strands. Extensive OTRD use.
• Department of State Washington DC, New Infrastructure consisting of over 1500 cables supporting 175 work stations. New communications equipment room build-out including cable tray and all supporting hardware.
• Department of State, State Annex, Worked with General contractor and other trades for complete building renovation. New backbone and horizontal cabling to support 200 users.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Sr. Field Engineer

• Executed the transitioning of twenty (20) TCs within the Pentagon’s Command, Control, and Survivability (CCSP) Program. This project included Pentagon backbone infrastructure for 5,000 users to include tracing, re-routing and labeling of UTP, Cat 5e/6 cable and fiber optic cables to meet the architecture design of the Pentagon’s Passive Infrastructure.
• Coordinated and communicated the mitigation/risk aversion issues regarding any external ISDN interfaces with the Pentagon main ISDN 5ESS MP ST Interface voice system. Directed and monitored the day-to-day cut-over of all circuits and staffing coordination with Verizon’s OE house pair to the wall plate to ensure a 100% up-time of ISDN voice operability of user support. Achieved “zero performance re-work”, attributing to the cost, schedule, and technical performance of each TC progression during the execution of the project legacy cut-over to newly installed ISDN system. Configuration Management (CM) documentation achieved by the delivery of “as-built” diagrams and cut sheets to the Visonael and Remedy database systems for CM control. Briefed Sr. LM management and government officials regarding project status to include report routing. Day-to-day customer interface with continued back brief reporting to government agencies regarding status updates of service.
• Additionally, interfaced and executed various projects for Army, AF, DIA, Joint Staff, JSSC, OSD including testing parameters (Unclassified, Secret, Top Secret and TS/SCI) for ”as-is” infrastructure within TCs to the end-user office space within the Pentagon and National Capital Region, conducting fiber terminations and Cat 5e/6 copper terminations to include ISDN circuit connections.

Confidential

Sr. Field Engineer

• Commercial building, Hunt Valley, MD infrastructure build-out of 300 user space areas to include Fiber/Cat 5e/ISDN/ANALOG lines;
• US Supreme Court, Washington, DC, infrastructure build-out of eighteen (18) Telecommunication Closets, to include four (4) floors of Fiber Optic and Voice Riser cables, terminating over 250,000 feet of armored UTP Cat 6 from TC to user space; build-out of TCs racks, cable trays, electrical grounding, and interconnections of fiber optic MM/SM fiber runs;
• Department. of State, State Annex, VA infrastructure build-out of over 300 users, including 2,000 terminations of fiber (horizontal/ riser) 350,000 feet of Cat 5e/ISDN/ANALOG lines/ security camera passive to include TC build-outs of racks, cable trays, electrical grounding, and interconnections of fiber optic MM/SM fiber runs;
• United Nations, US delegation; installed cable tray and terminated 52 sets of 24 strand fiber optics via fusion splicing;
• Dept of State; GSA Building, Roslyn, restricted access of; voice, fiber, coax, backbone/riser infrastructure build-out of four floors, 1,540 drops within office work areas, to include voice and CCTV.
• Dept of State, Main State, Washington, DC; backbone/riser, fiber optic infrastructure build-out of four floors, sixteen TCs.

Confidential

Sr. Field Engineer

• Regularly interface with local contractors within Belgium, Departments of Defense (DOD) personnel, Area Managers, District Managers, Engineers, Supervisors, and Foreman/Inspectors to facilitate completion of projects, in-house with DOD or under contract.
• Team leader with eleven (11) years of experience in Telecommunications Cabling Technology.
• Highly-trained in fiber optic cable installation, fusing, terminating and maintenance as well as Local Area Networking (LAN) infrastructure installation
• Installed and maintained Global Command and Control System (GCCS) enabling secure high-speed communications.
• Supervised the installation of over 2million feet on UTP and various tactical field cabling for LAN/WAN
• Inspected/tested communication interfaces between installations for military and civilian contractors to include foreign nationals; ensured standards were met.
• Tested, located and repaired critical network outages to include updating and rewiring buildings.
• Supervised and installed, sixty (60) tactical mission deployments supporting various types of cooper cable providing for a secure means of communication.
• Performed communication maintenance on miles of communication cabling; ensuring continued operations with minimal disruption to service.
• Ensured communication installations were completed with total customer satisfaction while maintain ANSI EIA/TIA standards. Extensive experience in outside-plant twisted pair telephone cable installation.