SUMMARY:

• Accomplished telecommunications Professional practiced in all aspects of design, installation, and support of voice and data transmission and PBX switching technologies. Expert in collaboration with customer business leaders to identify requirements, designing, and presenting solutions. Practiced in configuring, design, troubleshooting, and maintenance support managing large - scale telecommunications closets and data centers.
• Have experience installing Avaya, Cisco and Siemens Systems and performed numerous system upgrades. Strong project management and supervisory skills, able to oversee activities of contractors and deliver quality results on time. Superior abilities managing telecommunications teams for the University of Mississippi Medical Center and responsible for daily operation of large-scale telecommunications. A self-starter, able to work independently or as a valued team member.
• My background includes project management and an extensive experience as a senior telecommunications chief/Operations sergeant with the U.S Army. In the latter capacity, I was fortunate to gain invaluable background in human relations, communications skills, time management, self-motivation, and logistics management as well as other attributes necessary for career development.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network / Detail Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I Create, write and produce installation (I-SPEC) specifications for the install and decommissioning of complex network build outs which includes equipment, power, cabling, material ordering, and delivery.
• Responsible for Ordering material for new installation through Verizon Shopping Cart, and track material delivery to ensure all material arrive on time.
• Facilitate excellent communication/coordination between cross functional teams such as; ECI, Edge Engineer’s, Project Engineer’s, Project Manager’s, supply vendors, onsite operations and to ensure successful, on-time completion.
• Update and manage Verizon database ICON with new installation or decom equipment.
• Provide excellent project managing skill in meeting deadline’s and ensuring all needed elements for the projects are met.
• Strong understanding of Verizon Business, Verizon Wireless engineering process and standards.
• Extensive knowledge in company applications include: ICON, Shopping Cart, VENUe, CCP and CoFEE, CANVAS.
• Point of Contact and working as lead engineer for multiple large-scale projects including Mobile Edge Compute, Compute, eNSE and VCPe.
• Create engineering documentation includes engineering template, procedure, reports and trackers for all projects.

Confidential

Data Center Facility Management Technician

Responsibilities:

• per week.I served and provided supervisory and project management for O&M support services to sustain fully operational passive and active communications cabling infrastructure for the Utah Data Center (UDC), as well as supporting assemblies (i.e., racks and grounding) and information technology (IT) power distribution. Responsible for the installation, connectivity, and operation of high-performance data analytical computing equipment. Worked with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cray Enterprise, Sisco and other top vendor equipment in a large-scale data center.
• Cable plant supervisor for the Utah Data Center ISP/OSP fit-up and passive products overall responsibility for working with the onsite technical management to facilitate moves/adds/changes to the existing baseline. Performs and assigns in installing the passive and active infrastructure of all Cabinets, Racks, patch panels and wall mount enclosures for network cabling and associated data equipment.
• Responsible for all phases of network cabling infrastructure, during the fit-up process for a large tier 3 Datacenter. I performed daily within the scope of building data rooms, data closets and telecommunication transport rooms for the entire facility.
• Supervisory cable technician for network and telephony equipment both in copper Cat5, Cat6, 6A, and fiber optics Single mode OS2 and multimode OM 3 & 4 fiber as well as MTP/MPO cabling to meet/exceed TIA/EIA, IEEE, and Telcordia standards.
• Fully versed in all cabling and practices within the network telecom industry. Worked in inside plant (ISP) and outside plant (OSP). Certified as a Siemon Certified Cable Installer (CI). Light Brigade Fiber Optic Tech.
• I formally kept an active, TS/SCI full scope/lifestyle polygraph (current).

Senior Telecommunications Technician-

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I served as a structured cabling project manager and managed the telecom network teams for the Department of Information Systems at the University of Mississippi Medical center. Maintain both Avaya and Cisco VoIP communications in analog and data network systems in Telecommunication rooms and
• Data Centers. I was successful for remediation and total build of telecommunication rooms up to large-scale data centers within the TIA-1179 standard. Worked within and utilized BICSI standards for daily operational use within the -Telecom teams. Responsible for the fit up and infrastructure network cabling build for a tier V Data Recovery site for the State of Mississippi, Information systems for the University of Mississippi Medical center. Fully versed in Telecommunications practices and Certified as a Siemon Certified Cable Installer (CI), and Light Brigade Fiber Optic Tech.