SUMMARY:

• Results - oriented Telecommunications Technician offering 22 years of quality installation, maintenance, and repair services within the Telecommunications Field, familiar with private industry and governmental subcontractor services, policies and procedures relative to the telecommunication industry, with an Active Secret Clearance. Expertise in wiring infrastructure, maintenance and troubleshooting of dial tone to the Demarcation. BICSI certified in 1997.
• Systems Engineering
• Experience working with MS-Windows based servers and workstations
• Telephone and Fiber experience. Including but not limited to: pulling cable (Cat5 & Cat6), terminations (110, 66, RJ11 & RJ45) up to 100 pair cables and troubleshooting wiring / CO dial tone problems.
• Excellent ability at multi-tasking, setting priorities and tracking issues concurrently, with minimal supervision.
• Experience with Outside Plant or premise wiring installations
• Knowledge of job drawings, sketches, prints and other project documentation
• Familiar with installation and maintenance of telephony equipment, cabling and related documentation
• Possess good interpersonal skills and customer service experience
• Working knowledge of test equipment, i.e. Fluke, Sidekick, CAT5 &6 Cable tester etc.
• VOIP technician Avaya
• I have been in the telecommunications industry since 1991. I started in Cable Installation with inside plant design of copper, coaxial cable and fiber optic services for telecommunication networks. Also performed maintenance of these networks for fault locate, repair, and trouble shooting. By 1995 I was proficient in the termination, polishing, testing of fiber networks. I have been extremely proficient in copper networks both inside & outside plant since 1998. I was OSHA certified in safety in 2003 and 2014 . I have been certified and am proficient in fiber optic splicing, installation of splice enclosures and distribution panels. I am proficient in the use of OTDR’s, power meters. VFL. Since 2003, I have experience with aerial, buried, and underground telecommunications plant. I am familiar with all Bicsi, EIA/TIA, ANSI, IEEE standards for telecommunications. I have performed all aspects of copper plant communications, including placement, copper splicing, termination, and testing, both inside & outside. I have used the schematics of telecommunication blueprints & drawings, for the installation of copper networks, including backboards, cabinets and relay racks. I own volt meters, Dynatel 965, Sidekick, 710 splicing tool, and all hand tools (66,110, Krone, Bix). I have studied Cisco systems esp. routers.
• Copper Networks: cat3, cat5, cat5e, cat 6 22 years of experience
• Fiber Networks: Polishing and testing 17 years of experience
• Splicing: 11 years of experience fiber optics, 15 years of experience splicing copper
• Testing and trouble shooting 22 years of experience Inside/Outside Plant: 22 years of experience

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential, Ft Meade, MD

Cable Splicing Technician

Responsibilities:

• PRISM upgrades to CenturyLink cable plant.
• Pedestal replacement, new phone terminals, cable throws, splice boxes, cross boxes
• Copper cable splicing, new cable plant installation.
• CenturyLink upgrading their plant to include television service (IPTV)
• Troubleshoot outages, prepare reports via blueprints

Installation and repair Technician

Confidential, Charlottesville, VA

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Repair of copper telephone network facilities to include phone service and Confidential (Digital SuscriberLine) Internet service.
• Repair copper lines due shorts, faults, grounds. Conditioning
• Of copper lines for Confidential service i.e. removal of bridge taps and load coils.

Confidential, Alexandria, Virginia

Senior Lead Field Technician

Responsibilities:

• Install, test, repair of LAN and telephone systems infrastructure and data circuits from the Central Office Facility and/or the Technical Control Facility to end user hardware.
• Report to the Outside Plant Lead on status of all assigned tasks, cable projects, telephone installation, and required tools, test equipment, and materials needed to complete assigned task.
• Operation and maintenance of existing telecommunications copper and fiber cabling systems in the CENTCOM AO(Area of Operations) supporting, Network Enterprise Technology Command(NETCOM)/9th Confidential Signal Command and its subordinate units in support of OEF and OIF, to include IDF(Intermediate Distribution Frame), x-connects(Cross-Connects) and pedestals

Confidential

Telecommunications Technician, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Including Washington, DC, I also maintained the Inmate Telephone Systems at Confidential County & Confidential Jails in Maryland, Loudon County & Prince William County jails in Virginia, and traveled to other jails around the US serviced by Confidential /ITI. Installed, repaired, maintained the inmate telephone systems & service for local penal institutions, including telephones, wiring, data servers, and inmate accounts.

Confidential

Field Survey Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working in the Chester, Chesterfield, And Richmond Virginia areas, I used the Virginia standards for design of Confidential (Fiber to the Premise) facilities for Confidential telecommunication services.
• Using area (neighborhood) plats, I designed and measured the placement of facilities for underground, buried and aerial specifications.
• Determine and locate placement of innerduct and cable from existing easements and permits. Locate viable placement for fiber optic hubs (pad mount & pole mount).
• Determine and measure locations of fiber handholds for service terminals to Confidential ’s & Confidential ’s (single family units & multiple dwelling units).
• Determine and measure locations for aerial strand mount terminals and pole mount terminals. Determine fiber optic drop locations from service terminals to Confidential ’s & Confidential ’s.
• Locate and measure bores for road crossings.
• Transfer field notes to final work prints and forward to drafters in Ohio.

Telecommunications Contractor

Confidential, Front Royal, VA

Responsibilities:

• Installation & maintenance telephone repairman for Confidential in Front Royal, VA.
• From assigned work orders, dispatched to repair copper telephone facilities.

cable splicing Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Placement of fiber optic ( Confidential ) single mode plant for aerial, buried and underground utilities.
• Unitube mass, loose tube, ribbon fiber.

Confidential

Cable Splicing Technician

Responsibilities:

• Setup, casing and traying, and fusion of fiber optic plant, both mass junction, and single junctions, placement and fusion of fiber optic terminals.
• Testing and certification and repair. Installation and fusion of PON splitters
• Fusion and testing of F1, F2, HUB, terminals facilities.
• Submission of redline reports of completed facilities.

Confidential

Confidential I&M Technician

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of Confidential media telecommunication systems, installation of fiber drops, optical network terminals, power units, inside copper wiring, coaxial cabling, cat 5e wiring. Turn up andtesting, and certification of voice, data, video services. Installation and provisioning of modems, DHCP routers, PC’s for internet services.
• Installation of Confidential TV video services: set top boxes, analog, digital, and high definition TV and voice services.
• Light Power meters, Sunrise test equipment, and laptop computers.

Copper I&M Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Copper cable splicer for voice and data outside plant facilities.
• Installation and maintenance technician for voice and Confidential services.
• F1, F2, Facilities, O/E’s, NIDS, Wiring, Jacks, Confidential, Crossboxes.

Voice Data, Video Technician

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of outside plant telephone facilities.
• Voice, Data, Video, Fiber Optic Technician
• Installation of voice, data, and video services. Installation of bundled fiber optic cable.
• Fusion splicer fiber optic cable.
• Installation for network facilities at US House of Representatives and Confidential .
• Termination, testing and certification of network.

VDV Technician

Confidential, Lorton, VA

Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of voice, data and video services for Confidential . buildings.
• Structured cabling of copper (CAT5E & CAT3), riser cables, data cabling, maintenance cabling, fiber optic cabling, termination, testing and certification of copper, coax and fiber networks.