EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

An accomplished electronic systems and ITS physical infrastructure design engineer and project manager with 20+ years of experience. A wide range of business and technical skills that spans that of several careers by usual standards. Extensive “hands-on” installation, maintenance, field and project management experience of structured cabling, outside plant, CATV, telephone and PBx systems, voice and data networks, security and CCTV systems, access control, building automation, audiovisual and wireless/RF equipment and networks. Will travel as required and relocate for suitable opportunity.

LICENSES, PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• RCDD - BICSI Registered Communications Distribution Designer
• RCDD / OSP - BICSI Certified Outside Plant Design Specialist
• RCDD / ESS - BICSI Certified Electronic Safety and Security Design Specialist
• Comp/TIA Network Plus+ Certified Network Professional
• Aruba Networks Wireless Local Area Network Technical Specialist
• FCC Licensed Broadcast Engineer, General Radio Operator’s Permit, GROP License
• FCC License Radar Systems Engineer Endorsement to General Radiotelephone License
• FCC Licensed Global Satellite Systems Maintainer License
• Cisco CSE - Certified Cisco Sales Expert, 
• Cisco CFESS - Certified Cisco Foundations Express Sales Specialist, 
• CTS - InfoComm International Certified Technology Specialist.
• InfoComm - InfoComm International Adjunct Faculty Member and recognized audiovisual industry expert
• DaLite Display and Screen Products - DaLite Academy certified graduate
• VA DCJS Registered - Electronic Security Technician, Alarm Respondent, Security Officer, Private Investigator
• VA DCJS Certified - Dept. of Criminal Justice Services Instructor - Alarm systems, investigations, armed security
• VA DCJS Clearance - National background history approval for Instructor Certification and Security Registrations
• Licensed NYS Security and Fire Alarms Designer / Installer (previously)
• BICSI Member - Building Industry Consulting Service International active member since 1995,

5/2011 - 5/2012 Confidential Senior Telecom. Engineer, RCDD/OSP Nationwide Service
Designed, engineered, produced new specifications, drawing notes, Specs-Intact, Master-Specs, one-line schematics and all types of drawings for many federal, private and K12 projects. Produced proposal technical sections, assisted Project Managers. QA/QC Engineer, ITR reviewer and RTR on many Federal Gov’t. projects. Design engineer of all low-voltage discipline aspects including structured cable plant systems, extensive outside plant infrastructures, building automation and control, SCADA systems, CATV, CCTV, security and access control, fire alarms, A-V, VTC, public address, mass notification systems, grounding / bonding, lightning protection, and telecommunications pathways and spaces: key projects included Security Audit and survey for William Penn H.S., Delaware; USAID, Ethiopia Health Infrastructure Program; USACE Middle East District (MED), Special Operations (SOF) Joint Operations Center (JOC) and Command and Control Facility, Kandahar Air Field (AF), Afghanistan; Site Adapt of Dining Facility (DFAC) Contingency Standard Designs (CSDs); D/B Package for AF Theater Communication Facility, Qatar; Austere Standard Design (ASD) of 80-Man Barracks, Afghanistan; F-16 Bed-Down Sites, Balad, Ali, Al Asad Air Bases, Iraq; Consulate General Containerized Housing Units (CHU), Iraq; and Emergency Control and Communications Center and Base Fire/Security Forces Dispatch facility, Randolph Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX, and other water treatment, industrial and commercial structured cabling and outside plant surveys, and designs. Outside plant D/B proposals and oral presentations to USCG and others.

1/2005 - 4/2011 Confidential Senior RCDD/OSP and Project Manager Front Royal, Virginia
All aspects of systems engineering, design, project management, installation of WLANs, inside plant structured cabling, optical, metallic and coaxial outside plant facilities, A-V, MNS, CCTV, AACS, and security systems. RCDD/OSP for Verizon FIOS OSP deployment in Pittsburgh, PA territory - Route surveys, permitting coordination, field management, excavation marking, restoration, safety training and as-built AutoCAD drawings, and provided detailed reports and survey drawings of existing outside plant aerial, buried and underground facilities, maintenance holes, and pedestals. OSP entrance facilities and structured cabling technology consulting and designs, NYC buildings. Complete lifecycle projects: needs analysis, pre-sales, budgets, contractor interviewing. Designed microwave and UHF/VHF and trunked radio communications systems. Security systems, CCTV, access control and high-security integrated low-voltage systems designs and installations. Manager and secure technology systems consultant and engineer for Chevron Executive IT group at San Ramon HQ, Washington DC, Sacramento CA and Houston TX, Tier-1 executive sites - performed WiFi RF surveys using Air Magnet tools and spectrum analyzers, designed secure 802.11a/b/g wireless data networks and audiovisual/CATV/VTC conference and boardroom systems. Serviced and installed telephone key systems, handled MACs, troubleshot and repaired voice / data networks. Structured cabling site surveys, OSP consulting, designs, construction management. Managed field teams and subcontractors for NYC cabling contractor and designed and project managed CATV and interior distributed antenna system installations for private schools and NY area law firms.

11/2001 - 1/2005 Confidential Project Manager, Senior RCDD Engineer NY, VA
Extensive 802.11 WLAN RF surveying, design, installation and corrective design and maintenance. In-building cellular repeater systems design, consulting and structured cabling projects. Installed and expanded TCP/IP and multi-protocol Cisco based networks. Designed / installed Nortel Meridian, BCM and other phone systems, CATV in-building distribution, intrusion alarms, access control, and CCTV systems. Senior design RCDD and Construction Manager for national US Postal Service bio-detection systems cable infrastructure installation. Optical fiber, metallic and coaxial cable OSP infrastructure design and project management. High security WLAN designs for NASA alternate space shuttle landing site. Developed documentation, produced as-built drawings. Project Manager for a wide variety of projects. Performed cellular signal strength surveys and propagation studies and spectrum compatibility analysis. Developed subcontractor management database tool, built nationwide network of cabling installation, wireless, and OSP services contractors.

SUMMARY OF PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

10/2000 - 11/2001 Confidential Senior Sales Systems Engineer, RCDD Nationwide field engineering
Cable plant entrance facilities and cabling infrastructure design. Last-mile optical fiber and metallic OSP design and engineering for large commercial client campuses. Designed central office cabling, Hi-Rel redundant central office D.C. power systems, grounding and protection. Designed TCP/IP inter-networks for federal and state governments, large enterprise customers, and leading telecom service providers. Project Manager for nationwide roll-out of access router network for Verizon C-O’S and PoPs.

10/1999 - 10/2000 Confidential Senior Systems Engineer, RCDD Nationwide Service
Designed, project managed installations of xDSL central office POPs and co-locations nationwide. Developed Hi-Rel. redundant xDSL, T1, DS3 and OC3 access to Frame Relay for AT&T High Speed Packet Services. Supported AT&T and MCI carrier sales account teams. Provided training to other systems engineers in voice/data structured cabling, CATV distribution design and hybrid fiber-coaxial concepts, NEC (NFPA70), NESC, OSHA, ANSI/TIA/EIA standards.

11/1998 - 10/1999 Confidential, HQ Senior Network Design Engineer, RCDD contractor New Jersey
Senior wireless and physical infrastructure design contract engineer for large wireless alternate access CLEC project. Designed inside voice and data distribution systems, high-reliability carrier-class redundant links. Metallic and optical cable outside plant campus designs and engineering, spread spectrum RF, layer 2 and layer 3 switching, and xDSL technologies designs for several projects. Member of the voice architecture engineering team - designed core voice network consisting of Lucent 5ESS-2000 switches, SONET/ATM backbone and wireless last-mile access. Designed, surveyed, engineered, wrote project plans for voice and data networks, OSP installations, spread-spectrum 23/38GHz pt. - pt. / pt - multi-point RF building access links.

6/1996 - 10/1998 Confidential Senior Global Network Engineer New Jersey ITMC
Designed secure international data, voice, image networks for Dun & Bradstreet, JB Hunt, Alcatel USA, Schering-Plough and other large, high-visibility accounts. ATM service evaluation pilot system for JP Morgan, secure international frame relay networks for Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and American Express. Designed, engineered, and project managed central office switch, timing, and D.C. power distribution systems.

11/1994 - 5/1996 Confidential RCDD, Director of Engineering Hawthorne, New York
Designed LANs, WANs, and voice telecommunications and PBX systems. Engineered and Project Managed implementation of cable plant installation projects for midtown NYC and financial district accounts. Inside plant surveys and voice, data, CATV and CCTV designs for Wall Street clientele.

10/1988 - 10/1994 Confidential Chief Electrician, Partner Kingston, New York
Designed, project managed installations of fire and burglar alarms, inside and outside cable plants and communications system infrastructures. Residential, commercial and telecommunications facility AC and DC electrical and grounding/protection systems, telephone and PBx systems. Designed/engineered commercial, industrial, and IBM data center electrical systems.

8/1984 - 9/1988 Confidential Electro-Acoustics Engineer Woodstock, New York
Design and construction of broadcast studios, recording studios and video post production facilities. Performed all aspects of turn-key technical facility design, construction, project management and systems installation, including architectural acoustics, HVAC, critical-electrical and grounding and pro-audio / video production & recording systems.

EDUCATION

Self motivated learner and quick-study who stays current in all areas of expertise.

• Sewanhaka Technical / Vocational school: Communications Systems Servicing and FCC Broadcast
• Engineer Licensing program, Certified Electronic Technician curriculum.
• Aruba Networks WLAN Technical Specialist Training
• Air Magnet Surveyor Professional Training
• Virginia Dept. of Criminal Justice Services Certified Instructor required courses
• Virginia Licensing required training classes: Electronic Security Technician, Sales Rep., Armed Officer, Investigator
• Several BICSI Outside Plant Design & Project Management Courses
• 15-20 BICSI/RCDD-RCDD/OSP Continuing Education Credit Hours per year continuously for past 15 years including:
  • OSHA Recordkeeping
  • OSP/ISP Cable Media Selection
  • Hazard Communications
  • Structured Cabling Systems Design
  • Grounding and Bonding Design and Construction
  • Outside Plant Manual Updates Review Courses
  • Project Management
  • RCDD Review Course
• Cisco Internetworking Fundamentals
• Cisco Inter-Network Design
• Cisco Advanced Router Configuration
• Redback Networks routed and switched data networks using SMS and Smart Edge products
• Redback Networks carrier network products training on SMS-500, 1000, 1800, 10000 and Smart Edge 100 and 800
• Lucent Technologies 5ESS-2000 Switch Architecture and Network Design
• Lucent Technologies DDM-2000 OC48 Add-Drop Multiplexers
• Lucent Technologies FT-2000 OC3/OC12 Add-Drop Multiplexers
• Frame Relay for Engineers; Hill Associates
• ATM Network Principles and Design for Engineers; Hill Associates
• Coaxial Cable and Hybrid Fiber-coaxial Neighborhood Distribution System Design and Deployment, Hill Associates
• Entire one-month curriculum of Sales Consultant Delta training courses, "Consultative Selling for Sales Engineers"
• Several other short classes and on-line manufacturer and BICSI training through many past years

SOFTWARE AND COMPUTER SKILLS

• Proficient board and component level troubleshooter and electronics repair technician, all computers and peripherals
• Microsoft Office suite:
• Word
• Excel
• Power Point
• Access Databases
• Outlook
• Project
• Publisher
• Visio Technical and Professional
• Adobe Acrobat
• AutoCAD, MathCAD - various versions
• Air Magnet WLAN Surveyor Professional, Spectrum Analyzer
• Peachtree and QuickBooks accounting and project tracking
• Many other proprietary and manufacturer applications, tools, and utilities

LANGUAGES
Currently studying Spanish as a second language.

PERSONAL INTERESTS, PURSUITS

• Electronic equipment repairs
• Technical writing
• Physical fitness
• Hiking and camping
• Travel
• Reading
• Chess
• Gourmet cooking