Christopher A. Darr

239-19 148th Avenue, Rosedale, New York 11422

917-391-8172 / 718-978-2723

Objective Accomplished hands-on technical leader combines numerous technical credentials with 6+ years of working in the telecommunications industry seeks a challenging position where I can utilize my skills for future advancement.

Highlights of Accomplishments

 Extensive knowledge in building sites, trouble shooting, structural, RF and electrical.

 Able to prioritize and perform multiple tasks on a daily and timely basis. Excellent

initiative, attention to details, and follow-through skills. Interfaced with project managers, train personnel and employees to ensure that projects were completed quickly, safely, and according to specifications.

 Excellent communicator adept at identifying business needs and bridging the gap between functional groups and technology to foster targeted and innovative solution development.

 Excellent organizational, written, and verbal communication skills dealing with employees, vendors, customers and deliveries to the company.

 Demonstrate continuous effort to improve operations, decrease turnaround times, streamline work processes, and work cooperatively and jointly to provide quality customer service.

Areas of expertise include:

Experience:

Iron City Telecom Brooklyn, NY

January 2014 - Present Construction Manager

- Managing multiple crews for sprint LTE installations
- Nextel site decommissioning

-Sprint 2.5 Installations

-Metro pcs 6a upgrades

- Training crews

- Site walks, audits and PreCon walks

- Coordinating daily with Alu,ericsson, techs, local managers and tower owners to ensure compliance and productivity

- Ordering of all site specific materials

- Reviewing of entire site from start to finish

- Redlining/reviewing CDs, RFDSs to ensure quality and compliance

- On site problem solving and repairs.

- Reviewing and approving closeouts and other site documents.

Pinnacle Wireless/Nexlink October 2012 – December 2013 Tiger team lead/ Lead service tech/ Foreman

 Tiger Team leader for Sprint/ALU LTE Project

-In charge of making sure all new lte builds were ready for integration

-Testing all new lte equipment, RF, Fiber, Radio heads, antenna, bts, dc box

-If there were any problems me and my teams would troubleshoot everything from the bts to the antenna and ALWAYS resolve the problem

-Verifying that all sites we're built correctly according to cd's, rfds

-Qa and punchlist all sites

- Verify scenarios

- Worked with alu techs/ritsi noc

- Submit daily qa and svr (site visit report) daily to ALU

Foreman for clearwire lte builds (ericsson)

-Clearwire full lte builds installing radio heads, fiber , power, new antenna's

- Ran tower and ground crews, anywhere from 4 - 6 man teams

At&t lte builds (b+v, Bechtel)

-Lte full builds, installed radio heads, power, fiber, squid

Foreman for sprint vision lte builds

-Lte full builds installed, hyberflex (power and fiber bundle), rf, radio heads

 QA Specialist

- Made sure all sites were built correctly and met our company standards before submitting closeout packages and punchlist corrections.

 Lead Servive Tech

-Service and maintenence lead for ericsson

- Trouble shoot clearwire and sprint service tickets

- Service antenna's, rrh's, fibers, coax, microwaves, fibers, power, and bts

- Responding to, updating and completing up to 4 tickets per day

- Use appropriate testing equipment: sweeping lines/ antenna's , testing fibers, pathing microwaves , volt meters, setting and calibrating RETS with RET controller.

Preferred Builders Inc., Brooklyn, New York July 2008 – June 2012

Project Leader for jobs at:

AT&T Wireless

 Mops, rip and replace

-Turning sites down to rip out old cat 5 and replacing it with 25 pr.

-Punching down 66 blocks and testing new lines

 Purcell cabinet full builds

-Installing purcell cabinets on outdoor sites for future lte upgrades

-Running conduits, installing and running cat 5 , fiber and power from t-21 to new purcell.

- Verifying cd's and make change orders when needed

-Setting up site access

-Grounding new gps and cabinet.

-Ran 4 man installation teams

-Submit close out packages

 NOS swaps

- Adding new power cabinets

-Running conduits and new power lines

-Grounding and installing new cabinet

-Ranning alternating 2 mand crews night and day

-Back up ericsson techs

 Indoor site Ethernet upgrades

-Installing nid and siad machines on indoor sites

-Powering up devices and running/terminating cat5 and 735's

-Submit close out packages

 RF connectors / grounding

-Andrews rf connectors certified

-Expert at grounding all electrical and rf

 Bid walks

-Walking sites, making and submitting estimates

 UMTS

-Troubleshooting and installations

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T-Mobile

 Full Builds

-Full site builds, running conduits, Installing all electrical, and rf lines

-Installing and sweeping antenna's

Metro PCS

 LTE Build

-Installed new lte cabinet

-Ran new rf jumpers

-Ran conduits and installed/ swept new rf lines

-Installed cabinet alarms

Verizon

 LTE builds

-Installed new splitters, new lines and new ppc connectors and waterproofing

Structural (Building and working on)

- Water Tanks

- Microwave Towers

- Self-Supporting Structures

- Guide Wired Towers

- Mono Poles

Bank of America – Head Teller May 2007- June 2008

 In charge of monetary funds in excess of $50 million on a daily basis

-Sending out deposits to the fed

-Verifying corporate deposits

- Keeping a daily inventory of 50 million plus

Target March 2005 – February 2007

 Reverse Logistics Lead

 Sales Floor Lead

 Inventory Lead

Certifications

OSHA

CPR/FIRST AID

RF RADIATION

GLOBALLY HARMONIZED SYSTEMS (B+V)

HAZMAT

AERIAL WORK PLATFORMS

BECHTEL PASSPORT

ALU CERTIFIED TIGER TEAM LEAD/ INSTALLER (LEVEL 3)

GRAVITEC TOWER CLIMBER AND RESCUE

ANDREWS RF CONNECTORS

MAXCELL TRAINING

Network cabling and testing (copper based systems)

Fiber Techology

-Fiber Splicing

-Fiber tipping

-Fiber testing/Sweeping

Education

Richmond Hill High School 2000 - 2004

Graduated with a Regents Diploma