1995 - 1998 Underground Facility Damage Prevention Specialist
1981 - 1988 Central Office Technician
Spread Networks - Inside Plant Technician – Ultra Low Latency Fiber Optic’s Transport System.
OC-768/DWDM/10GigE, Installation, Test and Turn-up, Front Line Maintenance.
SpreadNetworks LitWave Service 14.06ms 1Gig Multichannel.
FOT-930 Power Meter and JDSU T-Berd 6000 OTDR, LGX LC-A Fiber testing.
Installation, Provisioning of, ADVA FSP 3000 R7 DWDM, Ciena CN4200, 6500, Infinera, 10GigE Systems.
Test and troubleshooting OPTICAL Networks, Cletop Fiber cleaning, EXFO Digital Fiber Scope, placement, management, network upgrades.
C&D Technologies Rectifiers ,Sageon PSMCI BDFB 800 Amp Load, C&D Technologies -48v Battery Strings, 100k Cummins Generator and Control Cabinet. Schneider Electric Circuit Breaker Panels.
DPS Telecom Netguardian Alarm Telemetry, Ciena 3940 Switch, Ethernet 100Mb, SFP 1Gig access.
Vivax/Metrotech FLS Transmitter Utility Locate System. ACT Dual Grounding Protection
Ability to write Mops and adapt them.
Asset Management, RMA, maintain accurate spares and in-service inventory.

Sapphire Tech - Fiber Optic Network Protection – Outside Plant (Verizon Business)
Used TOPO USA 7.0 (Delorme) to create laptop mobile files of Drawings of Verizon Business Fiber Routes.
Read and Maintain Drawings of Verizon Business Fiber Routes.
Locate Fiber Optic Cable with LMS Transmitter (Radiodection).
Use JULIE the Illinois One Call system to get information for Plant Protection on Verizon Business Right of Ways.
Central Locating Service, LTD - Utility Locating Tech
Locate underground facilities
Glotel, Inc - Network Order Manager (SBC/at&t)
Ordered Private Line Point to Point Long Distance Phone Services, Write ASR’s. DS1, DS3 and OC3 and above.
Systems Used: TBS-Metasolv, Access Ordering, Ovals, QWEST (GUI), Verizon (GUI), Web DLR.

AT&T - Fiber Optic Network Protection – Outside Plant
Splice Fiber Optic Ribbon and Single Mode Fiber with 3M splices.
Maintain 1.7GB Fiber Optic systems and Sonet in Regenerator Buildings in southern suburbs.
Perform Power Surveys on DC Power Plants in Regenerator Buildings.
Locate Fiber Optic Cable with LMS-3 Dialup Transmitter (Radiodection).
Install LMS-3 Locater Transmitters, and run associated cabling, power, and grounding in cable vaults.
Use JULIE the Illinois One Call system to get information for Plant Protection on AT&T Right of Ways.
Direct contractors when excavating near AT&T Fiber Optic Cables in Duct Systems and Direct Buried.
Acted as Inspector on installation of new fiber optic cables.
Completed Bonding and Grounding on AT&T Local Network Service Fibers at make system locatable with LMS-3’s. About 400 Miles of Fiber in Chicago and Northern suburbs.
Read and Maintain M77 Drawings of AT&T Fiber Routes.
Underground Facility Damage Prevention Specialist
Gave Facility Damage Prevention Presentations to Contractors and Municipality’s in the Northern Part of Illinois and worked with JULIE the Illinois One Call system about protecting underground facilities.
Maintained a booth at Contractor Awareness Meetings, and Shows for Underground facility Safety.
Have great Knowledge of (Illinois Underground Utility Facilities Damage Prevention Act).
Central Office / Digital test Center
Took inter-company repair calls to clear Central office troubles.
Had Pre-service job of Wire Office and Test, to make sure new Private Line Circuits were ready to give to AT&T Customers.
Maintenance and Repair: DACS 1, DACS 2, Granger T-Mux,
AT&T L2 T-Mux, D4, BCM, DSX-1, DSX-3,
Main Frame Wiring, Soldered, punched and wire wrap.
Replaced pins on back plane wiring.
Central Office / Private Line 17C Test board
Handled Customer all types service complaints, tested Bridges and signaling on Voice and Data circuits.
Referred troubles to local operating company on loop to customer.
Pre-service Coordinator: call all Central offices on circuit to make sure line was good end to end on new Private Line Circuits that were ready to give to AT&T Customers.
Provided On-the-Job training for other technicians.
Certificates of completion
ADVA Fiber Transport FSP 3000 R7
CIENA CN4200 Fiber Transport
INFINERA ATN and OPTICAL LINE AMPLIFIER
AT&T Ask Your Self Training
Fiber Splicing Refreshers
Manhole Safety
First Aid Training
Public Speaking Course
Ribbon 3M Fibrlok Splice Assembly
Coaxial Cable Maintenance
Power Fundamentals (AT&T Lineage 2000)
Bit Compression Multiplexer Carrier Maintenance
Effective Customer Relations
Advanced Voice Band Data
Special Service Telephone Testing
Education 1979 - 1981DeVry Institute Of TechnologyChicago, IL
Technician Diploma / Electronics