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Professional Objective

Communications/Construction trained Military Veteran with many years of proven experience in leading teams to develop and manage outcomes. Seeking a position affording opportunity for growth and utilization of my interpersonal and educational background.

Veterans’ Preference: 5-point preference

Veterans’ Preference Yes, VRA

VEOA Eligibility Yes

Work Experience

Installation and Repair Technician – AT&T

2000 - 2014

Installation & repair from central office or remote through cross box to the customer's premise

Test repaired, newly installed, or updated equipment to ensure that it functions properly and conforms to specifications, using test equipment and observation

Test circuits and components of malfunctioning telecommunications equipment to isolate sources of malfunctions, using test meters, circuit diagrams, polarity probes, and other tools

Repair or replace faulty equipment such as defective and damaged telephones, wires, switching system components, and associated equipment

Service or repair telephone, cable television, Internet, and other communications equipment on customers' property

May install communications equipment or communications wiring in building

Educate customers on service features and functionality

Sanitation Driver/Loader - City of Evanston

1997 - 2000

Possession of a valid Illinois Class B Driver License with Air Brake endorsement

Drive truck with capacity greater than 3 tons
Use truck-mounted hydraulic lifts or other accessories
Pick up, carry, and empty refuse or recycling containers into truck

Operate mechanisms for loading, dumping, and compressing waste and other refuse.

Move truck while servicing route

Inform new customers of service charges and regulations

Check refuse collection equipment to insure good operating condition

Report vacant houses to supervisor as a means of keeping route book current.

Drive truck to and from location of work assignment

Keep records and prepare reports of operations and activities

Supervise the work of other crew members

Operate equipment and/or vehicles including 1/2 ton pick-up and dump trucks, articulating drive front-end loaders, street flushers, refuse packers, and other related equipment

Load and unload trucks, either by operating equipment or picking up, carrying, and emptying refuse containers into trucks

Perform minor maintenance and servicing of assigned vehicle

Transport personnel, materials, and equipment

Perform pre- and post-trip vehicle inspections

Kwik Shred – Route Leader

1995 – 1998

Federal Express – Courier

1992 – 1995

United States Army – Desert Storm Communications/Construction

1984 - 1992

Antenna Specialists responsible for installing, maintaining, testing, and trouble-shooting aerial, buried, and underground copper, coaxial cable, and LAN/WAN inter/intrabuilding communications cable
Install, operate, and perform unit level maintenance on cable and wire systems, to include Digital Group Multiplexers (DGM), Remote Multiplexing Combiners (RMC), repeaters, restorers, telephones, test stations, intermediate distribution frames, and related equipment
Perform tests on cable communications systems to ensure circuit and system quality
Setting of Towers, Poles
Stringing New Wire or Maintaining Old Wire
Installing and Repairing Telephone and Data Systems
Supervising Groundman and Apprentices
Operation of Bucket Truck and Pole Trailer
Operated and maintained Hydraulic Cable Reel Trailer
Tests circuits/groups to detect and locate line faults
Operate manual and motorized cable construction equipment
Climbs poles, as necessary, and assist in the construction of tactical cable and wire lines

Education

United States Army Signal Center, Ft. Gordon, GA

Community College of Air Force Base, Maxwell, AL

Civic, Volunteer, and Professional Associations
Member:
Mt. Moriah Lodge #28 PHA
Pride of the North #61
Stanley J. Harris #60
North Shore Consistory #91
Shawall Temple #165