Architectural and Detail Drafting Certificate Crossville Vo-Tech

Emergency Medical Technician Hillsborough Community College / Tampa, FL.

U. S. Navy Hospital Corpsman

Work Experience:

North Slope Telecommunication

September 2011 to Nov. 2013 Tower Technician/ L-2 installer

Installation and maintenance of towers in Alaska

Duties: assemble towers, maintain towers, Add microwave dish and other telecom antennas to towers, run lines and install hangers, weather proof, Install telecom equipment in oilfield camps as well as huts, work in sub-zero temps and other adverse conditions. Do tower inspections and recommend repairs.

November 2010 to September 2011

T-Staff Central Office Installer

Installation of telecommunication equipment in AT&T central offices

Duties: drill holes and mount IDF racks, Install all shelves required as per spec drawings. Examples (ciscos, ciannas, optillians, pulse coms, DSX, DS3, fiber optic parking shelves, dantels, fuse panels, ect ) Install power from equipment to the BDFB, install grounds. Install fiber optic, alarm, and timing cables. Install fiber optic duct, cable racks and aux channel when required

March 1, 2009 to November 2, 2010 Tower maintenance /Climber

Canusa Electro

Job Description: Tower maintenance, installation and removal of tower equipment, such as Antennas, LNA's, TMA's. Coax lines, jumpers and microwave dishes.

Inspect new towers, (tower types) Self Standing, Guyed and Monopole.

Contracted Inspection Supervisor: for T-Mobile on all tower new build and maintenance projects in central and east Tennessee.

Assist with testing and troubleshooting all tower and equipment problems. Complete all necessary paperwork and reports for billing and job completion.

October 15, 2008 to March 1, 2009

Raytheon Polar Services Rigger

Job Description: Installation and maintenance of towers and associated equipment for communications.

I helped with design and fabrication of new equipment for the conditions, found in Antarctica.

Work performed on all types of antennas: Conte Monte, Rhombic, Rhone, Microwave, Hamm and Intranet. Decommission and removal of towers no longer used.

I Installed and maintained wind generators and solar panels, used in scientific field camps and base stations.

Required Training: Hazardous and Extreme Condition field training, altitude training,

Dry valley field training, snowmobile training, piston bully and Mack track training,

Sea ice training, tower safety (solo and buddy system rescue).

January 1, 2008 to October 15, 2008 Tower maintenance / Climber

Canusa Electro

Job Description: Tower maintenance, installation and removal of tower equipment such as Antennas, LNA's, TMA's. Coax lines and jumpers. Inspect new towers, (tower types) Self Standing, Guyed and Monopole.

Contracted Inspection Supervisor: for T-Mobile on all tower new build and maintenance projects in central and east Tennessee.

Assist with testing and troubleshooting all tower and equipment problems. Complete all necessary paperwork and reports for billing and job completion.

July 11, 2004 to December 31, 2007 Project Manager /NDT technician

American Efficiency Services

Job Description: Testing and troubleshooting Power Plants and Oil Refineries. Planning and making all arrangements for travel to and from customer locations around the world. Set up test equipment and perform test on all vacuum boundary components such as turbines, boiler feed pumps, condensers, expansion joints, water box seams vacuum pumps and heaters until vacuum leak is located. Process requires spraying or injecting helium into the vacuum boundary and monitoring the response time to get the sample back to the Mass Spectrometer via the air removal system. Prepare a list of leaks found with photos and a leak repair recommendation list for plant supervisors and management. Testing was performed at Nuclear, Fossil and Combined Cycle power plants as well as oil refineries.

Required training: Hazmat, confined space, fall protection, scaffolding, radiation, Lockout-Tag out, electric and fire prevention. I also passed an extensive background check for admittance to nuclear power plants.

November 2, 2002 to June 1, 2004

T-Mobile Field Technician

Job Description: Test and turn up of Ericsson's 2101 and 2102 cellular radio base stations. Maintenance and repair of equipment once installed. (1) Instillation of assorted sizes of coax and connectors, from ¼ inch up to 2inch.

(2) Installation of TMA and LNA multiplexor's. (3) Installation of Ericsson's LMU for GPS and 911 testing.

(4) Installation of T-1 from De- mark to Hoffman box and then to RBS cabinet. Use anritsu to sweep lines and diagnose problems with system. Complete monthly reports and maintenance scheduled for assigned equipment.

I was also responsible for company assigned vehicle and its maintenance.

April 24, 2002 to November 02, 2002 Tower maintenance / Climber

Canusa Terminals

Job Description: Tower maintenance, installation and removal of tower equipment such as Antennas, LNA's, TMA's. Coax lines and jumpers.

I inspected existing towers for yearly audits. Assist with testing and troubleshooting all tower and equipment problems. Complete all necessary paperwork and reports for billing and job completion.

March 29, 2001 to April 21,2002

WDCI Installer

Job Description: Installation of co-location equipment for Epik communications including CISCO 15454, DSZ-3, and junipers. Install IDF racks, fuse panels, DWDM, FDP's and bays. Install and terminate power cables to IDB rack. Install and terminate fiber optic, cat-5 and coax cables. Read blueprints for instillation and line-up of ladder racks, colocation cages and IDF bays. Red line drawings for changes made and complete inventory list.

January 2, 2000 to March 22, 2001 Level III Loop Installer/ Supervisor

Harvard Mfg., Texas

Job Description: Manage crew of 20 installers, electricians and helpers. Read blueprints, Installation of Alcatel equipment in Southwestern Bell central office, install

Light span 2000 bays, DSX bays and panel, wire wrap panel and Telco blocks. Install fiber optic trays, run and terminate cable to cosmic bays. Run and terminate DXI cables to DSX bays.

I Wire wrapped alarms and jumpers at Light span bays and on Main Frame. Run and terminate clock cables to clock panel on bays. Install and terminate power and ground cables from bays to BDFB and ground bar.

Install all cable trays for overhead cabling and make fire holes for passage from one section of building to another. Do all necessary paperwork, label bays, do red line drawings for changes and perform final audit for job completion.

December 17, 1997 to December 19, 1999

T and T Construction Framing Carpenter

Job Description: Building custom houses in the Tampa Bay area, including framing, floor systems, floor decking, layout, wall systems, fire blocking, setting trusses or custom roofing systems and roof decking. I also worked with the company owner doing finish work on trim and custom ceilings.

July 7, 1994 to December 2, 1997

Canusa Terminals / Motorola Installer

Job Description: Install Motorola 9600 base stations equipment, Lucent switching equipment and Lucent power bays for Telcel Venezuela. Install Motorola HD II and super cell base station equipment as well as DSC Motorola EMX 2500 and Lucent switching equipment, grounding systems, cable racks, IDF bays, wire wrapping, making AMP connections, RF and BNC coaxial cable connectors. Install LPA and channel bays, install BSC and channel bank cards, mount lightning arrestors and grounding systems, terminate TX, RX and Telco cables, run ribbon and Ethernet cables.

Do prep work and live slides. Stack batteries, install BDFB, run power and ground cables.

June 10, 1989 to July 2, 1994

Lincare Inc. Driver / Senior Service Rep

Job Description: warehouse management, equipment maintenance, drive to patient locations and set up equipment. Give detailed instruction on equipment and its use.

Equipment included oxygen concentrators, liquid oxygen tanks and portable oxygen carriers, nebulizers, power and manual wheelchairs, hospital beds, walkers, trapeze systems and canes. I also had to do the weekly scheduling of routes for myself and 3 other drivers.

August 4, 1986 to June 1, 1989 OTR Truck Driver

Ferree Transportation

Job Description: Pick up and deliver freight throughout the U.S.

Training: OTR truck driver training Pasadena TX. For single and double trailers, tankers, and hazmat.

March 1, 1981 to June 15, 1986

Loomis International Chief Operator / Hell Team Technician

Job Description: Started as an operator helper working in oilfield derricks testing pipe with hydrostatic and high pressure nitrogen testing equipment.

Promoted to testing operator in 1982

Promoted to chief operator in charge of all testing operations in south Texas in 1984

I became first HELL Team Technician (helium electronic leak locator) in 1985 which used a process where helium was introduced into pipe or casing under high pressure. Then a test collar was placed around the pipe or casing joint, if the joint was leaking, the helium would show up on the mass spectrometer.