-Experienced in working with cranes, boom lifts and other heavy equipment
-Equipped with all tower climber hand tools
-Experienced in dealing with tough working situations and long hours
-Safety conscious: trained and experienced in first aid, mountain rescue, tower rescue (Comtrain and Gravitech), Osha 10, Confined Spaces, Bloodborne pathogens, RF Awareness, Smith Systems Defensive Driving, and CPR
-Willing to work long hours and travel
-Well educated, computer literate, good reading and writing skills, committed to excellence
-Fluent Spanish speaker, Intermediate Mandarin Chinese speaker
-Drug free, non-smoker, clean criminal and motor vehicle records
-Financially stable and capable of moving anywhere in the country

Professional Experience:

Nexius Velex (August, 2014 - December, 2015)
Tower Technician III (Top Hand) for Sprint and Verizon construction and maintenance
-Consistently built punch free sites within required deadlines
-Delivered quality photos on closeouts
-Mentored and trained less experienced climbers, always focusing on safety
-Held excellent record for troubleshooting on Sprint network
-Ran testing for fiber and sweeps, worked with management to plan site construction utilizing RFDS and CD, worked with cranes, built rope-access rooftop and T-boom sites, and managed personel and materials to maximize efficiency and meet deadlines regardless of difficult circumstances
-Led construction efforts for a crew that averaged +50% profitability for months at a time
-Played a cornerstone role in transforming Nexius’s Cleveland market from one of the worst in the company into one of the best, resulting in the continuation of the Sprint contract

Bluestream Professional Services (BPS) (January, 2014 - August, 2014)
Verizon and AT&T AWS builds:
-Promoted to Top Hand, built sites on-time and to-specification while leading the top side of the most profitable crew in BPS’s Ohio market

AT&T Tiger Team:
-Troubleshooting from ground and tower, experienced and knowledgable in various forms of fault detection and system repair
-Self-taught to utilize JDSU, Anritsu, Kaelus PIM, and PIM Plus to find faults and correct alarms on 850 and 1900 UMTS and GSM, as well as run sweep testing at top for LTE and antenna PIM testing
-Experienced in correcting connectors for hardlines and jumpers
-GPS antenna troubleshooting and replacement
-Quickly, safely, and efficiently swapped out jumpers, TMA’s, radios and antennas as the only man on tower
-Made valuable contributions to highly successful Tiger Teams, ranked top in Chicago market twice out of approximately a dozen crews (Achieved highest number of successfully closed-out trouble-tickets over the course of a month)
-Safely drove company truck and trailer on daily basis while foreman completed paperwork, DOT medical card

Vision Wireless Communications (August, 2013 - January, 2014)
-Prebuilt and stacked self-supporters and landed platforms on monopoles,
-Performed coax and antenna installations, landed antennas and booms, and performed maintenance on tower structures
-Worked with cranes and other heavy equipment in a safe and efficient manner
-Performed Verizon full installs (12 and 19 lines of coax)

Conotton Creek Farm, Leesville, OH (2011 - 2013)
-Operated all aspects of small scale family farming operation, from land preparation and planting to harvesting and product sale
-Maintained all machinery and buildings associated with the farm
-Planned and executed retail and wholesale marketing strategy by selling plants and produce at farmers markets, restaurants, flea markets, grocery stores and roadside stands
-Operated and maintained tractors and miscellaneous farming equipment (JLG lift, rear-end bucket loader, plow, disc, heavy tiller, brush hog, Troy-built tillers, skid steer, oxygen/acetylene torch, chainsaws, mowers, handtools, etc.)

Note: Worked overseas in Asia and Latin America as an English teacher and mountain guide from 2006 to 2011

Education:
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
-Bachelor of Arts in Political Science (March, 2010)
-Summa cum laude (3.976 overall GPA)