Carter, Darius

***** ******** *** **** *** **** St.Petersburg,FL 33716 404-***-**** ab1ryi@r.postjobfree.com

Summary

I am a strong willed, self-starting and determined individual who prides himself with dignity and self-edification. I enjoy growing,

learning, and striving to become better every day. The military has provided me with qualities such as working in teams, excellence

in all I do, integrity and maintain professional image that I apply to every aspect of my life.

Employment History

Teleport Engineer II, HSN 4/8/2013 Present

St.Petersburg, FL

- Provide 24x7 operational and maintenance support of all the equipment needed to support satellite transmission of video signals

across satellite networks

- Troubleshoot, Install and repair equipment used in a large scale satellite uplink and downlink operation such as: HPA’s, Up and

down converters, Antenna control units, large scale transmit and receive satellite antenna systems, fiber optic equipment, and

switching gear.

- Design and implement RF/IF/video baseband circuits and redundant systems to maintain optimal service

- Maintain Cisco MCPC and SCPC equipment including encoders and muxes and implement new services into the platform as

needed

- Responsible for downlink acquisition of satellite signals to support customers for full time and occasional services.

- Maintains records to keep track of daily occurrences such as engineering shift logs, equipment forms, parts inventories and

client’s uplink budgets and satellite access request.

- Troubleshoot and repair antennas issues including AZ/EL motors, LNA, feed horn, bandpass filters and waveguide.

- Work with affiliates to troubleshoot and provide technical guidance/support to maintain quality content across various distributers

Teleport Operations Technician, Intelsat

11/1/2010 3/25/2013

Ellenwood, GA

- Perform moderately complex installation, testing and successful turn-up of new video services, including installation,

design and configuration of satellite equipment, wiring/cabling and creating Visio drawings.

- Lead preventive/periodic maintenance checks of ground station equipment and associated sub-systems chains and

interprets results to verify normal/abnormal conditions of equipment using various test equipment such as spectrum

analyzers, power meters, ASI/SDI video monitors/and stream analyzers.

- Operate, troubleshoot and apply restoral procedures of all ground station equipment as applicable to: up converters,

down converters, HPA’s, ACU’s, fiber optic subsystems, LNA/LNB’s, antennas, IP and baseband equipment (modems,

multiplexers, DVB and iDirect TDMA broadband technology platforms) and video systems (IRD’s, Audio shufflers,

frame rate converters, standard converters, MCPC and SCPC platforms)

- Worked with various forms of modulation techniques such as DVBS/S2, QPSK, 8PSK and 16PSK

- Proactively monitor the conditions of commercial services and terrestrial facilities, including the status of systems

alarms power station plants and facility subsystems. Also provide and maintain daily shift check/records/trouble tickets

in Remedy of all video and RF equipment on site.

- Worked 24/7 rotating shift team environment.

- Familiar with antenna/satellite theories and principals such as beam with, spot beams, wave propagation, transponder

design, satellite physics.

- Responsible for operation and maintenance of over 1500 pieces of equipment and 60 antennas ranging from 2-13 meters

along multiple frequency bands (C, KU, and S). Provide fulltime uplink and downlink networks for over 50 customers

(such as BBC, PBS, HBO, CNN, Panasonic, ABC) varying from data to video. Provided OU (occasional use) uplinks/

downlinks to various customers which included satellite acquisition based off of link budgets.

Service Technician Representative, SimplexGrinnell

10/1/2007 10/20/2010

Mobile, AL

- Troubleshot, repaired and programmed complex fire alarm systems by using “half-split method” and employing various

tools such as digital and analog millimeters, tone generators, load testers, and software programming tools such as

MSDOS and HyperTerminal.

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- Maintained a professional relationship with customers by keeping client up to date and aware of the situation also

informing customer of the status of system and ways to correct issues.

- Responsible for transcribing each service call into reports that includes status of system upon arrival, troubleshooting

methods, reason of faults on system and ways to help prevent faults from happening again and relay status to customer

and management.

- Provided on call services to customers after office hours where customer can ask to be verbally walked through

troubleshooting the system until normal business hour resume.

RF transmissions Engineer, United States Air National Guard

6/1/2006 present

Marietta, GA

- Tasked with working on various satellite and microwave equipment such as TRC-170, USC-60, Ground Multi-band

Terminal (GMT), 100A satellite van. Also RF equipment such as TSSR(Tropo Satellite Support Radio), RF Mod, and

LMR (Land Mobile Radio)

- Manages, inspects, repairs and monitors equipment to determine performance, analyzes data and isolates malfunctions,

detects deficiencies, replaces or repairs defective units and performs corrective alignments

- Conducts periodic inspections of equipment to ensure compliance with technical data specifications and timely

fulfillment of mission requirements.

- Establishes communication links and interconnects communication facilities while ensuring system integrity.

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Education

- Keesler AFB, Biloxi MS- Electronic principals- December 2006- March 2007

- Fort Gordon, Augusta GA- Satellite Wideband Principals- March 2007-July 2007

- ITT Technical Institute- Associates Degree Computer Electronics Engineering Technologies- September 2008-

September 2010

Acknowledgments

- Currently Posses Secret Clearance

- GVF Certified

References

- Are available upon request

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