John Petree, LLP

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good reason. If you read and understand, it will give all necessary details about my

goals, experiences and abilities. This is very important when you are searching for a good

project manager. You may remove portions for presentation.

Work as Construction Manager, Project Manager, Program Manager, Power Engineer,

Integrated Systems Engineer, Implementation Engineer, owner's Representative, or at times

Technician for equipment manufacturer, facilities-based integrated communications provider

(ICP), facilities-based competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), local telephone

utility, or other communications company, or manager electrician for electrical

contractor. Will work hands-on installing equipment and software loads as engineer and/or

technician. Not afraid to get my hands involved with the work.

Do contact me for help in telecommunications work you are about to undertake or have

already started. Have training and experiences that can be an asset and benefit to your

company or client company. Will work in Europe, Ireland, Australia, The Islands, and South

America. Will consider all offers tendered in a timely manner. Should you desire to retain

my services do call and provide me with your details and project specifications.

CELL SITES, COLLOCATIONS, TRANSPORT/CENTRAL OFFICE, AND TYPE III POP BUILD:

As a field engineer/project manager I build Cell Sites, Collocations, Transport

Facilities, Central Offices, Type III POP Centers, and Call Centers using anyone's

equipment, i.e. Alcatel, Lucent, Nortel, etc. Stay current in the latest system design,

installation and testing methods. While providing services can perform quality technical

work to help you design, develop, engineer, and manage the construction of, install, turn-

up and test:

- Design and maintain database/spreadsheet for DC power management and other uses. -

AC/DC power system layout and construction using any manufacturer equipment. - Install

software loads, perform integrated system installations, integrated systems engineering -

Design central offices, collocations, and type 3 POP centers. - Install new and relocate

in-service routers, hubs and other equipment. - Design, Install, test and troubleshoot

cabling such as copper, fiber, UTP, STP, and Coaxial. - WAN and LAN build, install

networking hardware and software in business office environment. - Perform site

procurement, site surveys and systems integration planning. - Write reports, universal

service orders (USOF) and proposals. - Estimate electrical construction, data and

telecommunications for any projects - Help executive management build a company and

national/international network.

Am dedicated to performing excellent work resulting in stable system integrity and

quality control. Have proficiency with complete installations, test and activation,

including switching, transport, routers, hubs, A/C power systems, D/C power plant, A/C

emergency power systems, grounding, wiring, and alarm systems. Understand

telecommunications, electrical, data, ITU ANSI, and Bell Core standards. Familiar with

telecom network components such as switches, DACS, channel banks, CSU, DSU, T1/E1, T3/E3,

OC-3, OC-12, OC-192, STM-1, DSX on a functional level (larger list available). Have solid

understanding of telecommunications principles and equipment. Have ability to clearly plan

projects. Have ability to convey information to a multidisciplinary team.

To be effective I know and understand what the budget is and constantly monitor and

reduce costs wherever practical. Also know the schedule and continually plan the progress

of the site from site acquisition to site acceptance by diagnosing problems that are in

the way and coming up with solutions to overcome them. Assist senior manager to meet the

important internal and customer needs on schedule.

Try to improve project build-out schedules, eliminate property/land owner

miscommunications. Coordinate with project leasing manager and account executives in real

estate negotiations, monitoring the consultant's activities, minimize change orders of

account executives services reducing additional consulting and construction costs.

When you are implementing a switch build plan for any field service area or building any

new facility I can oversee the activities related to these switch implementation

milestones or any others set by you:

- Order switch/primary equipment. - Install transport, switch or cell site equipment and

wiring. - Complete Space Conditioning. - Establish transport and/or, local access or cell

site plan. - Install and test switch, power, and primary equipment. - Install and test

ancillary equipment. - Order facilities. - Accept facilities. - Final completion of

testing. - Complete integration and cluster testing. - Cut over switch.

Develop work plans, obtain and approve estimates, and develop timeline for the execution

of the switch build program for specific switches. Assess switch build progress and

quality levels, then compare results to planned targets. Evaluate, prioritize, and execute

ad-hoc requests in a manner that minimizes the impact on project scheduling and scope.

Support the development of switch implementation plans for future year. Interact with

client corporate and site build management as necessary to resolve any coordination

issues.

Prepare monthly build status scorecard versus plan, and highlight areas for intervention

for internal management. Determine internal and external resource requirements and ensure

contractual arrangements are in place in order to begin work and ensure a streamlined

vendor evaluation and selection process.

Interact periodically with vendors to discuss switch installation and transition

progress, resolve critical operational bottlenecks, evaluate status of the relationship,

and resolve relationship issues to ensure that vendor performance metrics match or exceed

planned targets. Assign roles and responsibilities for project team and support staff.

Develop work estimates financial budgets and timelines. Manage multiple projects

simultaneously Coach employees in all necessary means and ways of installation and

maintenance practice.

Have forty-two years strong electrical, data, and telecommunications construction,

operations and project management experience (plan, design, build, and execute). Have

ability to manage projects and get hands into the technology. Supervise technicians and be

responsible to perform additions, moves and changes including the software changes to the

switch. Be responsible for backup and emergency systems necessary to keep the central

office or call center fully operational during normal hours, as well as automated systems

to ensure after-hours functionally.

Provide responsive telecommunications support to Learning Tree staff and instructors.

Interface with all local and long-distance vendors/carriers associated with phone

requirements in the US. Cooperate with all departments, setting and maintaining ACD users.

Update switch view database. Perform daily systems checks. Prepare daily reports and as

requested. Travel as necessary to other sites for support. Respond to trouble tickets.

Work with administrative phone databases. Performed special projects and administrative

tasks as assigned. Make changes in phone system configuration and troubleshooting. Have

experience in managing vendors in support, installation and upgrade of medium-sized and

large-sized phone systems. Received specialized training in ACD (Automated Call

Distribution), PBX and voice mail.

Keep abreast of the latest technology and developments in telecommunications. Stay

current with knowledge of systems for hands on experience troubleshooting, maintaining,

installing, and upgrading PBX, central office, collocation, type III POP centers, and call

center systems.

Will endeavor to have each site completely constructed and ready as scheduled, within or

below budget, and within company quality standards. Since both the schedule and budget are

always aggressive, I will always be exploring ways to do it quicker for less money while

not compromising safety or quality.

Should you retain my services the responsibilities provided will include: preparing

project plans and systems design proposals; preparing Requests for Proposals and/or BID

specifications for systems and services; conducting site surveys; meeting with users to

develop systems design data; scheduling and overseeing vendor work performance; performing

remote system administration and/or database update function on PDX, Centrex, Intellipath

or voice mail systems; tracking orders to ensure swift and successful completion;

assisting all agencies with non-routine requests by developing telecommunications

recommendations to meet agency requirements, creating and issuing concise orders for Telco

and Any Equipment system and equipment vendors; reviewing and authorizing vendor bills;

tracking and maintaining lists of all spare facilities; training users, preparing various

reports such as project status and progress reports, system maintenance reports, etc. Can

work under the direction of any manager but require considerable latitude for the exercise

of independent initiative and judgement.

John Petree has proven record of coordinating the provisioning and maintenance of

telecommunications systems and services. Hands on working experience with digital Centrex

service (i.e. Intellipath), including the ability to supervise contractors in diagnosis of

telephone problems, determining faults and the knowledge to oversee the repair of Nortel

Merdian digital Centrex station equipment and associated station wiring. Well able to

translate user agency telephone needs to work orders which he will then coordinate with

Telco and oversee technicians in the installation or rearrangement of new Intellipath

service. Knowledge of all Intellipath features as well as the ability to program Telco

CCRS (Centrex Customer Rearrangement System).

Kind Regards,

John Petree

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RESUME

JOHN PETREE

P. O. Box 10448

Winston-Salem, NC 27108-0448 USA

Mobile 336-***-****

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Web Page: http://winlock.net/jpetree

OBJECTIVE:

Seek to find contract jobs working in United States. Will work contract or permanent

direct hire in Europe, Ireland, Australia, The Islands, South America and Asia.WORK HISTORY:

May 1975 to Present Time - Own and operate E. H. Petree Company (Insured-Licensed).

Company was licensed Electrical Contractor, Telephone Interconnect, and FM Two-Way radio

dealer for 22 years in Oregon. Owned and operated mobile radio relay stations in Oklahoma

and Texas operating in business radio service.

Provide my personal services via this company on a one-to-one basis to client companies

as engineer, technician and manager, sometimes working through prime vendors (staffing).

Currently on a yearly basis at different times perform (presale/post sale) design and

installations of AC electrical wiring and DC Power Plant installations for

telecommunications industry. Assist sales force in their attempts to sale equipment and

systems. Oversee financial aspects including job cost accounting of each project,

coordinate personnel, review bids, change orders, and safety policies.

Coordinate and manage people, materials, all equipment, budgets, schedules, and

contracts. Manage safety of employees and the general public. Supervise the evaluation of

electrical construction methods when determining the most cost effective plan and budget.

Work as Electrical Field Superintendent to supervise electrical field installation of any

ac and dc electrical wiring in commercial and industrial facilities, conveyor systems. Am

familiar with NEC requirements (take 24 hours code each three years), wire motor controls,

graphical and operator interfaces, and PLC programming in the material handling and

furniture industry. Made conduit runs, Allen-Bradley PLC programming. Build traffic

signaling at highway road intersections.

My duties and responsibilities also include but are not limited to tracking site

installation performance and progress. Create construction drawings. Prepare site budgets

and contract processes. Attend bid walks. Implement daily operational project management

for sites in construction. Visit sites regularly and perform quality control measures.

Perform a "punch list walk" after completion of each site.

Attend weekly site-by-site operations meetings. Approve invoices and other financial

items. Perform managing of contractors. Meet budgets and cost controls. Maintain

documentation. Handle client and tenant relations. Insure design objectives are met. Lead

projects to completion while insuring all practices and standards are met.

Responsible for the planning, coordination, installation and repair of cabling that

supports voice and data networks for all locations. Responsibilities include the

installation and problem resolution for telephone equipment and paging systems.

Provide supervisor support as well as installation skills on any telecommunications job

site. Supervise a crew of installers performing individual installations of DC power

plants, Plant Transitions, Plant Expansions, Breaker Distribution Fuse Bays, Various

Battery string configurations, and other associated telecommunications power equipment.

Interact with customers to coordinate schedules and answer technical questions.

Perform work operations and job activities that included the removal and installation of

common hardware such as auxiliary framing, earthquake bracing, conduit, raceways, cable

racks, lighting fixtures, equipment, etc., or addition to or removal of common system

equipment and hardware, wiring and connections on non-working equipment and switchboard

cable, lead verification.

Perform work operations and job activities that included the analysis of job

specifications and drawings, prepared method of procedure (MOP), wrote job information

memos (JIM), resolved job specification and/or drawings problems, correct office record

drawings, in-process and final quality inspections.

Perform work operations and job activities that included the circuit modifications,

software load installs or upgrades, power transition work, addition/removal of batteries,

addition/removal of circuits on working power distribution sources, equipment testing and

turn up; thus have become capable of performing as the supplier's in-charge person.

Perform work leading and coordinating construction and support technicians and contractor

employees in the set-up, operation, testing, and evaluation of telecommunications

equipment, router and switch installations associated with clients.

Function as hands-on technical expert for all network elements to be placed into service

within the telecommunications and data network. Provide expertise on equipment selection.

Primary contact and interface for equipment vendors and other suppliers. Develop,

evaluate, and provide technical assessment of installation standards and testing

procedures.

Design, install, implement, configure, trouble shoot computer network connectivity,

architecture, and equipment. Design, install, implement, configure, and troubleshoot

existing backbone infrastructure and communications equipment. Provision customer premise

equipment to support company services.

Advise and be responsible for implementation of network hardware and support application

upgrades. Work with corporate departments, local system personnel, and contractors to

manage installation and deployment of TCP/IP network systems and applications. Provide

leadership for installation and operations personnel.

Operating as an Interconnect Company sell and install PBX/KEY systems equipment made by

Siemens, Lucent, Mitel, Nortel, AT&T, Comdial, Northern, Toshiba, NEC, Intertel, Iwatsu,

Inter-Tel, and Vodavi. As the owner I am in charge of sales, installs, accounts payable,

estimating, etc.

Performing facilities relocations, ads-moves-changes, and telephone station reviews to

define user requirements. Installing Avaya Aria Voicemail systems and Cisco AVVID Call

Manager systems, IPC Alliance Turret Systems, Avaya G3 PBX telephone systems, and Serenade

voicemail systems, ROLM 9751 PBX ROLM MAC and ACD.

Design and perform equipment and cabling installations, manage and oversee construction

thereof. Work on installation of access nodes, HDT, switches, hardware, and software

installations, test equipment, Fujitsu, Nortel DMS line, Lucent 5ESS line, Alcatel 1631

series, Nokia DX200, Tellabs, and many more types and brands of equipment.

Installing router and switches on cable modem for Internet access locally. Setting up

printer, file and access sharing. Additional responsibilities include installation and

problem resolution for data terminals and telecommunication equipment, CRTs, controllers,

ethernet hubs, fiber transceivers, switches and token ring hubs.

Responsible for testing and turn up of circuits at the DS0, DS1 and DS3 level and make

digital cross connects in DACS, T-1-3. Maintain and increase working knowledge of wideband

and narrowband DXCs (Alcatel, Marconi, Tellabs and ECI). Maintain and increase working

knowledge of digital multiplexers, CSU/DSUs, ADMs, Legacy Systems and Network

Administration on a continuing basis.

Am responsible for familiarization with digital multiplexers, CSU/DSUs, ADMs. Also gained

knowledge of the following technologies and circuit levels: SDH, PDH, Sonet, Frame Relay,

ATM, STM-1, DS3, E-1, T-1 to T3. Have working knowledge of fiber media and associated

equipment. Have proficiency with test equipment required for testing of high-speed digital

lines.

Performing installs and configure Nortel Contivity VPN Switch (models 100. 400, 600,

1600, 2600, 4600) single hardware device, which provides routing, firewall, bandwidth

management, encryption, authentication, and data integrity for secure tunneling across

managed IP networks and the Internet. Perform connection of remote users, branch offices,

and customers with the cost and performance advantages of shared IP networks and the

security and control you would expect from private networks. Perform site surveys and

engineering work prior to installation work.

Also install Cisco router and firewall equipment and make cabling installations. Manage

install of EF & I, central office, RF and wireless projects, including switching equipment

such as Nortel DMS 100, or DMS 500, Lucent 5ESS, other equipment such as OC-12, OC-48,

Litespan (2000 or 2012), Pairspan, Fujitsu FLM's, DACS, Data Equipment; Nokia, Lucent,

Nortel and Ericsson wireless equipment, as well as power cable, power plants, iron work,

CAT5, lugs, DS3's, and cable rack.

Serve as the IVR Specialist to install and maintain system and coordinate with

telecommunications staff to create services to our customers. Position responsibilities

include the assessment, planning, testing, and implementation of telecommunications

systems and applications pertinent to the IVR system. Other duties include analyzing

future telecommunications systems needs and making recommendations for changes and/or

improvements, the management, monitoring, and analyzing of call center statistics,

providing telecommunications training as needed, as well as the development of new

processes and procedures as business needs dictate. Use knowledge of telecommunications

issues as defined by industry, including telecommunications systems, call center

operations, and Customer Relations Management Systems is required.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Good experience using programs operated in Windows 95/98/2000/NT/UNIX. Have good

understanding of databases, LAN, WAN, Mainframe, and Client Server Environments. Have

expertise in open multi-protocols LAN and WAN technology including basic principles of NOS

and network management. Well acquainted with professional use of PC technology and very

good knowledge in teleprocessing and telecommunications. Have experience with file

document functions. Every day use e-mail, MS Office 97/2000, MS Project, Lotus Suites,

HTML, JAVA, other software. Build computers from component level. Have design and

implement networks. Have constructed and repaired computers, loaded software and removed

conflicts in plug-and-play setup. Have strong understanding of PC hardware and fundamental

knowledge of how software interacts with a PC.

Have detailed knowledge CMOS settings and methods of configuration. Have detailed

knowledge of how software interacts with machines, hardware components and Microsoft

Office products, setup, configuration and operation. Have ability to troubleshoot,

diagnose and repair any problem, successfully and reliably, with a remote user. Am

proficient in using remote administration tools (Such as PC Anywhere).

Have fundamental understanding of Microsoft Back Office server functions and Microsoft

2000 Server, general understanding of rights and permission. Have fundamental knowledge of

how client software connects and interacts with host application requirements, fundamental

understanding of Microsoft Back Office server functions.

Able to install and maintain Cisco Routers, Concentrators, Switch and Dell Power Edge and

Compaq ProLiant server hardware and parts for new projects. Build, assemble, upgrade, and

configure server these hardware items to include operating system installation, rack

preparation and network configuration. Provide servers, routers and switch hardware

technical support for systems deployed anywhere in addition to providing escalation

support.

In short summery can: Assemble, test, load software, deliver and install over 740

different models of computer equipment. Can connect this equipment where required, and

then verify that the equipment is operating properly. Assist with relocation of computer

equipment.

Compile relocation data and verify its accuracy, disconnect equipment for relocation,

reinstall the equipment at the new sites and verify the proper operation of the equipment

of the equipment including the proper connectivity to mainframe, LAN, and Microcomputer

systems. Install both hardware and software upgrades on installed PC systems. This

includes memory, interface card systems, processors, operating systems, networking

software, and host connectivity software.

PERSONAL:

Have strong initiative and willingness to learn. Have excellent customer service skills.

Stress-resistant, being able to meet tight deadlines. Take a pro-active role, anticipating

and addressing potential problems. Strongly motivated, able to understand and follow

complex instructions Good interpersonal skills.

Have ability to work independently however I remain a team player. Have ability to

understand in-depth complex technical situations and activities and to understand

financial and other business management aspects (e.g. budgets). Have fluency in English,

willing to learn French and German.

Have experience in contract negotiation. Have successfully completed five years studies

cycle in Information Technology and Electronic Engineering after High School diploma and

have 20+years experience in the relevant area. Have excellent communication skills,

analysis skills, project management skills, ability to build and motivate teams to achieve

defined goals, ability to adjust to changing business demands.

EDUCATION:

1954-1958 - Math, Science, Electrical - James A. Gray, Winston Salem, NC 1958-1962 -

Electrical - MT Hood Community College, Troutdale, OR 1987-1989 - Construction Management -

MT Hood Community College, Troutdale, OR 1998-1998 - Nortel DMS Access Nodes and Express -

Atlanta, Georgia and in field.

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