Edward Barralaga

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Miami, Florida 33173

Home 305-***-**** Mobile 786-***-****

gw9ve9@r.postjobfree.com

Employment:

Aug 2007 to HOTWIRE COMMUNICATIONS 3870 Pembroke Road, Hollywood, Florida

Sept 2009 Fiber Optic Network Project Manager

Management of the fiber optic network infrastructure and associated fiber optic technologies. Installation and configuration of fiber optic transmission equipment. Fiber optic fusion splicing in the new build construction, maintenance and emergency restoration environments. Responsibilities include generation of documentation on all aspects of the work such as FTTH fiber distribution designs, link loss budget calculations, splice enclosure splice sheets and MDF /IDF patch panel layouts.

Jan 2007 to ATLANTIC BROADBAND 1681 Kennedy Causeway, North Bay Village FL 33141

Aug 2007 Headend Technician

Operation, troubleshooting and repair of cable television headend operations providing VOIP, cable modem, video on demand and SD/HD video services.

Jan 2005 to DANIEL ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS. 5965 NW 82nd Avenue, Miami, Florida

Jan 2007 Telecommunications Construction Foreman

Installation of residential and commercial voice, video and data communications

network cabling including fiber optic, twisted pair and coaxial cable infrastructure.

Sept 1993 to AT&T BROADBAND NETWORK SOLUTIONS, 2501 SW 145 Ave, Miramar, Florida

Aug 2003 Sales Engineer (3 Years )

Pre-sale design and engineering of wide area fiber optic networks. Project management and construction supervision. Second level response for technical support, maintenance and provisioning of services. Generation of diagrams and network documentation.

Network Engineer (3 Years)

Installation, configuration, maintenance and technical support of edge and backbone network equipment utilizing ATM, Gigabit Ethernet, SONET and Digital Video Transport technologies. Responsible for the installation of outside plant fiber-optic infrastructure and inside plant including risers, laterals, racks, DC power systems, UPS's, punch down blocks and cross connects

Outside Plant Construction Coordinator (2 Years)

Construction of coaxial and fiber optic outside plant to system design specifications. Duties included managing contractors and construction crews in the field.

Service Technician (2 Years)

Jan 1993 to BELLSOUTH TELEPHONE COMPANY, North Dade District, Miami, Florida

July 1993 Service Technician

July 1987 to WAHLCO ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS INC, Orange County, California

June 1992 Engineering Technician/ Field Service Technician

Installation and configuration of industrial computer and PLC process control equipment

including ladder logic programming and system certification.

Military:

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS. MCAS El Toro, California

July 1978 to Avionics Technician

July 1982 Maintenance and repair of avionics weapons systems. Served as a member of DOD Personnel Reliability Program responsible for the handling and configuration of tactical nuclear weapons. Honorable discharge.

Education:

Oct 2002 FUJITSU NETWORKS, Miramar, Florida

Flashwave 4100 and 4500 equipment training

July 2002 FOUNDRY NETWORKS, Miami, Florida

FastIron and TurboIron equipment training

Aug 2001 CISCO SYSTEMS, Petaluma, California

ONS 15454 Multiservice platform training

Feb 1999 MARCONI NETWORKS, Service Pointe, Orlando, Florida

Network core and edge products training.

April 1999 SOCIETY OF CABLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERS

Broadband Communications Technician

Data Networking and Architecture completed

Nov 1997 RACAL-DATACOM, Sunrise, Florida

Premnet 5000 training and certification.

Aug 1995 NATIONAL CABLE TELEVISION INSTITUTE

Service Technician and Installer Technician certification.

April 1993 BELLSOUTH TECHNICAL TRAINING CENTER, Sunrise, Florida

Safe Pole Climbing School

Basic Telephone Installation School

Digital Loop Carriers School

May 1990 INSTRUMENT SOCIETY OF AMERICA, Raleigh, North Carolina

Basic Process Control School

Oct 1978 to NAVAL AIR TECHNICAL TRAINING CENTER, Millington, Tenn.

May 1980 Aviation Fundamentals Course

Basic Electricity and Electronics Course

Avionics Technician Class A Course

Avionics Weapons Systems A-4M / AV-8B

Nuclear Weapons Loading Course

July 1978 VILLA CAROLINA V HIGH SCHOOL, Villa Carolina, Puerto Rico

Bilingual Education Course Graduate

Attributes:

Proven organizational skills demonstrated in the successful management of large projects in time and under budget such as the installation and implementation of City of Hollywood Institutional Network (29 site Cisco-based Gigabit Ethernet) and Miami-Dade Community Colleges Network (9 site Marconi-based OC-12 ATM).

Life-long technical background in the installation, configuration and maintenance of a wide variety of electronic, telecommunications and process control equipment. Skilled in the use of OTDR’s, fusion splicers, light sources, light meters, system analyzers, fiber identifiers, TDR’s, volt/ohm meter’s and many other types of test and repair equipment.

Long experience in the use of personal computers and software such as Mapinfo and Microsoft Office Suite of programs (Visio, Excel, Word and PowerPoint) for presentations, project management, material control, cost tracking, report writing and diagram generation

Read write and speak Spanish fluently.

References:

Available on request.

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