ANTHONY COOPER
RESIDENCE: 301-***-**** E-mail: *******@***.***
SENIOR CAD DESIGNER OR TECHNICAL CONSULTANT
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Twenty three years of professional experience as a cad specialist,
manager and drafter. Management and technical achievement in
site civil design, power distribution system, catv designer,
telecommunication designer, facility detailer, mechanical designer,
technical writing and construction consultant. Offer a strong
knowledge of management planning, staffing and scheduling.
Progressive leader with strong team building skills, focused on
quality, productivity and results. Proven track record in civil, electrical
and telecommunication.
Veolia Water Gaithersburg, Md.
Civil Designer 2005 to 2009
Site civil design and drafting experience to create conceptual site design layouts for
subdivisions, commercials, government facilities using survey and other base material
data including aerial photo's and plat maps and legal descriptions. Responsible for the
preparation of civil engineering plans using traditional design tools.
• Civil site and roadway drafting responsibilities using Autocad Civil 3D software.
• Responsible for drawing setup, scaling, layer assignment, linetypes, line weights, text
sizes, dimensioning and proper inclusion of reference files, digital terrain models,
surface, topographic and aerial photograph mapping, plotting and other drawing
productive requirements.
• The design responsibilities preparation of basic geometric design and engineering
calculations such as typical section, roadway alignment, roadway and utility profile,
cross-section, grading, erosion storm drain plans, details and calculation of quantity
take-offs, such as length, areas and volume for various elements of the plan.
• Research easements and zoning data tracking permits, estimating design time for
construction bids.
Tourge & Associates Owings Mill, Md.
Telecom Designer 2005 to 2005
• Cellular sites and communications design, for new and existing facilities.
• Building/Shelter design and location consideration.
• Furnish property and Right of way information.
• Telco sites consist of roof top layouts and structural towers for various
Telecommunication company's Sprint PCS, Nextet and At&t and other cell site
carriers.
Getronics Chantily, Va.
Wireless RF Designer 2004 to 2005
• Design wireless network for 1700 Home Depot Stores., using Wireless Valley Lan
planner software.
• Provide technical support to managers and employees on RF criteria, also developed
solutions to resolve installation problems.
• Implement projects protocol and tracing procedure on completed designs and ready
for construction.
Northrop Grumman Elkridge, Md.
Telecom Designer Drafter 2002 to 2004
• Create new manufacturing drawings for catalog items and customers specific
applications.
• Design site and shelter installation plans for SatCom earth antennas. Design RF
microwave waveguide runs, for both fixed sites and mobile satellite earth stations in
addition responsible for drawing numbers and assignments for status of all drawings.
• Revise drawings with redline capture during the manufacturing process.
• Instrumental in creating illustrated assembly drawings for several catalog items using
an "exploded" 3D view on how the parts should be assembled.
• Create drawing books along with CD's containing PDF files of drawings for all their
on-going programs.
Bechtel Telecommunication Frederick, Md.
Telecom Designer Drafter 1999 to 2004
• Experience with outside plant (OSP) design, permitting and construction.
• Outside plant and switch facility detailed design, right of way permitting, network fiber
backbone design.
• Knowledge of telecommunication facilities design requirements related to switch co-
locate and transport equipment layouts. General knowledge of the design and
specification requirements for building equipment for hvac, power, fire protection
generators and grounding.
• Prepare standards and guideline catalogs for cellular communication sites.
Knowledge of industry and regulatory standard and design criteria pertinent to the the
telecommunication industry.
• Travel to various site locations in the U.S. to research access adequacy of buildings
and prepare preliminary designs for telecommunication facilities for estimating
purposes.
Comcast Cable Washington, D.C.
Construction Consultant Designer 1995 to 1997
Contributed to all new catv design for commercial and residential buildings. Work
closely with construction supervisor, operating manager, construction crews, local
utilities and public works. Maintain all system prints of revisions and design updates.
Implemented negotiations project management and coordination.
• Estimated labor, material construction and equipment cost. Evaluated system
performance on criteria design and state of the art technology
• Catv Design on all new commercial and residential buildings. Projects include: White
House. MCI Arena, Watergate Hotel, Russian Embassy, Union station and a host of
other prestigious complexes.
• Coordinate project of converting 1217 system prints from manual to autocad format.
Billing tracking and time estimate procedures. Quality consistency on all system
prints.
• Convert catv broadband to fiber optics transmission. "Swapping " electronics devices.
• Technical writing on construction projects and bids.
Baltimore Gas and Electric Baltimore, Md.
Cad Designer Drafter 1992 to 1994
Contribute to maintaining all system prints. Coordinate project to convert all prints from
manual to autocad format. As-built illustration and technical writing conducted from field
surveys. Configured file database program and create symbol library for system prints.
Trained and manage engineering technicians to become proficient cad operators.
• Create Autoliisp program that operates in conjunction with analysis system software
that provided load loss and voltage analysis.
• Revise and create operation manual for field technicians.
• Performed autocad drafting on overhead and underground power distribution prints,
panel layouts and engineering sketches.
Dowgiallo and Associates, Inc Millersville, Md.
Engineering Technician 1986 to 1989
Civil site drafting to create conceptual site design layouts and details for subdivisions
commercial, government facilities using survey and other base material data including
photogrammetric map, plat maps and legal descriptions. Responsible for preparation of
engineering plans using traditional design tools. Survey methods and procedures for
establishing or re-establish survey control. Keep accurate note, record and sketches to
describe and certify work performed.
• Survey earth surface to determine precise location and measurements of points
elevations, lines, and contours for construction, mapmaking, land divisions and
houses title information.
• Contribute to drawing setup, scaling, layer assignment, linetypes, line weights, text
sizes, dimensioning and proper inclusion of reference files, digital terrain models,
surface, topographic and aerial photograph mapping, plotting and other drawing
productive requirements.
Westinghouse Electric Pittsburgh, Pa.
Cad Drafter 1984 ot 1986
• Cad drafting for nuclear power plants, power distribution, motor control, control panel
layout and P&ID drawings.
• Performed drafting of industrial machine equipment, electrical schematics, and revise
electro-mechanical drawings of satellites and aircraft system.
• Maintain plotter, scanners and copier machines.
EDUCATION American Technical Institute Pittsburgh, Pa
Associates Degree in Applied Science Technology 1982-1984
TRAINING Proficient in Microsoft Word * Microsoft Office * AutoCad Land
Development*
Autocad Map Software * Adobe Acrobat * Visual Basic * Wireless
Valley Software