Engineer Project Manager

Summary of Qualifications

Field Service Engineer/Tech Training Instructor/Electronics Technician/

Project Manager

Knowledgeable electronics technology and engineering level professional,

with extensive experience as a field engineer, technical training

specialist and industry consultant in communications and telecom

technology. Microwave link designer (certified microwave engineer).

Computer skills include all Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word,

Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio & Access database, Exceed) and

experienced staff technical writer for project, product and system

documentation. Competent TL language user and well experienced with all

RF (military fixed-site & tactical HF, VHF, UHF), telecom test equipment,

electronic measurement and electronic component level troubleshooting.

Experienced in data communications with many years as corporate instructor,

providing technical training to a US and international customer base on

advanced electronic communication products for military and industry.

Protocol(s) and technology knowledgeable; to include RFC-2544 (GigE), TDM,

ATM, Frame Relay, SS-7, TCP/IP, X.25, SONET, VOIP and routing (OSI Model).

Telecom Contractor/Field Engineer (Short term contract employment) 1998-

2010

* Transmission Service Engineer/contractor, Complete Telecom, Inc.,

Amarillo, TX (3/2009-current). Perform Fujitsu and Ciena equipment

turn-up, commissioning and test acceptance of transport nodes and

customer networks (DWDM/SONET/GigEthernet-RFC2544).

* Microwave Tester for Prestiege Comforce Professional Services, Plano,

TX. An Alcatel-Lucent preferred vender. Perform site surveys for

Verizon Wireless microwave backhaul and build outs throughout Texas

and Louisiana. (Contract completion: 1/15/2007 - 2/29/2008)

* Ciena vendor on behalf of RJE Telecommunications of Tampa, F L Perform

test and turn-up of Ciena DWDM/CWDM Ethernet projects in NYC (short

term contract 2006).

* Field Engineer on behalf of Avion Systems of Roswell, GA, as contract

technical support engineer & team lead for Motorola Professional

Services providing TelLabs DACS configuration, SONET network test &

turn-up of customers core network, IXC & LEC; for their client,

Comcast Digital Voice (VOIP) in the northeast. (2005).

* On behalf of ADEX of Tampa, FL, I provided test & turn-up for

Verizon's FTTP/VOIP Juniper ERX-1440- Edge Routers, as subcontractor

and generated procedural documentation for usage by their nationwide

offices (2004).

* On behalf of Axisteknology, of Atlanta, GA. Network provisioning

consultant (TelLabs Titan 5500) for Cingular Wireless, provided GSM-

EDGE commissioning and DACs configuration. (2004)

* On behalf of Global Installers Network of Toronto, Canada & Selectek

of Alpharetta, GA, Performed test/turn-up for Ciena DWDM/long haul

(Ciena Core Stream & Core Director) for their client QWEST. Equipment

and network efforts comprised of optical transport & switching,

channel adds, network insertion/migration and chromatic-dispersion

testing (2000-2003).

* TelLabs-Titan 5500 - Customer Support Engineer - Subcontractor for

TelLabs Corporation of Lisle, IL, on behalf of Butler Telecom, Int. of

Schaumburg, IL. Provided new system test & turn-up, upgrades on

TelLabs -Titan 5500 nationwide customer base and customer

transport/network optimization. (1998-99)

Contractor/Field Engineer 1995-98

Subcontractor with Telcom Resources of Bastrop, TX. MSC DACs engineer for

PRIMCO-PCS, of San Antonio, TX. Provided optical/transport turn-up and

network optimization on Nortel, Alcatel, & Motorola, equipment and

California Microwave. Also, Independent contractor providing technical

services during this period (as electronics technician) for Scientific

Measurement Systems, of Austin, TX (Industrial X-ray and computer

tomography systems).

(DIRECT EMPLOYMENT)

Field Service 1991-94

SOLA Communications, Inc. of Belle Chasse, LA. Provided SCADA/Telemetry

and microwave communications service, for the offshore petroleum industry

and also, independent contractor (sole proprietor), to PETROCOM Cellular of

New Orleans, LA. Microwave engineer and experienced with topography,

network design maps and utilization of CAD designs.

Principal Engineering Instructor 1988-91

Litton-Data Systems of Van Nuys, CA (now Grumman Aircraft, Agoura Hills,

CA). Technical writer and Instructor for depot level maintenance on

computer mainframe and peripherals for NATO personnel, at Naval Weapons

Station, NATO-ACLANT/CLD, Yorktown, VA.

Senior Engineering Instructor 1986-88

Litton - Data Command Systems of Agoura Hills, CA now Grumman

Aircraft. - Command Control & Communication systems. Technical training

instructor (RF & Electronics) for Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces; Command,

Control & Communications (C3) system and the French "Sahine" surface-to-air

missile system & C3 system components (Fixed-site & tactical HF/VHF/UHF &

microwave RF systems).

Electronics Technician 1983-85

Electrocom, Inc.. New Orleans, LA. Provided electronics technician

service(s) on RF communication products (VHF/UHF & 800MHz/Trunking, etc.).

Instructor/Field Engineer 1975-83

Harris Corporation - RF Communications Division (Rochester, NY). Field

engineer and technical training instructor. Provided support for the

company RF product line (HF-AM-SSB, VHF, UHF, microwave, tactical & fixed

site systems), with US Armed Forces, government and international military

and government customer base and completed very successful three year Tech

Rep support to USMC, MCAGCC, Communications & Electronics Battalion, 29

Palms, CA and US Army 5th Signal Command in West Germany.

Field Engineer 1972-74

Texas Instruments (Services Division, Richardson, Texas) Provided RF

navigation and geophysical technical support, throughout West Africa, for

the petroleum exploration industry.

Education & Training

Alcee Fortier Sr. High School, New Orleans, LA Grad 1969

Gulf Technical Institute, New Orleans, LA Two year technical training

institute, with curriculum in Electronics and Communications technology

Associate Degree. Certified Electronics Technician & FCC General

Radiotelephone (1st Class license).

Grad-1972

Broadcasting Institute of America, New Orleans, LA.

Broadcast communication skills development and continuity writing.

Grad-1970

Federal Communications Commission (First Class) General License PG-8-7322

1975

Harris Corporation, Farinon Microwave Systems

Certification

1982

NATO & USMC Letters of appreciation (1982-1987)

National Association of Business and Educational Radio Certification

1984

Litton Data Comand System & Litton Data Systems (C3)

Command/Control/Communications Certification & Litton Data Systems

"Techniques of Training" Certification

1986-1988

TelLabs - Titian 5500 Certification(s)

"Architecture, TL1, Acceptance testing, CO Procedures & On-site Etiquette "

1998

Ciena Corporation (DWDM) Corestream, Coredirector, 2600

2001-2007

Alcate- MDR-8000 & MDX-9500 Digital Microwave Radio Certifications

2007

Fujitsu Flashwave 7500, 7420 & 7120, Optical Platform Certifications (DWDM)

March 2009

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