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Robert Speciale
Objective
To obtain a challenging and responsible position in which I may utilize my management and technical skills, solving the complex needs of business customers.
Experience
7/2002-present Allegiance/ X O Telecommunications, Inc. New York NY
New York Switch Technician/Field Technician
Installation testing and repairing voip and Ethernet circuits, routers switches and servers.
A Analyze, Trouble shoot and Resolve, LAN/WAN issues in a multi vendor Environment
Coordinate daily repair and installation efforts with field technicians.
10/99-5/2002 Adelphia Business Solutions New York NY
Project/Operations Manager
Project Manager for the construction of the NY City and Long Island offices. Coordinated projects from architectural drawings to completion.
Project Manager for the construction of NY City and White Plains equipment offices including Fiber Optic cable conduits and splicing.
Directed and coordinated the installation of transmission equipment in 17 telephone company offices, including all splicing for the inclusion of these offices to the Adelphia long haul network.
Assist Sales Managers for medium and large accounts with technical overview during sales presentations.
1997/1999 AT&T Local Service New York NY
Switch Control Center/Technical Consultant
As a Technical Consultant the primary responsibilities were to design and install the technical solutions necessary to meet the needs of complex customer applications. This (Pre-Sales) position included matching customer provided equipment (PBX, Auto attendant, Voice Mail) with existing AT&T products.
Customer liaison for the pre-sales and installation
Switch Control Center responsibilities included nation-wide surveillance on all local service switches (DMS250, Lucent 5ESS) responding to Centrex, ISDN DS1, SS7 link outages, and directing internal and external repair efforts.
1978-1984/1988-1997 Telephonics Corporation Farmingdale, NY
Telecommunications Manager
Responsible for all facets of telecommunications administration for 1700 employees.
Prepared departmental budgets, acquisitions/installation. Call accounting systems and the annual performance reviews of staff and vendors.
Supervised the design, installation and ongoing maintenance of a Multi-site Nortel SL-1, CLI Video teleconferencing system and (CAT5) LAN network.
Introduced and sold Video teleconferencing sessions to outside companies.
1984-1988 Fairchild Republic Co. Farmingdale, NY
Telecommunications Administrator
Supervised the design, installation and maintenance upgrades of a 3500 station Lucent System 85 in a 26 building campus environment.
Responsible for all user training, coordination of vendors, RFP’s, budgets and telecommunications project management.
Education
1973-1975 Nassau Community College
1968-1972 John F. Kennedy HS Plainview, NY
Interests
Member: U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
Chairman: St. Anthony’s of Padua Church Blood Drive