Fernando Suzara

**** ******** ***.

Morton Grove, ILLINOIS 60053

Mobile 630-***-****

aczeel@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: To secure a more challenging position that would enable me to use my prior work experience and expertise, while providing on-going growth opportunities for myself and the company.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Crown Castle – Schaumburg, IL and Boise, Idaho Aug. 2012- Dec. 1 2015

Construction Project Manager

Duties and Responsibilities:

Coordinating and ensuring the quality and integrity of construction to the needs of our Customers without compromising Safety.

Essential Job Functions

Make regular trips to sites during construction, including: bid walk, pre-con walk, in progress site visits, punchwalks and review construction closeout.

Understand prevailing rates for all tower and ground work and ensure Crown Castle is receiving competitive rates for quality work.

Ensure Project Manager is updated daily on the status of construction and aware of any issues that will impact project cost, quality or completion.

Ensure all work is completed in accordance with Crown Castle construction standards, processes, and procedures.

Inspect subcontractor work daily; ensuring it meets design criteria and quality standards. Ensure that all subcontracted work progresses according to schedule. Immediately notify Territory Management of any schedule, quality or budget impacting issues that cannot be resolved with subcontractor. Perform final inspection on completed work and have any deficiencies corrected, prior to subcontractor demobilizing from site.

Ensure accurate and complete files are maintained for projects and appropriate closeout documents are distributed in a timely manner in accordance with corporate and customer standards.

Ensure that all jobs are maintained in a project tracking system with complete accuracy.

Act as Crown Castle safety observer while at the site ensuring compliance with Crown Castle safety program.

OSHA 10 Compliant

Recent projects

Verizon and AT&T LTE, AWS installation and upgrades, Generator installs and New Builds and Microwaves

TMobile LTE Dark Night project.

SprintVision

Fibertower Corporation – Woodridge, Illinois 2006-2012

Field Operations

Duties & Responsibilities:

Installation and configuration of network equipment as well as isolating complex transport issues. Performs fault management on a wide variety of platforms in the FiberTower network including microwave, fiber optic, and telemetry systems. Providing advanced hands on market support to the Customer.

Installation, provisioning, troubleshooting, operation and maintenance of the following equipment:

BTI DWDM Netstender 2060 and 1020

Fujitsu Flashwave 4300 Add-Drop Multiplexer

Huawei 800/1600- Add-Drop Multiplexer

NEC NLite - DS3 18/23GHz Microwave Digital Radio

NEC NLite-E 155 – OC3 11/18/23 GHz Microwave Digital Radio/Ethernet

Adtran Opti-6100 Add-Drop Multiplexer

Adtran MX2800 M13 Multiplexer

RAD WebRangerII T1 Router

Garrettcom Ethernet Switch

Magnetek cabinet/rectifier with PSC500 Controller Module. AC/DC power systems, Alarm and control systems and Environmentals.

Charles MM2000 Mini-Multiplexer

Accedian EtherNID Ethernet

BTI- Fiber optics Patch panel and passive equipment.

Andrews and Dragonwave Microwaves

Nortel

Siemens/Nokia Networks

Lucent/Alcatel Networks

Knowledgeable in the operation of the following test equipment:

Acterna/JDM T1/DS3/OC3/OC12/OC48 Tester

Optical Power Meter

Variable Optical Attenuator

EXFO Optical Test System

Laser Source

Optical Spectrum Analyzer

OTDR

BER Test Set

PIM and Sweep testing

Projects Involved:

Verizon Phase 1 & Phase 2 4G LTE

Sprint/Nextel 4G

T-Mobile

US Cellular

Clearwire

Light Squared

Ameritech/SBC – Northfield/Evanston, Illinois 1998-2005

Cable Technician Specialist

Duties & Responsibilities:

Repaired, installed and maintained all areas of Copper wire line and Fiber Optic Cables.

Serviced and maintained existing plant.

Upgraded plant systems and equipment.

Run Twisted Pair including but not limited to coaxial cables HICAP / ISDNs / T1/T3 into cell sites wired to the equipment

Swapped tested troubleshot MUX cards and motherboards

Troubleshot telecommunications problems (OC198, OC48, OC12, T3, T1, DS0, ISDN).

Read blueprints and closely followed diagrams to comply with engineers' drafts.

Spliced, reconstructed and repaired existing cable on a 24X7 on call basis

Pole Climbing class 1 to class 5.

oCell-sites

oCom-ED joint structures

oTelephone poles

Worked closely with engineers and construction crews to meet project deadlines.

Experienced in plant facility locate with varieties of cable locating equipments.

Assisted with problem resolution, providing technical support to construction crews and engineers.

Functional knowledge of Avaya communications equipment.

CEV and remote equipment experienced.

Ability to learn various vendor supplied software programs to review telecommunications billings.

Trunk cable routing and re-routing.

Continental Cablevision/Media One – Morton Grove, Illinois 1995-1998

Field Service Technician

Duties & Responsibilities:

Residential and commercial installation and repair of CATV.

Troubleshot and installed and maintained main cable lines including pole-to-house drops, including, but not limited to sub-poles and rooftops.

Serviced and maintained plant and equipments.

oExperieced in RG56/RG59 and 500,550 600, 700 connectors

oTermination of coaxial cable and equipments such as TAPS and power supplies.

On-call 24 x 7 during outages due to weather and plant equipment failures.

Other Skills/Abilities

Strong computer skills - MS office and project management software knowledge

Advanced knowledge of construction management process.

Advanced knowledge of site acquisition procedures, including regulatory and permitting process.

Able to read and understand CAD and A&E drawings.

Excellent skills in troubleshooting and diagnosing work flow problems, critical paths and institute remedies.

Customer service orientation with a strong problem solving approach - strong interpersonal skills.

Thorough knowledge of telecommunications/wireless project management, asset management, tower maintenance, and property management.

Solid understanding of telecommunications industry standards, functions and platforms such as: Ethernet backhaul, Microwave, Multiplexer and Transport equipment, Industry Regulatory requirements, cellular hardware and connectivity.

OSHA 10 compliant.

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