ERIC DORRIS

SKILLS

Operation of heavy Machinery,

Pole & Ladder climbing, NECS

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Safety codes, Aerial boom

operation, Forklift certification,

Fiber

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Optic & Coax cable placement,

testing, troubleshooting, and

repair,

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RF Line-extender & Amplifier

set-up, troubleshooting, AFL,

Fluke,

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EXFO OTDR & Power Meters,

Fujikura 90R, 70

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• R & 60R fusion

Splicers, OptiNT, Hipro,

BST-AutoCAD, OSPCM, JMS

(OPEDS), AOTX,

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AOTS, DPRO, PLANET,

CEEOT, CPC Tool, SHOTS,

MMT, PM Tool,

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CEWIT, EFACTS, MIC, LFACS,

ARAMIS-DT, FEI, GRANITE,

PLANET,

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And OCALC. DSL, ADSL,

VDSL, & VDSL2 design. Ciena

Gateway

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Set-up, ONT placement, and

set-up. Switching & Router

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Over 25 years in the Telecommunication Industry, including 11years as a Specialist -Outside Plant Facility Design, 6 years as a Network Manager over Network Construction, 8 years as an Outside Plant Technician, & 4 Years in Project

Management. Supervised, designed, implemented, and/or installed every aspect of Telecommunication Construction & CATV Construction and Maintenance (Fiber, Copper and Coax, design, Placement, Splicing, testing, troubleshooting, & repair.) Very enthusiastic and eager to contribute to any team's success through, hard work, attention to detail, and excellent organizational skills, and have a clear

understanding of the job and am excited about the possibility to learn, grow and excel in the position.

WORK HISTORY

April 2021 to June 2022

Network Manager At&t, Jacksonville, FL

Scheduled and Supervised 22 Technicians over day-to-day Construction involving placing, splicing rearrangement, and removal of outside plant facilities including placement, and splicing of Fiber Optic Cable in all environments

(aerial, buried, underground manhole, hand-hole runs, and building entrance placement). Read and analyzed plats and prints to assure workability of designs.

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Training and coaching technicians in achieving

performance, quality, and safety objectives.

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Provided daily project management to ensure service goals are maintained and met.

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Ensured engineering design was both cost-effective and most efficient route had been chosen.

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Performed safety and quality observations, along with completed work inspections monthly.

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Maintained material required to complete projects (I.E. fiber

& copper cable, tools, placing trucks, and maintenance).

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Oversaw daily troubleshooting/testing of network issues, such as damaged fiber, broken or bad fiber welds,

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CONTACT

Fernandina Beach, FL. 32034

615-***-****

ad3muo@r.postjobfree.com

set-up, IP

Address, Inter-VLAN,

Edge-Routing, GPON

implementation, Basic

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OSI Models, Network Layers,

IP Routing, Knowledge of AV

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Systems, IPTV streaming, SDI

cabling, and connection, Live

stream, and file-based encoding

for streaming.

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• Reading Comprehension

• Wide Area Network (WAN)

• Network Infrastructure Support

• Infrastructure Planning

• Testing and Quality Assurance

INTERESTS

I love reading various topics,

but mainly Theology and

Philosophy.

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I can say that there is nothing

better than sitting on the beach

with a good book of any kind.

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I would love to learn to surf,

but Skimboarding almost broke

me in half.

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I have always loved any type of

Sports, especially football and

baseball.

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I am also using the Babbel app

to learn Spanish.

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September 2019 to April 2021

Resident Project Engineer Dekalb Telephone Cooperative, DTC, Alexandria, TN.

January 2015 to March 2021

Voluntary Assistant to the Technical Director Journey Church, Lebanon, TN

mechanical fiber lock deterioration, Bad jumpers, Fanouts, PON splitters, connectors, etc.

Meet Estimated Due Dates for prioritized service, Without missing a single Due date due under my supervision.

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Exceeded company metrics for Productivity and Utilization, along with meeting or exceeding our Capital vs Expense budget guidelines of 80%/ capital, 20%.expense. Based upon numbers alone my crew was second in our district:

however, our district was best in state.

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Biggest accomplishment, on arrival there were members of same crew that hadn't spoken to each other in over a year or more for various reasons. When I left, each member of crew was looking out for each other. Not only helping each other on the job but in each other's lives. I realize that isn't a technical or business-related accomplishment, but it means more to me than any other thing I did while I was there.

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Oversaw fiber overbuild and maintain compliance with company standards as well as OSHA and NESC safety

codes

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Reviewed and corrected preliminary design of fiber layout and determined Primary Flexibility Points (GPON

splitters.)

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Initiated new method of contractor tracking across several projects. Which decreased timeframe by 30%

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Approved final designs in Autocad & distributed it to Contractors for placement

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Meet with Clients/ Business Customers to consult, design, and set up basic LANs for small businesses, Configured switches, and routers, or switches with router capabilities

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• Performed quality inspections to verify placing methods

• Coordinate and plan fiber placement and splicing.

• Set up and maintained AV Systems for Worship Center. Performed design, rigging, wiring, and networking of new AV systems in new building.

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Set up live and file-based IPTV streaming between main church and branch locations.

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January 2017 to September 2019

Network Manager AT&T, Murfreesboro,, Tennessee, TN. January 2009 to January 2017

Set up IPTV streaming each week at a remote location, run SDI and HDMI cables and AV wiring, and Controlled Video mixing and switching during Live service while

maintaining video stream.

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• Set up projection and run Video content in services.

• Used EzeCaster to encode video for streaming.

Collaborated with company leaders to support consistency and best practices.

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Oversaw training and onboarding process for all newly hired employees.

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Created new methodologies to improve planning process and results.

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Checked and controlled inventory levels to identify risks and opportunities.

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Scheduled and Supervised day-to-day Construction

involving placing, splicing rearrangement, and removal of outside plant facilities including placement, and splicing of Fiber Optic Cable in all environments (aerial, buried, underground manhole, hand-hole runs, and building

entrance placement). Read and analyzed plats and prints to assure workability of designs.

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Training and coaching technicians in achieving

performance, quality, and safety objectives.

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Provided daily project management to ensure service goals are maintained and met.

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Overall build plan was completed 4 months before

anticipated date.

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Covered expectations and performance results in daily tailgate meetings.

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Prioritized and scheduled projects to have them completed in required time frame.

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Ensured engineering design was both cost-effective, and most efficient route had been chosen.

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Performed safety and quality observations, along with completed work inspections monthly.

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Maintained material required to complete projects (I.E. fiber

& copper cable, tools, placing trucks, and maintenance).

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Monitored activities for adherence to vital milestones and due dates.

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Network Engineer At&t, Gallatin, TN

January 2006 to January 2009

Network Manager Bowling Green, Kentucky

Managed, tracked, and coordinated problem resolution and escalation processes.

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Troubleshoot complex multi-vendor network service

provider issues.

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Provided network support services for devices such as hubs, bridges, routers, and other hardware.

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Provided complete end-to-end engineering and installation of route-based IP network solutions.

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Configured, managed and troubleshot VoIP and

multi-media distributed systems and platforms.

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Monitored network capacity and performance to diagnose and resolve complex network problems.

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Recommended options for disaster recovery, remote access, network appliances, servers, and directory services security.

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Provided detailed network diagrams, process flow charts, and procedural guidelines.

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Planning, design, and analysis of outside plant

facilities/network. Detailed design for all feeder facility relief including C.O., transfers, major undertakings, and/or routine activities after closely coordinating with planning group.

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Designed all aspects of fiber optic overbuild in Lebanon, TN., including fiber optic placement design and placement of corresponding equipment.

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• Extensive experience in designing GPON facilities. Ensure legality of all efforts by acquiring interstate crossing permits, railroad crossing permits, pole attachment permits, strand map information, system designs, and purchase easement authorizations.

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Scheduled and supervised day-to-day Construction

involving placing, splicing, rearrangement, and removal of outside plant facilities including placement, and splicing of Fiber Optic Cable in all environments (Aerial, buried, underground manhole and hand-hole runs, and building entrance placement.) Read and analyzed Plats and Prints to assure workability of designs

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Training and coaching Technicians in achieving

performance, quality, and safety objectives

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• Provided daily project management to ensure service goals September 1998 to January 2006

Outside Plant Technician At&t, Gallatin, Tennessee January 1997 to January 1998

Project Manager Charter Communications, Murray,

Kentucky

are maintained and were met

Covered expectations and performance results in daily tailgate meetings. Prioritized and scheduled projects to have them completed in required time frame

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Ensured engineering design was both cost-effective and that most efficient routes had been chosen

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Performed safety and Quality observations, along with Completed work inspections

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• Monthly

• Maintained material required to complete projects (I.E Fiber & Copper cable, tools, Placing trucks, and

Maintenance.

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Operate power equipment such as compressors, pumps, blowers, and hydraulic aerial lifts

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Performed construction work such as digging holes, placing poles, placing cable, air pipe, and inner duct in various types of conduit systems, and open excavations

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Unreels pulls, and strings wire strand and cable from pole to pole

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• Review work orders, plats, and company practices Placement of Fiber Optic Cable and Copper Cable in all environments.

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Provide high-profile leadership of operations while overseeing all cable TV construction activities, Placement of Fiber Optic overbuild, training, tasking, and scheduling 10 employees/technicians and working with outside

subcontractors

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Establish priorities on each project including new systems and rebuilding of existing systems along with overseeing conversion of existing systems to "Fiber to the Node" system

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Submit regular reports/updates to construction engineers, chief technicians, or other designated supervisors

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Ensure legality of all efforts by acquiring interstate crossing permits, railroad crossing permits, pole attachment permits, strand map information, system designs, and purchase authorizations

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January 1993 to January 1997

Service Technician Charter Communications, Clarksville, Tennessee

• Review weekly construction reports before submitting them Continue to serve in technician capacity inside and outside throughout year and continue to troubleshoot systems.

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Provide over five years of extensive cable TV service, installation, maintenance/repairs and upgrading of systems

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Duties have included maintaining cable plants and

designing and rebuilding plants on the spot

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• Repaired outages

Provided troubleshooting of systems utilizing special test equipment including RF meters, signal meters, sweep analyzers, time dimension reflectometers, and cumulative index leakage monitors

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Responsibilities have entailed carrying heavy loads and digging, stooping, standing to initiate

installation/construction

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Climbed ladders, poles, and towers in all weather

conditions to complete projects.

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EDUCATION

December 2020

Bachelor of Science Industrial Psychology, Psychology and Religion

Trevecca University,, Nashville, TN

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