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Top Skills

Wireless

Telecommunications

LTE

Languages

English

Certifications

LTE Fiber Testing Methods and

Procedures

RF Connector and Weatherproofing

Guidelines

FiOS Installation & Activation

Video Media Server

Comptia A+Certification

Chris Irish

T-Mobile Construction Manager at NB&C

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

Summary

Primary objectives: Build trust, Be a leader, Deliver real solutions, Exceed expectations, Take ownership and Demonstrate accountability

Consistently can hit the ground running,minimum OJT training and ramp up time required. Can-do attitude, problem solver and solution finder.

MVP Status in multiple projects and field operations roles! I set the bar a little higher than the competition with a "swing for the fences" perspective in performance, delivering results, and doing it right the first time around. Why settle for good when you can have excellent? 20 years of excellence in wireless, cell site construction & development, fiber optic & OSP, network engineering, field operations management, CWA supervision and instructional design. Proven and endorsed hands-on telecommunications Director of Field Operations, Field Operations Manager, Sr. Field Construction Manager, FIeld Engineer, Supervisor, and Systems Deployment professional with sustained record of upward mobility. Experienced in an autonomous work environment with excellent ability to face changes and new situations, rigorous and organized. Extensive experience in cell site and central office EF&I, WAN, PSTN to NGN convergence, SONET, Wireless, Wireless Location Systems, Lightguide, Outside Plant, Cell Site Build Out, Network Deployment, Zoning, backhaul, site acquisition, antennas, drive test data, Systems deployment and commissioning.

Specialties: Determine Scope of Work for Raw Land and Collocate New Site Builds, LTE installs, OSP & ETTCS Surveys, UMTS 2nd,3rd, 4th carrier adds, generator adds

*Nokia AirScale BBU Installation and Commissioning

*Cell Site & C/O EF&I

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*Fiber & Cable Route Design

*GR-1275 surveys

*Site Acceptance Testing

*E911 Deployments

*Central Office Quality Audits & Surveys

*Cell Site Systems Integration

*WiMAX & WiFi survey & installation

*Ericsson RBS 3106, 3206 3418, 3518, 6601, RRU22 0840 & 1940, Andrew and Kathrein & Andrew RET controllers

Experience

NB&C

T-Mobile CM

May 2019 - February 2020 (10 months)

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

CM for T-Mobile NSD, Site colocation, & Ericsson upgrades covering central and western Virginia.

Artech Information Systems

Sprint RSD COM - Close Out Manager

December 2018 - May 2019 (6 months)

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

Sprint COM responsible for reviewing & approving close out packages submitted by Sprint's subcontractors. Ensure quality control measures are followed an completed per Sprint's design standards. Create tickets indicating the SOW of work and relevant technology to be performed/installed at each site.

WAVSYS

Nokia AirScale 5G ROM, Sprint/Shentel Central & Southern Virginia February 2018 - October 2018 (9 months)

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

Management of daily field operations, scheduling site visits between Sprint/ Shentel and suppliers. Track troubleshooting requirements and schedule follow up site visits. Managing Close Out Package process with timely remedy of punch list items.

Vanguard Towers

Director Site Development - Mid Atlantic Regional Manager Page 2 of 9

January 2016 - May 2017 (1 year 5 months)

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

http://www.vanguardtowers.com/who-we-are/

Site acquisition and development, construction scoping, sales and project management in VA, WV, TN, NC. Marketing Vanguard's proposed development sites in the mid-Atlantic region to all major national wireless carriers and regional carriers.

TekCom Resources, Inc

LTE Construction Engineer

August 2015 - January 2016 (6 months)

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

Oversee and pre-scope construction project phase of site development and relevant civil construction functions. Scope and provide installation design for greenfield and co-locate new site builds. Confirm and determine ALU

(Alcatel-Lucent) cabinet and RRH placements. Perform QC/QA Inspections, Final Punch and site acceptance walks Work with Vendors in Coordinating BOM's, NTP's, Equipment/materials shipments and shortfalls, operational troubleshooting.

Ansell Group

Verizon FiOS GPON Instructional Designer

March 2015 - August 2015 (6 months)

Leesburg, VA

Provide instructional design on FiOS OSP aerial installation, grounding standards, fiber distribution hub, feeder and terminal assignments, twisted pair cable, coax, power limited tray cable, stranded cable, solid conductor low voltage cable, single mode fiber optical cable Responsible for supporting and implementing training, curriculum development/course content, instructional design and working with corporate training personnel on the delivery of technical (instructor-led) FiOS training materials. Modify and make recommendations on training courses, lessons, modules and supporting materials. Training goals targeted towards enabling Verizon management assigned to technical field operations the capability to install, activate and troubleshoot fiber optic, Wi-Fi and LAN connectivity via FiOS to the Verizon network. Augment existing training with support that is consistent with operational goals and learning objectives. Support revisions/updates/ reformatting of the training curricula, ensuring that all training materials Page 3 of 9

are accurate, instructional sound and up-to-date. Excellent class ratings, outstanding student reviews & proven contributor.

Alta Telecom

Network Maintenance Analyst

January 2015 - February 2015 (2 months)

Manchester, New Hampshire

Performance monitoring of SDH and SONET alarms from NOC/RCC (repair control center). Isolate and resolve SA and NSA network alarms. Identify & dispatch on interoffice facilities & SLC96's according to NE and FE carrier system faults. Provide field engineers with DSX1, DSX3 cross connects and relay racks information with port assignments. Utilized CLR and DLR (Circuit and Design Layout Reports) for mapping facilities in Titan 5500 DCCS, ALU DDM100 & SMX1603 Optical Router, Fujitsu 150, 600, 2400, 4100 & 4500, ALU Lite-Span & NEC 1840 mux. Support outside plant and/or central office for network maintenance, repair and augmentation. Provide technical and analytical support to switch, DACS, SONET and OSP as required using various network tools Remedy, TIRKS, Netcool, TEMS, REACT, Lotus Notes, Metasvolv, etc

DYNIS

Senior Field Construction Manager AT&T Virginia, NSB, Carrier Adds, AAV/ETTCS, LTE Deployment

February 2010 - January 2015 (5 years)

Senior Field Construction manager overseeing new site builds, UMTS carrier adds and LTE deployments. Dynis 2012-2015, SAI, 2011-2012, TekSystems, 2010-2011. Oversee and prescope construction project phase of site development and relevant civil construction functions. Scope and provide route design for ETTCS (OSP/fiber -Ethernet to the cell site) with both ILEC and AAV. Coordinate and manage Vendors Performing QC/QA Inspections, Final Punch and site acceptance walks Work with Vendors in Coordinating BOM's, NTP's, Equipment/materials shipments and shortfalls, operational troubleshooting. Coordinate and manage turf vendors and sub- contractors activities for 1st carrier adds (new site builds), UMTS pre-launch and post-launch optimization for 2nd and 3rd carrier adds. Conduct PIM testing at new and existing sites. Perform site QC/QA inspections for work safety violations, final punch and site acceptance walks, provide direction to vendors in coordinating BOM’s, NTP’s, equipment/materials shipments and shortfalls, and operational troubleshooting. Perform site specific evaluation of general contractor work product and coordination of mobilization efforts. Page 4 of 9

Manage general contractor job quality, safety standards, and punch lists. Document current RF plumbing arrangements against proposed configuration post-2nd and 3rd carrier adds. Technologies: Ericsson RBS 2106, 2206, 3106, 3206, Ericsson DNB models 3418, 3518, (RRU22 0840 & 1940), Andrew and Kathrein RET controllers, ET-MC1 cards and scripts. Peachtree Telecommunications Int'l, LLC

Project Manager

December 2009 - February 2010 (3 months)

Project: Rural and remote community broadband build out. GSA grant application review project for last mile and middle mile infrastructure projects. Evaluate wireless and fiber optic network build-out proposals from ILEC and CLEC entities in un-served and underserved rural areas. Insure that deployments are within the guidelines for federally funded BIP (Broadband Initiative Program) and BTOP (Broadband Technology Opportunity Program) grants. Make process review recommendations, confirm service areas and assess types of service based on topography, existing broadband services, anchor institutions and other government collaborations. Independent Telecommunications Contractor

E & I Engineer

November 2008 - February 2010 (1 year 4 months)

Newnan, GA

Conduct site pre-installation, AMSL and tower sector coordinate surveys, perform equipment installation and programming, site commissioning, low voltage cabling projects and advanced troubleshooting of LMU signal collection devices to test, repair, and qualify systems at remote customer sites. Integrate TruePosition E911 location equipment in Purcell cabinets, enclosures, rooftops, CEV’s and co-located sites with Nokia, Ericsson, and Siemens RBS. All inclusive site preparation survey and installation for Ericsson distributed Node B’s (RRU). Install and Q/A Apollo cabinets, GPS and downlink receivers, Ericsson ASU (antenna sharing unit), RF lines, surge arrestors, ground bars, conduit, DC power, and T1 or V.35 connectivity for E911 contributor sites. Schedule and manage preventative maintenance and unscheduled visits to equipment sites. Insure all instrumentation and equipment is in compliance with regulatory requirements and quality control standards

Axis Teknologies

Director of Field Operations East Coast

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October 2007 - November 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Greater Atlanta Area

Hands-on, boots-on-the-ground director of field operations with nationally certified WBENC vendor and preferred provider of telecom project management and field services. Well versed field professional with extensive experience in cell site and central office EF&I, site surveys, wireless location systems current on FCC phase 2 guidelines, and PSTN to NGN convergence. Strong hands-on resource for systems deployment, site commissioning, & installation for GSM, UMTS, CDMA BTS, & TDMA frame decommissioning. OFS

Customer Technical Support Engineer

December 2006 - November 2007 (1 year)

Carrolton, GA

Dedicated field technical support engineer to Verizon for fiber optic network products to specific customer markets and technical product support for trade shows. CONUS and OCONUS pre and post-sales technical support for customers through training programs for optical fiber cable installation methods,single-mode and multi-mode optical fiber splicing and testing, and for specific product applications such as FiOS, FTTx, SFR, MDU, Long Haul networks, MAN, enterprise, central office, transoceanic networks and specialty photonics. Splicing, OTDR testing, and installation support services as required. Research technical documentation for all loose tube cable products and fiber optic apparatus products, inside and outside plant fiber optic cable construction methods and practices.

Goodman Networks

Field Operations Manager GA & SC

November 2005 - December 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Greater Atlanta Area

Field Operations Manager for E911 systems installation, maintenance, and upgrades. Successfully launched 1xEV-DO integration for Nortel high speed edge Data Services in Georgia, South Carolina, and Northern Florida. Maintenance and deployment responsibility for team of field engineers for the state of Georgia and South Carolina.

Integration of WLS signal collection devices into DAS (distributed antenna systems) configuration as an alternative to traditional macrocell site EF&I. Deployment, installation and upgrade of existing wireless location systems for transition to 3G (UMTS) technologies. Site build-out responsibility; cabling, Page 6 of 9

installation, power, configuration and tracking of RF expansion sector add work orders.

Implement and verify all market cell site development to update E911 databases and routing requests.

Hurricane disaster recovery relief in gulf coast states for cell site restoration and migration from Andrews WLS to TruePosition location technologies. Tekmark Global Solutions, LLC

Vero Systems, Contractor:Sr. Network Integration Engineer August 2005 - November 2005 (4 months)

Senior Voice Engineer consultant for large scale translations/network engineering projects. Projects involve working with telco voice switch routing

(translations) and voice network / traffic / capacity engineering organizations to develop strategies to reduce cost of service associated with voice network Switched Access Costs. Deliverables include the development and integration of new methods for routing voice calls and re-engineering large TDM and VoIP networks

TruePosition

Senior Field Deployment Supervisor

December 2004 - November 2005 (1 year)

Southeastern US

Consultant role to provide oversight, coordination, and quality analysis of wireless location system installation crews. Designated as SME for F.O.K (first of kind) installations for non-traditional GSM and TDMA site locations. Establish SOP’s for site surveys, equipment installation, equipment configuration, testing equipment and systems, troubleshooting and repair equipment and technical support. Documented and developed third party test results veracity, site conditions and installation system inventory per FCC Phase 2 mandate for E911 cellular network access to PSAP’s (Public Service Answering Points). Travel to and perform site build outs and site acceptance testing for GSM, TDMA, UMTS and co-located sites.

Volt Technical Resources

Contractor:Alcatel Lucent Network Field Operations Engineer September 2004 - December 2004 (4 months)

Consultant responsible for system maintenance and upgrades, facilities migration and equipment installation for 5ESS switch. Prioritize and assume ownership of surveillance & monitoring responsibilities to meet network operations and performance uptime standards. Conducted fault tolerance Page 7 of 9

testing using network optimization tools/systems for fiber optic cable facilities, isolation, restoration and testing of lightguide. Physical restoration via Alcatel jump kit for optical 12 and 24 mode single mode fiber after locating via RMS and OTDR. Utilized a variety of test gear to diagnose various optical/electrical network configurations. Responsible for installation activities including reading and interpretation of job specifications and drawings. AT&T Packet & Optical Network Services

Service Reliability Manager, Supervisor, Trainer, & PSTN/WAN/VPN Engineer

March 1999 - September 2004 (5 years 7 months)

Conyers, GA

Extensive coordination of telecom facilities escalations between AT&T and ILEC, CLEC, Tandem, End Office, OSWF, and CPE Vendor personnel. Research and analyze telecommunications activities such as, but not limited to, network design, implementation, restoration and remote test access using Acterna testing tools to sniff network for Direct Dial, toll free voice/data services domestically and internationally

Establish, create, and coordinate training curriculum for the voice services. Provide direct supervision of occupational personnel and provide tier 2 technical support for voice service customers

Fully qualified in Voice Maintenance analysis, isolation and repair of AT&T Voice Network Services such as: SDN, MEGACOM, Toll-Free, AT&T Digital Link-Local as well as Facility, Network, and customer specific translations and applications. Extensive experience with LEC, CLEC, and IXC carrier tandem homing and C/O translations

AT&T

AT&T Training History

March 1999 - September 2004 (5 years 7 months)

Greater Atlanta Area

AT&T Professional Training Profile

Pitney Bowes

Pitney Bowes Field Service Technician

April 1991 - March 1999 (8 years)

Greater Atlanta Area

Implemented and tested machine layout, mechanical systems preventative maintenance programs, automatic equipment installation requirements, material flow components, and equivalent project management experience. Delivered on-site training, system assembly, installation, test and turn up of Page 8 of 9

systems. Indepth electronic experience at both system and component level and understanding of mechanical systems design and repairability. Suggested and formatted specifically per customer application the comprehensive recommendations to customer base utilizing best-in-class technologies, user volume statistics, and conducting site surveys to determine professional layouts of equipment placements with considerations for overall work flow. Review, verify, and perform acceptance testing to confirm customer documentation and

interview customer to determine scope of work and schedule expectations

(review schedule for installation or inserter module revisions and site surveys). Education

Central Virginia Community College

Certification, Project Management · (2018 - 2018)

Jones NCTI Centennial Colorado

Certifications, Broadband Engineering · (2003 - 2005) Clayton State University

unfinished, Computer Science · (1994 - 1995)

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