Telemetry Technician Telephone Operator

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James Romeo

**** ** **** ***** **** Coral, FL 33909

360-***-**** • *********@*****.***

CAREER SUMMARY

My career has spanned many years giving top companies my experience as a technician and a leader. You will be more than satisfied with me as an employee. WORK EXPERIENCE

RGNext Ascension Island

Field Engineer Apr 2018 – May 2019

· Working as telemetry technician on Ascension Island, with an active Secret clearance. Specializing on digital recorders on site, as opposed to analog tape recorders as in Thailand during 1970. Retired 2008 thru 2018

Truck Driver

Drove semi-tractor trailers for various companies from 2001 until 2008. Vertex RSI Senegal, W.Africa

Independent Contractor – 60 hrs../wk Dec 1999 - Mar 2000

· Installed and tested TV and FM transmitters

· Customer acceptance of site installations of A/C units, generators, regulators, receivers, uplinks, and associated equipment.

Comsat RSI – 40hrs./wk Ivory Coast, Africa

Staff Engineer – 40hrs../wk Sept 1996 - Oct 1997

· Manager for Comsat on Ivorian Television contract managing 29 remote sites.

· Set schedules for site PMs, maintenance, finances, vehicle maintenance.

· Designed and installed cooling systems for TV transmitters because of hot climate.

· Repaired transmitter equipment and satellite truck, and damaged cables.

· Training of Ivorian technicians on satellite truck operation and maintenance.

· Kept concise records of operations for home office.

· Performed equipment acceptance testing for one troublesome site. Comsat/Ascent/Harris Pacific Northwest

Senior Field Engineer – 50hrs./wk Mar 1984 - Sept 1996

· Regional manager on NBC program maintaining 10 affiliate TV stations.

· Set scheduling for PMs, equipment maintenance, vehicle maintenance, repairs.

· Performed installations and acceptance of VSAT terminals and FAA antennas.

· Occasionally assigned to fill in another region in California when FE was fired.

· While in New York, obtained FCC Radio/telephone Operator License. Florida Data Corp. Melbourne, FL

Senior Technician – 40hrs./wk 1981 – 1983

· Performed efficient testing and repair of high-speed dot matrix printers.

· Improved assembly procedures by my suggestions to engineering. Page 2 of 2

Page Technical Services Inc. - 48hrs./wk Vienna, VA Senior Field Engineer - 1980 – 1981

· Received training to install new satellite terminals at US Embassies in South America.

· Traveled to Saudi Arabia to repair radio transmitters and power supplies.

· A Top Secret clearance gave access to the program at State Department. Harris Corporation Melbourne, FL

Senior Technician – 60 hrs./wk 1967 – 1980

· Joined a team in Thailand to operate and maintain a Top Secret operation that tracked recorded aircraft activity over Laos.

· Became crew chief and directed repairs and maintenance schedules of equipment and updates of tape recorders, receivers, antennas and decoms.

· Had the top crew at the facility.

· Upon returning to the US, joined a team that manufactured military spec cables and equipment, and t traveled to Turkey to install them at a Top Secret Army facility.

· Returned to Thailand to train a new company crew on the same program mentioned above, Paved Eagle.

· Returned to the US to manufacture transformers for the USAF, satellite antennas for NASA and antenna drive systems for the US government.

· Assigned to NASA tracking ship USNS Vanguard for program called Skylab. US Air Force Eglin AFB, FL

E-4 Sep 1963 – Sep 1967

· Trained in electronics and became a ground radar technician

· Obtained a Top Secret clearance

EDUCATION

· Harris 5 KW FM transmitter school 1997 Quincy, IL

· NBC System training course 1984 Palm Bay, FL

· Nigeria Satellite System School 1978 Palm Bay, FL

· NASA Soldering School 1974 Palm Bay, FL

· NASA Decom School 1972 Goddard Space Center, MD

· PCM Telemetry Course 1967 Palm Bay, FL

· GED High School 1965 Ft. Bragg, NC

Education:

Charter College Vancouver, WA

· Certificate in Welding June 2016

· Currently enrolled in a 10-month welding program that provides hands-on cutting, welding, lay-out, and fitting skills that are presently used and practiced in the industry. Topics include welding processes, oxy- fuel welding and cutting, shielded metal arc (SMAW), gas metal arc (GMAW), and gas tungsten arc

(GTAW).

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