JOHN ROCKIE COPPOLELLA

Fairborn, OH *****

Ready to travel onsite at his own expenses.

“If we get these foundational parts right, the rest is easy. If we get these wrong, the rest doesn’t matter.”

Matthew Warner – Why They Follow

Summary:

John was recovering from Heart Surgery in 2016-2021, explaining my recent employment gap, autism spectrum disorder high-level functioning, while he is looking for a chance as a disabled person with exceptional skills to move forward with a company looking for the same.

He wants to do meaningful work concurrent with my Ticket-to-Work program enrollment with the Social Security Administration.

Sixteen years of wiring harness design and manufacturing, electrical schematic, motors, transformers, and contactors, for the State of Georgia with 16 years of State of Georgia agencies combined.

Designed and maintained VMS interstate signage system utilizing messaging systems you see on highways today.

Creating trusted templates for preventing “fires” so we do not have to put them out.

Instilling sanity into previously predictable business models.

Exercise solid business-based decision-making skills, taking the appropriate risk to ensure the customer's business needs are met.

Has Independent thinking while adhering to standard technological/mechanical and business procedures.

Has 25 years, manufacturing panels for custom medical electronics, utilizing motors, fuses, contactors, and transformers for medical signal and power backup systems for critical care patients.

Availability to work both scheduled and unscheduled overtime.

Has onsite customer-facing experience.

Technical/mechanical hardware repair experience.

Ability to evaluate a technical situation while managing operational challenges quickly and accurately.

Highly skilled at prioritization, planning, and working independently, all within standard policies and business standards.

Participate in assigned work during non-traditional workdays, holidays, and shifts.

Demonstrated technical/mechanical aptitude for learning modern technology.

High School diploma or equivalent, plus additional hardware technology and BS in Electronics Technology and Communication

Education:

Electronics Technology and Communication – Chattahoochee Technical College, Marietta GA 1981-1985

Skills:

6 years as NOC supervisor for helpdesk with State government; restored WAN, desktop computer, router, modem, printer, and telecom circuits to operational status.

Proficient with MS Excel VBA, MS Teams, Windows, Microsoft 365, and Outlook.

PCB manufacturing, troubleshooting, configuration, and repair.

Electronics Technology bench repair tech experienced 8 years proficient with DVM, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Megger.

Professional Experience:

Emerson Climate Technologies Sidney, OH Jan 2022 – Jun 2022,

Power Electronics Engineering Technician

Life Test Lab and Design Services Network SME

VFD test and measurements.

Hi-Pot testing!

MS Excel database updates and configurations.

Wiring harness configuration, manufacturing, a Life test lab for VFD drives, EMI testing and installation, SMT PCB inspections, Reports, HSS/Halt/PCLT engineering support.

Electrical Schematic creation, reading, and documentation.

Experience with manufacturing, wiring, and troubleshooting control panels, VFD drives, transformers, fuses, motors, and contactors.

HVAC system troubleshooting and support in Emerson DSN Design Network Services lab in Sidney, Ohio, supporting Design Engineering Department for electrical vehicle refrigeration technology companies.

Sheet metal panel installation for PLCT chamber installation and harness wiring to cabinet and chambers for PCLT in Emerson’s Life Test laboratory and High Voltage and Testing lab.

6 months I was working with wiring harnesses, transformers, Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) power management for electric vehicles and refrigerated trucks for Navistar, contactors, motors, and reading electrical schematics.

Stanley Electric US London, OH Jun 2021 – Aug 2021

SMT Technician

PCB soldering experience operating multiple production lines of 7 SMT machines.

Configured and ran SMT line for smooth and efficient operation.

Installed, scanned, and spliced component reels into SMT pick and place feeders.

Continued production and safety, reduced scrap, and eliminated downtime.

Logged results of daily tasks and equipment status meeting departmental goals.

Manufactured Automotive lighting products for Honda America CRVs.

Experis IT/ IBM/Adm-Anthem Cincinnati, Oh May 2021 – Jun 2021

Tape Librarian

Classified, cataloged, and maintained tape library @ Anthem BCBS.

Assigned and scanned identification numbers following the standard system.

Prepared a catalog of tapes classified, using IBM computer and software.

Removed obsolete tapes from the library, following data retention requirements.

Prepared, delivered, and logged daily tapes via Iron Mountain.

2016-2021 Recovered from Heart Surgery.

Center for Medical Resources Monroe, GA Jan 1996 – Jul 2015

Personal Care Assistant

Designed and built a UPS system for medical power management and backup of respiratory equipment.

Designed and built a stand-alone patient personal alarm successfully utilizing off-the-shelf components.

Discovered, researched, and utilized a unique treatment for Myotonic Dystrophy type 2.

My care, compassion, discoveries, novel methods, and technologies kept the patient alive for over 20 years.

Upgraded and repaired computers, software, and network systems for Medicaid staff.

Did HVAC installation for homebound patients.

Power supply and backup design and installation for medical staff for a patient on 24 hr. care and ventilator.

Built wiring harnesses for medical equipment custom designed for critical care patients. 25 yrs.

Installed Dragon speech-to-text software for a case manager who has Cerebral Palsy.

25 years of experience in design and installation using electrical schematics.

25 years of experience in sheet metal panels for design for medical electronics.

25 years of wiring harness design, installation, and configuration.

25 years with high voltage power supply design and usage with fuses, transformers, and contactors for medical supply and home care for critical care patient.

Electronic Transactions Consultants Atlanta, GA Jun 2011 – Sep 2011

IT Technician

Performed real-time incident management for the safe and successful operation of tollway systems.

Upgraded existing CCTV, RF Peach Pass, coin machines, vaults, gates, toll booths, and IT networks.

Backup power systems upgraded, meeting onsite/remote maintenance and configuration specifications.

$15,000/hr. fine prevented by successfully enforcing 1-hour uptime contractual requirements.

$1,000,000 contract was completed for Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority (SRTA).

IT harness/cable production and installation.

Sheet metal panels designed and installed for custom IT projects.

Transformers, fuses, and power supplies for backup power configuration for mobile and data center devices.

Schematic production and interpretation for customer facilities for WAN installations for all State of Georgia agencies for 1 year.

Georgia Technology Authority Atlanta, GA Jul 1996 – Jul 2002

Senior Data Analyst/ NOC Engineer

WAN/ desktop/ helpdesk support for the State of Georgia:

Provided technical documentation while monitoring the network to meet user needs.

Microsoft Windows, MS Office esp. MS Word and Excel, PC Hardware & peripherals.

Developed Microsoft Excel VBA macros for ticketing system metrics and analysis.

Use of interpersonal and technical skills to listen and respond to user needs.

Employee of the month, my 1st month on the job.

Led a team of six data techs responding to all Internet connectivity issues for State of Georgia Agencies.

Worked and collaborated with contractors and telecommunication providers to maintain trouble-free data circuits both within the data center and onsite at customer premises.

My first call was to restore services to Georgia’s EBT and Medicaid systems on the 1st of the month due to a power failure, of which the Governor called my boss, and I was dispatched.

Wiring harness design and installation for Data center for State of Georgia government headquarter NOC 6 yrs.

Designed and installed sheet metal wiring panels for equipment cabinets for IT.

6 years of experience in harness wiring, fuses contactors, transformers, motors, and electrical schematics.

State Road and Tollway Authority Atlanta, GA Jul 1994 – Jul 1996

EDP Data Analyst

Support contractor Lockheed-IMS performing the analysis, maintenance, research, and development of toll collection systems.

Anti-virus and hardware troubleshooting.

I calibrated the coin machine hardware, lane control computers, classification terminals, toll booths, traffic signals, traffic gates, RF sources, and antennae.

I conducted usability testing with a firsthand approach providing practical, flexible, and appropriate support and delivering high-quality results.

Ensured safety and efficiency by maintaining the Amtech Cruise card readers, CCTV cameras, VMS, and systems.

A testbed and simulator for custom antennae design I developed got me a job offer from Lockheed Martin.

Diligently investigated every avenue of customer care. By discovering a software bug in the Lockheed IMS Toll collections system Cruise card Amtech readers, I saved my employer $12,000,000 in lost revenue.

Designed sheet metal panels for 3 yrs.

Schematic design and reading for 3 years.

Supervised contractors for 3 years.

Trained and utilized fuses, motors, contactors, etc.

Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Atlanta, GA Jan 1986 – Jul 1994

Traffic Signal Technician - Electronics Technician - Technical Writer

8 years sheet metal configuration, design, and building for traffic signals, VMS signage and configuration, utilizing wiring harnesses, fuses contactors, transformers 440VAC, designing wiring harnesses.

My problem-solving ability helped me repair electronic hardware to the component level.

Use of maintenance, test, measurement, and repair skills ensured we met our safety policy and standards.

My environmental chamber gave confidence in the equipment returned to the customer and reduced the performance issues by 90%. I designed, built, and utilized test equipment unique to the tasks at hand, achieving safe and efficient downtime resolution for traffic signal equipment, cameras, and electronic signage on public roads.

I taught training classes in electronics, electrical theory, and maintenance to staff, providing technical knowledge.

My suggestions to management on appropriate training provided a framework for the future.

Provided a point of contact between field operations technicians and the electronics repair shop I operated, essential to safety and achieved trust.

Certified aerial lift truck operator for the traffic signal, VMS, CCTV, installation, and maintenance.

$12,000,000 wrongful death lawsuit was filed against the State of Georgia and my supervisor, the State Highway Engineer (PE), was defended using my database programming, technical documentation, and test results I generated from the implicated traffic signal equipment.

Another accomplishment I achieved was solving problems with traffic signal monitors randomly causing the traffic signals to go into flash mode, disrupting traffic and creating havoc for the motoring public.

I discovered it was due to harmonic distortion affecting the signal monitors' switching power supplies.

The company sent two Ph.Ds. in physics from the mother corporation in Great Britain to Atlanta, Georgia, to prove me wrong.

However, I was proved right by my analysis.

Failure was caused by a firmware bug in the monitors that caused them to misread the zero-crossing point of the AC power source.

This generated false timing results.

The AC power supply waveform causing the failures was a harmonically distorted 60 Hz waveform, not the standard sinusoidal waveforms in commercial and residential US power grids.

This condition is caused by industrial loads such as AC motors and generators sharing the powerline nearby without adequate regulation, isolation, and filtering.

Therefore, the firmware program running the traffic signal monitor misread the zero-crossing point of the AC sinewave, concluding there was a brown-out condition throwing the intersection into a flash mode for safety reasons.

A brownout condition can cause a malfunction in many electronic systems because the 5V power supply on which microprocessors and other digital integrated circuits rely is incorrect, though assumed accurate in many cases, causing uncertain operations within the digital logic of the system.

Systems rely upon regulated, precise, and stable power sources to provide the digital logic with proper conversion of AC power to controlled DC power sources to make correct decisions.

The company issued me the updated firmware after my harmonic analyzer tests were verified by the company’s physics Ph.Ds.

I copied, burned, updated, installed, and tested the EPROMS with the updated firmware for over one hundred traffic signal monitors across Georgia to remedy the problem.

After confirming my analysis with their harmonic distortion analyzer, I asked the PhDs to tell my boss what they found.

They slowly said to him, “Well, he was right.”

The Variable Message Sign Systems (VMS) specification I wrote ensured a successful outcome.

The results are that the signs are also used in other states beyond Georgia, such as Ohio.

My design and construction for a previous interstate messaging sign used a unique remote-control system for the interstate network of six characters spread over 9000 ft along the I-75-85 corridor in downtown Atlanta.

It was used to direct traffic into the correct lanes during the Atlanta Braves baseball games.

When it was activated and worked, a cheer went up over the radio from the field tech teams that installed it.

After that, a co-worker informed me that the bosses thought I was a genius but did not want to tell me because they thought it would go to my head.

Coincidently, I prepared Georgia for the 1996 Olympic games by designing and implementing an interstate traffic camera system.

During this period, in addition to my work, I was assigned to repair and upgrade the traffic signal controllers for the City of Atlanta, so I wired their traffic signal cabinets for them.

The City of Atlanta techs made twice the money I was at the time, had four times the number of techs as me, and only a fourth of the signals to maintain as I did.

Yes, I never got hired when I applied for a job with them.

Politics got in the way because the DOT bosses for the state of Georgia, by that time, realized they did not want me to leave, which played into my failure to convert.

My boss told me, “Other than more money, people, and computers, what can I do for you?”

I said, “I guess nothing then.” A year later, I finally got hired for a position with Georgia State Tollway Authority. I did not tell my employer beforehand that I applied for the job this time.

When they informed me that I was promoted, my current supervisor relayed, “This is a lateral move, so we do not have to let you go, but we would have to give a very good reason why not.”

So, off I went to work at Georgia 400 Tollway alongside a Lockheed-IMS ex-marine, electronic warfare expert. See the EDP Data Analyst position above for my next great adventure!

Research on Federal grant for surge protection for Georgia Tech Research Institute

Worked with Professor Peter Parsons of Georgia Tech to help him configure traffic controllers for the Civil Engineering courses he taught.

TIE Communications Norcross, GA Jun 1984 – Jun 1986

Technical Assistant

Configuring and installing electronic telephone systems and shipping them to remote locations for sales presentations.

Helpdesk: resolving issues from remote installers and distributors like Bell South, troubling and logging information in ERP.

I programmed EPROMs with firmware updates for the company product being sent out to customers and sales shows.

Follow-up with the technical support manager on issues to elevate problems discovered in engineering.

I discovered a firmware bug that affected the mute button of our systems and contacted product engineers to alert them and achieve a resolution.

One bug I discovered that was not repaired by the company in a timely fashion cost TIE the Bell South contract.

This failure devastated TIE Communication’s reputation and the company stock plummeted from $40 per share to pennies on the dollar.

TIE Communications became deceased, so I moved on to another role with the Georgia Department of Transportation.

Awards and other notable achievements:

Collaborated on an electromagnetic propulsion system and mobile energy collection device, winning an honorable mention in a science competition.

Communicated with Nobel Prize winner Kip Thorne on black holes and gravity wave technology.

National Science Foundation Awardee, University of Maryland, 1978.

Twice named employee-of-the-month.

Nominated for employee of the year before I accepted an advanced role with another company.

Extracurricular Activity:

During Christmas break from the University of Maryland, I designed and built a radio telescope in my backyard.

I always had a passion for Astronomy, so during Christmas, I flew home from college and designed and made a parabolic reflector I used for radio Astronomy in my backyard in Georgia.

Using Trigonometric functions, I graphed the parabola and focal point for the dish and plotted the points using small nails on a plywood sheet.

I used this to guide the antenna elements to the right parabolic shape.

I utilized a metal ring for the central hub, attaching the curved antenna elements circumferentially with wire rings of increasing size from the main point of the telescope.

I bolted this through a tree my cousin helped me cut down and installed an altitude adjustment I designed and built.

I could control the altitude of the dish to capture everything at that celestial coordinate that traversed the meridian daily.

I pointed the radio telescope at the sun, the most powerful radio source in our sky.

I got a 200mV deflection on my analog multi-meter, validation that the project succeeded.

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