Andrew F. Taranto

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Kennesaw, Ga. 30144

678-***-**** Cell

Objective

To obtain a position in a well diversified company where employees earn promotions and gains by their work ethics and job performance.

Summary

Self-educated in codes and land enforcement. Have Run multi-family housing, Hospitality, and Industrial Projects throughout my 8 years of Experience.

Experience

Choate Construction: Assistant Superintendent, (July 2014 - Current)

Field Leader of Multi-Family, Hospitality, and Industrial projects provides on-site field Supervision and technical management for all construction operations, including direct supervision of subcontractors and personnel. Superintendent coordinates with project managers on the installation of all products in an orderly productive fashion insuring and profitable project. Safety is our goal for every subcontractor, owner and delivery personnel that comes to our projects.

Organize, scheduling and building of Muti-Tent and Hospitality, and Industrial Structures Ranging from 25 to 60 million dollars.

Key parts of the job are Safety: and keeping the Project clean, keeping productivity on schedule and meeting deadlines, while producing high quality products for the Clients.

I have worked on high end Hospitality projects, Apartment projects, Cast in place tilt wall structures. This includes Concrete and wood structures with Multiple Podiums. Knowledgeable in Foundations, Concrete walls, Podiums, and CLP hold downs and CLP hold downs with tie downs.

Owner/Operator: Play Safe Maintenance Group Inc. (January 2012 - July 2014)

Setup and maintain a profitable maintenance company that was able to provide its clients with a turnkey project. Set up scheduling of material deliveries and job completion. We handle repairs such as Brick, Concrete, Windows & molding replacement. We also Build custom work such as bookcase, counter tops, Wine racks and full basement build outs. Custom work is always a challenge but can be completed with good designs and planning.

Georgia Cabling & Electric (May2008 – January 2013)

Was acting lead Tech out at the CDC Headquarters. In charge of making sure the six employees that were under me were on time and the voice and data cabling projects were completed daily. Coordinated with the office in material ordering and job overviews. Installation and Terminations of Cat5, Cat5e, Cat6, Augmented Cat 6, and 10 Gigabit Cable. I am also trained and certified in single-mode and Multimode Fiber optic cable.

LMI Electrical Contractor (July 2001 – March 2008)

Ran the Data Department as a Field Manager from August 2004 to February 2006 carried an average profit of 35% for the first year 1/2 in charge.

Installing LAN Networks for Voice and Data.

Installed and terminated CAT5, Cat5E, Cat6, and Augmented Cat6 cable.

Able to engineer and run small and large network systems.

Worked in the electrical department in wiring various voltages of power cables for commercial buildings, 120,208,277,480 panels and transformers.

Lucent Technologies –Interpreted Tester (July 2000 – July 2001)

Nortel DS1 Fed Access Node Provisioning and testing of DS0’s, DS1’s, DS3’s, and T1’s

Reltec (Discs’) Equipment, provisioning and testing of DS1’s, DS0’s, DS3’s, and T1’s for AT&T local access services.

Any Media (D-4 Hubbing) provisioning and turning up of T1’s for AT&T’s local access services.

Trained in wiring and testing Potts bays at the DS0 level.

Integrated new technologies with major class 5 switches (Lucent 5ESS/ Nortel DMS500).

Worked directly with Switch technicians on multiple levels of trouble shooting such as DS1’s, DS0’s, DS3’s, and T1’s.

Worked directly with Switch techs on building of translations and testing the translations.

Vast experience with trouble shooting directly with the Nortel DMS 500 and the Lucent 5ESS switches.

Provided technical support for both the Lucent Technologies Program Management team as well as the AT&T Network Realization organization.

Worked directly with Lucent Technologies and TCG on Engineering and Telemetry issues.

Southern Van & Truck Inc. (April 1997- July 2000)

(Family/owned Company)

Increased gross profits 35% in thirteen months.

Reduced warranty by 20% by implementing a strick method of procedures of installing parts and accessories.

Organized a detailed shipping and receiving department for parts and accessory sales.

United States Marine Corps. (April 1993 – April 1997)

Installed, turned up and maintained equipment that provided DS0’s and T1’s various types of data equipment.

Worked directly with the TCC-42 mobile switchboard in turning up and trouble shooting at the DS0 and T1 levels.

Set up and Maintained fiber optic converter units (focs) which provided high-speed data rates at the time of 128 kbs.

Employment

Choate Construction Company July 2014 - Current

Southern Van & Truck Inc. August 1991 – April 1993

United States Marine Corps. April 1993 – April 1997

Southern Van & Truck Inc. April 1997 – July 2000

Teksystems Inc. (Lucent Technologies) July 2000 – July 2001

LMI Electrical Contractor (Network Cabling) July2001 – March 2008

Georgia cabling & Electric Inc. May 2008 – January 2012

Play Safe Maintenance Group Inc. January 2012 - Current

Education

Columbus State Community College Columbus Ohio

Telecommunication School United States Marine Corps

Microwave Telecommunication United States Marine Corps

Charlotte High School Punta Gorda Florida

NRI Schools/Home Study Washington DC

Panduit Copper/Fiber Certified Online Class

Fluke Network Testing April 2002

Security Equipment and installation May 2002

Johnson Controls Security April 2003

Hilti Equipment training November 2006

DXA350, DX351, DD EC-1 Core Machine

Leviton Fiber Certified August 2003

Corning Fiber TS-Lan-500 December 2010

Leadership Training. Current

Applications

Microsoft 365, Word, Excel, Project, Outlook

MS Internet Explorer

Pc Anywhere 8

ProComm Plus

HyperTerminal

Adobe PhotoShop

AnyMedia Access System

Lap Link Gold

Procore

Struction Site

360 Photos

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