OSP Field Staker (telephone), Construction Inspection, Locator Tech
Resume:
William Albert Vincent
Nevada, MO 64772
417-***-**** (home)
417-***-**** (cell)
417-***-**** (fax)
*************@*********.***
OBJECTIVE
A position as
Outside Plant Engineer (field staking)
Construction Inspection (trench or plow)
Utilities Locating Technician
PERSONAL PROFILE
Very experienced with the field staking and design aspect of building a project. Focused, attention to detail, skilled with drawing and great retention of information
Mix well with others in a teamwork enviornment, listening to others suggestions and being openminded about their ideas
Particular about being correct with all aspects of job development and always look for opportunities to expand and increase my knowledge and abilities
Attention to details, people, places, things----very detail oriented and great at documentation of important information for present or future use
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Utilities Locator & Field Representative, 03/2011----------present
Located buried utilities for the fiber optic drop installation crew and drew sketches to assist them in knowing the layout of each property as they came to them
Contacted property owners to record information about buried utilities they were aware of that the drop crew might encounter when placing the new fiber optic drop
Assisted drop crew by offering advise or suggestions as needed, helped measure drops and keep track of numbers for billing, get supplies for them, help inspectors when shorthanded with recording proper information about the work process
Used Ditchwitch 950R for locating buried utilities
Outside Plant Telephone Field Technician, 12/1978----------10/2002
Performed field staking operations in the process of building a project on paper for construction to build. Some operations were:
---Drawing field notes using telephony symbols to show existing geographical features, buried
utility information, existing telephone plant, plans for future plant to be placed
---Checking existing aerial plant for proper clearances from other utilities and from ground level
---Inventory of existing plant
---Running elevations to develop profile of crossings of features like railroads, roads, creeks, etc
---Daily contact with landowners, business managers, contractors, different utilities department
heads and various people associated with our progress on a project
---Locating of buried utilities so as to know where NOT to place our new plant. Locating equipment
used:
1. Cable Hound 2. Metrotech 3. Cat and Jenny 4. Pipehorn
---Left footprints for construction to follow by placing wood stakes, lathe (with written instruction),
flagging and flags on metal stems
---Construction inspection on RUS projects (Trench and Plow)
---Manhole detailing and cable tagging which includes setting up warning signs for traffic control,
pumping water from manhole and blowing fresh air into it as well as testing it for gases
Interpreted different types of documents to implement into our project such as:
---State highway plans, utilities records, telephone records, land surveys, blueprints, public records
Professional work ethics when dealing with others in relation to the development of our project
HIGHLIGHTS OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS
By myself, with wife as chauffeur, I inventoried 201 square miles of plant and made the company a nice profit
Worked directly for Southwestern Bell engineers in Wichita, Kansas doing estimate and routine work
Successfully completed telephone manhole detailing and cable retagging in a number of western kansas towns with Wichita, Kansas being the largest
Reference back to my field drawings have saved a few contractors a lot of headaches as the final
drawings issued to the contractor had some information not on them that I had preserved
Able to gain access to and get copies of important highway "rights of way" information that others
had not had success in getting for our project
Out of a dozen men that came together for a project, I was the only one that did not have to return
to the field because of not having enough proper information
When I signed a field drawing I had the satisfaction of knowing I was the author of a well done drawing in which much effort, sweat, erasing and correcting went into to produce. It has to pass my stamp of approval
FAVORITE COMPLIMENTS
One day in the office as I was preparing to go out to a project my boss made an unexpected comment that took me by surprise. My boss, Charles Orrell said, "Do you know what I like most about you William?" I replied, "No Charlie, what?" He simply said, "Your honesty"
Mike Murphy was a bell engineer that I did a lot of work for in Wichita, Kansas. One day he unexpectedly started this short conversation in his office and I recorded it before I forgot it. Mike said that he liked that I did good work, that I was very thorough and detailed. "You leave no stone unturned, especially on the Viking job I gave you-----that was flawless, absolutely.!" " It went in with NO problem." "That was brilliant work you did on that one William." "You know, your notes so far have always looked very good and I like most that you are dependable." "I know that if I give you a job, you will do it and do it well."
On a project where my boss in the office was talking with my field supervisor, the field supervisor made a comment to my boss. He stated, "If I had 10 more William's around here, I could just sit back and relax."
At a breakfast meeting of our crew, the field supervisor stated to us all----"Fellow's, William here, I don't know how he is doing it, but he is coming up with sequential numbers on the cables in some of the pedestals." "If you fellow's would look in these pedestals as William is, it could be of real use for us on this project."
EDUCATION
Fort Scott Community College November 18, 2010 to December 06, 2010
Fort Scott, Kansas Refresher Course in Truckdriving (120 hours) graduated
Fort Scott Community College September 2003 to October 2003
Fort Scott Community College Truckdriving graduated GPA 3.36
Rich Hill High School Diploma
Rich Hill, Missouri
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