Aaron Gunter Email & Phone Number

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

• Lauded by numerous customers for excellent customer service
• Highly knowledgeable in all required skill sets necessary
• Depended on by numerous network managers to take on the most difficult tasks – service orders, repair jobs, and even special projects
• Has trained numerous wire technicians
• Qualified for the Manager Outside Plant & Engineering position by passing the Engineer Selection Module test

• Brought in as the company’s first MBO Project Manager working independently from home office in Jacksonville, Florida.
• Managed numerous FCC mandated rebanding projects and exceeded the company’s standard expected profit margins.
• Project Manager for numerous County and municipal radio system installations and upgrade – York County, PA (P25), Aurora & Naperville, IL (Open Sky), Indian River County, FL (system upgrade), Franklin County, NC (new.
• Worked exclusively with Harris Corporation, supporting numerous projects – new system installations, system upgrades, and FCC mandated rebanding projects
• Also worked with numerous vendors and subcontractors providing project support and coordination – Motorola, Alcatel, AT&T
• Assigned as the Company’s Pre Sales Project Manager responsible for developing project plans & scopes, schedules, contracts and budgeting. Also responsible for forecasting to Corporate the projects’ revenues and.

• Manage the day-to-day operations of engineering department including 1 project manager and 6 software engineers for Voice over IP (Voip) and Toll Free Communications provider.
• Work directly with the company Chief Technology Officer and the President to ensure delivery, billing, and reporting of the company’s communication products.
• Configure trunk groups and soft switches for Voice over IP communications. Manage and maintained Cisco routers and other Voice over IP equipment. Set up switch translations for the Cisco BTS soft switch.
• Relocated and reinstalled the company’s core network to including a Cisco BTS soft switch, multiple Cisco switches and routers, Dell, Compaq and HP Servers, DS3 and DS1 interfaces, and interconnection with collocation.
• Headed the company’s Network Operations Center as the initial call taker and troubleshooter, and dispatcher for all customer and vendor trouble reports.

• Worked exclusively with Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) Director of Communications and subcontractors with the installation and integration Cisco and Lucent OC-48 equipment, Avaya PBX switch, public address system.
• Worked on the bidding team that was awarded the design-build McCormick Place Expansion Project and awarded the CTA’s Brown Line Project.
• Involved with numerous bids on the estimating team to including: schools, hospitals, pumping stations, toll ways (ITS), airports, jails, CTA and Port Authority, and design build projects. Also attended the required.
• Managed projects: CTA new headquarters building security, CTA network operations center upgrade, CTA Blue Line renovation project
• Developed relationships with both customers and vendors that continually contributed to both a smooth bidding process, project award, and project success.
• Worked directly with general foremen and electricians on the design and install of communications systems per plans and specifications.

Fort Sheridan

Assigned to Training Support Battalion which is responsible for the training readiness of numerous units deploying to Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Worked as Central Office Technician at the Colorado Springs Main central office provisioning, maintaining and troubleshooting circuits and systems from DS0 level up to OC-48. Also assisted and trouble shot trouble.
• Worked directly with the management team in preparing 17 central offices for Y2K.
• Provisioned, maintained and trouble various multiplexing equipment including Nortel, Cisco, ADT and Fujitsu.
• Assigned as a roving technician that maintained and troubleshot high capacity (HiCap-DS1 and above) circuits and equipment for all of the Colorado Springs metro offices.

• Concurrent positions held at last duty station with the Support Squadron, 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment: Squadron Communications Chief, Squadron Communications Security (COMSEC) Coordinator, Headquarters and.
• Member and supply coordinator for “Spur Order”, an exclusive Army Calvary Fraternity, member of the Ft. Carson soccer team and team coordinator and member of squadron soccer team.
• Proficient at the use, installation, maintenance and trainer of AM, FM and satellite radio, field telephone systems, GPS devices and computer network systems.
• Consistently worked 1-2 pay grade levels above the position held and maintained secret security clearance throughout entire career.
• Was an integral part of the “Train the Trainer” program for all of the unit’s communications equipment and needs.