Blake Watson Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Houston, Texas, United States

Subject Matter Expert in design compliance through field engagement for both technicians and management. Hold weekly meetings to go over expectations with supervision as well as items found in the field that do not represent IES installation expectations and quality. Create an active punch list by utilizing BIM360. Assign remediation task to field supervision and notate any progress or changes in BIM360. Walk the field with management and team to provide positive and constructive feedback. Interface with the Customer and GC for items that do not meet expectations. Utilize email for direct written expectations by the customer for future references. Create First Of Kinds, by documenting customer accepted installation steps. Relay expectations to the field through small group teachings. Assist with creating and submitting official company documentation for review for future use in structured classroom teachings. Review and communicate Customer Standard Operating Procedures to the field, along with expectations. Assist leadership with documenting current work for accuracy and providing constructive feedback on decisions that have impacts that they may not be privy to. Communicate to site Project Manager, Regional Management, and Customer on current site status as well as fields ability to hit expected milestones.Provide the team with morning meeting discussions about quality and expectations as well as field failures. Give recognition to individuals that exemplify the embodiment of IES standards.Conduct QA Audits of completed installations and provide feedback and punch list for missing or failing items. Assist team with prioritizing issues and adjust ongoing installation practices for best quality outcome within the given time constraints. Point out design conflicts and provide RFI to customer and GC. Engage management about field deficiencies and points of potential growth. Participate in Panel interviews for future quality personnel.

Fort Worth, Texas, United States

Handle day to day required task onsite, that include infrastructure cabling design, installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting. MACD of all associated installed infrastructure and hardware. Subject Matter Expert in Gen4 and 4.2 FTW design, installation, and troubleshooting. SMF and optical troubleshooting through inhouse utilities. Facilitate communication between trades with expected dates of completion as well as potential road blocks. I take pride in removing road blocks for my teams. I work to validate in field data and simply it to make it more digestible and understandable to fellow technicians. I am readily versed in Excel, and other office tools. I am resourceful and will find solutions to any problems that I may face in my day to day duties.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Assist customers with every day issues, including OS configurations of CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu and Windows Server 2012. GPO changes. Configure DNS forwarding on host for replication. Assign /29 IP addresses to host hardware for pxe install. Maintain Server hardware with scheduled down time for clients and repair windows. Update clients daily/hourly on resolution progress. Rack and stack and cabling of cabs. SSH and bash scripting. Raid 10 repair through CLI and in person (Hot and Warm swaps). Cpanel issue resolution with hosted client sites through an online ticketing system. Install customer delivered hardware to required cab confinements and cable accordingly. Quote customers on IP Address, Link Speed, Hardware upgrades. Reach out to customers on outstanding balances. Recondition and wipe hardware using PXE utilities and USB bootable drives for data wiping. Participate in oncall needs. Operate and maintain all datacenter needs, both physical and digital. Utilize watchdog notifications through slack api. Firewall configuration and troubleshooting. Kernel panic troubleshooting. IPMI,iDrac, ILO configuration and setup for remote management of client. Setup Temp passwords and log computer generated Admin credentials. Networking monitoring for DDOS events, mail spam, and malicious usages. Revoke user credentials based on violation of usage, or non payment.

Certificate, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications

Certificate, Computer Science