I got started in telecommunications in the early 90s, pulling cable on an big infrastructure project, we were installing a fancy new fiber optic backbone for a financial company in St. Louis, Missouri. After the fiber gig I got a job with a company that specialized in low voltage systems in the marine industry. I traveled around installing communication systems in a bunch of casinos, on land and the water. We also worked on riverboats and cruise ships. By the late 90s I'd moved into field service with a small interconnect company where I serviced and installed Avaya telecommunications equipment. Officially I'm a Certified Avaya Partner technician, but in more than a decade of field service I've worked on equipment from countless manufactures.I moved around a bit and ended up in Rochester, New York, where I spent about ten years in structured cabling with a couple of prominent cabling contractors. I've been involved in almost everything. Inside plant, outside plant, fiber installation and splicing, distributed antenna systems (DAS), A/V, Smart Homes, video conference integrations and pro sound systems. From college campuses to wide area retail roll-outs dispatched though national contractors. I've just about seen it all.Today I'm applying my 30 years of telecommunications industry experience in the classroom as the Network Cable Installation (NCI) Instructor at the Ottumwa Job Corps Center. Job Corps helps young people ages 16-24 improve the quality of their lives by empowering them to get great jobs and become independent. Specifically, I help our trainees earn Specialist certifications in Telecommunications, Copper and Fiber systems, as well as an OSHA certification. I'm proud of the work we do at Job Corps, we're changing lives and I'm humbled to be a part of the team.And... I've also dabbled as an interactive marketing professional. I have experience in the development and administration of Sales Funnels, Content Management, and eCommerce Systems; Inbound Marketing through best practice implementation of Search Engine Optimization (SEO); Search Engine, and Social Media Marketing (SEM, PPC and SMM) strategies.Specialties: Structured Cabling, Sales and Marketing Funnels, Branding and Corporate Identity, Internet Marketing, Web Development, Social Networking, Social Media Management, Reputation Management, Customer Research, Content Marketing, Content Management Systems, eCommerce Systems, Web Standards, Accessibility and Usability, Search Engine Optimization, Project Management
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