Dwayne Pickett Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

* Providing leadership and direction for all distribution activities within the respective area.* Provide leadership for the planning, engineering, design, construction, maintenance, and restoration of the distribution system. * Responsible for the long-term service and reliability strategy in the area.* Responsible for the performance management of all direct reports as well as safety leadership, budget management, construction scheduling, and compliance measures.* Participates and lead region wide initiatives, projects, and committees, as well as active participant with the Engineering Supervisors' Roundtable.* Supervisor the local engineering team and serve as the primary point of contact for distribution customers.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Effectively managed the performance and led the in the development of engineering employees. Responsibilities included Employee Safety, Employee Development, and Performance Management.• Oversee all Georgia Power GDOT, county and city road construction projects statewide. • Review and approve all invoices, time sheets and JETS workorders for CES team.• Manage CES engineers during storm restoration efforts for both on-system and off-system storms.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Provided leadership and direction and overseeing the work of Metro Atlanta CES team staff.• Provided leadership for coordinating resources and training employees, serve as contact for local and state governmental concerns in Metro area and help monitor and track Metro CES Budget.• Worked with ES to develop overall strategic engineering direction and workforce development plan for department, help manage CES resources (including contractors) and train less knowledgeable or less experienced employees in all aspects of CES engineering.• Represented CES with our stakeholders, on committees, and by attending meetings and serve as direct contact for governmental and area partners for Metro Atlanta area.• Storm team leader for SERP restoration efforts.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Prepare estimates and bid packages associated with overhead to underground conversions throughout Gulf's service territory.• Prepare work orders for budgeted work items such as new feeders, reconductors, regulators and reclosers.• Support local area office groups by assisting them with their work load and training new field engineers.• Train new personnel in Special Projects Department and mentor new engineers in training. • Organize and facilitate both quarterly and monthly Safety-Wellness meetings for the Project Services department. • Local storm team leader and trained off-system storm accountant for Gulf Power Company. • Effectively maintain “Target Zero” while working several high profile and detailed commercial projects.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Trouble shoot commercial and resident customer power quality issues Assist with the scheduling of DSO construction work in Gulf Breeze Assist in the restoration efforts during Storm Outages Organized/facilitated marketing, construction and engineering meets in Gulf Breeze area Reconcile and close out line construction DSO. Respond to customer needs in a timely manner; preparing drawings, estimates and documents. Design distribution service orders via JETS, ACAD, MS OFFICE, CSS and SOCKETS. Train new employees and Coop students regarding Gulf Power work order procedures and processes.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Provide direction to field personnel during routine and storm restoration. Trouble shoot area distribution issues and contact key account customers with status updates. Responsible for monitoring and operating the Gulf Power distribution network according to established guidelines. Dispatch trouble and customer service orders to local operations and line crew

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Design optical networks by creating engineering documentation packages that will be used as a tool for the successful deployment of end-to-end networks. Engineered projects utilizing Nortel, Fujitsu and Siemens optical products for proposal preparation and provided technical support for timely and successful completion of projects.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Interface with R&D on design issues of the OC-48 Sonet Multiplexer and Optical Gateway Manager (OGM). . Troubleshoot both Alcatel SDH and Sonet Multiplexers. Mentor and train new employees on the theory and operation of Sonet/SDH multiplexers and optical amplifiers. Consulate with customers regarding system requirements, ring design issues, and network management solutions.

Monitor and trouble-shoot paging network from communications center using a UNIX based computer system. Lead Implentation Engineer responsible for initial deployment of 2-way paging network. Provide technical support to resolve issues with T1, T3 and Frame Relay outages.

Telephone Installer (31L), 145th Signal Co. Multi-Channel Communications Operator (TRAC-70 & 71), 842nd Signal Co. Electrician (57B), 980th Engineering Co. Managed, trained, and processed new recruits at the 145th Signal Co.

B.S., Electrical Engineering

A.S., Pre-Engineering