Fred M. is a Telecom, Network, Fiber, Engineering, Utilities, Infrastructure at Omaha Public Power District. He possess expertise in telecommunications, data center, switches, troubleshooting, voip and 45 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "Fred Macias was THE subject matter expert within our Telecom and Carrier departments here at West. This is not withstanding the tremendous rapport and relationships he had built and maintained with the major carriers such as AT&T, Sprint, CenturyLink, etc. Even when he moved from our department, he consistently and willingly assisted the tier 1 and 2 telecom ops teams, making recommendations and offering suggestions on extremely complex troubleshoots. He was always readily available to answer calls, including overnight and on weekends, with the utmost concern and professionalism, and was quick to hop on high profile bridges to assist. His presence helped resolve these problems quickly when they would have lasted hours had he not involved himself. As well, Fred is always easy to approach, and is more than willing to explain in substantial detail how a platform, architecture, equipment, etc works and is put together. Fred has proven to be a critical participant on high profile outages, not to mention the lower profile yet extremely complex problems." and "Fred Macias is the most intelligent and hard-working engineer and manager with whom I have ever had the experience to work. It is not an under estimation to state that Fred is an operations or telecommunications troubleshooting genius. I have never known anyone who with such a skill at isolating complex problems within his own company's network or even a carrier's or customer's network. His transport skills and his ability to multi-task and work long hours are breathtaking. Any company he works for should count themselves lucky to have such a talent. Fred's expertise is vast including years of work with IXC carriers, transport circuits, test sets, Sage units, optical circuits and muxes, DSX and DCS gear, switches, routers, VoIP gateways, data center and cabling work, power and facilities work, and managing teams of engineers. I am proud to have had the opportunity to work with Fred Macias for many years."