Gerald Jackson Email & Phone Number

North Shore Chicago IL

VP of Operations Illinois State Certified Home Inspector (Certification #451.001353)Expert residential and commercial inspection disciplineBuilding strategic partnerships and quality standardsDevelop and maintain excellent customer service

Wooddale, Illinois USA

Researched, developed, designed and detailed Audiovisual Infrastructure construction documents for the visual media industry.

Greater Chicago Area

• Drafted, detailed and managed construction documents for audio-visual, telecom, and security network
• Created facility site plans, transportation buildings, garages, train platforms and all other support structure plans from as-built hard copies, TIFF, PDF images and field survey sketches.
• Conducted site condition surveys.
• Laid out and detail underground utility conduits.
• Calculated liner and riser footages for conduit runs of fiber optic cable and coaxial cable runs between hubs and all other equipment. Also configured wiring diagram layouts.
• Detailed rack elevations, installation details, linked/imported and laid out all equipment and bill of material schedules.

Greater Chicago Area

• Managed local CAD department:
• Drafted, detailed and managed all construction documents for telecom, audio-visual and security network system projects, for a team of 4 Project Managers
• Managed multiple projects with overlapping delivery schedules
• Assisted design managers with the creation of design narrative for all projects
• Reduced drafting and detailing time by 30% after creating and developing intelligent automated standards, templates, blocks and symbols for all project development
• Met staffing needs during busiest quarter by interviewing, training and managing temporary staff

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Laid out and detailed underground utility conduits for power, coaxial cable and fiber optic trunk cable backbone system for broadband phone and internet service distribution
• Enabled penetration of premises for providing broadband cable, phone, and internet service distribution by drafting and detailing coaxial and fiber optic trunk backbone system routing
• Created and detailed drawings of individual premises penetration per city codes and permit requirements
• Increased service performance by calculating signal strength from for RF broadcast signal gain