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Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Manage, maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot customers wireless point to point/point to multipoint microwave back-haul network spanning the Mid-West to the Mid-Atlantic and Gulf states.

The Colony, TX

Installation, upgrade, provisioning, testing, troubleshoot Ceragon XPandIP, IP20C, Exalt ExtremeAir radio systems. Responsible for commissioning of 650 links in the North-East/Mid-Atlantic region for Unitifiber’s backhaul network. Created equipment BoM’s, interpreted structural/tower mapping, tracked inventory, coordinated with multiple General Contractors.

The Colony, TX

Microwave backhaul construction Manager responsible for installation, provisioning, testing and turn-up of over 400 microwave backhaul links in support of Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint. Oversaw vendor bid proposals, PO submission/requisitions/invoices, site closeout packages, Structural Analysis documentation, Construction Drawings/schematics/redlines.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Installation, test and acceptance and maintenance of Fibertower’s backhaul TDM/SONET/Ethernet network; to include Fujitsu 4300, 4500, Adtran 6100, 2800 ADM’s, Accedian Ethernids and RFC testing Harris 18GHz radios, Ceragon 11GHz to 26GHz radios, NEC 10GHz to 23GHz radios. Responsible for circuit migrations, T1 to OC48 and DWDM troubleshooting. Timescan3000.

Murfreesboro, TN

Coordinated, trained, supervised installation crews within the remediation phase scope of work. Maintained a very aggressive schedule of events to include the remediation of store network facilities, equipment rentals, crew scheduling, floor plan print documentation, for approximately 35 Circuit City stores per week, while keeping overhead costs at a.

Dallas, TX

Installation, test and acceptance of France Telecom's 1640 Optical Add/Drop MUX/DEMUX national backbone network consisting of over 350 network elements. Installation of software, provisioning OC48, OC192 circuits, testing circuits for trouble resolution and acceptable Optical Signal to Noise ratios. Calibrated optical amplifiers to ensure that each OC.

Plano, TX

Vendor level support for installation, test and turn-up of Alcatel 1640OADM DWDM, 1648SM, and 1680 Optical Gateway Manager network elements. Interfaced with multiple IXC's, LEC's to resolve software/hardware fault isolation of Alcatel's diverse litewave product line. Provisioned and tested linear/ring segments to standards using OSA's (Digital Litewave.

Cary, NC

Operated and maintained Nortel OC192, OC48, OC12 SONET equipment (linear and ring configurations) utilizing the INM interface in a Network Control Center environment. Troubleshoot hardware and software network reported problems on Lucent AX-4/11 DXC's Alcatel/DSC CS1, CS1L, ECS1 narrowband DXC's, 1630SX, 1631SMC/LMC and 1633 DXC's Tellabs Titan 5500, 530.