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Bay Pines Veterns Administaion And Medical Campas

Dell deployment lead tech for Bay Pines Veterans Administrations (VA) .Exchanging Windows XP for windows 7 migration.

Greater St. Louis Area

Working on Various short term contracts with firms such as AON, Bank of America, St Louis University, cancer research, medical facilities, hotels, etc…Projects involves; troubleshooting, test and turn-ups, upgrades, provisioning, Commissioning, PC/Server Refresh, optimizing, switch/ router, server upgrades, WiFi, VoIP install and configs, IP/PBX, HP Conversions, wireless AP’s, Site surveys/Audit’s, POS, etc…

St Lous Mo

Kforce – Clearwire/Ericsson – St Louis, MO8/2011 to Present - Cell site audits and site surveys. Utilizing the PLEX program and Bar-coding system, I would travel to all cell sites and do a complete Audit and all RF and associated equipment for WiMAX including; MOTOROLA GAP , MOTOROLA WAP400 (DAP), MOTOROLA WAP450 (DAP), SAMSUNG GAP (INDOOR), SAMSUNG GAP (OUTDOOR), SAMSUNG SPI2213 FRAS (DAP), SAMSUNG OUTDOOR PICOCELL , ETHERNET SWITCH, Foundry (aka Brocade), Ciena (aka World Wide Packets “WWP”), SITE COMMANDER (AKA SITE BOSS), POWER DISTRIBUTION UNIT, MW MODEM, , Dragonwave AirPair, Dragonwave DUO, Dragonwave DUO 1+1, Nortel Secure Router 3120 (Avaya), HVAC Units, etc…. After Identifying and locating this equipment, the bar-code info along with Photo’s would be uploaded into the PLEX data base for Auditors and engineers at Ericsson and Clearwire.

As project lead my job was to coordinate the De-commissioning of the Nortel SL-100 Switch that was located at Boeing in St. Louis. With a crew of 8 Technicians we systematically removed the switch which involve; Switch shutdown, removal of power packs, Line cards, PM cards, power and cabling mining (making sure techs were aware of live traffic on the racks and the location of the live cables), earthquake ironwork removal, Frame wiring and block removal, 105 SL-100 switch bays, coordinating with local moving trucks for shipping and removing all contents of the switch.

INSIGHT/SmartSource INC- Missouri. Network Engineer8/2009 to 11/09/2010Installing, Configuring and testing VoiP, switch’s, router’s, Server upgrades, and conversions for various institutions such as Bank of America, Edward Jones, Merrill Lynch, Marriott hotels etc….Also Go live Tech and auditor for Mcdonald’s nationwide POS upgrade. The goal of this evaluation is to assess the installation of the new POS equipment for McDonald’s, and to help complete the documentation from Night 1 and 2, as well as verify all equipment is working and that the store has no issues to report. This includes verifying all cabling, power requirements, equipment racks, printers, KVM controllers, POS registers are operational, and all equipment have been installed according to MOP and Job specifacations.

70% Telecommuting 1/2009 to 6/2009 Main Objective:Provide, to Soldiers transitioning from the Army, an electronic copy of medical records in a secure and transferable format that is interoperable with the ongoing efforts of the DoD/VA data sharing protocols.Job Description: Through my home office, I would keep in close contact through video conferencing, conference calls and scheduled meetings with various team members including SVT (site visit teams) which includes field engineers, site analysis, system engineers, etc.There are approximately 155 Military sites worldwide to install the equipment necessary to achieve this goal. As a stand alone company, we are responsible for preparing and processing all documentation required to fulfill the project. Documentation includes, site installation manual, site survey, equipment engineering, etcThis was accomplished by daily video and conference calls between the SVT (site visit teams) which consist of 7 teams with three people on each team. Most team members were also working from home offices and in contact with the corporate headquarters. After all documentation was completed, each team was assigned to a military post and would fly there for a site visit to meet with the post commanders and other personnel to discuss and prepare for equipment installation. There would be 3 site visits. Site visit, site survey and site installation. Site rack equipment includes: iSCSI switches, app servers, disk storage array, backup tape drives, Lan switch. Office processing equipment includes: printers, scanners, desktop computers, etc.

Various projects for military bases on the Nortel SL-100 Switch and Data network. Such projects include Nortel SL-100 XA-CORE upgrade consisting of removing the old CM and SLM shelf and replacing with the new XA-CORE shelf, commissioning the XA-CORE and upgrading various cards in the switch, etc.Installing, turn-up and commisiong the AS5300 for Voip network (SIP) between military posts for secure voice network post nationally and international. Peak Systems; Network installation, test and turn-up for client nationwide. Upgrading from old data system to new 2850 Cisco routers, 3560 Cisco switches, HP Proliant DL380 servers, Media routers for satellite downlinks, AT&T COS switches, SU2200XLNET APC UPS and external batteries, IP network phones and also preformed PC Migration, applying new window images and Data Direct backup

Cisco Router/Frame Relay upgrade: This project consist of a store chain of over 900 stores to replace old Cisco routers with new Cisco 2821 Routers. Procedures include; Telnet to routers for FTP Configs, verify dial access to all stores, test and verify T-1s, verify ISDN connectivity, add PVCs to both OC-12s, add routers to NETSCOUT Probes for monitoring network, dial into stores using hyper terminal via dial-up modem, activate ISDN and disable EIGRP peer with current head end router, make device configuration changes, verify IP connectivity, verify Ckt matches port speed, bring store routers up and write new configurations to NETSCOUT.\and verify new bandwidth changes. Conference calls with Telco for Frame Relay cuts and testing new Frame Relay Ckt after Telco builds the new NNI.

Job Responsibilities: Monitoring and trouble-shooting voice and Data networks. Opening trouble tickets, analyzing network troubles including T-1s, E-1s, DS-3s, OC-N, Frame relay, ATM, routers, switches, etc. Tools used for network trouble and analyst include: Netcool, NMA, ACCESS7, (SS7), PREVISOR, Alcatel Infusion, Hurricane, Volcano, (ssp, scp, stp, sms monitoring), Big Brother monitoring (servers), TBS, (ticket Database), Geta, WAFA, SMS/800,Alcatel ATM Switches, CATI, (Telco tool for testing T-1 Circuit connectivity and errors), T-1,s Loop-up NIU,CSU, DSU, Error Detection) .

Installation, design and configuring Cisco Switch's and routers for LAN/ WAN Data Network for the County of Palm Beach. This job consist of layer 2 and layer 3 switching technology. This work includes; Cisco Switch/Routing, internet protocols, static and dynamic routing, VLANs, DHCP, VPN, TCP/IP, trunking protocols, IPX, managing traffic with access list, Suport Avaya and Nortel PBXs, IVR's, CDR, Voicemail, Call Recording and reporting,WAN area networking protocols, frame relay, ATM, ISDN, T-1 testing and mapping, FDDI, DLCIs; and so on. Also working directly with the IT NOC for trouble-shooting Network faults, configuring correct IP addresses, subnets, and gateway protocols, VLANs and port configurations for network segmentation, spanning tree, fast-Ethernet, fiber optic gig connections, network congestion etc??. working with vendors to coordinate repairs, troubleshooting, Also, Installed, designed, configured and maintained the Cisco Wireless AP (access points) 350 and 1200 throughout the county. HP Openview, netscout and network probes, Cisco works 2000, Remedy.

Installation, design, test and turn-up of voice and data networks for businesses, hotels, airports etc? Job responsibilities consist of routing voice and Data (CAT-5) cables to client’s specified locations. Installing wall plates and terminating connectors in appliance with color code. At the communications room, I would then install and terminate terminal blocks, jumpers and test all T-1 connections with the FLUKE line test set from patch panels to insure correct continuity and polarity, terminate outside CO cables, fiber optic cable for networking, equipment racks and networking systems such as Cisco switches, routers, hubs and patch panels. Installation of the telephone systems PBX, Key systems (depending on what the client ordered) Panasonic, Nortel, Mitel, etc. Installing telephone sets and programming to client’s specifications.

Job responsibility includes supervision of drive testers and to collect drive test data utilizing a UNIX base wireless location system. Work directly with the cell site technicians to ensure the correct installation of the LMU’s, (location measuring units), cable and wave guide types and lengths to insure accurate delay, insertion lose measurements, accurate TREMBLE GPS tower location, height, and elevation GPS antena location, height and elevation, and other measurements for accuracy so that the SMLC, (SERVING MOBILE LOCATION CENTER) can perform correct calculations for locating the mobile phones and other mobile devices location using TDOA technology, (TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL). Once the LMU has been programmed with the correct information, I will test for connectivity from the MTSO to the cell site T-1s using test ports from the Tellabs 5500 DACS. After drive testers complete their daily routes, I then send all the data for the engineers to analyze.

Performing site surveys for AT&T for the E-911 installation of their new hardware and software. Duties include taking inventory and making sketches and drawings of the existing equipment and drawings and measurements for the future E-911 equipment. This includes mounting of new telecom bays, cable racks, power cable, Data cable, spare fuses and whatever it takes for the new installation of the E-911.

Responsibilities include: Running test on T-1’s coming from approx. 120 Wireless towers to the mobile switching office, (MTSO), These test were done with the T-BERD test set from the patch panel at the MSO. After head to head testing with the field techs at the Mobile tower site, I would then run extensive test on the T-1’s that include different test patterns, 3 in 24, 1 in 8, QRSS, all ones, all zeros, Bridge-tap and multi-pat. T-1’s were then tested for 24 hours. After each T-1 passed all test error free, I would then accept the T-1’s and notify the local telco. I would then go to the TELLABS 5500/532 DACS and map the T-1’s to the correct DS-3, either to our Switch or to the local Telco. Also responsible for hard wiring and turn-up of the SS7 links to the network.

Nortel SL-100 switch tech for DOD, TAC-SWA (Tactical Army communications for south western Asia). Responsibilities: Daily operations and maintenance (O&M) of the Nortel SL-100 switch such as daily log reports for switch performance, weekly images and back ups, inputting translations for customers line options including; call waiting, call forwarding, call pickup, Conus, Nortel Meridian Mail 11 voice mail, ETC.... Normal servord line translations. Line diagnostics and testing. Trunk testing from map position and DSX panel. T-1/E-1 Transmission testing. Testing and trouble-shooting with TCF, (military Tech control facilities) for various types of traffic impairments. Main distribution frame maintenance. Responsibilities also include: O&M on the Nortel OC-48 SONET ring system. O&M on the MM11 (Meridian mail-11). Translations for analog and digital meridian P-sets. Writing technical reports and Mop's. Top

SONET Testing and characterization of fiber optic networks. This job consists of testing and characterization of the fiber trunks, internal equipment fiber connections and network node connections. The Optical equipment in this network includes the Sorrento (Osicom) Gigamux (32 channel metro and long haul metro DWDM system), Cisco Cerent 15454 equipment that host DS-1, DS-3, OC-3, OC12, and OC-48 cards which are muxed onto the Sorrento Gigamux DWDM for single fiber 2.4 gig Transmission. The Sorrento Gigamux DWDM then splits this fiber for Primary and Secondary ring protection. Testing responsibilities include; testing fiber trunks with the T-BERD 2310-2000 Test pad, for Bit errors, line, path and section errors, and dB power levels, ect.... Using an optical time-domain refractometer (OTDR) on optical trunks between nodes for dirty or bad fiber connectors, splice losses, reflectance loss, ect... Also using the EXFO Optical Spectrum analyzer to check for correct channel freq. alignment, noise and dispersion. These testing tools provide the information to properly analyze the SONET network for reliable, trouble free live traffic transmission

Installation and turn up of the NEC SPECTRALWAVE 32 Channel Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer System (DWDM). In charge of installation crew. Job includes verifying MOPS with the AT&T floor supervisor, verifying correct east and west, protect and working fiber routes, interbay fiber connections, office alarm connections, power (PDF) positions, fiber cross connect positions, OC-48 interface, and normal Bellcore installation procedures. Also assisted NEC tester in testing out entire system.

Maintenance of the Nortel SL-100 Switch consist of interruption of switch morning reports, setting office images, backing up office images, working with technicians from the NOC center to troubleshoot switching and network problems, (swacting pm's, testing lcm, s, dtc, s, building trunk groups, testing subscriber lines, etc?). Reviewing operational measurements, SPMS reports, check SLM for new office image, verify available data store, MSM system status, and batteries, rectifier voltage etc Also maintained the Nortel meridian mail 11 networks. Assisted in upgrades with ESAT. Backing up system data, and the normal maintenance of C.O. Telecommunication equipment.

Operation and Maintenance Supervisor of the Department Of Defense Nortel-MSL100 Defense Information System Network project including technical training, direction, and troubleshooting and field support. * Responsible for all operations during MCI circuit cutovers worldwide for US military installations. * Cutover M.O.P.'s included: end to end testing, CSU/DSU Loop Up, Optioning CSU/DSU, echo cans options, satellite propagation delay corrections, T-1/E-1 interphases correction, and setting preemption translations. End to end testing with field techs and checking translations for routing T-1/E-1 to Europe, Asia and Middle east connections. Worked from Pentagon and various switches throughout the U.S. using Titan DACS 5500 3/1, for bandwidth management.

Responsible for planning, developing and instructing Nextel Network Operation Center, NOC, personnel to interpret the Integrated Digital Enhanced Network wireless, dispatch technology, national/international network alarm systems, to pinpoint location and type of equipment faults, and to test and load software & troubleshoot all phases of the iDEN system. * IDEN associated equipment; EBT's (Enhanced Base Transceiver) system-xmit and receive towers, which house base radios that transmit via T-1 to the mobile office-switching center. Testing associated equipment; T-bird 224, HP-J2301 Seimans Kll03 (SS7 Protocol Breakdown), DMS Map Position, and Spark Book. Signaling Protocols; X.25, X.75, CCS7, V.35, Frame Relay, ATM, Ethernet, Mobis, SNMP, OML, 10 BaseT, LAN, and others; The system supports mobile to mobile, land to mobile, land to land, group dispatch, interconnect, and private dispatch calls.

NORTEL/AVENTEL -Install and optimize (SLAT) OC-3, OC-12-OC-48 SONET Network throughout Mexico.* Responsibilities included the installation of OC-48 SONET rings and linear shots, optimizing OPC (Operation Processor Controllers) with updated software, connecting network elements for network connectivity, cross connecting fiber routes, and testing optical power amps with optical power meters. Also, installing and testing self-contained batteries and rectifiers, checking all C-Net Cables and all other cabling for correct connectivity for network element and processors. Synchronization, checking & cleaning fiber connections. Marconi DACS were used for bandwidth management. Also performed site and system test.

• 1994-1996 - IBM/Advantis, Schaumburg, IL.NOC Consultant/Tech* IBM national and international private voice and data network consists of Nortel DMS-250 Supernode switches, tellabs (Titan 5500) digital cross connects. System provider’s inter-exchange dedicated and switched access long distance services to businesses nationwide.• * Responsibilities included: Programmed enhanced routing of toll-free numbers on a virtual private network using a C-based application in a UNIX environment, remote network real-time monitoring, maintenance & troubleshooting, analyzing network log reports by network monitoring equipment, Alarm management,testing and repairing network faults, T-span testing of DSO, T1 & T3, and SS7. DMS-100, 250. Mapped Titian Crossconnects and SS7 signaling and digital cross Connects (Titan).

IBM national and international private voice and data network consists of Nortel DMS-250 Supernode switches, tellabs (Titan 5500) digital cross connects. System provider's inter-exchange dedicated and switched access long distance services to businesses nationwide.* Responsibilities included: Programmed enhanced routing of toll-free numbers on a virtual private network using a C-based application in a UNIX environment, remote network real-time monitoring, maintenance & troubleshooting, analyzing network log reports by network monitoring equipment, testing and repairing network faults, T-span testing of DSO, T1 & T3, and SS7. DMS-100, 250. Mapped Titian Crossconnects and SS7 signaling and digital cross Connects (Titan 5500)

Installed, tested, and turned up the Lightspan 2000 system.

Installed power, Alcatel LTS-1565, 21130 systems. Installation, testing, acceptance, and turnover procedures accomplished.

Digital Conversation Tech; Installed Northern Telecom DMS 100. Installed, turned-up and tested. Replacing analog system to digital.

Installed and Commissioned Fiber Optic Network including regen substations across N. Africa. turned up network 2/1992. Alcatel 1556, and the 21130 fiber optic network

Installing and testing Various types of telecom equipment such as Multiplexers, Cisco Routers, Tellabs DACS, Nortel DMS 100, 250 MSL-100 Switches, 5ESS, SLC-96, Various types of PBXs, Carrier equipment, channel banks, Fiber optics, Microwave Radios and equipment, wave guide, Mobile switching center equipment. Testing T-1s, DS-3, OCn spans. Mapping circuits onto the network using the Tellabs titan 5500 and the 532. And much more. Job duties include: Installing cable racks, mounting Telecom equipment bays, and running cable, coax, and fiber routes according to engineering blueprints. Cross connect cabling and wire wrapping 25, 50 pair cable to terminal blocks as per color code. Loading software to new and existing Telecom equipment.

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