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Direct and provide oversight for all field engineering activities within the Market area. Provide technical leadership and/or hands-on technical expertise for maintaining, troubleshooting, and turning-up fiber optic transport networks (OTN), and turn-up of new customer circuits. Implement new CISCO NCS2K/MSTP/FLEX DWDM systems metro and long haul using WSON and SSON. Implement new CISCO NCS1010 OLTs and ILAs utilizing C-Band OLT, C-Band OLT with Raman, and L-Band OLT on lit and dark fiber routes. Install, provision, and turn up of Ciena's 6500 Reconfigurable Line System.Drive the implementation of metro network augmentation and expansion projects.Manage vendors to build out risers within "Class A" office buildings; interface with building managers and customers.Provide coordination for the rollout of network updates and equipment augments with customers, engineering groups, and the operations. Select, manage, and train vendors on network support and construction related activities. Work with Network Engineering and Planning to provide field perspective and expertise for network dark fiber deployments. Expert in telecommunications infrastructure, fiber, CWDM and DWDM technologies, and AC/DC power systems. Expert in the use of optical test equipment, including power meters, OTDRs and OSAs, and interpretation of test results.

Responsible for day-to-day installation, maintenance, monitoring, repair and provisioning of customer premise locations, Central Office, and secondary transmission sites 24/7/365. Install, test, provision, maintain Cisco ONS 15600, 15454, 15327, MSTP OADM&ROADMTested, Turned up, Trouble shot customer circuits DS1 to OC-192Installed Customer Premise Cisco/Adtran routersMaintain Cisco 7200/7609 series routersMaintain, provision T1 cross connects Tellabs 5500 NGX Installed, tested, provisioned, maintained Telect Mix56 T1 mux systemInstalled, tested, provisioned, maintained Adtran 2820 and 2800 T1 mux systemResponsible for sixty COLO/Customer locations

Maintaining Nortel OPTera LH 1600 (OC-48 through OC-192)Maintaining Sycamore Edge Switch 16000,8000,and 3000(OC-3 through OC48)Responsible for all Fiber fusion Splicing, testing, and restoration Responsible for all cable locates Installed cable ladder rack and fiber racewayProficient with GNnettest OTDR, Fitel fusion splicer, Digital Lightwave optical tester, Gnnettest long range power meter, and Radiodetection Locator Unit

Maintained Nortel DMS 250/500, Nortel Passport and Vector switches, Tellabs Titan 5500, Alactel iMTN, Alactel frame relay, Alactel Sonet DSC 1/0, 1L DACS, Rockwell A-sync, and Nortel M13 Mux Installed and upheld DSO’s, DS1’s, and DS3’s for network and to customer premiseProficient with T-Berd 224 and 310, and also HP Cerjac 155 test sets.

Installed and maintained UHF, SHF, and satellite transmission paths to distant end tandem switches. Installed X.25, LAN, E-mail, and packet switch data ports.Performed troubleshooting for various circuit cards within the switch. Trained and supervised operators.Deployed to both Bosnia and Italy.Recipient of two Army Achievement Medals in 1996.