William Houchin Email & Phone Number

Irving, Texas, United States

• Engineer – Produced Fiber Designs for implementation of Verizon's 5G network
• Created 10 Network Designs using detailed drafting information from Verizon/MCI ASBUILT Drafting records as input into Verizon's 3GIS platform
• Created 10 One Fiber Designs using 3GIS for new build-out of Verizon's 5G network

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Produced Fiber and COAX designs to provide telecom services for Charter's customers.
• Created hundreds of Network Designs using MicroStation V8i to extend network reach for new customers
• Provided Forced Relocation planning to ensure appropriate action was performed to minimize customer outage due to fire damage, road widening and other situations that require network modification.
• Made extensive use of AutoCAD and Autodesk applications for Splice Matrix, Sysmaps representing Fiber Network Layout from hub to customer locations

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Worked on-site at City of Dallas Fire Station, Hospital and Water Utilities to perform installation of modified 2-way radio equipment as part of a FCC narrowband mandated project in the emergency dispatch radio network. Modified and rewired Locution Emulator equipment, programmed and installed Motorola 2-way radios, amplifiers and data transmission.

Fort Worth, Texas

Worked as a contract field technician at a US Sprint Central Office in Ft. Worth and remote BTS installation sites. Conducted audits of equipment using hand held scanners, created and ran cables to designated termination points on ADC patch panels. Performed audits of equipment at remote BTS sites within Sprint’s Wireless Network using Siterra

Richland Hills

Installed and maintained AT&T’s U-verse television, high-speed internet, and phone service at customer locations in Fort Worth and surrounding communities. During tenure installed U-verse service at over 50 residences in the Tarrant County region of Texas and dispatched on over 100 maintenance jobs to repair service for customers who were experiencing.

Produced and completed electronic Trouble Tickets for resolution problems with Workstations and Servers of the company's clientele of Telephony services. Provided technical support for testing, of company telephone servers and equipment.

Provided Verizon with Data Traffic monitoring and reports for the DSL backbone network from 1997-2001. Created network plans for Lucent ATM switching platforms to alleviate congestion and improve growth potential. Created MS Excel files to track serving offices from which advanced network services could be provided and sold to customers. Oversaw progam.

Provided test and integration systems engineering functions for interfacing between a Siemens D-900 cellular switch and BSC equipment in lab and field environments for the R&D phases of the Iridium project. This included multiple protocol conversions and physical connectivity such as ISUP, ATM, and E1-to-T1.

Provided Network Management System solutions for the company’s clientele of long distance and local exchange carriers. This included on-site technical support, documentation & development of solutions. Worked on-site at MCI's Hyperstream NOC for implementation of Network Management Solutions. Performed system integration and test for X.25 network equipment.

Performed systems engineering functions including test documentation, system interfacing, software coding, problem reporting and failure analysis for the development of a Fiber-In-The-Loop network under a $180 million contract with the Federal Republic of Germany.  Performed software builds using Intel ice486 emulators on prototype systems Provided.

Tested Digital Cross-Connect Systems for acceptance into Local Exchange Carriers and Long-Distance companies. This included developing requirements and ensuring testing methods and procedures verified overall functionality of systems. This required loading software and running tests to identify failures and reporting failures to proper departments (i.e..

Masters Of Science, Telecommunications Management

Bachelor Of Science, Eet