Network Eng and Construction

• 10 years of experience with strong background and understanding of telecommunications, outside plant engineering, construction, and managing network related construction projects with successful results that include scope, schedule, and budget.
• Maintaining the security of the outside fiber plant (OSP) network, either aerial and/or underground, throughout area of responsibility by managing cable location, by locating contractors and initiating protection activities
• Working closely with other carriers, local/ state agencies and building owners/property owners on new building adds and relocations.
• Working closely with upstream groups, completes fiber verification requests, project estimations, designs, bids, permits and manages construction of new sites.
• Monitoring infrastructure builds and reviewing punch lists and approving work that meets industry construction standards.
• Preparing project timelines, tracking budgets, and providing detailed weekly status reports.
• Obtaining value added contractors/subcontractors for engineering, permitting and construction of OSP infrastructure.
• Obtaining and managing contractors for route protection. Maintaining fiber splice records, network topography records, and fiber mapping
• Directing emergency restoration and mitigation activities required for the OSP network. This could include fiber optic damage, natural disasters, power failures and other events.
• Managing contract and/or employee fiber splicers and ability to be on-call on a 24/7/365 basis.
• Providing on the job divisional training to employees and oversees contractors to ensure the proper method and procedures of facility protection and maintenance are followed.
• Utilizing locating equipment, use of Optical Time Domain Reflectometers (OTDR), and troubleshooting tone generation/reception in field and experience in computer aided drafting (CAD) programs.