Management – Installation oriented COE. /IT Specialist with notable success installing; while participating in planning schedules,    maintaining milestones, in compliant with the costumer’s request, and motivating installation teams.

Field installation Technician

Installing BSR & UBR  for there CMTS project and performing First Modem Provision Testing in a ring from D.C. to Manassas, VA From Martinsburg, NC To Knoxville, TN to Memphis, TN and working with Comcast on their Audio & Video build out also worked on there BDFB build out FOR THERE BMR's. Level4 supervisor for AT&T on IP, DAC's & 7609 router install's for AT&T, run 72 count fiber.

Installing and participating in Central Office Equipment, installation of Emerson DC Power plants and batteries and running DC power to the UMTS, MCPA in there wireless sites for Cingular.

Installing and participating in management of Central Office Equipment, installation projects, & wireless CDMA commutations.  Tested EVDO

   Drove from job site to job site to gather data Mon. – Wed on floor plans, Halon system, positions of alarms with wiring test points, and building measurement and location of new equipment. On Thurs. & Fri. I was in the office updating customer’s floor plans and ED drawings via Visio and Cad programs. I traveled from Niagara Falls to Rouses Point, N.Y., every week contracting to Tellergy. I also had to keep up with my own expense reports, and turn them in at the end of the month.

   I obtained a contract with Nextel Communications over seeing their MOS (Main Switching Office). I installed projects and I was solely responsible for 80% of their Florida Market MSO installs, and 70% of their N.Y. market MSO installs. All the venders had to submit a MOP to me before any work could be done in the brand-new offices. I would mark the floor for each vender, set up a staging area, and run POTS line for each vender. My employees set all the Rely Racks and A row of enhanced DSX bays for the venders. I was solely responsible to make sure all venders reached Nextel’s milestones. During these projects, I was confronted by Motorola and asked to take on their EBTS installs for Nextel MSO’S, so I added a crew for them. Then, I was confronted again by Nextel to do there Cell site’s. I bought 4 Trucks loaded with tools and my crews went out with Longitude/Latitude and an on board GPS to a new cell site building. They hooked up a generator to the electrical box and turned on the lights and started building a cell site from the ground up. When they left it was tested and turned up. I ran my own company for 5 years; I did everything from helping with the billing, to drumming up work, to installing.

        I ran jobs and installed for Northern Telecom. Upon one of the projects, I installed a DMS-100 at NASA. Sub-contracted to       level 3. Helped manage and build the main IP hub in Reston, VA. 

    I was certified by Kentucky board of education to teach vocational education of COE Installation Standers and Basic installation while contributing to the gathering of these standers and the building of the documentation their of… that was used in their learning facility Telephony Tech. in partnership with EKSEP, and TENCO, and Ashland’s unemployment office in a effort to help unemployed and dislocated workers get new jobs. The project had a success rate of 93% placement. I was also responsible for instructing 12 pulps for 3 month intervals. Their curriculum consisted of the following: Color code, stitching, Iron work, safety, CPR, wire wrapping. Drilling and anchoring bays, strapping battery’s, Bell standers, Nortel Standers, Ameritech Standers, BNC Certified, basic blue print reading, Keeping of a daily job log. Marking floor as well as marking up blue prints Red in yellow out and more. The students were graded half on hands on in the switch room and half in the class room test. I was responsible for keeping a log on each student and relay there progress back to EKSEP, for their evaluation. At the end of the class each student had to trace a call through a telephone office.

I ran jobs for my father Ballard Pennington on a contract he had with Lorain Power when they introduced their (S.M.A.R.T.) system Main power distribution equipment I ran projects all over Ohio and N.Y. installing power plants for new Central telephone offices from the ground up working with local venders setting times for the costumer AC to be wired in. While organizing my time to simultaneously run multiple projects and IRing ship short list while keeping up with costumer and supervisor’s paperwork as well as participating in board meetings and keeping up with company milestones.

                XY Equipment

         Ironwork

12 foot environment rely rack

MDF

Line finders

First Selectors

Connecters

100 line additions

Identifiers

Ring generators

Solider wrap

Grading Panels

E.W.S.D

                Lorain (S.M.A.R.T.)

                Batteries Gel-cell & Electrolytic Brands

                Lorain inverters

                Lorain rectifiers

                      Peco ll Power plants

                    Lucent Galaxy 2000

Lightspan2000

Centrex

Enhanced DSX

Dantel Alarm system

Catalyst2500

Enterprise Cat5 patch panel

ADC fiber duct/patch panel

OC3/12/48/192

Cisco routers

FLM 150

Crimps:       BNC

                 RJ45

Letter's of Recommendation

   Email to team lead on the Ojus regarding a job Steven Pennington was on.