Arthur Chilsted

I worked as an Electronic Communication Equipment Installer for the first 8 yrs of my employment installing communication equipment into all types of County vehicles, including critical Command Vehicles. I also volunteered for other projects including the relocation of the Fire CETS switch, along with various Phone shop and Microwave shop projects.

For the past 11 yrs. I have been on assignment with the Field Service Shop. Duties included Dispatching, Procurement, Project Management, etc. In this time I have also spent time in design and repair of Comm equipment such as consoles and SCU's, repair of radios and equipment, training of the new employees, inventory control.

I am also the first and main contact for Customer service and routinely walk customers through the process of restoring service. I am extremely versed in the County's communication systems. I am usually the first to recognize system issues and report outages to responding organizations.

Occasionally we have major disruptions where I have shown to be an outstanding coordinator of available resources.

Traveled across the United States repairing Satellite/Cellular MDC equipment.

Assigned regular route for repairing of Two way radio equipment. ie Post office, trucking companies, LA and long Beach ports, etc.

Designed and implemented BDA systems for Nextel. Trained other employees to install and maintain BDA's and DAS systems.

Trained employees for highly technical installation of radios and ancillary items into covert government vehicles. Secret Service, Homeland Security, DEA, ATF, local law enforcement etc.

Attended sales meetings and prepared bids for labor intensive projects. Managed said projects.

Started as Installer trainee and quickly learned the industry. After 6 mos. I was moved to Technician trainee responsible for Drive up repairs and bench repair.

Recruited for Line Crew shortly thereafter and eventually Line Crew Supervisor.

Promoted to Installation/CCTV/Sites manger in charge of 20

plus individuals.

Promoted to Service Manager and then Sales Manager shortly before I left.

Skilled in-

Two way radio repair and installation

Base station/remote repair and installation

Tower construction and grounding (certified)

BDA and DAS system installation and repair

Repeater installation and repair

Simulcast and Trunking system installation and repair

CCTV system installation and repair

Microwave system installation and repair

Project lead on multi million dollar projects for the Federal Govt., Refineries, Airports, Prisons, Military bases and other high profile customers.