Brandon Okamura

• Performed troubleshooting and diagnosis on production for day/week.
• Maintained quality assurance for customer & contractor satisfaction.
• Inspected daily tasks to identify areas of wear or causes of malfunctions.
• I applied critical thinking and research to address complex issues.
• Knowledge in rigging tensions, grounding procedures, clipping, dead-ending, sagging conductor, use of line tools, experience in array of heavy equipment from 100-ton cranes, large bucket trucks, digger derrick trucks, pullers, tensioners, dozers, codux pulling equip. skid steers, etc.
• I am experienced in helicopter procedures and hanging from long line.

Worked under Nashville electric contract. Did a variety of maintenance jobs from replacing cutouts to pulling wire and pole change outs. Overhead work, working digger derricks, and bucket truck with jibs.

• Inspected incoming and outgoing jobs.
• Communicated with production team members about quality issues.
• Inspected quality of products, taking note of functionality, appearance and other specifications.
• Preformed fusion splicing for contractor, also created cut sheets and networking systems for the customer.

• Set ground anchors, grounding lines, clipping tangents, dead ending conductor.
• Performed maintenance and reconducting work in varied weather conditions.
• Worked on both dead and energized lines.
• Strung cables between structures and lines from poles, towers, or trenches and pulled lines to proper tension.

Understand the protocols of Pulling/Tension side of wire pulls, digging in multi-scenario soil, setting structures between energized lines in uneven terrain, & barehanding live conductor.

Worked 1590 bundle work, off of dead man jibs. Lead of the crew.

Learned Transmission Utility & Fiber Optic protocol for maintenance and new build construction. Maintained the ground & equipment.

• Worked communication fiber optic for contractors like cox, att, etc.