Erik Hernandez
Des Moines
Summary
Dependable professional with strong background installing, maintaining, and repairing systems and components. Maintains equipment safety and performance with in-depth inspections and corrections. Dedicated to quality and always professional.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Contractor
Insight Global
Des Moines
07.2025 - 02.2026
- Worked at Microsoft facilities handling fiber and copper cables with precision and care.
- Experienced in unboxing T2 equipment and assembling racks efficiently.
- Skilled in managing power cables to support facility.
- Certified in lift training, ensuring safe and efficient operation.
- Skilled in splicing and running cables with attention to detail and safety standards.
- Installed fiber and copper cables throughout facilities.
- We also plug and dress the cables into the devices/gospost.
- I do a little bit of computer work to film in the cables into the system so it's ready to be patched in.
- Executed splicing and termination of cables to ensure proper connections.
- Copper cables/terminate CAT 3 & CAT 5 jacks.
- Troubleshooting and repairing broken optics, fiber, copper and replacing with new.
- Labeling cables to have them put up and staged to be ready to patch in.
- Removing and installing new devices such as racks, gospost, door panels, devices used for fiber.
Low Voltage Technician
J and L low voltage
Des Moines
01.2024 - 11.2024
- As a low voltage technician I travel on the road to different homes burying internet fiber 6 to 8 inches deep in the ground.
- I would bury a fiber line 100 to 200 feet long with a trenching spade.
- I also know how to repair fiber and splice it back together as well as repairing dog fences.
- I do about 6 to 8 homes in a day.
Cable Installer/Technician
IES Communications
Des Moines
05.2022 - 01.2024
- I work at IES installing cables and working with hardware and help build their data storages.
Order Picker
Lomar Distributing Inc
Des Moines
09.2020 - 11.2021
- I worked for Hyvee at their warehouses lifting heavy pallets, and heavy orders and boxes.
- I put them on a pallet and load them up to trucks.
- I did this for a year and some months.
Education
East High School
Des Moines, IASkills
- Security system
- Basic math
- Driving
- Heavy lifting
- Commercial driving
- Communication skills
- Low Voltage
- Hand tools
- Field service
- Telecommunication
- Cabling
Certification
Driver's License, 08/01/21, 05/01/29
OSHA 10 Hour Outreach Training Program - Construction
NFPA 70E (2021) Arc Flash Online Training
Lockout Tagout (LOTO) Online Training
Additional Information
Authorized to work in the US for any employer, Low Voltage, English, Hand tools, Field service, Telecommunication, Cabling, Spanish
Languages
- Spanish
- English
Timeline
Contractor
Insight Global
07.2025 - 02.2026
Low Voltage Technician
J and L low voltage
01.2024 - 11.2024
Cable Installer/Technician
IES Communications
05.2022 - 01.2024
Order Picker
Lomar Distributing Inc
09.2020 - 11.2021
East High School