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Josef Gargano

St. Petersburg,FL

Summary

Experienced Network Technician with a sub-focus in biomedical systems. Experience in implementing and troubleshooting different biomedical and network systems. Proficient in managing projects, demonstrating both technical expertise and strong leadership skills. Successfully enhanced system performance in previous roles through proactive monitoring and maintenance of systems and hardware. Skilled at collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Biomedical Technician

IQVIA
St Petersburg, Florida, United States
08.2023 - Current
  • Examine, test, repair, and troubleshoot medical devices to find the root cause using digital multimeters, oscilloscopes, HIPOT testers, and pressure gauges.
  • Apply technical knowledge to interpret information, test for accuracy, discern patterns in order to determine the root cause.
  • Write down clear and concise technical evaluation summaries resulting from troubleshooting analysis.
  • Perform basic statistical analysis from device history logs, read diagrams and drawings, and make repair recommendations.
  • Troubleshot technical problems, malfunctions, or faults with medical equipment and devices.

Cable Assembler Technician

Lockheed Martin
Oldsmar, Florida, United States
01.2023 - 08.2023
  • Performed a variety of tasks ranging from production assembly operations on cabinet assemblies, which includes installing cables, sub-assemblies, and circuit card assemblies.
  • Built in accordance with IPC-620 quality standards to meet DOD and consumer requirements.
  • Conducted quality inspections on the processing line in accordance with quality specifications.
  • Read and interpreted multi-level drawings, thorough knowledge of electrical theory, and excellent understanding of electrical schematics and associated documentation.
  • Created detailed documentation of all work performed, including wiring diagrams, sketches, and schematics.

Infrastructure Decommission Technician

Amazon Web Services
Herndon, Virginia, United States
01.2021 - 01.2023
  • Physical and logical decommissioning of network and cabling infrastructure in a Data Center environment.
  • Scope effort assigned, validate all work is ready for decommissioning, create change requests to perform work, and timely execute effort that has been assigned.
  • Securely prepare and arrange transfer of functional, decommissioned network racks, and individual network devices from AWS data centers to Amazon warehouses for repurposing.
  • Manage assigned work and priorities through ticketing system and/or workflows.

Lead Outside/Inside Plant Technician

Vectrus - Afghanistan (OMDAC-SWACA)
12.2019 - 12.2020
  • Maintained an accurate database of all cables, wires, terminations, routes, and other maintenance data, and made the database available to the Government and other Contractors when required to successfully integrate new capabilities and maintain reliable service.
  • Performed the installation, movement, or removal of voice, data, and LAN circuits/equipment and installation, de-installation, maintenance and repair of all modems (fiber and copper).
  • Managed and maintained Military fiber, cable, and network projects in an austere environment (Afghanistan).
  • Planned and directed mission critical copper/fiber projects to boost network connectivity in support of US Military assets.

Network Technician/Administrator

Lockheed Martin
Liverpool, New York, United States
10.2018 - 12.2019
  • Install and maintain network components such as switches, hubs, routers, network enforcement devices (NEDs), and other Cisco/Juniper hardware along with handling CAT and fiber cable.
  • Worked with a ticketing system to resolve customer issues pertaining to network tasks, such as making cross connections to enable ports/drops, or network incidents, such as losing network connectivity.
  • Managed and maintained all logical and physical assets across the network footprint of the entire campus.
  • Performed troubleshooting activities to identify and repair equipment failures or configuration issues.
  • Assisted with the design of local area networks as well as wide area networks.

Nodal Network Systems Operator-Maintainer

United States Army
08.2014 - 10.2018
  • Responsible for making sure that the lines of communication are always up and running
  • They maintain strategic and tactical nodal systems
  • Supervised, installed, operated, and performed field-level maintenance on Internet Protocol-based high-speed electronic communication systems
  • Performed network management functions by maintaining, troubleshooting, and re-engineering communication assets
  • Maintaining communications security, or COSMEC devices and other equipment associated with network communication operations.

Education

Certification - Network Systems/Operations

United States Army Cyber Center of Excellence
10-2017

High School Diploma -

Newsome High School
Lithia, FL
06-2014

Certification - CSC13571916

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Skills

  • Network devices/hardware
  • Asset management
  • Biomedical devices/systems
  • Copper/fiber cabling
  • Soldering/micro-soldering
  • Installations and repairs
  • Documentation
  • Problem-solving abilities
  • Interpersonal Skills
  • Analytical Thinking

Certification

  • Inactive Secret clearance; Department of Defense

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Biomedical Technician

IQVIA
08.2023 - Current

Cable Assembler Technician

Lockheed Martin
01.2023 - 08.2023

Infrastructure Decommission Technician

Amazon Web Services
01.2021 - 01.2023

Lead Outside/Inside Plant Technician

Vectrus - Afghanistan (OMDAC-SWACA)
12.2019 - 12.2020

Network Technician/Administrator

Lockheed Martin
10.2018 - 12.2019

Nodal Network Systems Operator-Maintainer

United States Army
08.2014 - 10.2018

Certification - Network Systems/Operations

United States Army Cyber Center of Excellence

High School Diploma -

Newsome High School

Certification - CSC13571916

Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • Inactive Secret clearance; Department of Defense
Josef Gargano