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Justin Morris

Cross Plains,TN

Summary

I begin my career in the electrical field and moved over to the telecommunications industry with a company called CTIS that performed contract work for Comcast. I felt I had reached my potential and decided to make the move to become an In-house employee with Comcast and quickly excelled to the highest tech level within just a few years along with being awarded with Technician of the year. I advanced my career further becoming employed with Level 3 Communications in 2015 where the majority of my telecom experienced was acquired working for a Tier 1 ISP with a large network footprint and customer base in Nashville market. The following are some of the attributes I believe makes a great technician. Experienced with a good mix of installations and troubleshooting. Efficient with relevant tools such as light meters, OTDRs, red lights, and test sets, and familiar with various types of testing like RFC, BERT, H2H, and throughput. Empathetic to customer concerns caused by network issues, fibercuts or lack of product knowledge. Able to mentally walk through each step of upcoming installations to identify potential problems, material issues, or site access issues. Draws on past experience to troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly, to restore services as soon as possible. Flexible and adaptable to new changes and processes in the telecom industry and technology in general. Punctual, detail-oriented, and takes pride in their work, treating every job with the same care as if they were the customer themselves. Persistent in providing updates and managing the progress of current and future projects.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Field Technician II

ZAYO Group
12.2023 - Current
  • Perform a variety of functions based on the need of their assigned geographic area. Operate under some supervision.
  • Participate in conference calls or meetings related to projects and processes.
  • Perform installation and installation commissioning, troubleshooting, and handling of optical transmission systems with guidance from leadership.
  • Perform OTDR, Ethernet, BER, and SONET acceptance testing.
  • Complete installation, decommissioning, and troubleshooting problems of network and customer services.
  • Provide preliminary site surveys for building entrance construction requirements and equipment space availability.
  • Responsible for preventable and demand maintenance of the network, critical infrastructure (commonly referred to as facilities), and materials management.
  • Able to reasonably work within the company’s systems and applications to complete work.
  • Installation, labeling, cleaning, and testing of fiber optic patch cords.
  • Write routine reports, fill out documentation such as site surveys and audit reports as well as effectively communicate with customers, management, peers, and contractors, as well as other members of the organization.
  • Resolve problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations as use deductive reasoning skills to improve the customer experience and network performance.
  • Inspect cabinets, buried cable, construction sites, and other facilities outdoor in various environments, weather conditions, temperatures, exposed to local flora and fauna.
  • Use written communication effectively with internal and external peers on a daily basis to work towards common goals. Resolve minor conflicts with industry peers, internal peers or customers without management intervention being necessary.
  • Read and interpret documents such as Company safety rules, MSDS, MOPs, process and procedure documents as well as vendor documentation related to equipment owned by the company.
  • Assist other employees with tasks as needed.
  • Conduct a daily inspection of company issued vehicle to ensure it is in a safe operating condition.
  • Maintain eligibility to operate a company issued vehicle per.
  • Participate in on-call schedule rotation 24/7/365, dispatch, and overtime.

OSP Field Engineer

Mountain LTD
06.2023 - 11.2023
  • Conduct audits of existing HFC cable systems for clients using Bluebeam software by physically walking out the HFC footprint.
  • Update existing as built maps with current equipment information from every utility pole the HFC network utilizes via Bluebeam software, including pole distances, cable types and sizes, active and passives.
  • Daily reporting updates to management.

Network Technician II

SOTA CONNECT
02.2022 - 01.2023
  • Traveling Telecommunications Central Office equipment installation.
  • Subcontractors for Windstream/Metronet/CenturyLink.
  • BDFB/DC Power Work Rack/Stack/Power & commission.
  • Legacy equipment decommissioning.
  • Card augments
  • DWDM metro/long haul
  • Fiber Optic Characterization and Test / Turn-Up

Field Technician II

Level3/Centurylink/Lumen Technologies
08.2015 - 12.2021
  • Responsible for asset management: processes deliveries and replenishes consumables as well as coordinates shipping and receiving of materials.
  • Maintains tools, test sets, and electronic equipment including, but not limited to: fiber optic transmission equipment, light wave multiplexing equipment, AC and DC power equipment.
  • Assists in installs, provisions, tests and maintains Telecom services (Waves, Ethernet, SDH, etc).
  • Install and test transport, IP, CDN and media equipment.
  • Good knowledge of DWDM and transport platforms such as Nokia/ADVA/Huawei/Ciena.
  • Troubleshoots network equipment, removes, and replaces defective modules, tracks spares and ensures repair.
  • Monitors/locates route and assists in executing restoration in the event of a service interruption, proactively responds to potential problem areas in order to ensure integrity of the network.
  • Responsible for learning all the systems and applications required to perform the job function adequately.
  • Updates installation records, enters appropriate detailed log information on trouble tickets for reference, and provides reports to others on status updates and issues related to assignments.
  • Locating underground facilities using Vivax tone generating tools, connecting onto splice points, calling into a LMS system to activate long haul system frequencies.
  • Perform routine quarterly, semi-annual, annual PMI’s at 10-12 remote facilities on the long haul fiber route, including.
  • Testing commercial power failure operations.
  • ATS transfer switch, Generator Maintenance
  • Battery/UPS maintenance & testing with Medtronic’s test equipment for battery health/voltage/buss bar resistance.
  • HVAC maintenance & troubleshooting
  • Alarms reporting system via Dantel/Nortel/Kentronix/Westell maintenance & troubleshooting.
  • Maintain material stock levels, including fiber optic cables, attenuators, Cat5/6, fuses, various other consumables.
  • Installing optical & electrical Cross-Connects.
  • Labeling & QC of existing and new fiber distribution panels.
  • BDFB/DC Power Work
  • Rack/Stack/Power & commission, Card augments.
  • DWDM metro/long haul
  • Metro/Transport environment equipment/NIDs including: Adtran, Fujitsu, Huawei, Adva, Nokia, Alcatel lucent, Ciena
  • Cisco routers/switches
  • Familiarity with most Data centers around the Nashville area for equipment installs and circuit deliveries including Flexential, 365 Data, Tierpoint, NTT Data, H5 Data, Vxchnge, EdgeConnecX, Nexus.
  • Working various COLO/Dark fiber customer tickets in Datacenter environment including:
  • Processing RMAs with various vendors
  • DC power work/Fuse panel installs
  • Circuit delivery, Card/switch replacement
  • Working with remote testers
  • Testing with various equipment including:
  • OTDR for fiber trouble shooting
  • FTB-200/500/FTB-1 PRO
  • BERT/Ethersam/Smart loop
  • Light meters, Traffic meters
  • Laptop/Software/Hardware
  • Putty/Console sessions for test & turnup

DIRECTV Contractor

Cable N More/DIRECTV
02.2015 - 06.2015
  • Preparing for installations by reviewing installation orders, gathering equipment, supplies and tools and coordinating schedules with customers.
  • Establishing satellite TV systems by installing equipment, running and pulling cable, programming and calibrating equipment while adhering to codes, regulations and standards.
  • Verifying satellite TV systems for correct functionality and optimal performance by testing equipment and connections and identifying and correcting any issues.
  • Accomplishments
  • SBCA Certified.

Communications Technician IV

Comcast/Xfinity
03.2011 - 09.2014
  • Installed Infinity entertainment systems, cable television, computer networking systems, internet services and security systems.
  • Responded to Comcast repair calls.
  • Successfully completed intensive technician training course provided by Comcast for Comm Tech levels 1-4.
  • Sound knowledge of the various regulations such as NEC, NESC, OSHA and other local codes.
  • Accomplishments
  • 2011 technician of the year award.

Comcast Contractor

CTIS (Cable Television Installation & Service)
11.2009 - 03.2011
  • Installed Infinity entertainment systems, cable television, computer networking systems, internet services and security systems.
  • Performed disconnects as per the customer request and in cases of customer nonpayment according to the Comcast procedures.
  • Maintained all the tools and equipment’s required for installation.

Field Technician

Simmons Audio Video
09.2007 - 10.2009
  • Configure, set-up & troubleshoot all audio, video, lighting & network/desktop.
  • Proficient with various terminations including RGB/RG6/Cat5/Compression/Solder etc.
  • Installed home theater systems, security systems, surveillance systems, central vacuum systems, TV wall mounting.
  • Very strong with trouble shooting computer issues software and hardware with Windows and Apple products.

Apprentice Electrician

CM Electrical
04.2004 - 11.2006
  • Assemble, install, test, and maintain electrical wiring, equipment, appliances, apparatus, and fixtures, using hand tools and power tools.
  • Installing high and low voltage wiring in new and remodeled residential/commercial buildings.

Education

High School Diploma - undefined

Aaron Christian academy

Skills

  • Field Operations
  • DWDM and transport platforms
  • Rack & Stack - Power & commission
  • Fiber Optic Characterization - Test & Turn-Up
  • Network Support
  • Networking Hardware Installation
  • Network Troubleshooting
  • Switches and Routers

Certification

  • ESA Alarm Certified
  • DirecTV SBCA Certification

Timeline

Field Technician II

ZAYO Group
12.2023 - Current

OSP Field Engineer

Mountain LTD
06.2023 - 11.2023

Network Technician II

SOTA CONNECT
02.2022 - 01.2023

Field Technician II

Level3/Centurylink/Lumen Technologies
08.2015 - 12.2021

DIRECTV Contractor

Cable N More/DIRECTV
02.2015 - 06.2015

Communications Technician IV

Comcast/Xfinity
03.2011 - 09.2014

Comcast Contractor

CTIS (Cable Television Installation & Service)
11.2009 - 03.2011

Field Technician

Simmons Audio Video
09.2007 - 10.2009

Apprentice Electrician

CM Electrical
04.2004 - 11.2006

High School Diploma - undefined

Aaron Christian academy
Justin Morris