Leon Jones
Lexington,NC
Summary
Adept Network Engineer with a proven track record at Verizon, excelling in network design and problem-solving. Spearheaded major fiber optic projects, significantly enhancing network performance. Renowned for exceptional teamwork and technical support capabilities, I've led critical outage responses, ensuring swift service restoration and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing among junior engineers.
Extensive test and turn-up of optical transport equip including ROADMs of several vendors.
Fiber Testing of network fiber for use by transport gear.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
Work History
Network Engineer
Verizon
11.1992 - 09.2024
- Managed vendors to install fiber optic cable cross country to network sites and also locally to customer sites.
- Provide complete end-to-end engineering and installation and splice packages of fiber optic cable throughout the Verizon network.
- Install, test and turnup transport/ROADM equipment of Fujitsu, Cisco, Coriant, Adtran.
- Maintained the transport and OSP network across the state to include maintenace and repair and splicing of cut fiber cable.
- Lead Tech in NC.
- Played an instrumental role in responding to critical outages swiftly, restoring services with minimal disruption to operations.
- Contributed to the achievement of departmental objectives by adhering to best practices in change management, ensuring smooth transitions during network updates or modifications.
- Delivered training sessions to junior engineers, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration within the team.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Electronics Technology
Community College of The Air Force
Montgomery, AL06-1989
Skills
- Network performance monitoring
- Network troubleshooting
- Technical support capabilities
- Network design
- Network monitoring
- Network Install, test and turnup
- Splicing
- Fiber Testing
- Teamwork
- Problem-solving
- Problem-solving abilities
- Multitasking
Timeline
Network Engineer
Verizon
11.1992 - 09.2024
Associate of Applied Science - Electronics Technology
Community College of The Air Force
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