Mitchell Brown
Braidwood,IL
Summary
Seeking gainful employment with a company that is safety oriented and values its employees, also allows and encourages advancement of its employees.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Tophand/Tower Foreman
Beyond Wireless LTD.
01.2017 - Current
- Performing daily tower top installations for Verizon to include tower mods, decom old equipment, install new antennas, OVP's, hybrid cables. Install rack mounts, fiber optic, -48 power and Cat 5\6 cables in both shelters and outdoor plants.
- Complete all required testing to include fiber, sweep and pim, insure everything is installed per carrier, and tower specs, obtain and upload all required closeout photos
- Training of new employees in proper installation and safety processes.
Tophand/Tower Foreman
Sleeth Tower
07.2015 - 03.2017
- Responsible for completing all tower related work for multiple carriers to include Sprint/Verizon, also conducting troubleshooting and repairing issues for T-mobile L700/2100 and Greenfield
- Identifying hazards both on the tower and ground to insure conformity to all OSHA, tower owner, carrier and company safety guidelines and requirements
- Daily supervision and training of other employees of lesser skill levels pertaining to proper climbing and rigging techniques, also adhering to carrier build and quality requirements
- All final picture taking upon completion of builds, AAT tool, fiber and p.i.m
- Testing, and spotting change order items.
Construction Manager
Lemcon-Americas
06.2013 - 06.2015
- Responsible for day to day ops of multiple in house and Sub contract crews for T-mobile Rural-America, and Verizon 2100 project
- Site walks, B.O M
- Development foreseeing and remedy any out of SCOP issues prior to beginning site work
- Reviewing and assembling all close out documentation for submission, daily meetings with PM and customers to review progress and project satisfaction
- Implementation and practice of all safety policies, site audits and all other daily tasks that are presented, also assisting in house crews in the field as needed
- Weekly and daily safety meetings for both in house and Sub contract crews.
Tophand/Foreman
Sattel Broadband
03.2011 - 05.2013
- Responsible for completing full site installs in a timely manner, outline daily expectations to crew members and ensuring those are met
- Reporting all progress and issues to CM or PM, completion of all required paperwork to include safety, all closeout documentation and photos
- Perform site walks, line sweeping, ret motor setting, p.i.m
- And fiber testing, true ups, redlines, tower modification, ability to troubleshoot for AT&T, and T-Mobile LTE and full site upgrades.
Top Hand/Foreman
Tower Services International
02.2008 - 03.2011
- Lead Hand: AT&T 4g LTE upgrade work installation of new equipment to include antennas, TMA's, RRH's, diplexers, squids, mainline coax, sector power and fiber wires, jumpers and grounding
- Adhering to all quality requirements set forth by both the customer and AT&T to include proper supporting of all lines, color coding, and weatherproofing of connections
- Stacking of Monopoles and Self Supporting towers.
- Foreman: Responsible for ensuring that day to day requirements were met, daily reporting to PM and CM updating progress made on site
- Daily inspection of all equipment, tools and PPE used on site, completion of 502 audits and all required documentation needed to complete closeout packages
- Filling out and sending daily work reports, expense reports and other company documentation
- Ability to read and construct sites per drawings.
Education
United States Army
GED -
Lockport Township
Lockport, IL06.1995
Skills
- AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint experience, sweep testing, fiber testing, closeout documentation, photos, daily work reports, all aspects of foreman/CM position
- Previous on stream leak sealing, hot tapping and pipeline work performed in various processing and power plants Adhearnce to all safety and plant specific specifications
- Completion of daily JSA/JHA, daily, weekly and monthly PPE and equipment inspections, filling out and submitting required paperwork of allinspections
- Identifying hazards , deficiencies on work sites and developing and implementing corrective actions to mitigate risks
Certification
- Comtrain Climb/Fall Protection and Safety Instructor, Rigging, Crane Spotter&Signaling, Capstain Operations.
- First Aid/CPR , Bloodborne Pathogens, Confined Space Entry, Ansi Standards, OSHA 30hr
- Kaelus PIM, Nokia TMO PTID (C&I Level 3 & Advanced Install Level
- Excel, Microsoft Word, and other various required programs
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References
Upon Request
Timeline
Tophand/Tower Foreman
Beyond Wireless LTD.
01.2017 - Current
Tophand/Tower Foreman
Sleeth Tower
07.2015 - 03.2017
Construction Manager
Lemcon-Americas
06.2013 - 06.2015
Tophand/Foreman
Sattel Broadband
03.2011 - 05.2013
Top Hand/Foreman
Tower Services International
02.2008 - 03.2011
United States Army
GED -
Lockport Township