Russell Barker
Frederick,USA
Summary
Strong communicator with excellent organizational and time management skills. Efficiently manages multiple projects simultaneously while adhering to strict deadlines. Possesses excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think and act quickly to find creative solutions.
Overview
43
43
years of professional experience
Work History
Information Technology Specialist 2210-03
United States Information System Engineering Command
12.2018 - Current
- Lead Project Engineer for the Defense Health Agency (DHA) projects, exemplary at preparing for site visits weeks in advance, meticulously reviewing prior installation or survey data designs
- Responsible for six projects in 2022, served as PE team lead for five installations and once as a support engineer for the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, and satellite medical facilities in southern Germany and northern Italy
- Performs duties as in-house infrastructure trainer for his PE peers, and guided new PEs during deployments to Ft Hood, Ft
- Fort Novosel, Davis-Monthan AFB and Ft Campbell during COVID surges
- Used excellent technical knowledge researched solutions to the Weed Army Community Hospital’s need for outdoor mass-casualty Wi-Fi coverage
- Vocera range extended 100 yards to the Helipad
- Led William Beaumont Army Medical Center (WBAMC) LAN/WLAN installation team at Fort Bliss, TX
- Overcame unmentioned work stoppage hurdles by Department of Public Works and Infectious Control Offices, by developing a 3-prong working solution to complete 300 infrastructure tasks across 107 work locations and working one-on-one with medical staff to allow work to continue
- Led two separate teams to a successful completion of a LAN/WLAN Modernization at Ft Hood, TX
- The Charles R
- Darnell Army Medical Center (CRDAMC) complex is one of the largest US Army hospitals in the nation with 52 medical facilities, and 120 individual secured equipment areas
- As solo project engineer, I managed one PE in training, and twenty-one supporting electronic and infrastructure technicians for nine weeks through the peak of the COVID-19 crisis in Texas
- Continually provides quality verbal, written communication between customers and management
- Adjusts on-site workflow to customer’s scheduling requirements and resolves barriers to work around roadblocks to enable a successful completion of the project.
Telecommunications Engineer IV
NCIINC
10.2024 - 12.2024
- Led 7 infrastructure teams of NCI employees and sub-contractors through two OCONUS and five CONUS medical treatment facility network survey and installation upgrades this year
- Ensured communication between contractor and government teams to successfully gather all required information and worked with all stakeholders to resolve data network implementation issues during the install phase of each project
- Managed project assignment of daily team goals, the daily review of data collection, and created deliverable documents to the overall site lead for submission to the government
- Provided Quality Control support to ensure all deliverables met the strict standards required for the contract and oversaw corrections to any deficiencies discovered prior to final submissions of the various documents
- Provided on-site training of recent NCI and sub-contractor hires in the proper use and updating of building floorplan redlines, electronic/infrastructure survey data collection, cabling/equipment labeling, and photographic documentation of work performed
- Provided training to local IT staff at project sites in the safe operation of newly installed power equipment associated with data network upgrades and provided troubleshooting assistance during outages to resolve
- Facilitated communications with open conversations and updates between the Infrastructure and Engineering teams, associated NCI team leads, local IT point of contacts and on-site United States Army Information Systems Engineering Command (USAISEC) project leadership to resolve technical issues as they arise
- Assisted in the project site in-briefing and out-briefing to all government and contractor project stakeholders
- Manages Government and NCI purchased Infrastructure material from beginning on-site inventory, throughout the upgrade and post installation roll-back of supplies at all sites supported by USAISEC and Department of Health Agency (DHA)
- Installed new, replaced, and removed for salvage 100’s of outdated user switches, patch panels, uninterruptable power supplies and battery back-up units supporting Total Engineering and Integration Services (TEIS) contracts over the past eight years
- Led the installation of new, and/or upgrade of 1000’s of ceiling mounted Cisco and Brocade wireless access points, work area outlets, and many miles of CAT5E and Cat 6 cabling in medical facilities in both CONUS and OCONUS locations
- All equipment installed according to DHA and local building code standards
- Routinely review the latest DHA/ISEC/NCI Infrastructure guidance instructions at the beginning of each site visit to be able to identify, address and correct if possible existing deviations
- Special note is taken of fire walls/fire stopping cable penetration procedures and equipment room grounding
- Coordinated all communications between contract team and local safety and facilities personnel to ensure all life safety standards were met and inspections were completed
- Used my extensive IT experience to build data networks using projected network growth and interconnection drawing survey data, in conjunction with other supplied technical information, to develop the baseline installation package for the project location
- Identified areas that needed additional resources to ensure network connectivity, and identified currently deficient equipment that was End-Of-Life (EOL) for replacement during the installation phase to meet DISA and DHA standards
- Developed network switch build specification sheets in conjunction with local Information Technology personnel that identified required cooling fans, power supplies, interface modules and Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP)
- Installed/updated switch configurations, programs user and trunk ports, builds and installs multiple switch stacks, assigns priority stack settings, connects SFPs to existing network fiber
- Performs operational testing, provided troubleshooting assistance, and collected current network scripts for deliverable documentation.
Test Engineer
L-3 Communications/ILEX Systems Inc.
08.2024 - 11.2024
- Performed project engineering, installation, testing and material acquisition support for the TROJAN community and other C4I/IEW customers
- Completed training on the latest technologies and upgrades to the TROJAN SPIRIT, JACE/RAID, I-Direct, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, TENCAP and Land Mobile Radio programs
- Completed 12 on-site surveys, performed on-site engineering and installation support trips, communications link engineering, validation, and analysis.
Systems Test Engineer
Global SATCOM Technologies Inc.
02.2024 - 04.2024
- Performed final systems testing for transportable flyaway, Highly Mobile Multi-Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) and trailer mounted satellite systems
- Trained US Army satellite customers/operators on-site with the nuances of these systems terminal set-up procedures, satellite acquisition and tracking functions
- Demonstrated proficiency with spectrum analyzers, signal generators, frequency synthesizers and power meters during final systems testing
- Designed a rolling work platform to erect flyaway satellite antenna systems; provided a stable yet mobile platform to roll inside/outside a fully assembled satellite system for testing, greatly reducing assembly/disassembly man-hours and unnecessary wear and tear on the system equipment.
Sr. Specialist Field Engineer
Signal Solutions, GDIT
11.2024 - 10.2024
- Deployed to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait to develop a first of its kind IP based alarm and monitor system at the base technical control facility
- This project required his talents in engineering, installation, testing and material acquisition in support of USAISEC and the Enterprise Systems Engineering Commands.
Test Engineer
L-3 Communications/ILEX Systems Inc.
04.2024 - 10.2024
- Performed project engineering, installation, testing and material acquisition for the USAISEC, Transmission Systems Directorate (TSD), the TROJAN community and other C4I/IEW customers
- Provided engineering and technical support for long haul communications facilities, calculated DSCS satellite load balancing and power budgets
- Completed on-site surveys for fixed location TROJAN SPIRIT satellite terminals, sighted new antennas, systems design validations and analysis
- Installed and tested satellite modems at Defense Satellite Communications Systems (DSCS) technical control facilities worldwide.
Test Designer III
Eagan-McAllister Associates
04.2024 - 08.2024
- Performed Information Mission Area (IMA) services in the form of project engineering, installation, testing and material acquisition for the USAISEC, Transmission Systems Directorate (TSD), the TROJAN community and other C4I/IEW customers
- Configured and tested Promina 800 MUX/DEMUX compression, processor to include SA trunk, HSD, PVEC, PRC cards and fiber optic modems under the direction of USAISEC
- Configured and tested GPS, Cesium and Symetricon 56000 distributed timing systems for Technical Control Facilities
- Configured and captured test data with JDSU/Acterna Fireberd 8000-bit error rate testing equipment.
Systems Test Engineer
Global SATCOM Technologies Inc.
11.2024 - 04.2024
- Performed unit and systems testing for transportable flyaway, and Highly Mobile Multi-Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) mounted satellite systems
- Assembled and unit tested antenna feeds for X, Ku, C and L-band applications
- Assisted the HMMWV division with power and signal wiring installation, component fabrication, mounting and marking.
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
- 06.2024
- Performed as supervisor, project designer, planner, and leader of remote switching UHF antenna relocation project
- Managed Depot repair part requisition, modification and testing of UHF receiver and transmitter units for overseas sites
- Controlled STU-III and other secure voice equipment and all COMSEC key materials for the site
- Performed preventative maintenance on UHF Remote Switching Unit (RSU), -48VDC rectifier s, wet and dry battery banks that backup support for Presidential and senior military communications
- Recognized for his quick reaction to a dry grass fire in the surrounding antenna field, after he notified the local fire department, marshalled several others to manually fight the fire with rakes and shovels; prevented damage to USAF equipment and stopped the flames from entering the bone-dry timber that surrounded the site.
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
- Supervisor and trainer for 8 first-line communications repair technicians
- Three years of experience with DSCS AN/GSC-39 terminal maintenance and associated glycol cooled High Power Amplifiers (HPAs) and heat exchangers, OM-73 and MD-1207 modems, TD-1389 and GSC-24 Multiplexers, 3901 and 7003 test sets and fiber optic termination fabrication
- Recognized for repairing a heat exchanger power relay switch that had failed during a typhoon; the original part was no longer in production, so he modified a different legacy relay, installed it during the storm allowing the site to exit a Hazardous Condition (HAZCON).
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
- Maintainer and repairer of U.S
- Central Command and U.S
- Special Operations Command Ultra High Frequency (UHF) AN/FSC-82, WSC-3, URC-110 and LST-5B radio sets and antenna arrays
- Competed a major upgrade to the base TCF that required rack installation, rack mounting equipment, cable fabrication, inter-bay wiring and connected the entire project into the main black distribution frame.
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
- Installed and programmed critical real-time national level classified imagery high-speed circuits between Intelligence Directors of U.S
- Central Command and U.S
- Special Operations Command
- Assisted in development and installation of base-wide WAN automated personnel database system following Hurricane Andrew
- This action allowed displaced service members for Homestead AFB/Miami area to military finance, records, and aid in their road to recovery
- Member of quick base-level communications outage reaction team, on-call responder to minimize outages by isolating problems reported to Base Technical Control Facility (TCF)
- Actions included: link restorations/repairs, on-site rerouting or alerting the TCF to request outside assistance.
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
- Performed maintenance technician duties for this remote radio relay location, servicing 487L Mediterranean Command Radio Relay site including three Troposphere-scatter 10KW transmitters and a pair of microwave links between the islands of Minorca and the main Iberian Peninsula
- Additional duties – Unit trainer, test equipment custodian and site Fire Marshall.
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
- Maintainer and operator of TRC-97, TRC-170, RT-1462 Tropospheric/Satellite Support Radio (TSSR) and Point to Point microwave communications systems
- Mobility communication tasks included the completion of site surveys, pre-deployment preparations, and set-up/tear-down of forward deployed communication sites
- Additional duties – Maintainer of unit’s main technical order library and sixteen deployable technical order inventories carried with world-wide deployable units were complete and updated regularly.
Leadership Experience
US Air Force
09.1981 - 04.1984
- Responsible for the protection of and controlling access to strategic weapons of mass destruction
- Progressed quickly up the positions of greater responsibility from Alarm Response Team Member, Alarm Response Team Leader, Security Response Team Leader, and Flight Security Controller
- Performed Flight Security Controller duties as an E-3/E-4 rank normally reserved for higher ranks
- Managed access to assigned Launch Control Complexes, below ground Launch Control Capsules and 10 Ballistic missile launch sites
- Coordinated security responses during the 12-hour shifts for seven days, issued/inventoried/practiced safe handling of automatic weapons, controlled the safe keeping and destruction of classified material, and the proper notification of alarms to Wing Security Control at Grand Forks AFB.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Occupational Education -
Wayland Baptist University
Sierra Vista, AZSkills
- MS Office (Excel, Word, Power-point, Visio)
- Adobe Pro
- AutoCAD
- Secret (S) Clearance
- Project Management
- Administrative Support
- File Management
- Event Planning
Custom
A.A.S., Communications, Community College of the USAF, 1997
Custom
- U.S. Air Force Professional Management Education, Airmen Leadership, NCO Preparatory Training, NCO Leadership Courses, Mar 83, Sep 07
- U.S. Air Force Wideband Communications Equipment Technician Course, Andrews AFB, MS, Mar 98
- U.S. Air Force Wideband Communications Equipment Specialist Course, Keesler AFB, MS, Mar 85
- U.S. Air Force Wideband Communications Equipment Specialist Course, Keesler AFB, MS, Oct 84
Custom
- High Reliability Soldering Course
- IDNX/Promina Operator/Maintainer Training Course
- I-Direct Hub and VSAT, Installer, Operations and Maintenance Course
- Anixter Telecom Grounding Seminar, Anixter’s Data Center University
Timeline
Sr. Specialist Field Engineer
Signal Solutions, GDIT
11.2024 - 10.2024
Systems Test Engineer
Global SATCOM Technologies Inc.
11.2024 - 04.2024
Telecommunications Engineer IV
NCIINC
10.2024 - 12.2024
Test Engineer
L-3 Communications/ILEX Systems Inc.
08.2024 - 11.2024
Test Engineer
L-3 Communications/ILEX Systems Inc.
04.2024 - 10.2024
Test Designer III
Eagan-McAllister Associates
04.2024 - 08.2024
Systems Test Engineer
Global SATCOM Technologies Inc.
02.2024 - 04.2024
Information Technology Specialist 2210-03
United States Information System Engineering Command
12.2018 - Current
Leadership Experience
US Air Force
09.1981 - 04.1984
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
- 06.2024
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
Additional Supervisory Experience
US Air Force
Bachelor of Science in Occupational Education -
Wayland Baptist University
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