To be a key member of a quality oriented interdisciplinary project/operations and maintenance management team responsible for state-of-the-art, energy efficient, telecommunication, power, instrumentation, and industrial control systems.
BYRON J. COLE
Electrical Engineer
2265 White Pine Drive
Washoe Valley, NV 89704
E-mail: bjcole2[at]yahoo.com
Home Phone: 775-849-4320
Cell Phone: 775-750-6812
OBJECTIVE
To be a key member of a quality oriented interdisciplinary project/operations and maintenance management team responsible for state-of-the-art, energy efficient, telecommunication, power, instrumentation, and industrial control systems.
BACKGROUND SUMMARY
I hold a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Power Technology. I offer extensive industry experience and education with military, commercial, and regulated utility telecommunications, energy, and information systems. My achievements include a variety of experiences in successfully developing, supervising, and managing communications-electronics systems, policies and procedures, support staff and service technicians. I possess professional expertise in the areas of Fiber Optic Transmission Systems, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition systems, selection and installation of equipment, maintenance management, technical analysis and documentation, and training of personnel for maximum productivity to achieve challenging organizational goals. I also have extensive experience with regulatory compliance (including WECC), quality, environmental protection, seismic qualification, risk management, emergency response, change management, and safety disciplines. My reputation is based upon high ethical standards and respect for the contributions of all team members. I am available for immediate employment and can travel as necessary. I am in good health and have no ADA special needs. I am a military veteran and have held DOD Secret/Cryptographic security clearances which can be quickly reactivated if necessary.
NV ENERGY / SIERRA PACIFIC POWER COMPANY Jan 2006 - Jan 2010
TELECOMMUNICATIONS TEAM LEADER, CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE
Supervised and trained 15 bargaining unit (IBEW) Telecommunications/SCADA Technicians for NV Energy in Reno, Nevada. Responsible for construction, operation, and maintenance of over 430 telecommunications/SCADA installations in northern Nevada across a 55,000 square mile service area. Equipment inventory included over 300 Substation, Power Plant, and Gas Plant SCADA RTUs plus Energy Management System Front End Processor in Reno Nevada, ~50 mountain top mobile and microwave radio sites, ~1000 mobile/hand held EDACs (Nevada Shared Radio System) Trunked Radios in company fleet, more than 500 sheath miles of SONET Fiber Optic cables and associated network elements, and a corporate telephone network comprising 11 PBXs. Also responsible for O&M of necessary DC power, HVAC, towers, standby generators, multiplexers, DACS, and monitor and control ancillary systems. Work volume included support of approximately 60 Capital Projects, annually, and over 1600 individual work requests per year, all tracked by a work load management system that I successfully introduced to the NV Energy Telecommunications Department. I also developed a working knowledge of the Federal NERC-CIP Standards and compliance requirements and I was an active participant in the WECC Telecommunications Working Group. I helped evaluate 7 bid packages for a state-of-the-art Advanced Metering Infrastructure project. I left NV Energy due to corporate downsizing and restructuring triggered by the collapsing Nevada economy.
3U TECHNOLOGIES, LLC - SR. PROJECT MANAGER Aug 2002 – Dec 2005
Provided telecommunications design, engineering, and implementation consulting services to The Boeing Company for the U.S. Department of Defense Ground-based Mid-course Missile Defense (GMD) program which includes a major SONET, fault tolerant, interstate long haul fiber optic transmission system, to include an associated SCADA system. Most of this work centered on the facilities being constructed in Alaska and Colorado for the Missile Defense Agency, but some duties also include assisting with fiber and satellite communications commissioning activities at other locations including Shemya Alaska, Thule Greenland, Fylingdales U.K., Brownsville, Texas, and Anaheim, California. Extensive coordination experience with AT&T and Wiltel Engineering.
ALASKA FIBER STAR / WCI CABLE, INC.
SR. NETWORK ENGINEER Feb 1998 - Aug 2002
Participated in project development, design, installation, commissioning, operation, and maintenance of the $200 million, 2000 mile Northstar SONET OC-48 WDM Fiber Optic Cable System which links Anchorage AK with Valdez AK, Juneau AK, Portland OR, and Seattle WA. Alcatel trained to manage, operate, and maintain the submarine cable landing stations at Whittier, Nedonna Beach, and Lena Point. This system is interconnected with the Alaska Fiber Star OC12/48 terrestrial network which serves Portland, OR, Anchorage, Wasilla, Talkeetna, Cantwell, Healy, Clear, Nenana, and Fairbanks AK. Responsibilities included network and equipment design, selection, installation, test, commissioning, troubleshooting, emergency restoral, documentation, and quality control. Equipment included building infrastructure, OC-12/48 lightwave equipment, AC and DC power systems, SCADA systems, test equipment, optical and digital cross-connect equipment, security and surveillance systems, fiber management systems, and premises distribution systems. Have served extensively as project electrical administrator and Alaska Fiber Star deputy operations manager to coordinate and direct a team of approximately 30 technicians, engineering, drafting, logistics, NOCC, and administrative support personnel. Developed drafting and fiber splicing standards for Alaska Fiber Star and facilitated development of an MS Access Task Order Data Base to track all routine O&M and Project work. Implemented the nationally recognized Telecordia CLLI coding system for Alaska Fiber Star and WCI Cable. I am very familiar with NOCC operations and management systems, outside plant maintenance, and emergency restoral operations (to include restoration of GCI, Kanas, and AT&T long haul circuits in Dec 99/Jan 00 and three Anchorage metropolitan cable cuts in CY2001.
MFS NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES - SR. SYSTEMS ENGINEER 1996 - 1997
Served as a staff systems engineer on a 2-year, $100 million project to design and construct an 800 mile long terrestrial SONET Fiber Optic Transmission System parallel to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, including 87 separate network element nodes. Primarily responsible for power systems design and development for these sites, as well as documentation preparation and control related to all electronics equipment installed. Executed responsibilities as the Project Electrical Administrator. Facilitated the design and construction of six communications shelters equipped with standby power that were required by the Project. Also conducted extensive survey for locating EDACS Trunked Radio System sites along the pipeline corridor; however the customer subsequently decided not to make the necessary capital investment.
NORTHERN CONNECTIONS 1995 - 1996
Left Alyeska Pipeline Service Company in March 1995 due to reorganization and outsourcing, and started personal consulting business, d.b.a. Northern Connections specializing in telecommunications and SCADA. Provided consulting services in Alaska and Russia to Metropolitan Fiber Systems, AMRUSSCOM, Pacific Rim Telecommunications, Microcom and Chugach North/Alyeska Pipeline. Areas of assistance have included preparation of bid packages for small telecommunications projects and Pacific Detroit Diesel-Kohler generators, investigation of government audit findings related to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, telecommunications business management, and commercial Internet Home Page development.
TRANS-ALASKA PIPELINE SYSTEM, ALYESKA PIPELINE SERVICE CO.
PROJECT ENGINEER AND TEAM LEADER 1993-1995
Served as staff engineer with the Control, Communications, Instrumentation and Electrical Project Group. Primarily supported maintenance and upgrade of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Remote Gate Valve Control System. Upgrades included evaluation of current system performance, design and testing of modifications to reduce operational risks, oversight of 35 gear box replacements, participation in risk assessments and feasibility studies on control equipment, the communications system, and electrical power sources. Responsible for selection of prototype fault-tolerant equipment to replace the originally installed control equipment. Extensive operations, maintenance, and management of change documentation was inherent in all of these activities. Participated in feasibility studies related to the Pipeline Operations Control Center, Earthquake Monitoring System and Oil Spill Response planning.
SCADA ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS MANAGER/SUPERVISOR 1988-1992
Managed and supervised a staff of up to 20 Communications-Electronics systems engineers, specialists, and administrative support. Responsible for a $10 million budget which included all telecommunications services, circuits, and systems used by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System; also responsible for operations and maintenance of telecommunications services for the corporate headquarters in Ancohorage. Provided staff support for the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) operations and maintenance personnel on the pipeline and Valdez Marine Terminal. A major challenge was responding to the massive telecommunications upgrade requirements generated by the EXXON-Valdez Oil Spill incident in 1989; co-authored the Communications chapter of the Prince William Sound Oil Spill Prevention and Response Plan. Served as Project Engineer for the highly successful upgrade of the Pipeline Control System Remote Terminal Units with Square D Programmable Logic Controllers. Supervised design work for upgrades to Alyeska aviation navigational systems, electronic surveillance systems, telephone network and radio systems, and computer networks.
SENIOR DATA COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS ENGINEER 1982-1988
Provided staff engineering support to upgrade the original Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Operations Control Center/SCADA Host Computer Systems to new Data General MV/10000 mini-computers. Designed and implemented several new communications-electronics systems in support of Pipeline Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition operations. These systems included an automated circuit Transmission Impairment Measurement System, Upgrades to the Remote Gate Valve Communications System, the first Fiber Optic Cable systems at Valdez Marine Terminal and Pump Station 1, a new Fuel Gas Monitoring System at Pump Station 1, a new Data Network Management and Control System, a Ku-Band Satellite Transmission System between Anchorage and the Valdez Marine Terminal/Prince William Sound, and a computer based Workload Control System which was used by the SCADA Department for 10 years.
U.S. ARMY SIGNAL OFFICER Veteran
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
• Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (Telecommunications)
• Bachelor of Science, Electrical Power Technology, Oregon State University (including Business minor)
• FCC Licenses for Marine Radio Operator, General Radiotelephone Operator with Radar Endorsement, and GMDSS Radio Maintainer
• State of Alaska Electrical Administrator Licenses for Inside and Outside Communications (expired)
• Certified Project Management Professional by Project Management Institute (expired)
• Training by Alcatel Submarine Networks for fiber optic cable Power Feed Equipment, WDM Submarine Line Termination Equipment, and Submarine Management System
• Multiple Engineering Courses for Nortel and GE OC-12/OC-48/OC-192 and Junglemux Equipment
• Intellect SonetLynx OC-3 and Alcatel 1603/12 Add/Drop Multiplexers
• EDACS Mobile Radio Systems Administrator
• Telcordia New Equipment Building System (NEBS) and Common Language System (CLONES, CLLI)
• Training and experience with Tellabs Titan Digital Cross-connect Systems
• Training on Kohler Standby Generator Systems
• Repeated training courses on the National Electrical Code and National Electrical Safety Code
• University of Alaska Arctic Engineering Graduate Coursework
• Square D and Gould-Modicon Programmable Logic Controllers Courses
• Hewlett-Packard Data Acquisition and Control Fundamentals
• Data Communications Network Design
• U.S. Army Signal Officer Advanced/Basic/Radios Systems Officer Courses
• DeVry Institute of Technology Color Television Correspondence Course
• Numerous NV Energy and Alyeska Pipeline Leadership, Supervision, Safety, Risk Analysis, Procurement, and Team Building training courses
• Proficient with MS Outlook, MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Project, MS Access, AutoCad LT & Visio
CAREER PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
• Chairman/Vice of the University of Alaska Anchorage Electronics Technology Advisory Board
• President of the Alaska Telecommunications Management Association
• Project Management Institute Member
• Instrument Society of America Member
• Building Industries Consulting Services Institute Member
• American Petroleum Institute Telecommunications Committee Member
• Armed Forces Communications-Electronics Association Member
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Member
• Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) Telecommunications Working Group Member
• The National Society of Scabbard and Blade
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