James Anthony Nichols

Combination Technician (07/17/2006 – Present)

Outside plant technician dealing with NDT and DSL customers.

Last Employer: Shoreham Telephone

Contact Person: Don Arnold 802.897.2650

Responsibilities: Handling the trouble calls that were assigned to me on a day to day basis. Assisted in installing telephone polls and overhead cable as needed.

Combination Technician (05/02/2005 – 07/14/2006)

Outside plant technician installing DSL to customer homes and repairing POTS lines.

Last Employer: TDS Telecom

Contact Person: Scott Brooks 802.228.

Responsibilities: Handling the trouble calls that were assigned to me on a day to day basis. Assisted in installing telephone polls and overhead cable as needed.

Project Foreman (01/14/2002 – 04/11/2005)

Project Foreman and Lead Installer for various projects for SBC.

Last Employer: AFL Network Services

Responsibilities: My duties in this capacity included walktghroughs, installation, quality audits and time management for the assigned project. The projects include the racking and stacking of equipment, running, terminating tie cabling, overhead steel superstructure and DC power.

Senior Network System Specialist (02/07/1994 – 02/12/2001)

Supervise the installation, test and turnup of telephony equipment in the Sprint Network.

Last Employer: Sprint

Responsibilities: Project managed roughly 70 installations annually. Supervised a twelve to fifteen man crew during this period. The equipment is as follows; Alcatel 1/0 DCS, BBDCS and 1648 ADM, Tellabs Titan 3/1 DCS, ADC DSX1, DSX3 OCX, ODF, frames and shelves, Cisco 2500, 6400, 7000, 7500, 12000 Series Routers. These installations include running and terminating power, abam, internal system cabling, overhead rack configurations.

Accomplishments: Promote and maintain team player/working relationships between my installation team, various Engineering groups, multiple testing departments and Site Operations.