Diego M. Askew
Optical Transport Engineer
Des Moines, IA · (515) 555 0114 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/diegomaskew
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Nine years in carrier transport, five engineering optical circuits
INDUSTRIES
Regional fiber carrier, wholesale transport, data center interconnect
SPECIALTIES
Wavelength design, optical link budgets, circuit turn up, chronic fault isolation
SYSTEMS
Ciena, Cisco, SolarWinds, ServiceNow, Microsoft Visio
CREDENTIALS
Certified Fiber Optic Technician, Fiber Optic Association
EDUCATION
Associate of Applied Science in electronics technology, Des Moines Area Community College
Executive Summary
Optical transport engineer for a regional fiber carrier in Iowa and eastern Nebraska, responsible for a dense wavelength division multiplexing backbone of about 1,900 route miles. Nine years in the industry, starting as a splicer, now designing wavelengths and clearing the chronic faults others leave open.
Signature Achievements
- Designed and turned up 42 wavelengths on the Iowa backbone in one year with no service affecting event during cutover.
- Brought mean time to repair on transport faults from 5.1 hours to 2.8 by mapping every splice point for dispatch.
- Regroomed three lightly filled wavelengths onto one higher order card, recovering 200 gigabits and deferring 480,000 dollars of equipment.
- Wrote the turn up procedure now used by all eleven field technicians, which cut average circuit activation from six days to two.
- Held backbone availability at 99.995 percent for two years against a service level agreement commitment of 99.99 percent.
Professional Experience
Optical Transport Engineer
Prairie Line Communications, Des Moines, IA 2021 to present
Dense wavelength division multiplexing backbone of about 1,900 route miles serving wholesale carriers, three hospital systems and two data centers.
- Design wavelength paths and optical link budgets, and issue the build package for every circuit above 10 gigabits.
- Run turn up and acceptance testing with field crews, including reflectometer traces and bit error rate soak tests.
- Take the chronic faults the network operations center escalates after a second repeat inside thirty days.
- Review outside plant designs for fiber count, splice loss and route diversity before construction is released.
Network Technician
Heartland Broadband Services, Cedar Rapids, IA 2016 to 2021
Splice crew, then central office work on a fiber to the home network of roughly 40,000 passings.
- Fusion spliced ribbon and loose tube cable in vaults, pedestals and aerial closures on new routes.
- Installed and commissioned optical line terminals and aggregation switches across eleven central offices.
- Closed tier two escalations without a truck roll where the fault sat inside the office.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Fiber Optic Technician, Fiber Optic Association
Occupational Safety and Health Administration ten hour general industry card
Education
Associate of Applied Science in electronics technology, Des Moines Area Community College, 2016
Core Skills
Dense wavelength division multiplexing · Optical link budgets · Circuit turn up · Reflectometer testing · Fault isolation · Ciena platforms · Fiber splicing · Capacity planning · ServiceNow