Chris Irish

Current

• Director of Field Operations Southeastern US and Caribbean Basin at Axis Teknologies

Past

• Fiber Optics Field Engineer at OFS Optical Fiber Solutions
• Consultant:Field Operations Manager at S-Com, Goodman Networks, Cingular/AT&T
• Consultant:Sr. Field Deployment Supervisor Wireless Location Systems at TruePosition

• Consultant:Sr. Network Integration Engineer at Vero Systems
• Consultant:Network Field Operations Engineer at Lucent Technologies
• Service Reliability Manager, Supervisor, Trainer, & PSTN/WAN/VPN Engineer at AT&T
• Field Service Engineer at Pitney Bowes

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Education

• Arapahoe Community College
• Clayton State University

Recommended

36 people have recommended Chris

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• My JobFox Profile
• My Skill Sets Profile

Chris Irish’s Summary

MVP Status in multiple field operations roles! I set the bar a little higher than the competition with a "swing for the fences" perspective in performance, delivering results, and doing it right the first time around. Why settle for good when you can have excellent?

Proven and endorsed hands-on telecommunications director of field operations, field operations manager, engineer, supervisor, and systems deployment professional with sustained record of upward mobility. Notice the emphasis on the word "FIELD" in my current and previous roles. I have a shelf-life in a cubicle of about 72 hours!! My geographic preferences are Georgia or the Carolinas in the southeastern U.S, however would certainly contemplate an expatriate assignment in the the following regions;(respectively)Australia, New Zealand, Greece, or Ireland.

Extensive experience in cell site and central office EF&I, WAN, PSTN to NGN convergence, SONET, Wireless, Wireless Location Systems, Lightguide, Outside Plant, Cell Site Build Out, Systems deployment and commissioning.


You can talk about your dreams and aspirations or you can go out and make them happen. My own personal adopted philosophy runs along these lines as a quote attributed to several different people: "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, "Wow - What a ride!'"

Chris Irish’s Specialties:

*EF&I Cell Site, Fiber Route & C/O
*CDMA2000, IS95, IS95B, 1xEV-DO
*Wireless Location Services
*H.248 MEGACO & SIP
*Distributed Antenna Systems
*Site Acceptance Testing
*E911 Deployments
*Fiber Optics, PONS & NGN
*UMTS, GSM, TDMA
*Circuit Path Design
*FSO Free Space Optical Wireless
*DMS 5ESS 4ESS routing & trunking
*Central Office Quality Audits & Surveys
*Cell Site Systems Integration
*LCR engineering (Least Cost Routing) solutions
*WiMAX & WiFi survey & installation

Chris Irish’s Experience

• Director of Field Operations Southeastern US and Caribbean Basin

  Axis Teknologies

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  November 2007 — Present (1 year)

  Hands-on, boots-on-the-ground director of field operations with nationally certified WBENC vendor and preferred provider of telecom project management and field services. Well versed field professional with extensive experience in cell site and central office EF&I, site surveys, wireless location systems current on FCC phase 2 guidelines, and PSTN to NGN convergence. Strong hands-on resource for systems deployment, site commissioning, & installation for GSM, UMTS, CDMA BTS, & TDMA frame decommissioning. Current working background in single and multiple carrier power amplifiers, (SCPA & MCPA), WiMAX (802.16), and WiFi (802.11 a, b, g) technologies.Strategize and maximize field operations resources in the southeastern US and the Caribbean basin.

• Fiber Optics Field Engineer

  OFS Optical Fiber Solutions

  (Telecommunications industry)

  December 2006 — November 2007 (1 year)

  Dedicated field technical support engineer to Verizon for fiber optic network products to specific customer markets and technical product support for trade shows. CONUS and OCONUS pre and post-sales technical support for customers through training programs for optical fiber cable installation methods, optical fiber splicing and testing, and for specific product applications such as FiOS, FTTx, SFR, MDU, Long Haul networks, MAN, enterprise, central office, transoceanic networks and specialty photonics. Splicing, OTDR testing, and installation support services as required. Research technical documentation for all loose tube cable products and fiber optic apparatus products, inside and outside plant fiber optic cable construction methods and practices.

• Consultant:Field Operations Manager

  S-Com, Goodman Networks, Cingular/AT&T

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Wireless industry)

  November 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  Field Operations Manager for E911 systems installation, maintenance, and upgrades. Successfully launched 1xEV-DO integration for Nortel high speed edge Data Services in Georgia, South Carolina, and Northern Florida.
  Maintenance and deployment responsibility for team of field engineers for the state of Georgia and South Carolina.
  Integration of WLS signal collection devices into DAS (distributed antenna systems) configuration as an alternative to traditional macrocell site EF&I. Deployment, installation and upgrade of existing wireless location systems for transition to 3G (UMTS) technologies. Site build-out responsibility; cabling, installation, power, configuration and tracking of RF expansion sector add work orders.
  Implement and verify all market cell site development to update E911 databases and routing requests.
  Hurricane disaster recovery relief in gulf coast states for cell site restoration and migration from Andrews WLS to TruePosition location technologies.

• Consultant:Sr. Field Deployment Supervisor Wireless Location Systems

  TruePosition

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Wireless industry)

  December 2004 — November 2005 (1 year)

  Consultant role to provide oversight, coordination, and quality analysis of wireless location system installation crews. Designated as SME for F.O.K (first of kind) installations for non-traditional GSM and TDMA site locations. Establish SOP’s for site surveys, equipment installation, equipment configuration, testing equipment and systems, troubleshooting and repair equipment and technical support. Documented and developed third party test results veracity, site conditions and installation system inventory per FCC Phase 2 mandate for E911 cellular network access to PSAP’s (Public Service Answering Points). Travel to and perform site build outs and site acceptance testing for GSM, TDMA, UMTS and co-located sites.

• Consultant:Sr. Network Integration Engineer

  Vero Systems

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  August 2005 — November 2005 (4 months)

  Senior Voice Engineer consultant for large scale translations/network engineering projects. Projects involve working with telco voice switch routing (translations) and voice network / traffic / capacity engineering organizations to develop strategies to reduce cost of service associated with voice network Switched Access Costs. Deliverables include the development and integration of new methods for routing voice calls and re-engineering large TDM and VoIP networks

• Consultant:Network Field Operations Engineer

  Lucent Technologies

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2004 — December 2004 (4 months)

  Consultant responsible for system maintenance and upgrades, facilities migration and equipment installation for 5ESS switch. Prioritize and assume ownership of surveillance & monitoring responsibilities to meet network operations and performance uptime standards. Conducted fault tolerance testing using network optimization tools/systems for fiber optic cable facilities, isolation, restoration and testing of lightguide. Physical restoration via Alcatel jump kit for optical 12 and 24 mode single mode fiber after locating via RMS and OTDR. Utilized a variety of test gear to diagnose various optical/electrical network configurations. Responsible for installation activities including reading and interpretation of job specifications and drawings.

• Service Reliability Manager, Supervisor, Trainer, & PSTN/WAN/VPN Engineer

  AT&T

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Telecommunications industry)

  February 1999 — September 2004 (5 years 8 months)

  Extensive coordination of telecom facilities escalations between AT&T and ILEC, CLEC, Tandem, End Office, OSWF, and CPE Vendor personnel. Research and analyze telecommunications activities such as, but not limited to, network design, implementation, restoration and remote test access using Acterna testing tools to sniff network for Direct Dial, toll free voice/data services domestically and internationally
  Establish, create, and coordinate training curriculum for the voice services. Provide direct supervision of occupational personnel and provide tier 2 technical support for voice service customers
  Fully qualified in Voice Maintenance analysis, isolation and repair of AT&T Voice Network Services such as: SDN, MEGACOM, Toll-Free, AT&T Digital Link-Local as well as Facility, Network, and customer specific translations and applications. Extensive experience with LEC, CLEC, and IXC carrier tandem homing and C/O translations

• Field Service Engineer

  Pitney Bowes

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

  April 1990 — March 1999 (9 years)

  Implemented and tested machine layout, mechanical systems preventative maintenance programs, equipment installation requirements, material flow components, and equivalent project management experience.
  Delivered on-site training, system assembly, installation, test and turn up of systems. In-depth electronic experience at both system and component level and understanding of mechanical systems design and repairability. Suggested and formatted specifically per customer application the comprehensive recommendations to customer base utilizing best-in-class technologies, user volume statistics, and conducting site surveys to determine professional layouts of equipment placements with considerations for overall work flow.
  Review, verify, and perform acceptance testing to confirm customer documentation and interview customer to determine scope of work and schedule expectations (review schedule for installation or inserter module revisions and site surveys).

Chris Irish’s Education

• Arapahoe Community College

  Certifications, Broadband Engineering, 2003 — 2005

• Clayton State University

  unfinished, Computer Science, 1994 — 1995

Additional Information

Chris Irish’s Websites:

• My JobFox Profile
• My Skill Sets Profile

Chris Irish’s Interests:

Family activities with my wife and daughter, Church volunteer activities, Mastering new technologies, domestic and international travel, Physical fitness, aerobic training, hiking, boxing, weight training, organic lifestyle choices > Endurance training

Chris Irish’s Groups:

*LINKEDIN INTERIMS, FOUNDER MEMBER
*Ecademy
*I.E.C
*NCTI
*Academici
*Xing\Open BC
*Georgia Wireless Association
*Golds Gym
OEM and ASBT (AT&T School of Business and Technology) certifications
*Submarine and Earth Station operations
*OSP engineering
*OSP restoration techniques, Cable maintenance
*Network Technology & Architecture
*Network Elements Management
*Network Standards
*Data Communications
*Network Maintenance Processes
*Transport &Transmission, Switching concepts
*Transport T1/SONET
*Technical Troubleshooting
*Network Analysis & Problem Solving
*Network Test Methods
*Equipment Calibration Processes
*Foundation Architecture
*Technical Documentation Analysis
*Cable Maintenance
*Computer Literacy, Plaxo Pulse, WiMAX360

•    StreetTech
•    BLACKWOLF
•    Anderson Gray Worldwide
•    Christian Professionals
•    Telecom Professionals
•    Facebook.com
•    Marzar
•    Global Worker (10,000+ members)
•    Atlanta Linking
•    Wireless Jobs
•    Project Manager Networking Group
•    LatitudeU
•    Indeed.com
•    Technology Association of Georgia (TAG)
•    Wimax channel
•    AT&T Alumni Network
•    Christian Business Leaders Network
•    Total Telecom Professional Network
•    JibberJobber - Career Management
•    jaxtr user group
•    Mobile Telecoms industry group
•    Consulting Cooperative
•    Infrastructure Elite Telecom Consultants
•    Radio Access Professionals
•    Digital Headends
•    Wireless Professionals Consortium
•    Wire & Cable Industry
•    Lucent Technologies Alumni Network
•    Telco OSS/Mediation System Professionals
•    Telecommunications Online
•    Telecom Industry Contacts
•    Atlanta Telecom Professionals (ATP)
•    Global Telecom Professionals Group(GTPG)
•    Americas Com: Telecoms in LatAm & Caribbean
•    Vero Systems Alumni

Chris Irish’s Honors:

First E911 Field Management and Engineering Resource assigned to Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery. Restored E911 and LBS systems in mixed Ericsson and Nokia network. Analyzed, isolated and repaired wireless location systems and tested services within all affected New Orleans PLMN. 2005

Software Defined Network, TIRKS, 800 call routing and PSTN Subject Matter Expert
AT&T 2002, 2003, 2004

AT&T Valued Management Employee Retention Bonus Awards, 2002, 2003, 2004

AT&T Network Operations Local Legends Excellence in Technical Operations Award, 1999,2000, & 2001

Valued Employee Retention Bonus Awards with Pitney Bowes
1992,1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998

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