HUMBERTO SHAND

PROFILE: To be successful, your initiative(s) must incorporate both quality and quality management (QM) into your practice. Quality is currently being employed by me, as a Radio Maintainer for Metro-North RR. I specialize in electronics communication and quality assessment. Those combined skill sets have enamored me with an acumen that produces results as a FCC licensed Radio Maintainer or specialist in a technical eld.

SEEKING: Part Time Electronic Specialist, College Lab Technician, or Technologist Position.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY METRO-NORTH RAILROAD: May 2012 to Present Radio Maintainer. install, repair, troubleshoot and maintain the following systems: Communications equipment (base station, mobile, and handheld radios), Public Address Systems, Cellular Telephones, Fire and Burglar Alarm Systems. In addition perform periodic inspections according to Metro-North regulations and complete required paperwork. Achievements: Major Achievements: (1) Determined root cause to why Bogen HT125A PA Ampliers were in disrepair after numerous unsuccessful attempts by senior radio maintainers to make board and component level repairs, and (2) determined best technical work-around solution and practice to repair 100 obsolete Bombardier Trains' PA Power Amps. Major Contributor: Updated All Metro-North radio and communication system's transmit deviation to 2,4 kHz, on both Hudson and Harlem train lines and made in compliant with FCC regulations and Narrow Banding specications.

TEACHER'S RETIREMENT SYSTEM of NYC: Apr 2004 to May 2012 Data Quality analyst (Consultant). Work on numerous data proling projects, doing analyst, validation, researching candidate(s) historically warehouse data if necessary; Prole, validate, correct or update candidates' data and establish rules and procedure documents for manual data cleaning; Perform data quality assessment, data conversion and consolidate, assist IT (as subject matter expert in creating metadata quality rules; Determine project requirements and provide recommendations prior to data proling for large BOE and CUNY candidates' records. Related Skills employee benets (pension & retirement calculations): Achievements: Major Achievements: Subject matter expert on NYC employee pension and retirement benets. Major Contributor: To Contractual Salary Project, Identify and remove root cause of batched data issues and data corruption; restored or replace data to best practice methodology and correctness as stated above, and Major Contributor: To E09 data conversion and consolidation project by cleaning data prior to conversion, and Major Contributor: Determined Matrix(s) used to weight and analyze employees performance when working complex to simpler proling projects agency wide.

NYC-TECHnology.com Aug 2001 to Aug 2007 Telecommunications Consultant / independent Contractor. Sold and installed telecommunication, voice and data services, and products to business clients in multiple states and some operators requiring phone card or long distance services. Achievements: Established myself as a moderately successful independent contractor installing electronic and network equipment, selling long distance carrier service, business voice service and data services (include: Broadband, T1, T3 and DSL) independent contractor for IDT, Net Access, BCM, Covad to name a few companies which I represented,

NORTEL NETWORKS: Sept 2000 to Aug 2001 System Engineer. Rapid Deployment Field Support: Installed and provisioned Passport ATM and DSL modem switches for telecommunication carriers. -Provided both electronic and programmatic integration between customer's legacy system and Nortel's ATM switch - as per purchase order and customers' deliverables. Achievements: Nortel Network Certicate in Passport 7000 series ATM switch, CVX Modem Switch.

Became an independent Contractor with multiple telecommunication carriers after Aug 2001.

CON EDISON: Oct 1987 to Sept 2000 Electronic Technician. Worked in Ravenswood Power Plant, Generation Division: Repaired and installed both electronic control circuits and mechanical sub-system assemblies used in: monitoring levels, instrument and control, recordings, temperatures, pressures, voltages, positioning and control. Achievements: Repaired the above device or swapped out defective device, Installed new electronic controllers. Transferred to Electronic Communication Division after successfully applying and passing examination. Electronic Technician May 1990. Worked in Electronic Communications Division: Performed bench and vehicle radio repairs to both board and component level on all eet VHF and UHF trunking and point to point radios. Programmed and installed handheld portable & vehicle radios, and base-station radio systems. -Used Motorola service monitor for both bench and eld repair of radios; Performed maintenance on satellite base-station transmitters and receivers, checked power-out and signal strength. Achievements: Level of responsibilities were increased to included both radio and maintaining corporate telecommunication network in: substations, power generation plants, HQ, branch and eld ofces, corporate telemetering and data networks included; Primary radio technician for Manhattan eet workout locations and ofces; Repaired all area radios, which includes 16 sub eets. Promoted within one year to Senior Electronic Technician.

Senior Electronic Technician May 1991. Continued Working in Electronic Communications Division: Installed, provisioned and commissioned Sonet DDM, Telco Channel Banks TDM (DS0, FXO,Voice and Data Cards) digital multiplex, CSU and DSU, ber optic high and low speed multiplexers. -Aligned digital microwave radio, tuned and calibrated Intermediate Frequency(IF) and mixer center frequencies for 6,12,& 25 Giga Hertz microwave radio transmitter and receiver sections. Adjusted and/or replaced BER detector, modulator and demodulator sections, power amplier, mixer and image rejection lter sections. -Swapped out and installed T1, T3, Sonet OC48 and OC3 units and replaced or programmed defective line cards. -Used OTDR and power meter to determine location of broken single mode ber cables or poor signal; made splicing repairs if ber is broken and installed ber bulk head. -Test equipments: Tektronix high impedance oscilloscope, Milli-volt power meter, attenuators, IF feedback, and digital high impedance frequency counter, Fire BERT (24 hr-stress test 5 in11 test patterns or QAS). Achievements: Mentored and supervised new technician in lab, workout locations, power plant and business ofces on procedures concerning: safety, making repairs or replacement of defective equipment, location of equipment and best practice guidelines. Resigned Con Edison for System Engineer Opportunity at Nortel Networks.

VBAND SYSTEMS: Oct 1985 to Oct 1987 Electronic R&D Technician. Created electronic circuits and tested prototype electronic communication equipment; made test jigs and bread-boarded circuit designs. Achievements: Provided 3rd level support to eld engineers and manufacturing to make serviceable 1000 retired LED message displays to Wall Street. EDUCATION: New York City College of Technology: AAS in Computer Engineering Technology 9/1983 to 6/1987 New York University - School of Continuing Edu, Video Technology 9/1992 to 6/1993 New York University - School of Continuing Edu, Maintaing www Internet 6/1998 to 8/1998 New York University - School of Continuing Edu, Hands-on Internet Bridges and Routers 2/2000 LICENSES: FCC Radiotelephone Operator License + RADAR Endorsement LIC: #PG00032261; CERTIFICATIONS: SBE, Certied Broadcast Technologist, CBT #26169 Cisco Certied Network Associate, CCNA - # 10138718, expired Microsoft Certied System Engineer, MCSE - # 127135509 expired