15 yrs fiber optic planning, design and maintenance. 5 yrs Director.

Michael D Searcy

Fiber Optic Engineering Leader

Professional Summary

· The coordinator, project manager, and financer of employees and contractors for specific work assignments from the beginning to the end of small- and large-scale projects.

· Network Engineering of a fiber optic national and international network for a fortune 500 fastest growing company in the United States of over 40,000 plus employees.

· Planning and designing of multimillion dollar communication plants, central offices, fiber optic rings and remote terminals for businesses and residential.

· Training of the Southwest region on the use of a smart database outside plant management system. Helped to analyze capital budget spending of wire centers in previous years to create the new budget based on customers and population demographic charts of wire centers for the southwest region.

· Communications Engineering Manager for the Western United States region from Illinois to California.

· Strategic planning and data analysis for the finances, events, membership, computer equipment and applications.

Experienced in the following computer programs

· Microsoft Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word

· ArcGIS Pro, MapInfo Pro, GIS application for maps and KMZ’s

· Google Earth

· Salesforce Website Data Applications

· Numerous Fiber Optic software platforms for the planning design of fiber optic infrastructure.

Professional Experience

Uniti Fiber, Saint Petersburg, FL 02/2016 – 02/2024

Sales and GIS Strategic Accounts

· In charge of all large bid, nationwide design of network fiber, ILA, and Central Office equipment.

· Worked with a team to design from CO to CO or ILA to ILA a Dark Fiber and or Lit network of fiber with spans across the US but mostly in the SE region where we owned the most fiber (FL, AL, AR, GA, MS, LA).

· In charge of exporting KMZ Google Earth files and using the FiberLocator application to display our fiber to other companies of whom we also leased fiber from on occasion.

· We used mostly Ciena 6500 and 1830 equipment for our network but also used Cisco and Infinera equipment to pass off the signal to our customers.

· Worked with ArcGIS Pro and MapInfo Pro fiber design products.

· Fiber Designs provided from 10G to 1T network speeds.

· Worked in excel and used tables and formulas to calculate outside plant construction costs. Used VLOOKUP, formulas, macros, and PivotTables.

· Performed outside plant activities such as splice case, hand hole and pole locate for fiber cable runs.

BrightHouse Communications, Saint Petersburg, FL 01/2014 – 02/2016

Fiber Optic Design and Outside Plant Engineering

· In charge of the design of Fiber to the Home designs including the central office equipment, lasers and signal to get to a headend located at the residential neighborhood cabinets.

· In charge of field engineering from the cabinet to all underground access points within a neighborhood to deliver FTTH technologies to a control panel on each individual house.

· In charge of coordinating with electric company to use joint trenches to access each household.

· In charge of electricity and ground wire installation to each individual unit equipment. In high rise construction, in charge of business and or residential planning and design into telco closets and design of drop wires to each individual outlet within the office or residence.

· Configure all drop wires to go through optical to electrical conversion onto CAT5 or CAT6 wiring. Field engineering documentation of all poles and underground vaults with fiber and coax. Worked in Microsoft excel to keep track of all fibers used and calculate light loss at each splice.

CenturyLINK, Littleton, CO 01/2011 – 12/2013

Network Operations Center Engineer

· Logging into all of the equipment for the national and international NOC for CentutryLink communications.

· Monitoring all equipment for passive fiber optic and or electrical signal degradation leading to errors or signal loss to the network. Responsible for detecting outages of broken fiber during construction, planned or unplanned.

· Monitoring the following equipment: CIENA Corestream, ULH and ONI. Cisco 15454. Infinera. Nortel OME 6500 International, OC192 and OC48 systems. Alcatel/Lucent, Unite and Extreme. Tellabs 8000 and Ciena 6500 and 1830 Equipment.

Connexion Technologies, Inc., Cary NC 10/2007 – 12/2010

Senior Sales Engineer

· Fiber Optic Communications Engineering to run Voice, Video and Data over a fiber optic infrastructure to single family developments, manufactured housing developments and apartment complexes.

· In charge of site visits for properties to do an audit on the existing facilities and infrastructure so that Connexion can design and engineer the new facilities to tie into the existing infrastructure required to run voice, video and/or data to the property.

· Assist sales and attend meetings with developers to utilize Connexion Technologies services for all of their voice, video and data services at the new property.

· Helped sales acquire exclusive easements at a new property to run fiber optics to a main Central Office location.

· Located all underground and overhead fiber optics near buildings to provide service. Worked in Microsoft excel to keep track of all projects and money spent at each location.

Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce, Castle Rock CO 01/2003 – 10/2007

Director of Membership, and Board of Directors

· Helped to create and write instruction and execution of the strategic development plan.

· The main point of contact for all server and systems applications within the office and part of the Board of Directors, the Executive Finance Committee, the Technology Liaison Committee and the Castle Rock Broadband Initiative.

· Managing and budgeting the setup of the office server and software for all of the employees.

· Upgraded the software, and hardware of the office to run on a server local area network platform to increase performance.

· Performed data analysis of financial and historical information for the Board and Executive committees to improve business processes and the efficiency of office staff.

Qwest Communications, Littleton CO 06/1999 – 12/2002

Senior Outside Plant Design Engineer, Planning Engineer

· Managed a budget for a team of designers, field engineers, project managers, contractors and fellow colleagues to place fiber, copper, structure and equipment to existing and new developments for residential and business phone, data and video lines.

· Worked with a $160 million dollar budget plan. Project managed fiber SHNS, SHARP rings with multiple redundancy paths for Charles Schwab. Planned for OC12 to OC192 fiber rings.

· Worked with Central Office Engineers to manage facilities for sub-developments and corporations within the State of Arizona. Designed engineering outside plant drawings for field engineers to build out copper and fiber optic facilities.

· Started a fiber to the curb process for lucrative sub-developments in the State of Arizona.

· Developed working relationship skills with Cisco and Nextel operations and forms for routers, and other enhanced provisioning products.

· Reviewed the existing networks to perform a cost analysis with timelines scheduled for work production and execution.

· Helped to write and develop a technical manual on the provisioning of facilities and equipment within wire centers.

Lockwood Greene Technologies Inc., Golden CO, 06/1997 – 06/1999

Graphics Design Engineer and Sales

· Wrote proposals and corporate overviews for the marketing of several office locations throughout the western United States.

· Helped to analyze requests for work to find out if the company had the appropriate skill sets to perform the task at hand.

· Set up a client nurturing program for existing clients.

· Worked on proposals and used sales and marketing techniques to answer Requests for Services throughout the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site.

· Worked with clients such as the Department of Energy and other government agencies. Contacted perspective clients on upcoming contracts.

· Worked with marketing teams within the United States to help pursue client relationships and help the engineering business grow.

Education & Certifications

Associates of the Arts at the Colorado Institute of Art Visual Communications Commercial Art Program. It is now the Art Institute International.

Master’s Degree (Will Graduate December 2025) at the University of East London, Executive Master Business Administration.

Committees:

· Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce: Board of Directors, Executive & Finance Committee, Technology Liaison Committee, Castle Rock Broadband Initiative.

· Town of Castle Rock: Transportation Action Plan Committee, Castle Rock Water Supply Strategic Planning Advisory Committee

· Fiber to the Home Association: Member of the FTTH Association. LinkedIn

· Embrace Leadership Team, equality and diversity group.

· Awards Program, all employees ran references award program.

· 4DX Program, 4 disciplines of growth,

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