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Mario Hernandez
Vice President of Operations
Summary of Experience
- More than 20 years' experience in Cable Television and Telephone outside plant construction.
- Expertise in tracking large scale projects in both aerial and underground construction.
- Knowledgeable in practices and procedures with various utility companies, including, D.W.P.,
G.T.E., S.C.E., PacBell and S.D.G.&E. - Extensive experience in M.S.O. Upgrades for major fiber optic and coaxial cable rebuilds.
Professional Experience
COX COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATE CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
- Negotiated with city engineers in street restoration specifications that saved the company
over a half a million dollars. - Prepared and submitted presentation for The City of Laguna Beach Design Review Board for
excavation and pedestal replacement. Resulted in a 100 mile rebuild within the
city franchise. - Accurately tracked over 5 million dollars in invoices with proper documentation. Resulted in
the best evaluation by internal auditors out of 6 Cox Construction Services offices. - Accomplished aggressive deadlines that enabled Cox Communications to launch new
services including, high speed modems, telephony ready plant and digital
compression. This plant was built at 750 MHz operating at 90 Volts AC. - As part of a small management team, we completed over 1,500 of rebuild / Retro miles in
a 2 year period.
TECH AID / SUBCONTRACTOR FOR CENTURY COMMUNICATIONS
- Selected to engineer the fiber optic routing in Puerto Rico for Centennial Cellular.
- Supervised and engineered the 216 count fiber optic back-bone for Century Comm. L.A..
- Educated Teleport Communications Group (TCG) in make ready construction in a D.W.P.
environment. - Accomplished a complete rebuild in the Eagle Rock, Sherman Oaks, Santa Monica, Redondo
Beach systems. - Supported the systems in engineering all "forced relocates" projects, gathered bids and
supervised the completion of all projects. - Determined design changes, plant activation and wreck-out of old plant.
BUTLER COMMUNICATIONS / Contractor for GTE
- Constructed telephone overhead and underground plant in various GTE service areas
CABLE TELEVISION
Worked for various cable television contractors and systems in the Los Angeles area. Started as a lineman, proceeded to general foreman and progressed into inspection and engineering. Duties included the following:
- Constructed a new CATV build in South Central (Media One).
- Build CATV overhead and underground plant (Cable Crafters, NaCom).
- Prepared CATV and telephone make-ready (Cable Crafters).
- Prepared make-ready engineering sheets (Century Communications).
- Complied with D.W.P., Pac. Bell and G.T.E. inspections (Century Communications).