Michael Searcy is seeking a leadership position to improve company procedures and streamline processes without sacrificing quality. He has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications network operations, design, engineering, and project management. His background includes planning fiber optic networks and overseeing multi-million dollar budgets. Currently he works as a design and field engineer for BrightHouse Networks, designing and maintaining their fiber and coax infrastructure across 7 Florida counties.

1. Michael David Searcy
5490 N 29 Ave., Saint Petersburg, FL 33710
Home Phone: 303-718-4191
Cell Phone:303-718-0472
 Objective
To initiate leadership and team building skills for the company. Improving upon procedures,
streamlining processes withoutthe sacrificeof quality. To worksmart and hard for an organization
to increase the company profits and help the bottom line.
 Professional Qualifications
I have planning, design, engineering, maintenance and monitoring experience of outside plant,
central office,and networkoperations center telecommunications fiber optic network long haul
and international equipment. I have planning, design, engineering, budgeting and execution
experience forcoax and fiber plant fromthe hub to the customer. I have excellent leadership skills
with large and small organizations and large and small groups. I have experience with Government
contracts, Pantex, US DOE,US DOD,Bechtel and Rocky Flats Environmental Technology site. I have
a can do, self starting, hit the ground running attitude. I workwellunder pressure and am always
up for new tasks to take on.
 SoftwareApplications
Alcatel Lucent Unite and Extreme. Ciena Corestream, Multiwave,ULH, ONI, On Center and 6500.
Tellabs 7100 and 8000. Cisco 15454. Infinera systems. Fujitsu 1500, 2500 and 9500 products.
NMA, HALO, OSPFM, AutoCAD, Salesforce. All MicrosoftOfficeSuite products. Adobe products.
Microstation B/Bentley and ESRI Design Applications. OSP Insight/Map Info ProDesign.
 Professional WorkExperience
(Feb 2015to Present) BrightHouseNetworks/Contractor-4145S FalkenburgRd.,
Riverview,FL. DesignEngineer/FieldEngineer. Outside plant fiber and coax, planning,
engineering and design. Field engineering forboth fiber and coax infrastructure. Travelto the field
and locate/verify underground and aerial plant. Providea cost analysis to provide service for
residential and business customers. Design a map to provide such services. Hybrid fiber and
copper design, planning and engineering. Responsible for hub design, node design, fiber optic cable
design, ring fiber design. Maintenance of all fiber records for7 counties within the state of Florida.
Releasing fiber to the field for CWDM,GPON,direct point to point, hub diversity, EDFAand other
solutions. Planning and design of FTTH fiber cables, enclosures, taps and cabinets. Design of cable
in OSP INSIGHT. Record keeping in EXCEL,OSP INSIGHT and MICROSTATIONB/BENTLEY
programs.
(Mar2012to Dec2014) CenturyLink-700WMineral Ave,Littleton,CO. NetworkOperations
CenterEngineer. Engineer forCenturyLink's National and International Long and Short Reach
Fiber Optic spans and all equipment associated to the network. Monitoring systems through NMA
software. Working withCISCO, NORTEL,ALU XTREME,ALU WAVESTAR, FUJITSU,CIENA
CORESTREAM,ULH, 6500, ONLINE METRO,INFINERA,EXCEED,HALOMONITORINGSYSTEMS,
TELLABS and other softwaresystems to monitor, troubleshoot and maintain the fiber optic
network. Trained for all optical and ethernet carrier groups on a digital network. CIENA certified.
(Oct 2008to Dec2011) ConnexionTechnologies-HomeOffice,CastleRock,CO. FiberOptic
DevelopmentEngineer. Assisted sales throughout the nation by attending meetings with

2. property owners and land developers to provide design, engineering and construction details
regarding the business applications and requirements forvoice, data and video applications.
Assisted the legal department to acquire exclusive land easements by gathering data from localcity
and county municipal offices. Field engineering audits on all of the current infrastructure including,
water, sewer, electrical, phone, data and cable currently existing onsite and the entrance and
location of aerial and or buried infrastructure for the entire project.
(Jan 2003to Oct 2008) CastleRockChamberofCommerce-420JerrySt.CastleRock,CO.
DirectorofMembership. Created instruction and the execution of a strategic business
development plan. Recruited all new members/businesses to join the Chamber of Commerce to
align their business plan and increase their bottom line. Led the ambassador program of business
professionals to help provide the membership withthe necessary tools for business development.
Part of the Board of Directors,ExecutiveFinance Committee, Technology Liaison Committee and
Castle RockBroadband Initiative. Managed and budgeted the officeserver and softwarefor the
office. Upgrade the softwareand hardware to run a localarea networkapplication to increase
speed and efficiency.
(Jun 1999to Dec2002) US West/QwestCommunications-700WMineral Ave,Littleton,CO.
SeniorDevelopmentEngineer/Tactical Planner. Partof a team managing a 160 million dollar
budget plan forthe designers, field engineers, project managers, contractorsand fellow colleagues
to place fiber, copper, structure and equipment used to maintain or build out new communications
infrastructure to residential, business and government. Completed planning fromDS3 services and
OC12 to OC192 fiber optic SONET rings. DSL and VDSL DWDMand CWDMfiber design and
equipment training. Designed engineering outside plant drawings for field engineers to build out
copper and fiber optic facilities. Reviewedthe existing networks to perform a costanalysis with
timelines scheduled for workproduction and execution. Helped to write and develop a technical
manual on the provisioning of facilities and equipment within wire centers.
(Jan 1997to Apr1999) Data Communications-GreaterDenverArea. Commercial Cable
Install, GreenandBrownFieldConstruction. Installed CAT5 data and phone lines from the
street, to the punch blocksinside the telcocloset, and then pulled cables inside the floors and
ceilings to the cubicle and officestations. Then terminated and tested the lines for compliance.
 Education
(Jun 2011) AdvancedEnergySystems. Certificate program forwind turbine technology.
Electricity circuitand energy design processes.
(Jun 2002Jun 2004) AdvancedEnergySystems. Continued educational programs foradvanced
technologies, data/systems communications, switching systems and electronics.
(Jan 1993Jun 1995) Colorado InstituteofArt/ArtInstitute International. Associates degree
program forVisual Communications, Commercial Art and Design.