JOHN M PEDRO, RCDD CDT CFOI
jmp@jmp.org
EXPERIENCE
3/02–Present TEECOM
Design Group, Oakland, CA
Senior Design Engineer responsible for the project management, design,
product specifying, and production of construction documents for Telecommunications
infrastructure systems. A short list of current projects:
- LBNL HELIOS Energy Recearch Facility, Berkeley, CA
- UCB Li Ka-Shing Bio Tech Research Facility, Berkeley, CA
- Highland Hospital Acute Tower, Oakland, CA
- Chabot College Student Services Center, Hayward, CA
- City of Lincoln City Hall, Lincoln, CA
- CalPERS Emergency Operations Center, Sacramento, CA
- Mills College Natural Sciences Building, Oakland, CA
- Mills College Graduate School of Business, Oakland, CA
- California State Capital Building Infrastructure Study, Sacramento,
CA
- SCVHHS Gilroy Clinic, Gilroy, CA
- SCVHHS Sunnyvale Clinic, Sunnyvale, CA
- Santa Clara Valley Specialty Center, San Jose, CA
- Laguna Honda
Hospital Replacement Program, San Francisco, CA
6/99–5/01 Equinix,
Inc., Foster City, CA
IBX Design Engineer in charge of telecommunications infrastructure designs
for the Internet Business Exchanges (IBX).
- Created a patented design for an innovative colocation cascading
cabletray distribution system (Patent 6,515,224)
- Designed a scalable cableplant to efficiently interconnect
customers and overcome operationally difficult distances
- Developed Carrier deployment strategies to mitigate media
distance limitations with copper based circuits
- Designed Carrier support infrastructure to meet Telco specific
requirements within the IBX’s
- Devised telecommunication concepts to address connectivity
issues associated with large colocation facilities
- Wrote a Site Selection Criteria manual, and acted as Design
team’s point-man for all site selection activities
- Liaison to Marketing and Ops to implement new products deployment
and lessons learned to future IBX designs
- Functioned as lead-designer for custom customer cage configurations,
supporting Sales Engineering
2/98–6/99 Compaq Computer
Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
Operations Manager for the mission-critical Palo Alto Internet Exchange
(PAIX), managing operations, facility design, and engineering functions. (currently
PAIX.net's Palo Alto facility)
- Established the PAIX facility as one of
the premier Internet Exchanges in the world with 100+
participants
- Designed, oversaw, and delivered two
on-time construction expansion projects, totaling $2.5M
- Maintained the PAIX facility at 100%
up-time for my full tenure as Operations Manager
- Managed a staff of 12 including: 24x7
Technician staff, Chief Engineer, and Security personnel
- Completed basic financial models for
PAIX’s core products: cabinet space, cross-connects,
power circuits
- Managed document control including:
customer database, billing, purchasing, capital assets,
and vendor contracts
- Managed all site contractor and vendor
relationships and associated purchase orders
10/96-2/98 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC),
Palo Alto, CA
Lead Technician for the mission-critical DIGITAL Internet
Exchange, overseeing daily operational and technical activities.
- Managed all customer service requests
achieving a 24-hour turn-around time for over 90%
- Originated and implemented operational
procedures for services installations and troubleshooting
- Built the organization’s first
database to track customers and leased services
- Managed shift schedules and task
delegation/assignment for a staff of five technicians
- Tasked with circuit delivery and
troubleshooting, cabling build-out, remote-hand services,
and customer escorting
7/95-9/96 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC),
Palo Alto, CA
Engineering Operations Analyst responsible for key
operational functions within the Palo Alto Engineering Campus.
- Acted as liaison between Corporate
Security and campus, for policy and procedure origination
and implementation
- Developed and maintained internal web site
for repository of campus policies
- Managed the local Asset Disposition
Program, including physical inventories and
reconciliation
- Managed Property Removal Pass
administration for one site of a approximately 100
employees
- Managed local payroll data input,
including supervision of site Administrators in
performing this function
- Managed facility vendors and contractors
relationship and purchase orders for 6 sites
7/93-6/95 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC),
Santa Clara, CA
Service Contracts Administrator responsible for management
of service contracts for the Northwest States, including both
government and commercial customers.
- Served as the principal representative on
all pre and post administrative issues
- Coordinated the flow of service contracts through a variety
of process transactions, including DPL and credit checks, technical edits,
availability data validation, invoicing reconciliation, data gathering and
input, quotation generation, T&C's and DBA review for compliance, processing
allowances and discounts
8/91-6/93 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC),
Palo Alto, CA
Fixed Asset Manager/Accountant responsible for various key
accounting functions supporting a 500+ employee research and
engineering campus.
- Managed in excess of $50M in engineering
assets for 15+ cost centers
- Successfully disposed of $20M+ engineering
assets obtaining less then 1% write-off (Merit award
received)
- Managed Employee Disbursements for campus
with a $75K cash account
- Originated and implemented accounting
policies for asset disposition and expense voucher
processing
- Conducted training of administrative
support staff in regards to accounting policies and
procedures
- Devised new processes reducing expense
voucher processing time by over 60% for the campus
- Researched and proposed a rental-car
refueling policy which saved the company ~$0.5M per year
- Managed and coordinated the Record
Retention program for 6 cost centers for all financial
and facility records
- Managed local payroll data input,
including supervision of site Administrators in
performing this function
1/90–7/91 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Mountain
View, CA
Senior Department Administrator provided administrative support to 35
employees.
- Performed back-up support for both Payroll
and Employee Disbursements for a site of 600 employees
- Performed Purchasing Associate duties for
the local Purchasing Department, including Purchase
Requisition processing and input into an automated
Purchasing, Receiving, and Accounts Payable system
EDUCATION & AFFILIATIONS
SKILL SETS
- Proficient in producing and interpreting architectural and
telecommunications drawings and specifications.
- Proficient in BICSI methodology, TIA/EIA and ANSI standards.
- Proficient in the following operating systems and applications:
Windows, MSOffice applications, AutoCAD, FrontPage, Corel Draw, basic HTML
programming and Web administration, and with PC hardware installation and
configuration.
- Bilingual in English and Portuguese.
REFERENCES
Available upon request.