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Military Service United States Air Force October 1967 – September 1971. 3702 Basic Military Training Squadron Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas October 1967 – January 1968. Munitions Maintenance Training at Lowery AFB, Denver, Colorado January 1968 – May 1968.
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Military Service United States Air Force October 1967 – September 1971
3702 Basic Military Training Squadron Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas October 1967 – January 1968
Munitions Maintenance Training at Lowery AFB, Denver, Colorado January 1968 – May 1968
635th Munitions Maintenance Squadron U-Tapao Royal Thai AFB, Sattahip, Thailand July 1968 – July 1969
303rd Munitions Maintenance Squadron Bien Hoa AFB, Republic of Vietnam July 1969 - July 1970
6200 MMS Clark AFB Angeles City, Philippine Islands July 1970 - September 1971
Mountain Bell, AT&T and Lucent Technologies October 1971 to October 2000
1971 – 1972 Mountain Bell • Worked as a Coin Collector collecting coins from pay telephones around the state. • Office at 16 W. McDowell. • Traveled to towns and places such as Grand Canyon, Page, Flagstaff, Williams, Ashfork, Seligman, Chino Valley, Sedona, Cottonwood, Jerome, Prescott Valley, Prescott, Baghdad, Wickenburg, San Luis, Yuma, Gila Bend and Buckeye. Plus all the towns in the Phoenix metro area.
1972 – 1976 Mountain Bell • Worked as a residential telephone installer/repairman including Carefree, Cave Creek, Black Canyon City, New River, Morristown, Sun City, Litchfield Park, White Tanks, Buckeye, Goodyear, Avondale and Tolleson. Plus most of North Phoenix and Glendale. • Installed wiring in new homes and apartments, removed telephones from vacant houses, installed and repaired telephones in new and existing houses. • Climbed telephone poles, crawled in attics and under trailers and dug trenches with hand tools and machinery. • Offices at 35th Ave & Greenway, 30th St & Bell, 95th Ave & Thunderbird and Dysart & Van Buren.
In 1975, Alex participated in Career Days at several grade schools. In order to keep the students’ interest, he donned all his climbing gear and put on safety gear to test for electrical hazards while standing behind his fully equipped installation van. He was honored to provide guidance to students. Here’s a couple of letters from the students.
1976 – 1981 Mountain Bell • Became a Service Consultant (SC) in the Marketing Department at 1800 N. Central. Worked with the hospitality industry. • After a couple of years, promoted to SCII. Responsible to technically assure telecommunication system designs. • Later supported the education and medical industries.
Several job titles over the years with Mountain Bell, AT&T and Lucent Technologies. Essentially the job was technical sales support (designing telecommunication system and briefing account executives on how they worked). Below is from 1981.
1982 – 1995 AT&T • Held various titles such as Design Specialist, Senior Technical Specialist, etc. Located at 3101 N. Central and 2800 N. Central. • Still responsible to technically assure telecommunication system designs. • The most notable industries supported were financial (Valley National Bank, Bank One, Chase), industrial (Intel), medical (Cigna) and miscellaneous (America West Arena).
1996 - 2000 Lucent Technologies • Still responsible to technically assure telecommunication system designs. • Involved in many more large system projects.
2001 - 2003 Independent Consultant • Advised Avaya Partners such as Netversant, Aspen Technologies, Intellect and Consolidated Ventura on system designs. • Worked on City of Espanola, NM and Arizona Retirement System designs.
28 YEARS OF TRAINING The Bell System (Ma Bell) provided many chances to increase knowledge. It could include anything from local schools to remote universities. The length of courses could be anywhere from 1 day to 2 weeks (most were 8+ hours a day)…and there were quite a few 2 week courses attended. Two week locations included Newark, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, Fargo, Denver and San Jose. The training sites provided ample opportunity to explore nearby cities…such as riding the subway through Grand Central Station in New York City at 3 AM. Or, driving up the coast of New England on I-95 during a bitter winter. Maybe visiting the ski resorts in Colorado. A lot learned and a lot of fun! I attended them all many times. I tracked 100+ different courses attended over the years…and there is only one “college diploma” among them... a Glendale Community College Business Administration AA degree. So now I list “School Of Hard Knocks” as where I got my degree from.
Here are 3 different classes attended in Boston at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).