Curtis Ashton Résumé 

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Home	Work
422 W. Jamison Pl.	700 West Mineral, MT H22.13
Littleton, Colorado 80120	Littleton, Colorado 80120
(303) 795-8435	(303) 707-5699
cnmashton@wcox.com	Curtis.Ashton@qwest.com

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Objective:

A position where my background in power, electricity, or written and oral communications can be used, with leanings towards telecommunications backup power in the Denver metro area.

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Skills:

• Backup Power and Grounding SME
• Customer/Vendor Skills
• Written and Oral Communications
• Economic Analysis
• Team Leadership
• Product Selection
• Computer Skills:
• Word Processors, Spreadsheets and Presentation software
• Mac, UNIX, Windows, & DOS
• Database use
• basic programming skills; including a little html
• Project and Process Management

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Education:

Arizona State University

Tempe, Arizona

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering

GPA: 3.81, Summa Cum Laude
Emphases in AC Power Engineering and Spanish
December 18, 1992

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Experience:

USWEST / Qwest 

Power Maintenance Engineer

June 1992 - Present

Denver metro, Colorado

Write technical support documentation and standards for power engineers, alarm center technicians, power technicians, power technical support, and suppliers of power equipment. Develop policies for these groups of people through consensus, research, and teamwork. Train technicians on the basics of power equipment and alarming. Serve as a project manager for various power projects. Serve as an effective interface to other internal groups, other RBOCs, Telcordia, and external suppliers. Represent Qwest nationally to the IEEE Stationary Battery Standards Group; in addition to being a Grounding SME. Present and publish papers at national/international symposiums on power issues. Give audiovisual presentations to clients and teams. Thorough understanding of telecommunications backup power systems, including batteries and standby generators, broadband powering, grounding, and collocation. Participate in the RF(X) process for selection of power and environmental products. Write business cases and run financial analyses for power projects. Provide support and internal applications design for new power technologies. Involvement in research and policy-making for environmental standards for telecommunications equipment space. Work with suppliers to drive them to meet environmental requirements and needs. Process management training and experience. Work on re-engineering process design team. DMTS classification for technical expertise on the technical employee career ladder (the youngest employee promoted to this position, and the 7th ever).

Arizona State University 

CIS/MIS Teaching Assistant

1991

Tempe, Arizona

Taught and tutored students in hardware and software applications.

Salt River Project - CGS 

Engineering Technician

summers 1986, '89-'91

St. Johns, Arizona

Assisted engineers in data collection and analysis. Completed independent projects. Did revision drafting of telecommunications equipment. Worked part of the time as an electrician's helper/apprentice. Became thoroughly familiar with power plant operation (for a 700 MW coal-fired plant). Conducted electromagnetic field (EMF) studies near a substation; then compiled, analyzed, and reported the data to homeowners.

Madrid Mission, LDS Church 

Financial Clerk

1987-1989

Madrid, Spain

Dealt with banks on a professional level, in Spanish.

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Honors and Publications:

• Eagle Scout 
• Past Recipient of $40,000 SRP Engineering Scholarship
• Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)

• 2 papers published in Intelec '94, 1 in Intelec '96, and 1 in Intelec '98
• 1 article in Telephony magazine, and quoted in 2 other magazine articles
• 1 paper published in IEC's 1997 Annual Review of Communications

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Professional Affiliations/Certificates:

• IEEE: 
• Stationary Battery Standards Committee SCC29
• formerly on Standards Review Committee (RevCom)
•  E.I.T. Certification from the State of Colorado

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Personal Activities:

• former Scoutmaster
• Sports leagues (playing and officiating)
• Reading
• Art
• Languages
• Spanish culture

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