Instructor/Class Take Over IT
Responsibilities
Our last c | t | f
issue featured the success of Instructor Kevin Woodruff,
and the Network Cabling Installer TAR at the Atterbury Job Corps Center near
Indianapolis. In that article we wrote, “It is Kevin’s hope that in the
future this will lead to slating the program to work on most of the systems
on campus that are currently under outside contract.” We’d like to pass on
a mid-January communication:
I thought you might be interested to know we
stepped up the projects. I met with our Data Specialist, Heather Giles, and
our Buyer, Tina Sanders, last week. Most of our outside contracts on center
are ending this month. We've created a team of roughly five personnel whose
responsibility it will be to update and coordinate all data cabling issues
on center from here on out, prior to calling a contractor. In other words,
I'll get a call every time there is an issue in one of the buildings (phone,
internet, LAN, HUB, fiber lines, data, video feed, etc.), I'll visit the
site with students, we'll assess if it's something we can do in part or all,
then whatever we can't do, I'll make a recommendation as to a contractor to
call to finish the job. So this is a major boon for this trade. We are now
the major "contractor" on center for all cabling issues starting the first
of the month.
We've already started, in fact. I've got three
LAN systems on the books to look at! We've already successfully fixed half
a dozen phone and internet lines, tracked and jacked over a dozen tracing
and labeling hub systems (older outdated contracted work that never got
labeled).
This center is a cabler's absolute worst
nightmare…and I'm lovin' it! Because now we get to have carte blanche to go
in, assess and fix it! The bonus is that if it is something that we can't
do, we can recommend a contractor to do it, and students can shadow these
contractors for the work.
I want to extend an open
invitation as well to any and all who are interested in seeing what we've
accomplished out here. Please come see us; we would more than welcome you
and give you a tour of our wonderful facilities.
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