Students taking pressure and flow readings from the hands on pneumatic training board.

Air 1 Technical Services, Inc. Instructor Resumes

Dinda, Richard - Rich worked for Southern New England Telephone and SBC for 34 years.  He started as a cable splicer’s helper and has worked as craft and management in various positions associated with outside plant maintenance and construction.  At SNET he pulled together and managed a statewide infrastructure maintenance teams that was responsible for air pressure and SLC battery, power and test ability.  In 2000 Rich retired from SNET/SBC.  Since then he has worked for TEMPO in the Field Support area providing training on TEMPO products in Europe and the Northeast.

Driver, Johnny - Johnny worked for BellSouth in Atlanta Ga. for 33 years as a craft person. He was a cable maintenance technician for 30 years most of which was in the air pressure field. His responsibilities included placement of central office dryers, distribution & pipe panels, manifolds and monitoring devices (pressure and flow transducers). He also had the responsibility of wiring the monitoring devices to the monitoring system (Sparton) in the central office.
In the late 90’s the Central District formed its own training school for cable maintenance technicians. Johnny taught courses that included: “Introduction to Air Pressure”, “Working with Lead”, and the proper use of test equipment such as: Breakdown, Tone Arc and 965 & 965 DSP test sets.
After retiring Johnny returned to BellSouth as a contractor and taught a course titled “Leak Locating in Underground Plant”. He also assisted the Atlanta Network Learning Center in writing a new course, “Working in Lead Plant.” 

McLeroy, Larry - Larry worked for BellSouth for 35 years, both as craft and management of which 22 years were in air pressure related positions.  Since retiring Larry has worked for Core Industries and A & S Services as a contractor instructor for BellSouth teaching Sparton, Air Flow Analysis and Compressor Maintenance at the Atlanta Network Learning Center, Decatur, GA.  When not in the classroom Larry also worked as a mentor/trainer, riding with air pressure technicians in the field.

Palastro, John - John worked for Illinois Bell and Verizon for 39 years, both as craft and management, 35 of those years were in positions associated with outside plant maintenance.  He is proud to have been a part of the Verizon team that designed and built the Greater Pittsburgh Cable College.  During John’s 5 years as lead instructor at the college, he has trained more than 400 maintenance and construction technicians.  He was also instrumental in developing Verizon’s
“Bonding and Grounding Course,” which he and others have performed numerous seminars throughout the country.  Since retiring in 2001 John has been an instructor for 3M.

Perez ,Miguel -  Miguel worked for Southwestern Bell in the San Antonio and South Texas area for 20 years, both as craft and management.  His experience encompasses the three main functions of the outside plant-construction, maintenance and engineering.  The last six years of Miguel’s career with Southwestern Bell were spent in the air pressure world where he was instrumental in the development, implementation and maintenance of the APES (Automatic Pressure Evaluation System) program.  After retiring from Southwestern Bell, Miguel went to work for Mark Products, Inc. as an Applications Engineer.  In this position Miguel was charged with product sales, product field application and product usage training for the Southwestern region of the U.S.  Miguel has conducted technical training sessions and seminars for both field forces and engineers, for all of the major and many of the independent TelCos in the U.S., the Caribbean and Mexico.  Miguel also worked for Dielectric as a field engineer/trainer.