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Dennis Johnson
President
Dennis Johnson began working in the telecom industry in 1995 for Bell
Atlantic. At Bell Atlantic, Dennis worked with Central Office Projects, Remote Hut/Cabinet retrofitting and outside
plant reconditioning for SBC. After five years of training in loop electronics, transport systems and power distribution
plants, Dennis created his own business, Select Systems Telecom. Select Systems began providing various subcontractor
services to companies such as SBC, Goodman Networks, Harvard Technologies and Genesis. In 2002, during a six month project
under AFC for several C2P retrofits in Pennsylvania, a reputation for customer service was established with Sprint that has,
to this date, provided numerous opportunities. Select Systems was added to AFC's preferred vendor list shortly thereafter
and remains a primary resource for access, transport and testing personnel as a Tellabs preferred vendor.
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Eschol DuWayne Tarrant Jr.
Projects Supervisor
DuWayne started in the construction side of telecom in 1987 placing buried
cable in Clearwater/St. Petersburg, FL for Butler Telecom. His next job was working for GTE Florida, as a service installer
and facilities maintainer for two years. After a two year period of continuing his education, he began working for AT&T
consruction services in College Station, TX where he was sent to a 3M splicing school and became their lead technician in
facilities maintenance and restoration. Shortly thereafter, Butler Telecom contracted DuWayne to lead a rehabilitation
crew, for Hess Oil Company on St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands in 1992. After completion of the project, his next project
was CAT-5 installation project throughout GA, TN and SC. A three month contract at Northern Telecom in Stone Mountain,
GA., introduced DuWayne to Loop Electronics and sub-station build outs for the New York Transit System. In 1995, he moved
back to Texas where he was hired by Bell Atlantic to work on a complete restoration and upgrade of all of SBC's mini and maxi-huts
and remote cabinets in the Austin and surrounding areas footprint. This included installing all new Lineage 2000 power
plants, installation and commissioning of FLM 150, 600 and 2400 multiplexers, complete T-1 termination and distribution, installation
and commissioning of new SLC Ser 5 CBA's. This project was followed by six years of C.O. installations of transport,
multiplexing and optical equipment. Alcatel ADSL 1000, Litespan 2000, Tellabs Titan series transport systems, mini-ATM's
and numerous other systems. During the last four years, DuWayne has managed projects including DSC switch installations,
lab developments for Alcatel of Petaluma, CA, lab developments for Tellabs in Dallas, TX and C2P upgrade and revitalization
projects for Sprint in OH, PA, NJ, IN, NC and NY, as an employee of Select Systems Telecom.
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David J. Wallace
Project Manager
Jeremy started working
the summers of 1993 & 1994 for Wallace Telephone before going full time in June of 1995. In 1995 Wallace Telephone was
working on cutting the last of the step offices to digital offices for Century Tel of Wisconsin through out the state. While
at Wallace Telephone Jeremy installed alot of iron work as well as Adtran, AFC, Alcatel, Fujitsu, & other various
types of equipment. In 2002 Jeremy was a contracted to AFC to be a Install Supervisor over many of their jobs. In 2003
Jeremy was then contracted to AFC as a quality auditor where he was over projects such as the Verizon/Manhattan 140
West Street build out after 9-11, & responsible for the quality of 300 rack & stack bays built for Verizon. Then in
2004 Jeremy was employeed by Icon Communications as their Projects Supervisor. There Jeremy was over numerous jobs including 200
plus jobs in a 5 month period for Sprint in Las Vegas Nevada. Also for the last 4 months Jeremy was at Icon Communications
he worked with Tellabs on a nation wide PON card change out for Verizon. Then in December of 2005 Jeremy joined Dennis
Johnson & Duwayne Tarrant at Select Systems.
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