Donald McCarty
Donald McCarty began his telephone career in 1965 as an outside plant technician. In 1972, he joined Dynatel as an outside plant training specialist. After 14 years of training both craft and management in the telecommunications industry, he founded McCarty Associates, Inc. now known as McCarty Products in 1986. His success as a world-renowned trainer, speaker and writer is credited to his straight-forward teaching style coupled with his ability to make complex subjects easy to grasp. Donald sets the technical benchmarks and standards for McCarty Products. He is a regular columnist in Outside Plant Magazine, and is the co-author of The Fine Art of Fault Locating, the industry standard training manual for outside plant fault location.
Through McCarty Products, Donald and other McCarty trainers provide on-site training for field technicians, engineers, training personnel and managers of CLECs and ILECs as well as executives and managers of major equipment providers. Donald and trainer Keith Brandt, also train Power company technicians and they will consult with managers about noise problems that occur in the gray area of responsibility between the Telco's and the Power providers. In his courses, Donald and his trainers discuss technical issues around cable fault locating in a digital world. View our courses on the training page for more info.
McCarty Products designed and markets the McCarty 2000 Resistance Fault Simulator (RFS). The McCarty 2000 is an excellent tool for simulating problems both in a classroom and field situation. The RFS works with industry standard test sets. View the McCarty 2000 RFS page for more info.
Donald consulted with Fluke Networks in the development of TechExpert, an excellent software tool that gives every technician the equivalent problem solving ability of someone will decades of actual field experience. See the TechEXPERT page for more info.
Donald also works with Telcos and Power companies on a one-on-one consulting basis both by phone and in person, helping them resolve particularly difficult cases of trouble and or develop policies and procedures for cable fault location, repair and maintenance. For more info visit the consulting page.
Jim Wood
Jim Wood is a Trainer, Consultant, and Contractor for McCarty & Associates. Jim has worked in the telephone industry for some 40 years. He spent 31 years at Southwestern Bell Telephone, and the past 9 years with McCarty. Jim has worked almost exclusively in the OSP network with titles as a Central Office Frame man, Exchange Repairman and Installation, and finally in Cable Repair where 22 of the 31 years were spent.
Jim's experience is in a vast area of expertise, ranging from splicing damaged cables, trouble shooting, in every kind of cable imaginable, then he has worked on Pair Gain SLC 96, Series 5, Discs 5, Fiber, recently FTTH PON and so on.
He teaches on the latest test and measurement equipment from an array of vendors.
Then in Jim's travels he worked on and maintained one of the countries Best pressurized system, which he and others built the monitoring and repaired countless air pressure problems. Engineers called on Jim all the time for his wisdom with the intricate system, design and know how.
With McCarty Jim has trained technicians, managers, supervisors, and engineers from coast to coast and all over Canada the past 9 years. He passion is to pass on years of experience to his students, and make their lives just a little bit better in the know how of the telephony industry, test equipment and a thorough understanding of why and what their doing.
