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.