About Us: Staff

Sonny Loreto - President and Principal, Utility Telecom. Sonny received his BS Electronics & Communications Engineering at the University of Santo Tomas, Philippines. Sonny has over 32 years of telecom system design and operation experience with analog/digital fiber optics and microwave systems, multiplex systems, system protection, private telephone systems, telemetry, and mobile radio. Sonny brings extensive management and engineering experience in the utility and telecommunications environment to the Utility Telecom team.

Prior to joining Utility Telecom he held progressive engineering and management positions at Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Raychem Corp., and Nevada Power Company. He has a well-rounded combination of system and network design, field operations, and management experience including contract negotiations (PCS relocation and EF&I contracts), budget management, regulatory compliance, and standards/policy & procedure development.

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Bret Johnson - Senior Consultant, BS Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado. Bret has more than 22 years of telecom and utility engineering experience. His specialties include a variety of telecom transmission system applications including fiber optic broad band systems, SONET, frame relay, ATM, IP and TDM systems. He is an expert in all aspects of circuit interfaces, DACs and digital multiplexing. He also has significant experience with the switched voice network, SS-7 network and has designed, written and worked with a wide variety of network control and tracking software.

Prior to joining Utility Telecom Bret worked in the gas and electric utility environment for Public Service Company of Colorado and for AT&T Broadband. In these capacities he designed radio, microwave and fiber transmission systems.

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Dave LeBlanc - Senior Consultant, BS Electronic Engineering, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo. Mr. LeBlanc has more than 27 years of telecommunications engineering and management experience in the gas, electric, and water utility business. He has been responsible for the planning and engineering of complete telecommunications system for fossil fuel and hydro electric power plants, substations, gas compressor stations, service centers, and customer service offices. This includes the planning and engineering of digital and analog microwave, high-speed fiber optic, telephone, SCADA, wireless mobile radio, power line carrier, and WAN systems.

Prior to joining Utility Telecom he held engineering and management positions at Pacific Gas & Electric Company, Nevada Power, Sierra Pacific Power and Sacramento Municipal Utility District.

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Lou Conover - Senior Consultant. Mr. Conover has more than 30 years of telecommunications engineering and installation experience in the electric utility business. He has been responsible for the planning and engineering of complete telecommunications systems for substations, operations centers and service center offices. This includes the planning and engineering of digital and analog microwave, high-speed fiber optic, EMS/SCADA & NOC/Dispatch center, wireless mobile radio, power line carrier, and WAN systems.

Prior to joining Utility Telecom he held engineering and installation positions at Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association.

Recent Utility Telecom work includes a Technology Migration Study for moving a client TDM communications system to a packet based system.

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Michael Loreto - Consultant - Michael is our newest addition to our staff. He graduated with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Nevada - Las Vegas (UNLV) in 2019 and has been handling frequency & FAA coordination & FCC licensing tasks for our clients. He is deeply involved in field site surveys/inspections and microwave path analysis and surveying.

Michael also has a B.S. in Media Arts and Animation degree from the Art Institute of Las Vegas. He has been leveraging these skills in our permit application activities with cities, counties, and local governments as necessary.

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