12+ years building telecom infrastructure from the ground up — from field engineering to founding and scaling one of the country's leading OSP firms.
B.S. Civil Engineering
Florida International University
Class of 2012 · Miami, FL
12+ years in telecom and outside plant engineering — spanning design, project management, and executive leadership across major fiber deployments nationwide.
Founded Draftech International in 2018. Grew the firm to 600+ engineers operating across 22 states with 44,000+ miles of fiber designed.
Certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE)
FTTH high-level and low-level design, pole loading analysis, make-ready engineering, BEAD compliance, OSP network planning, and construction package development.
Led engineering programs for Tier-1 carriers, ISPs, and BEAD-funded deployments across the southeastern, central, and western United States.
Recognized as a leading MBE in telecom infrastructure. Active contributor to broadband expansion policy and BEAD subgrantee technical standards.
Julio's writing draws directly from project experience — the real decisions, tradeoffs, and cost consequences that come with designing and deploying fiber at scale.
Splitter placement, FDH sizing, NAP strategy, and the upstream engineering decisions that determine whether a build stays on budget.
Read: Common FTTH HLD Mistakes →Real-world cost tradeoffs between aerial and underground fiber construction across terrain types, utility environments, and permit jurisdictions.
Read: Aerial vs. Underground Fiber Cost →Pole attachment timelines, ILA and NESC compliance, utility coordination, and why make-ready delays are the most common cause of project overruns.
Read: Make-Ready Engineering Timelines →Engineering requirements for BEAD-funded projects — what NTIA actually mandates, what states are enforcing, and how to structure deliverables for subgrantee compliance.
Read: BEAD Engineering Requirements →Network planning philosophy, design-build coordination, and the organizational decisions that determine whether large-scale fiber programs succeed.
Building and scaling engineering capacity, MBE certification advantages in federal programs, and managing multi-state engineering operations.
Technical guides and field-tested analysis from 12+ years designing fiber networks across the United States.
The FTTH HLD errors our engineers catch every week — wrong splitter ratios, oversized FDHs, bad NAP placement — and the downstream cost cascades they create.
Read Article →Data-driven cost comparison of aerial and underground fiber deployment across 200+ real projects — not vendor estimates.
Read Article →How make-ready engineering creates invisible delays in fiber deployments and the process changes that actually fix the problem.
Read Article →The engineering documentation, compliance standards, and deliverable requirements BEAD subgrantees must meet before construction begins.
Read Article →Have a question about FTTH design, OSP engineering, or BEAD compliance? Reach out directly to the Draftech team.
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