# About Draftech International — OSP Engineering Leadership Team > **Five partners. One mission.** Connecting America's communities to broadband — survey to as-built, coast to coast. 44,000+ miles of fiber network behind us. Founded 2018. MBE certified. **Canonical URL:** https://draftech.com/about.html **Company:** Draftech International, LLC --- ## Company Statistics | Metric | Value | |--------|-------| | Miles Designed | **44,000+** | | Addresses Engineered | **2.6 million+** | | Active States | **22** | | Founded | **2018** | | Certification | **MBE (Minority Business Enterprise)** | --- ## Our Story — Built Different from Day One After 12 years in the telecommunications industry, **Julio Martinez** had seen the same problem on every ISP engagement: too many vendors, too many handoffs, and too much institutional knowledge lost between the survey crew, the design team, the permitting consultant, and the construction contractor. Each firm did its part of the job. None of them had to own the outcome. Julio founded **Draftech International** in 2018 with a different premise — that fiber network engineering works better when a single firm owns the full lifecycle. Survey to as-built. Field to design to GIS. One standard of care, one chain of custody for the data, one team accountable for the result. The founding team brought together five partners with complementary backgrounds across OSP design, structural engineering, GIS, field operations, and project management. They started with regional ISP clients in the Southeast and built outward — project by project, state by state — until the firm's footprint covered 22 active states and a portfolio of over 44,000 route miles. The engineering philosophy hasn't changed from day one: **do the field work right, design to what's actually there, and don't send a construction crew into the field with drawings that will generate change orders.** Everything else — the tools, the platforms, the deliverable formats — is in service of that standard. --- ## Leadership Team ### Julio Martinez — CEO & Co-Founder **LinkedIn:** Available via https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftechint Julio is the founder and CEO of Draftech International. He brings more than 12 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, with direct project leadership across FTTH design, make-ready engineering, and large-scale OSP deployments for ISPs, co-ops, and carriers throughout the southeastern United States and beyond. His background spans both the technical engineering side — he has personally overseen the design of networks representing tens of thousands of route miles — and the operational side of running multi-state engineering deployments under BEAD and other federally funded broadband programs. Julio's founding thesis at Draftech: that the fragmented, multi-vendor engineering model endemic to fiber deployment creates structural quality and schedule risk that a single integrated engineering firm can eliminate. Six years and 44,000+ miles later, that thesis has been validated across projects from rural Montana to urban Florida. --- ### Devin Martinez — CTO & Co-Founder **LinkedIn:** Available via https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftechint Devin serves as Chief Technology Officer, overseeing Draftech's technical platforms, GIS infrastructure, and engineering workflow systems. He leads the firm's integration of ArcGIS, IQGeo, GE Smallworld, and other enterprise network design platforms into a unified engineering data environment that maintains spatial accuracy from field collection through final deliverable. Devin's focus is on the data architecture that underlies high-quality OSP engineering — ensuring that field-collected data flows cleanly into design tools, that design data flows accurately into construction drawings, and that construction records close back into GIS-integrated as-built databases. He developed Draftech's internal QA workflows, which include a mandatory second-engineer review of every LLD deliverable before client release. --- ### Julio Cesar Martinez Sr. — Partner **LinkedIn:** Available via https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftechint A founding partner of Draftech International with deep experience in OSP project delivery and client relationship management across the telecom industry. Julio Sr. brings institutional knowledge of how large-scale fiber deployments are planned, contracted, and executed — particularly in complex multi-jurisdiction environments. --- ### Omar Molina — Partner **LinkedIn:** Available via https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftechint Omar is a founding partner overseeing field operations and survey methodology at Draftech. With direct experience managing field survey crews across multiple states simultaneously, he developed Draftech's structured field data collection protocols — including the Fulcrum and Katapult-based workflows that ensure survey data is GPS-tagged, photo-documented, and QA'd before it enters the design pipeline. Omar's operational background is the foundation of Draftech's ability to mobilize survey crews quickly and maintain consistent data quality across projects with hundreds of poles and dozens of route miles. --- ### Ashish Kumar Meena — Partner **LinkedIn:** Available via https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftechint Ashish is a founding partner with engineering and technical leadership responsibilities. He brings expertise in structural analysis, pole loading methodology, and the technical standards — NESC, OSHA, NEC — that govern aerial and underground fiber deployment across the jurisdictions Draftech serves. Ashish leads Draftech's pole loading analysis practice, including the firm's use of O-Calc Pro and SPIDA Calc, and oversees the technical quality of make-ready engineering deliverables and joint use attachment applications. --- ## MBE Certification **Draftech International is a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE).** This certification is issued through a recognized third-party certifying body and verifies that the firm is at least 51% owned, operated, and controlled by individuals who are members of a recognized minority group. For clients with supplier diversity requirements — including BEAD subgrantees, municipalities, electric co-ops, and publicly funded ISP deployments — Draftech's MBE certification can support compliance with minority vendor utilization requirements embedded in grant agreements and public procurement standards. MBE certification also signals to the broader market that Draftech represents a different kind of engineering firm: one built from the ground up by industry practitioners who came to OSP engineering from the field, not from a corporate headquarters. --- ## Engineering Philosophy ### Ground Truth Over Assumptions Desktop-only design — using county GIS records and satellite imagery without field verification — produces drawings that generate change orders. Draftech's workflow begins in the field, and the field data is the authoritative source for every downstream engineering decision. ### Integrated Lifecycle, Single Chain of Custody When survey, design, permitting, and as-built documentation are handled by the same firm, data doesn't get lost at handoffs. Attachment heights measured in the field go directly into the loading model. Loading results drive the make-ready design. Make-ready design drives the permit package. Construction as-builts close back into the same GIS database. Every step is connected. ### Quality Built Into the Process Every LLD deliverable undergoes a mandatory second-engineer review against the HLD — checking for fiber count mismatches, missing spans, optical budget deviations, and make-ready gaps. QA is not an afterthought. It's built into the workflow. ### BEAD-Ready Engineering Draftech was designing rural broadband networks before BEAD existed, and has adapted its engineering workflow to meet NTIA documentation requirements, state broadband office design standards, and the GIS deliverable formats required for BEAD subgrantee compliance. --- ## Geographic Reach **Active states:** 22 **Service coverage:** All 50 states **Headquarters:** Miami Lakes, FL **Project experience:** Southeast, Midwest, Mountain West, Mid-Atlantic, Pacific Northwest, and beyond --- ## Related Pages - [home.md](home.md) — Services overview and company stats - [careers.md](careers.md) — Open roles - [services/ftth-design.md](services/ftth-design.md) — FTTH design engineering - [index.md](index.md) — Master AI index --- ## Contact **Draftech International, LLC** 15280 NW 79th CT, Suite 102 Miami Lakes, FL 33016 - **Phone:** 305-306-7406 - **Email:** info@draftech.com - **Website:** https://draftech.com - **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/company/draftechint