SUMMARY:

• An accomplished communications industry professional with extensive experience in a wide variety of network systems. Offers a unique and diversified blend of skills and expertise in network and RF systems design and engineering and engineering management. Strengths include network engineering, product research, design and development, and project and product management. Have worked in service provider, OEM vendor, and consultant companies. An expert at maximizing efficiency. A resourceful, result, goal and solution - oriented problem solver who is focused and versatile.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware and test equipment: oscilloscopes, multimeters, frequency counters, telephone test set, T-1 framing (BERT) analyzer, IFR, TDR, HP-audio meter/generators, Cellscope, Cellumate, SafCo, Qualcomm MDM, TEMS, Invex 3G MOS, Actix, Differential Global Positioning Systems, spectrum and network analyzers.

Software: MS Office including Excel, Access, Project, Visio; MapInfo, Paradox, ProComm Plus, SPICE., UNIX, and Windows/NT platforms, IBM-compatible PC's, MS-DOS. IBM-Assembler, PASCAL, FORTRAN. Lucent AutoPace, Scopus Foundation, Metrica, INet probe, ANET, Pathloss, CellDesigner, and Wizard propagation analysis tools, Comsearch Analyzer, Watchmark Prospect.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Principal Network Planning Engineer

Responsibilities:

• National NP&E Engineering lead for Femtocell access IP Gateway & small cell/metrocell and associated core network & provisioning elements.
• National TP&E FNP lead for mobility RAN Smallcell/Wifi, DAS/fiber fed remote RRH platforms. Drive and manage platform roadmap, planning, strategy, 6 year plans, features, hardware evolution, cost reduction efforts, forecasting, and lifecycle management. Establish standard configurations and capacity planning practices and metrics. Manage multi-million $ budgets. Create technical engineering documentation. Support FFAs of new products and releases.
• Member of Architecture Review Board, QoS Steering Committee, and Gold Standards Approver.
• FNP lead for eNodeB capacity and future/IoT capacity and capability forecasting/planning, QoS, and eRAN network synchronization.
• FNP lead for inter-vendor/inter-operator secure connectivity and handover and LTE over Satellite.
• National NP&E lead for mobility Element Management Systems. Platform includes multiple 3G and 4G elements, including Access servers and network, Call Trace, Performance Optimizer (with SON and PCMD), Wireless Provisioning System. Drive and manage platform roadmap, 6 year plan, features. Establish standard configurations and capacity planning metrics. Manage multi-million $ budget.
• Evaluate feasibility for migration of EMS platform to D2 Virtualization. Conduct planning and design for EMS migration to AIC (Cloud). Provide team support for Architecture Review Board.
• National NP&E Engineering lead for ALU RNCs and associated core network & provisioning elements. Create and maintain national RNC and Femto Gateway engineering guidelines and plans for provisioning, configuring, dimensioning, forecasting, deployment, and associated transport.
• National NP&E Engineering lead for Nortel, Nokia & Siemens BSCs. Review and approve new RNCs, Femto Gateways & Provisioning Element requests from planning teams from all regions.
• Create capacity management & forecasting guidelines; Create national CES standards.
• Manage node HW/SW roadmaps/upgrades, Plan of Record, 3 & 6 year Platform Plans, Contract reviews,feature prioritization and requests and fixes with CTO, Planning teams, and vendors. Participate in femtocell vendor selection with CTO.
• Create and maintain engineering guidelines and plans for provisioning, configuring, dimensioning, forecasting, deployment of femtocell elements, interfaces, and transport for integration with WCDMA macro network. Create & maintain national CNQ/KPI standards. Review site and equipment rack layout standards. Create HW sparing standards.
• Created initial operations plans & RACI, and provide recommendations for femtocell.
• Create serving plans for IP interface deployments.
• Provide "smart hands" engineering and consulting support for ALU & Ericsson RNCs, RAN NP&E, Asset Optimization, ATS. Participate in NTD, ARB, MSN, Gold Standards as necessary.
• Spearheaded national initiatives to resolve service impacting transport configuration mismatches.
• Support FFAs,SFAs and deployment for BSC/RNC and femtocell/smallcell releases.
• Maintain national parameter and golden standards. Provide national policies and guidelines for transport, LA,RA,TA,AESA, VLAN management.
• Sponsor 3rd Party RAN Hosting Initiative for new market white space builds.
• Work with Product Development, CTO, Labs, Architects to create/review proposed architectures & performance models, and new in-house tools/applications. Create Deployment Engineering Guides.
• Create & maintain national Transport Network/IP QoS Design for RNC, femtocell, LTE interfaces.
• Support FFAs,SFAs & deployment for BSC/RNC, femtocell, metrocell/small cell releases, eNodeB, & IuPS, IuB, IuR, & IuCS over IP.
• Support other projects impacting RNC: Cell Broadcast/IuBC, IuPC, SGSN Pooling, Direct Tunnel, UE Trace, CSFB, Call Trace.
• Create & maintain national parameter & golden standards, Transport Network Design & CIQs.
• Conduct initial investigations on LTE migration strategy to assess impacts of integration on current network infrastructure, transport and femtocell.
• Provide support for LTE RAN, VoLTE, Wireless Local Loop, new vendor technical evaluation FFAs.
• Review and negotiate contracts, pricing, and SOWs with Supply Chain & vendor partners.
• Develop and publish procedures, best practices, and policies.
• Create and deliver senior management level presentations.
• Drove creative solutions which reduced element management software licensing costs by 50%, adding increased flexibility and efficiency.
• Eliminated unnecessary/redundant feature development and delivery costs from vendors, saving ~$1M.
• Achieved savings of ~$1M in development costs by driving increasing efficiencies in IT work.
• Manage $B budgets, capital planning, and project progress.
• Develop and communicate engineering and operational solutions and strategies.
• Create comprehensive national component, configuration and cost models, standards, guidelines & best practices for wireless cellsites by collaborating and interfacing with all RAN markets.
• Support new product and service introduction, hardware FFAs and roadmaps. Review & approve national RAN/Emerging Technology equipment standards & Field Notices
• Forecast component and site quantities, costs, timelines.
• Design reports with Big Data for categorizing capital spend. Create executive trending/dashboards.
• Team SME/Lead for In-Building program. Review In-Building/Smallcell/Hetnet/DAS designs, services, HW portfolio, build QA & data integrity.
• RAN OEM hardware, antennas, ancillary, and spectrum analysis & planning
• Support/initiate cost reduction and containment innovations initiatives, and efficiency improvements. Review current and future architectures (cRAN, 5G, advanced transport, In-Building, WLL, Firstnet, NGFW, new HW, etc.). Realized ~$40K cost reduction per NSB and ~$150M in NSB Frugality savings.
• Firstnet, WLL, NGFW, 5G planning
• Monitoring, reporting, and analyzing key metrics, trends, schedules, critical path, budget, and processes.
• Collaborate/interface with C&E, TP&E/RAN Emerging Tech, Tower Strategy, Tower Structure/TARP, CTO, Big Data, PMO, Transport, Edge Core, FNP, SCM, Market RAN and C&E.
• Create executive reports and presentations
• Tools: Autoforms, C&E Portal, Oracle, FDW, iPlan, iBwave, Mobius, Norad, Pace, Quantum, Microstrategy, Tableau, Alteryx, Palantir
• Technical Courses: Cisco TCP/IP Networking, ATM/SONET/Optical and IP Networks, IPV6 LTE Networking, WCDMA mentoring series, WCDMA & HSPA Signaling & Protocols, UVerse Video Basics, IPTV UVerse Foundational Overview, IPTV Video Acquisition Architecture, VHO Video Compression, UVerse Video Flow, Voice & Video Over IP. U-verse Architectural Overview, CCNA1&2, CCDA, Voice & Video Over IP, IP QoS, LTE Tech. Overview, Mastering LTE, LTE-EPC Networks & Signaling, LTE RAN Signaling & Operations, oDAS/iDAS, Cloud Computing Architecture & Applications and Bootcamp, Firewalls & Network Security, Network Functions Virtualization, Big Data, VMWare, Agile, SDLC courses, Optical Ethernet IP Distribution Networks, Optical Transport Network, Network Architect Curriculum, D2 Target Architect curriculum, 5G Radio Technologies, IoT. Coursera Big Data/Cloud Computing/Content Delivery Networks Emerging Technologies, Raspberry Pi Platform Interfacing & Python Programming, Computer Science Intro, Cell-Cloud, CCNP Routing Cert Prep: Network Principles, 5G Evolution, FTTx Achitecture.
• Agile Development and Technical Domain Knowledge
• RAN Transformation Series Certified.
• Completed WF2020 Technical Network Architect curriculum.
• Completed CELL-IoT Coursera, Udacity Intro to Computer Science, D2 Target Architect curriculum and CELL-Cloud.
• Raspberry Pi Platform Interfacing & Python Programming and Big Data, Cloud Computing, & CDN Emerging Technologies.
• LTE Design, Performance and Traffic Bronze Certified.Management/Leadership Courses: Harvard Management Mentor-Coaching, Team Creation, Persuasion, Negotiation; Leading With Distinction, Success & Motivation Conferences. s: Cloud Computing Silver Certified, CCENT and CCNA Equivalent Certified, LTE Performance and LTE Design Bronze Certified, SDN Certified, 6σ Yellow Belt, RAN Transformation Certified, Big Data Certified, 2020 Technical Network Architect.

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

Senior Manager Systems Engineering/Manager RF Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Facilitated GSM conversion, design, optimization, and commercial launch.
• Formulate, review, and audit engineering best practices and guidelines, system parameters and configuration standards, national policies and standards, test plans, and key performance indicators.
• Lead new technology trials and FOA planning, execution, and implementation for AMR/RATSCCH, EDGE, multibeam antennas, High power PAs, GSM switch IM, dual band and new BTS, Antenna Hopping, NC2, Data Quality Control.
• Lead capacity trial coordination, spectral efficiency feature optimization, EDGE optimization program.
• Perform capital budgeting technical reviews and approvals.
• Perform release planning and prioritization for feature roadmap evolution. Submit and follow up on new feature requests to vendor.
• Serve as HQ escalation point to address high priority issues from markets. Regularly track trouble ticket resolution progress.
• Nortel task force and Trouble Ticket lead. Chair regular vendor calls to track and resolve issues.
• Manage vendor engineering resources and create sessions on new features for markets.
• Provide HQ support for new e3 BSC and PCU platforms: test case generation, testing, implementation, and trouble ticket prioritization and resolution.
• Lead MCPA and cell booster trials. Devised, designed, and tested new SCPA bypass configuration for high capacity BTS which increased cabinet TRX capacity by 2X.
• Provide national RAN field support, manage 4/12 feature set redesign and deployment. Lead LiCC/C/I matrix trial to generate first Cingular baseline TDMA switch based IM. Provide ongoing market support for running C/I matrix campaigns.
• Formulate and negotiate network optimization, conditional and final acceptance test plans and terms.
• Monitor network performance metrics, validate their accuracy, and set performance benchmarks.
• Spearheaded national Nokia data optimization efforts. Attained > 50% performance gains.
• Formulate EDGE data capacity and dimensioning guidelines.
• Manage and coordinate testing and release of national Nokia and Nortel software deliveries.
• Created guidelines and procedures for UTRAN RNC border design, rehomes, and capacity monitoring.
• Provide national support for integration of newly acquired carriers’ networks.
• Responsible for approving new 3G market commercial launches and second carrier additions.
• Filed for 5 Patents.

Confidential, NC

Engineering Program/Project Manager/Senior Staff Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed engineering development activities for radio transceiver and systems design and integrating wireless data functionality into current product line. Evaluated 3rd generation wireless data integration strategies and architectures for product evolution.
• Analyzed 3rd party product integration requirements, selected and approved 3rd party products for integration into current products, including alternative antenna options and internetworking configurations.
• Created product design proposals, processes, specifications, cost estimates and present to senior management.
• Tracked, troubleshot, and resolved system problems and trouble reports.
• Generated progress reports, schedules, and documentation.
• Interfaced and coordinated with marketing, manufacturing, testing, FCC, UL regulatory teams. Coordinated patent activities.
• Spearheaded product market requirements feasibility study analysis. Consolidated design requirements to reflect optimum value-added feature deliveries. Resulted in development cost savings of approximately $500K, and approximately 6 month reduction in development time.
• Created streamlined, efficient product design process, which decreased development times by approximately 30%.
• Developed trouble ticket trend analysis reports and graphs, facilitating task re-prioritization and resource optimization. Significantly reduced ticket resolution time and improved resource utilization efficiency.

Confidential - Tampa, FL

Team Leader/Senior RF Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Launched first commercial 1900 MHz PCS CDMA system in US.
• Supervised, coordinated, managed and scheduled optimization teams and activities.
• Coordinated FCC & AM regulatory and compliance tasks.
• Performed evaluations, upgrades, maintenance of system performance monitoring and diagnostic tools, test equipment.
• Conducted employee performance evaluations, candidate selection, .
• Created and implemented test plans for special and new technology projects. Directed turnkey end to end design & deployment of fiber DAS in stadiums/venues.
• Represented MTA at RF Director and Vendor Technical Exchange meetings.
• Resolved direct customer trouble reports.
• Devised and implemented network performance improvement plans. Achieved approximately 50% network performance improvement. Earned Company Impact for results.
• Coordinated special projects including: Spread Spectrum Microwave T-1 links, Repeaters, Indoor Cells, Cell On Wheel deployments, High power BTS linear and tower top amplifiers. Evaluated new antenna types/vendors-H-V, Diagonal-polarity. Inter-MSC handoff, RF over fiber systems, Multiple carrier analysis. Spearhead multiple First Office Application validations in conjunction with equipment vendors.

Confidential, FL/Atlanta, GA

Radio Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated and reviewed Ericsson system quality acceptance tests
• New switch border design and review
• Radio network integration system planning
• Deployed Coastcom remote site multiplexer
• Produced system revenue security reports
• CDMA Spread Spectrum Microwave T-1 project leader
• CDPD market coordinator for RF system design and planning.