Cal Jestice Email & Phone Number

Solon, OH, US

Solon, OH

Providing intelligent solutions for critical infrastructure of gas, water and electricity grids.

Schaumburg, IL

• Designed and developed remote, automated system upgrades for large scale 2-way radio systems for 1st responders. Minimized service interruptions to users during complex component upgrade and replacements. Devised fault.
• Using DMAIC, identified high cost/labor intensive activities and reduced ASTRO25 system on-site upgrade labor costs by $8.125M per year by process re-design and automation.
• Led multi-discipline team for $4M network optimization feature for remote dispatch sites to increase police dispatch call availability and minimizing network complexity.
• Doubled system upgraded capacity by reducing on-site time for field team from 10 to 3 days.
• Achieved 80% reduction ($1.4M/year) in post-upgrade rework, by developing a suite of remote-automated audit and fault management tools and processes that identified and eliminated potential upgrade blocking problems.
• As upgrade process champion, lead improvement initiatives which reduced engineering upgrade development cost by $500K per year by re-designing system upgrade development and documentation process. This change also led.

Schaumburg, IL

• Designed system upgrade processes, tools and metrics for large telecommunications systems, optimizing reliability and decreasing system upgrade duration and complexity. Lead cross-functional teams to create new system.
• Led feature teams which incorporated $40M/year worth of new capabilities and equipment without increasing upgrade cost or duration.
• As part of a $8M feature, created fault tolerant system site upgrade design analysis for trunked data systems which identified all potential failures / recovery scenarios and times, ensuring compliance with internal.
• Designed redundant site architectures resulting in high availability channel capacity, allowing local take-over when centralized state-wide call-control infrastructure failed.
• Led teams of system engineers and directed the design, implementation and test of overlapping system upgrades of multiple system platforms for over 10 years.
• Oversaw on-site upgrades of state-wide communication systems with over 100K live first-responders using the systems during upgrades.

Hoffman Estates, IL

• Conceived and implemented the first Internet based collection of thoroughbred horse racing partnerships.
• Responsible for overall business development, operations, strategy and relationship management with partners, trainers, state racing bureaus, IRS, etc.
• Recruited over 280 investors for 42 partnerships with total capital of over $2.4M.
• Managed relationships and collected input from partners from over 30 states via moderated email list.
• Raced 44 horses in Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Louisiana and Texas

Arlington Heights, IL

• Lead development team for embedded CMIP agent for head office equipment in HFC cable network.
• Created FM design for infrastructure.

Schaumburg, IL

• Developed embedded code (C/C++/68000) for call control and fault management applications in public safety dispatch systems.
• Lead embedded agent teams for fault management
• Managed system test lab for two system releases