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Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Long Island City, Ny

• Provide Technical field and depot level service for Public Safety radio systems, including emergency field support and disaster recovery, maintenance, installation and repairs for all equipment related to Public Safety RF radio systems.• Implement new public safety communications systems to customer specifications, including system design and requirements compliance for all components involved. Build and configure communication system to meet design requirements and then implement the system to meet the customer expectations. Create drawings and documentation for system as built documentation.• Provide training for customers and internal personnel for communications products to include, 2 way radios, radio site and repeaters, system servers (Linux & Windows), Dispatch console systems, programming and configuration training, and user and administrator level training.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

• Project Lead and Test Engineer, Managed test engineers, project deliverable’s & schedules, product quality planned and executed wide variety of product and system testing for on time delivery. • Optimized and implemented automation into the system infrastructure, site and terminal product test environments to include software development, tools and equipment design and integration. Increased automation productivity by 300 percent.• Supervise and mentor interns and new hires. Teach and lead employees in technical and professional conduct to improve their proficiency and effectiveness with the business.• Lead test engineer for Integration of public safety communication system products to verify design specification and requirement based feature and functional testing, compliance with regulatory and industry standards and validate operational expectations of products ranging from user interface devices to network and security protocols, network switching and server products, databases, site equipment and specializing in simulcast performance and operation. Central to design and implementation of new and existing products, defect identification and resolution of products at in depth technical levels.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

• Provide technical assistance to end use customers and maintenance personnel during maintenance repair and installation efforts. Create and maintain Test laboratory for all Harris products.• Supervise and mentor interns and new hires, teaching them techniques and principles in the industry and guiding them to be effective and productive employees. • Worked with engineering product groups to improve and repair software and hardware deficiencies in systems produced by Harris.• Specialized in system and infrastructure products and installation, such as IP and circuit switched communications centers, dispatch consoles RF site and simulcast equipment. • Provide customer Interface with design engineering to improve products and resolve product defects.

Forest, Virginia

• Provide technical support factory assembly line and staging area. Factory ESD and safety officer. • Worked in factory parts & supply chain to institute inventory controls and management processes and reduce obsolete component and material inventory.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

• Technical engineer for Harris providing embedded onsite support for Toyota Motorsport Formula One racing Digital RF communications. • Worked to design noise canceling digital radio system for use with race car and staff personnel and provide satellite interface for communication from home base in Germany to the race event using EDACS Digital radio system.

Lynchburg, Virginia Area

• Became test lead in 2001 and managed employee tasks and daily operations and routine scheduling, billing and customer relations for the Repair & Return group. • Work as product repair technician, repairing customer products ranging from handheld and mobile radio’s to Site and network products

Roanoke, Virginia Area

• Service Manager and Senior Engineer of two-way communications company for private customers, small public safety and government organizations. • Provided technical expertise for sales and perform service and maintenance for a wide range of customers including Virginia Forestry department, Campbell County VA, American Electric Power.• Managed personnel that maintained RF communications and paging systems, including the repair and installation of radios, base stations, consoles and user management products.

Roanoke, Virginia Area

• Repair technician for Motorola portable, mobile, pager and Base Station equipment. • Perform service, technical maintenance and repairs for broad range of private and government customers.

Salem, Virginia

• Supervised daily product production, perform any maintenance and repairs required to all machinery and equipment involved in the manufacturing of brick products. • Provided mechanical engineering and maintenance support and skills included metal fabrication, welding, electrical wiring, mechanical repairs and product quality assurance.• Managed production team operation of producing 77,000 -88,000 brick per day

South Korea

• Repair and maintain over 250 types of electronic equipment, including night vision devices, Position and Azimuth determining equipment, Chemical detectors, SIGARs radio’s, and more at a garrison level repair shop

South Korea

• Managed the Company’s readiness and situational awareness and threat assessment. 2nd Infantry division artillery Headquarters, Headquarters Battery NBC NCO, • Managed and trained over 200 active duty personnel for Nuclear or chemical warfare. • 3rd in command of the unit and 7 in command of the entire 2nd Division Artillery Battalion in Korea. • Managed all chemical protection products and medical supplies. • Provided training to soldiers, maintenance of protective gear and equipment.

Fort Belvoir; Virginia

• Technical Military liaison and engineering interface for the Ft Belvoir Center for Night Vision Electro-Optic Research & Development. • Leader in the design, test and implementation of new Night Vision products for DOD and Military use. • Provided Product use and operation instruction seminars to DOD, military personnel and Civilian Law Enforcement. • Provided product use and operation demonstrations to User groups and foreign dignitaries such as the National Safety Commission, Foreign Aids to the Secretary of the Army, and NATO.• Maintained and repaired all types of DOD and Military Night Vision products. • Performed test and engineering on Night Vision development and research programs, operate military equipment such as combat vehicles & Tanks, Firearms, and Aviation vehicles