Gregory Block Email & Phone Number

Beaufort, SC, US

Savannah, Georgia, United States

• Area Manager responsibilities including but not limited to managing 7 Cell Techs and 13 Tower Hands. Break-fix of cell site and related equipment for the T-Mobile market.
• Scheduling of technicians to ensure market coverage
• Interacting with customers
• Updating reports on a timely manner
• Ensuring Techs have what they need to perform their job safely and to customer demands
• Effective communication with management team

Greater Atlanta Area

• Accountable for installation and quality assurance of Indoor Positioning Systems in hospitals across the nation.
• Download and install applications on mobile devices
• Install RF beacons
• Operate date capture robots
• Testing of smartphone based indoor positioning and wayfinding system
• Technical documentation writing

Austin, Texas Area

• Manage a staff of up to 3 personnelAccountable for Managing operations of a QA Test Lab for the Network Kinetix PDC360 software, and advanced “data in flight” time critical cyber security capability.
• Evaluated and provided technical support after installation of product
• Managed and mentored Test Engineers on QA testing procedures, SIPp protocol, and proper installation procedures
• Staff objectives and performance management
• Write technical documents
• Build and administer local and remote servers and networks

Plano, TX

• Remote Position - Manage all aspects of Telecom Equipment deployment from customer relationship, project plan of record, project schedule, cost, inventory, and identify scope of creep to the Ericsson Customer Project.
• Senior Engineer for Ericsson RAN elements and network protocols for LTE and WCDMA
• Coordinated with Tactical team and managing latest MOPs, Go-No-Go calls with ASPs/SPs for Field Engineering services to Install and integrate the cabinets, coordination and submittal of MOP documents
• Complied with engineering standards and regulations for new product deployment
• Knowledgeable of RFDS, coordinating gathering CIQ info from Customer inputs for data translation team to generate ATND, STND, RND, Submit Q-Track request to order integration scripts, REACT request to order license.
• Established integration and backout procedures, test plans, and completion documents for Ericsson LTE RAN equipment including new platforms

Plano, TX

• Remote Position - Senior Technical Lead and integrating into the network of Ericsson Wireless LTE and WCDMA Telecommunications equipment.
• Mentored Engineers on Ericsson RAN eNodeB RBS LTE and WCDMA technologies
• Perform 3G eNodeB integration involving eNodeB definitions on RBS 3206/3106, 3418/3518, DUW 6601 with RRUS, RNC 3810/3820, MSN- Tellabs 8860, Nortel MSC, OAM and OSS-RC
• eNodeB Integration on ATM, IP or MLPP backhaul, and eNodeB migration from ATM to IP
• Perform 4G eNodeB, RBS 6000 integration using the Base Station Integration Manager (BSIM), Bulk Configuration Management (BCM), and Auto Integration Function (AIF) OSS tools
• Responsible for verifying Linux-UNIX based Ericsson software releases and using UNIX Shell Commands

Project Management Professional, On-Going

Guidelines for managing individual projects and defines project management related concepts.

Certification, Network And System Administration/Administrator

Introduction and Intermediate Networking knowledge

Construction Management

Oversee site construction from site acquisition to turn-key.

Volte

Hybrid error detection process

Epc Signaling For Volte

EPC Architecture, Interfaces and Protocol Stacks. Attach/Detach Procedure MO/MT call signaling SRVCC Call signaling