Howard Gorter, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Piedmont, South Carolina, Us

Providing Engineering and Business Consulting Services to the Broadband Telecommunications and Utility Industries including GIS planning, funding, design, specification, and management of projects from start to finish.Business Consulting services including Loan and Grant applications for RDOF, USDA/RUS ReConnect, ARPA/CPF State grant applications, and BEAD Analysis and Applications. FCC Broadband Data Collection (BDC) analysis and certification. Inside Plant (ISP) detail and access engineering, planning, network assessment, vendor selection, and plans and specifications preparation for all elements of Telecom Equipment and IT operations, including: Optical Transport/DWDM, Carrier Ethernet, FTTH Access, Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), and CLASS 5 switching. Outside Plant (OSP) Work Order and project design, construction management, completion and processing operations.

Https://Peccontact.Us/Palmettoeng, Us

Operating GIS/CAD, ISP, Tier 1 Outside Plant, and IT business units providing Engineering Services to the Telecom and Utility Industry, including:Inside Plant (ISP) detail and access engineering, planning, network assessment, vendor selection, and plans and specifications preparation for all elements of Telecom Equipment, including: Packet-Optical Transport (P-OTS), DWDM, Carrier Ethernet, Access (FTTH/DSL), and CLASS 5 switching. Outside Plant (OSP) Work Order design, completion and processing operations.Telecommunications Engineering and Business Consulting Services, planning, design, specification, and management of projects from start to finish including USDA/RUS RDUP Loan Designs.Director, ISP Engineering from January - April, 2016.Vice President, Engineering Operations from April - December, 2016.Executive Vice President, Engineering Operations from January, 2017 - June, 2018.CT&T, a PEC Company is a Palmetto Engineering & Consulting sister company.

Piedmont, South Carolina, Us

Telecommunications Engineering and Business Consulting for Tier 3 Service Providers. Network assessment, planning, and plans and specifications preparation for Packet-Optical Transport (P-OTS), DWDM, Carrier Ethernet, Access (FTTH/DSL) and CLASS 5 switching projects. Planning, design, specification, and management of projects from start to finish.

Houston, Tx, Us

Telecommunications Engineering Design, problem solving, and solution development for Tier 2 and 3 Communications Service Providers. Project Management and implementation of multiple simultaneous Engineering projects.Preparation of plans and specifications for network designs including Packet-Optical Transport (P-OTS), SONET, DWDM, MPLS Transport, Access (VDSL/ADSL, FTTH), IP Routers, Metro-Ethernet, MPEG2/4 Video Systems, CALEA, VoD, EAS. Technology reviews and business plan development for Automatic Meter Reading (AMR), licensed and unlicensed wireless deployments. Design, specify, and manage projects from start to finish. Engineering Business Development in the Southeast and Northeast. Engineering and Professional Services RFP Response and Statement of Work preparation.Martin Group and CHR Solutions merged in September, 2009.

Sioux Falls, Sd, Us

Hardware development and design utilizing Verilog Code, Xilinx FPGA’s, and circuit board design and layout. Extensive work with parsing MPEG2 HDTV Transport streams including audio and video data. Modified decoded MPEG2 video in the YCbCr and RGB color domains, and worked with 8VSB and QAM receiver designs, SMPTE standards, DVB-ASI, 310M, HD-SDI, and SD-SDI.

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Developed plans and specifications for telecommunication projects and network designs involving xDSL, EAS, ATM Switched Digital Video (SDV), and MPEG2 equipment. Assisted Field Services with installation, troubleshooting, turn-up and provisioning for new system deployments. Performed inspection of construction contractors in Outside Plant and developed cable route drawings for city Right of Way permits.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Project Management

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Engineering

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Computer Science