Jeffrie Gill Email & Phone Number

Little Rock, Ar, Us

Little Rock, Arkansas

The Power Market Operator manages available electric generation and other energy resources to meet AECC's load responsibility in an economic and efficient manner, and utilizes energy marketing to benefit AECC. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES• Responsible for real time balance of AECC load and energy resources• Responsible for negotiating and entering into short term bilateral transactions to provide reliable and economic energy• Manage real time operation of generation portfolio including coordination of fuel procurement• Responsible for accuracy of electronic tagging of physical schedules on Bulk Electric System• Responsible for short term procurement of transmission reservations to meet AECC requirements• Responsible for development and submission of generation, load and market data• Monitor commercial customers and employ use of reliability interruption when required• Follow directives and procedures to maintain compliance with applicable regulatory standards• Assist in development of weekly energy and transmission position summary• Maintain high degree of situational awareness to meet constantly changing system conditions

Little Rock, Arkansas

The Power Market Operator manages available electric generation and other energy resources to meet AECC's load responsibility in an economic and efficient manner, and utilizes energy marketing to benefit AECC. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES• Responsible for real time balance of AECC load and energy resources• Responsible for negotiating and entering into short term bilateral transactions to provide reliable and economic energy• Manage real time operation of generation portfolio including coordination of fuel procurement• Responsible for accuracy of electronic tagging of physical schedules on Bulk Electric System• Responsible for short term procurement of transmission reservations to meet AECC requirements• Responsible for development and submission of generation, load and market data• Monitor commercial customers and employ use of reliability interruption when required• Follow directives and procedures to maintain compliance with applicable regulatory standards• Assist in development of weekly energy and transmission position summary• Maintain high degree of situational awareness to meet constantly changing system conditions

Little Rock, Arkansas

The System Operator coordinates the day-to-day operations and functionality performed by Southwest Power Pool to efficiently and reliably operate an energy imbalance market across a 7-state regional bulk electric transmission grid. Duties include but are not limited to ensuring continuous administration of the energy imbalance market, ensuring market participants comply with applicable Market Protocols in real-time, assisting with the Reliability Coordination process in support of established congestion management process, assisting in the development and maintenance of the market protocols and systems needed to facilitate the markets, assessing and reporting compliance with SPP Criteria and NERC Policies and providing 24-hour, 7-day per week point of contact for market participants.As an Operator in Training I supported operations personal in day to day activities while working a rotating shift. Learning business practices and procedures of Southwest Power Pool to insure the reliability and safety of the bulk electric system under the supervision of the mentoring operator on the tariff and scheduling desks. Required to attend two (2) semesters of Bismarck State College and the SOS University with the goal of obtaining the NERC certification in Reliability Coordination.

Little Rock, Arkansas

The Engineer – RF is responsible for contributing to the RF Design of the regional cellular network. Responsibilities include: • Creating search areas within geographic area of responsibility • Preparing FCC submissions in a timely manner • Performing radio engineering evaluation for system planning and site acquisition • Identify location specific needs for new cells taking baseline, performance, capacity, and population into consideration. Evaluating coverage problems and requirements for coverage cells. • Utilizes propagation tools and other RF related equipment such as MapInfo, Mentum Planet, Actix and Schema Mentor for site candidate comparison, propagation and coverage review and selection, determination of coverage boundaries for extensions, FAA/FCC filings, overall sector review of cell site locations for upgrades/modifications, and traffic engineering and investigation. • RF Performance Assessment: Works directly with System Performance Engineers to review drive test data and network operational measures and to prioritize trouble areas.• Prepares necessary regulatory filings for sector/sites ensuring that compliance is met. • Capacity: Forecasts voice and data traffic. Designs and monitors air interface capacity reviewing with System Performance and Network Operations. Creates work orders to allocate and implement capacity additions and changes to RF network. Informs Network Engineering of requirements. Qualifications- BTS cell infrastructure including: Motorola and Nortel - Operating systems and applications including: Windows, MS Office and MapInfo - Wireless data services including: CDMA, EVDO, iDen (TDMA) • RF System Optimization techniques for voice and data for Motorola and Nortel infrastructure • Have a good understanding of engineering concepts. • Proficient in office computer applications: Excel, Word and PowerPoint • Good analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills

Little Rock, Arkansas

• Responsible for contributing to the RF Design of regional cellular network and performing radio engineering evaluations for system planning and site acquisition. • Perform capacity optimization and block prevention to ensure optimum peak network performance for the CDMA infrastructures providing service for customers in Florida, Michigan, North and South Carolina.• Successfully implemented and maintain optimization processes for the design, capacity and call performance for more than 300 cell site locations.• Provide market support for search rings, radio frequency design and RF propagation.• Work with Performance Engineers to identify and resolve area and sector-related issues, ineffective call attempts and reduce lost calls, as well as system capacity requirements.• Experienced with BTS cell infrastructure including: Motorola and Nortel, wireless data services including: CDMA, EVDO, iDEN (TDMA) and all PC operations systems and applications including: Windows, MS Office and MapInfo

Little Rock, Arkansas

• Provided high level site optimization to deliver peak network performance for iDen and CDMA infrastructure supporting cell/mobile activity for Arkansas. • Improved dropped call statistics from 4%-5% to 1.12% in an 8 week period, the lowest drop call average, company-wide.• Interacted with wireless customers and cell technicians to troubleshoot internal and external concerns; improved performance by reviewing and analyzing statistical data from dropped calls and making the necessary changes to improve performance.• Selected by senior management to act as point of contact for Emergency Dispatch during the SMR migration of the upper 700MHz, 800MHz, 900MHz and 1900MHz frequencies.• Performed routine drive testing, 911 test calling and post processing to ensure site coverage, neighbor hand-offs and proper call processing; test drove network functionality using Agilent E6474 software and performed post process analysis with Actix.

Little Rock, Arkansas

• Provided high level site optimization to deliver peak network performance for iDen infrastructure supporting cell/mobile activity for Arkansas. • Improved dropped call statistics from 4%-5% to 1.12% in an 8 week period, the lowest drop call average, company-wide.• Interacted with wireless customers and cell technicians to troubleshoot internal and external concerns; improved performance by reviewing and analyzing statistical data from dropped calls and making the necessary changes to improve performance.• Selected by senior management to act as point of contact for Emergency Dispatch during the SMR migration of the upper 700MHz, 800MHz and 900MHz frequencies.• Performed routine drive testing, 911 test calling and post processing to ensure site coverage, neighbor hand-offs and proper call processing; test drove network functionality using Agilent E6474 software and performed post process analysis with Actix.

Fort Smith, Arkansas

• Performed cell tower site visits on a monthly basis to maintain the functionality of equipment; performed various tests & analyses to ensure that all base radio power and frequency settings were optimized.• Managed quarterly testing alarm reporting on all equipment, antenna and line sweeps; acted as liaison with RF Engineers, Telco, tower crews and the switch technicians to resolve site outages, ensure antenna and dish orientation and manage emergency response initiatives during site failures and power outages.

North Little Rock, Arkansas

Circuit Board designer for the switch group. Audio International is the nation's largest independent provider of in- flight customized entertainment and cabin management systems for corporate aircraft.

Okinawa, Japan/Camp Pendleton, Ca

Worked as a forklift driver in Okinawa (1990-1991) and traffic manager counselor in Camp Pendleton (1992-1994).

Bachelors Of Science And Associate Of Science, Electronics Engineering Technology

Activities and Societies: IEEE Officer/Club TreasurerThe engineering technology discipline emphasizes hands on learning and practical.

Associate Of Applied Science, Electrical Transmission Systems Technology

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society; President's Honor RollElectrical Transmission Systems Technology was created.