Mark Thomas Email & Phone Number

Polk County, Florida

Ensure all Emergency Management Equipment is supporting Polk County Sheriffs Office, Fire Rescue, EMS, DOF, and other agencies, and all cities and providences. Supervise personnel, manage work tickets, schedule maintenance, assist in system upgrades, and other duties as required.

Worldwide

• Currently serving in Shemya, Alaska with the Cobra Dane Phased Array Radar since Mar2014. I work 12 hour days on any shift as necessary. I do preventive and corrective maintenance on the Computer Mainframes, and.
• Served on board USNS Observation Island T-AGM-23 operating in the Pacific basin. Performed preventative and corrective maintenance on X-Band Target Tracking Radar System AN/TPM-31A, that included PLC Allen Bradley.
• Operate Tracking Console during live missions for target aquisistion, data collection, compress data for analysis and packaging
• Worked on both S-Band and X-Band Systems that utilized phased array and parabolic antenna systems for detection and tracking
• Manage X-Band Personnel and utilize various radar and electronic test equipments for system maintenance
• Directly knowledgeable on Waveguide, Pulse Forming Networks (PFNs), Power Tubes (Klystron, Magnatron, and TWTs)

Tampa, FL

• Perform maintenance and troubleshoot Lucent 4.0B CDMA outdoor base stations
• Perform antenna sweeps of distance to fault and return loss using Anritsu Cell Master Test Set
• Manage Remedy trouble ticket and work orders
• Analyze statistical call data for network performance verficiation
• Using Procomm for GUI network monitoring, TICLI MML commands for Base Station maintenance, NetAnalyst for T-1 troubleshooting via DACCS Titan 5500, and RMT local base station softwares.
• Maintain wireless connectivity via VPN. Computer savaay.

St Pete, Florida

• Design, install, and maintain complex wireless systems pertaining to radar, camera, and security relating to Homeland Security.
• Operate, test, and troubleshoot systems designed for underwater surveillance with regards to Klien, Echoscope, Didson, Proview systems, and Kongsberg sonar systems. Directed knowledgeable with VideoRay ROV and operation
• Field service of communications systems, use of test equipment, and documentation requirements
• Developed test plans, reported operational test results, and revised future tests based on results
• Provided direct input in purchasing multi-hundred thousand dollar equipment to meet company objectives
• Provided technical expertise to the customer in integration, commission, and operation of highly complex wireless radar and sonar deployed systems

Tampa, FL

• Switch/Field Operations Supervisor Responsible for all GSM/TDMA field and switch functions such as preventive and corrective maintenance, scheduling shift work, maintenance window work, upgrades, swaps, and new site.
• Supervised technicians using BSC Top Level Interface, using MML session commands to lock or unlock BCF, ET, and O&M links and interrogate alarms in the BSC.
• Supervised up to 15 technicians both field and switch.
• Responsible for the test and turn up of DS1circuits installed into Tampa CO. Worked on Microwave hops, utilized tower crews to install microwave dishes, adjusted them for maximum signal, and then created branching.
• Installation, testing, and cross connect completion through Tellabs 5500
• Extensive usage of Metrica statistical data for site troubleshooting such as uplink, downlink, handover quality, interference, and dropped call issues.

Worldwide

• Electronics Technician Responsible for all bands of communications equipment such as LF, VLF, HF, UHF, SHF transceivers.
• Primary technician for Air Seach Radar for Pensacola Naval Air Station ASR-8 Texas Instruments. Performed to the component repairs/depot level.
• Directly responsible for satellite communications systems such as cryptologic equipment, multiplexers, transceivers, and timing equipment.
• Utilized test equipments such as TDR, AC voltmeters, multimeters, meggers, oscilloscopes, spectrum analyzers, frequency counters, and frequency generators.
• Supervised an average of 15 technicians, however, as many as 50 technicians.
• Extensive electronic knowledge with relations to RF propagation, component level repair, electronic/electrical theories and formulas, and Radio and Radar theories

Master'S Degree, Management/Human Relations, 3.73

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology/Electronics, 3.33