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Show Low, Az, Us

Show Low, Arizona, Us

Lead E&O team, including Field, Switch, Transport, Roaming, and back-end. Develop and implement policies for services. Manage crazy spectrum portfolio and implement new practices for delivery. Highly involved in spectrum auctions and recommendations. Develop and manage 3- and 10-year budgets for organization. Develop planning matrices for funding opportunity applications. Work with vendors for improved pricing on equipment. Manage deployment of LTE, VoLTE, and new 5G SA Core. Revised handset policies to ensure best practices in choosing portfolio.

Show Low, Arizona, Us

Show Low, Arizona, Us

Oversee engineering team in regional cellular company. Develop future strategies. Develop new network KPIs and dashboards. Revamp coverage and service metrics to lead toward best-in-class operations. Work with other groups to streamline processes and increase effectiveness. Direct development of new KPIs and dashboards for new visualizations of network performance. Roll out voice over wifi and VoLTE services. Overlay LTE bands and ensure cohesive operations of patchwork spectrum. Influence budget development for sane network growth. Reshape staff and outline and help move employees forward in career development. Set and drive company spectrum policy, including auction strategies, spectrum harvests, and new spectrum introduction. Lead engineering efforts for regional AT&T/FirstNet deployments.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Manage RF Engineering teams in Albuquerque, the state of New Mexico, and El Paso, TX. Includes GSM legacy network OEM replacement from Nortel to Ericsson, and transitioning through UMTS to LTE. First 5G-Ready city for T-Mobile. Launched VoLTE services across four TACs, keeping rural areas blacklisted until full build out is achieved for L1900. VoLTE Dropped Call initiative - reduced DCR from 1.5%+ to under 1% in five weeks, then reduced to under 0.02%. Retuned two LTE networks to 15x15 in the span of just two weeks. Six-month-early spectrum harvest and deployment of 20x20 LTE. Band 2 , Band 4, Band 12, Band 66, and Band 71 overlays. Hiring personnel, permanent and contract. Managing network improvements and evolutions. Huge focus on CS DCR, with a 40+ basis point reduction in a month. Huge land-size area of network including all of New Mexico (fifth largest state in the Union), three counties in Texas, including El Paso, a county in Arizona, and five counties in Colorado. Harvested 2G and 3G spectrum to launch 35- and 40-MHz LTE offerings in core areas. Reduced congested sectors from 11.4% to 2.8%, and later to 1.4%. Managing largest covered-area network in TMO. License savers built in under eight months. First 4x4 MIMO market, AIR32DB trial market.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Leading highly efficient team in design and optimization of GSM, UMTS, LTE (including VoLTE) networks in New Mexico and El Paso, TX, and attaining the fastest data networks of four national carriers in both markets. Extensive network improvements attained through optimization of coverage and deep-dive studies of parameter sets. Leading largest site build in T-Mobile for extensive footprint expansions throughout New Mexico (fifth largest state in the nation), vigorously destroying market operational expenses as we drastically reduce dependence on roaming partners to service our customers. Led development of national site prioritization scheme, now fully implemented and embedded in multiple performance monitoring platforms. Developed national fault finding tool, including ground-level development of training program and materials. Executed timely roll out of training across multiple regions and markets. Led company in roll outs of new capacity schemes. Developed new engineers and promoted personnel accordingly. Also managing switch operations in Albuquerque, and working through several projects including DC plant upgrades, router upgrades, hardware upgrades for network evolution, new carrier entries into switch, and various software upgrades, disconnects, and route additions. Completed extensive forward-thinking build plan for market to keep T-Mobile competitive. Retuned two LTE networks to 15x15 in the span of just two weeks. L1900 and L2100 roll outs, and now working on L700 design and implementation.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Led highly efficient team in design and optimization of GSM and UMTS networks in New Mexico and El Paso, TX. Led development ot national site prioritization scheme. Developed national fault finding tool, including training program. Led company in roll outs of new capacity schemes. Developed new engineers and promoted personnel accordingly.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Engineered the highest-traffic-per-cell system in the company. Developed new frequency retuning schemes, successfully achieving N=6 frequency plan. Integrated new vendor equipment. Worked with antenna vendors to design improved designs. Worked with zoning boards and local jurisdictions to design appropriate cell site aesthetics.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Developed 10-year business plans for clients seeking opportunities in PCS auctions, including in-depth analysis of markets, prediction tool tuning via drive-test data collection, and close work with financial consultant to develop cost analyses. Frequency planning. New cell site design.

Houston, Tx, Us

Worked in Technical Support Unit providing expertise to Client Service Unit personnel. Worked to develop business plans for up-and-coming PCS operators through 10-year network designs and evolutions as input to overall business model.

Bsee, Electrical Engineering

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