Mick Tschida Email & Phone Number

Fort Myers, Florida, United States

• Provide support for the Florida DOT, Phase 3, microwave upgrade project:
• Nokia 7705 SAR-18/Wavence microwave radio lab staging and customer witness testing.
• Nokia 7705 SAR-18/Wavence microwave radio configuration and traffic cutovers.
• Provide remote troubleshooting and deployment support using Nokia NFM-P and Wavence MCT.
• Provide in-market field troubleshooting and deployment support.
• Create engineering documents to support the deployment effort.

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

• Microwave radio network design, deployment, testing, and troubleshooting
• Router and switch configuration
• Network test and troubleshooting including RFC-2544 and Wireshark packet analysis
• Network management and SDN systems

Virginia And West Virginia

• Provide technical support for Shentel (Sprint) microwave radio cell site backhaul construction.
• Bench test and configuration of microwave radios prior to field deployment. (Ceragon IP-20C;Fastback IBR-1300; Nokia 9500 MPRe; Radwin 2000 D+)
• Support tower crew field installation and microwave path alignment efforts.
• Perform Ethernet RFC-2544 and BERT L2 testing using JDSU T-BERD 5800 test equipment.
• Provide classroom and on-site microwave radio training to Shentel cell technicians.

AT&T Ethernet-To-The-Cell-Site Project

• Provide technical support for deployment/integration of Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) 9500 MPRmicrowave radios, Ericsson Mini-Link microwave radios and Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) 7705-8 SARrouters.
• Perform Ethernet RFC-2544 and Y.1564 L2 testing using EXFO FTB-880 test equipment.
• Create AT&T SMOP’s using Granite data.
• Script 7705-8 SAR routers.

Mississippi Public Safety MPLS Microwave Upgrade Project

• Provide technical support for deployment of Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) 9500 MPR microwave radios,7705-8 SAR and 7750 SR routers.
• Install, database, and system test Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) TSM-8000 (two synchronized masters)and 5620 SAM network management systems.
• Provide technical review of project closeout documentation.
• Maintain deployment, punch list, and RMA trackers.
• Create BOMs, SOWs, and MOPs.
• Coordinate field activities of tower crews, technicians, and delivery teams for 150 sites.

United States

• Installation, turn-up, test, and troubleshooting of DS1, DS3, Ethernet, and SONET microwaveradio and fiber systems.
• Alcatel-Lucent 9500 MPR, MDR-8000, MDR-4000e, MDR-4000s, MDR-6000, and MDR-5000microwave radios
• DACS, M13 multiplexers, Optical multiplexers (Alcatel-Lucent, AdTran, RFL)
• Alcatel-Lucent TSM-8000 network management system (SNMP)
• Fial alarm encoders

Charlotte, North Carolina

• Build a Nortel GSM (PCS-2G) cellular backhaul transport system from initial design to turn-on.
• The backhaul network, between the cell sites and MSC, consisted of DS1, DS3, and SONETmicrowave and fiber-based facilities.

Wideband Radio Equipment Technician And Telecommunications Systems Control Specialist

Certificate Of Completion, Cisco Ccna (200-301)

Cisco Certified Network Associate training including Cisco Packet Tracer network simulation labs.

Certificate Of Completion, Project Management Level One

Certificate Of Completion, Wireshark

Advanced packet and network analysis using Wireshark.

Certificate Of Completion, Linux Command Line

Linux terminal commands and file system, bash scripts, task automation and scheduling.

Certificate Of Completion, Cisco Mpls Fundamentals