Phil Wenstrand Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Manages the development and/or implementation of Motorola Solutions products or services.Coordinates departmental or cross-functional teams, focused on delivering new or upgraded existing products or services.Manages projects from inception to completion (or transition), including tracking and evaluation of project performance.Ensures that projects are completed on time, within budget, and within accepted quality metrics.Participates in project review and status meetings, and communicates project status.Utilizes six sigma and project management methodologies to ensure maximum project effectiveness.Motivates project team to ensure optimal performance.May assist in the development of business plans, strategies, and approaches to take advantage of business opportunities.

Chicago, Il, Us

System Manager for City and County of Honolulu. On island technical liaison for customer supporting the next gen P25 system. Answer technical questions, and troubleshoot technical issues including working with the Motorola System Support Center in Chicago, IL. Assist in repair and software upgrades. Monitor system performance and run system reports.

Chicago, Il, Us

Lead system engineer for a 20 million dollar radio project. Was able to close a tough project integrating competitors radios including leading a coverage test using Harris radios, which is very rare for a Motorola project. I helped asses the risk of the passing of the coverage test, and gave my recommendations to the engineering director responsible for signing off on the risk. Also I helped the customer troubleshoot issues with their Cisco MPLS network, eventually leading to the recommendation to partition the P25 network from the Cisco MPLS network which was oversubscribed with too many nodes.

Chicago, Il, Us

Pre and post sale system engineering for state and local customers throughout California and Hawaii. Responsible for system design including requirements analysis, equipment selection, RF coverage analysis, network backhaul requirements and design, implementation support, coverage testing, and system documentation.• Lead System Engineer for City and County of Honolulu from 1/2019 through 4/2020. Finalized the implementation for the next gen radio system for Honolulu. Extensively tested and integrated existing Harris subscribers with the Motorola Infrastructure. Implemented and programmed the KMF. Implemented ISSI 8000 connection with the State of Hawaii. Led a successful coverage test using the Harris subscribers to compare the P25 coverage to the legacy EDACS coverage. • Lead System Engineer for East Bay Regional Communications System from 10/2013 – 1/2019Designed and implemented an expansion of their NICE Logging subsystem, and added 4 new MCC7500 dispatch sites to the network. Performed a detailed capacity analysis and proposals for RF channel expansions, and potential upgrade to TDMA. Regularly met with the customer to understand their operational requirements and give presentations on solutions to improve and simplify their operations.• System Design for Hawaii County RFP. Designed the dispatch and logging subsystems for Motorola’s response to the Hawaii County RFP which is now under contract. Design included 18 MCC7500 Dispatch positions, and logging recording subsystem which integrates with P25 trunking system and multiple telephony systems.• Lead System Engineer for City of Oakland’s transition from their standalone P25 system to EBRCS. Implemented 28 MCC7500 dispatch consoles across two locations for Oakland Police and Oakland Fire Dispatch. Worked closely with their dispatch and communications staff to implement unique solutions to meet their operational needs with a successful cutover to EBRCS in June 2016.

Chicago, Il, Us

• Lead System Engineer for Yuba City, CA K2 Core conventional system. Implemented Cambium PTP 800 links, and designed Ethernet backhaul utilizing both fiber and microwave links.• Led the Maui County P25 Coverage testing for their new Phase 2 system. Trained personnel for use of coverage software and co-ordinate with the customer for the 3 drive teams involved in the coverage testing over a large area. • Lead System Engineer for SamTrans (San Mateo County Transit) for their successful migration from an analog conventional system to the San Mateo County P25 system. Created design and cutover plan to allow for a seamless transition from their legacy system to the new system.• System Engineer for San Mateo County Interoperability Radio Communications Project. Worked with Lead System Engineer to implement a five site five channel conventional simulcast subsystem.

Chicago, Il, Us

Information Assurance (IA) technical lead for a department of 30+ software engineers in two design centers from 2008-2013.• Provide technical leadership for resolution of software security issues and guidance for secure software design decisions for mission critical Windows application.• Responsible for creation of group policy objects which enforced DISA Windows hardening requirements, performed assessment of Windows applications against DISA STIGs, and owned and maintained the ports and protocols used by the MCC7500 Console which was used to create system firewall rules.C and C++ development on call processing application.• Responsible for analysis, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of real time software for IP-based MCC7500 dispatch console used in the Motorola ASTRO 25 radio system.• Customer issue resolution for all Consoles products: Gold Elite, MGEG and MCC7500 as member of MOL team for over 6 years including analysis of network captures.

Chicago, Il, Us

Software box tester for first VortexIIa IP-based console

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science