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Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Englewood, Co, Us

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

KKey Contributions/Accomplishments:• Driving Strategic Site selection evaluations in areas critical to company success, that have decade-long histories of difficult deployment.• Influenced Multicarrier Network design, integration, and Site consolidation.• Site design process optimization, and standards development. Balancing Cost/Quality/Speed to Market.• Define/document RFDS/CIQ process. Identified opportunities for improvement and efficiency.• Led and implemented Numerous LTE Network designs, using ACP, homegrown tools, and Alteryx data processing. Ensuring the most cost efficient and customer impacting designs were presented.• Key Contributor to LTE/VoLTE Network Optimization/Launch. Specifically, RF coverage control and interference management required moving from CDMA oriented to OFDMA oriented Network. • Contributed to development of data processing tools in Alteryx to identify optimization opportunities. Resulting efforts contributed significantly to first place results in 3rd party competitive testing.• Leveraged extensive experience to identify problems unique to market. Planned and executed network wide PCI/RSI retunes, using both automated and manual techniques. Specific focus to address shortcomings of standardized reuse patterns with highly variable coverage footprints.• Led Utah/Idaho RF for Sprint/Clearwire network consolidation. • Participated and influenced model tuning and validation work, resulting in industry leading modeling capabilities.

• OFDMA specific retuning to harvest spectrum. One of few markets to reduce spectrum with no degradation.• KPI monitoring and Troubleshooting.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Key Contributions/Accomplishments:• Market lead for RAN Network design in Utah market, from concept to launch. Key Contributor to all aspects of build, executive review, and weekly reporting. One of few markets to meet “green” KPI at launch.• Conceptualized and implemented a standard for RF site acceptance, resulting in near zero deviations from RF spec to real-world implementation.• OFDMA specific retuning to harvest spectrum. One of few markets to reduce spectrum with no degradation.• Managed and performed multi-level risk evaluations for various aspects of network deployment, ensuring the best sites for the company were selected

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Key Contributions/Accomplishments:• Developed reports to improve efficiency of daily performance monitoring, improving team efficiency and effectiveness. Specifically highlighting customer impacting hardware and backhaul issues.• Resolved capacity reporting and resource deployment for critical congestion issues, resulting in significant drop in accessibility issues.

Dallas, Tx, Us

• New Site Build Lead, Liaison for Columbus GSM/GPRS Launch. Ensured highest level of database integrity, resulting in minimal re-work and deployment issues.

Electrtical Engineering

Electrical Engineering