Donald L. Taubin

*** ******* **** ******* ****, Illinois 60014 815-***-****

abl7ha@r.postjobfree.com

CAREER SUMMARY

Over 10 years of results oriented engineering experience, including the successful management

of wireless project teams. Recognized for proactive and innovative approaches to finding

solutions for complex problems. I make things happen.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SDA Visions/HiTech Tattoos; Crystal Lake, Illinois June 2009-Curent

Laser Etching Engineer/Manager

Laser Etching Engineer

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Decision maker for laser equipment

Created computerized designs and operated laser

Responsible for budgets and planning

ISCO International; Elk Grove, Illinois November 2007-October 2008

ManufacturingEngineer/Test Engineer/Vendor Support

Test Engineer

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Supported test setup and training at vendor

Test and troubleshoot RF circuit boards and boxes

Test equipment included Network Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzer, Noise

Figure Analyzers

PERL programming support for test automation project

Responsible for writing and updating test procedures

US Cellular/Envision Wireless Contract; Chicago, Illinois August 2007

Test Engineer

Test Engineer

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Perform CW testing on Lucent network

Post process data

Cingular/Glotel Contract; Chicago, Illinois, Indianapolis, Indiana February 2007-April 2007

Project Coordinator

o Organize and manage test team

• Provide local scheduling to keep project on schedule

• Track performance parameters to determine effectiveness of effort

• Provide technical support and act as liaison with customer and vendor

• Testing using PCTEL Clarify and Viewer tools

Sprint/Nextel Contract; Indianapolis, Indiana October 2006-December 2006

RF Engineer II

o Interference analysis and optimization contract

1 Support iDEN interference and frequency optimization effort

2 Post process drive data using Access, Actix, MapInfo and Wizard

3 Support RF Engineering team w/daily reports, etc.

Motorola; Libertyville, Illinois July 1998-April 2006

Field Engineering Manager/Team Lead/Technical Lead

o Developed and managed wireless phone field test team

4 Started and developed customer focused Cellular phone product/field test team

5 Responsible for coordinating scheduling with functional managers on projects

6 Tracked metrics related to call performance and drive testing

7 Used and evaluated drive test tools such as Grayson and Comarco

8 Managed test teams having 4-12 testers

9 Utilized pro-active and innovative approach including identifying global automation tools

and long range planning

10 Successfully developed test and acceptance processes which resulted in improved quality

11 Responsible for acceptance of product for purposes of giving to customers

12 Worked with wireless carriers to prevent and solve performance issues

13 Presented results to engineering milestone reviews and release readiness reviews

14 Worked closely with engineering and marketing teams to meet customer requirements and

schedules

15 Lead team to test AMR with major customer. This consisted of testing in 4 different

markets to cover Nokia, Ericsson, Nortel and Siemens infrastructure

16 Received award at major presentation for accomplishments in January 2005

17 Produced Requirements Documents and prepared test procedures

Wireless Data Technologies Manager/Team Lead/Technical Lead

o Started and developed Knowledge Based/Customer Focused wireless data test team

18 Managed and tested the first EDGE capable product at Motorola. This included testing on

various customer networks

19 GPRS testing with carriers to debug new cutting edge GPRS data networks

20 GPRS testing in Europe and North America

21 Managed North American worldwide Field GPRS IOT (Interoperability) test team on

Nortel infrastructure with major carrier

22 Provided customer support for technical issues concerning GPRS, WAP and related issues

23 Training includes CDMA2000, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, UMA/WiFi and related 3G

technologies

Special Projects

Lead cross-cultural Field Engineering Forums to improve the technical aspects of testing. International

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representation from Brazil, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, China and Australia

24 Defined and drove new innovations for testing with projected annual savings over $500,000

in a single market with global savings of $2 million

25 Developed Voice Server for call performance testing which reduced the resources needed

for testing and increased the capacity for new tests saving $300k annually

26 Developed cross functional international team to develop audio test tool

27 Initiated acoustic based audio tool development allowing evaluation of real customer audio

28 Facilitated training sessions for EDGE and AMR to entire Field Engineering organization

Sprint Cellular/360 Communications; Chicago, Illinois. January 1995-July1998

RF Cellular Engineer

o Managed the design and performance of cellular markets in Florida, Texas and New Mexico.

29 Frequency planning resulted in 45% decrease in dropped call rate

30 Saved $600,000 by using alternative design solution

31 System Design using TECC Wizard propagation tool as well as empirical data

32 System performance evaluation using SAFCO and Comarco data collection tools

33 System performance evaluation using daily, weekly and monthly KPIs

34 Cleared Spectrum for CDMA cutover

35 Adjacent carrier frequency coordination

36 Negotiated extension agreements with adjacent carriers which included use of MapInfo

37 Provided technical support to market and other engineers

38 Issued search areas for new sites and evaluated new site location candidates

39 Specified antennas including centerlines, azimuth and downtilts

Special Projects

40 Technical manager for smart antenna technology evaluation and testing

41 Lead System Performance effort which included the General Manager to Maintenance

Engineers

42 Evaluated antenna sweeps as well as Tx and Rx sensitivity measurements

43 Worked with major antenna manufacturer on antenna redesign

In-Flight Phone Corp.; Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. February 1992-January 1995 Project

Engineer/Quality Control Manager

o Worked with vendors on systems integration testing of the first digital air to ground telephone/data

system for commercial aircraft.

44 Developed Incoming Inspection department for our Quality Control Department

45 Managed Incoming Inspection Department

46 Diagnosed Electrical/RF design flaws and recommended solutions

47 Technical liaison to main designer and manufacturer of radio equipment

EDUCATION

University of Illinois

B.S. Electrical Engineering. Concentration on Communications.

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