Lee M Stewart

P.O. Box *****

Winston-Salem, NC *7114

336-***-****

Career Statement

Offering proven experience in the PCS and Cellular Industry

Employment Experience

Astron Consulting

Ericsson/AT&T Jan. 2011- July 2011

LTE Installations and Integration /Call Testing (Richardson TX, New York City, Orlando FL, Atlanta GA)

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Installed, configured, and integrated LTE equipment (SIAD, MU, Fiber. GPS receiver and RAYCAP equipment)

Received B3 and HS1 certifications with Ericsson.

AT&T certification courses (“Ask Yourself…”)

2nd Carrier Adds- Installed RAX/TX60 high speed data cards into 3206 UMTS cabinets, Installed 2nd carrier radios and filters, turned up site. kept in contact wit NIC/NOC/ Ericsson War Bridge to ensure that site was commissioned and integrated.

Avenger Engineering

Network Integration/Carrier Add (Atlanta GA, Mobile AL, Biloxi MS) July 2010-Dec 2010

Preformed RET (Remote Electrical Tilts)

Created MOP for 1st carrier integration to be used by field techs

Integrated both 1st and 2nd Carrier UMTS 3206 Cabinets

Installed new RAX boards and TX60 cards

Sent closeout packages back to customer which included screen shots and site pictures of PRE/POST install

Rightech

Site Audit/Survey Technician (Charlotte and Raleigh, NC) May 2010- July 2010

Went to sites within market. Sketched site compounds for possible expansion, recorded power metor readings and A/C voltage and AMPS. Took site pictures of equipment and other carriers in the compound. Used a power calculator to determine how much total power is being used at site.

Avion Systems

Field Technician (New York) Mar 2010- May 2010

Installed RAX boards for nationwide upgrade. Preformed installations during maintenance window. Kept in close contact with NIC/NOC for possible alarms.

Field Engineer May 2009–Oct 2009

S-Com, Inc. (Richmond Va.)

Installed indoor/outdoor Macro Radio Base Stations. Commissioned and Integrated 3106,3206,3418,3518 Radio Base Stations in accordance with the Ericsson RBS Configuration and On-Site Procedures. Call Tested Radio Base Stations in accordance with T-Mobile WABA. Managed faults through the use of the Ericsson Active Library Explorer. Provided training and software to field technicians. Integrated over 165 sites.

Pathing Technician (Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point, Burlington, NC) Oct.09-Dec. 09

Teksystems (New World Technology-Clearwire)

Responsible for the installation and programming of Dragonwave’s Horizon Duo Modems, Ceragon Modems, Orthogons, and PTP600/400 Microwave equipment.

Duties included contacting the NOC to fix trouble tickets and outages during maintenance windows. Loading company provided scripts that contained frequency, capacity, and Tx Power information. Achieved target RSL levels that were within a -2dBm error margin. Worked with Commissioning to bring new build and existing sites on air. Provided customer support by going on truck rolls to customer residences troubleshooting Clearwire modem issues

Switch Site Auditor (Raleigh, Charlotte NC, Richmond, Norfolk VA, Harrison NJ, Wallingford CT, Albany NY) April 08-Dec 08

Teksystems (Bridge Networks- SPRINT)

Preformed switch audit on all connected equipment.

Responsible for locating and documenting all DSX1/DSX3/NGF bay positions along with LEC/MANRING locations DCCS/Alcatel

Responsible for the accurate documentation of data from the switch into the Physical Audit Tool (equipment to T1 level SDF’s)

Inputting Relay Rack, patch panel, and port location of the equipment associated with that switch.

Motorola equipment documented T1 Agg Cisco 10K/Juniper, SPM, VPU, MGX, DTC, and VM

Nortel equipment documented (in possible addition to those previously listed) CBRS, SBS, VAD, DISCO

Lucent equipment documented OIU, DNUS, DFI_FAC, VM, and DLTU

Noted if any equipment was not being used, whether or not if the equipment is connected or not, dangling fiber cables, mislabeled NGF frames naming equipment locations

Tied-down all equipment to a bay and documented it’s cross-connection be it to a SDF/DS3/DS1 or equipment.

Interacted with switch techs. Gathered all onsite information and asked questions about how a plan can be made to save the parent company money on needless energy spending.

When audit was completed and signed off by upper level management, left switch techs with documentation on how to maintain all documented records with a contact numbers for any changes made after audit.

Tested T1’s with T-BERD 2310 Tester in switch. Made sure the line was clean by running a loop back to itself.

Cell Site Technician/Drive Tester (Nashville, TN, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, NY) Apr. 07-Dec. 07

TekSystems (Clearwire Wireless Broadband)

Worked with Clearwire Sr. Technicians on building and programming new cell site cabinets.

Solved several Tier1 trouble tickets during maintenance window with NOC.

Commissioned several sites with the NOC for internet readiness. Loaded upgrade scripts into the Foundry for each BTS (A,B, and C), Omnitronix, Valare

Reprogrammed/configured all Expedience BTS’s, Andrews Dragonwave model type microwaves, AN-80i redlines, and modems inside cabinets to conform to new WiMax technology. Systems Integration.

Participated in the pathing of all sites within the network.

Drove tested new Clearwire software using Expedience BTS Provisioning (CPE) technology (Blind and Bright Spot testing)

Tested for internet signal strength. Preformed internet speed test. Checked to see of all airlinks were up and operational. Helped with the construction of new build cell sites

Drive Tester I (Indianapolis, IN, Toledo, OH, and Detroit, MI) Feb 3rd 2007-Mar 1st 2007

Glotel (Cingular)

Used CLARIFY/CLARIFY VIEWER with PCTEL scanner box

Tested channel frequencies and their incoming strengths from the surrounding towers. Used various GPS TRIMBLE devices

Drove pre-defined test routes in the testing city

Worked with RF Engineers evaluating data

Cell Site Technician (Washington, DC / Laurel, MD) Sept 06-Oct 06

Byers Engineering, LLC

Collected site survey information. Recorded cell site height, platform dimensions, took digital pictures of site, noted if any other carriers located in compound. Collected measurements of all objects located inside compound

Drive Tester I (Shreveport, LA and surrounding areas) July 06-Sept 06

Networkers International

Tested area for both signal strength and voice coverage coming inbound and outbound from cell site.

Pinged site to check smoothness of handoffs between sectors and to other sites.

Used WirelessPro software. Tested EV-DO network.

Equipment Technician

WFI (Boston, MA) Mar 06-June 06

LMR reconfigurations (Land Mobile Radio)

Updated State Police walkie-talkie units to new closed channel frequencies

Drive Tester (Several markets in NC, VA, AR) July 05- Nov. 05

Solutelia Inc. (Motorola/Alltel)

Collected Data using new EVDO Software/ Invex 3G. Preformed SCFT testing. Worked closely with RF Engineers. Went to each sector of the BTS and tested upload and download speeds. Ideals speeds for the test were 1MB uploaded for every minute of time allowed and for downloads it was 1GB for every two mins. Slow speeds indicated that the BTS’s cards needed to be changed or bounced around. After all sectors were tested a PING test was conducted to test handoffs. Responsible for making sure that each tower was on new EV-DO network. If they were not on the right network they had to be changed manually from 1xRTT to EV-DO. Once all site were up and running moved to next market

Drive Test Engineer (Oklahoma City, OK) Jan. 05 -Mar. 05

Voice Stream

Responsible for Data Collection of GSM network

Used TEMS Investigation for finding areas of interference, dropped calls and poor coverage

Trained new employees on TEMS Investigation and locating areas of high interference

Performed System and Cluster drives in GSM system

Collected data for Site Shakedown procedure. Used MapInfo to display all data collected

Sr. RBS Test Engineer (Baltimore, MD) Sept. 04 Dec. 04

P-Com (PK Diversified)

Ran In-house testing on RF bays to check for proper radio specifications

Drive test specified routes of major traffic to check on coverage issues

Performed test on T1 transmission via fiber optic link

Knowledge of T-1’s CSU’s DSU’s

Tested T1 functionality and troubleshoot any issues. Down links

Changed out old analog network to digital Tellabs 5500 equipment

Work on power bays to ensure proper connection for any added equipment to the existing system

Drive Test Technician (Charleston, SC) May. 04-June. 04

WFI Triton PCS, Market Analysis Data Collector

Collected performance data from the major competitor’s in Triton PCS markets using the Ericsson TEMS Benchmaker unit.

Performed cluster and system drives in GSM Network, Network Design, Capacity Planning and

Optimization

Radio Test Engineer (Totowa, NJ) March 04-April 04

Omni point Inc. (Williams Telecom-on contract)

Accountable for systems integration and commissioning of RBS station

Ran In -house testing on RBS to check for software corruption and hardware incompatibilities

Worked with RF team to decide best orientation and antenna type for optimum coverage in rural areas

Check handoff parameters and coverage issues using pocket teams

Software/Equipment Used

Proficient in using the following types of software/equipment:

TEMS Optimization, Pocket TEMS, T-10 Test Set, Spectrum Analyzer, Wiltron Sweep Test Anl. Hp Analyzers,Cat-5, Actix, Punch down, Fiber optics, drill, Lift, Skilled in PC usage from a technical point, covering setup and instillation , laptop knowledge and procedure skills, Grayson, Ericsson , MapInfo, Invex3G. EVDO aircards, WirelessPro, Expedience Software, WiMax, Clearwire connection modem, Dragon Modems, AN-80i redlines, Motorola CPE, T-Berd 2310

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