Engineer Project Manager

Allen J. Fine

Senior RF Engineer

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abnhsn@r.postjobfree.com

Sorrento, FL 32776

Profile

** **** ****** ** * RF Engineer with extensive experience in communication system engineering, integration

and testing. Skilled in both wireless voice and data technologies. Outstanding record of success in implementing

large scale high capacity distributed antenna systems. Areas of expertise include:

MiniNEC (numerical electromagnetic code) for antenna design and performance evaluation.

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Radio air interface standards including CDMA 2000, TDMA, and iDEN

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RF Propagation model optimization for 800 MHz cellular and 2 GHz PCS radio systems.

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Site surveys and layout and design for satellite, microwave, and cellular radio systems

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Multi-vendor equipment experience including Motorola, Lucent, Nortel, Andrew, Powerwave, Mobile

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Access, ADC Telecom and LGC

Cellular site surveys and layout design for cellular and LMR systems.

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RF propagation tools including Wizard and Planet.

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Mapinfo, geographical information systems, mapping and geocoding.

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Professional Experience

Comtech Systems, Orlando, FL 2008-Present

Senior Systems Engineer

Lead for development and design for technical proposals. Investigate, test and integrate new technologies to

provide enhanced communication solutions for the customer. Provide field engineering services including

integration, testing and troubleshooting for communication networks.

Provided on-site integration for 17 sites in Algeria, North Africa, including VHF, HF Radio, satellite,

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microwave, tropo-scatter, fiber optic transceivers, routers and network switches.

Provided on-site fiber-optics engineering to include single mode fiber terminations, polishing, fusion

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splicing, and optical TDR measurements.

Developed fiber optic solution for microwave link which provided extended range for antenna

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placement and complete EW isolation.

Developed design for X-Band microwave transceiver using existing base-band equipment. Design

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provided a low cost customized solution for alternate band operation.

Sprint Nextel, Orlando, FL 2006-2008

Senior Technical Project Manager

Technical lead for RF network design tools with responsibility for network coverage and disaster recovery

mapping.

Identified and fixed propagation models from conducting reliability study on coverage predictions for 30

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RF markets. Efforts resulted in key process improvements for propagation model optimization.

Implemented propagation model optimization process using existing drive test data for 9 major markets.

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Efforts reduced costs for the company by more than $300,000.

Documented poor performance issues related to Autonomous RF testing. Supported key improvements

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to the Autonomous program.

Developed GIS tools using Mapinfo to quickly analyze scenarios for site hardening. Enabled Sprint to

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meet budget while selecting key sites.

Provided design and trouble-shooting guidance for several large scale multi-carrier fiber DAS projects

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including Orlando International Airport.

Sprint, Dallas, TX 2000-2006

Principal RF Engineer

RF supervisor for design and construction of new CDMA cell sites. Technical lead for RF repeaters and in

building coverage solutions.

Provided on-site engineering including design and integration for microwave and RF repeater systems to

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support network recovery for New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. Received recognition for working in

the “combat zone” for 3 weeks.

Implemented Houston and Jacksonville base station driven fiber DAS to provide wireless coverage for

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the Super Bowls, which carried over 100,000 calls in 4 hours with less then a 1% drop rate. Received

Sprint's highest achievement, Sprint Annual Excellence Award, for contributions.

Oversaw the design, integration, and optimization for the DFW Airport fiber DAS. Indoor network

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provided over 7 million square feet of coverage, and the highest quality of performance of any Sprint

airport design in the nation.

Conducted CW site surveying for propagation model tuning.

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Nextel, Tampa, FL 1998-2000

RF Engineer – Frequency Planner

Responsible for design, frequency planning, and construction program management for iDEN cell sites in the

west Florida market. Specified antenna and transmission line specifications. Coordinated with site development

on equipment placement and site layout.

Developed and analyzed RF link budgets using different combining and coaxial specifications

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Developed a specialized 13-cell reuse plan which improved the network quality and enabled a 100%

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capacity expansion.

Completed simultaneous retunes for the Tampa iDEN market, with 150+ cell sites, which provided

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channel capacity for 2 years of network expansion.

Comsearch, Reston, VA 1990 – 1998

Principal RF Engineer

Responsible for leading RF teams on large scale contracts for new CDMA market builds. Development of site

acceptance test procedures and supervision of teams on site commissioning.

Supervised team of 6 RF engineers for Lucent Technologies CTSO for integration and optimization of

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PCS PrimeCO Chicago CDMA network and Sprint CDMA network in San Diego.

Oversaw team of 4 RF engineers for design of the Rogers Cantel AMPS and IS-54 nationwide build out.

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Application Engineer

Completed theoretical analysis of field strength levels for co-location and radiation hazard studies.

Conduct RF field measurements and completed site surveys for Satellite dish placement and equipment layouts.

Development and integration of automated RF test measurement systems including positioning systems,

spectrum analyzers, communication receivers, and power meters.

Site layout, interference and integration testing for C-Band satellite earth stations

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Resolved interference using RF notch filters, and completed bit error rate testing for 9 meter C-Band

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earth station in Caracas, Venezuela.

Education

B.S., Electrical Engineering, 1990, Specialized in RF Microwaves and Electro-magnetics

Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI

Published Paper

Proceedings of Microwave Update 1989, A low cost, high performance 23 cm Yagi. Development and

construction of microwave yagi antenna using MiniNEC, a PC based numerical electromagnetic code.

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