Engineer Manager

THOMAS MEEK

**** ****** ***** ***** 770-***-**** 404-***-****

Atlanta, GA 30360 ******@*****.***, ******@*****.***

SUMMARY

An accomplished and focused project manager, electrical engineer and mapping (GIS) skills with broad based skills in radio system, antenna and hardware design. Has domestic and European/Asian experience. Have been manager of several departments within my career. Extensive experience with major telecom operators, SME with power utility suppliers and respective vendors, specializing in the planning, engineering, implementation, optimization, team leadership, NOC, operations and maintenance of telecommunications, smartgrid and transport networks.

Product Design/project manager

Radio and System Design

WIMAX/DAS

3G/4G optimization

Smartgrid/SCADA/Wireless telemetry

IT specifications

Microwave Backhaul

CDMA/LTE/EVDO

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

MapInfo, ArcInfo mapping, Visio design

Pathloss 4 and 5, Microsoft project

Planet, EDX, ATDI, Geoplan, Atoll

RFISS, Spotfire, Windcatcher, JDSU, BVS

Excel VB macros, Scripts and tableau, SQL

Big data tools, Hadoop and Teradata

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

AEP ( American Electric power, Ohio): 2016-2019:

Contract for performing installs of a second phase of grid automation (reclosers, regulators and capbanks) in some cases replacing phase 1 equipment. Performed field engineering and radio measurements to feed propagation tools and coverage data such as Atoll plots and also drive test tools using Sierra Wireless receivers, BVS etc. Solved a problem of “last gasp” transmissions from AMI meters causing capacity issues. Designed “takeout” points using mesh and fixed links to cover areas where utility equipment was in coverage holes for cellular backhaul.

EDX wireless 2016-2016:

Intensive use of EDX Signalpro to develop plots from LOS related models for Fiber replacement of in house internet using hi res clutter data and mmwave links.

K&M Wireless, Requirements manager: 2014-2015

Sprint: Requirements management, defining use cases and coordination for a big data rebuild and consolidation of RF and system performance existing tools into a new reporting suite with more modern big data databases. Use of Teradata SQL assist and tableau. Completed first phase deployment and commenced second phase of the new suite.

Crown Castle, Lead Engineer: Consultant and vendor in Atlanta for DAS deployment. Use of Mapinfo/Cscape for small cell node design to Verizon, Atlanta. Many meetings with Verizon to support designs, city permissions involvement. PIM and cable loss and return loss for multiple site construction, Drive test analysis, Macro to microcell hand off analysis and small cell performance optimization. Use of Atoll for propagation planning, JDSU, and CW and cell measurement equipment, Windcatcher.

TELNET Inc. Project Engineer: 2013-2014

Verizon, Kansas City: Supporting Verizon design role, CDs, FCC regulatory filings for 4G LTE upgrades to add AWS band to existing sites and new sites.

Minneapolis, MN: Cluster Engineer: Support of system migrations to Samsung 3G and 4G for the Minnesota market. Performance monitoring and audits, E911 update and reports, neighbor list creation, cluster analysis, CD’s. Optimization with Spotfire, Mobile Meridian, tilt analysis, neighbor list and parameter update, drive test analysis, XCAP,XCAL, Planet.

ERICSSON, Atlanta, GA 2011 - 2013

CDMA Services Engineer, responsible for Sprint and MetroPCS cellular network

CDMA/LTE Engineer responsible for customer support of Sprint CDMA, EVDO and LTE network. Responsible for site visits related to implementation of hard handoff between Sprint and Alltel networks in Georgia.

Network performance monitoring and no harm data, providing support for LTE upgrade.

KPI analysis of Sprint EVDO and voice, config sheets and EVDO design, Nortel licensing, TRAMs ticketing.

Designed with Pathloss and Google Earth to analyze towerclimb data, supporting the overall design of a 300 link MW backhaul network using Ericsson Minilink MW products for MetroPCS in Atlanta.

CLEARWIRE, Atlanta, GA, Senior Microwave Engineer 2009 - 2011

Nationwide WIMAX operator

Responsible for RF backhaul design and capacity planning. Performed RF design for 50 new WIMAX sites using Motorola and Dragonwave equipment to support new market deployment.

Designed backhaul for indoor DAS systems.

Conducted licensing of Microwave links with the FCC for spectrum licensing of backhaul.

Performed cell sites capacity dimensioning for backhaul and added capacity to reduce congestion on high traffic sites

EDGE CONSULTING, Atlanta, GA 2006 – 2009

Owner / Senior Consultant

Provided Corp to Corp consulting services, Clients were: Mastermeter, Marswater 2006-2010

Neptune 2007-2009

Earthlink 2006-2007

Motorola 2006-2006

Delivered propagation and system design services for Automated Meter Reading (AMR), setting up propagation departments for Mastermeter and Neptune to deploy water meter radio networks.

Used and refined propagation methods for EarthLink for a number of WIMESH city wide networks. Performed field work for EarthLink (client Motorola) to deploy Canopy backhaul for Tropos Wimesh nodes.

STATSIGNAL SYSTEMS, LLC, Atlanta, GA 2001-2005

Joint venture Company with Landis and Gyr (L & G), Mesh based wireless telemetry systems

Senior Systems Analyst

SME (subject matter expert) exploring use cases, generated 3 patents. Provided radio system planning using in-house developed procedures and models for wireless telemetry systems. Responsible for RF engineering support for propagation, radio design and patent filings, Intellectual Property. Extensive involvement in product design from the system architecture aspect in evaluating strengths and limitations of RF mesh technology.

Key contribution for GIS and other inputs to high level RFP’s up to 4 million points utilizing spread spectrum mesh radio.

Performed field work, to enable smooth deployments of AMR system with ever improving proprietary technology.

Much FOA work with design of pilot equipment, running pilot trials etc.

TWS INTERNATIONAL, Alpharetta, GA, Senior Consultant 1999-2001

Engineering services company to primarily the 2G cellphone industry. Customer support for Sprint and performance monitoring 2000-2001

Developed advanced MS/labview applications to support a comprehensive test program of power line carrier IC’S

Senior Engineering Consultant 1999 - 2001

Used propagation planning (Planet), GIS and field CW measurement tools to undertake projects for Sprint in the cellular industry and in-house initiatives in the AMR field, filling in a senior role.

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCHLUMBERGER, Propagation Analyst, Senior System Engineer, Consultant, Principal Engineer,UK and US

FRIEDLAND-SUPERSWITCH, Electronic Engineering Department Manager, UK

STANDARD TELEPHONES & CABLES and Atlas, Senior Engineer, UK and Hong Kong

EDUCATION

Masters of Science, Electrical Engineering (Honors) Cambridge University, UK

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS/ SPECIAL SKILLS

Member of the Institution of Electronic Engineers (IET-UK), Chartered Engineer, Engineering Council (UK).

Training in programming languages, Mapbasic. Prior working knowledge of Chinese

Various project management and team management courses, vocational guidance courses etc.

PATENTS

Point to Multi-point System, US patent #: 5717728,UK patent #: 2291272, European grants.

Radio Antennae, US patent #: 5621419, UK patent, Euro patent: 95303468.3

Mesh Based/Tower Based RF network, US Application Serial #: 60/731.217, September 2006

Very Narrow Band AMR system, May 2007, granted 2010

Repeat transmission enhancement, US patent provisional application

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