Dale Scott Caldwell

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Objective

I am seeking a career opportunity with a company focused on achieving future growth and higher productivity utilizing

my skills and experience in management, engineering and manufacturing.

GENERAL DYNAMICS Duluth, Georgia Project Engineer 2011 – Present

• Designed, integrated and tested gateway satellite earth stations, flyaway terminals and mobile C, Ku and Ka band

satellite systems for commercial and military communications.

• Developed complete system documentation package including block diagrams, wiring diagrams, bill of material,

test procedures, technical specifications and training manuals for customer systems.

• Primary technical point of contact for resolving customers network design issues. Also supported the Sales

Engineering staff putting together quotes in response to formal RFQ’s.

DISH NETWORK LLC Dunwoody, Georgia Senior Program Manager 2004 - 2011

• Managed all phases of emerging wireless technology projects within the corporate development group and

conducted the deployment of multiple broadcast facilities for our mobile video service.

• Performed initial site visit, review and sign off of the architectural and engineering drawings, generation of the

statement of work for all sub-contractors, and filing of FCC broadcast permits.

• Developed the business relationship with multiple vendors dealing with lease negotiations, site applications,

equipment selection, hand set providers, price negotiations, permits, shipping, logistics planning, shelter

providers, civil work crews and performed problem resolution between all parties.

• Assisted with the creation and implementation of the test plan for local field trials utilizing WiMAX and LTE / 4G

technologies which included network design, RF coverage planning and analysis, capacity planning, EMI analysis

and drive testing data (Eb/NO and SNR) collection and analysis.

ECHOSTAR SATELLITE LLC Atlanta, Georgia Program Manager 2001 - 2003

• Managed the entire hardware and software engineering groups using SDLC methods for several newly designed

set-top-boxes. This included such responsibilities as leading the project kick-off and weekly meetings, generating

the project schedule, prototype development and production planning.

• Developed the business relationship with our partners including AT&T and Wild Blue which allowed us to provide

a bundled service offering to our existing and new DBS customers to include high speed internet via DSL or

satellite.

ALPHA TECHNOLOGIES Suwanee, Georgia Production Supervisor 1999 - 2000

• Supervised a team of assemblers and test technicians in a high production environment producing uninterruptable

power supply products for the telephone, wireless and broadband industries.

• Participated in developing assembly and test procedures to support bringing new products to the market including

the Radium line, which provided outside plant power for fiber fed communications.

TURNER BROADCASTING / CNN Atlanta, Georgia 1996 - 1999

Satellite Engineer

• Performed installation, troubleshooting and maintenance of video and satellite broadcast equipment

including traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWT’s), klystron tube amplifiers, up/down converters,

video exciters, video distribution amplifiers, LNA protection switches and video standard converters.

• Operated the Network Operations Center where I configured antennas and equipment to perform

uplinks and downlinks for the CNN News Desk. Also, performed video and audio quality of service

monitoring for all Turner networks including fiber optic, T1 and satellite links.

• Operated test equipment to troubleshoot and test video broadcast equipment such as spectrum

analyzer, signal generator, power meter, vectorscope, oscilloscope and volt-ohm meter.

1986 - 1995

AT&T TRIDOM CORPORATION Marietta, Georgia Project Engineer

• Team leader in the design, installation, testing and on-site support of Ku-band satellite earth stations

for both domestic and international customers.

• Performed assembly, testing and troubleshooting to component level of surface mount technology Ka-

band transmitters, remote terminal processor and other associated baseband equipment.

• Monitored the quality of service for our shared VSAT network transporting data (SDLC and X.25),

video and VoIP (voice over IP) from inside the Network Operations Center and provided Tier II

technical support to resolve customer issues.

SCIENTIFIC ATLANTA Norcross, Georgia Senior R & D Technician 1980 -

1985

• Participated in the development of a ship board stabilized Infrared Search and Target Designation

(IRSTD) system for the United States Navy.

• Sub-contracted to Raytheon Corporation to perform final factory integration and testing of a

hydraulic ship board stabilized radar pedestal while being witnessed by the U.S. Government DCAS

inspector.

Education

ELKINS INSTITUTE, Atlanta, Georgia

1979 - 1980

Associates Degree Industrial Electronics

LIVELY VO-TECH, Tallahassee, Florida

1976 - 1978

1080 Hours Basic Electronics Certificate

540 Hours Advanced Electronics Certificate

Continuing Education

Georgia Work Ready Gold Plus Certified

Fast Start in Program Management / Systemation

Computer Network Architecture and Protocols / The Learning Tree

Stratus / VOS Fundamentals and System Administration

Telenex 2000 / 2700 LAN /WAN Matrix Switch System Administration

AT&T Data Communications I and II

AT&T TCP/IP Networking

AT&T Project Management

AT&T Time Management

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