Engineer Project

Joel Kwiatkowski, 925-***-****, *********@*******.***

**** ****** ** #**, ****** Creek, CA 94596

Seasoned Telecommunications Consultant for 2 way LMR, Public Safety, Government, Cellular, Engineering Program Management and Business Development.

Professional Summary:

Program and Project management including Profit and Loss, budgets, business planning and decisions as well as strategy for engineering functions within multi-disciplined corporations.

Excellent presentation, public speaking, report writing skills and project management.

32 years design and deployment, development, proposal, requirements, design planning and Project Management.

Results-oriented professional with successful completion of multi-million dollar projects in all facets of the telecommunication industry.

Independently and collaboratively lead a variety of expansion-related projects and activities

Define project scope and objectives

Create and maintain project schedules

Estimate time requirements, establish deadlines and monitor milestone completion

Proactively identify and mitigate gaps and risks

Lead project teams to complete deliverables

Track progress against deadlines and budgets

Ensure clear and effective communications at the program and project levels

Coordinate with internal and external project members to ensure successful systems training and support handoff

Define and report on project and program KPIs

Oversee internal and external resources

Oversee related procurements and manage vendor relationships

Maintain project information in Microsoft Project Server

Technical Summary:

PM tools: Xpress, Agile, MS Excel, Visio, Access & Word, PowerPoint, Siterra, CASPR, SharePoint, Remedy

Radio Platforms: Motorola, Harris, RELM, BK, Midland, Apple, Samsung, LG, Alcatel-Lucent, Nokia, Solid, Mobile Access, Connectivity, Extenet DeltaNode, Commscope Andrew, Ericsson.

Technical Planning: Atoll, iBwave

Education:

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY - BSEE (Graduated), May 1983

Detailed Experience:

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, May 2014 – May 2015 (End of assignment)

Client: Verizon thru Blackwave Telecom, Walnut Creek, CA, Senior Telecom Consultant

Work on RF Project Engineering related tasks as assigned by Verizon personnel to support the completion of dozens of In Building DAS, eNodeB, Small Cell and Spidercloud projects throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. This included supplier/vendor management and budgeting with Xpress tools including design and deployment review and approval, cost estimations, planning testing support and data review, solution proposals and direction, regulatory submittals and database submissions as well as project management.

Environment: IB DAS and small cell wireless coverage enhancements

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, Sept 2013 – May 2014 (End of assignment)

Client: Tempest Telecom thru HNM, Walnut Creek, CA, RF Engineering Manager

Oversee project scope, resources, equipment selection, requirements review, design engineering budget and schedule tracking as well as DAS and Small Cell design review, approval and submittal for Tempest regional and national direct award and competitive bid projects. Responsible for assuring quality design and deployment submittals for 100s of bids and more than 200 awarded projects to meet client requirements on time and within budget.

Environment: DAS wireless coverage enhancements

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, May 2012 – Sept 2013 (End of assignment)

Client: Comcast thru Ericsson (Contract), Pleasanton, CA, Senior Telecom Consultant

Oversee the Design and deployment and Quality Control process, budget, schedule and functional field testing of several hundred deployed Aruba Wi-Fi Access Point sites throughout the Bay Area for Comcast and Site Surveying for new sites. Report status and data to client and schedule new work.

Environment: Wi-Fi Access Point network, data center monitoring and assessment

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, May 2010 – May 2012, (End of assignment)

Client: AT&T, (Contract), Pleasanton, CA, Senior Telecom Consultant

Work with all AT&T Sales & Engineering teams to identify venues to consider for oDAS, iDAS and Wi-Fi coverage and propose, refine, and establish 3G and 4G national engineering standards for indoor and outdoor DAS designs and link budgets for GSM, UMTS, HSDPA & LTE, including all RF requirements to meet established KPI targets for RAN LTE designs. Optimize existing UMTS & LTE Macro sites as part of the DAS design considerations. Optimize existing DAS sites to improve KPIs and indoor penetration as well as DAS dominance.

Reviewed and approved the preliminary DAS design proposals, equipment selection and antenna placements as well as the baseline walk testing and CW testing performed and submitted by Alcatel-Lucent for 11 casinos in Las Vegas and 1 Stadium in Arizona to assure their conformance to meeting the AT&T ASG design and performance requirements. ALU OSS optimization was assessed and implemented for Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand and the University of Phoenix - Arizona Cardinals Stadium.

Lead SME for providing direction to and overseeing vendor designs and BOM as well as SOW on more than 200 other venue plans in Northern CA (San Francisco and Sacramento), Southern CA ( San Diego), Seattle WA, Las Vegas NV and Portland OR.

Provide detailed input to refine RFP and BOM content for DAS vendors. Host calls with key stakeholders (HQ, market RF teams, vendors, etc.) to solicit input and feedback on proposed DAS standards, requirements and site surveys including RF benchmark walk testing.

Review and provide technical approval to market specific venues for design and deployment proposals from ALU, Andrew, ADC, Mobile Access, Powerwave, RSS, RFS, Extenet (iDuct), DeltaNode & Ericsson.

Oversee and perform Approval for Use testing, QA testing and analysis of Agilent, JDSU E6474, Ascom, Anite, Anritsu and Tektronix network test and monitoring equipment and probes for wireless 2G/3G/4G-LTE Telecom Architecture, call flows and SS7 protocols. Execute testing per test plans, document and communicate all results and impacts as required.

Environment: DAS wireless coverage enhancements

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, March 2009 – April 2010, (End of assignment)

Client: Macro Corporation (Contract), Oakland, CA, Senior Telecom Consultant

Provide engineering input and project management support including cost planning for site survey assessments, coverage, voice and data traffic engineering and capacity assessments, above ground and underground site design planning in AutoCAD, frequency coordination, site inspections, microwave testing and network performance testing for Motorola and Harris public safety, utility and transportation private radio projects.

Evaluated current voice and data traffic loading from data extrapolated from an Oracle relational database that collected data from the network switch and simulated future traffic loading and engineered forecasts in a SUN work station platform to assess ATM and IP network technologies to recommend strategies and solutions to the clients to meet the growth demands of their networks while maintaining the Quality of Service required and to increase reliability and throughput.

Projects successfully completed included the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency Radio Replacement Project, Marin County Emergency Operations Center Radio Replacement and Relocation Project, King County Metro Washington State Microwave and Network Coverage and Performance Acceptance Testing for public transportation, Pierce Transit Seattle Washington Radio Upgrade project and the San Mateo County California County Wide Radio Implementation Project involving Motorola, Harris, RELM, BK and Midland radio platforms.

Environment: Land Mobile Radio Network, Data Center Upgrade, network

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, January 2007 – March 2009, (End of assignment)

Client: NYSTEC, (Contract), Rome/NYC, NY, Senior Telecom Consultant

Radio Systems lead supporting and overseeing design and deployment, test evaluation, test acceptance, site integration, budget and schedule progress for the following projects: New York Statewide Wireless Network (SWN) Project, Northway Interstate 87 Emergency call box radio replacement project, NYC Metro-21 re-banding and narrow banding project, Town of Glenville Land Mobile Radio site upgrade project and Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) radio retuning and replacement project. All projects involved the Motorola, Harris, RELM, BK and Midland radio platforms.

Other projects completed included engineering design and evaluation related tasks as well as proposal and informational reports on the following projects: Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT) city emergency radio re-banding and replacement project in Brooklyn, NY; New York City Wireless Network (NYCWiN) radio upgrade and integration project in Manhattan, NY; 800MHz emergency radio re-banding and replacement projects for several counties in New York State including the city of NY; World Trade Center (WTC) indoor/outdoor campus wide wireless voice and data emergency police radio design and deployment proposal project and Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) radio design project for emergency MTA Police radio coverage along all MTA train routes and within MTA stations and tunnels.

Environment: Statewide Land Mobile Radio Network, Interoperability Planning, Data Center and Dispatch upgrade assessments, coverage enhancements, VoIP/RoIP Networks

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, September 2005 – January 2007

Client: Nextel (Contract), White Plains, NY, Senior Telecom Consultant

Oversee the traffic engineering and design planning for 4G WiFi/WiMax site expansions in the Planet Erlang model tuning using actual network drive test data simulations.

Managed the Oracle database system for tracking radio additions and deletions as well as coordinating weekly project meetings with RF, Capacity and Frequency Planning and Operations.

Managed Frequency Planning and spectrum clearing activities for coordinating the retuning of 800 MHz sites affected by the FCC mandated re-banding project with public safety licensees for Motorola, Harris, RELM, BK and Midland platforms.

Supported the identification of capacity deficiency sites and areas resulting from the spectrum loss from re-banding decommissioning including the implementation of 900 MHz and 1.9 GHz splits.

Provide hands on engineering analysis with client interaction and project management support to access, plan and implement microwave sites, equipment to link the network, DAS, repeater, BDA and fiber optic solutions for In Building applications at over 300 Sprint Nextel client locations as well as other locations identified to increase cellular penetration and service usage. This included enhancements for CDMA, EVDO and iDEN as well as Wi-Fi/WiMax designs

Environnent: iDEN, Data Center & Call Traffic Analysis, BDA, networks

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, March 2005 – September 2005

Client: Cingular UMTS design, (Contract), NY, Senior RF Telecom Consultant

Oversee RF traffic engineering design and cell site candidate evaluation with Atoll for new Ericsson UMTS sites, microwave links and EMS, Allgon, Kathrein, CSS and Andrew antennas in critical outdoor and indoor coverage areas.

Generate design reports with coverage, traffic and census data to justify site build for meeting Cingular development and business criteria.

Environment: Data Center & Call Traffic Analysis and testing.

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, December 2004 – March 2005

Client: Cingular UMTS design, (Contract), CT, RF Senior Telecom Consultant

Oversee optimization of Aircom UMTS design from Aircom Asset with model tuning and parameter adjustments along with microwave links utilizing Optimi ACP tool.

Develop drive plans and post process collected date within Optimi ACP tool to model tune the AirCom Asset propagation predictions and justify the UMTS design plan using Ericsson equipment with a correlation to Cingular development and business criteria.

Environment: ACP tool, network enhancements, data collection and analysis

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, September 2004 – December 2004

Client: General Dynamics project with Mountain LTD, (Contract), Fairfax, VA, Sr. RF Consultant

Perform design requirements verification and generate field operations checklists and installation test procedures for implementation of VHF/UHF antennas, marine and aeronautical radio systems for use at an offshore oil drilling facility in Russia.

Environment: Requirements verification and installation, testing, procedures.

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, March 2004 – September 2004

Client: T-Mobile, (Contract), Parsippany, NJ, Sr. RF Engineer

RF design and BSS parameter planning for new outdoor and in building coverage and capacity site solutions as well as microwave links and zoning for T-Mobile Ericsson UMTS and GSM network expansion in the Bay area market utilizing Atoll, Asset, Odyssey, MapInfo & TEMS

Environment: Networking and Data Center Planning and enhancements.

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, June 2003 – March 2004

Client: Sprint, (Contract), Mahwah, NJ, RF Project Engineer

Plan and develop site surveys and network design along with analysis of data for optimization and in-building DAS solutions for Sprint-Lucent 1.9 GHz CDMA 1xEV-DO network expansion in NY/NJ market utilizing dB Planner, Planet and MapInfo design tools.

Environnent:Network design, data collection and analysis

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, April 2003 – June 2003

Client: Bechtel-AWS 3-mo, (Contract), Pittsburgh, PA, Sr. RF Engineer

Performed site capacity data evaluations and spectrum analysis utilizing PlaNet software planning tools for upgrade to Ericsson & Nokia 850 MHz GSM/EDGE radio equipment and Allgon antennas.

Environnent: Capacity planning

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, February 2003 – April 2003

Client: WFI-AWS 3-mo, (Contract), Pittsburgh, PA, Sr. RF Engineer

Performed site capacity data evaluations, spectrum carving and analysis utilizing PlaNet software planning tools for upgrade to Ericsson & Nokia 850 MHz GSM/EDGE radio equipment and Allgon antennas.

Environment: Capacity Planning

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, May 2000 – November 2002

Client: Cingular/VComm (Contract), PA, Principal RF Telecom Consultant

Provide presentations to Cingular management and perform expert town board zoning testimony.

Evaluate and lead frequency planning, GSM spectrum and microwave coordination.

Evaluate and manage transmission drive test selection, post processing and qualification.

Environment: wireless networking

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, November 1999 – May 2000

Client: Nextel/TEK/VComm (Contract), Bensalem, PA, Sr. RF Engineer

Performed and managed RF Engineering services including ANET and dB Planner RF propagation studies, site evaluation, capacity and coverage search ring designs, in-building designs, site construction drawing evaluations, review of transmission test data, traffic analysis studies, base radio capacity additions, frequency and microwave planning along with zoning testimony to support the design & optimization of a 50 site Nextel-Motorola iDEN 850 MHz two-way and cellular, and switch expansion including in building enhancements.

Environment: Support & Design

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, May 1999 – November 1999

Client: Nextel/Aerotek (Contract), Syracuse, NY, RF Senior Telecom Consultant

Responsible for leading an Engineering staff of 15 for 850 MHz ESMR band cellular, two-way system design utilizing Motorola iDEN technology networked with the Nortel DMS TDM switch. This included performance evaluation, in-building DAS designs, switch data fills and optimization along with zoning testimony of a 40-site expansion network.

Interfaced with the Engineering Director, sales, marketing, site development managers and network engineering management to plan activities for successful initial capacity build out and expansion of the network to correlate new design applications and site locations with current and future business objectives and resolve technical issues.

Environment: Network designs and data management

Employer: JBK Consulting LLC, November 1997 – May 1999

Client: Lucent/Volt/DSI, (Contract), Whippany, NJ, RF R&D Design Engineer

Performed, set up and debugged transmission tests to qualify embedded DSP radio software algorithms to characterize and optimize the cell site transceiver downlink/uplink Bit Error Rate and Frame Error Rate performance against lab simulated noise, co-channel and adjacent channel interference, loaded channel, frequency offset and delay spread RF impairments.

Environment: RF Design and deployment Engineering

Employer: General Electric, (FTE), December 1995 – November 1997

Lynchburg, VA, Wireless Communications Vendor (Company purchased, initiated 3rd quarter 1996), Manager RF Systems Engineering

Led the system engineering and MATLAB evaluation efforts for antenna pattern measurements and Error Detection and Correction System product development, coding and feature evaluation.

Analysis of GPS Simulcasting versus microwave hardware and T1 interface for network designs.

Environment: Telecom Hardware, RFCAD, MATLAB

Employer: ITT Automotive, (FTE), June 1993 – December 1995

Morganton, NC, Electromechanical Anti-Lock Brake Systems (Company purchased, initiated 4th quarter 1995), Sr Quality Engineer

Senior Failure Analysis Engineer- Quality Assurance, Lead Engineer for group of 5.

Integrated failure analysis and quality functions to analyze the empirical distribution and variation of electronic tests and mechanical torque settings in a clean room environment.

Environment: Quality Assurance,

Employer: General Electric, (FTE), December 1988 – June 1993

Syracuse, NY, Senior Staff Engineer

Recommended and implemented DSP software simulation and hardware upgrades on indoor and outdoor RCS test facilities to improve the electro-optics imaging for verification of the tracking and range of satellite, spacecraft and missiles and the correlation of the results.

Evaluated requirements specification and supported design review for new product development.

Environment: VHDL, C++, MATLAB, DSP Hardware

Employer: ITT Aerospace/Communications, (FTE) May 1986 – Dec 1988

Nutley, NJ, Member of the Technical Staff

Performed engineering analysis and design verification of 450 MHz VHF/UHF portable military communication radios and TDM switching circuitsand notch filter signal jamming circuits.

Environment: Design, development and verification of SINCGARS and AN/ALQ-172 ASPJ Tactical Communication systems.

Employer: Fairchild Test Systems, (FTE) June 1983 – April 1986

Clifton Park, NY, Applications Engineer

Environment: Developed automatic test solutions for INTELSAT satellite communication and switching circuits on 333/7000 ATE.

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