RF Engineer Engineering
Resume:
ANDRES E. GARCIA
*********@*****.***
Minneola, FL 34715
EDUCATION
University of California, Irvine, CA. Communications and Networking Engineering Certificate, 1999.
Universidad Metropolitana, Caracas, Venezuela. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, 1993.
VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE
Missionary/Senior Pastor/Bible Teacher/Biblical Counselor. Calvary Chapel Miraflores, Miraflores, Lima-Peru.
March 2010 – September 2016. Responsible for spiritually nurturing and developing a church congregation of around 55 adults by teaching Bible studies and offering biblical counseling. Also, responsible for the general managing of the operations of the church including leadership building, finances and events coordination.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
General Manager/Installer/Owner. Seventeen-Three LLC, Minneola, FL
December 2016 - Present. Responsible for managing the general operations of the business. Also responsible to perform the installation of Exede/ViaSat satellite Internet systems. This includes performing antenna installation, cable lay out, antenna Point and Peak procedure, system provisioning and customer’s account setup. Experienced with the antenna mounting, system cabling, system grounding, antenna alignment, offline troubleshooting, online troubleshooting and SurfBeam 2 modem troubleshooting of an Exede/ViaSat’s satellite communications terminal.
Wireless Networks Consultant. Club Empresarial, Lima, Peru
January 2014 - September 2016. Responsible for providing technical advice in regards to WiFi networks and mobile communications in the Club’s facilities to the board of directors.
Senior RF Engineering Consultant. K&M Systems, Las Vegas, NV
September 2013 - January 2014. Cricket Communications, Las Vegas, NV. Responsible for the design, project management and implementation of a Network Improvement Project involving the antenna change out of over 35 cell sites in the Las Vegas CDMA/Alcatel-Lucent-IS2000. Among the utilized tools were Mentum Planet, Xceed Technologies WindCatcher, MapInfo Professional and the Siterra Site Management System.
Senior RF Engineering Consultant. TEKsystems, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
October 2011 - November 2011. Metro PCS, Sunrise, FL. Responsible for the design of over 40 new cell sites in the South Florida CDMA/Alcatel-Lucent-IS2000 using Mentum Planet, Xceed Technologies WindCatcher, New Field TrueCall, and MapInfo Professional.
Senior RF Engineer. Metro PCS, Sunrise, FL
February 2004 - February 2010. Responsible for the system performance, optimization, and design of over 84 cell sites and 508 carriers in the South Florida CDMA/Alcatel-Lucent-IS2000 network of over 599 cell sites, 2882 carriers, and 160K erlangs of busy hour total traffic. Also, responsible for PN planning, CCU/CMU configurations, cell site traffic engineering, new engineering staff mentoring and development, new features implementation such as Soft Slope, EVRC-B, and EPBGA, optimization of bridges and elevated highways, and development of MOPs. Proficient with Mentum Planet, Xceed Technologies WindCatcher, Qualcomm CAIT, New Field TrueCall, WatchMark Prospect, MapInfo Professional. Also, proficient with MS Excel macro programming and MS Access and MS SQL Server 2005 database design.
Senior RF Engineering Consultant. o2wireless Solutions, Chicago, IL. / S.Com, Inc, San Francisco, CA
January 2000 - February 2004. Assigned to the following projects:
CDMA/Lucent-IS2000 System Optimization and Design. October 2002 - February 2004. Metro PCS, Sunrise, FL. Responsible for drive data collection and analysis to identify and propose solutions for problem areas through out Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and the Palm Beaches. Also, responsible for new markets’ network design and special projects.
CDMA/Motorola System Optimization. June 2002 - September 2002. Verizon Wireless, Charlotte, NC. Performed data collection and analysis to identify and propose solutions for problem areas through out the markets of the Carolinas. Also, responsible for optimizing new carrier adds.
CDMA/Nortel System Performance. June 2001 - May 2002. Alamosa PCS, Oklahoma City, OK. Responsible for site cluster optimization, drive testing, data collection, and data analysis. Also, responsible for developing new tools and methods for identifying and solving performance issues, and to provide market analysis of performance trends and network capacity.
LMDS/Netro System Design. April 2001 - May 2001. Condumex/Telmex, Mexico City, Mexico. Designed LMDS system for the entire Mexico City metropolitan area and surroundings.
GSM/Nokia System Design. January 2001 - March 2001. Nokia/AT&T, Las Vegas, NV. Responsible for model tuning, antenna selection and configuration, and network design and coverage planning. Also, participated in traffic and interference analysis, data fill, and frequency planning.
CDMA/Lucent System Performance. July 2000 - December 2000. Verizon, Chicago, IL. Provided expertise on IS-95 CDMA technology standards and statistical analysis of system performance for the RF Department.
CDMA/Motorola System Optimization. January 2000 - June 2000. Motorola, Chicago, IL. Supported Motorola’s CDMA system performance and analysis tool SMAP (System Monitoring Application Processor) to customers, internal customers and FOA teams.
Experienced with the following design, data colleting, and post processing tools: DB Planner, Totem, CelPlanner, PlaNet, SMAP, Grayson Inspector32 & Invex3G, Qualcomm CAIT & DM, CAMPS, Actix IQ Analyzer, Grayson Interpreter, MapInfo, Street Atlas, Excel Visual Basic Macros, and Korn Shell Scripting.
Switch Engineer. AirTouch Communications, LA, Orange and San Diego Counties, CA.
September 1997 - January 2000. Responsible for operations and maintenance of the Southern California Mobile Telephone Switching Offices (MTSO), including both analog and digital networks (CDMA). Duties included: Nortel DMS100 - MTX&BSC platform, Lucent (AT&T) 5ESS platform, Motorola EMX2500E with CBSC platform, Lucent (OcTel) Sierra Voicemail platform, Digital Switch Corporation SS7 STP packet switching platform, Tandem-Motorola HLR and IS41 platform, Motorola Massage Register (MR) with Wireless Internet Access (WIG), Lucent (AT&T) Digital Access Cross-connect System DACSII, Newbridge bandwidth manager 3600 Mainstreet, Sun UNIX servers for Operational Support Subsystems. Also included troubleshooting and testing DS-1, DS-3, and OC-12 circuits using T-Berd test sets. Experienced writing applications to automate processes using Korn Shell, Expect, TclTk, Perl, C++ and JAVA programming languages.
Monitoring Engineer. 360 Communications, Chicago, IL.
September 1996 - August 1997. Responsible for monitoring and remote troubleshooting up to 30 cellular markets through out the country using OSI NetExpert. These included 1 Motorola EMX500, 30 Motorola EMX2500 cellular switches and up to 1700 Motorola HDII cell sites along with several Motorola IS41, CDPD and CDMA equipment.
RF Engineer. Lucent Technologies, Chicago, IL
May 1996 - August 1996. CDMA deployment for GTE Houston, TX. cellular market. Responsible for performing single cell: functional and propagation test, as well as coverage and pilot surveys.
Cellular Systems Engineer. Telcel Celular, Caracas, Venezuela.
August 1992 - February 1996. Supported an aggressive schedule of Motorola’s EMX2500 switches and HDII cell sites installations, working with Motorola to implement system changes and improvements. Responsible for land trunking and interfacing with the local phone company, and switch and cell database development and implementation. Also, responsible for special projects related to system operations and performance, such as dropped call issues and cell site alarm systems. Experienced with switch and cell system control using OSI NetExpert.
PROFESSIONAL COURSES
Core Technician Course, ViaSat Technical University, online course. December 2016, 40 hrs.
Core Self-Installing Dealer Course, ViaSat Technical University, online course. December 2016, 24 hrs.
Flexent CDMA Modular Cell 4.0 Operations, Admin., & Maint., Alcatel-Lucent, FL. May 2009, 40 hrs.
CDMA 3G-1X RF Design Engineering & Base Station Call Processing, Alcatel-Lucent, FL. May 2008, 40 hrs.
Flexent System Capacity Monitoring and Engineering for CDMA, Alcatel-Lucent, FL. April 2007, 40 hrs.
WatchMark Prospect - AMPS/CDMA/TDMA Operations, Alcatel-Lucent, FL. August 2006, 24 hrs.
1xEV-DO RF Design Engineering and Call Processing, Alcatel-Lucent, FL. April 2006, 40 hrs.
Flexent CDMA MOD 4.0B & MOD 4.0 B OA& M Differences, Alcatel-Lucent, FL. August 2005, 24 hrs.
Wireless AMPS/PCS CDMA RF Performance Engineering, Alcatel-Lucent, FL. May 2005, 40 hrs.
Wireless Cellular/PCS CDMA Overview, Alcatel-Lucent, FL. April 2004, 40 hrs.
Totem Suite. Nokia, Irving, TX. March 2001,24 hrs.
CDMA System Optimization. Motorola, Chicago, IL. June 2000, 40 hrs.
System Monitoring Application Processor (SMAP). Motorola, Chicago, IL. April 2000, 8 hrs.
CDMA Principles. Motorola, Chicago, IL. May 2000, 24 hrs.
Effective Presentations. Motorola, Chicago, IL. March 2000, 16 hrs.
5ESS Switch Maintenance. Lucent Technologies, CA. January 2000, CBT.
Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications. UCI, Irvine, CA. Fall Quarter 1999.
Satellite Communication Systems and Applications. UCI, Irvine, CA. Fall Quarter 1999.
Communications Systems Design. UCI, Irvine, CA. Spring Quarter 1999.
Introduction to HTML 4.0 and Web Programming. UCI, Irvine, CA. Spring Quarter 1999.
MTX Operation & Maintenance. Nortel, CA. November 1999, 80 hrs.
BSM Navigation. Nortel, CA. October 1999, 8 hrs.
CDMA Nortel MAP Navigation. Nortel, CA. May 1999, 40 hrs.
CDMA Theory & Nortel Product Overview. Nortel, CA. March 1999, 16 hrs.
Nortel Cellular Systems. Nortel, CA. March 1999, 16 hrs.
JAVA Programming (UNIX). SUN, Los Angeles, CA. February 1999, 40 hrs.
Distributed Systems. UCI, Irvine, CA. Winter Quarter 1999.
Korn Shell Programming. SUN, Irvine, CA. November 1998, 24 hrs.
Introduction to Communications & Networking. UCI, Irvine, CA. Fall Quarter 1998.
CBSC Operations Lab. Motorola, Chicago, IL. January 1998, 16 hrs.
Home Location Register. Motorola, Chicago, IL. January 1998, 40 hrs.
Tandem Platform Fundamentals. Motorola, Chicago, IL. January 1998, 40 hrs.
Foundations of Computer Science I & II. Chicago, IL. Summer Quarter 1997.
C++ for Programmers. DePaul University, IL. Spring Quarter 1997.
EMX2500 Switch, Operation and Maintenance. Motorola, Chicago, IL. December 1993, 120 hrs.
EMX2500 Switch, Advanced. Motorola, Chicago, IL. July 1994, 40 hrs.
C Language. Instituto Tecnico Luisa Caceres De Arismendi, Caracas, Venezuela. March 1993, 40 hrs.
LANGUAGES Bilingual - Spanish and English.
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