DANIEL M. JONAH

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SUMMARY

Senior RF Engineer with ten plus years of progressive experience in wireless design and optimization. A team- leader with strong communication and inter-personal skills with background in various technologies: CDMA, GSM-GPRS, EDGE and UMTS, WIMAX. UMTS AND LTE. Progressive design, optimization and model tuning in various environments; dense urban in New York, Geneva, Switzerland and Dallas, Texas. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sentosalone, Consolidated Shipping Present

ATT Dense Urban Design/ATT Leap Integration April 2014 to Dec. 2014 Sprint Compass Vision, Comparative Analysis Jan. 2013 to Oct. 2013 Dallas, TX TMO Modernization Project Sept. 2012 to Dec. 2012 Chantilly, VA. AT&T UMTS National Design Analysis Oct 2011 to Dec 2011 Dallas, TX. Miscellaneous projects, LTE Design and Optimization Sept 2010 to June 2011 SUBLIME WIRELESS, North America, New Jersey RF Consultant May 2010 to Nov 2010 LOGICNET SOLUTIONS, Atlanta, GA RF Engineer May 2008 to Sept 2008 SUBLIME WIRELESS, North America, New Jersey RF Consultant Mar 2005 to Oct 2007 Model Tuning and Network design

AIRCOM, North America, Dallas, TX RF Consultant Feb 2005 EDGE Transmission Engineering with tools/macro

Development. RF Performance monitoring

MYCOM, North America, Richardson, TX RF Consultant 2003-2004 MARCONI, North America, Irving, TX Senior RF Engineer 2001-2003 Implementation of Wireless Networks.

LOGICA INC, Dallas, TX Senior Consultant, RF Engineer 1998- 2000 Implementation of GSM Networks.

ERICSSON INC, Dallas, TX Wireless Design Engineer 1996-1998 PCS 1900 (GSM) implementation, network planning and optimization. SELECTED PROJECTS

ATT Dense Urban Design/ATT Leap Integration April 2014 to Dec. 2014 Dense Urban design and integration of new site builds. Optimization of dense urban area of Portland. Leap Integration of keep sites into the ATT Oklahoma and Arkansas markets. Optimization of clusters with Leap sites introduced. Worked on this project as RF Lead Engineer for St. Louis, Kansas City, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Colorado markets.

Sprint Compass Vision Project, Jan. 2013 to Oct. 2013 Comparative analysis of Tri-band LTE US nationwide deployment. Considering Coverage, quality and throughput. Analysis of all markets for fill in coverage and capacity using micro cells. T-Mobile Modernization Project, Dallas, TX Sept 2012 to Dec 2012 Creation of RFDS document and Port Mappings for plumbing diagrams. Various tasks including reviewing of construction drawings for compliance with plumbing diagrams; setting of RET matrices and updating databases, ASSET, OSS and Trackers with updated tilts; All tasks geared toward upgrading GSM only sites and GSM/UMTS-AWS to GSM/UMTS(PCS and AWS)/LTE

AT&T Nationwide UMTS Design Analysis, Chantilly, VA, Oct 2011 to December 2011 Worked (under project-specific NDA) with AT&T National design team on a Nationwide UMTS design Analysis project. Received a special design analysis process training using Atoll at the beginning of the assignment. Tools Used: Atoll, Mapinfo.

LTE Design Team, Aircom International, Dallas, TX March 2011 to June 2011 Design and optimization of AT&T wireless LTE Designs in the following markets: New Orleans, Chicago, Atlanta, and Boston. Create RFDS and carry out Design and Optimization using Atoll Forsk Planning tool. Use of KPIs: RSRQ, RSRP, 5dB and 10dB dominance, SINR to determine best network Design and optimization from Monte Carlo simulations and prediction arrays/studies. Checked Atoll settings including parameter for 5Mhz and 10Mhz bands.

RF Engineering Team, Clearwire, NY, NY. September 2010 to December 2010 Design and Optimization of Macro, Pico and Upper Deck sites for Manhattan and surrounding NY/NJ. Tools: LTE training: Mentum Planet, Wind-catcher, XCAL, VISIO. RF Design Team, T-Mobile, Minneapolis, MN, May 2010 to September 2010 Design and Optimization of GSM/UMTS/HSPA sites in the Minneapolis area. Design using ASSET, HOMER to increase coverage by adding sectors, uncombining lines, boosters. RF Design Team, T-Mobile, Charleston, SC, May 2008 to September 2008 Design/Optimization of GSM/UMTS sites in the cities of Charleston, Mytle Beach, Florence, Fayetteville and Wilmington all in the Carolinas markets. Design using ASSET, INSITE, ESSENT (Statistics reporting), OSS. Assist market Engineers with various tasks including: checking alarms, interfacing with construction, site acquisition, operations; monitoring of site performance comparing KPI affecting parameters.

RF Design Team, Nextel/Sprint, White Plains, NY, April. 2006 to Oct. 2007 Responsible for model tuning exercise for New York market area. Assist with design/optimization activities for the New York City area. Site audits of IDEN sites and recommend RF optimization of site. Use of Planet EV and Wave-sight tools to create macro and micro cell models for NY area. Models created include CRC predict, Planet General Model, Wave-sight micro cell models. Supervise in the collection and verification of survey data.

RF Design Team, T-Mobile, Long Island, NY, March. 2005 to March 2006 Responsible for model tuning exercise for Long Island and Queens area. Assist with design activities for the Queens and Long Island areas including: Zoning presentations, Quality Assurance site visits, Beta tests for new on-air sites, maintaining and encouraging the use of ASSET Planning tool in the RF Design group. Performance Monitoring, Washington Baltimore, Cingular Feb. 2005 Performance monitoring of expanded sites. Check sites for resources, alarms, traffic, path balance, power settings. Inform Engineers in field of possible problems and suggest solutions. Reports are generated from Network Doctor and databases updated. Report on status of sites sent daily to various levels of management.

TEMS/TOMS Data Post-processing Tools – Cingular Philadelphia Oct. 2004 Development of Visual Basic macros to post-process GPRS/EDGE drive data from TEMS or TOMS drive data. Display of Application throughput, RLC and LLC throughput. Cell Reselection BSS outage, Cell Reselection Data outage. Display using Mapinfo, scatter plots and tables. Become familiar with Nokia parameters.

EDGE Transmission dimensioning - Nokia, Irving, Texas Sept. 2003 to Sept. 2004 Transmission planning and dimensioning for Nokia GSM customers AWS, Cingular on a nationwide basis. Activate EDGE in customer’s networks; dimensioning for additional capacity brought on by more voice and data use. Dimensioning of the Abis interface, the Gb interface, PCU and related DSP use. Creation of the new data fill including EDAP pools for EDGE activation. Assisting other Engineers by creating tools to automate repetitive and error prone tasks. 3G GSM Optimization - AWS, NY -2002

Optimize clusters in the Long Island and Connecticut markets. Become familiar with Nokia parameters. Clusters had to meet Key Performance Indicators (KPI) according to agreements between Nokia and AT&T Wireless; accessibility, retainability and quality. CDMA (IS-95) (Nortel Equipment) 3 months-2001

Supervised and assisted teams of Engineers with ‘Shakedown’ test and analysis of Sprint Dallas market after BTS (Nortel) change outs and metro cell from Legacy upgrades. Supervise and assist a group of 15 in the collection and functionality tests on newly installed hardware and software. Tested were: Soft hand offs, softer hand-offs, inter BSC hand- offs. Dropped calls were observed and recommendations were made to the customer. Some baseline drives were also performed. TDMA (IS-136) 800 Benchmark (Nortel Equipment) – 6 months-2001 Optimized CenturyTel networks: Mississippi, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Project involved a total of 200 sites. Propagation model tuning and interference analysis using the Planet tool. Data-fill and parameter audits. Reviewed network statistics and supervised data collection with TEMS tool. Frequency and color code planning using Planet DMS Automatic Frequency Planner GSM PCS 1900 (Nokia and Nortel Equipment) – 1 year-2000 Design and optimization of additional sites in Voice Stream Wireless Minnesota markets. Coordinated and participated in the design, optimization of fill-in sites to the network, project management responsibilities; represented RF Engineering at zoning meetings working with company lawyers and other departments to make case for location of sites.(Crane and balloon tests, drive data etc.) Organized and implemented collection of CW data for model tuning using Grayson equipment. GSM 900/1800 (Nokia Equipment) – 1year-1999

Design of GSM network, Orange Communications SA. Responsible for the design of Lausanne and surrounding area (100 plus sites): design of network using Odyssey Planning Tool, site selection, visits, BTS dimensioning and analysis. Represented RF Engineering department at zoning meetings working with company lawyers and other departments to make case for sites. (Crane/balloon tests, drive data etc.) EDUCATION BS, Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX