Christopher Jones

***** ****** ***** *** • Johns Creek, GA 30022 • 770-***-****

ad1kro@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherwjones-in/

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Combining technical expertise with a passion for solving problems, I have a proven track record of delivering exceptional results in Radio Frequency Engineering. Soft skills include being detail oriented, dedicated, hardworking, outgoing, and working well in teams as well as independently to promote an inclusive, collaborative work environment.

KEY SKILLS

A.Provide leadership & technical acumen.

B.Train & develop staff.

C.Make deliverables & milestones on time.

D.Solve complex problems & innovate.

E.Write technical documents & reports.

F.Ensure quality & compliance.

G.Design using both Atoll & Planet

H.Program in Alteryx, Excel VBA, & Perl

I.Plan PCI, PRACH (4G, 5G), & TAC

J.Dimension radio equipment and antennas (4G, 5G, small cell, and macros)

K.Actively empower others by promoting an open, collaborative workplace

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Further Enterprise Solutions (FES) – Circet US

Independent Contractor

Radio Frequency Design Engineer III - Verizon

Remote IN/KY from Atlanta ~ 1.6 years

Indianapolis, IN

4/2022 - Present

1.There are business as usual (BAU) workflows consisting of multi departmental, Wireless telecom related milestones or tasks that need to be completed along the path of any new site build to become on-air. I provided core RF related support to Project Management on Plan of Record (POR) milestone delivery in the Indiana, Kentucky (INKY) markets. Some of the supporting actions I was responsible for are outlined below:

Preliminary and final RF designs (Dimension radio equipment and antennas)

Search Ring Creation & Candidate Evaluation – Coverage, Quality, and key metrics

Drawing Reviews – MA, SA, & CDs

RFDS and CIQ Creation Support – Atoll, FUZE, Plan PCI, PRACH (4G, 5G)

Regulatory – e911, RoofMaster EME studies, 3rd Party reviews, FCC license boundary analysis, and FCC vendor power limitations & until recently, Earth Station interference mitigation.

Database Integration Support – Atoll, FUZE, Canvas to name a few.

POR projects successfully completed year after year. Verizon bonuses were achieved.

2.On the early 30 roll-out of C-band initiative I attended HQ level meetings and provided leadership & technical acumen back to my markets on the earth station analysis process. Interestingly I discovered and communicated up an issue with Atoll max RSSI platform causing unforeseen consequence in point analysis process, averting an estimated 50% (there were 2 Atoll platforms to choose from) of mitigated C-band sites (Nationally) having erroneously high results by over-limiting the number of, or power out from, these C-band radios.

3.Verizon shared the C-band A block after the auctions with ATT, while Earth Station were being filtered/cleared. I helped solve complex problems & innovate by bringing C-band interference boundary analysis to the attention of the MIK market for a 60MHz buffer zone around 1st 46 PEAs and initially performed analysis, training & developing staff members to do the same, averting potential interference, fines, and missed workflow timelines in these areas.

4.Management elevated me to Engineering PM status for workload balancing of the FES contractor staff consisting of 7 Engineers in Indiana & Kentucky (INKY) for 2nd quarter prior to phase 1 layoffs. I successfully carried out my responsibilities by weekly assessing, coordinating, and reporting in periodic Staff & Manager level calls. Managers were appreciative of the effort.

5.C-band B block was successfully rolled out in MIK. I lead the 1st group through with another VzW Engineer, toward milestone completions on all RF REG only projects associated with the 1st 40 phase II C-band sites in sub-market 229 (Indianapolis) during a holiday week. These were successfully brought to Ready to Integrate (RTI) status on time.

6.To ensure quality & compliance I was asked to identify 3rd party requirements during C-band B block roll-out for 229 (Indianapolis) & some 230 (Fort Wayne) sub-markets. Ended up managing all the FCC EME requirement types enhancing submarket team focus and streamlining workflow for activations. Result, I delegated approximately 1/3 out of 500 sites to the INKY team as easy RAVE tool requirements (completed successfully), 1/3 to FES REG Engineers as straight forward RoofMaster analysis/reports (completed successfully), and 1/3 were identified for 3rd party analysis. In the process of tackling the remaining third party requests a 2nd phase of layoffs occurred (all remaining contractors in MIK including myself). Take-away, it was quite the effort to manage consistency across multiple vendors.

7.Solving complex problems & innovating: I developed multi-colo far-field criteria in addition to HQ guidance for significant contribution distances for FCC EME analysis. Also, the 3rd party request form was further standardized and tailored to MIK market for best practice with the collaboration of key market SR RF and HQ REG personnel. This resulted in one standardized voice out to ALL third parties for clarity, request time was cut in half, and experience level was heightened across the MIK RF team.

Artech Information Systems

Radio Frequency Design Engineer II - Verizon

In-market & Remote ~ 2.3 years

Indianapolis, IN

10/2019 – 3/2022

8.Worked on spectrum safe harbor and license renewal directly for the Manager and Principle. FCC regulatory requirement for AWS and PCS is at 47dBu within their license boundary, and 850 at 40dBu for sites wholly contained within their Cellular Geographic Service Area (CGSA) or within an existing Field Strength Agreement (FSA). Coverage prediction and Contours were used to determine additional project counts (mods and new builds) required to meet a particular pop count at described service levels.

9.Utilized Atoll Automatic Cell Planning (ACP) to design 5G Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) small cells in Indianapolis with the former Principle from CA and guidance and leadership from the current Principle in IN. For my part, approximately 600 of the 1200 small cells designed and built were mine. Brought previous experience with Atoll ACP and quickly aligned to HQ guidelines.

10.Innovated by creating an Excel VBA tool using a NorCal report to show baseband (BB) level port assignments to help with Configuration Information Queries (CIQs) during the Crown Turn-key 4G Small Cell Remote Radio Unit swap project. Multiple small cells are placed on each BBU, sometimes across multiple BBU (6630, 5216, DUS), and sometimes on macro BBUs. The tool helped me see the HUB level (holistic view) not just the port level for proper baseband (BB) design and eNB/gNB selection. See a need fill a need.

11.Piloted the 1st group of 20 or so (out of hundreds) of the Crown Turn-key 4G Small Cell Remote Radio Unit swap projects, also known as the 700 RRH swap upgrade initiative, to get the process requirements down concerning Atoll configurations, RFDS, RFE, and plumbing diagrams for the manager and team.

12.I accepted an assignment to help the INKY RF team and PM on serval hundred Technical Forum to New Radio (TF to NR) conversion projects. For my department this translated to a lot of Atoll database configuration and FUZE Site Project Management (SPM) work on CIQs. Executives raised the bar halfway through the project. Management ramped up personnel to 4 other engineers from the MI market. I coordinated, ensured quality, and developed team members, while still delivering ahead of schedule. No Site Quality Issues (SQI’s) on this project.

13.Worked with Manager, Principle, and 2 other supporting RF Engineers to develop a MOP, implement it, and deliver the site/project counts necessary to meet 850NR Nation-wide initiative criteria (275M POPs at 133 ROPL). Then supported System performance with identifying and databasing anchor lists for Non-Standalone (NSA) operation.

14.Supporting Role to the INKY team concerning FUZE projects such as Regulatory ISA (RFE) via RAVE tool and RoofMaster, CIQs via Conquest, RFDS through FUZE SPM, and a few 911s; mostly concerning Small Cells but lately, Macros too.

15.Trained interested FES contractors and Verizon RF personnel on RoofMaster, which visually depicts Maximum Permissible Exposure (MPE), outlined in OET 65 Edition 97-0, in this case, on small cells. I trained in Verizon’s internal RFE regulatory processes.

16. Motivated by the need to learn ArcGIS on my own while here. ArcGIS was used, among other things, for FCC’s Universal License System map post processing to help with filtering and report generation within Atoll during Save the License (STL) inquiries.

17. Designed an innovative green-field plan for Harlan KY AWS call sign. I created my own method by buffering certain vector data in ArcGIS and creating a single shape file to use in Atoll ACP. Population data was then used to create solutions that minimized new site counts, provided the best coverage on population centers, and met predefined coverage objectives. The design was then adjusted slightly in GE for the best collocation opportunity.

18.The hardest thing to overcome about this contract was working in the market for over a year away from my family, but I was able to reconnect with parents and siblings in Ohio on weekends, so it all had a silver lining too. Looking back, I was able to provide what my family needed through the pandemic and my oldest son is now on his way to college, Thank you Verizon.

Nexius

Senior Radio Frequency Engineer - Sprint

Atlanta, GA

02/2014 - 07/2019

19.Contracted at Sprint for over (5) years in the following roles: The Nokia TDD delivery Team in the South Region ((2) years supporting 4G TDD Project Manager, Area Manager, and Local RF) and the South Region Radio Frequency Design Team ((3) years supporting Regional Directors, Area Managers, and Local RF for (3) markets).

20.Led projects, that fostered teamwork, for example, by creating and ensuring the accuracy of LTE coverage maps via Atoll for (3) markets in the SE region to National RF guidelines, resulting in monthly updates to consumer maps on the Sprint.com website which partners Engineering with Sales & Marketing to inform the customers.

21.Innovate by devising and implementing tools and methods. For example: Planning LTE Traffic Area Code (TAC) to National RF guidelines, presenting to, and gaining sign-off by all (19) SE Region markets. Coded a script in Perl to parse OSS xml dumps into a formula-based excel template and mapped via MapInfo.

22.Partnered LRF with the Construction Managers in Atlanta to standardized tower vendor fiber scope deliverables so (5) different vendors were not providing (5) different formats or levels of completeness, for a standard hybrid cable. The results were improved quality at lower cost due to higher efficiency.

23.Wrote to the Design Document provided to the PM at the close of the TDD delivery project concerning the RFDS process, which documented methods and procedures along with two other process leads, whose portions were Planet Design and the CIQ process.

24.Ensure quality & compliance with engineering specifications. Assigned ownership of antenna sweep and fiber review acceptance spanning multiple tower vendors for all 2.5GHz TDD LTE sites in the Atlanta market. Atlanta had the fastest throughput in the nation for a time after turn-up.

25.Ability to solve complex problems. For example: Innovate while optimizing VoLTE via Atoll ACP by cutting a market into sub-clusters in a unique way, optimizing them, and marrying results back together, over the whole market like a puzzle.

26.Contributed to the successful turn up of LTE TDD at Sprint by working with my local Manager, the Savvion developer, and National RF to create a bulk upload mechanism for RFDS entry into the database. I also created an excel base tool to transform Planet exports into Savvion bulk upload format, aligning data types and eliminating unexpected characters, standardizing the fields across all the markets in the region. The bulk upload method was used nationally.

27.Designed & maintained PCI and PRACH plans using Atoll AFP for (3) markets for new sites, special projects, special event sites, all Mini Macros, TDD expansions, relocates, and the latest projects like PRACH re-planning for 5G. This effort was in support of CIQ parameterization.

28.Led the SprintVision RF Tracker to RF Tracker 2.0 database migration effort in Atlanta in support of National RF’s initiative to streamline workflow tooling.

29.Parameterized and entered hundreds of RF Design Sheets for 5G, mMIMO, new site, oDAS, Mini-Macro, and special event COW using the bulk upload template method.

30.Created coverage plots for National RF and Network and Marketing executives to review and plan from for Neighborhood Expansion, VoLTE roll-out, and 5G roll-out for (3) market (5G in Atlanta only).

31.Supported National RF, running their automated Interference Analysis Alteryx tool, biweekly, for the SE Region to determine power, sector adjustment, or filter requirements for sites near weather (NEXRAD) or airport radar.

32.Completed Awards Solutions training on 5G overview (eMBB, URLLC, mMTC), NR (numerology, mMIMO, mmW), and core (SaaS, MEC).

Avion

Senior Radio Frequency Engineer

Alpharetta, GA

10/2013 - 12/2013

33.The contract position that I was initially hired for: Avion lost the contract with the vendor at the last minute, so the assignment ended about two weeks after I left Ericsson. As they had nothing else for me at that time, I was given miscellaneous Senior RF Engineering duties for a few months then let go by the very person who placed me initially. Not the story I would have written given the chance. Lesson learned: Sometimes things don’t work out. Sometimes for the best.

34. Brief highlights: Some Juniper product training and some informal Atoll training.

Ericsson - US

RAN Engineer III

Atlanta, GA

08/2009 - 10/2013

35.Contributed to the successful turn-up of LTE FDD at Sprint (Network Vision) by acting as the single point of contact to the outward facing client (Sprint LRF) and customer advocate to inward facing clients such as RF Design, PMO, Site Development, Network Engineering, Construction, CIQ, Network Integration, and Ericsson Global Services while maintaining performance goals on existing technologies (CDMA2000, EVDO), in (3) markets (Memphis, E/W KY).

36.OEM training on Ericsson LTE Air Interface, Protocols, and Procedures (R12A)

37.OEM training on Ericsson OSS-RC (R10B) for RF Engineers.

38.Helped on BSC to eBSC site migration planning, using MapInfo, and led an RF Performance QA team consisting of (3) Ericsson Global Services Specialists to perform pre/post KPI and daily break/fix analysis, so Network Integration and Project Management teams could track to resolution issues that arose during each phase of the migrations.

39.Volunteered to train Ericsson Global Services Engineers in India, over (3) weeks in a classroom setting on internal tools. I was there for (4) weeks with (2) other Ericsson US trainers.

40.Helped with planning, scripting, and supported implementation on cut-nights for several BSC (CDMA) and RNC (EVDO) migrations as an internal Ericsson resource for several Verizon projects.

Sprint

Radio Frequency Engineer III

Atlanta, GA

01/1999 - 08/2009

41.Volunteered to help RAN Engineering when a resource request was made by that team as Sprint Network Services was being brought into Ericsson in 2009 and then kept on permanently. This is how I became a RAN Engineer III at Ericsson – US.

42.Volunteered to lead an RF team consisting of (3) other RF Engineers to New Orleans in support of Sprint's disaster recovery effort post Hurricane Gustav. We helped by doing site and tower surveys to help determine the recovery efforts scope and relayed that information to the command center.

43.Experience with both Windcatcher and Actix for analyzing drive test data, layer 3 messaging, and coverage quality, to update parameter settings or make physical changes to improve call performance.

44.Created scripts using CACP by Nortel to build loads for cell site additions or make software changes such as Neighbor list updates or PN changes. Switch Technicians would apply the scripts via the BSM during the maintenance window to the network elements.

45.Designed with Planet on UNIX and Windows platforms. Engineered in (2) design cycles; one as a junior Engineer, the other I led a team of (3) junior Engineers.

46.Measured Maximum Permissible Exposure (MPE) during rooftop surveys to comply with guidelines set by the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) for FCC certification using Narda test equipment taking measurements at certain distances from all antennas on the rooftop to determine occupational and public safety as it relates to specific absorption of RF.

47.Pioneered a PERL program to convert SBS log files containing all users off the BSM and transforming that data into triangulated drop call locations that could be imported into MapInfo before the days of GPS in phones. Triangulation was done in CDMA from soft handoff by different cell sites immediately before the drop and using round trip delay time converted to distances.

48.Responsible for system performance and optimization of all sites in BSC3 and later BSC4 in downtown Atlanta.

49.Trained in Nortel BSM navigation, alarms, SBS logging, and CLIapp. Also trained on MTX navigation and tools such as MTXTrack

50.Helped create an Excel based linear regression tool and was responsible for using it for capacity planning via Just in Time analysis (JIT) concerning channel card additions, reallocation, and removal.

51.Implemented an Excel based performance tool that used Cells as site locations and color-coded performance attributes to them based on imported daily KPI and alarm info on my BSC. The tool was created by the Senior Engineer at the time. This minimized the time around issue identification, and consequently the overall time to resolve.

52.Performed interference analysis using a Spectrum Analyzer and a Yagi antenna for difficult issues in localized areas.

53.Supported Site Development on site walks, construction drawing review, antenna sweep acceptance, and in zoning hearings

Cellular One/Airtouch Cellular

Staff Engineer I

Columbus/Cincinnati, OH

05/1994 - 12/1998

54.Optimized the network.

55.Planned and performed drive testing and analyzed drive test data.

56.Ensured RF testing, acceptance, minimum KPI performance, and alarm free on new site integrations.

57.Conducted spurious transmission interference analysis with a Spectrum Analyzer and Yagi antenna when needed.

58.Volunteered to go on several new site builds and channel add/re-tunes with Field Technicians

59.Documented via AutoCAD all equipment at each cell site and created work orders for site additions and augments.

60.Performed antenna sweeps on all antennas arriving at the warehouse before going to the field.

61.Helped build the test bed for testing AMPS radios at the warehouse. Radio tests were automated using an HP Cell Site Test Set running Basic.

62.First RF Engineer in market in Cincinnati at the request of Management.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND/DEGREES

The Ohio State University

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Minor in Computer Information Science

Columbus, OH

08/1988 - 05/1994

GPA: 2.5

RECOGNITION / ACHIEVEMENTS

~4 years @ Artech/FES (Verizon INKY)

~5 years @ Ericsson (Verizon, MetroPCS, and Sprint)

5 years of service award @ Nexius (Sprint – ATL)

February 2019

10 years of service award @ Sprint - ATL

January 2009

VOLUNTEER WORK

Tapped for Assistant coach on son’s baseball team for Atlanta 2023 during the tournaments.

Volunteered with SAWs, Servants at work, to help with “one ramp at a time” the fall of 2020 on my own in Indianapolis.

Built set decorations for the Chattahoochee High School marching band the summer of 2019 with my wife in Atlanta.

Painted low-income housing in downtown Atlanta, one day in the summer of 2012, as a team, with (2) Senior RAN Engineers and our Manager at Ericsson.

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