Construction Project Rf Design

Noel Coward

Sr. RF Communications Engineer - *** Campbell Rd-Maypearl, Tx - C. 817-***-****

4G Solutions, LLC -6/2020- Present. RF Design Contracting / Consulting Colorado Railroad Co. – VHF Voice RF Planning. Completed. Tunnel Radio Issue in California, Completed.

Herzog Technologies, Inc. - North Richland Hills, TX – 5/2011-5/2020 Noel Coward was responsible for RF Communication On TRE, DCTA also design and verification for: North County Transit District PTC Communication construction project including, FCC Application and Licensing, Frequency Coordination, Total Project RF Design 23 Million Dollar Design Build, including, RF mapping, and signal propagation, Aviat Microwave 6Ghz and 11 Ghz design and programming, finding Microwave water reflections and mitigation, Route prediction studies, Carrier to noise studies, Interference and EMI prediction, Disaster Recovery, Failover redundancy, Base radio and wayside Interconnect location prediction and mapping. Microwave Site design, Wayside Relay Server programming, Meteorcomm Radio Programming, Timeslot & frequency assignments, RF coverage and design for 20 class I/ II/III Railroads across the United States. PTC Message decoding and troubleshooting. 7 years PTC Troubleshooting Experience: Locomotive Radio, Slot 10 and Crash Recorder logs, Base radio logs, WSRS Server logs, MDM logs, BOS Logs, GPS Logs. GE/Alstom Electro logic WIU programming CCI/Wabtec WSRS Programming, Meteorcomm NextGen Radio consulting. Collaborating with Multi constellation GPS, Lidos, Septmetrio, GE. Solutions to solve GPS issues with GPS algorithm predictions in tunnels and mountain areas not covered by good GPS signal. Consulted with the Meteorcomm ARM tools and Propagation tools now available, Live RF and GPS Survey of White Pass Yukon RR in Alaska Creation of all Documentation as required.

Note: NCTD was one of only four Railroads that met the Federal mandate for completion by the date and is operating today.

4C Com Consulting - Maypearl, Texas 6/2005-5/2011

As the owner and general manager for this design/build contractor, Mr. Coward contracted work for commercial and residential surroundings. The work comprised concrete foundations fiber optic, wireless, solar and wind power systems, hydronic heating projects.

NEC Unified Solutions - Irving, TX 7/1998- 6/2005

Mr. Coward served as a Systems Engineer III and in the tier III engineer group for PBX, LAN WAN and Video and Wireless. He assisted NEC certified technicians and customers remotely and onsite in the Fortune 1000 to Global 50 Customers. Those customers include Vanderbilt University and Hospital, Nashville, TN; University of Texas Hospital Network, San Antonio and Galveston, Texas; and BNSF Railroad. Bloomberg international in Los Angeles, New York, Ireland, Germany and London England; Phillips Corporation of Amsterdam, Holland; NY District Courts, NY, NY; Sacred Heart Hospital Networks, Florida; MGM Hotels Casinos nationwide; Sands Hotels Casinos nationwide; Bally Hotels and Casinos nationwide; UTMB Galveston and San Antonio, TX; US Office of Personnel Management in Washington DC and PA. In 2005 served as Design Engineer for the DFW Airport Terminal D (International Terminal construction project) overseeing the design of Optical Fiber, Wireless, PBX, DSL and 911 networks construction.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad - Fort Worth, Texas 8/1992-5/1998 Mr. Coward was a 1A telecom technician as part of the Communications Team to design and build the Interim Dispatch Center Comm Systems and finally the Network Operations Center in Fort Worth across the 39,000-mile rail system. Shortly after that he was appointed member and the secretary of the Burlington Northern RR Radio Shop Consolidation Committee, Before the SF merger. Specialized Skills

RF Propagation / Antenna Design /

RF Filter Design Engineer

Licenses:

FCC General Radio Telephone

Operator License issue 2/1993

FCC Amateur Radio Extra Class

License issue 9/1989

FCC Examiner 1/1990

NARTE Member 1993

Training attended:

NEC Trainer 7/1999

Meteorcomm ITCR 1/2012

Meteorcomm ITCS 1/2012

Mentum Planet 10/2012

Planet ITC Hosted server 1/2013-2020

CWNA 5/2003

CCNA Bootcamp 6/2003

Fujitsu FLM 1/1995

NEC PBX Systems 5/1996

Ascom Timeplex 7/1996

Tellabs DACS 4/1995

Firetide Wireless Mesh FCM 3/2013

Firetide Wireless Mesh DFS

PTC220 LLC Hosted Server 2013-2018

Key Qualifications:

Mr. Coward is an experienced

communications professional with more

than 32 years of experience in the design,

construction and maintenance, of RF,

Video, LAN, WAN Data and VoIP.

Participant in the IEEE 802.15.4p Rail

Communications & Control Group

Member on the PTC Planet Hosting

Server Group

Los Angeles PTC frequency & Time

slot assignment group.

Previous, (Planet) RF Design

Committees Appointments:

Los Angeles

Chicago

San Francisco

Detroit

Dallas

Houston

Cleveland

Cincinnati

Pittsburgh

Denver

Portland

Kansas City

Salt Lake City

Columbus

Spokane

Tulsa

Previous Seated Committee member

AAR/TTCI FAMS Committee

ITC Radio Committee

TTCI PTL-EOT AAR Committee

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