Experienced RF engineer with management experience
Resume:
Michael
Gitomer
Personal Info
Address
Denver, CO
Phone
*******@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/in/Mike
-Gitomer/
Skills
DAS Design & Commissioning
Sweep/PIM Analysis
KPI Analysis
Capacity Planning
RF Optimization
Training and Leadership
Management
Software
iBwave
Mapinfo/Planet EV
Xceed Windcatcher
MS Office
Certificates
iBWave Level 2
Solid Commissioning
JMA Teko DAS in iBwave
JMA Teko DAS Commissioning
Commscope ND640: AT&T 5-step
Commissioning
Scott Baxter: EVDO Principles,
Processing and Optimization
Scott Baxter: CDMA2000 1xRTT
Principles and Optimization
RF Engineer with 13+ years of RF telecommunications experience, looking for new opportunities and challenges. Experienced with DAS design, commissioning, optimization and troubleshooting activities in a customer facing role.
Experience
Jan 2020 -
present
RF In-Building Consultant
Verizon Wireless - Denver, CO
In-build lead engineer for Colorado and Wyoming markets. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
Responsible for all in-building projects for CO/WY markets: review of iBwave designs, selection of radio equipment and optimization of performance.
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Interaction across various teams including: construction, project management, system performance, Field assurance, Sale and RF design.
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Evaluation and collaborating with 3rd part vendors to achieve joint success on projects.
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Oct 2018 -
Oct 2019
RF Engineering Manager
Linx Wireless - Denver, CO
Head of Engineering department for Wireless Division including design, estimating and field engineering teams.
KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
Manager of a team of local and remote employees to deliver iDAS designs based on internal and external customer requirements ranging from small enterprise to an international airport and NFL stadium.
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• Delegate and assign tasks based on workload and team expertise.
• Led training and mentoring of engineering team to develop talent.
• Developed process flow and policies to improve efficiency and quality.
• Lead the interview process to hire new engineers to the team. Aug 2018 -
Oct 2018
Senior Project Manager
Linx Wireless - Denver, CO
Main point of contact and owner of assigned in-building DAS systems. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
Responsible for managing budgets and installation teams for in-building DAS system.
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• Forecast and managed project budgets in excess of $750,000.
• Responsible for interview and hiring of operations technicians. Jun 2013 -
Aug 2018
Senior RF Engineer
Crown Castle - Chicago, IL
Mentor and manager of RF engineering team responsible for technical expertise. Interfaced with customer RF counterparts, as well as meeting deadlines with internal cross functional partners.
• KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
Presented on National RF technical meetings to share best practices on model tuning and KPI analysis.
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Met tight timelines for high-profile venues such as Notre Dame Stadium, Ross Ade Stadium at Purdue University, UPS Worldport, CenturyLink Center and TD Ameritrade Park.
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• Achieved system acceptance by addressing performance of wireless carriers. Led sweep and PIM training for internal implementation teams and construction vendors in the Central Region.
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Dec 2011 -
Jun 2013
RF Engineering Consultant
Samsung Telecom - Chicago, IL
Part of an RF team to facilitate the Sprint Network Vision rip and replace project in Chicagoland, replacing existing Motorola equipment with Samsung. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
• Responsible for the high profile Chicago Business District cluster. Point of contact with Ericsson managed services to coordinate Motorola to Samsung handoff within Chicago Downtown area.
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Led discussions with Samsung National RF to improve and create best practices.
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• Reduced drop and blocked call percentage well beyond the 10% target. Oct 2010 -
Nov 2011
RF Engineering Consultant
Metro PCS - Tampa, FL
Design, performance and capacity engineering consultant for regional team in Tampa, FL as Ev-DO and LTE were added to the network. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
• Maintained Tampa as best performing market nationwide for Metro PCS.
• Led team in augmenting network to support Ev-DO. Completed trials of various new features in the Lucent system: MAIFHO, Adaptive paging, RC3/RC4 adaptive radio controlling.
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Jan 2008 -
Oct 2010
RF Engineer
Cricket Communications - Chicago, IL
Part of a team that designed, tested and optimized nearly 1000 macro sites in Chicago and Milwaukee to start a new Cricket region. KEY CONTRIBUTIONS
POC to oversee regulatory compliance with the FAA and FCC for entire Chicago and Milwaukee markets.
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Active during the build out, launch, post launch optimization, and capacity planning for the Chicago Market.
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Led trials for global parameter change for softslope on EVDO, resulting in 30% increase in throughput.
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Education
Dec 2007 University of Pittsburgh - Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
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