CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert

Greater Tampa Bay Area

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Executive Biography

Christopher “CJ” Hicks

Chief 5G Technical Architect

Dell Technologies, Federal

Christopher “CJ” Hicks serves as the Chief 5G Technical Architect for Dell Technologies supporting government agencies and the U.S. Department of Defense.

CJ is an Electrical Engineer with degrees from the University of Florida and UT Austin McCombs School of Business. He has over 30 years of experience in the commercial and defense wireless technology and communications industries. Prior to joining Dell, CJ worked for Samsung Electronics America where he was responsible for Verizon 5G deployments across North America.

CJ is a Naval Special Warfare Veteran specializing in mobile combat communications and test equipment calibration. He was stationed in Central and South America during his service time. Fluent in Spanish, he currently lives in Florida. CJ enjoys time with family, hot yoga, cross-fit, road cycling, obstacle course racing and mixed martial arts.

I also have a lot of experience with NTN 5G networks with companies like Maxar. I spoke on a panel at SpaceCom 2023 and slated to speak at SpaceCom 2024

Summary

-ECSE Design #3329

-Certified AWS Cloud Practitioner

-iBwave® Level 3 Certified

-Macro Outdoor Certified Atoll, Planet, Wizard, dB Planner, Keima Overture, Asset, CellPlanner

-MiMo Antenna, Massive MiMo, Beam-Forming

SUMMARY: Twenty seven years of management, engineering, project management, business development, telecommunications network design, RF planning CDMA/TDMA/GSM/UMTS/4G/LTE/5G/CBRS cellular and WiFi for multiple national wireless carriers. Worked for many large vendors and received formal training in several disciplines. Experienced in RF Design civilian or military (RF design, Project Management, Sales Support, Vendor Support, Construction, Real Estate/Site Acquisition, NOC and Equipment Engineering.

DoD qualified Spanish speaker

DoD Secret Security Clearance (Expired)

Industry Experience:

Wireless Communications- 30 years

RAN Engineering - 20 years

New network deployments - 25 years

Network Service Assurance - 25 years

Wireless Quality Metrics - 25 years

Service Level Agreements - KPI / SLA Definition - 25 years

DAS – (Outdoor/Indoor)- 20 years (CSI/ADRF/Andrew/Powerwave/MobilAccess/Ericsson/ADC/AT&T for indoor

DAS commercial clients

Electronics/Electrical- 30 years

Two-way radio (HF/VHF/UHF/SHF/Satcom)- 19 years

Project Management- 25 years

RF Planning / Network Design- 25 years

RF Network Optimization- 24 years

Network Implementation Management- 24 years

BTS Install & Commissioning- 18 years (Ericsson,Nokia, Nortel, Siemens, Lucent, Motorola)

Data Translations/Unix- 18 years

RF Test Equipment- 30 years

Calibration/Metrology- 30 years

Product Development

Manufacturing

AutoCAD

Technical Support

Research and Development (R&D)

SQL

Contract Management

Continuous Improvement

Adobe Photoshop

New Business Development

Specialties: RF Design - TDMA/CDMA/WCDMA/GSM/Wimax/LTE-4G/5G

RF Optimization

DAS Design - Indoor / Outdoor

Base Station Integration & Testing

Project Management

Program Management

NOC Integration

Drive Testing

Walk Testing

RF Planning - Wizard, dB Planner, Aircom Asset, Atoll, Mentum Planet, Keima Overture, RANPLAN, QXDM, Linuz, Unix, Perl, C+. Fortran, VB, AWS

Experience

Chief Technical Architect Federal 5G Edge CloudChief Technical Architect Federal 5G Edge Cloud

Dell Technologies ·, Florida, United States · Remote

Feb 2022 – August 2023

oAdvancing the Federal 5G and emerging wireless technologies initiative within Dell for our top Federal clients.

Senior Consultant

Metaverse Standards Forum

Aug 2022 - Apr 2023 (9 months)

Team Lead Manager Tier 2 Support CGC North/South (TX, FL, AR, TN, LA, CA)

Engineering Services

Samsung Electronics America

Nov 2020 - Jan 2022 (1 year 3 months)

Verizon 4G, 5G, mmwave, C-band, CBRS and inbuilding deployment support nationally.

· 20+ Years in Pre-Sales Engineering roles

· Familiar with virtualization (KVM, VMWare) and container environments (docker, Kubernetes)

· Experienced in Ansible, Terraform, Python, REST API’s and other tools for scripting and programmability of infrastructure

· Excellent knowledge of ISP network architectures (fixed and mobile), data centers, and enterprise networking

· Good knowledge of data and control plane networking protocols (BGP, OSPF, VLAN, VXLAN, IPsec, etc)

· Very familiar with Linux OS, especially Linux networking configuration

· Fluent in multiple languages including English

Key skills:

Familiar with LTE EPC packet core architecture, interfaces (S1, S6a, S5, S11, Gx, X2, SGi), protocols

(NAS, S1-AP, Diameter, GTP)

Knowledge of packet core nodes such as MME, SGW/PGW, HSS and PCRF

Ability to perform Linux scripting such as bash, Perl, or Python

Ability to run load generation applications such as Ixia or Spirent

Familiar with open source reporting systems such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch. Understand how to query alerts, reports, stats from these applications.

Automation of reporting systems

Ability to troubleshoot the failures/run Wireshark and analyze packet results.

Director Of Business Development, Enterprise

Goodman Solutions

Jan 2019 - Oct 2020 (1 year 10 months)

Focused on DAS / Smart City / Small Cell / CBRS business development & sales with a dual role in Solutions Architecture.

•Radio Coverage design and analysis

•Equipment list generation

•Description of system design, including diagrams

•Understanding customer requirements

•Calculation of power and networking requirements

•Participation in proposal reviews and contract negotiations

•Consultative guidance to customers and sales team

•Presentations to customers

•Coordinate with the various functional teams (Systems Integration, Service, Sales, Product Groups) toensure all business unit goals are addressed in our proposals and win-strategies.

•Development of the implementation approach and service plan necessary to win the project

•Meet/exceeding customer requirements and provide value alternatives when requirements cannot bemet

•Manage sales, revenue and margin goals

•Drive all sole source & RFP (Request for Proposal) projects to completion managing the schedules ofeach project team member (engineering, proposal specialist, sales, and service)

Senior Solutions Architect

Goodman Networks

Feb 2019 - Jul 2019 (6 months)

Senior Sales Engineer

Federated Wireless

Feb 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years)

Senior Sales Engineer - Nationwide - Federated Wireless-

In charge of WISP vertical selling CBRS SAS services, organizint field trials, OEM updates, and sales for services to the hundreds of WISPS in the United States

•Coordinating and managing technical account engagements: customer facing operational activities,configuration of end-to-end CBRS ecosystem, network validation testing, and User Acceptance Testing

•Professionally demonstrating features and functionality of company solution offerings

•Leading technical proof-of-concept engagements, pilots and RFP technical responses

•Listening carefully to what customers claim they want, figuring out what they actually neeed, and thencollaborating with product teams to define requirements and deliver new features.

•Fully and effectively managing technical engagement with customers, partners and internal teams.Identifying, clarifying and resolving technical issues and monitoring bug fixes.

•Providing high-level network architecture support to validate customer architecture, design end-to-endsolution integration and effectively respond to customer questions.

•Building strong, trusting technical relationships with customer and partner organizations.

Wireless Solutions Engineer - Southeastern US

Corning Incorporated

Nov 2016 - Jan 2018 (1 year 3 months)

Wireless DAS OEM architecture and solutions for Tier 1 Carriers and Large Enterprise venues on RAN 3G / 4G

Crown Castle Sr RF Engineer

Crown Castle

May 2015 - Oct 2016 (1 year 6 months)

Business development, RF Design and Optimization, RFP response support, DAS / Small Cell surveys and design. Field BTS node testing and integration, zoning support, RF consultant services, sales support, carrier strategy, smart grid wireless planning, disaster recovery planning, public safety design, location based services support, wireless broadband planning, wifi survey / planning / verification testing, project management and recruiting

Principal RF Engineer & MTS

Parallel Wireless

May 2013 - Jan 2015 (1 year 9 months) Lead RF Planning and Network Design efforts.

President

Specialized Wireless Consulting LLC Aug 2009 - Aug 2014 (5 years 1 month) Offering full wireless telecom design services

Market Lead - LTE RF Design Lightsquared for Nokia Macro & DAS Consultant

LightSquared

Apr 2009 - Jan 2012 (2 years 10 months)

Regional design Director for LTE RF Design Lightsquared for NSN project in New England.

www.lightsquared.com

New England Senior Manager - Carriers - in building / public venue coverage CSI Wireless Inc.

Feb 2009 - Apr 2010 (1 year 3 months)

Senior RF Design Eng Region Lead Consultant

MetroPCS

Aug 2007 - Feb 2009 (1 year 7 months)

Network Integration RPM - Southeastern US

Nokia

May 2005 - Jul 2007 (2 years 3 months)

Senior Technical Consultant - National Wireless Accounts

ADC

Mar 2004 - Feb 2005 (1 year)

Regional Project Manager / Senior Engineer - RF Design

Siemens

Apr 2002 - Jun 2004 (2 years 3 months)

Regional Manager of Network Operations

Cingular Wireless

Jul 1996 - Jan 2004 (7 years 7 months)

RF Engineer Consultant

Nortel Networks

Jan 2001 - Apr 2002 (1 year 4 months)

Network overlay in San Diego. Worked as an RF Design and Optimization Engineer on a FOA for a new radio/software deployment isolating field issues with HQ. Identified a network wide filter issue as well as Handoff issues from identification to resolution. Also worked on interference mitigation.

Ericsson Western US Manager of New Site Installation/Testing/Integration

Ericsson

Aug 1999 - Jan 2001 (1 year 6 months)

Went to Ericsson as an RTS Supervisor of Cell Site Installation, Commissioning and Customer

Acceptance. Had a team of about 20 contractors I trained to fully install a complete cellular site for TDMA and GSM. Work began with an empty room or shelter and the BTS, ladder rack, earthquake bracing, batteries, external alarms, T-1's, Rectifiers etc.. were installed and tested. I managed the team, hours, equipment procurement, customer acceptance and quality audits for the region. Also had an TDMA 884 cassette conversion project which was performed during the maintenance window 11PM-Midnight for which I most often had to provide onsite support, a very complicated process which involved recabling and reconfiguring the old site with new equipment and writing new data translation, thousands of lines for each site. At that time sites were not GUI driven and you had to know unix/ translations and all proprietary Ericsson commands very well to bring a site up using Winfiol.

Senior Field Engineer III

AT&T

Jun 1996 - Jul 1999 (3 years 2 months)

1 of 8 people hired with prior military advanced electronics training to participate in FTAP (Field Training Apprentice Program) which was a two year program AT&T Wireless developed to certify telecommunications technicians. Included build a cell certification in Seattle, all BTS/BSC and Switch certifications for Ericsson in Richardson Texas. A phone book sized technical task list which required signatures from an assigned mentor for all field related tasks- ie. sweep testing, T-1 testing, microwave testing, CDPD testing, data translations expertise, external alarm testing, base station installation and commissioning, drive testing, trouble ticket resolution, NOC expertise, COW (Cell On Wheels) deployment and CDL license training, Cell site preventative maintenance, adding radios, retunes, optimization. Attained Tech Level 3 while at AT&T

Advanced Electronics Technician / RF Comms Specialist

US Navy

Jun 1990 - Mar 1996 (5 years 10 months)

Graduated top 5% of Advanced Electronics School (16 weeks Orlando and 46 weeks in Chicago),

Certified PMEL Test Equipment Calibration Denver, Lowry AFB in conjunction with National Institute of

Standards, Certified 2M Micro/Miniature soldering F Level (highest level), Certified Advanced Mobile Communications expert in Naval Special Warfare space on HF/UHF/VHF/Satcom Harris and Motorola radios with frequency hopping and encryption, one of 30 US Navy ET's to complete IUSS Undersea Surveilance 2 year Program. Naval Special Warfare sole communicator in the field of jungle operations when it counts the most to have your comms up and running!

Advanced Electronics Technician / Advanced RF Mobile Communication Expert

US Navy

Jun 1990 - Mar 1996 (5 years 10 months)

Education

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing (PGP-CC) offered by The University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business

Cloud Computing, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

Post Graduate Program in Cloud Computing (PGP-CC) offered by The University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business

MITx Courses

Open Source and the 5G Transition

2018 - 2018

2G brought digital cellular, 3G greater speeds and, of course, 4G gave us streaming video. 5G is here and will be the biggest leap yet. It means more data and faster speeds with the ability to connect more devices. These are the capabilities that will make the promises of Artificial Intelligence, IoT, and smart cities go from buzzword to reality.

This program will teach business managers what is 5G, what are the tools driving its evolution and how to implement a network architecture modernization strategy that enables business- wide digital transformation

MITx Courses

Network Security

Learn the process of network security, including intrusion detection, evidence collection, network auditing, and contingency planning against attacks.

MITx Courses

Site Planning

2019 - 2019

Ericsson Campus Richardson Texas

Certified RT!,RT2,RT3,RTS, ST Ericsson BTS, BSC,MSC RBS 2000, 3000 series

880,882,884, UMTS

1996 - 1998

Certified-Classes on all Ericsson products

FTAP AT&T Network Training Program (2 Year Program)

ASET, Wireless Telecom Field Engineering

1996 - 1998

Multiple Ericsson, Harris, Motorola, HP, Anritsu Sitematsrer, Tberd, Ratelco/Tyco, PCSI (CDPD)

Certifications, New Cell Site Build/Test/Accepctance/Data Translations scritpting, Remedy, Sensr

US Navy Littlecreek Tactical Advanced Mobile Communications

Certified, SEAL Tactical RF Mobile Communications HF,VHF,SHF,SATCOM

1994 - 1994

Two Way Forest / Jungle communications specialist. One guy carries and operates all comms gear from HF to Satcom.

US Navy Norfolk

Certified F Level (Highest Level), Microminiature Soldering

1993 - 1993

IUSS Integrated UnderSEA Surviellance - Sub Hunters- 1 of 20 ET in the Navy at the time to get my IUSS designation, a two your program

US Navy PMEL Lowry AFB

Certified, PMEL Test Equipment Calibration Micromeasurement

1992 - 1992

Advanced Micro Measurement and Test Equipment Calibration School - 3 Moths. Rated as on of the top C schools in the military.

US Navy AEF(ET)

ASEE, Advanced Electroincs

1990 - 1992

Basic and Advanced Eletronics 16 & 46 Week School Ful-Time 70% of student dropped, ended up 2nd in my class

Ibwave

Design Level 1 & 2, 3 certified

MITx Courses

5G Strategy for Business Leaders

2019 - 2020

5G Strategy for Business Leaders

MITx Courses

IoT System Design: Software and Hardware Integration

Course is designed to have learners understand how systems are developed using IoT.

Many engineers and developers tend to focus on one discipline, either software or hardware. However, in today’s age a comprehensive understanding of both disciplines and how they are interlinked is needed. This practical, hands-on course will give you a holistic understanding of system development from software and hardware perspectives. You will develop your own embedded system, learning as much from your failures as your successes as you go along.

US NAVY

AEF-ET, Advanced Electronics & Communications

1990 - 1992

US Navy

ITS IUSS

1992 - Present

US Navy

Special Warfare

1992 - Present

Aveta Business Institue

Six Sigma, Business

2020 - 2020

Aveta Business Institute

Six Sigma, Business

5G Technology & Strategy

Cert, 5G

2020 - 2020

University of Florida

Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Aug 1992 - Jul 1996

Licenses & Certifications

iBwave Level 1 DESIGN NETWORK PLANNING - iBwave Solutions Inc.

Issued Feb 2015 - Expires Feb 2018

iBwave Level 2 PROPAGATION DATA COLLECTION AND OPTIMIZATION iBwave Solutions Inc.

Issued Mar 2015 - Expires Mar 2018

iBwave Level 3 MIMO WI-FI COMPLEX VENUES CAPACITY PLANNING iBwave Solutions Inc.

In Progress

SOLiD

Corning ONE Platform

PMEL - Setting Standards for Metrology and Calibration - United States Air Force

AFMETCAL - Air Force Metrology and Calibration - Retains engineering authority f

AWS Cloud Core Services - Amazon

AWS Cloud Practitioner - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Cloud Concepts - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS Cloud Practitioner: Pricing & Support - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services Security Specialty - Amazon Web Services (AWS)

WSC-DAMA Satellite Certifified Systems Engineer - US Navy

ZEROX Certified Technician - Xerox

Big Data in the Age of AI - LinkedIn

5G Technology Strategy: Next-Generation Mobile Networking - LinkedIn

IoT Foundations: Low-Power Wireless Networking - LinkedIn

Leveraging Cloud Computing for IoT - LinkedIn

Linux System Engineer: Network Bonding, IPv6, Routing, and Virtual Systems LinkedIn

Introduction to 5G - LinkedIn

Cert Prep: Red Hat Certified System Engineer (EX300) - LinkedIn

IoT Foundations: Standards and Ecosystems - LinkedIn

Cisco CCNA (200-301) Cert Prep: Network Fundamentals and Access - LinkedIn

Cisco Network Security: Intrusion Detection and Prevention - LinkedIn

AutoCAD 2019 Essential Training - LinkedIn

Cisco CCNP ENCOR (350-401): 1 Architecture, Virtualization, and Infrastructure LinkedIn

CompTIA Network+ (N10-007) Cert Prep: 5 Securing TCP/IP - LinkedIn

AutoCAD: Construction Drawings - LinkedIn

CompTIA Network+ (N10-007) Cert Prep: 6 Advanced IP Networking - LinkedIn

Advanced Google Analytics - LinkedIn

Securing the IoT: Secure Architectures - LinkedIn

SSCP Cert Prep: 6 Networks and Communications Security - LinkedIn

Cert Prep: PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)® - LinkedIn

Google Cloud Platform for Enterprise Essential Training - LinkedIn

Wireless Networking Essential Training - LinkedIn

Learning Cryptography and Network Security - LinkedIn

Wireshark: Network Troubleshooting - LinkedIn

Construction Management Foundations - LinkedIn

Amazon Web Services: Data Analytics - LinkedIn

Data Science on Google Cloud Platform: Building Data Pipelines - LinkedIn

Networking Foundations: Network Media (WANs) - LinkedIn

Ethical Hacking: Enumeration - LinkedIn

Agile Product Owner Role: Techniques - LinkedIn

CIPP/US Cert Prep: 2 Private Sector Privacy - LinkedIn

Network Virtualization: SDN Overlay Solutions - LinkedIn

Wireshark: Packet Loss and Recovery - LinkedIn

Data Science on Google Cloud Platform: Designing Data Warehouses - LinkedIn

IoT Foundations: Operating System Applications - LinkedIn

CISM Cert Prep: 4 Information Security Incident Management - LinkedIn

Agile at Work: Reporting with Agile Charts and Boards - LinkedIn

Implementing a Privacy, Risk, and Assurance Program - LinkedIn

Learning Aerial Photography with Drones - LinkedIn

Practical Software-Defined Networking: 2 SDN and OpenFlow Foundations LinkedIn

Aerial Landscape Photography: New Zealand - LinkedIn

Wireshark: Malware and Forensics - LinkedIn

Learning Bluebeam 2017 - LinkedIn

Practical Software-Defined Networking: 6 The OpenFlow Protocol - LinkedIn

SSCP Cert Prep: 7 Systems and Application Security - LinkedIn

Architecting Big Data Applications: Batch Mode Application Engineering LinkedIn

Ethical Hacking: Scanning Networks - LinkedIn

Apache Spark Essential Training: Big Data Engineering - LinkedIn

Securing the IoT: Designing and Testing - LinkedIn

Achieving GDPR Compliance with Microsoft Technologies - LinkedIn

Agile Project Management: Comparing Agile Tools - LinkedIn

CompTIA Security+ (SY0-501) Cert Prep: 1 Threats, Attacks, and Vulnerabilities LinkedIn

IoT Development with Windows 10 IoT Core 2: Enabling the Cloud and Security LinkedIn

Six Sigma: Black Belt - LinkedIn

Practical Software-Defined Networking: 5 OpenFlow Physical Switches - LinkedIn

Learning the Python 3 Standard Library - LinkedIn

Ethical Hacking: Footprinting and Reconnaissance - LinkedIn

Introduction to Quantum Computing - LinkedIn

Foundations of The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) - LinkedIn

Understanding 5G New Radio (NR) Standards—A Primer - Keysight Technologies xw7fqsk6days

The 5 C's of IoT - Keysight Technologies enphwz6crnj3

Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) 101 - Keysight Technologies ktmxq9b56zxa

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02): 7 Application

Deployment - LinkedIn

ECSE Design #3329 - Ekahau

Issued Jul 2021 - Expires Jul 2024 #3329

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02): 9 Services and Design Scenarios - LinkedIn

Cloud Architecture: Design Decisions - LinkedIn

Cloud Architecture: Advanced Concepts - LinkedIn

Machine Learning & AI: Advanced Decision Trees - LinkedIn

Skills

RF • LTE • Telecommunications • Wireless • Network Design • Wireless Networking • Cellular

Communications • Mobile Communications • Program Management • Sales Operations

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