Project Management Business Development
Resume:
CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert
Greater Tampa Bay Area
*************@*****.*** 727-***-****
linkedin.com/in/cj-hicks-veteran-wireless-industry- expert-02a7596
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
-Call Processing lab and field measurments, call reports, parameter tuning
-RAN (gNB/eNB), fiber backhaul, DOCSIS backhaul, core (4G- MME, S-GW, P-GW, PCRF, DRA; 5G- AMF, AUSF, SMF, UPF, PCF, NSSF, NEF, UDM, NRF, UDR, AF), EMS/OSS, BSS, 4G/5G devices, and other ancillary systems (Ericsson/Nokia/Siemens/Nortel/Lucent)
Ericsson WinFiol OSS Command Line Expert
SUMMARY: Twenty years of management, engineering, project management, business development, telecommunications network design, RF planning CDMA/TDMA/GSM/UMTS/4G/LTE/5G/CBRS cellular and Wi- Fi 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
CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 1 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 5G Federal
Dell Technologies
Feb 2022 - Present (1 year 7 months)
- Lead Federal 5G efforts with DOD clients
- Lead Emerging wireless technologies research
- Lead technical business development for new and existing partners Constellation Communications Engineer
Maxar Technologies
Jan 2023 - May 2023 (5 months)
Constellation Communications Architect to propel the timely access and/or delivery of mission-relevant Earth Intelligence to our global customer base.
This senior technical leadership role will provide cross-functional leadership in designing integration strategies for emergent communications technologies into the Client’s Architecture in a durable and malleable framework that accounts for security, resiliency, and scalability in meeting evolving business needs.
In this role, you will collaborate with senior architects and engineers from the ground segment, space segment, and network team to define and realize the next-generation constellation communication architecture.
The Constellation Communication Architect's Role is to: CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 2 Collaborate with technical leaders and SME’s across the Organization to develop next-generation constellation communications architecture. This architecture will encompass the entire 7-layer OSI model including:
• RF and optical physical links, satellite RF, optical and other payloads, advanced data routing decisions along with macro system data flow.
• Characterizes communications use cases and data flows and maps them to existing business use cases. These use cases will guide how you integrate new technologies and business models, accounting for emerging trends in terrestrial networks, ground-to-space communication systems, and space-to-ground transport layers.
• Facilitates end-to end architecture decisions across multi-disciplinary teams and champions cross functional team communication. Success is building alignment to a collaboratively developed architecture, that is well socialized and kept current with evolving demands.
• Identifies critical technology gaps in the current architecture and collaborates with teams to define successful solutions.
• Interfaces with and builds relationships with 3rd party partners including, ground system service providers, space-based and terrestrial network providers, and cloud services provide Member of The Board of Advisors
Qvantum insights
Sep 2022 - Apr 2023 (8 months)
Senior Consultant
Metaverse Standards Forum
Aug 2022 - Apr 2023 (9 months)
Specialist Master 5G Emerging Technologies Federal Jan 2022 - Dec 2022 (1 year)
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)
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· 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) to ensure 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 be met
• Manage sales, revenue and margin goals
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• Drive all sole source & RFP (Request for Proposal) projects to completion managing the schedules of each 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 then collaborating 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-end solution 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
CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 5 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)
CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 6 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
Senior Field Technician
AT&T
Jul 1996 - Oct 1998 (2 years 4 months)
FTAP Certified Tech
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 CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 7 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
CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 8 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
CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 9 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
AWS
AWS
AWS
AWS
AWS
5G Technology & Strategy
Cert, 5G
2020 - 2020
University of Florida
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Aug 1992 - Jul 1996
CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 10 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 CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 11 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 CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 12 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 CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 13 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
CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 14 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
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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
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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 CJ Hicks,Veteran, Wireless Industry Expert - page 15
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