Experience

Pioneer Telephone

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Division Manager Wireless

  • Oct 2016 - Present

  Kingfisher, Oklahoma Manager of the Wireless Division for Pioneer Telephone Cooperative. My team consists of RF Engineering, RF Performance, Wireless Construction, Inter-Carrier Services, Product Development, Wireless Switch, and Wireless Cell Site.

• Department Manager of Wireless Infrastructure

  • Aug 2010 - Oct 2016

  Currently over the Inter-Carrier Services group, Cellular Switch group, and Cell Site Technician group for Pioneer Telephone. Responsible for all projects involving the cell sites/eNodeBs, MSC/Core, and Roaming operations. Launched LTE as part of the Verizon LRA program on April 30th, 2012. We are continuing that project and build out. Successfully launched the iPhone for our CDMA markets.

• Network Operations Supervisor

  • Mar 2007 - Aug 2010

  Manage 10 Cell Site Technicians, one Sr Cell Site Technicians, one Sr. Switch Technician, two Switch Technicians, three RF Performance Technicians, one RF Design Technician and one Transport Engineer. Project manage EVDO REV-A build out of our network. Plan, design, and budget all new builds across the network. Implement a NOC center for the company. Project Manager and Implementation Manager for our companies BlackBerry launch.

• Swtich Technician

  • Apr 2005 - Mar 2007

  Wireless Switch Technician working on a Lucent ECP/5ESS Analog/TDMA/CDMA 850/1900 MHz. Maintain and trouble shoot MSC equipment. Write Unix scripts. Create database in Postgres SQL and MySQL. Maintain Alactel-Lucent 1671 DAC. Work with UTStarcomm PDSN and Juniper SBR AAA for 1xRTT data network.



Dobson Communications

• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Switch Technician

  • 2000 - 2003

  Responsible for maintaining 2 Alcatel-Lucent 5ESS/ECP MSCs and 1 Alcatel-Lucent VCDX/ECP MSC. Performed all operations within the MSCs including retrofits, pack growth/degrowth, translations, and DxD routing.