About

RF engineering · United States

Behind the Work

Six years measuring wireless networks where people use them, for carriers and the teams who build for them.

Summary

I supervise wireless field testing across the United States: drive, walk and stationary testing on LTE and 5G, for T-Mobile and Sprint programs delivered through independent contracts.

The method holds in every market. Plan the route, run the equipment, check the logs before anyone leaves the field, and hand back findings a carrier can act on. More than twelve states so far, and counting.

Selected clients

Independent contracts

The programs behind the work.

Contracted independently, delivered for the carriers named on each one.

  1. 01Independent contract

    Teleworld Solutions

    ProgramSprint VoLTE

    Field Test Engineer

    Mobility, and stationary testing on UMTS, LTE and 5G for T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint, tracing coverage holes and slow cells to the cause.

    Sprint projectVirginia, US
  2. 02Independent contract

    Cloudran Communications

    ProgramT-Mobile Magenta, East Coast drive

    RF Lead & IT Support Specialist

    RF lead on a telecom build, with the Python and Bash that turned raw field data into something the team could actually read.

    T-Mobile projectSan Francisco, CA
  3. 03Independent contract

    Further Enterprise Solutions (now Circet)

    ProgramT-Mobile Magenta

    RF Lead & Support Specialist

    RF lead on a telecom build, with the Python and Bash that turned raw field data into something the team could actually read.

    T-Mobile projectCalifornia, US

Tools and platforms

13 in the kit
  • Accuver XCAL
  • Accuver XCAP
  • Infovista TEMS Investigation
  • Infovista TEMS Discovery
  • Keysight Nemo Outdoor
  • Keysight Nemo Analyze
  • Rohde & Schwarz ROMES
  • Rohde & Schwarz TSME scanners
  • PCTEL HBflex and IBflex scanners
  • Qualcomm QXDM
  • Actix Analyzer
  • Android test handsets
  • External antennas and GPS

Markets worked

Selected states
  1. 01CaliforniaLos Angeles, San Francisco
  2. 02IllinoisChicago
  3. 03Iowa
  4. 04Kansas
  5. 05Michigan
  6. 06MinnesotaMinneapolis
  7. 07Nevada
  8. 08PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia
  9. 09West Virginia
  10. 10Wisconsin

Off the clock

Outnumbered, happily

Girls Dad

Girls Dad

The reason I plan the week, and waste nothing.

I have two daughters. They could not care less about drive routes or coverage maps. What they care about is whether I call before bed, whether I remembered the right cup, and whether I do the voices properly when we read.

So I work like a man who has somewhere to be, because I do. It has made me faster, better organized, and steady when a schedule falls apart at short notice.