Todd Weeks

(813) 446-5584

Email: todd.weeks@verizonwireless.com

 

Objective

 

I am looking to obtain a Field Technician position in which I will be able to utilize my knowledge, ability and skills working within a professional environment that can also provide an opportunity for personal growth and career advancement.

 

 

Major Projects

 

·         Launched 118 Nortel 3G carriers for Verizon Wireless, Atlanta. Database load, turn up and tested.

·         ATT Carrier Adds North Florida. 4G LTE and 3G. Installation of Ericsson 3206 cabinet, grounds, power , jumpers, duplexors and Low loss combiners when needed. T-1’s extended and tested.

·         GE Corporate Network, Ft. Meyers, FL 2001.  Installation and turn-up of Cisco 8850 ATM Network.  This was the first sprint ION project in SW Florida.

·         Delta Airlines Reservation Network, Ft Lauderdale, FL 2000.  Completed 18GHz DS-3 microwave shot from airport to downtown Lauderdale MCI World Com. I was able to accomplish this project with No Method of Procedures available.  This was a DMC Digital Microwave Corporation radio with redundancy.

 

Work Experience

 

June 2012 – Present

                          System Performance/ Baseline

                          Verizon Wireless Tampa

                         14055 Riveredge Drive

                         Tampa, Florida 33637

·         RNC Convention DAS Systems Optimization CDMA, 3G and 4G LTE

·         New site optimization of 3G and 4G LTE

·         Respond and investigate customer trouble tickets.

·         R.F. Plots with WindCatcher and Mapinfo 11.5

·         Scrubbed sites for missing neighbors and added missing sites.

·         Fluent in using Ascom Symphony, DataPro and ZK Celltest.

 

August 2011 – Present

                          System Performance/ Database

                          Verizon Wireless

                         10300 Old Alabama Connector Rd.

                         Alpharetta, Ga. 30022

·         Nortel 3G Database entries.

·         4GLTE, 3G and 1x technologies tested and troubleshoot.

·         Forward and Reverse Neighbor added.

·         Stats monitored from RTT.

·         Infield drives with DataPro and meets with customer issues

·         Understand XNG Work orders.

 

 

August 2010 – August 2011

                          R.F. III Engineer, UMTS 3G/4G

                          SBA Communications Corporation

                         5900 Broken Sound Parkway

                         NW Boca Raton, FL.

·         Installation of cellular or electronic equipment adherent to customer specifications

·         Test and turn up of T1 circuits. 66 Block punch down. Alarms terminated.

·         Responsible for maintaining test-equipment, phones, tools and assigned vehicle

·         Mount and ground Ericsson 3206.

·         Mount Telect Rack and populate with single and dual duplexers Low Loss Combiners set with center frequency.

·         Dress ½ coax and sweep with test gear. Aniritzu Site Master Sweeps.

·         RFDS and all MOPs followed.

 

 

July 2007 – July 2010

Data Processing/Data Collector

ProMedia Telecom/MediaFLO

Various Locations

·         Tested video flow in new markets and expansion markets, test equipment used is QXDM

·         Driving routes with looking of RSSI and packet errors.

·         Tested new sites for basic coverage then additional sites will be added.

·         Changing timing on additional sites when adding to provide a smooth handover to the next site.

·         Testing of expansion sites with a spectrum analyzer.

·         The new site to transmit a tone and basic routes are driven for coverage.

·         After performing this test the site will be turned on with full MediaFLO and timing will be set after examining data. Numerous driving till 0 packet errors can be achieved.

·         Was rapidly placed on doing indoor test at hotels, Verizon stores, malls and airport project as well.  Were a lot of walking with two phones and writing down RSSI levels was involved.

·         Checking channel flow is also tested at the same time, and then placed results in excel spreadsheet that was then put in a PowerPoint presentation for the customer.

·         Entering charts and graphs of coverage.

·         Photos of all airport areas included. Photos were used to show why RSSI levels were bad. Most bad coverage was due to steel structures or just center of building.

·         Advanced to ATP-2 testing.

·         Doing EVDO testing for Verizon along with Qualcomm test set and a Verizon Samsung test set. This requires monitoring two laptops of information and driving the routes.

January 2007 – July 2007

CW Testing

Avenger/Cricket/Nokia/Cingular/AT&T/Sprint

WA, NY & CA

·         Set up a transmitter on a rooftop or utilizing a crane.

·         Transmitter is a Gator Brand, making sure the signal is correct using a Byrd wattmeter.

·         Drive a grid of the area until the signal fell below the threshold. Receiving equipment was Grayson

·         TEM Investigation for test equipment.

·         Test with two voice phones and one EDGE data phone.

·         Helped Sprint upgrade from Rev.0 to Rev.A.

·         Test a site for throughput levels on uploads on downloads; any issues would need to call the switch to have the site cleared.          

·         Handled customer trouble tickets.

·         Met with customers with test equipment in for a comparison test.

·         Resolved each and every ticket.

·         EVDO and CDMA testing for Sprint in Irvine, CA.

·         Sprint was upgrading from Rev. 0 to Rev. A.

·         Test a site for throughput levels on uploads on downloads.

·         Responsible of selection of the cluster drives.

·         Andrews 3G was the equipment used.

 

October 2006 – January 2007

Data Processing/Data Collector

Cable & Wireless, B-Mobile/Nortel

Tortola, British Virgin Islands

·         Performed site verifications, neighbor issues and scanned for interference. Edge data collection.

·         Post processing of the field collected data using TEMS 7.0 Investigation and generating the required site reports and plots using MapInfo 8.0

·         Monitor system performance indicators such as Rx level, Rx Quality, Dropped Calls, Blocked Calls, HO failure and Missing Neighbors.

 

June 2006 – September 2006

Data Processing/Data Collector

Wirelesslogix, Mohave/Nortel

Kingman, AZ

·         Post processing of the field collected data using X-cal 2.8 Investigation and generating the required site reports and plots using X-cap

·         Monitor system performance indicators such as Rx level, Rx Quality, Dropped Calls, Blocked Calls, HO failure and Missing Neighbors.

 

January 2006 – May 2006

Data Processing/Data Collector

Avenger Engineer, Cingular Wireless/Nokia

Orlando, FL

·          Drive Tester coordinator for a team of six.

·          Responsible for preparing drive routes for drive testers and help them with TEMS troubleshooting

·          Generating daily Blocked cell reports, GPRS No activity reports, Dead sector.

·          Performed trouble ticket problem solving issues.

·          Post processing of the field collected data using TEMS 5.0 Investigation and generating the required site reports and plots using MapInfo 8.0

·          Monitor system performance indicators such as Rx level, Rx Quality, Dropped Calls, Blocked Calls, HO failure and Missing Neighbors.

·          Performed route drives to ensure proper site re-homing into required area.

 

June 2005 – November 2005

Drive Tester

LCC International, Cingular Wireless

Philadelphia PA

·         Perform optimization cluster drives to collect voice and data using TEMS 6.0 on three phones, 2 for voice and 1 for data and frequency scanning

·         Investigate proper routing to the correct PSAP for E911 

·         Testing GPRS connectivity

·         Checking for Inter-cell handovers and outgoing handovers for newly integrated sites 

·         Perform Observing and troubleshooting system issues like excessive drop calls, handover performance, access failures, high number of blocked calls, very poor quality.

·         Analyze performance data and drive test data from BTS.

 

February 2004 – May 2005             

OSP Technician

TEK systems, Sprint

Sebring, FL

·         Receive, investigate, resolve and trouble tickets with customers in the field.

·         Install Assigned end customers with issues related to the protesting and placement of the CPE within the customer location.

·         Install B-1 lines, DSL and troubleshoot wire line problems. (Switched pairs and hard wired at switch.)

·         T-1 testing

 

June 2001 – November 2003

Driver Tester

MYCOM North America, AT&T and Cingular Projects

Various US Locations

·         R.F. drive analyst. (TEMS, TOM or Grayson propagation software.)  Submit parameter changes (H/O threshold, hysteresis, window sampling & ET…) Performed path-balance, clear channel and GPRS testing.

 

May 1999 – April 2001

Microwave Field Technician

P-COM Network

Tampa, FL

·         Installed and provision of OC-3, DS-3 & 8-t Wireless Fibre Networks. (P-COM, Giga-net, Digital Microwave Corp., Harris, Advanced Fibre Corp. and Andrew’s antenna’s.)

·         Working knowledge of CHANNEL BANKS, CSU, DSU, MODEMS, and ROUTERS. (Kentrox, Paradyne, Visual, Robotics, 3COM, Alcatel 1104 and Cisco.

·         T1 testing. TByrd and Sunset Equipment.

·         Site surveys and submitted bids on project cost.

 

Additional Work Experience

 

·         CPE Technician in a 3.5 months project with Sprint ION project.

·         Cisco Router - CSU/DSU. Put together a Cisco ATM router for G.E. in Fort Myers.

·         Two months with Cingular. Replacement of Ericsson TDMA equipment for Nokia GSM in the major cities. Configuration of 40+ sites.

·         200 pair cable runs in 20+ story buildings.

·         T-1 testing with T-Byrd and Sunset analyzer head to head and loop back. Also in charge of install crew and train new recruits.

·         911 Alcatel switch (board swapping) and wire up to a DSX panel on a 4E switch.

Skills

 

·         MapInfo

·         Microsoft Word

·         Excel

·         Outlook

·         MapPoint

·         Street Atlas

·         Streets & Trips

·         TEMS 3.0 to 7.0

·         Grayson & XCAL

·         Anritsu – Site Master Cable and Antenna Analyzer

 

Training

 

·         Radio Link Optimization Strategies, IDEN Technical Education. Motorola.

·         RF Radiation Awareness Certification. P-COM, Network Services (PCNS)

·         Point-to-Multipoint System. Installation and Maintenance Training Course, P-COM.

·         P-COM DLC, Installation, Operations and Maintenance.

·         HNS Installation Training United Service Source, Inc.

·         PCWE – Proxim Certified Wi-Fi Engineer, Wi-Fi Solutions: ORINOCO Access points and Clients

·         PCBE – Proxim Certified Broadband Engineer, Advanced Broadband Wireless, Tsunami MP, Tsunami PTO and Lynx.

·         Cisco 10-day course, Tampa Tech.

·         R.F. Safety Certified

 

 

 

Military

 

·         United States Air Force, Clark AB, Philippines                     

Senior Airman

 

 

 

 

References will be given upon request.