Independent Telecommunications consultant with:
Maendeleo Ventures, an international corporation working on United States Trade Development Agency communications infrastructure projects in Western Africa.

Grant Application Reviewer for the National Telecommunications and Information Administration's Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.

SPRINT-NEXTEL
PRINCIPAL RESEARCH SCIENTIST 2006 –2009
Identified, connected and collaborated with startups and Web 2.0 companies who could deliver transformative new products and services.
• Spearheaded joint research projects with leading companies such as Intel and Sun to determine the potential of new technologies such as Context Aware Computing
• Collaborated with Sprint Corporate Sales on technically complex bids e.g. a regional health center resulting in a $100K sale and potential large scale partnership
• Saved $200,000 by recommending that our VC Unit stop an investment with a start-up company after finding problems with their product (Excellence Award)

PRINCIPAL MEMBER -TECHNICAL STAFF 2004 – 2006
• Conducted research on the transport of HD video over IP networks which resulted in retaining a $2M/year client (multiple patents filed)
• Quantified the effects of wireless network impairments on mobile video to identify a method to indirectly detect degradation of video quality (patent filed)
• Created a testing suite that determined real-time testing tools can reliably measure video quality, thereby reducing network trouble-shooting time by 20%

SENIOR APPLIED R&D ENGINEER 1998 –2004
• Improved bandwidth efficiency by 25% to 65% by proving that Packet-over SONET technology can optimize SONET Networks capacity usage (Excellence Award)
• Wrote the Technical portions of RFPs, scored the responses and evaluated the new equipment assuring the most advanced and reliable technologies for the network
• Proved that Circuit Emulation technology can reliably deliver TDM services over Ethernet networks, reducing the cost per bit, versus TDM networks, by ~70%

SENIOR NETWORK DESIGN ENGINEER *****
International Planning
• Planned and negotiated a mutual emergency restoration agreement that reduced costs by a total of $16M over 8 years. (ROI Award)
• Wrote and presented Funding and Implementation Plans to the CTO and VP of Finance and gained approval for over 40 projects with budgets up to $25M
• Obtained a new $30M+ annual revenue stream for the first non-Bell submarine fiber optic consortium cable system landing station in the US by planning, creating the business case, obtaining funding approval and writing the winning proposal
• Increased income by $860,000 by facilitating an agreement among France Telecom, Mitsubishi and Pirelli. (ROI Award)

Tarkio College, Tarkio, MO BS Engineering

US Signal Corps School, Crytpographic Systems

Member of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society

Six Patents Granted: "Fault Recovery for Communications Networks"

System and Method for Characterizing Error Correction Performance for Digital Data Transport over an IP Network

Recovery from Interruption of a Video Stream over a Communication Network

Remote Determination of Multimedia Communication Performance

Intelligent Mechanism for the Best Display of Mobile Broadband Applications

Intelligent and Automatic Calling Process Redial

System and Method for Transmitting Video Information

Management of Requested or Pushed Content in Communication Client Devices

Prediction-based Adaptive Content Broadcasting over a Network

Identifying Influencers among a Group of Wireless-Subscription Subscribers

Providing an Alternative Service Application to Obtain a Communication Service

Systems and Methods for Prepaid Dispatch Communications

Five patents pending with the Patent Office:

PAPERS

IBC 2006, Amsterdam, “Multimedia over 3G EVDO-CDMA Networks Characterization and Optimization”

IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2006, “Video Streaming over 1xRTT CDMA Networks Characterization and Optimization”

NFOEC 2006 “High Definition Video Transmission over Core IP Networks”

NFOEC 2005 “Layer 1 Virtual Private Network Service in a Heterogeneous Network Element Environment” Published in the “Journal of Lightwave Technology”

NFOEC 2003 “Ultra Long-Haul Overlay Network” and “Practical Optical Performance Measurements for Operations and Maintenance of an All-Optical Network"

NFOEC 2002 “40 Gb/S DWDM Optical Transport Systems: Practical Considerations