David McOwen

444 E Roosevelt Rd #234

Chicago, IL 60148

918-257-1667

BIGDNATL@yahoo.com

 

Telecom, Electronics & Computer Engineer

 

Summary

Cellular Network Engineer featuring expertise in Alcatel Media Gateway Spatial Switches, Nokia UMTS RNC, Nortel & Ericsson 2G BSCs, TruePosition E911 TDOA Locationing system. System and network administration, Unix creating and executing scripts.

 

Attention Contract companies: looking for $50 negotiable with benefits and re-location expenses

 

Experience:

 

T-Mobile – Chicago Switch Ops                                                                                            July 2010 to present

All activities pertaining to maintaining and continued build out of switch, see details in below switches & markets

Hired on permanent after ten years of Cellular contracting

 

Amirit Technologies (contracting at T-Mobile Chicago Switch)                                                 2/2009 to July 2010

Switch Engineer -  Alcatel SigTran and T2k upgrades, Nokia 3G RNC integration and BSC re-homes onto Alcatel and day to day switch operations.

 

Amirit Technologies (contracting at T-Mobile Parsippany NJ Northeast HQ’s)                         1/2008 to Feb 2009

Part of Team responsible for coordinating design and integration of total system engineering of Alcatel for the Northeast Region. Rehomed over 80 BSC’s in 2008 to Alcatel Spatial switch from Ericsson MSC5000 and Nortel DMS switches.

 

Document system specifications (MOPs), and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.

 

Supporting local markets and other vendors with the implementation efforts.

Working with DACS Engineers for successful cuts of (Tellabs and Alcatel) to new Spatial configuration.

Troubleshooted any issues resulting in virtually no fallbacks

Decommissioned IMT routes from Ericcsson switches to be uninstalled

 

AT&T (through contracting with Wireless Facilities Inc)                                                 3/2007 to 10/2007

Senior E911 Switch Engineer

Key role in implementing TruePosition E911 TDOA Locating System, installing, troubleshooting and maintaining

at&t E911 network in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Indiana and Mississippi. Support for Field Technicians during the installation and troubleshooting phase using EMS, SCOUT and OpsTools.

Software upgrades to the WLS and remotely for the LMU’s.

Intrado/Openwave support, TDAX, Backups, AMS, OpsTool, S/W Upgrades

 

AT&T  (through contracting with Orbis Wireless Atlanta Ga)                                        1/2007 to 3/2007

Senior E911 Switch Engineer

Key role in implementing TruePosition E911 Locating System, installing, troubleshooting and maintaining

at&t E911 network in Maine and Rhode Island

Support for Field Technicians during the installation and troubleshooting phase; provided help using EMS, SCOUT and OpsTools.

Software upgrades to the WLS and remotely for the LMU’s.

Intrado/Openwave support, TDAX, Backups, AMS, OpsTool, S/W Upgrades

 

AT&T (through contracting with Mark Baker Consulting Denver, Co)                          7/2006 to 11/2006

Senior E911 Switch Engineer

Key role in implementing TruePosition E911 TDOA Locating System, installing, troubleshooting and maintaining

at&t E911 network in Colorado, Utah and Idaho

Support for Field Technicians during the installation and troubleshooting phase; provided help using EMS, SCOUT and OpsTools. Software upgrades to the WLS and remotely for the LMU’s.

Intrado/Openwave support, TDAX, Backups, AMS, OpsTool, S/W Upgrades

 

AT&T (through contracting with Orbis Wireless Atlanta Ga)                                                      2/2006 to 6/2006

Senior E911 Switch Engineer

Install True Position E911 Locationing system

Installed and provisioned complete TDOA E911 location system for this Market

Key role in implementing TruePosition E911 Locating System, installing, troubleshooting and maintaining

at&t E911 network in Colorado, Utah, Idaho. Nortel DMS 100 and 250 support and configuration.

Support for Field Technicians during the installation and troubleshooting phase; provided help using EMS, SCOUT and OpsTools.

Software upgrades to the WLS and remotely for the LMU’s.

Intrado/Openwave support, TDAX, Backups, AMS, OpsTool, S/W Upgrades

 

 

T-Mobile – New Orleans, La  (through contracting w/Kineticom)                                               7/2005 to 1/2006

Switch Technician

Ericsson MSC & BSC’s, Alcatel Spatial media Gateway 

Provisioned, tested, diagnosed, and accepted OCx, T3/E3, ATM, Frame Relay circuits and T1/E1 circuits. DS0, T1, E1, OC-3, TDAX, and DSX panels, Tellabs DACs

On a daily basis, analyzed provisioning and network issues and decided upon the necessary action to correct the issue and acted upon the decision to ensure customer satisfaction.

Implemented, tested and operated network systems, Basic 911, Enhanced 911 translations, overflow routing, NPA and NXX migrations, LCA migrations, trunk group additions, ACD additions or deletes.

Maintained complete call routing, resolved trouble tickets for all cell sites in the state.

Instrumental in keeping T-Mobile on the Air in aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

 

TruePosition  (through contracting w/Kineticom)                                                                      8/2004 to 6/2005

Location System Engineer

Installed and provisioned complete TDOA E911 location system for this Market.

 

EDS Navy & Marines Intranet Project (NMCI)  (contracting through AERA)                                   6/2002 to 10/2002 Deployment Lead/Consultant

Expert troubleshooter for Configuration & Installation of Enterprise Windows 2000 deployment of 2000 PC's on Dobbins Air Force Base Marietta Georgia.

Cingular (through contracting w/Synergetic Technologies)  Atlanta, Ga                                      3/2000 to 6/2002

Ericsson Switch Implementation Engineer

Configured, tested and troubleshot of all phases of switch turn up

Experienced on MSC5000 and 202 platforms

Network configuration, SS7 trunks, ISUP, HLR, Long Distance, Roaming, Activations, CALEA and Billing. GSM and PCS radios.

Coordinated with multiple departments, teams, managers and vendors

Hayes Modems Atlanta, Ga                                                                                                  1/1996 to 8/1997

Hardware Design Engineer                                                                                      

Played a key role in bringing to market latest modems from Hayes from board design, Project Management, test, ready and assist in 1st production.

ADSL design and configuration, ATM, Lucent 5ESS switch, Ascend, 3COM

PC Specialist                                                                                                                           9/1994 to 1/1996

Coordinated startup and Management of Help Desk support for all users in the Company and remote via laptops and WAN

Configured PCs both Hardware and software applications

Networking - TCIP, Remote access, Microsoft Exchange, Windows Workgroups, Win95/NT, Microsoft Office

 

EDUCATION

 

Island Drafting and Technical Institute - Amityville, New York. 1982
128 Broadway 11701 631-691-8733

http://www.idti.edu

Electronics - Full Scholarship based on testing