Dana Dee Webb
2724 Springer Road
Midlothian, Texas 76065
(214) 697-1625

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, AND HONORS

Experience: 17 Years – Senior RF Design, GSM and
    TDMA Optimization, Project Planning, Project
    Coordination, and Lead Project Engineer.

Education: Tampa Technical Institute, Tampa Florida
    1987-1990

Degree: Bachelors of Science for Electronic
     Engineering Technology - Design

Honors:  *Salutatorian Award 1988 *Dean’s List
    1990*

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• GSM Performance Optimization,  First Cellular, Southern Illinois
• GSM Optimization Lead, Rural Cellular Corporation, Bangor, Maine
• GSM Optimization Engineer, Cingular Wireless, Alabama & Mississippi
• UMTS/GSM Design Cingular Wireless, North Texas
• UMTS Performance  Cingular Wireless, Dallas, Texas
• GSM Quality Analysis, AT&T Wireless Services, Washington DC
• GSM Performance Optimization, AT&T Wireless Services, Oklahoma
• DAS In-Building Design, TDMA, GSM, UMTS combined network
• WiMAX Design and Integration
• TDMA Performance Optimization, Cingular Wireless, Birmingham, AL
• GSM Performance Optimization, Cingular Wireless, Alabama & Mississippi
• Lead Design, EOTD - Enhanced Observed Time Difference, Plano, TX
• GSM RF Design, GSM-1900 (2.5G), IS-136, and IS-54 cellular technologies
• Lead RF Performance, Project Condor, Lexington, Kentucky/Austin, Texas
• Ericsson RBS2000 GSM Operations System Support (OSS)
• Nokia RBS2000 GSM Radio Network Workgroup (RNW)
• Ericsson RBS884 TDMA IS-136 WINFOIL 6.4 Platform
• Senior Engineer responsible for a group of up to twenty-eight technicians and engineers for performance and design projects
• B.S.E.E.T. of System Engineering Design

Planning and Developing:

▪ Nokia              ▪ Ericsson                     ▪ WCDMA         ▪ MapInfo

▪ UMTS             ▪ CNA                           ▪ FOX                ▪ PlaNet

▪ NOX               ▪ Business Objects        ▪ Alex               ▪ NED

▪ NDW              ▪ Net Doctor                  ▪ DAS               ▪ WiMAX

PROFESSIONAL CONTRACT SERVICES (multiple market contracts)

AT&T, GSM/UMTS Design, North Texas (February 2008 to present)

• Participated in the site scoping to support Goodman Networks of the GSM and UMTS network designs in North Texas Phase V network deployment. Design’s consisted of 488 UMTS sites using 1900 MHz and to produce design and implement 850 MHz UMTS second carrier to each site.
• Provide cell site RFDS power amp configuration, combining, and consolidation using CCI, Power-wave, and Andrew external amplifiers.
• Additional support was provided to the RF engineering department to produce site configurations and audits of the initial design for performance validation.

Rural Cellular, Springfield Massachusetts (February 2007 to August 2007)

• Provided drop call and call access problems using “Business Objects” as the trending analysis platform. Utilized the Ericsson CNA and RNO for consistency checks, CNA\PMR\WinFoil used for analysis and site audits after GSM\UMTS integration.
• Provided Integration RF Support for RFDS antenna selection, site power amp configuration, combining, and multiple site consolidation.
• Post-process UMTS and GSM TEMS data using Actix to determine optimal site operation and functionality. Overlay drop call pinpoints with propagation analysis from UMTS design and GSM overlays.
• Performed “GO-NOGO” HSPDA data testing using Agilent for cluster testing.
• Identified and optimized cluster areas for invalid scan codes and dropped calls

Cingular Wireless, Optimization, Shreveport - New Orleans (Aug 2006 to Oct. 2006)

• Perform post-integration tasks of the Nokia dual-band integration and run integration scripts using Winfoil: RSSI TRX testing, ABIS loop tests, and use of the Nokia Data Warehouse to pull and analyze the TRX Quality report for the network.
• Perform Net Doctor analysis of the Nokia GSM network to provide optimization performance enhancement and to find network anomalies.
• Recommend frequency changes, power changes (TMAX), optimize neighbor relations (PMRG), and provide Ericsson translating support for inter BCS handoff’s.
• Troubleshoot existing GSM network and provide customer complaint analysis, provide pre-drive cluster analysis, and provided post-drive analysis of a DCR% less than 1.0% after cut-over.

Cingular Wireless, GSM/UMTS Design, North Texas (November 2005 to Aug. 2006)

• Provided design support for the North Texas GSM Blue/Orange Decommissioning
• Provided design support of the Phase 3 UMTS project
• Provide cell site power amp configuration, combining, and consolidation using Powerwave and Andrew external amplifiers.
• Provided Design support fir the DAS In-building systems with TDMA, GSM, UMTS combined network
• Participated in the site scoping process of all the GSM and UMTS network designs in North Texas. Design’s consisted of 1400 GSM sites and 400 UMTS sites
• Additional support was provided to the RF engineering department to produce site configurations and audits of the initial design for performance validation.
• Provided cluster analysis using TEMS 6.03 for R99 and HSPDA tests
• Post-processing of TEMS and Agilent data using MapInfo for presentation
• Identified and optimized cluster areas for invalid scan codes and dropped calls

Powerwave  Technologies, GSM Optimization , Detroit, Michigan (October 2005)

• Analysis of existing GSM Fiber Optic Distributed Antenna System “DAS”
• Provide TEMS data collection and analysis of network performance
• Provide GSM network optimization and system performance upgrade suggestions
• Provide TEMS post-processing with overlay propagation analysis
• Recommend RF changes and site optimization to improve DAS node placements

First Cellular, GSM Optimization, Southern Illinois (Aug 2005 to October 2005)

• Provided drop call and call access problems using “Business Objects” as the trending analysis platform. Utilized the Ericsson CNA and RNO for consistency checks and analysis for GSM site audits after UMTS integration.
• Performed audits of the GSM network to achieve an optimal configuration. Recommend and implemented site antenna conversions, site sectorizations, optimal RBS2000 configurations, MAIO configurations, capacity increases, frequency changes, hopping configurations, power settings, half-rate AMR, and optimized handoffs for the entire Southern Illinois network. Achieved a dropped call rate of less than 2.0% starting at 4.5%. 
• Provide training and support to RF Engineering for the Ericsson OSS platform, Winfoil, MapInfo, TEMS Optimizer, Business Objects, Ericsson OSS, Network Adjacency Optimization (NOX), Frequency Optimization (FOX), and MML.

Rural Cellular Corporation, Optimization Engineer, Maine (Feb. 2005 to July 2005)

• Provided drop call and call access problems using “Business Objects” as the trending analysis platform. Utilized the Ericsson CNA and RNO for consistency checks and analysis for GSM site audits after UMTS integration.
• Utilize Ericsson’s OSS platform Rev10/Rev11 (CNA, RNO, SDM and PMR) to optimize UNICEL’s GSM network. Optimized and reconfigured all 1900 and 800 MHz new site integrations, band conversions, frequency changes, hopping configurations, and antenna configurations.
• Recommend and implement site antenna conversions, site sectorizations, optimal RBS2000 configurations, MAIO configurations, capacity increases, frequency changes, and handoffs to other systems.
• Provide training and support to RF Engineering for the Ericsson OSS platform, Winfoil, MapInfo, TEMS Optimizer, Business Objects, Ericsson OSS, Network Adjacency Optimization (NOX), Frequency Optimization (FOX), and MML.

Cingular Wireless, Optimization, Alabama and Mississippi (May 2004 to Oct. 2004)

• Perform new site configuration and optimization of the Nokia GSM system in both Alabama and Mississippi markets simultaneously.
• Utilize Nokia’s Network OSS platform to perform integration and optimization tasks.
• Recommend frequency changes, power changes, optimize neighbor relations, and perform E911 call routing and verification.
• Troubleshoot existing GSM network for seamless integration of 201 new sites added within the core network and additional rural sites.

Cingular Wireless, Performance Engineer, Birmingham, AL. (Jan. 2004 to May 2004)

• Sectorization and Implementation of IS-136 systems in Alabama and Mississippi.
• Performed pre and post-cut cell optimization and benchmarking analysis. 
• Utilized Cingular’s “MERGE” OMC platform to trend benchmarking analysis of pre-cut and post-cut site implementation

AWS, Quality Analysis Engineer, Washington DC (Nov. 2003 to Dec. 2003)

• Lead Engineer responsible for the collection of 24-7 TEMS Optimization 4.0 drive data and compare results to AWS, “BEAST” real-time OMC statistics.
• Designed an Accessability, Retainablility, and Quality result charts to compare the trends with TEMS drive data for 24-7 collected data.
• Use of the Grayson Wireless “3G Invex” Mean Opinion Scoring “MOS” platform to trend the GSM system voice quality with OMC “RxQual”.

AWS, Performance Engineer, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (June 2003 to Oct. 2003)

• Senior Performance Engineer to collect and analyze drive data for RBS 2200 850 MHz and 1900 MHz GSM dual-band RF network in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas. Perform E911 call routing and verification.
• Provided reports to AWS for performance analysis for system ARQ – Accessibility, Retainability, and Quality.

AWS, GSM Design, Mid-Atlantic East, Pennsylvania (Feb. 2002 to April 2002)

• Provide design of the antenna configuration and link-budget analysis of a RBS 2200 1900 Mhz GSM system in Northwest Pennsylvania
• Coordinate integration of GSM design into existing TDMA footprint.

AWS, GSM Integration, Dallas, Texas (Dec. 2001 to Feb. 2002)

• Senior Performance Engineer to collect and analyze drive data for RBS 2000 1900 MHz GSM system in Dallas, Texas.
• Senior Engineer responsible for 11 drive test collection teams using TEMS Optimization 3.2.
• Post-Process collected data to verify GSM system performance.

Bell South Mobility, TDMA Upgrade, Austin, Texas (Nov. 2000 to May 2001)

• Senior Performance Engineer to collect and analyze drive data for an 850 MHz TDMA system in Austin, Texas.
• Perform system swap from CDMA to Ericsson RBS 880 TDMA network equipment
• TDMA Frequency Planning using PlaNet software analysis for 7-21 group plan.
• Senior Engineer responsible for 18 drive test collection teams sing TEMS Optimization 3.0

Bell South Mobility, Project Condor, Lexington, Kentucky (Aug. 2000 to Nov. 2000)

• Senior Performance Engineer to collect and analyze drive data for a IS-136 system swap in Lexington, Kentucky
• Changed out a Hughes analog TDMA to Ericsson RBS 880 TDMA network equipment
• Lead Engineer responsible for 4 drive test collection teams.

Bell South Mobility, Project Condor, Memphis, Tennessee (June 2000 to Aug. 2000)

• Senior Performance Engineer to collect and analyze drive data for a IS-136 system swap in Memphis, Tennessee
• Changed out a Hughes analog TDMA to Ericsson RBS 880 TDMA network equipment
• Senior Engineer responsible for 10 drive test collection teams.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

Paging Network Incorporated                                          May 1995 to May 2000 REFLEX25 and FLEX Projects, Plano, Texas

RF Engineer Systems and Technology

• RF Engineering Design and Optimization for several markets in the United States to utilize the ReFLEX25, InFLEXion and FLEX protocol technologies.
• Provided site integration and analysis for InFLEXion, FLEX, and ReFLEX25 markets as well as re-engineering for existing FLEX markets.
• Participated in the advancement of data received from engineering tools ODYSSEY, CELLCAD, WINGS, and MapInfo.
• Actively involved in the decision processes involving data collection and analysis. Provided analysis for data collection, using MapInfo to show results form numerous drive tests of PNSM, FLEX, and VoiceNow field measurements.
• Implemented a way to overlay coverage plots from CELLCAD into MapInfo to provide a direct approach to engineering of drive test data.
• RF Engineering Design and Optimization
• Working knowledge of ReFLEX and FLEX Paging Protocols
• Propagation Analysis using ODYSSEY, CELLCAD, and WINGS
• Interpretation of Collected RF Data using MapInfo software