Anthony J. Klinkert

WiMAX Network Design & Deployment

Plano, (Dallas) Texas 75024
972-618-6400
www.Klinkert.net

Professional

Sr. Managing Consultant, IBM, Plano, Texas

• C-Level engagements in a wide range of WiMAX and Wi-Fi wide area networks
• Health care and hospital communications for a sprawling University Research Hospital
• Petroleum industry client in search of a global wireless WiMAX strategy for oil field work automation
• Digital community municipality Wi-Fi network  a citywide Wi-Fi /WiMAX design
• Multiple electric utility communications infrastructure strategy, architecture and high level designs
• Electric and water utility automatic metering infrastructure (AMI), distribution automation (DA), demand side management (DSM), distribution system automation, mobile workforce management, and workforce mobility.
• Expert in smart meter, smart grid, intelligent utility network (IUN) wide area communications networking infrastructure

CEO, Klinkert & Associates, Inc., Plano, Texas

• Broadband wireless network strategy, planning, design, deployment & operations
• Expert at FCC’s recently created Broadband Radio Service at 2.5 GHz
• Consulting to carriers, municipalities, enterprises, entrepreneurs, vendors, and providers of broadband networks, devices, applications and content
• Expertise in RF, mobility, PCS, propagation, and advanced modeling
• RF and Data Network design and deployment  for In-building, campus, city-wide, regional and national deployments
• Expert in RF design & prediction tools (in building and outdoor, licensed and unlicensed)
• Program management, system integration, architecture, and systems engineering
• Advanced modeling using operations research & management science optimization
• Focused on MMDS/BRS, 802.11 Wi-Fi WLANs, 802.16/20 Wi-Max WMANs, and other 4^th generation wireless network design

2000-2003              Director, MCI, MMDS Broadband Wireless, Richardson, Texas

• Leader of MCI’s Broadband Wireless Next Generation Group
• Conducted due diligence on dozens of next generation broadband wireless technologies
• Technology strategy development on MMDS - 802.11 hotspot, global mobility & EWLAN
• Supported corporate strategy for mobility, access services, and V&D convergence
• Led the Data Architecture design team for our 1^st Gen, 13 market MMDS deployment
• Performed broadband wireless RF planning, capital budgeting, technology selection
• Frequent speeches, interviews, and web-casts publicly representing MCI technology strategy
• Led the 40 person Wireless Technical Consultants division for SkyTel advanced messaging
• Led the Metricom/MCI Wireless Internet, quality assurance, field engineering test team

1998-2000              Director, PageNet Advanced Technologies, Plano, Texas

• Leader of PageNet’s Advanced Messaging Technology team, planning emerging technology
• Planned advanced two-way messaging services using ReFlex and Mobitex standards
• Advanced the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) strategy for PageNet
• Modeled simulcast interference, capacity and coverage to support capital budgeting
• Provided strategies for cost savings in Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) functionality
• Enjoyed business and technology modeling and optimization

1993-1998              Senior Manager, MCI Wireless, Richardson, Texas

• Provided RF Designs, Business Plans and Deployment Plans on our national GSM Program
• Created RF Designs using Planet^TM, to provide coverage & capacity for several US cities
• Created Deployment plans using Artimus^TM, using PERT/CPM and resource leveling
• Created Business models using Devonrue^TM, using Dynamo^TM market dynamics simulations
• Led the 40 person direct broadcast satellite (DBS) team for MCI’s JV with NewsCorp
• Managed projects of: satellite development & launch; uplink faculty site selection, architecture and construction; broadcast electronics; advanced set top box; content transmission and distribution network, and the operational support systems platforms
• Provided technical strategy on planned alliances and mergers with Nextel and Nextwave
• Performed advanced modeling of GSM, CDMA, TDMA and MIRS/iDEN technologies
• Supported MCI Corporate and British Telecom global mobility strategy initiatives
• Provided Avantel with designs, business plans and license application strategy

1990-1993              Director, LCC, PCS & Cellular System Design, Arlington Virginia

• Directed up to 20 RF design consultants in my profit and loss (P&L) center
• Provided carrier clients with nationwide designs to win spectrum licenses internationally
• Won spectrum proposal competitions in six countries including Portugal, Columbia, India, and Ecuador for carrier clients including PacTel, McCaw, and BellSouth
• Provided nationwide RF coverage designs (number of cell sites) using CellCAD^TM and ANET^TM and conducted field measurements using RSAT^TM and Cellumate^TM      
• Modeled 10 year capacity plans (number of switches, sites, and channels per sector per year)
• Provided frequency plans that minimized self interference and maximized reuse frequencies
• Designs included GSM, TDMA, AMPS, iDEN/MIRS and CDMA technology networks

1984-1990              Unit Manager, General Electric, Wiesbaden Germany, Utica NY, and Lynchburg VA

• TOP SECRET (TS/SI) activities related to remote communications & signals intelligence
• Unit manager of a 20 person department designing microwave circuits for airborne platforms
• Manager of an 18 person department designing the MASTR III VHF base station
• Performed Quality Function Deployment (QFD) to levy end user requirements on the design
• Practiced design for quality, manufacturability, cost take-out, and standard parts.

1983-1984              Texas Instruments, Advanced Technology Laboratory, Dallas

• Electrical Design Engineer – Microwave circuit designer
• Designed thin film networks for circulators, transitions, and backplanes
• Circuits designed, developed and transitioned to production in the advanced factory

1980-1983              Motorola, Communications & Electronics Sector, Carrollton (Dallas), Texas

• Communications Systems Engineer – Land mobile system design and radio propagation
• Completed over 300 projects for land mobile radio systems including wide area radio coverage, microwave point-to-point, paging, data systems, and coverage predictions

Professional Achievements:

·        Author of the book "Creating WiMAX RFPs", 2009
·        Winner IBM Bravo award for outstanding support to marketing, 2007
·       Wireless Communications Association (WCA) Engineering Committee Past Chairman, ’00 -‘02
·        Winner, WCA’s “Golden Eagle” award (their highest honor) for “Technology Vision & Industry Service” in 2002 for conducting weekly calls, and semi-yearly conferences on industry issues
·        Leader of the WCA Operator Expert’s Group, formed to set operator direction, 2003
·        Licensed Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, since 1984
·        Federal Commercial Radio and Amateur Radio Licenses, since 1972
·        Member, WAP Operator Expert’s Group, advanced standards development, 2000
·        Senior Member, IEEE, member since 1975

Education:

1975-1979       University of Texas at Austin       BS - Electrical Engineering, 79
1981-1984       Southern Methodist University    MS - Electrical Engineering, 84
1997-1999       Southern Methodist University    MS - Telecommunications, 99
2002-Present   Southern Methodist University  Doctor of Engineering, expected '09
         ·        Praxis dissertation: capital-efficient deployment of wireless networks
         ·        Postgraduate coursework in wireless, Internet, & telecommunications

For detailed CV see here: Prose

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