Award winning experience!

Bob is an Emergency Communications Center (ECC) technologies professional with over 25 years of diverse public safety experience. He served as the primary technology professional for a countywide ECC for over 20 years. He also provided consulting and technology services to several other ECCs, numerous law enforcement, fire and EMS agencies and expertise in support of the Washington State E911 Office.

 

In 2000, APCO International selected Bob as its award winner for National Technician of the Year, its most prestigious award for technology professionals.

Areas of expertise

Public Safety LMR Systems including wide-area coverage systems employing voting and simulcast technologies.

LMR Antenna Systems including pattern choice, transmit/receive interference mitigation and antenna combining including isolators, cavities, hybrids and other similar technology.

Microwave Transport for long haul, last mile, FDM, TDM-DS0-T1-DS3 and ethernet.

Fiber Optic Transport including OSP splicing topologies, system margin calculations, laser SFP selection and Wavelength Division Multiplexing. (10/100/1000/10G Ethernet and SONET OC-48.)

Facilitation of Staged Incremental System Deployments where terrain, technology and financial challenges make traditional decisions or methods difficult. This is especially valuable for agencies which have limited funding and/or are unable to afford one-time, full-system replacements.

Other Relevant Expertise: E911/NG911 CPE Deployment, 911 call traffic statistics, geo-spatial call routing algorithms, ECC, NOC and Radio Site Facilities, Radio Dispatch Consoles, Uninterruptable Power, DC Power Plants, Emergency Power Generation, Network Topology and System Commissioning.

Background highlights

Technology lead responsible for the systems’ migration of a four ECC consolidation into new entity, including provisioning and constructing a new facility.  The work included supporting the new ECC’s technology through commissioning and go-live. (RiverCom, Chelan/Douglas Counties.)

Responsible for construction management, systems’ installation and commissioning of a new ECC from concept through cutover and go-live operations. (KITTCOM, Kittitas County.)

Successful construction management, systems installation, and commissioning for multiple radio sites ranging from small to massive. (Stampede Pass, Sky Meadows, City Water Tank, ECC.)

Ongoing sustaining engineering support and the “first call” made by staff for technology and facility issues response 24x365 for over 20 years.

Multi-year staged deployment of Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems driven by financial and call for service needs.