Evan Schiltz

2019-2020 - LSTechnologies (LST) Group Manager overseeing 5 teams of telecommunications professionals with 30+ personnel supporting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) nation-wide data/voice network deployment and operations. The teams had duties ranging from system/service engineering, network implementation planning, network site preparation and deployment, telecom service billing reconciliation and application certification. During this time also acted as team lead and regional working member of the team responsible for nationwide FAA service deployment and project planning (see below).

2012 -2019 - LST National Network Implementation Team Lead and regional team member. Manage team of 6 network deployment engineers responsible for the planning, implementation and transition of 1000+ FAA telecom service per year. As Team Lead for LST staff, also act as deputy for FAA (customer) Network Implementation Manager. Duties included:

• Assess FAA telecom site service, space and power requirements
• Estimate and help procure project funding from various FAA entities.
• Develop and maintain documentation for telecom systems, equipment inventory and floor plans.
• Coordinate site survey and site prep requirements and site prep completion. Includes floor space, site power and HVAC, Telco access to site and building improvements.
• Develop and review site deployment project plans and work to gain consensus between FAA headquarters, regional FAA service staff and FAA site administrators.
• Perform haz/mat and risk mitigation analysis as well as existing telecom service impact.
• Develop quarterly and annual reports for overall deployment schedule
• Gather FAA application projections to develop overall network cost, resource, schedule and capacity forecast on a running 4 year cycle.
• Coordinate closely with FAA Operations to ensure new telecom service quality and mitigate impact to disparate systems.
• Provide ongoing personnel training in both networking and project planning disciplines.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) planned nationwide replacement of Telco line-based network with hybrid Telco/TCP system from a new vendor. This was a high pressure position as financial deadline penalties were severe from the legacy vendor. Initial network was a one-for-one replacement of all existing services along with constant influx of new FAA service requirements.

In my capacity as Network Transition Coordinator for the Western Pacific Region (11 western US states, Hawaii, Guam, Samoa) I managed completion of:

• Develop network service transition and test procedures.
• Provide FAA and contract staff with ongoing test equipment and procedural training.
• Plan network deployment activities to ensure most cost effective decommissioning of old services.
• Track new network service delivery and ensure pre-cutover testing to certify new service readiness.
• Coordinate and schedule FAA and contract support staff to perform final service transition.
• Visit problem sites to troubleshoot and resolve Telco and network transition failures, as needed.
• Liaison with FAA Operations to ensure new network service and application are functioning properly.
• Coordinate service disconnect with old vendor.
• Follow up with ongoing service billing issues with old vendor.
• Ensure that FAA documentation was updated after transition complete.
• Ensure ongoing operational service performance monitoring was in place.

Support FAA in preparation for nationwide transition from previous vendor Telco line-based network to new hybrid Telco/TCP network. My duties were in the 11 western United States, along with Hawaii, Guam, Samoa.

• Assist in development of site survey requirements package to identify Telco site access, cabling issues, available space, power, grounding and HVAC capacity.
• Perform site survey to identify same, as well as capture and document all existing telecom services that need to be transitioned to new network.
• Develop project plan to detail schedule, impact and scope of work for each location
• Complete identified site preparation work needed to accommodate new network installation. This included arranging for new and redundant Telco access, space preparation, power and HVAC upgrades, building improvements.
• Assist new vendor and FAA with new network equipment installation and test.
• Coordinate with FAA network operation to ensure network monitoring visibility and functionality.
• Perform select high value service cutovers.
• Monitor network equipment burn-in and assist vendor in addressing any issues.
• Begin development of training materials in support of service cutover pre-test, transition and verification.

Provide global support for Motorola Vanguard router and Codex Modem network systems. Supported legacy line Telco modem systems, frame relay networks, TCP/IP router systems and large cable system routers

• Regional Southern California onsite support engineer, troubleshooting, installing and maintaining Motorola network systems.
• National on-call 2nd level telephone and onsite support assistance for chronic issues
• Global telephone after hours support for Motorola customers outside normal business hours.
• Lead onsite engineer for 1st Motorola Vanguard router installation for Southern California Cox cable network.

• Independent Network Systems Consultant (Sole Proprietor) specializing in enterprise-level WAN project management, system definition and design, hardware integration engineering, implementation planning, application certification, network life cycle operations support and documentation development for telecommunications system vendors and their customers.
• Primary customers were AT&T Network Systems, Verizon Business Systems, Giant Food Co, National Car Rental and State of Texas Department of Transportation.

Lead network integration engineer for Bank of America global network operations during transition from 60 disparate Telco line-based point to point networks to AT&T-provided packet/virtual circuit switching network across the state of California.

• Provide hardware system and integration engineering services for design and roll out of 1000+ location enterprise network.
• Assisted in high-level system design, topological & and geographical layout for new network.
• Assisted in development of detailed equipment configuration, integration engineering performance analysis, equipment configuration & application certification.
• Defined, authored and managed engineering documentation standards for new network. Documentation was comprised of system definition, detailed site engineering, application profiles, equipment interface, equipment configuration, cabling, site installation and network operations manuals.
• Secured official corporate adoption of this documentation in order to provide a baseline for future network modifications and enhancements.
• Manage site survey and site preparation teams schedules and resources.
• Generate project management reports for network rollout status.

Field engineer in support of Honeywell branch banking systems, Docutel & Fujitsu ATMs, NCR proof machines and Macintosh & IBM-compatible PC workstations in 250+ location statewide banking systems.

Began working with Seafirst Network engineers and transitioned from field service to network deployment function during Doelz network packet switching transition.

• Perform physical site surveys of 100+ locations in Washington state.
• Initiate development of site survey package checklist to be completed for network engineering review.
• Perform installation, service cutover and troubleshooting for new network installations.

• Test, repair, certify, and modify calibration and data gathering equipment, from engineer's specifications, for use in FAA flight test certification process of new Boeing model 757 and 767 airliners.
• Work on 757 and 767 aircraft to retrofit from test to passenger configuration and FAA flight test certification was complete.
• Member Aircraft On Ground team - responding to repair disabled aircraft.