Richard Walton
O'Fallon,Missouri
Summary
Certified RF Engineer, certified Project Management Professional, and eager learner seeking opportunities to work with communication networks, distributed antenna systems, 5G wireless, or carrier-related projects. Additional certifications include CCENT (CISCO) and iBwave Levels I & II.
Overview
26
26
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
Kelly Engineering
St. Louis, MO
08.2021 - Current
- PMO Surgical Equipment
- Released next-generation vision-care handpiece (Vitesse) on time
- Facilitate weekly meetings
- Forecast project budget and track expenses
- Draft and detail project schedule including design transfer and release dates
- Document tracking for design traceability
- Communicate project details to team members, functional leads, and executive team via meetings, minutes, Teams/SharePoint postings
Mortgage Customer Service Representative
U.S. Bank
St. Louis, MO
10.2020 - 03.2021
- Designed dashboard to use with existing tools, increasing performance by over 100%
- Developed business continuity plan for use in remote office
- Developed skills for Agile project management role
Project Coordinator
Professional Employment Group
St. Louis, MO
09.2019 - 01.2020
- Communicated with 11 team members including Business Owner, Sponsor, & team members to keep project on schedule
- Gathered requirements for ongoing projects and organized details for management use
- Gathered and disseminated project materials at key points to all stakeholders, including General Partner and Senior Project Leader
- Counseled departmental leaders to determine issues and deliver solutions to individualized problems and concerns
- Gathered requirements for ongoing projects and organized details for management use.
- Tracked all hours and expenses to keep project on task and within budgetary parameters.
Coordinator - Business Operations
Verizon Wireless
St. Louis, Missouri
11.1999 - 04.2019
- Performed site walks to determine indoor wireless coverage needs
- Guided sales reps and business customers toward proper wireless coverage solutions
- Helped businesses install femtocell devices on their network
- Project Coordinator for In-Building Distributed Antenna Systems (IBS)
- Investigated and resolved technical issues with customers' IBS, femtocell installations, and user equipment
- Designed internal solutions to increase team reporting productivity by 50%
- Prioritized IBS projects to align with budget, sales needs, customer and sales rep expectations
- Assisted with locating high-use devices to identify opportunities to offload network capacity
Education
Certification - IBwave Level I & II
IBwave
Remote07.2021
Certification - Radio Frequency Engineering
University of California - San Diego
San Diego, CA08.2020
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of Missouri - St Louis
St Louis, MO08.2003
Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Research
- Planning
- Project Coordination
- Negotiation
- Customer Service
- Technical support
Skills Summary
Project Planning
- Medical Device Research and Development Project Planning and Execution
- Forecast budget
- Track expenses
- Establish and maintain project schedule
- Resolve conflicts among various functions
- Manage resources
- Communicate to team, functional leaders, and upper management
iBwave Level I & II
- Create and optimize models
- Create heat maps (prediction maps) and BOMs
- Draw walls
- Run and interpret link budgets and other reports
Communicating
- Appointed liaison to special customers to handle complex situations
- In-Building DAS Project Coordinator - single contact for 50 projects
- Trained more than 100 business customers
Reporting and Analytics
- Run more than 300 detailed plan analyses for business clients
- Detailed large data sets (100+ columns, 100K+ rows) to find anomalies and patterns
Knowledge Summary
PMP® Certification
- Facilitating Meetings
- Communication Management
- Project Planning
Radio Frequency Engineering Certification
- Research project on Microwave Communications, Security and Encryption
- Link Budgets
- Wave Propagation
iBwave Level I & II Certification
- Output Maps
- In-Building Life Cycle
- Creating and troubleshooting propagation models
- Building Modeling
- Documentation
CISCO Routing
- IP Routing Protocols
- VLAN configuration
- SSH management access
- DHCP and subnet masks
Proficiencies
- ARAS PLM
- MS Project
- EPDM
- IBwave
- MATLAB/SIMULINK
- NetSIM
- RF Link Budget
- RF Interference Analysis
- Frequency Planning
- Office 365 (Teams,, Sharepoint, Word, Excel, OneNote, Outlook)
- PPM Clarity
- SQL/Teradata Reporting
Affiliations
Board Member
- Fellowship of Christian Athletes - St. Charles, MO
Member of:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Calvary Church - St. Charles, MO
Certification
- Project Management Professional Certification - 2022
- iBwave Level II - August 2021
- IBwave Level I - April 2021
- Radio Frequency Engineering Certification - 2020
- SOLiD Distributed Antenna Systems Certification - 2014
- CISCO Entry Level Network Certification (CCENT) - 2011-2014
References
Available upon request
Timeline
Project Manager
Kelly Engineering
08.2021 - Current
Mortgage Customer Service Representative
U.S. Bank
10.2020 - 03.2021
Project Coordinator
Professional Employment Group
09.2019 - 01.2020
Coordinator - Business Operations
Verizon Wireless
11.1999 - 04.2019
Certification - IBwave Level I & II
IBwave
Certification - Radio Frequency Engineering
University of California - San Diego
Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering
University of Missouri - St Louis