Alan brings more than 20 years of wireless engineering experience to TTM. After eight years designing defense and commercial communication equipment, he joined McCaw Cellular’s corporate Technology Development organization in 1993 (now Cingular Wireless). Alan was responsible for establishing product requirements and evolution planning for radio systems equipment.

Throughout his 13 year tenure, Alan continued to be a key contributor in the selection of technology paths and vendors for three major AT&T Wireless infrastructure introductions; IS-136, GSM/EDGE and UMTS.

In 1997, he was promoted to Director of Performance Engineering, responsible for authoring national Best Practice guidelines for TDMA. His team detailed operational standards for network design, performance optimization, and base station operation & maintenance; resulting in uniform, high-quality and cost-effective networks. These standards were followed during AT&T Wireless’ national PCS build-out.

Later, as Director of RF Strategy, Alan became responsible for leading trials of emerging technologies. He directed the equipment selection, network design, and deployment of a 100-site UMTS field trial, the first UMTS deployment in North America. Alan also led benchmarking and competitive analysis of current and emerging wireless data technologies.

Most recently, as Director of System Performance he created an engineering team focused on developing novel end-to-end testing programs to characterize voice and data performance from the customer’s perspective.

Alan received a BSEE from the University of Colorado, and a MSEE from the University of Houston, both majoring in electromagnetics. He also holds a MBA from the University of Washington. Alan was granted five United States Patents related to wireless communications, with four Patents pending. He also has published several technical articles in various IEEE journals.