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AFC Resource Room Sessions/Presentations Convention Center – Room 202 A & B Monday August 8, 2011
RPC Roundtable Q&A Presenter: Steve Devine Bio: Steve Devine is Chairman of National Regional Planning Council (NRPC) and is the Interoperability Program Manager of Missouri Department of Public Safety. Tuesday August 9, 2011
9:00am - 10:00am This session will feature an update on the Public Safety Communications (PSCR) program's 700MHz Public Safety Broadband Demonstration Network, which provides manufacturers a location for early deployment to demonstrate and evaluate their systems in a multi-vendor environment. PSCR will provide an update on the participation of its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) partners, as well as on the technical study items PSCR and its industry partners are assessing through the Demonstration Network. Presenter: Emil Olbrich, Lead Project Engineer, PSCR Jeff Bratcher, Technical Manager, PSCR
This session will explore two of the major technical issues that public safety may face as the buildout of the 700MHz nationwide public safety ensues. The technical issues to be discussed include:
Presenter: Emil Olbrich, Lead Project Engineer, PSCR Andrew Thiessen, Lead Project Engineer, PSCR Vendor Representatives TBD Presenter Bios: Jeff Bratcher Jeff Bratcher is the Division Chief for the Telecommunications and IT Planning Division at the U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) located in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Bratcher has been with ITS since 2003. One of his primary roles is serving as the Technical Manager for the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program which is a joint effort with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES). PSCR serves as an objective technical advisor and laboratory to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Public Safety practitioners to accelerate the adoption and implementation of the most critical public safety communication standards and technologies. Prior to joining ITS, Mr. Bratcher worked for multiple commercial cellular infrastructure vendors deploying 2nd and 3rd Generation cellular systems worldwide. Mr. Bratcher received his Master’s of Science in Telecommunications from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University. Emil Olbrich Emil Olbrich is currently Lead Project Engineer with the NIST Office of Law Enforcement Standards working on broadband initiatives and supporting the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program. His work is primarily focused on 700 MHz wireless broadband technologies in public safety communications from the federal level to the state and local level. Prior to this position he was Senior Consultant with Protiro Inc. working at the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) in Boulder, CO supporting the PSCR and NIST OLES teams. Mr. Olbrich has over 16 years of experience in the field of wireless telecommunications. He has worked primarily in R&D at some of the largest telecommunication companies in the world, such as Motorola, Qualcomm and Ericsson. His past experience with cellular based networks is helping to advance public safety communications into the next generation of wireless communications. Andrew Thiessen Andrew Thiessen is the Lead for Public Safety Communication Standards, Requirements, and Compliance Assessment for the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS), in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Department of Commerce. Mr. Thiessen's work at ITS is part of a joint effort between ITS and the NIST Office of Law Enforcement Standards (NIST/OLES) named the Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) program. Mr. Thiessen is the Project 25 Compliance Assessment Program (P25 CAP) Laboratory Program Manager. As such, Mr. Thiessen is responsible for the assessment process as it pertains to the P25 CAP. Mr. Thiessen is also the chair of the APCO Project 25 Interface Committee (APIC) Broadband Working Group (4.9GHz), Vice-Chair of the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) Technology Committee, co-chair of the NPSTC Broadband Working Group (700MHz). Mr. Thiessen has worked as a principal in several small start-ups, as a Senior Systems Engineer for Sun Microsystems, an engineer for MITRE, and an engineer for the National Security Agency. Mr. Thiessen holds a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering for Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), a Bachelor’s degree in English, also from WPI, and a Master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
The design considerations of narrowband vs. wideband simulcast will be explored. Tools for RF coverage analysis and products system implementation will be identified. Two local projects will be featured as case studies and specifics of projects from the participants will be discussed. Presenter: Ed O’Connor Bio: Ed O’Connor is the founder and President of Simulcast Solutions LLC. Ed has been involved in the implementation of well over 500 simulcast radio systems over the past two decades. Ed hosts a Simulcast Forum for dealer/integrators every year at IWCE to keep the industry informed about the "simulcast state of the art" and sponsors simulcast workshops for the Frequency Coordinators annually at APCO National. He has been published in all the major LMR industry publications, and gives presentations on simulcast at IWCE and APCO conferences around the country. In 1988, Ed joined Spectracom Corp, the premier frequency and time system supplier to public safety communications. And held positions from National Sales Manager to President. During this time, Ed was also Managing Director of SimulComm, which developed, patented, and licensed an automatic paging simulcast control system. Beginning in the communications industry during the early 1970s, Ed earned a degree in engineering from Clarkson University and a Masters in Business from Marshall University.
Presenter: Ron Mayworm, NRPC CAPRAD Liaison Ron Mayworm is the Radio Systems Manager for the Brazos Valley Wide Area Communications System, a partnership of six entities including two counties, three cities, and a major public university in central Texas. For 17 years prior to this he managed a broad range of wireless systems for the cities of Bryan and College Station, including trunked and conventional systems, paging, SCADA, and mobile data systems. Ron has 40 years’ paid and volunteer experience in public safety and emergency communications, including “user” roles as a volunteer firefighter and police dispatcher. He is active with the Texas Interoperable Communications Coalition and the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council. He has chaired Region 49’s 700 MHz and 800 MHz Planning Committees since 1993, serves as Chair of the CAPRAD Oversight Committee of the National Regional Planning Council, and has been a member of the Board of Managers of the Brazos County 9-1-1 District for 23 years.
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