Timothy W. Tron
5351 Oak Crest Ln.
Lenoir, NC. 28645
(919) 542-8401
twtron@live.com
EDUCATION
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
School of Electrical Engineering
Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering, May 1993
Senior Design Project: 3D-Data Storage: Lightning Imaging Data Collection
Outstanding Undergraduate Research Project of the Year award, 1992
Programming/Protocol Languages
PHP, MySQL, C/C++, Protel, Pascal, Fortran, 8085, machine level, TCP/IP/UDP, HTML, H248,
SIP/SIPT, Q931, Excel, SNMP/MIB, ISDN and more.
Nortel, RTP, NC.
Wireless GSM/GPRS/UMTS, ATCA, Typhoon, Internet Data training (e.g. TCP/IP, Voice over IP,…)
C/C++ classes, Nuera and many more telephony classes.
Northern Telecom/TASU, RTP, NC.
Computer Certificate Program, Pascal, C++ and Computer applications relevant to DMS software.
EXPERIENCE
Trail of Faith, Inc., 401 Church St., Valdese, North Carolina August 2015 – August 2016
Executive Director
Manage all aspects of the Trail including but not limited to:
- Traveling to share the story with schools, churches, and seminaries
- Bookkeeping and accounting, webmaster for website and all social media sites
- Tour guide trainer, creator, and leader; speaking to groups about the history and promotion of the Trail
- Writing and blogging to the public about the Trail
- Landlord duties for rental units: including rent collections and maintenance upkeep
- Upkeep and maintenance of all Trail exhibits
- Coordinating tour groups and guides, planning and facilitating holiday events, i.e. Christmas Lights, Easter Sunrise Service, and the Fourth of July Festival
- Handling all aspects of advertisement, creating flyers, mass mailing promotions, billboard, website, and etc…
- Implementation of improvement to Trail exhibits including a working wood-fired oven and flowing fountain,
- Research for historical purposes to promote the Trail and its origins.
GENBAND, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina April 2013 – August 2015
Emergency Recovery Manager
- Day-to-day responsibilities involve staffing, workload management of engineers, working issues, training, coaching, creating work objectives, contribution reviews, procedure creation and updates, and executive notifications. Professional certifications include ISO9000 and Kepner-Tregoe.
Nortel-GENBAND, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Emergency Recovery
Duty Manager and Senior Wireline, Wireless Emergency Recovery Engineer 2000 – April 2013
- Duty Manager for local and remote staff.
- Provide support as needed for GENBAND S3, C3,G9, DMS 100/500 Core, CS2ka, x and e,
VSE, Peripherals, USP, Passport 15/20k, Succession CS2k, CMT/IEMS, MG9k, and MG4k.
- Provide support for tools used in the daily activities and functions of the Emergency Recovery department. This includes all web based applications and databases using MySQL/PHP, HTML, Javascript, Perl, Unix, Linux and other related languages.
- Provide support as needed for DMS 100/500 Core, VSE, Peripherals, USP, Passport 15/20k,
Succession CS2k, CMT/IEMS, MG9k, MG4k, and Optical OC12/48 LH1600 and OM5200 products.
Nortel, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
VoIP on XPM Project: Member of Scientific Staff (MSS) 1998 – 2000
ISDN Code Transfer: Project Manager and MSS: Designer
- Provide complete code transfer to TSC India for support of Nortel’s ISDN BRI Layer 2
- Provide sustaining support for EISP/EDCH and UP portions of Nortel’s ISDN BRI Layer 2.
- Applied for a patent on new data design for Nortel to become a POTs to Data provider.
BNR, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
1 Meg Modem Project and LCM Designer: Member of Scientific Staff: Design and Test 1994-1998
- Provide SNMP design and testing for 1 Meg Modem project, including HPOV and SNMX coding.
- Design new features and robustness into ILCM, RLCM, LCM, and LCME peripherals.
- Provide services as a technical liaison between NTI Worldwide Customer Service regions and
BNR Peripheral Module Design and Development organization.
Northern Telecom Incorporated, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 1991- 1992
Technical Assistance Services, ETAS Engineer
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 1990- 1993
Lighting Research Facility, Laboratory Technician
Summer Internship a NASA Kennedy Space Center, FL
USAF, Robbins AFB, Warner Robbins, GA
Sergeant: Team leader and shift supervisor, maintenance of KC135R tanker aircraft. 1986-1990
Pingback: Saying Goodbye… | Author Timothy W. Tron