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Arthur Petonke

Liberty

Summary

Senior Systems Design Architecture Engineer with extensive experience at T-Mobile, specializing in capacity planning and technical support.

Overview

39
39
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Systems Design Architecture Engineer

T-Mobile
04.2021 - 04.2025
  • Responsible for providing the end-to-end ethernet designs between new cell sites and the switching offices in the Central region.
  • Responsible for providing the end-to-end ethernet designs for bandwidth upgrades between existing cell sites and the switching offices in the Central region.
  • Retired

Network Planner III

Sprint
Overland Park
10.2013 - 04.2021
  • Responsible for providing all port assignments as needed for all of the IPAs (IP Aggregators)
  • Responsible for capacity planning and budgetary functions concerning the IPAs
  • Ensure the IPA equipment is installed in a timely manner to meet the forecasted needs
  • POC for disaster recovery for all three IPA OEMs

Technical Support Engineer

Ericsson
Overland Park
09.2009 - 10.2013
  • Technical Support Engineer III (2011 to present)
  • Responsible for providing top tier technical support to the wireless switch technicians within the Sprint network. I served as the Lead Engineer on the midnight shift. My responsibilities included providing technical support to the wireless switch technicians as well as to my coworkers, ensuring all work tickets coming into our queue are worked in a prioritized and timely manner and providing a daily handoff/report to the day shift.
  • Technical Support Engineer II (2009 to 2011)
  • Provided top tier technical support to the switch technicians within the Sprint network during the maintenance window
  • National Technical Assistance Center

Wireless Network Engineer

Sprint Nextel
05.1998 - 09.2009
  • Technical Support Engineer (2006 to 2009) (National Technical Assistance Center)
  • Provided top tier technical support to the wireless switch techs in the Sprint network
  • Senior Network Engineer (2002 to 2006)
  • I led a team of wireless switch engineers who were responsible for the New York, New Jersey and New England markets. My team was responsible for providing wireless cell to switch assignments and maintaining switch capacities on a daily basis. We also provided semi-annual capacity plans up to the executive level. These capacity plans were used to determine the financial needs to support the expected subscriber growth and subsequent usage on all of the major components within the wireless Alcatel-Lucent switching systems in the Sprint network. Once the capacity plans were approved, I coordinated with the vendors to ensure the equipment was installed in a timely manner to ensure the traffic needs were met.
  • Network Engineer III (1999 to 2002)
  • I led a team of wireless switch engineers who were responsible for the New York and New Jersey markets. My team was responsible for providing wireless cell to switch assignments and maintaining switch capacities daily. We also provided semi-annual capacity plans up to the executive level. These capacity plans were used to determine the financial needs to support the expected subscriber growth and subsequent usage on all of the major components within the wireless Alcatel-Lucent switching systems in the Sprint network.
  • Network Engineer II (1998 to 1999)
  • I served as the wireless network engineer for the New York and New Jersey markets. My responsibilities included providing wireless cell to switch assignments and maintaining capacities on the various components of the Alcatel-Lucent switches within the Sprint network.

Manager

Pizza Hut
Kansas City
02.1986 - 05.1998
  • As the manager of different delivery units, I was responsible for all aspects of the daily operations. These responsibilities included (but not limited to) maintaining and training the staff, product quality and customer service, inventory controls and profit/loss control

Education

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications Management

DeVry Institute of Technology
Kansas City, MO
01.1998

Skills

  • Capacity planning
  • Technical support
  • Effective communication
  • Team leadership

References

  • Chris, Lindburg, Transport manager at T-mobile, 816-679-8757, T-Mobile, former manager at T-Mobile, Professional References
  • Paul, Lazarte, Transport manager at T-mobile, 714-260-2076, T-Mobile, former manager at T-Mobile, Professional References
  • Jeff, Guhl, 816-304-5130, Former Co-workers
  • Shirley, Burge, 816-305-5857, Former Co-workers
  • Robert, Wiese, 816-668-4446, Personal References
  • Robert, Kolega, 816-616-3288, Personal References

Timeline

Senior Systems Design Architecture Engineer

T-Mobile
04.2021 - 04.2025

Network Planner III

Sprint
10.2013 - 04.2021

Technical Support Engineer

Ericsson
09.2009 - 10.2013

Wireless Network Engineer

Sprint Nextel
05.1998 - 09.2009

Manager

Pizza Hut
02.1986 - 05.1998

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications Management

DeVry Institute of Technology
Arthur Petonke