April Filiczkowski

Experience

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  US Air Force

  Jan 1996 - Jan 2002

  PMEL Journeymen

  Calibrated test diagnostic and measurement equipment (TDME).Troubleshooted and repaired TDME.

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  Motorola

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

  Coop

  Test engineer for Engine Contol Modules for Daimler Crysler. Worked on testing the control module through the design and production phase. Various tasks included troubleshooting, soldering and automated testing.

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  Motorola Solutions

  Jan 2007 - now

  Pre-sale Systems engineer for the West Coast Territory. Part of a team of engineers responsible for providing pre-sale public safety communications engineering support on multi-million dollar mission critical strategic projects. Designing Public Safety grade wireless voice and data radio network systems that deliver customer-focused, world class, leading edge, competitive, end to end solutions. Providing customers with technical consultancy including customer meetings, presentations, technical proposal responses and technical support during contract negotiations. Pres-sales project manager providing necessary oversight to put together a proposal and quoting of system integration services to deliver a winning proposal that not only met the customer's needs but budget as well. Show less Lead engineer on large Public Safety project. Lead a team of engineers to develop a mission critical 700 MHz voice system. Design two-way radio network systems.Perform coverage and capacity analysisConduct site evaluations at customer radio sites.Effectively coordinate across various groups and functional teams such as product group, system technicians and third party vendors to develop the system design. Create technical documentation for proposals.Perform tasks with minimal supervision. Show less Worked as a Field Systems Engineer designing a mission critical voice and LTE data network for the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communication System (LA-RICS) that will support 34,000 first responders and serve over 10 million residents across Los Angeles County.Performed coverage and capacity analysis for the data system design of LA-RICS.Performed frequency analysisConducted site-walks of customer sites to determine potential radio sites.Expertise on Designing analog and digital two-way radio systems using Motorola RF propagation tools for Coverage analysis. Created technical proposals for several large public safety entities: LA-RICS, Butte County (CA), Orange County (CA), San Diego County (CA), Silicon Valley Regional Communication System (SVRCS) and many others. Successfully worked with a team of Systems Technicians, Project Managers and Sales Managers in the post sale implementation of the voice and data network for Imperial County, California. Show less

  • Presales Business Manager

    Jan 2021 - now

  • Pre-Sales Senior Systems Engineer

    Jan 2016 - Dec 2020

  • Senior Systems Engineer II

    Dec 2014 - Dec 2016

  • Senior System Engineer I

    Mar 2008 - Dec 2014

  • System Engineer

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2009