My Work

 I've told you about the big project at work that I've been working on for the past three years right? You know, the new radio system for our first responders (Fire and Sheriff's) that I have been a jack of all trades on. I started on the project as a Data Network Engineer, along the way I got to become the lead for the microwave system (the big dishes that hang on towers that use radio waves to transmit data). Then I got to become, in my copious free time, the lead for all the existing radio and microwave sites that need to be upgraded to meet the new standards. So when I say a jack of all trades, that's what I have become. Well all that work for the past three years finally became reality for me last week when I went to Motorola's Staging Plant in Chicago. I walked into this big warehouse size building to finally see our entire new radio system under one roof. 70 sites worth of radio equipment all under one roof, it was pretty amazing to see. 

The photograph above is just one fifth of our system and it's all working right here, in fact I got to test some of it last week. In March I get to spend a week with some of my colleagues doing Acceptance Testing before all this equipment gets shipped to California.