VERNE H. MacDONALD
7 Emerald Court
Freehold, NJ 07728-7792
U. S. A.
tel. 732-294-8907
vhm@eclipse.net

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE: a part-time or short-term position as a consultant oriented toward data analysis, modeling, or systems engineering in an environment that includes some of the following technical interests:

• telephone network design, planning, traffic engineering, performance monitoring and data analysis, or trouble shooting based on data
• cellular or wireless system design, planning, traffic engineering, performance monitoring and data analysis, or trouble shooting based on data
• Internet or intranet system design, capacity planning, performance monitoring and data analysis, web-page creation or modification, or design of business transactions

HIGHLIGHTS OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1970-1986      Bell Laboratories, Cellular Systems Engineering

• 2 patents (details below): voice-channel-selection algorithm, fleet calling
• 4 published articles (details below)
• series of articles for cellular system operators, containing tutorial material and engineering procedures
• procedures for collecting and interpreting system-performance measurements
• modeling radio-frequency signal and interference probability distributions
• traffic-movement models and traffic-engineering procedures

1986 - 1988      Bell Laboratories, AT&T Switched Network

• tracking, analysis, and oral and written reports on data transmission errors, as part of the conversion of the AT&T network from hierarchical routing to Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing (DNHR)
• analysis of time and geographical patterns of traffic blocking resulting from network failures

1988 - 1998      AT&T, FTS2000 (Federal Government) Network

• mathematical algorithms for computations based on traffic data
• written specifications for operations systems that gather and process traffic data
• numerous investigations of traffic-data inconsistencies, localization of software errors to offending switch or operations system, collaboration on correction of errors
• study of impact of network traffic blocking objective on profit
• numerous investigations of occurrences of unexpectedly high traffic blocking
• graphical displays of history of network traffic loads and traffic blocking performance, updated monthly
• methods to extract information from faulty data

EDUCATION

• B.E. with Honors, Electrical Engineering, Yale University, 1964
• M.S., Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University, 1967
• Ph.D., Engineering & Applied Science, Yale University, 1970
• year of graduate study in electrical engineering (1966-1967), University of Edinburgh, Scotland

PATENTS

• Cellular High Capacity Mobile Radiotelephone System with Fleet-Calling Arrangements for Dispatch Service, No. 4,399,555, 8/16/83
• High Density Cellular Mobile Radio Communications, No. 4,475,010, 10/2/84

PUBLICATIONS

• "Optimum Passive Bearing Estimation in a Spatially Incoherent Noise Environment," JASA 46, No. 1 (July, 1969), p. 37
• "Optimum Bearing Estimation with Passive Sonar Systems," doctoral dissertation, Yale, 1970
  
  
• "The Cellular Concept," BSTJ 58, No. 1 (January, 1979), pp 15-42
• "Adjacent- and Co-Channel Interference in Large-Cell Cellular Systems," Telecommunications, March, 1984, pp. 112-116
• "Mobile Radio," article in 1985 Yearbook for the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, pp. 277-279.
• "Cellular Radio Systems," chapter 22 of Electronic Communications Handbook, editor Andrew F. Inglis, McGraw-Hill, 1988

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

• German: speak, understand, read, write at modest level (2 years college)
• Spanish: speak, understand, read, write at modest level (3 years high-school)
• Russian: translate with dictionary at elementary level (2 years college)
• French: translate with dictionary at elementary level
• Italian: translate with dictionary at elementary level
• Japanese: speak, understand at very elementary level