James K. Martin

Current

Owner at JimmyWireless

Past

Senior Software Engineer at Motorola Mobile Devices
Master Scheduler Consultant - MS Project at Computer Horizons
Program Manager at Motorola - Personal Communications Sector

Project Controller at Kvaerner John Brown
Configuration Management Project Leader at Barnes & Reinecke

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Education

Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
College of DuPage

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Industry

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James K. Martin’s Summary

Jakmart.com Inc. dba JimmyWireless, designs and sells wireless products and services that together provide its customers with Internet protocol (IP) network solutions. The Company's operations are organized into three operating segments: Infrastructure, Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) and Customer Service. The infrastructure segment negotiates tower and repeater space leases that are used to control and direct network traffic from the core, through the edge, aggregation and the customer premise equipment level. The CPE segment offers solutions that meet an array of customer's priorities, from protecting the network itself, and protecting data on the network, to maximizing existing bandwidth and acceleration of applications across a distributed network. The Service segment delivers services to customers of the Infrastructure and CPE segments. My most recent experience is building a cloud computing server node on Whole Debian Enchilada.

James K. Martin’s Specialties:

Linux Open Source Server Solutions, Joomal & Drupal CMS, SugarCRM, Magento E-Commerce, MSProject 2007, Primavera P3, PMO Scheduler, Radio Tower Infrastructure, Rooftop Lease Negotiations, Secure Network Solutions, Municipal Wi-Fi Networks, Multi-WAN Router Configurations, Cloud Computing, technology linked to curriculum in K-4 schools with Wii remote open source project.

James K. Martin’s Experience

Owner

JimmyWireless

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Wireless industry)

March 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)

• Engineering, Procurement and Construction for municipal 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi radio systems resulting in multi-year contracts with Lake County Radio Department and multiple annual repeater contracts with private owners.

• Negotiated tower lease for 900 MHz antenna system installed at the Lake County Radio Department in Libertyville, IL. Added 8 high-gain micro cells/backhaul systems (Libertyville, Mundelein and Gurnee), resulting in ability to sell high speed Internet access to home and small business owners within a 10 mile radius.

• Direct sales and marketing including promotional activities resulting in one-on-one sales presentations and site evaluations to commercial and residential clients. Negotiated wireless service agreements to provide high-speed Internet access to over 100 clients within service area.
Senior Software Engineer

Motorola Mobile Devices

(Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

August 2005 — November 2007 (2 years 4 months)

• Technical Project Manager and master PANIC debugger (Windows Blue Screen of Death) for ruggedized 3G-UMTS-GSM quad band handsets on embedded Linux Java based platform.

• Delivered secure PKI server provisioned, generic signed factory software for 100% test implementation and 100% test coverage.

• Product Management for delivering defect free, secure software that included Napster feature Janus - Windows Media DRM for portable devices.

• Captured data logs while loop testing Nextest and LabView bench test stations to spearhead resolution of specific technical issues in support of prototype factory handset deliverables.

• Investigated and executed software quality assurance issues that reduce throughput in a high volume manufacturing setting prior to acceptance of the manufacturing ramp stage.
Master Scheduler Consultant - MS Project

Computer Horizons

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CHRZ; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2004 — November 2004 (5 months)

• Master cutover scheduler for SAP cutover of West of Rockies ARCO merger into BP/Amoco footprint. SAP cutover experience for consolidating all core financial statements across enterprise.

• Executed milestone kickoff meetings, developed communications management plan, planned effort estimations, managed scope changes, and provided post production support.

• Delivered Critical Path report for 2500 line schedule to maintain focus on delivering the project on time with knowledge change management capture (ClearQuest SIRs) to understand multiple critical paths and to present What IF Analysis. Defined data dictionary for MS Project 2000 custom fields for text, flags, numbers, start and finish.

• Delivered SAP cutover schedules (MS Project 2000) for Mock, Dry Run and Go Live plans to define work tasks that have time defined within scope resulting in multi-stage schedules (Business and Technical) where tasks realistically finish across MILESTONE boundaries.
Program Manager

Motorola - Personal Communications Sector

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

May 1999 — March 2003 (3 years 11 months)

• Integrated Project Management Office (PMO) master Microsoft Project schedule to show critical path, key milestones, task interdependencies and tracked actual progress to capture actual start and finish dates for facility planning and software feature teams on P2K platform.

• Executed enterprise strategy for P2K software feature teams to achieve configuration identification, configuration controls, status accounting and participation in executive reviews and audits.
Project Controller

Kvaerner John Brown

(Pharmaceuticals industry)

February 1997 — February 1998 (1 year 1 month)

Leader for project controls department to improve project profitability by providing project managers with accurate, meaningful information needed to gain control over project schedules, revenue and expenses. Primavera P3 2.0 scheduling experience for construction phase of projects.

• Executed regional office manpower forecasting totaling 1.2 Million Man-hours per year and developed project controls - earned value measurement database (Milestone % Complete) to graphically show monthly project status and progress to President of North America Operations.
Configuration Management Project Leader

Barnes & Reinecke

(Military industry)

May 1991 — December 1996 (5 years 8 months)

Mechanical Engineer for Paladin M109A6, 155MM cannon artillery system, self-propelled howitizer.

• Designed modification kits for U.S. Army order of 950 vehicles to complete the technical data package for competitive bid among DoD manufacturing companies at Paladin Production Operations centre, Chambersburg, PA.

James K. Martin’s Education

Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

Masters Project Management , Project Management - Human Resource Management , 1993 — 1996

Formally admitted March 2009 as non-matriculating student for concentration in Information Services. Funding provided by IL Workforce Development Grant. Program and class selection based on Masters of Information Systems Management (MISM) and Project Management (MPM). Seven program courses selected: Visual Basic.Net, Advanced Project Management Practices and Professional Exam Preparation, Advanced Visual Basic.Net, Database Concepts, Business Intelligence Systems, Database Programming and Applications, JAVA Programming.
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

BS , Mechanical Engineering Technology , 1981 — 1986

Intramural Sports, Softball Umpire, Floor Hockey Referee, Basketball Referee, Ultimate Frisbee Official, Flag Football Referee, Team Handball.

Activities and Societies:

Delta Chi Fraternity 1981 to 1983. Stage Crew Shryock Auditorium, SIU Arena, Spotlight Operator for major events, ZZ-Top, Joe Walsh, Ray Charles, Police, John Cougar-Mellancamp. Stage Manager for Chick Corea, San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus.
College of DuPage

AS , Manufacturing Technology , 1979 — 1981

Activities and Societies:

Football Team, 3rd string backup quarterback, 1979 East Bowl

Additional Information

James K. Martin’s Websites:

My Company

James K. Martin’s Interests:

Wi-Fi, WiFi, HotSpot, WLAN, GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, Open Handset Alliance, Wi-Fi Alliance, Wireless Communications,WiMAX, Communication Equipment, 802.11, LTE, UWB,