Don joined Award Solutions in 2005, bringing his knowledge and experience in mobile wireless technologies to bear in the planning, development and delivery of technical training seminars. Don specializes in wireless telecommunications networks, focusing on air interface standards, wireless and Internet applications, and advanced wireless network solutions, such as ad hoc and mesh networking.
Don has over 25 years of hands-on experience in the telecommunications and wireless industries. He began his career in Ottawa, Canada, with Nortel Networks (then Bell-Northern Research) as a call processing software designer. He moved to Richardson, Texas, in 1983, as one of the initial team responsible for designing and developing Nortel's wireless product line. He rose quickly through the ranks, first as a development manager, then as a senior project manager, and then as a director of advanced wireless technology, involved in all aspects of the design of Nortel's AMPS, TDMA and CDMA products. In his final role at Nortel, Don was responsible for a small technology group investigating advanced networking technologies. The group's research and prototyping activities were the basis for Nortel's innovative wireless LAN offering, the Wireless Mesh Network.
Don is currently responsible for Award's 4G technology (LTE and WiMAX) and 3GPP (CDMA2000 1x and 1xEV-DO) course curriculums, and delivers LTE, UMTS, and 1xEV-DO sessions at many leading telecommunications companies. In addition to technology classes, Don conducts RF performance mentoring sessions for large wireless service providers to train RF engineers in system performance optimization techniques.
Don received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science (First Class Honors) from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He holds 9 patents in various areas of wireless technology.