Terri L. Brooks Home: 817 430 2185
27 Ridgewood Drive Cell: 817 271 1558
Trophy Club, TX 76262 tb.consulting@charter.net


Terri Brooks has worked in the telecom industry for twelve years, focusing on the wireless side, with experience ranging from designing and coding network features to product planning, standards and customer relations. She has developed, enhanced and applied her variety of skills over these years to many aspects of telecom business.

Ms. Brooks has ten years of experience developing regulatory standards for the industry, including responsibilities for FCC filings and negotiations. This has given her a great deal of exposure to the legal requirements for product deployment in the United States.

Her experience in diverse business units within the companies she has worked for has provided her with the ability to communicate well with the people involved in all stages of product development and deployment cycle, including the information exchanges with the customer prior to and following that development.

Please contact Terri if you have any interest in utilizing her skills.



Professional Summary
 
Standards: Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance (LAES), E9-1-1, GSM, IS-41
Standards Forums: TR-45, TR45.2, T1P1, 3GPP, 3GPP2, ITU-T
Design/Coding: Cellular features (user-perspective) design; network design


Work Summary
 
Nokia
Standards Engineer 1996 to 2004
 
 
  • LAES (Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance) standards prime for Nokia from 1996 to 2004.
  • Chair position in TR-45 LAES Ad Hoc group since 1999. Will retain this position with support from new company.
  • Recognized throughout industry as a leading expert on US LAES requirements.
  • Internal contact point for Design and Product groups for LAES requirements on Nokia platforms deployed in the US. Direct interaction with Nokia customers and Law Enforcement for GPRS/UMTS platform on system planning and deployment.
  • E9-1-1 (Enhanced 9-1-1 Services) prime for Nokia from 1996 until 1Q2002. Involved in topic through 4Q2002, including participation in ATIS ESIF.
  • Editor’s position in industry standards group for E9-1-1, followed by chair position at the request of carriers.
  • Internal contact point for Design and Product groups until 2002 for E9-1-1 on Nokia platforms deployed in the US.
  • Regular interaction and strategy planning with carriers and vendors throughout the industry, both GSM-based and cdma2000-based, on direction of these projects.
  • Experience in discussions/negotiations with FCC, Law Enforcement and Public Safety on regulatory topics.
 
 
Nortel
Systems Engineer 1994 to 1996
 
 
  • Standards prime in Systems Engineering group on IS-41 features
  • Held co-chair position for CDMA Ad Hoc group under TR45.2
 
 
Cellular/Network Design 1992 to 1994
 
 
  • Worked within a team to design and code user-perspective features
  • Designed and coded network features
  • Solved problem reports in both of the above work areas.
 
 
DSC
Class 5 Switch Programming 1988 to 1990
 
 
  • Four co-op terms during college years programming in Assembly language.
  • MMI software design on Class 5 switches
 
 
Consulting Experience
 
 
  • Contracted by a D.C. law firm to write a declaration on the ten-year history of the joint TIA/T1 project on LAES and the J-STD-025 series of standards. This declaration was the main focus of the TIA Industry filing on April 27th, 2004 to the FCC on CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act).
  • Currently under contract for regular participation in IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN. Voting status acquired as of March 2005.
 
 
Education
 
Texas A&M
BS In Computer Science (Math Minor) December '91
 
  •  Worked while in school and funded 80% of education. Work pertained to telecommunications and to personnel simulation software for the database portion of a US Air Force contract.
 
References
 
Cheryl Blum Technical Manager, Wireless Standards Development at Lucent and Chair, TIA TR-45 630 713 1449
cjblum@lucent.com
Ed Hall TXI, LLC and Former VP, Technology Department at ATIS 410 340 7892
ehall@telecomxchange.com
Dan Bart Senior VP, Standards and Special Projects, TIA 703 907 7703
dbart@tiaonline.com
Gerry Flynn Director, Advance Technology Strategy/Standards, Vice-Chair TR-45, Vice-Chair 3GPP2, VP CDG 908 607 8584
Gerry.Flynn@VerizonWireless.com
Larry Young Manager, Sprint Industry Standards 913 794 3763
LYoung01@sprintspectrum.com
Peter Musgrove Principle Member of Technical Staff, Cingular 425 580 6875
Peter.musgrove@cingular.com
Bonnie Petti TRSG, LLC and Former Verizon Wireless Executive Director, Network HQ Staff, Interconnection, Numbering and Mandates 858 245 0497
bpetti@sbcglobal.net
Chris Wallace Former VP, Nokia Americas Standards 214 912 4947
pcs1900@earthlink.net
Brye Bonner Fellow Technical Staff, iDEN 847 576 5920
brye.bonner@motorola.com
Gary Pellegrino Consultant 908 707 0718
gary@commflowresources.com
David Crowe Consultant 403 289 6609
david.crowe@cnp-wireless.com