The following list of editorial advisors includes accomplished professionals who provide editorial feedback and direction for MissionCritical Communications, Public Safety Report and RadioResource International. Their insight helps us keep a finger on the pulse of the markets that benefit from wireless voice and data, stay on top of technical trends and guide the magazines' mission. We are grateful for their contribution.
Kerry Adams is president of Mobile Business Communications, a company that began radio operations in Toronto, Canada in 1976. Mobile is an SMR operator with more than 100 channels in the Southern Ontario and Golden Horseshoe regions. In recent years, Mobile has implemented large-scale special-event and on-site-engineered radio systems. Adams has an MBA from the Ivey Business School.
24 Mallard Road, North York, Ontario M3B 1S2 TEL: +1-416-443-9555 ext. 230/FAX: +1-416-443-0560 kadams@mobilebusinesscom.com
Mark E. Crosby is president and CEO of the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA), which provides advocacy, frequency coordination, and spectrum consulting services to enterprises, technology vendors, and communications service providers in the wireless marketplace. Previously, he served as president of Access Spectrum, a 700 MHz band manager licensee, where he continues to serve on the board of directors.
8484 Westpark Dr., Suite 630, McLean, VA 22102 TEL: +1-703-528-5115/FAX: +1-703-524-1074 mark.crosby@enterprisewireless.org
Steve Crout is president of Triple C Communications, Inc., a Denver-area two-way radio dealer. Building on Triple C’s sales and service legacy that began with Steve’s father Lee in 1965, the company provides mobile radio communications, wireless point-to-point microwave, and in-building amplifiers for public safety.
13792 Compark Blvd., Unit 100, Englewood, CO 80112 TEL: +1-303-850-9000/FAX: +1-303-792-0442 steve@tripleccom.com
Bill Dean is currently a senior consultant for Communications Planning Consultants, a Minneapolis-based public safety radio consulting group. He is the former executive director of the Metropolitan Radio Board of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Prior to accepting the position as staff head of the Metropolitan Radio Board in 1999, Dean was a marketing communications business owner and a state legislator, who served four terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
8641 Sandro Road, Minneapolis, MN 55438 TEL: +1-612-718-1855 bill@complanconsultants.com
Brent Finster Brent Finster is the emergency communications manager in the Cayman Islands. He previously was communications chief of the Contra Costa County Fire District in the San Francisco Bay area. He is a two-term past president of the Colorado Chapter of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and currently the executive council representative for Northern California. He is a member of the California Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (CALSIEC) and the Department of Homeland Security’s SAFECOM Emergency Response Council.
PO Box 2391, Grand Cayman KY1-1501, Cayman Islands TEL: +1-345-949-9008/FAX: +1-345-949-4386 brent.finster@gov.ky
Joe Gallelli is president of the Gallelli Group, Inc., a consulting firm involved in the development of “open” technology, design and implementation of wireless, telecommunications and information systems. He is a past president of Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) and is active in Project 25, APCO, TIA, ETSI, IACP and other related trade associations.
477 Seminole Woods Blvd., Geneva FL 32732 TEL: +1-407-349-9199/FAX: +1-407-349-9591 102652.1051@compuserve.com
Ralph Haller is president of Fox Ridge Communications, a telecommunications consulting company in Gettysburg, Pa. He is a 25-year veteran of the FCC.
122 Baltimore St., #200, Gettysburg PA 17325 TEL: +1-717-334-7991/FAX: +1-717-334-5656 rhaller@frci.com
Joe Hanna is president of Directions and a private consultant in the public safety wireless arena. He is a retired captain of the Richardson (Texas) Police Department and a past president and life member of Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO), a member of the APCO Executive Council, a member of National Emergency Numbers Association (NENA), and a fellow in the Radio Club of America.
6805 Clear Springs Circle, Garland, TX 75044 TEL: +1-214-673-5478/FAX: +1-214-891-0707 locatejoeh@aol.com
Ron Haraseth has a 35-year background in public-safety communications. He currently works as a consultant for BearingPoint, an international management and technology consulting company. Previously, Haraseth worked nine years as the director of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International – Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC), a public-safety frequency coordinator. Prior to working for APCO, Haraseth retired from the state of Montana after 27 years.
110 Bryan Cave Road, South Daytona, FL 32119 TEL: +1-386-235-3528/FAX: + 1-386-322-7764 rharaseth@hotmail.com
Dale N. Hatfield is currently an independent consultant and adjunct professor in the department of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Hatfield was chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the FCC, and immediately prior to that he was chief technologist at the agency.
University of Colorado at Boulder, ECOT 311, 530 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309 TEL: +1-303-492-6648 dale.hatfield@colorado.edu
Carroll Hollingsworth is chief executive officer (CEO) of DH Marketing, an independent manufacturers’ representative company representing product suppliers for the wireless, land mobile, public-safety communication, OEM and utility industries. Hollingsworth has more than 35 years of experience in the wireless communications industry and is a past president and current officer of the Communications Marketing Association (CMA) board of directors and a director of the Radio Club of America (RCA) board of directors.
PO Box 5680, Lago Vista, TX 78645 TEL: 800-966-3357, ext. 701/FAX: +1-512-267-7760 dhlago@aol.com
John Johnson is a radio system analyst for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA), one of the three major divisions of the military department. Johnson has been with TEMA since 1984 and serves as the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International local frequency advisor for the state of Tennessee, chairman of the 800 MHz National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (NPSPAC) committee, the 700 MHz regional planning committee, and the statewide interoperability committee. He has worked for the state of Tennessee in public-safety communications for more than 25 years.
TEL: +1- 615-741-3826/FAX: +1- 615-741-6027 jjohnson@tnema.org
Craig Jorgensen is project director and co-chair of Project 25/34 and serves
as chairman of the Service Specifications Group (SSG) of the Public Safety
Partnership Programs, Project MESA. Having worked in state government for 30
years, he is a past president and served on the board of officers of both
Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO), and the
National Association of State Telecommunications Directors (NASTD), and is a
Fellow in the Radio Club of America. He is also president of Quantum
Telecommunications, a consulting firm.
1398 Michigan Ave., Salt Lake City UT 84105 TEL: +1-801-583-1099/FAX: +1-801-581-9605 jorgensen@sisna.com
Leonard Koehnen PE, is a consulting engineer in electronic communications systems and facilities with Leonard J. Koehnen & Associates in St. Paul, Minn. He has more than 45 years of experience in the mobile communications industry.
9348 Jonathan Rd., St. Paul MN 55125-9157 TEL: +1-651-739-1614 len@911radio.net
John Melcher is executive vice president of external affairs for Cyren Call Communications and president and CEO of The Melcher Group, a public-safety consulting firm. He retired in 2005 as the executive director for the Greater Harris County (Texas) 9-1-1 Emergency Network. JMelcher@cyrencall.com
Bill Moroney is president, CEO, and member of the board of directors of the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC), an international trade association representing electric, gas, and water utilities. Moroney also serves on the boards of UTC Canada, the European UTC, the UtiliSite Council, and the United Power Line Council.
United Telecom Council, 1901 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, 5th Floor,Washington, DC 20006 TEL: +1-202-872-0030 bill.moroney@utc.org
Joe Ross is a partner in Televate, a technology consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. Ross has more than 18 years of experience in wireless technology. He is the co-chair for the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) broadband working group.
8300 Greensboro Dr., Suite 600, McLean, VA 22033 TEL: +1-703-716-4868/FAX: +1-703-453-9122 jross@televate.com
Eric Schimmel is retired vice president of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). He has a consulting service in Bethesda, Maryland.
6216 Hollins Dr., Bethesda MD 20817 TEL: +1-540-373-5122 e.schimmel@ieee.org
Robert Schlieman is a Project 25 Steering Committee member. He was previously assigned to the New York State Office for Technology as project manager of engineering on the statewide wireless network, and spent 20 years as a New York State Police radio engineer. He serves as technical advisor to the New York Statewide Law Enforcement Telecommunications Committee and is an active member of Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO).
4 Tamarack Lane, Schenectady, NY 12309-1804 TEL: +1-518-785-9399 rschliem@capital.net
Fredrick Smith is telecommunications engineer at Chevron based in Bakersfield, Calif. He has worked in the petroleum industry since 1976 in both automation and telecommunications positions for Chevron, Getty Oil and Texaco. Smith has served on the American Petroleum Institute’s telecommunications committee since 1986, and he is currently vice chair of that committee. Smith also participates on the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) board of directors, serving as chair of the board from 2003 to 2005.
1546 China Grade Loop, Bakersfield, CA 93308 TEL: +1-661-392-2294/FAX: 1-661-392-2202 smithfh@chevron.com
Tom Tolman is an independent consultant. He has more than 30 years of background in federal, state, and local public-safety communications. He serves as advisor to the First Response Coalition (FRC), IWCE and Madesco Technologies. He was involved in interoperability research, APCO Project RETAINS, and Project 25 during his tenure as former public-safety communications principle investigator with the University of Denver.
7563 Urban St., Arvada, CO 80005 TEL: +1-303-489-3847 ttolmanco@comcast.net
Ole Arrhenius is senior system marketing manager for EADS Secure Networks. He is an electronics engineer and has worked previously in the importing, sales, and marketing of various communications systems. He has seven years of experience with PMR and TETRA networks.
PO Box 168, FI-00381 (Hiomotie 32, 00380) Helsinki, Finland TEL: + 358104080000/FAX: +358 9 51165931 ole.arrhenius@eads.com
Carlos Chajin is business development manager for Latin America with U.K.-based Team Simoco. He has more than 20 years of experience in the mobile communications industry. Chajin is based in the Miami area.
10773 N.W. 58th St., #502, Miami, FL, 33178, USA TEL: +1-305-722-1140 carlos.chajin@teamsimoco.com
Peter Clemons is director of communications for Teltronic. He has worked on a number of development and privatization projects in Latin America and recently started a Digital Mobile Radio Initiative (DMRI) to offer smaller LMR suppliers the opportunity to participate more actively in digital LMR standardization processes.
13 Ashford Road, Maidstone, ME14 5DA, United Kingdom TEL: +44 1622-751446/FAX: +44 1622 202184 clemonsp@aol.com
Phil Kidner is chief executive officer (CEO) of the TETRA Association, which represents a membership of 150 organizations from 37 countries. Kidner’s main responsibility is to promote the TETRA standard and its benefits. Kidner joined the TETRA Association in April 2006 from the U.K. Police Information Technology Organization (PITO), now the National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA). Having originally joined PITO as a seconded police officer, he retired from the police force in 2003 after 30 years’ service. He is a past president of the British Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (BAPCO).
Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom TEL: +44 1625 267886 phil.kidner@tetra-association.com
David Lum is director of Asia/Pacific product and support operations for Motorola's government and public-safety business. He has more than 24 years’ experience in the two-way radio business and extensive knowledge of a wide variety of markets and applications that use two-way voice and wireless data radio systems. Lum’s work experience includes product development and marketing, systems marketing, manufacturing, systems engineering, field engineering, project and program management, sales and engineering training, and business development.
Duncan Swan is a partner and head of the public-sector consulting division of Analysys Mason Group in the London office. He has worked primarily with radio communications, for both mobile and fixed applications, and associated technologies. Duncan has more than 20 years of experience in radio systems engineering gained through working for Philips Communication Systems and, since 1995, for Mason Communications.
2nd Floor, NW Wing, Bush House, Aldwych, London WC2B 4PL United Kingdom TEL: +44 207 395 9035/FAX: +44 207 395 9001 duncan.swan@mason.biz
John Wilkinson is the managing director for Aspiring International, an independent consultancy in Singapore. He has more than 20 years of experience in the mobile communications industry, including numerous positions with Tait Electronics and most recently serving as a country manager and director for Tait in Singapore. He has also worked for a utility in the United Kingdom and as a consultant in the Australian rail industry. He has worked on projects throughout Southeast Asia, along with consulting on mobile communications for the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Aspiring International Pte. Ltd., 38/40 Regent St., Seletar Camp, Singapore 798323 TEL: +65-6484-0372/FAX: +65-6484-0372 johnw@singnet.com.sg
Jolly Wong is the chief police telecommunications engineer with the Hong Kong Police Force (HKKPF), now serving as head of the communications branch. Wong is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), along with other computer and engineering associations. He is past chairman of the information technology (IT) division (1994-1996), past chairman of the electronics division (2002-2003) and founding discipline representative of the information engineering discipline (1998-2000), representing the HKIE.
24/F, Arsenal House, Police Headquarters, 1 Arsenal St., Wan Chai, Hong Kong TEL: +852 2860 2828/FAX: +852 2200 4375 jollywong@police.gov.hk
Max Zerbst is the principal consultant with Datasel Consulting in Springe, Germany. He formerly was vice president, marketing and sales, for Rohde & Schwarz BICK Mobilfunk. Zerbst has 25 years of experience in the field of mobile radio, spanning systems development, product management, business development, and marketing and sales. He is a member of the IEEE Communications and Computer Society.
Spenner Brink 1, D-31832 Springe, Germany TEL: +49 5041 971 510/FAX: +49 501 971 512 max.zerbst@t-online.de
Kerry Adams is president of Mobile Business Communications, a company that began radio operations in Toronto, Canada in 1976. Mobile is an SMR operator with more than 100 channels in the Southern Ontario and Golden Horseshoe regions. In recent years, Mobile has implemented large-scale special-event and on-site-engineered radio systems. Adams has an MBA from the Ivey Business School.
Mark E. Crosby is president and CEO of the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA), which provides advocacy, frequency coordination, and spectrum consulting services to enterprises, technology vendors, and communications service providers in the wireless marketplace. Previously, he served as president of Access Spectrum, a 700 MHz band manager licensee, where he continues to serve on the board of directors.
Steve Crout is president of Triple C Communications, Inc., a Denver-area two-way radio dealer. Building on Triple C’s sales and service legacy that began with Steve’s father Lee in 1965, the company provides mobile radio communications, wireless point-to-point microwave, and in-building amplifiers for public safety.
Bill Dean is currently a senior consultant for Communications Planning Consultants, a Minneapolis-based public safety radio consulting group. He is the former executive director of the Metropolitan Radio Board of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. Prior to accepting the position as staff head of the Metropolitan Radio Board in 1999, Dean was a marketing communications business owner and a state legislator, who served four terms in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Brent Finster Brent Finster is the emergency communications manager in the Cayman Islands. He previously was communications chief of the Contra Costa County Fire District in the San Francisco Bay area. He is a two-term past president of the Colorado Chapter of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International and currently the executive council representative for Northern California. He is a member of the California Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (CALSIEC) and the Department of Homeland Security’s SAFECOM Emergency Response Council.
Ralph Haller is president of Fox Ridge Communications, a telecommunications consulting company in Gettysburg, Pa. He is a 25-year veteran of the FCC.
Joe Hanna is president of Directions and a private consultant in the public safety wireless arena. He is a retired captain of the Richardson (Texas) Police Department and a past president and life member of Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO), a member of the APCO Executive Council, a member of National Emergency Numbers Association (NENA), and a fellow in the Radio Club of America.
Ron Haraseth has a 35-year background in public-safety communications. He currently works as a consultant for BearingPoint, an international management and technology consulting company. Previously, Haraseth worked nine years as the director of the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International – Automated Frequency Coordination (AFC), a public-safety frequency coordinator. Prior to working for APCO, Haraseth retired from the state of Montana after 27 years.
Dale N. Hatfield is currently an independent consultant and adjunct professor in the department of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Hatfield was chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the FCC, and immediately prior to that he was chief technologist at the agency.
Carroll Hollingsworth is chief executive officer (CEO) of DH Marketing, an independent manufacturers’ representative company representing product suppliers for the wireless, land mobile, public-safety communication, OEM and utility industries. Hollingsworth has more than 35 years of experience in the wireless communications industry and is a past president and current officer of the Communications Marketing Association (CMA) board of directors and a director of the Radio Club of America (RCA) board of directors.
John Johnson is a radio system analyst for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA), one of the three major divisions of the military department. Johnson has been with TEMA since 1984 and serves as the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International local frequency advisor for the state of Tennessee, chairman of the 800 MHz National Public Safety Planning Advisory Committee (NPSPAC) committee, the 700 MHz regional planning committee, and the statewide interoperability committee. He has worked for the state of Tennessee in public-safety communications for more than 25 years.
Craig Jorgensen is project director and co-chair of Project 25/34 and serves
as chairman of the Service Specifications Group (SSG) of the Public Safety
Partnership Programs, Project MESA. Having worked in state government for 30
years, he is a past president and served on the board of officers of both
Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO), and the
National Association of State Telecommunications Directors (NASTD), and is a
Fellow in the Radio Club of America. He is also president of Quantum
Telecommunications, a consulting firm.
Leonard Koehnen PE, is a consulting engineer in electronic communications systems and facilities with Leonard J. Koehnen & Associates in St. Paul, Minn. He has more than 45 years of experience in the mobile communications industry.
John Melcher is executive vice president of external affairs for Cyren Call Communications and president and CEO of The Melcher Group, a public-safety consulting firm. He retired in 2005 as the executive director for the Greater Harris County (Texas) 9-1-1 Emergency Network.
Bill Moroney is president, CEO, and member of the board of directors of the Utilities Telecom Council (UTC), an international trade association representing electric, gas, and water utilities. Moroney also serves on the boards of UTC Canada, the European UTC, the UtiliSite Council, and the United Power Line Council.
Joe Ross is a partner in Televate, a technology consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. Ross has more than 18 years of experience in wireless technology. He is the co-chair for the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) broadband working group.
Robert Schlieman is a Project 25 Steering Committee member. He was previously assigned to the New York State Office for Technology as project manager of engineering on the statewide wireless network, and spent 20 years as a New York State Police radio engineer. He serves as technical advisor to the New York Statewide Law Enforcement Telecommunications Committee and is an active member of Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO).
Fredrick Smith is telecommunications engineer at Chevron based in Bakersfield, Calif. He has worked in the petroleum industry since 1976 in both automation and telecommunications positions for Chevron, Getty Oil and Texaco. Smith has served on the American Petroleum Institute’s telecommunications committee since 1986, and he is currently vice chair of that committee. Smith also participates on the Enterprise Wireless Alliance (EWA) board of directors, serving as chair of the board from 2003 to 2005.
Tom Tolman is an independent consultant. He has more than 30 years of background in federal, state, and local public-safety communications. He serves as advisor to the First Response Coalition (FRC), IWCE and Madesco Technologies. He was involved in interoperability research, APCO Project RETAINS, and Project 25 during his tenure as former public-safety communications principle investigator with the University of Denver.
Ole Arrhenius is senior system marketing manager for EADS Secure Networks. He is an electronics engineer and has worked previously in the importing, sales, and marketing of various communications systems. He has seven years of experience with PMR and TETRA networks.
Carlos Chajin is business development manager for Latin America with U.K.-based Team Simoco. He has more than 20 years of experience in the mobile communications industry. Chajin is based in the Miami area.
Peter Clemons is director of communications for Teltronic. He has worked on a number of development and privatization projects in Latin America and recently started a Digital Mobile Radio Initiative (DMRI) to offer smaller LMR suppliers the opportunity to participate more actively in digital LMR standardization processes.
Phil Kidner is chief executive officer (CEO) of the TETRA Association, which represents a membership of 150 organizations from 37 countries. Kidner’s main responsibility is to promote the TETRA standard and its benefits. Kidner joined the TETRA Association in April 2006 from the U.K. Police Information Technology Organization (PITO), now the National Police Improvement Agency (NPIA). Having originally joined PITO as a seconded police officer, he retired from the police force in 2003 after 30 years’ service. He is a past president of the British Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (BAPCO).
David Lum is director of Asia/Pacific product and support operations for Motorola's government and public-safety business. He has more than 24 years’ experience in the two-way radio business and extensive knowledge of a wide variety of markets and applications that use two-way voice and wireless data radio systems. Lum’s work experience includes product development and marketing, systems marketing, manufacturing, systems engineering, field engineering, project and program management, sales and engineering training, and business development.
Duncan Swan is a partner and head of the public-sector consulting division of Analysys Mason Group in the London office. He has worked primarily with radio communications, for both mobile and fixed applications, and associated technologies. Duncan has more than 20 years of experience in radio systems engineering gained through working for Philips Communication Systems and, since 1995, for Mason Communications.
John Wilkinson is the managing director for Aspiring International, an independent consultancy in Singapore. He has more than 20 years of experience in the mobile communications industry, including numerous positions with Tait Electronics and most recently serving as a country manager and director for Tait in Singapore. He has also worked for a utility in the United Kingdom and as a consultant in the Australian rail industry. He has worked on projects throughout Southeast Asia, along with consulting on mobile communications for the Sydney 2000 Olympics.
Jolly Wong is the chief police telecommunications engineer with the Hong Kong Police Force (HKKPF), now serving as head of the communications branch. Wong is a fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), along with other computer and engineering associations. He is past chairman of the information technology (IT) division (1994-1996), past chairman of the electronics division (2002-2003) and founding discipline representative of the information engineering discipline (1998-2000), representing the HKIE.
Max Zerbst is the principal consultant with Datasel Consulting in Springe, Germany. He formerly was vice president, marketing and sales, for Rohde & Schwarz BICK Mobilfunk. Zerbst has 25 years of experience in the field of mobile radio, spanning systems development, product management, business development, and marketing and sales. He is a member of the IEEE Communications and Computer Society.