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Marcus Estevam Lauriano Ramos

Personal Information

Name: Marcus Estevam Lauriano Ramos
Age: 50
City of birth: Porto Alegre
Country: Brazil
Marital status: married.

Last Job

2003 - 2008 Gigacom Wireless (São Paulo - SP)

Tech Manager

• Pre-Sales Engineering & Product Application.

• Development Manager.

• X-Band Military Satcom System installation.

• RF engineering, RF hardware design, R&D.

• Waveguide microwave filters design.

• X-Band SSPA maintenance.

• Microwave transceivers design.

• ANATEL hardware certification.

Education

2002 - 2002 Metodista University (S. Paulo – SP)

• Psychology, approved at 11^th place, uncompleted.

1980 - 1982 Catholic University (P. Alegre – RS)

• Electronic Engineering, uncompleted.

1980 - 1982 Catholic University (P. Alegre – RS)

• Physics, uncompleted.

1977 - 1979 Cruzeiro do Sul School (P. Alegre – RS)

• High School, structural drawing.

1971 - 1976 Military School (P. Alegre – RS)

• Secondary school.

1967 - 1970 G. E. Vera Cruz (P. Alegre – RS)

• Primary school.

Professional Experience

1999 - 2002 Globocabo S/A (São Paulo - SP)

Tech Manager

• SDH Network Specification and RFP evaluation.

• Embedded Systems analysis during Y2K bug tests.

• CATV Headends consolidation (S.Paulo city).

• Tech support to internet over CATV network business deployment.

• IP Traffic modeling and IP capacity specification.

• Tech support to CATV HFC plant noise heal.

• Digital TV acceptance under consumer point of view.

• Dark fiber rental costs versus long distance capacity swap.

1993 - 1998 Multicanal Telecom S/A (S.Paulo & R. de Janeiro)

Tech & Headend Manager

• Design, deployment and operation: 14 Headends (Barco, Scientific Atlanta and GI hardware, Andrew and ATCI satellite antennas).

• Crew training: HFC plant activation and balance (bi-directional network).

• HFC Equipment specification and network design.

• HFC network alignment and maintenance procedures.

• Cable Modem trial (Zenith hardware, 1997).

• TDM Telephony over HFC trial (Tellabs hardware, 1997).

• Private CATV channel technical specs (Silicon Graphics hardware, satellite data upload, 1998)

   

1991 - 1992 Radio e TV Educativa (P. Alegre - RS)

Tech Director assessor

• Maintenance and restoration of a 32 stations TV repeater network, statewide.

   

1986 – 1991 Self Employee (P. Alegre - RS)

Electronics and Audio Technician

• Deployment of several AM, FM and Short Wave broadcast stations (studios, antennas and STL) and TV repeaters.

• Preventive and corrective maintenance on TV repeaters (terrestrial and by satellite), AM and FM broadcast transmitters, HF-SSB transceivers and VHF/UHF-FM transceivers.

• Preventive and corrective audio equipment maintenance (broadcast and recording studios).

• Direct sound technician (live recording) to TV advertisement and movies.

• Sound Engineering and PA sound operator (shows, studio, recording, mixing and for TV).

• Loudspeaker enclosures design and manufacture.

• Audio amplifiers design and manufacture.

• Studios and Night Clubs acoustic project.

• Manufacture process supervision at Trivox musical equipment factory (partner).

1980 – 1986 Radio & TV Gaucha (P. Alegre – RS)

Maintenance Technician

• Preventive and corrective maintenance (RCA 25KW and an Acrodyne 5KW TV Transmitters).

• Preventive and corrective maintenance (RCA 20KW FM Transmitter).

• Preventive and corrective maintenance (Harris 2.5GHz microwave links, MACom 2.5 and 13 GHz microwave links).

• FM and TV audio studios maintenance and construction.

• Preventive and corrective maintenance (open reel tape recorders, microphones, cartridges, amplifiers, mixing consoles).

• Microwave and VHF TV transmitting antennas installation.

• Scientific Atlanta satellite ground Station installation (as an auxiliary technician).

Publications and Speeches

• Speech at ABRANET Forum (Sep 07): High speed PTP microwave links applied to ISP & WISP.

• Speech at P. Alegre Wireless Forum (May 07): High speed PTP microwave links to Public Services & Government.

• Speech at Metodista University (Jun 05): DRM (Digital Radio Mondiale), a new standard to digital radio broadcast.

• Technical articles at QTC Magazine, an Amateur Radio oriented publication, 5000 issues, six times a year, in Portuguese.

• Personal web site where I share technical information with the Amateur Radio community (http://py.qsl.br, more than 45000 hits, in Portuguese).

• Speech at ANATEL Y2K seminar (1999): Embedded Systems Inventory strategy.

• Speech at BRISA IT development seminar (2000):Multi-vendor Network Managing platforms integration strategy adopted at Globocabo.

• Speech at SET (1994), CATV seminar: CATV basics.

Other Activities

• Software Beta-tester: database built to register amateur radio contacts (see AALog at http://www.dxsoft.com) .

• Software Beta-tester: DSP noise reduction software, sound card based (see http://www.siliconpixels.com/csnd/csnd.htm).

• Took part in a ionospheric chirp sounding monitoring project to study HF radio propagation, using a Motorola DSP development platform (coordinator: Peter Martinez), article published by Radio Society of Great Britain at RadCom´s July and August 2000 issues (see http://www.rsgb.org.uk/news/radcom.htm).

• VHF-DX newsgroup coordinator (technical group, 250 members, more than 8000 messages exchanged, about VHF and up radio propagation and other technical subjects, in Portuguese).

• Comments at Public Audiences of ANATEL - the Brazilian FCC equivalent – about Non-ionizing radiation rule making and at 10.0 to 10.5GHz radio spectrum use.

• Amateur Radio rule making process, contributing to spectrum allocation and technological convergence issues.

Hobbies