Subtopics

• Multi-Agency InteroperabilityA utility, law enforcement, fire and rescue and emergency management operating over infrastructure none of them individually owned.
• Project 25 Trunked RadioThe Motorola P25 platform the regional system was ultimately replaced on, carrying a 10,500-radio fleet.
• Radio Site & Tower DesignTower and site design, coverage validated in the field, and redundancy that had to be proven before a storm rather than during one.

Applied in

• First Coast Radio System2000–2024Regional shared public safety radio across three system generations — original, retrofit, and full P25 replacement.
• Downtown Campus Distributed Antenna System2008–2023A neutral-host DAS carrying four commercial carriers, public safety radio and Wi-Fi — owned across two full platform generations.
• Emergency Operations Center Activations2006–2021Seven activations keeping public-safety and EOC systems available under hurricane conditions — in Logistics from 2006 and as the division's Emergency Coordination Officer from 2008 — with each after-action review fed back into the architecture.
• Automatic Vehicle Location Program2006–2016A transit and traffic system that became a public works and code enforcement fleet estate — 167 units across thirteen divisions, owned from the transport underneath it to the strategy on top.

Through subtopics

8 further projects reference a subtopic of this entry rather than the entry itself.

• Consolidated CAD/911 Dispatch System2016–2024Two agencies with separate commands onto one dispatch platform, cutting response times from five to ten minutes down to one to two.
• JTA and Downtown Transit Connectivity2006–2023Seventeen years on the boundary between two public agencies that could not direct one another — first as the city's architecture review on transit proposals, then as owner of the interconnect itself.
• Fayette County RF Propagation and Municipal Backhaul Evaluation2021–2022Propagation and tower analysis for a West Virginia county, with backhaul evaluation for the municipal infrastructure that had to report over it.
• E911 Caller Location and Backup Answering Point2013–2021Making the dispatcher see a room instead of a phone number — then building a second answering point so the dispatch center was not a single point of failure.
• Republican National Convention — National Special Security EventJune – October 2020Critical Infrastructure Subcommittee for a national special security event relocated to the city eight weeks into planning — first-responder mobility, venue design, carrier redundancy, and federal sensors landed on a municipal estate.
• Super Bowl XXXIX Surveillance Network and Command Center2004–2005The transport and command center behind the video surveillance estate for the 2005 Super Bowl — evaluated, architected and overseen by the same person, deliberately.
• Statewide Florida Wireless Installations2000–2004Tower, antenna and LMR feed line work across the state, alongside the RF design.
• Nassau County Sheriff's Office Countywide Wireless2001–2003Multi-tower public safety wireless across a large rural county, surveyed by driving it and plotting the readings by hand.

Career

• Senior Enterprise Architect · Chief Technology Officer · City of Jacksonville2005–2024
• Senior Network Engineer · Coleman Technologies (subsequently acquired; now Presidio)1999–2005

See also

• Automatic Vehicle Location
• Distributed Antenna Systems
• Multi-Agency Interoperability
• Project 25 Trunked Radio
• Radio Site & Tower Design