William Charles Hast II
Glass Container Inspection Systems
Wireless Systems
Field Services Wireless/RF and other Electronics
Home Address Contact Information:
504 South 57th ST Cell: +1. [Send email to request phone number] 65.6743
Tampa, FL 33619-3712 E-Mail:
Professional Summary
Presently: W.C. Hast Consulting.
Emhart Glass: Install and maintain glass container inspection
machines. Required a knowledge of electronics, mechanics and optics. General
industrial operations knowledge required also.
XPONDR: Familiar with RF tag systems, Very Low Frequency Radio, and
B Field transmission. Xponder sells to high end stores such as Gucci, Hermes,
LV, and other demanding clients who will not accept visible shrinkage control
system.
Utility Partners/ViryaNet: Utility company communications systems, Mobile Work
force Management. Worked with Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems,
particularly in the wireless environment. Wireless radio systems both pubic
(cellular/PCS) and private.
Owned and operated small radio business in Costa Rica specialized in wireless
data.
Air freight pilot, transported fish and other perishables.
Accustomed to heavy travel, used to resolving issues in non-familiar
environments.
Bi-lingual speaking, reading and writing both English and Spanish.
Experience Highlights
Installed and brought on line Emhart Veritas glass container inspection
machines at Cameron Family Glass in Kalama, WA. This is the first glass
bottle plant built in USA in 30 years, it is state of the art using a
electrically fired furnace. Did a new tank at FEVISA in Mexicali Mexico, and
several other locations around the world. The machines do side wall inspections,
(Veritas iC) base inspections (Veritas iB) and check inspections (Veritas iM).
The iB and iC use optical inspection computers demanding knowledge of setting up
optical tools to detect defects.
Help utility customers plan for mobile workforce automation, aid in the
selection of both the computing device to be used by the work force and the
wireless communications solution to be used to link the computing devices to the
servers. 1994-2005
Coverage studies done on multiple networks for historical reasons: Consolidated
Edison 2001, 2003
Or comparative reasons:
Hillsborough County Sheriff. 2005
First wireless data links for Del Monte Fresh Fruit, linked IBM System 36
machines using SNA, links were UHF point to point, first in Costa Rica and
much larger link in Guatemala. 1986-87
First 19k2 b/s point to multi-point wireless data network in Latin America,
installed in Costa Rica 1987
Freight Pilot, and also transport pilot for the prime minister of Turks and
Caicos Islands, 1977
Built A-D converters used in the National Severe Storms Laboratory WSR-57 radar,
those A-D converters, collected a large amount of data on the Union City, OK
Tornado. http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/stories/unioncity.html
This was the first full Doppler data collection of a multiple tornado spawning
system from birth to death, using the WSR-57 with Doppler.
Previous experience
Presently with Emhart Glass
Clearwater, FL 17 September 2007 to 27 August 2009. Duties were installation and
service of glass bottle inspection machines. Installation included unpacking,
positioning and calibration of machine, training operators on machine operations.
Service entailed determining and correcting problem, or giving guidance to the
customer service people on how to go about correcting problem. Machines include
optics, cameras and optical sensors. Computers to process sensor data, mechanical
controls and actuators to reject or direct bottles to proper conveyor. Travel 90%
of the year.
Xpondr Corp
Largo Florida 17 December 2005 to 15 September 2007.
Work with Electronic Asset Security (anti-theft tag) systems. These systems use
radio frequency technology that works with the B-field of a radio field.
When a tag enters the field (usually placed at the exit door of a store or
other controlled area) the system sounds a alarm indicating that the exclusion
zone around the exit way has been violated.
Also promote and help plan water level monitoring systems for tide, riverine,
lake or other water level monitoring that must be done remotely.
Field Engineer
Installation of EAS systems
Troubleshoot EAS systems.
Train customers on EAS systems
FloodAdvisor(tm) water level remote monitoring systems
Install or train in installation of systems
Work with GIS department to determine how to manage sensor data.
Utility Partners/ViryaNet
Tampa, Florida 01 Dec 1996 “ 8 Sept 2005
Worked for Utility Partners as wireless systems analyst and consultant
providing input and guidance to our customers who used wireless data in order to
exchange data with field technicians and other field personal.
Some of our customers for who I did work were:
Atlanta Gas Light “ RF Coverage study Motorola RD-Lap
Consolidated Edison “ RF Coverage studies (2001 and 2003) on CDPD (2001) and
CDMA (2003)
CLECO “ Wireless infrastructure assessment and coverage study
Hillsborough County Sheriff, comparative coverage study of 4 wireless
providers.
Two trips to Nigeria to investigate use of AVL to track stolen vehicles during
Nov. 2003 and May 2004.
While a member Professional Services Team. Job duties were to analyze and
document wireless solutions for data communications between the field units and
the host system running the Utility Partners products. An Work Management system
using a ORACLE database running on HP, IBM, SUN and LINUX servers. LAN/WAN and RF
data communication systems using a NT 4.0/Win2k/WinXP server as a gateway.
Working with Windows95, Windows NT 4.0, Windows2000, WindowsXP, UNIX (for HP,
IBM, & SUN) and LINUX (for low cost INTEL based server solutions).
Worked with sales and marketing visiting prospective customers with
the sales and marketing team, reviewing prospect's wireless data needs and
systems in order to make sure that the infrastructure was available for wireless
data. If there was none, we offered consulting services to the prospect to guide
them choose a wireless solution for their wireless data project.
In working with Utility Partners I became even more involved in
the installation and operation of the following radio systems:
--Trunked Systems:
Ericsson EDACS
EF Johnson LTR
Motorola Smartnet
Securicore's 220 Mhz narrow band trunked system based on
MPT-1327
--Conventional Systems:
GE (Ericsson)
Motorola
Motorola Astrocom (data and voice)
EF Johnson
DataRadio on conventional legacy systems
--Private Wireless Data
Motorola RD-LAP
450 Mhz (25khz channels)
800 Mhz (25khz channels)
900 Mhz (12.5khz channels)
DataRadio
--Wireless LAN
802.11a,b and g
--Public Data Networks:
Circuit Switched Cellular
CDPD
MobiTex (RAM Mobile Data)
PCS
GSM/GPRS/EDGE
CDMA 1xRTT
Satellite
I worked with radio systems spanning from HF (3-30 Mhz)
to microwave systems, including VHF Low Band, VHF, UHF, 800
Mhz and 900 Mhz.
Have done coverage studies of radio systems both practical and modeling.
I was also responsible for the design of internal software used to do
coverage studies centered on mobile wireless data networks, this software
in addition to capturing the usual data such as received signal strength,
BER, Base and Tower data, also captured latency data on the channel under
test. This allowed us to view locations where there were real communications
issues not apparent with just RSSI captures. Since the mobile software
tested against a host gateway, we could look at logs on both ends and determine
if the delays were on only one of the links, i.e. up or down link.
During June 2001, I did a comparative coverage study of two CDPD providers in
New York City for Consolidated Edison, the study involved gathering coverage data
on all 5 boroughs of NYC and Westchester County. Most of the study was done on
one or one and a half mile grids.
SELF EMPLOYED, RF CONSULTANT
Tampa, Florida 26 Dec 1994 - 1 Mar 1996
Did consulting for Utility Partners, PacComm, PadCom and VITA.
Worked with both data and voice systems, most were hybrids combining
both data and voice. During this time, I did work in Mexico, Venezuela,
and Guinea West Africa, along with travel inside the USA.
PACCOMM PACKET RADIO SYSTEMS
Tampa Florida 1 July. 1991 - 26 Dec 1994
Worked with PacComm Packet Radio Systems in the
manufacture of packet radio controllers. I also did field support
for PacComm, and have traveled to Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan,
Costa Rica, and various places in the USA.
During my time at PacComm I worked with many types of radios and have set up
data links over both conventional and trunking type radio systems.
I worked on some very complex radio equipment in the design and
interface of a special controller for a Harris High Frequency
band radio.
In the Trunking Radio area, I have worked on Ericsson GE GMARC
and DMARC systems operating the MDX series of radios. I have
worked on E.F. Johnson LTR trunking system radios. And I have
Also worked on Motorola Trunking, with the Motorola Spectra,
Maxtrac and Radius radios.
DATAPAC LTDA., SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA
Central America 1986-1991 Self employed
During this period I started doing contract work installing wireless data
networks, first one installed in Guatemala for Del Monte, again
this was a System 36 and the link was over radio at 9600 Baud.
Installed many small short haul links in Costa Rica and Panama.
In 1987 took a contract for a large radio based network in Costa
Rica, this network operated at 19,200 Baud. There were two
computers and 28 terminals, along with two repeaters. After
installing the system we were given the contract to maintain
the radio system and a large number of PC's installed in the
offices.
I did the field support work for my small company in Costa
Rica, There were three employees in my company, my associate |
