Role in NPSTC: Governing Board Member representing the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

Job History: William K. Brownlow is AAHSTO’s Telecommunications Manager and serves as the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) certified public safety frequency coordinator with primary responsibility nationwide for the Highway Maintenance frequencies. Mr. Brownlow serves as Manager, Intelligent Transportation Systems standards development and on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) panel developing the IEEE 1609 standards for vehicle-to-infrastructure integration.

Mr. Brownlow has collateral duties as the AASHTO staff liaison with the Special Committees on Wireless Communications Technology and Transportation Security. He provides support to the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies of Science Critical Transportation Infrastructure Protection Committee (ABE-40) and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program 20-59 Critical Infrastructure Protection Research panel. He is responsible for all filings made on behalf of AASHTO and its members before the FCC and other regulatory bodies regarding both wireless and wireline communications. He serves as a primary member of the Public Safety Communications Council (PSCC), the Land Mobile Communications Council (LMCC), and, on the Board of Directors, of the Public Safety Spectrum Trust Corporation (PSST).

Telecommunications Background: Mr. Brownlow is a former consultant to the District of Columbia government, Office of the Chief Technology Officer, where he provided technical and management expertise for the design and installation of the District’s telecommunications infrastructure. Over a 3-year period, Mr. Brownlow developed the District’s standards for telecommunications infrastructure installation and design supporting wireline voice, video, and data communications. Over 45,000 telephone circuits were upgraded to ISDN Centrex and upgraded analog services. Mr. Brownlow was responsible for the evaluation, design, installation, and maintenance of an in-building system to augment the reception and retransmission of voice, video, and data on frequencies between 700 and 3,000 MHz.

Mr. Brownlow has managed, designed, and installed voice, data, and video systems for a number of systems integrators for over 30 years. Mr. Brownlow has provided domestic and international technical support and training for mini and micro computer manufacturers and has written programs using C, COBOL, Pascal and other high level languages. Mr. Brownlow has been a volunteer fire fighter and emergency medical technician for the city of Anchorage, Alaska, and a reserve police officer in the city of San Diego, California.

Education: Mr. Brownlow’s background in radio communications began with his experience as an Aeronautical Radio Operator and ARINC radio station manager for Reeve Aleutian Airways on the North Pacific intercontinental route. His formal training in communications and computer systems began with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. He has attended numerous specialized training courses and holds the equivalent of Associates Degrees in Electronics and Computer Systems Maintenance.

Name: Charles V. Bryson

Role in NPSTC: Vice Chair, Outreach Committee

History: A former police officer at Virginia Commonwealth University, Charles Bryson currently provides project management services as well as technical support for 700 and 800 MHz land mobile public safety communications systems. He also supports clients requiring assistance with projects related to homeland security and communications strategic planning. Mr. Bryson joined RCC in 1998 and has over 40 years of experience in public safety, telecommunications, and higher education.

As a police officer Mr. Bryson served in every sworn capacity as a member of the department from Patrolman to Captain while earning degrees from the University. As a Police Captain, he was responsible for Police Administration, Communications, and Security Operations. Mr. Bryson founded the Commonwealth’s first campus police training academy and was a state-certified criminal justice training instructor.

Telecommunications Background: Mr. Bryson has been deeply involved in RCC efforts regarding the proceedings before the Federal Communications Commission on the public safety spectrum allocation in the 700 MHz band and, in particular, the proposals pending before the Commission concerning the development of a nationwide public safety interoperable broadband network. Mr. Bryson has worked closely with a number of Regional Planning Committees as well as state, county, and municipal public safety agencies to learn their concerns and assist them in the development of filings with the Commission.

Education: Mr. Bryson holds a Master of Science in Public Safety Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Safety Planning and Management. He has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Administration of Justice and Public Safety providing graduate and undergraduate instruction.

Role in NPSTC: Governing Board Alternate Member representing the National Association of State Telecommunications Directors (NASTD)

Job History: Mr. Doane joined the Information Services Division (ISD) as their Assistant Director in charge of the State of Alabama Office of Infrastructure. Mr. Doane is an Information Technology professional with over twenty years of technical experience, including over fifteen years of managing technical staff, supporting a variety of hardware platforms, operating systems, network components, and infrastructure initiatives. He has an expertise in evaluating and incorporating emerging technologies in the enterprise, leading teams in the integration of disparate systems, planning large-scale roll-outs, and managing daily IT operations.

Telecommunications Background: Mr. Doane is in charge of the network operations that provides statewide industry standard, reliable, and secure network resources for voice, data, and video solutions. The primary services provided are as follows:

• High speed Internet access with content filtering
• Customer network resources access
• State Mainframe access
• Remote access
• Virtual Private Network (VPN) service
• Technical network support

Education: BS in Physical Distribution and a Masters Degree in Information Systems (MIS) from Auburn University

Role in NPSTC: National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) representative to the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC)

Job History: Mr. Locatis brings over 5 years of experience as both an advocate for public safety telecommunications issues and as a cabinet-level administrator over public safety telecommunication operations in his role as Denver chief information officer (CIO) from 2004 through 2006, and his current role serving Governor Bill Ritter as the CIO for the State of Colorado. Prior to serving in the public sector Mr. Locatis served in various private sector technology leadership positions, most recently the Senior Director of Technology Strategy for Time Warner Cable.

Telecommunications Background: Denver’s Electronic Engineering Bureau (EEB) maintains the wireless infrastructure for the City and County of Denver including the mission critical network for police, fire, medical, and sheriff users in the city. The wireless radio system serves over 9,500 users in the city and supports several other non-city users. Denver’s public safety simulcast radio system is a 20 channel EDACS radio system that consists of six sites throughout the city, a control point, and a primary dispatch facility. EEB manages interoperability through a Network First system for the 10 county North Central region and is integrated with Denver’s 9-1-1 PSAP.

Colorado’s statewide Digital Trunked Radio System (DTRS) currently provides wide area radio coverage across more than 80 percent of Colorado with 176 sites on the air, and another 23 planned, providing primary or interoperable communications to over 900 public safety and public services agencies with over 32,200 user radios and dispatch positions. The DTRS wide area coverage and interoperability has been used successfully during numerous Colorado snowstorms and the rescues and response operations for the Holly tornado. State and local officials were able to easily respond and communicate.

Both EEB and DTRS were both extensively and successfully used during the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Role in NPSTC: Committee Vice Chair, Interoperability Committee

Job History: Pam Montanari is the Radio and Data Systems Manager for Pinellas County Government in Largo, Florida. She is responsible for the County’s Intergovernmental Smartzone/P25 700/800 MHz Trunked Radio and Data System with over 10,000 users countywide. The system includes a 10-site multi-zone 53-Channel Smartzone/P25 Simulcast System and a 6-Channel High Performance Data system. As Manager, her responsibilities include all aspects of public safety radio and data communications within Pinellas County and for 24 local municipalities. Ms. Montanari has worked for Pinellas County for over 20 years.

Telecommunications Background: Ms. Montanari has over 28 years experience communications, and a graduate of the Florida Certified Public Manager Program. She is the current chair for the Interoperable Communications Committee in the Tampa Bay Region, working with the Florida Regional Domestic Security Task Force and the Tampa Bay Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI). She has been involved in interoperability efforts in the Tampa Bay Region for the past 7 years, coordinating and planning interoperability between all agencies for daily operations and large-scale events.

In conjunction with her local efforts, Ms. Montanari has worked on several programs at the federal level that include the Interoperable Communications Technical Assistance Program (ICTAP) program, Tactical Interoperable Communications (TIC) plans, Statewide Communications Interoperability Plans (SCIPs), Public Safety Interoperable Communications (PSIC) Grant Program reviews, Federal Partnership for Interoperable Communications (FPIC), and National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) development.

Ms. Montanari is a member of Association of Public Safety Communications Officials – International (APCO), the Pinellas County Fire Chief’s Association, and serves on a technology subcommittee for NPSTC and on the MTUG (Motorola Trunked Users Group) executive committee,

Education: Ms. Montanari has a Bachelors Degree in Business Management and two Associate Degrees in Electronics.

Role in NPSTC: Governing Board Alternate representing the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)

Job History: Larry Nyberg is the Vice-Chair of the TIA-Private Radio Section (PRS). TIA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop voluntary industry standards for a wide variety of telecommunications products. TIA's Standards and Technology Department sponsors more than 770 standards formulating groups, including Land Mobile Private Radio. PRS is aligned with the TIA technical standards setting committee for establishing land mobile radio standards. The PRS interacts with external regulatory agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and other standards groups, including the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), commenting on FCC regulatory actions affecting private mobile radio systems.

Mr. Nyberg has been employed with Motorola Inc. since February 1, 1974, following a 6-year enlistment with the U.S. Air Force. In the Air Force, he initially maintained airborne navigation and positioning platforms, and followed up with air-to-ground weapons guidance systems. His Motorola experience includes over 4 years of field service, coordinating installation and maintenance services for public safety networks in the Chicago area. From service, Mr. Nyberg moved into sales and sales management, focusing exclusively on state and local government entities. In 1989, Mr. Nyberg moved into product operations, in which he directed numerous projects related to product development, marketing, and research and development. Since 2000 he has been nvolved in Motorola’s standards development activities. He is presently the Director for Business Operations in Standards Management.

Telecommunications Background: Mr. Nyberg held the Chairman position of TR-8.8 Broadband Data Communications for 4 years from its inception, and currently serves as Vice-Chair of both the APIC Broadband Task Group and TR-8.8. He is also active on two National Fire Protection Administration (NFPA) committees developing standards primarily oriented to Fire and EMS service organizations. Mr. Nyberg previously held the position of Rapporteur in the Project MESA Service and Specifications Group when TIA was an active Operating Partner to Project MESA. Education: Mr. Nyberg holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Systems Management from Elmhurst College, and a Master of Business Administration from Loyola University of Chicago.

Role in NPSTC: Governing Board Alternate representing the National Association of State Emergency Medical Services Officials

Job History: Paul Patrick serves as the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services Director, Deputy Division Director, and Preparedness Director for the State of Utah, Department of Health. On February 13, 2006, he was selected as the Emergency Medical Services Director and Public Health and Hospital Preparedness Coordinator for the State Utah. On April 15, 2006, he was selected as the Deputy Director for the Division of Family Health and Preparedness for the Utah Department of Health.

Mr. Patrick oversees a staff of 55 full-time EMS and preparedness professionals and is responsible for the EMS and Public Health Preparedness system for the State of Utah. Mr. Patrick works regularly with many elected officials, legislators, appointed governmental officials, the general public, certified emergency personnel, hospital administrators, nurses, doctors, and governmental department heads.

Earlier in his career as a Community Health Coordinator II (Regional Consultant), Mr. Patrick was responsible for overseeing emergency medical services in 24 of Utah’s counties, managing budgets, evaluating resources, determining staffing, created new positions, and other special projects. He provided support for the Air Ambulance services, was the editor of the EMS Impact, a quarterly newsletter, and developed programs, brochures, certificates, equipment checklists, and computer media presentations.

Professional Background: Mr. Patrick served as a paid, part-time member of the Springville Ambulance Association for 25 years and maintained certification as an EMT certification until 2003. He was an Eagle Scout in 1967 and President, Springville Ambulance Association from 1980-81. He received the Utah Department of Health Major Incentive Award in May and July 1991, October 1992, April 1995, and May 1999, and was named Emergency Medical Technician of the Year by the Springville Ambulance Association for the years 2000/2001. In 2007, Mr. Patrick was honored as Manager of the Year by the Utah Department of Health.

Education: Mr. Patrick holds a Bachelor of Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

Role in NPSTC: Committee Chair, Interoperability Committee

Job History: Mr. Powell has over 25 years of law enforcement experience at both the municipal and state levels as a police officer and supervisor for two San Francisco area agencies. During his career, Mr. Powell implemented and/or managed several major projects including a statewide trunked radio system and an E-911 computer aided dispatch center for the University of California. He has served on numerous local, state, and national committees, including the California Law Enforcement Mutual Aid Radio System (CLEMARS) Executive Committee; the California Legislature’s Joint Committee on Fire, Police, Emergency and Disaster Services; and the FCC's Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee (PSWAC). He has also served as chair of the Interoperability Subcommittee of the FCC’s 700 MHz Public Safety National Coordination Committee (NCC). He has testified before numerous legislative bodies at all levels of government.

While concentrating in the area of wireless telecommunications, he has had a wide range of responsibilities in administration, crime prevention, emergency management, explosive ordinance disposal, operations, personnel, project and records management, public information, training, and strategic planning. He has consulting experience with high security access control for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and wide area satellite communication systems for the State of California.

Telecommunications Background: Since leaving the University of California in 2002, Mr. Powell, a senior consulting engineer, has consulted extensively on issues and projects related to advanced telecommunications technologies, including interoperability and software defined radio, for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

He currently chairs California’s FCC-chartered Statewide Interoperability Executive Committee (SIEC), and the Interoperability Committee and Software Defined Radio Working Group within NPSTC. He is the government representative to the Board of Directors at the Software Defined Radio Forum, a member of the Executive Committee of Project SAFECOM within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Project 25 Steering Committee.

Professional associations include membership on the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Law Enforcement Information Management Section, and the IACP Communications and Technology Committee where he serves as an IACP representative to NPSTC. He is a life member and International Past President of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials - International (APCO), a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, and a member of IEEE.

Education: Mr. Powell holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and received the Chancellor’s Distinguished Service Award from that institution at the end of his law enforcement career. He is one of four recipients of APCO’s Art McDole Award for long-term technical contributions to the art and practice of public safety telecommunications and was named 'Most Influential Person in Public Safety Spectrum Management' by Radio Resource magazine in 1998.

Mr. Powell has authored numerous articles for communications sector publications on operational and technical issues related to advanced wireless communications, interoperability, and software defined radio.

Role in NPSTC: Governing Board Alternate Member representing the National Association of State Emergency Medical Services Officials (NASEMSO)

Job History: Mr. Rogers is the Oklahoma EMS Director and Secretary of the National Association of State EMS Officials. He has 27 years of EMS experience as EMT, Intermediate, Paramedic. He has served as Ambulance Service Director, State Trauma Systems Coordinator, and State EMS Director.

Education: Mr. Rogers received a Bachelor of Arts from Southern Nazarene University in Oklahoma City, and is a licensed Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic.

Role in NPSTC: Committee Chair, Technology Committee

Job History: Tom Sorley, Deputy Director Radio Communication Services for the City of Houston, Texas, brings over 22 years of experience as both an advocate for public safety telecommunications issues and as an administrator in public safety telecommunications, from his early days of service in the Orlando, Florida, Police Department's 9-1-1 Center to his current role as Deputy Director for radio services in the fourth largest city in the nation.

Mr. Sorley has served as Communications Manager for both the Orlando Police Department and Orange County, Florida. He has chaired several local and state industry panels and committees. Mr. Sorley has extensive experience in local and state communication issues at all levels.

Telecommunications Background: Mr. Sorley has served as Executive Council Representative for the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, International (APCO) and has chaired chapter, regional, and international conferences for the group. Mr. Sorley has also been an active participant in the Software Defined Radio Forum as a representative of NPSTC.

Education: Mr. Sorley holds a Bachelor's degree in management and a Master’s degree in business, both from Nova Southeastern University. Mr. Sorley also holds numerous industry certificates and is an alumnus of the Southern Police Institute Command Officer Development Course.

Role in NPSTC: Governing Board Associate Member representing the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)

Job History: Robert Speidel is the Manager of Regulatory Policy for Harris Corporation, RFV Communications Division, in Lynchburg, Virginia. Prior to his current occupation, Mr. Speidel’s experience was varied. He was an Instructor Pilot (IP) /Flight Examiner (FE) in the United States Air Force; an Aerospace Engineer with Naval Air Systems Command; a Programs Manager for the E-2C Airborne Early Warning Radar and the P-3C Data Systems programs with GE; and a partner in a law firm engaged in the general practice of law.

Telecommunications Background: Since joining the telecommunications wars in 1996, Mr. Speidel has written articles for many national magazines, and has made presentations to many national, regional, and local audiences on a diverse range of telecommunications related topics.

He has authored numerous comments, replies, petitions, etc., in a wide array of relevant FCC proceedings.

Over the years Mr. Speidel has participated in a number of government and industry forums including the Public Safety National Coordination Committee (NCC), the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC), the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), and the WiMAX Forum. Currently, he serves as Chairman of the TIA Private Radio Section (PRS); Chairman of the TIA TR8.17 RF Hazards engineering subcommittee; Chairman of the WiMAX Forum Evolutionary Technical Working Group (ETWG); and as the TIA representative on the NPSTC Governing Board.

Education: Mr. Speidel holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a Juris Doctor from George Washington University. He is admitted to the practice of law in New York State and in the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Speidel holds a commercial pilot license with multi-engine, instrument and DC-9/MD-80 type ratings.

Role in NPSTC:Executive Director, Founding Governing Board Chair

Job History: Ms. Ward brings 36 years of experience as both an advocate for public safety telecommunications issues and as an administrator in public safety telecommunications, from her position as Manager of Communications at the City of Orlando Police Department (27 years, retired 1999) to her appointment as Orange County Public Safety Communications Manager, to her current position as the Executive Director of the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council.

Throughout her career, Ms. Ward has managed 9-1-1 infrastructure and call centers, Radio Systems and services, and non-emergency Government Information. She was the project manager for the 3-1-1 non-emergency project, and was the Chair of the Governor’s Statewide Regional Domestic Security Task Force Interoperability Committee. As Communications Manager, Ms. Ward was able to stay involved with communications issues on every level—local, State and Federal. Ms. Ward served as the Orange County Communications Manager until March 2005. Currently, Ms Ward is the Executive Director of the National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) which is a federation of fifteen public safety associations, including the International Associations of Police Chiefs and Fire Chiefs. Ms. Ward serves on the DHS SAFECOM Executive Committee, and as founding Chair of NPSTC, has maintained a national role in public safety communications for over fifteen years.

Background: Ms. Ward served as former president of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials – International (APCO) from 1992-1997, and was the NPSTC Founding Chair from 1997-2005, when she became Executive Director. She is a member and fellow of the Radio Club of America.

Education: Ms. Ward holds a degree in Business and Management and has received many public safety-related certificates in her career.