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.

Role in NPSTC: Governing Board Chair, representing Forestry Conservation Communications Association (FCCA).

Overview of experience relevant to NPSTC: Mr. Haller brings 40 years of experience in the communications industry, 25 with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Mr. Haller was chief of the FCC's Private Radio Bureau for several years and was the approving official for the original 55 NPSPAC Regional Plans. He wrote the charter for the more recent Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee (PSWAC) and initiated the meetings. Mr. Haller's areas of expertise include broadcasting, cable television, human radio frequency exposure, and land mobile communications systems. Mr. Haller is an electronics engineer and currently, in addition to working with FCCA, is a land mobile consultant with Fox Ridge Communications, Inc.

Mr. Haller is a Fellow in the Radio Club of America and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Mobile Telecommunications Association.

Current Job Title: As Executive Manager, FCCA, Mr. Haller is in charge of the day-to-day operations and regularly represents the FCCA at various meetings and forums. Mr. Haller is also president of Fox Ridge Communications, Inc., Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a land mobile consulting firm.

Job History: Mr. Haller began his work life as an engineer/disc jockey while still in high school and worked his way through college as a broadcaster. After graduation, he worked as a broadcast engineering consultant before joining the FCC in 1971. Mr. Haller held numerous positions with the FCC, including field inspector in Los Angeles, California, chief of the FCC's monitoring network, chief of research at the FCC laboratory, chief engineer of the FCC's Mass Media Bureau, and finally as chief of the Private Radio Bureau. In 1996, Mr. Haller left the FCC to form a land mobile consulting company. He is a regular speaker at industry functions and regularly writes articles for Mission Critical magazine. Mr. Haller is also an authority on the FCC's rules relating to human exposure to radio frequency energy and has written software to evaluate compliance of radio sites.

Education: Mr. Haller holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas.

Role in NPSTC: Governing Board, Chair, Interoperability Committee, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC).

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 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: Chair, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council (NPSTC) 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: Executive Director, National Public Safety Telecommunications Council

Job History: Ms. Ward brings 33 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 and part-time police officer in her early days in public safety to her role as Orange County Public Safety Communications Manager, from which she retired in 2005.

Ms. Ward served as the Orange County, Florida, Communications Manager until March 2005. Appointed September 1999, Ms. Ward served in Orange County, Florida, managing 9-1-1, Radio Services, and Government Information. She was the project manager for the 3-1-1 Project and is 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.

Telecommunications Background: Ms. Ward served as the APCO Task Force Leader on the Public Safety Wireless Advisory Committee (PSWAC) and was instrumental in creating NPSTC, the follow-on effort to provide a unified voice for public safety telecommunications needs. She is a member of the Radio Club of America and former president of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials - International (APCO) and NPSTC Chair.

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