ELF/RF, GIS & Spatial ETL Automation

AT&T hired Jim as a sub-contractor to look at wireless interference between our Bi-Directional Amplifiers (BDAs) and the new AT&T macro cell phone site installed at SLAC. Jim determined the cause to be the 7th harmonic of the main beam line drive signal leaking out through the BDA and seen by the AT&T cell site equipment. He then recommended a cost effective solution (filter) that successfully removed the problem while not impacting SLAC's operation. I was impressed with his expertise, calmness, ability to explain the measurements and communicate with the engineers at SLAC and myself and come up with a practical solution.

Lynn is one of those rare professionals who has automation/tooling/systems-admin aptitude along with RAN conversancy. Often, people have one or the other, but not both. This unique combination of knowledge-sets allows Lynn to very quickly understand and solve network-related automation needs. Not only does Lynn have mastery of the automation tools as an end-user, she can keep the associated back-end servers running optimally with her systems administrator knowledge. Technical aptitude aside, she also has a positive and friendly attitude that always made me look forward to working with her in the 5+ years we collaborated on projects. Lynn would be a huge asset to any team she joins.

Jim from Bryant Solutions provided my colleagues and I a wonderful RF Fundamentals course where he took the time to explain concepts that engineers use on a daily basis but may never fully understand the math behind, and took the extra time to tailor the course and labs around our specific work load. Colleagues that have worked in the RF engineering field for many years were able to learn from him and found the course very helpful. He is very organized, explains concepts clearly, and responds to questions in a very timely manner making it very easy and fun to learn. I very much enjoyed learning from him and would recommend his course to any engineer.

As a product manager at Quest, I have worked closely with Lynn Bryant over the past 10+ years as she managed Quest products for AT&T. She has always been one of my favorite customers because she is an exceptional professional who has been instrumental in making our collaboration successful. Lynn really sets the gold standard – at AT&T she was always 100% committed to her company and end users’ goals and at the same time, made it so much easier for us as a vendor to meet these goals because of her outstanding communication and technical understanding. She pushed us to meet her and her company’s high standards, but she did it in such a professional and reasonable way that we have always been grateful for her partnership.

Jim is an innovative and dynamic educator, with a deep understanding of his offered course subjects, and beyond. For over 20 years of relations with him, I have known Jim to be highly professional and well versed, from his roles as adviser, educator, and source of knowledge in the Wireless Communities I have worked in. Jim has developed unique and intelligent programs to most effectively deliver information, and philosophies for real-world applications. He is personable and energetic, with a positive outlook that spreads to the people around him. It is without hesitation that I offer my full endorsement and recommendation having confidence that others will value him as the asset that I continue to know him to be.

As a 25-year veteran of the wireless industry, and a current senior manager focusing on PIM mitigation for a major wireless carrier, I’ve seen many trainers come and go. Jim Bryant is one person who uniquely stands out. Over the years, he has consistently demonstrated his deep understanding of advanced RF concepts and troubleshooting. He has provided invaluable technical assistance multiple times when failure was not an option. Jim’s positive attitude, high work ethic, professionalism, energy and passion make him a joy to work with and learn from. Jim has continued to stay up-to-date as technology has changed, and his ability to understand and teach these concepts places him far ahead of his peers. Jim’s training program will be an asset to any company providing RF services. If you’re looking for the perfect technical trainer, Jim is as close as you’re going to get.

I had the pleasure of working with Lynn at AT&T, where she consistently demonstrated remarkable skills and understanding of cutting-edge tools and technologies to streamline processes and automate data analysis tasks, resulting in significant time and cost savings for our organization. She is professional, highly organized, and a leader to many projects that has driven real business results that moved the company forward. What sets Lynn apart is not only her technical strength but also her exceptional communication skills. She has a distinct ability to reach out to get the right people to collaborate to get solutions for many stakeholders. Knowing her expertise, admirable qualities, strong work ethic, attention to details, outstanding performance and contributions, ability to thrive in fast-paced environments to deliver high-quality results, she is greatly missed here at AT&T and I believe she will continue to make significant impact wherever she goes.

Jim’s passion for all things RF were apparent from the start of class. His approach to teaching is far beyond simply setting people up to accomplish a task; he goes in depth on the capabilities and limitations of specific field equipment, and how to effectively utilize available technology to achieve the goals and objectives of an organization. He takes the time to ensure that everyone has a clear understanding of the underlying theory that drive the methodologies which allowed us to accomplish our mission. Jim’s approach to presenting difficult material is uncomplicated yet in-depth and he easily adapts to the learning style of students with diverse learning styles and backgrounds.

I had the pleasure of having Lynn work in my group when I was RAN Tools Manager and a colleague for over 20 years at AT&T. Lynn managed and supported complex GIS tools such as FME, Alteryx, MapInfo, Oracle Spatial, and Spectrum as well as the various datasets used in mapping, networking, telco, government data sources, marketing segmentation, and population. Other software includes Toad Data Point, Toad Intelligence Central, and Toad for Oracle. Lynn ran user webinars for often 200+ RAN Engineers/GIS Engineers to make sure they were aware of new features, collect feedback from users for the vendor, and would often provide consultation services when needed. It was a pleasure having such a smart, professional, and enjoyable employee working for AT&T. I'm sure Lynn will be successful in her next adventure!

When it comes to RF training and education Jim is excellent. I've taken several trainings from Jim over the last few years. He is able to take complex material and break it down in a way that is easy to remember and implement. If you work in RF, I highly recommend Bryant Solutions.

Lynn is a high-caliber leader and collaborator. In her role she championed high quality tools that facilitated automation, insight, efficiency and effective processes for people across the business. Always a welcoming person to interact with, and very responsive as well, helping get issues resolved, helping engage the tool vendors, facilitating knowledge-sharing meetings and tool adoption. She did not hesitate to reach out to get the right people involved to come up with solutions to challenging problems or to address tool-specific issues, even helping with migrations between tools and platforms. I considered her a strong ally in being able to find and use tools to do my job better. Lynn holds herself and her teammates to a high standard, doing things the right way, even as we develop new processes and solutions on the platforms she supported. Her kindness and character show throughout her work. She will be sorely missed here at AT&T.

Jim offers an exceptional service and produces the highest quality results when it comes to identifying and mitigating interference sources. He is diligent, and professional in his pursuit of system issues.

Jim is an excellent instructor. He was able to do what most people can't, he made the information come alive. His examples were real world, and not just theoretical. He was easily able to go from the very simple to very complex in a short time frame and not lose the class.

I’ve known Lynn as a colleague and friend for 25 years at Pacific Bell Mobile Services, SBC, Cingular and AT&T. Although we worked in different organizations, Lynn was highly regarded for her data management and automation tools skills. Lynn once helped me directly to manipulate a large SIM data set (appx 500k records), developing a script to sort, and conditionally add and format additional fields based on record dependent values, to enable the records to be transferred from one HLR to another as part of a subscriber migration project. Lynn freely offered her support and applied her specialized skills working with data management tools to a new domain and quickly developed a solution to my problem. Lynn is a highly responsive team player and adept problem solver and an asset to any organization.

I took several training courses with Jim, and I found it very interesting and informative. It helped me to better understand the equipment we use in both theoretical and practical sides. The training material has been always elegant and professional, and his way to transfer the knowledge is special. Thank you Jim.

I am writing to recommend Lynn Bryant. She worked with me at AT&T as a client of Conexus WAN & LAN architectural support. I supported Lynn as a LAN Planner delivering architectural solutions for all types of buildings in the AT&T portfolio across the domestic United States. Lynn authored the proposals for her group relating to WAN & LAN needs. This ranged from Data Centers like San Ramon CA to small offices that needed a WAN & LAN upgrade. Lynn managed our projects budget worked with all teams to get funding to make the WAN Accelerator upgrade successful in 2015. Lynn is an excellent communicator and always had her information loaded in the project portfolio for review via shared screens on conference calls. Lynn is very motivated to get things done right and touch once, if possible, for all network solutions. Lynn's can-do attitude is an asset to any team. It’s AT&T's loss that Lynn will benefit another company in finding technical, economical & practical solutions for real world corporate problems. Lynn helped to mediate conflict on our call as questions about budget and which technical solution would be a best fit for one of her group’s locations. Lynn represented the RAN team as time went on helping to fund the upgrade of sites to new WAN & LAN equipment. This provided increased bandwidth from T1 (1.5Mbps) to AVPN (1 Gbps) circuits. Sometimes these questions related to headcount on floors or if Ethernet and/or WiFi within standards was the better solution. These solutions provided the RAN organization with the bandwidth needed to use RAN centric software tools. Our paths crossed on other projects to upgrade the AT&T offices to the corporate Conexus standard. Lynn would work to get the information needed on each site. The number of employees, number of floors, floor plans, additional headcount expected or reductions planned and what the client felt they may need in LAN or WiFi support. This research by Lynn prior to engaging LAN Planning helped create as accurate as possible budget plans. Lynn would review these plans with LAN Planning the PM and her team and give us the approval to proceed with an upgrade. Or defer the upgrade till next year if there was uncertainty from Corporate Real estate. As an AT&T employee it was always a delight to work with Lynn. She never failed to deliver or go the extra mile. This included providing building floor plans and local contact information that corporate real estate could not always provide.

Bryant Solution Inc. is an excellent company. We hired Jim to increase the skills sets of the engineer’s ability to find and mitigate interference. Jim went above and beyond transferring information to the team and the company. Jim is a gentleman that is personable and really knows his radio frequency (RF) interference mitigation knowledge, as well as all the professional skills that an RF Engineer should know. He gives the theoretical information and backs it up with hands on teaching to bridge any gaps in comprehension. I recommend Bryant Solutions for any radio frequency class it offers as well as the professional interference mitigation services. Thanks again!

In my role as a Product Architect and later a Director of MapInfo product line I worked closely with many customers and partners across the world. AT&T was always an important client for us and I had an opportunity to interact on a regular basis with their user base. For many years Lynn Bryant was our main contact person at AT&T and had responsibility of rolling out, maintaining, updating and troubleshooting multiple software solutions (including MapInfo Pro) at AT&T. It was a true pleasure to work with Lynn. She has a vast knowledge of GIS domain and how it is used in telecommunication industry. With Lynn’s help we were able to work directly with AT&T engineers, help them to resolve problems they had with our software and make improvements to it. Lynn always has a great positive attitude, focused on getting things done and is very effective in her role. I strongly recommend Lynn for any challenging position that requires deep knowledge of GIS and ETL tools and exceptional leadership, communication and organizational skills.

Jim Bryant possesses exceptional expertise in the wireless communications service provider area, specifically in the installation and maintenance of base stations arena. Jim has been able to successfully translate this expertise into layman's terms as part of the training he offers to new and experienced base station technicians.

I worked with Jim for two years. Jim was one of the best EE at that company. He was the lead designer and he did a great job designing and building new boards for our machines. He is very creative, smart and worked very hard and everyone enjoyed working with him. I believe Jim is a great person with a lot of passion for his work; also he left a great impression on the people he worked with.

What do you have when you combine a never-say-die attitude, a great personality, a techie skill set, solid communication skills, and a strong work ethic? You have a human asset that makes an impact wherever she goes. That's Lynn. I've had the pleasure of admiring Lynn's work from the perspective of an outside vendor (Quest Software). Lynn worked with our customer engagement team to provide bi-monthly "tips and tricks" sessions for our products that her organization is using. She collaborated internally with the various teams she supported to help us understand what topics are important internally at AT&T. Lynn then scheduled sessions for AT&T users where Quest could demonstrate how our solutions address these topics. She's organized a central video library for AT&T teams with over 2 years' worth of these recorded sessions; she’s created Microsoft Teams channels and internal product support policies that AT&T uses to this day. The scope of this support, BTW, is nothing short of amazing. With over 8,000 installations of our products within AT&T, Lynn was first-level technical liaison for thousands of users—literally. She has been instrumental in helping to automate hundreds of data transformation and reporting projects for these users. It’s a beautiful thing to see outstanding work like this unfold. Lynn, thank you for extending your value not only to your colleagues, but to your vendors as well.