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Anthony Klinkert is a wireless expert specializing in broadband wireless network strategy, planning and design. He has held positions as an executive in corporate management, as well as senior consulting, and engineering in such leading corporations as IBM, MCI, GE, TI, and Motorola. He has also successfully established entrepreneurial ventures, including Klinkert and Associates, Inc., a licensed professional engineering corporation and consultancy in the emerging broadband wireless sector.

He is a candidate for the Doctor of Engineering degree with a concentration in Engineering Management from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. His praxis for this engineering doctorate is focused on optimization modeling of the deployment of a broadband wireless network such as WiMAX, or WiFi, point to multipoint or mesh, wide area outdoor networks, using techniques of systems engineering and operations research for techno-economic analysis of a network implementation, using mathematical (linear, non-linear or integer) programming for constrained optimization.

Recently Anthony has been recognized as an expert in smart grid and smart meter communications infrastructure design for the utility sector.

In 2008, Tony published the book, Creating WiMAX RFPs, targeted at executives and technical staff planning to deploy a broadband wireless network.

In 2007, he was honored by IBM with a Bravo award for excellence in support of WiMAX marketing initiatives.

In 2005, he was honored by The Office of the Dean of Student Life at SMU for support to university initiatives.

As CEO and Managing Executive Consultant at Klinkert & Associates, he provided major corporations as well as entrepreneurial clients with advanced strategy and plans for designing and deploying wireless broadband networks. Typical projects included a nationwide 600-location corporate enterprise indoor wireless local area network design, a regional outdoor wireless wide area network strategy, and strategic leadership for a nationwide broadband wireless initiative. His specialty was and is providing advanced management science modeling and optimization of wireless technology for entrepreneurs, carriers, officials and executives establishing revenue, cost, net income and cash flow for business cases for major wireless network initiatives.

In 2002, he produced and led a webcast delivered from the campus of SMU nationally to the broadband wireless sector focused on the application of operations research optimization and Quality Function Deployment design methodology, both applied to the effective selection of specifications at both the carrier wide area network level, as well as the vendor equipment product level.

Also in 2002, Tony was awarded the WCA Golden Eagle Award for Technical Vision & Industry Service, in part for his Chairmanship of the Engineering Committee and the Operator Experts' Group.

In 2001 he was appointed Chairman of the Engineering Committee of the Wireless Communications Association, an industry trade association focused on the advancement of broadband wireless technology including WiMax, WiFi, in licensed and license-exempt spectrum bands. His technical leadership provided guidance to the industry during a period of transition from older broadcast video services in the Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service (MMDS) band to the latest mobile Internet services now called the Broadband Radio Service (BRS).

Tony is a frequent public speaker at industry events where he provides technology insights and perspectives on wireless technology.

Tony is currently supporting IBM Global Technology Solutions as a Senior Managing Consultant in the wireless and mobility national practice.

              

	UT College of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	SMU Department of Electrical Engineering SMU Engineering Management and Information Systems