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Steven Graham started his career in 1997, as a radio frequency design consultant for KPN Mobile. In 2000, he was asked by Banda Ancha SA to come to Spain, where he performed the radio planning of Spain’s top 30 cities in one single phase. In 2001, Graham was contracted by Siemens Netherlands NV, where he would be planning of one of the first GSM-R networks in the world. Siemens also sent him to South America, where he did CW-measurements, model tuning, cell planning, site surveys, antenna selection and BTS configuration in Belize. On returning to the Netherlands, Graham was hired by telecom provider Dutchtone (now part of T-Mobile), where he worked on tasks such as theoretical design based on marketing objectives and validation of designs with an empirical prediction model.His knowledge and background as a radio planning and optimisation engineer stems from his experience in companies such as Ericsson USA, Hutchison 3G, O2 and Siemens In 2003, Siemens Netherlands asked him to return in order to work as team coordinator on GSM-R projects, most notably the lower GSM-spectrum for the high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris (HSL Zuid).Steven Graham has broad international experience, having worked in countries as diverse as Hungary, Egypt, the Netherlands,spain,Kenya,Finlan... and Poland. Mr. Graham's key skills include planning, optimizing and validating GSM-R, 2G, 3G and Tetra networks. The list of software tools that Graham is conversant with is impressive: Kapsch, Agilent, bespoke tools for the analysis of BER/TIR., TEMS, Actix, Agilent, Aska, Odyssey, Asset, Atoll, MapInfo, Tornado, Netact, Odyssey, TEMS and MapInfo, to name but a few. In January 2005,Graham set up New Global telecom for which he doubles as president and as Principal Radio Planner. At New Global telecom,Graham has worked for clients such as Nokia,Siemens Networks, KPN, Orange and ProRail, most frequently on projects related to GSM-R, GSM-P and indoor coverage. In order to keep ahead of the curve, Graham continues to train in areas such as nanoBTS, GPRS, indoor coverage, UMTS and with various radio planning software tools.Graham is fluent in Dutch, English and Spanish. Graham is also a real hands-on man, trained in mast climbing, rescue climbing and rooftop safety. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and through his career has followed numerous courses on topics such as UMTS technology, usually at Masons Communications Wireless Academy.