2 020 FELLOW CLASS Jim Bugel Jim Bugel is vice president of the FirstNet Program for AT&T. Based in Washington, D.C., Mr. Bugel oversees AT&T’s strategy and policy for all state, local and federal public safety initiatives, including FirstNet implementation and the FirstNet Response Operations Group. He has over 25 years of experience in the wireless and wired telecommunications industry with a significant background in public safety, national security, cybersecurity and emergency preparedness. He joined AT&T from Cingular Wireless and has also held leadership roles at BellSouth and GTE. Mr. Bugel led AT&T’s efforts to reshape the public safety communications industry, working with Congress and the nation’s public safety leadership to help pass the legislation that created FirstNet, an independent authority established to provide emergency responders with the first nationwide, high-speed, broadband network dedicated to public safety. Previously, Mr. Bugel was AT&T’s principal public safety and national security representative to the White House, Department of Defense, the Federal Communications Commission, the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the FirstNet Program, Response Operations Group. In addition, Mr. Bugel served on the International Disaster Response Sub-Committee to the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy (ACICIP). He has been actively involved in the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and served as Chair of the FCC’s Joint Advisory Committee on Communications Capabilities of Emergency, Medical and Public Health Care Facilities, as a past co-chair of the NSTAC Emergency Communications and Interoperability Task Force, and is a former vice chair of Homeland Security’s Communications Sector Coordinating Council (CSCC). He received his B.B.S. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and resides in McLean, Virginia. Raymond L. Grimes, N8RG Raymond Grimes is the owner and chief consultant for Pegasus Telecommunications Consulting Group where he provides telecommunications consulting services primarily for public safety and local government. He is also the vice president of Comsite Pacific, Inc., the holding company for assets of the Pegasus Telecommunications Consulting Group. Previously, he was the Assistant Director and Chief Engineer of the Orange County Sheriff’s
Department Communications Division and a board member of the Orange County 800 MHz CCCS Governance Committee. His division was responsible for engineering, maintenance, system development, and longevity for a complex 800 MHz Motorola SmartZone trunked radio communications network consisting of 26 sites, 22,000 subscribers, operated by OCSD, OCFA, and most Orange County and partner city agencies. Prior to that, he was a Senior Staff Engineer at Motorola, Inc., Global Telecomm Solutions/iDEN International Implementation Engineering, where he provided communications support for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics and the 2002 Salt Lake Olympics as a member of the UOPSC Technical Command Staff. While with Motorola, Inc. he supported Nextel since its beginning, engaging in ‘Nextel Interference’ to public safety radio communications investigations that ultimately led to the FCC’s 800 MHz Rebanding Order. He has published in CQ VHF Magazine, the APCO Bulletin magazine of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, International and publications of APCO’s local branch California Public Safety Radio Association (CPRA). He is a primary contributor and lead author of Motorola R56/FNE Global Radio Site Standards Handbook and the author of Motorola R60 Remote Radio Sites Seismic and Disaster Hardening Handbook. He received one U.S. patent received for radio technology and has two patent proposals submitted and accepted by Motorola, Inc. for technology. He is a graduate of DeVry Institute of Technology and Los Angeles Valley College. He holds an FAA Commercial Pilot License, FCC Radiotelephone General Class License, and an FCC Amateur Radio Extra Class license. Mr. Grimes is a Senior Member of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO International). He is active in numerous organizations dedicated to public safety, communications, and flying. Tracey M. Hilburn Tracey Hilburn is the director of Bossier Parish Communications District located in Benton (Bossier Parish), Louisiana. She is responsible for the administrative, financial, technical, GIS/mapping, and 911 emergency operations of the district and has led multiple CAD and telephony system upgrades. In 2012, she oversaw the migration and implementation of a new parish-wide turbo digital radio system for parish fire and EMS responders. Tracey served as the president of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials International (APCO), from August 2019 to July 2020, which is the oldest and www.radioclubofamerica.org | FALL 2020 PROCEEDINGS
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