1. Professional Summary
Loren has 27 years of successful experience in large enterprises as a solutions architect
and a professional project manager. His experience is focused in the management of
technical teams and the deployment of enterprise mobility architectures. Loren’s
experience includes: wireless LAN engineering, RF infrastructure engineering, mobile
application design, RFID innovations and training for multiple large enterprise installations
for retail business data collection systems. Loren enjoys working with detail and has an
excellent history of innovations and solid focus for working with virtual and high
performance teams on-site and remote. His experience as a trusted Walmart vendor and
technical representative shows his ability to follow projects and ideas through to success.
Loren is always motivated toward the next privilege to use his servant/leadership
management experiences for working with talented people to accomplish incredible goals
for the betterment of businesses and provide better services and technologies for its
customers and users.
Experience
BCRO, Bentonville, AR
President; 2013-Present
BCRO is an Arkansas 501C3 charitable organization for community training and
preparation for assistance in disaster radio communications. Loren’s work involves
executive administration of up to 50 volunteers for FCC radio usage, training and
management for community volunteer disaster response in Benton County FEMA
sponsored RACES programs.
Loren has been re-elected twice for his leadership skills in this volunteer organization.
Loren serves as a non-paid volunteer to help serve his native Arkansas neighbors.
Motorola Solutions Inc., Bentonville, AR
Professional Project Manager; 2011-2013
Primary responsibilities included support of multiple sales efforts with staged rollouts
involving mobile devices designated for use by Walmart Stores associates world-wide.
Loren collaborated with expert technical advisors/engineers and stakeholders to form high
performance and diverse teams for the successful design, roll-out and support of these
high visibility projects involving both hardware and software platforms.
Led technical design and replacement teams for upgrading warehouse forklift
terminals for Walmart Stores Inc. targeting an upgrade of over 20,000 devices across the
United States
Managed teams for the replacement of customer service manager wireless work
terminals affecting over 4000 US locations and pharmacies.
Managed change controls and procedures for successful customer implementations
within Walmart Stores on a worldwide basis.
Directed an offsite software development team for the creation and modification of
mobile applications designed for Walmart users.
Senior Presales Technical Architect; 2007-2011
This role supported the creation of “best practices” involving RF engineered products and
procedures for their placements and usage. Loren developed new technology strategies
for the design, promotion and helping team creations of solutions encompassing a wide
range of mobility products, services and technologies for the support of Walmart Stores
as a primary customer.
Loren R. Lawrence PMP
Systems Technical Architect
and Project Manager
HOME
2300 Pleasant Ridge Road
Rogers, AR 72756
PHONE
(479) 531-8169
EMAIL
Loren_Lawrence@Yahoo.com
LINKEDIN PROFILE
www.linkedin.com/in/LorenLawrence
TWITTER
@LorenRoderick1977
2. Loren R. Lawrence Resume Page 2
Authored and received U.S. patents for knowledge assets in the space of wireless
mobility/RFID.
Researched, conceived and trained employees and vendors for the use of Motorola’s
Enterprise LAN Planner® RF heat mapping predictive software suite for use in
Walmart stores and warehouses throughout the US resulting in large savings for
WLAN installations.
Leader in the innovative concept for high density/high speed/small cell WLAN
placement design for new store and Distribution center implementations that became
a standard for large installation savings for enterprise.
Contributed knowledge for the Walmart Stores Inc. deployment of RFID portable
multi-use data terminals for clothing resulting in a very large savings of employee time
in inventory duties.
Directed the operations of a Bentonville RFID lab facility for testing and statistical
verification of Motorola RFID technology resulting in new innovative designs.
Symbol Corporation, Bentonville, AR
Senior Presales Technical Consultant; 2000-2007
Responsibility for the role of the technology architect for the design of new mobility
devices and applications for the Walmart account team.
Contributed account knowledge resulting in the creation of a single WLAN controlling
switch for the Walmart Stores networking infrastructure for stores that became a
standard.
Remotely managed a software development team for the design and implementation
of dozens of new applications in the Walmart mobile environment. Worked with
multiple Walmart development teams for these successful designs and
implementations.
Developed and trained new methodologies for RF Site survey procedures for WLANS
implementations for local and remote technical architect teams.
Taught various RF theory application classes and the usage of RF Spectrum Analyzers
to field teams for support of Walmart facilities nation-wide.
Telxon Corporation, Bentonville, AR
Systems Developer Level III; 1996-2000
Primary responsibility was for ‘C” application development of Walmart Stores Inc.
applications involving mobile devices in the retail environment. This role also included
engineering support for the Walmart mobile infrastructure.
Designed, programmed, deployed, and supported custom terminal emulation
applications for Telxon devices world-wide for Walmart Stores.
Contributed knowledge for the successful implementation of the first ARLAN 900Mhz
RF Infrastructure in Walmart stores and Distribution centers.
Technical Architect Manager; 1986-1996
Managed a team of systems engineers and developers for the support of large
deployments of mobile data collection devices.
Created roles for engineers and support teams
Managed and supported engineers in their daily interactions with customers Tyson
Foods, Walmart and several others in Northwest Arkansas and Saint Louis, Missouri
territories for Telxon.
EDUCATION
1977-81 Computer Science,
Undergraduate, University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
2008 Bachelor’s Degree, Business
Management Information Science,
University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ
CERTIFICATIONS
Project Management Professional
(PMP), #1571016
Certified Wireless Network
Administrator (CWNA 2002)
Radio Frequency Identification+
(RFID+)
SKILL SETS
Methodologies and Software:
Concepts in: Project Management
Institute PMP, Agile principles, RF
design, RFID, TCP/IP, IEEE 802.11, WLAN,
RFID, WIFI, Bluetooth, PAN, SNMP, Site
Survey and RF lab equipment.
Microsoft Applications: PowerPoint,
Word, Excel, MS Project, Clear Case,
Word, Visio
OS and code experience.