Max Main, a principal member of our telecommunications faculty, is a widely known and respected presenter, consultant, and author. Over the past 18 years, he has taught hundreds of classes on state-of-the art telecommunications systems, from two days to two weeks long, to diverse audiences worldwide. His deep technical expertise combined with a unique talent for explaining complex material in terms easy to understand has made him popular with engineering and non-technical audiences alike. His course repertoire includes 3G/4G wireless (UMTS/HSPA, 3G LTE, EVDO/EVDV), broadband systems (including WiMAX), 2G wireless (GSM/GPRS/EDGE, CDMA), WAN/LAN systems, convergence technologies including VoIP, microwave network engineering, satellite communications technologies, digital home technologies, and network security.

Max’s teaching career builds on over thirty years of hands-on work in telecommunications engineering. During his long career, he has been involved in the design and deployment of many classified military wireless communications systems using CDMA and other technologies. He led the engineering team for a pioneering CDMA-based military satellite communications system for the U.S. Air Force. He was the lead engineering manager for a program that established the first air-transportable earth station satellite system for the U.S. State Department and the White House Communications Agency.

In the early 1990s, Max served as Program Manager for the development, production, and test of a large satellite gateway earth station in California that provided the first Trans-Pacific links from the U.S. West Coast to East Asia earth stations for a major U.S. corporation . He also served as the engineering coordinator and training manager for a national cellular network system upgrade to CDMA in Brazil. Since 1999, he has served as the chief technology officer for a state emergency management agency’s wireless storm alert system for the first responders. He is also credited with overseeing the engineering and test activity of several contractors during final acceptance of the statewide microwave radio system in 2002.

He is the author of several textbooks on subjects ranging from radio propagation and network optimization to convergence, VoIP, satellite earth station systems, and wireless search and rescue location determination systems. His textbook and lab materials on wireless training/certification are used in several college-level engineering courses as well as in corporate training programs.

He is a frequent guest speaker at industry trade shows on trends in wireless regulatory and standards issues. He also serves as a subject matter expert (SME) and senior consultant on international telecommunications policy and wireless technology trends for a large venture capital management organization.

Max is a member of the IEEE and the IEEE Communications society. He holds a B.S.E.E from Purdue University. In addition, he holds numerous CompTIA certifications including Security+, Convergence+, Network+ and Digital Home Technology Integration+.