Brad Dye was the vice president of international networks at WebLink Wireless (formerly PageMart Wireless), in Dallas, Texas. At WebLink, he was responsible for building the international portion of one of the world’s largest terrestrial wireless data networks. This network, at its peak, covered 14 countries in North America, South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

His previous position was vice president of sales and marketing at RTS Wireless in New York. While at RTS, he invented a way to send paging traffic over the Internet using the TNPP protocol (encapsulated in TCP/IP). RTS built the product and sold it to paging carriers worldwide. He implemented this solution at WebLink Wireless. Using the Internet, instead of costly leased-international circuits, allowed for a very cost-effective solution, to small carriers in smaller markets, so that they could become part of an international network.

Before RTS Wireless, Brad was with Motorola’s Paging Products Group, where he was the manager of Infrastructure Sales, Systems Engineering, Programs Management, and Field Technical Support. He and his team of 20 engineers were responsible for paging infrastructure sales and support in 47 markets in the Latin American and Caribbean areas. Other assignments at Motorola included international market development manager for Motorola’s Paging Products Group, with responsibility for worldwide marketing of pagers, area sales manager for the two-way radio division in Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay, and regional sales manager for Central America.

Other positions: He also worked for BBL Industries in Atlanta, Georgia as international sales manager for paging terminals, mobile telephone terminals, and voice mail systems. Glenayre Technologies later acquired BBL Industries. As the director of the international division for Spectrum Communications and Electronics (SCE), he sold the largest paging system in the world (at that time) to the government of Taiwan—in 1986. Ericsson later acquired Spectrum Communications.

Brad has been involved in many facets of the radio communications and electronics industries. For the past several years, he has specialized in international radio paging, voice mail, wireless data, and telemetry systems. He has traveled to over 50 countries in sales and marketing roles and has been involved in supplying the infrastructure for many major paging and voice mail systems used by telephone companies and radio common carriers throughout Europe, Scandinavia, Mexico, South America, the Middle East, and Asia.

Brad has been a member of the American Radio Relay League, the IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the Quarter Century Wireless Association, and the Radio Club of America. He is an active member of the American Mensa Society and he has written several technical and marketing papers about paging, telemetry, and wireless messaging. He has been a frequent speaker at industry trade shows and conventions. His popular presentation, The Wheel of Fortune, promotes the use of a radio-paging channel for non-traditional applications such as: wireless alarm reporting, radio-controlled electrical switches, information services, and electronic signs. These applications are more commonly known today as Wireless Telemetry. This presentation was brought up-to-date as The New Wheel of Fortune and includes current information on two-way paging, including Wireless Data, Wireless e-mail, Wireless Telemetry, and Wireless Instant Messaging. It can be viewed at: http://www.braddye.com/newheel.html

His academic preparation includes four years of undergraduate study at Bob Jones University, in Greenville, South Carolina, and a total immersion Spanish study program at El Instituto de la Lengua Española in San José, Costa Rica. He was also on the faculty of Greenville Technical College in Greenville, South Carolina where he taught Industrial Electronics. Ongoing studies have included several management and product-specific courses from Motorola and other leading manufacturers of communications and electronics equipment. His language ability includes native English, fluent Spanish, basic Portuguese, and some Guaraní. He is also the author of the Internet Paging Information Resource site: http://www.braddye.com and publishes a weekly Internet newsletter on Wireless Messaging and Paging that is read by about 2,000 people in nearly 50 countries. http://www.braddye.com/newsletters.html

When time permits, he accepts consulting assignments for systems design recommendations, market research, wireless telemetry, and wireless-related business planning. He also conducts on-site training courses on Wireless Telemetry, Paging, and other types of Wireless Messaging.

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