About

Ivan Sindell

Ivan Sindell and his company Global Communications Systems Research, Inc.  (GCSR) provide fast response, customer driven, independent telecommunications project management and consulting engineering services to programs and projects that serve the national interest and that result in extending information access globally. He focuses on combining deep engineering experience and project management capabilities with his customers’ vision and requirements for rapidly developing and deploying product in the global telecommunications market.
Sindell is a recognized expert technologist and project management and technical leader. His more than twenty -five years of project management success combined with in-depth experience in wireless and wired telecommunications, applications development, IT, education and aerospace enable him to be productive immediately.
He specializes in managing complex global projects that cross organizational, political and technical boundaries by using diverse, distributed virtual teams of experts that often include multiple government and industry partners. These teams have implemented systems that combined legacy, mainstream and advanced technologies into reliable operational systems that meet or exceeded schedule, cost and performance objectives and constraints. His customers are usually telecom carriers and governments
The results of his work have been excellent and he has been recognized for his success. He holds the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and was given a Group Achievement Award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for his work with Satellite Communications in developing nations. He was President of the Society of Telecommunications Consultants (STC) and was Manager of the Consortium of School Networking (CoSN) Emerging Technologies Committee publication on “Advanced Collaboration Technologies”.
He has spoken widely on at major conferences on technology, project management and network management and has served on and advised United States Government advisory committees including, The Federal Communications Commission, Committee on the 700 MHz Public service Band; he participated in Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) 1900 MHz Wireless Standards Group.