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Fleetmapping (Virtual Class) again

Locale: Bloomington, Illinois

Week of: 6/20/22


         This week was a rare 'Resident' delivery of the course 'Fleetmapping'.  A resident class is a class that allows open registration.  What that means is that any customer can register for the class, and attend it.  Resident classes are normally delivered in our Schaumburg or Fort Lauderdale faciltiy.  When the pandemic hit, we delivered a lot of classes remotely (from home).  It was early in the pandemic that I was asked to deliver this class, and have been doing that for 2 years now.  I find I really enjoy this class, and I'm not sure why.  This class was no different from my other fleetmapping deliveries, other than there was little discussion/questions from the students.  That's somewhat normal in many virtual classes, but I usually get more participation in this class than other online deliveries.  Not this week though.

         I think I've mentioned this before, but Fleetmapping is all about configuring the system (in particular, a server at the Core called the 'Provisioning Manager') and the radios to maximize their capabilities.  Customers spend million of dollars on  these systems, getting them configured correctly can be a challenge.  That's where Fleetmapping comes in.

         Don't get me wrong though, this was a good class, everything went well.  There just wasn't that many questions from the students.  Maybe I don't ask enough questions myself to bring them out of their shells, who knows?

In Closing

         I  am home next  week delivering Fleetmapping once more.  This time it will be four hours/day for four days, instead of three hours/day for five days.  This is a Federal customer, and I guess they get Friday 7/1 off.  I don't, I will still be online in a Virtual classroom presenting a special presentation to any military members who are leaving the service soon and might want to work for Motorola.  If they do, they will be Interns until their enlistment is up, then get hired as a Field Tech.  If I was 20 years younger, I'd love to do that.  Then again, maybe not, I love teaching too much.  Til next time, be good to yourselves and those you love, and WRITE!




Jim Dorrell