Lauro Ortigoza, Ph.D., - Senior Network Consultant of LCC’s Advance Technology, Research and Innovation Group and one of the Principal Consultants of LCC’s Wireless Institute.  Lauro has over 12 years of combined academic and practical telecommunications experience in Latin America, Europe and the United States. During this time, Lauro has been involved in research and development as well as design and optimization of wireless networks. He has also worked on numerous projects consulting for network operators, financial institutions and OEMs. His work covers most radio and core network aspects of voice/data network deployment for terrestrial mobile communications. This includes performance analysis by means of both mathematical (teletraffic) analysis and computer simulations for the major wireless and mobile technologies such as UMTS (WCDMA/HSxPA), GSM (GPRS, EDGE), CDMA2000 (IS-95/1xRTT, 1xEV-DO), OFDM/WiFi/WiMAX, and more.

Lauro became a member of LCC’s Advance Technology Research and Innovation Group in July 2007, after LCC’s acquisition of Wireless Facilities Inc (WFI). He maintains his role as one of the main technical consultants of this specialized department providing technical support to clients in the wireless industry. At the same time, Lauro supports the Wireless Institute which researches the engineering design and optimization processes for emerging wireless technologies.  Lauro helps develop job-centered, just-in-time, engineering, professional, and management curricula for LCC's clients and employees.  He also participates in course development and provides presentations to LCC clients worldwide.

Prior to his experience with LCC, Lauro worked for seven years with WFI as one of the main consultants for the Advance Technologies Group (ATG) where he actively participated in managing, consulting, and training development projects for multiple clients in the USA and Latin America. He also helped with the development and presentation of several advanced third and beyond-third-generation training courses for the ATG.

Lauro studied and was a research fellow at the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTR) at King’s College, University of London in UK, where he obtained his Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications. His doctoral dissertation was in the area of radio resource management for wireless cellular networks with different multiple access schemes. He also pursued post-doctoral studies at the CTR under a grant awarded by the UK’s Engineering, Physical and Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to study radio resource management in WCDMA networks. Lauro's B.Eng. and M.Sc., in EE and Telecommunications, are from ESIME and CINVESTAV respectively. Both ESIME and CINVESTAV are schools of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico.

Lauro has published over 60 technical papers on wireless and mobile communications in international, refereed telecom journals and magazines, and has presented at several conferences and technology forums. He has also co-authored four books in the wireless telecommunication field and has been active in standard organizations and groups such as 3GPP and 3GPP2.