Vice President, Engineering
James Ruedlinger currently serves as VP of Engineering for Fullwave Tower & Broadcast, LLC. James is a registered professional engineer with over two decades of experience in the tower industry including new tower design, structural analysis and modification design, large and small gin pole analysis and design, and development and oversight of engineered construction plans for complex projects involving new tower installations, large antenna installations, structural upgrades, and tower demolitions.
James also has both extensive climbing and tower inspection experience and has been actively involved with the TIA committee responsible for both tower design and analysis requirements through the ANSI/TIA-222 standards, and construction and gin pole design and analysis standards since the inception of the original ANSI/TIA-1019 standard. James currently serves as the chair of the TR14 task group responsible for the ANSI/TIA-322 engineering standard on Loading, Analysis, and Design Criteria Related to the Installation, Alteration and Maintenance of Communication Structures, and on the A10 editing committee for the ANSI/ASSE A10.48 standard on the Criteria for Safety Practices with the Construction, Demolition, Modification and Maintenance of Communication Structures.