Profile

A self-motivated and proactive project manager with eighteen year within the telecoms industry, good interpersonal skills who enjoys the challenges of meeting customer satisfaction. I am a team player with the ability to cope with pressure with a proven track record on undertaking large projects showing initiative to develop and enhance future business.

· Highly customer focused with excellent planning and organisation skills

· Good Commercial Awareness

· Computer literate including the knowledge of MS Excel, Word, Power Point, MSproject Access PRINCE2, Plato and Visio

· A competent project manager , where I projects managed various network build infrastructure for BT Wholesale

Career History

Capacity Planning Transmission Designer Telecoms Network build (Contract)

Feb 2007 - Present (BTWholesale 21CN project ) London

I am responsible for the planning and implementation of various core networks, for capacity management that handles the access network from the BT Exchange's to BT Customer's. As a CAPACITY MANAGER, MY TEAM is responsible for migration the old network 20CN unto the new 21CNetwork, where my role is to calculate the capacity of the existing network using the PADLOC database and transfer this capacity unto the 21CN. This Migration is designed and implemented using SDH, PACS, Graphical Browser, NESSA, ERT. In which enables me to migrate in a fully co-ordinate fashion, PSTN lines, VLAN, Broadband, DSLAM, MSLAM, EVOTAM, and MDF mapping

Transmission Designer and Costing Telecoms Network build (Contract)

May 2005 - 25 ^th August 2006 Arqiva (formerly ntl) Winchester Hampshire

To design transmission network solutions to meet customer technical and financial requirements while conforming to arqiva network architecture standards. Design be-spoke networks utilizing SDH, PDH, dark fibre, DWDM, radio waves, Ethernet, and Cisco equipment

Cost the networks designs including capital cost, resource requirements, and annual operational cost.

Produce details documented design to enable the build group to implement proposed design, also assist project manages and Build Group in design aspect of project implementation.

Provide cost analyses of new product/infrastructure to enable the study of the impact of the new products on the network, while following the company's change management procedure.

Liaise with customer solutions, customer engineering and architecture to assist with technical queries

Liaise with 3 ^rd party suppliers, outside agencies, equipment manufactures and SLA e.g. BT, COLT, CW, MCI, GlobalX, ntl telewest and THUS are some of my suppliers

Design, cost and project managed the network build for Lancashire Ambulance Service Upgrade

Technical Co-ordinator (Contract)

11.2003 - 29 ^th April 2005 Cable & Wireless Communications Norwich

Provided Change Management and Control for a major 'Voice over IP' migration project. Accepted network change notification from project engineers and accurately created networks drawings for new sites. Updated existing sites using MS Visio. Level of detail covered router/switch port numbers (Cisco 2600~, 2900~, 3500~, 6000~), type of interface (Serial, BRI, FE), IP Loop-back, sub-net mask and default gateway addresses and bandwidth. (following the company change management policy)

Confirmed the 'kit build' and level of service provided met the customer requirements; interrogated router configurations and engineer's work plan. Updated internal database and 'on line' electronic library with new configurations. Updated 'Managed Hosts' database for monitoring and assurance purposes. Updated 'Live Link' on line database to facilitate billing. Provided ad hoc assistance to project engineers.

Six Months Sabbatical in Florida (10.2002 - 03.2003)

10.2000 - 31.08.2002 BTcellnet (O ₂ UK) Slough

Transmission Capacity Planning Manager

Project Managed the Plesichrounous Digital Hierarchy (PDH) rollout migration onto the Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) Platform

Capacity managed the interconnected circuits on large pipes SDH and PDH network; migrated PDH onto the SDH network, Designed SDH and PDH Network, processed orders, recovered, re-routed, diverted circuits on the network also update the department change management documents. Produce plans for the core transmission network, capacity managed and plan the DDF and ODF. Implemented leased bandwidth transmission solution in a cost-effective manner. Liased with other licence operator and other departments within BTcellnet, BT, Nokia, Motorola, Ericsons, Cable & Wireless and Cisco. Delivered crucial Management Reports, prepared and delivered Presentation, prepared meeting minutes.

Designed and delivered network plans for GSM, GPRS and 3G (3 ^rd generation mobile) Utilised UMTS, TCP/IP and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) for the 3G roll out onto large pipes SDH.

Assisted engineers with network faults; used Magplus, Maglines and Vantive databases, rectified the loss of service for the GPRS network in the Exeter region.

As owner of the DDF Guidance Notes Documents I have to adhere to stringent company change management policies since these documents notify the changes in DDF layout. Nationwide The DDF Guidance Notes assisted BTcellnet transmission planning, with accurate up-to-date records of the latest equipment that has been installed in the network. Rolled out RSN, Wireless Gateway, echo cancellors (verity) MGX, BPX onto the guidance notes.

1997-2000 BT Customer Network Solutions Croydon Surrey

Project Manager (Core network planning, design and infrastructure build)

Key member of major Customer Account Team. I was responsible for the design, delivery and implementation of various network solutions. Assist BT Account Teams and Bid Managers for maintaining customer accounts or biding for new business. Where I would attend meetings with the account team to give technical input via presentation. (Barclays Bank data network upgrade)

I project managed the core network infrastructure, designed, capacity managed and implemented network solutions for SDH, PDH, Switch Megabit Data Services (SMDS) and ATM. Project managed Wide-band Planners; assisted in the implementation of wayleaves, new roads, street work and duct work.

I project managed and Design the delivery of:

· SDH network for the Millennium Dome (£2,000,000 core network build project)

· SDH network for Reuters to assist their capacity network and plan for future growth in the network.

· (£250,000 core network build project)

· SDH and PDH network solution for Syncordia solutions in West Malling to provide a resilient network and to provide capacity management for the network.(£250,000 core network build project)

· DTTV core network solutions, Design SDH, and PDH Network for customer utilising 140Mbits link. Verified and managed records to correspond with the network. Progressed the network task and provided single point of contact for broadcast services. (£19,000,000 ITV and BBC digital core network build)

1988-1997 BT CNO City of London

Field Technician

Joined British Telecom as a T11B engineer responsible for the provision of private circuits (voice and data) for business customers. Implemented racks construction and bulk provision of private circuits, coaxial and data cables. Responsible for Customer planning, installation and maintenance of signalling units kilostream plus and megastream circuits with fibre optics, modems, kilostream circuits. Also facsimiles, provision ISDN circuits and telexes circuits. Planned and commissioned FDM Circuits.

Series of progressive moves which developed me and enhanced my skills. I was promoted to Senior Technician, Technical Officer and acting manager.

1986-1988 Croydon Surrey

Harris Edgar (a member of the Delta group)

Position: Machine Tool Operator

Responsible for the operation of press tools, capstan lathe milling machine, machine drills and all equipment associated with tool making. Strict compliance with health and safety regulations was necessary at all times.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Passed BEng in electronics and communications and HNC electronics and radio systems communication and gained sound knowledge of satellite systems, microprocessors, digital electronics, digital electronics fault finding, analogue electronics, electrical principals, radio communications and business studies. Knowledge of microwaves, fibre optics, CDMA, DWDM, DSL, radio, PMR, TETRA, mobile communications, data communications, IP, routers, Ethernet, token ring, FDDI, star and mesh topologies.

Education

2000 - BEng. Degree in Electronics and Communication

1995 - HNC in Electronics, Radio Systems and Telecommunications

1992 - ONC in Telecommunications

2005 - PRINCE2 foundation

Currently studying for Cisco CCNA Certificate