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SUMMARY
I am a highly experienced Telecommunications Professional who is extremely adaptable to changing environments. I have over 20 years experience in Radio, Fixed Line, Satellite and Data Communications. My experience ranges from installation to maintenance to design to 2nd level remote support. I excel under pressure and complete every challenge thrown at me.
WORK EXPERIENCE
March 2011 present Alcatel Lucent ,Zurich CH
Back Office Senior Engineer
Responsibilities
Network Planning and Optimisation
2nd Line technical support.
Provisioning transmission for 2G/3G networks.
Supporting Planned Works/Migrations/Integrations/Network expansion
Training
Supporting Vendor Technologies
ALU, Huawei, Ericsson, NEC, Marconi, Adva, Ciena, Tellabs, Siemens, Nortel Networks, NSN,
Tools
NetX
TEMS reports
ALU - RM ,NM, BM, Ericsson - SoEM NEC - PNMSj, ALU - ITM-SC , NSN - TNMS, Nortel - Preside, OSP , OMEA , NetAct, Cramer6, Remedy, TEMS Investigation
Equipment knowledge/Expertise can be found below.
Field Support Technician
NSN (Holland), October 2010 - March 2011
Working as a Filed Technician on T-Mobiles network in The Netherlands. Picking up Trouble Tickets on both 2G and 3G networks. Flexi-BTS on both 2G and 3G, and troubleshooting microwave radio links, NEC, FlexiHopper and Ericsson mini-link.
Electronic & Telecoms Technician
Dolphin Drilling April 2010 October 2010
Working in offshore industry off the coast of Mozambique as an Electronic & Communications
Technician maintaining all associated Equipment, including Drilling and Communications.
Fire & Gas, Sat Comms, VSAT, Dynamic Positioning, GPS, DGPS
Radio VHF & UHF, PBX, CCTV, PA Systems, TV Systems, WANs and LANs
Drilling Instrumentation PLCs
Transmission Technician 2nd Level
Colt, Barcelona April 2009 - April 2010
SUPPORTING
Customer circuits ranging from 64K to 10G Wavelength Services.
LAN, WAN, CAS, PDH, ISDN LAN Links, Eros, SDH,DSL,HSR/HSS, Video Services,Voice,Data,MPLS,ATM,DWDM.
NortelNetworks,NSN,Optera,Newbridge,Lucent,Cisco,Siemens,Marconi,Ciena,Tellabs, ADVA, Nokia Technologies
Network design and re-design
Emergency routing.
Telecom Engineer (Rail)
RSL January 2008 April 2009
Transmission Planner
Responsible for planning and implementing the Transmission for the Rails, Radio Network.
Integration Engineer
Ericsson (Belgium) October 2007 January 2008
Supervise the Install, commission and integrate Ericsson RBS 2x02, 2x06, 2x06i and Minilink.
Call testing new sites once integrated using TEMS software on phone to check broadcast channels and signal strength. Also checking Azimuth settings for correct orientation.
Field Technician
T-Mobile June 2000 June 2007
Install, commission, integrate and troubleshoot,
NOKIA NODE-B (optima Ultra and Compact, Flexi).
Call testing on each sector once site has been integrated.
Quality checks on sites installed by 3rd parties, and put forward for approval.
Expanding existing sites and performing software updates.
Trained at NOKIA in Huntingdon.
Ericsson RBS 2x02, 2x06, 2x06i, Nortel S8000,
Microwave radio links, Ericsson Mini-Link, Siae-G, Siae-B, P-Com, Nera NL290.
SDH equipment- Nortel, Siemens and Alcatel. Mostly attaching new circuits to nodes and troubleshooting nodes.
Call testing new sites once integrated using TEMS software on phone to check broadcast channels and signal strength. Also checking Azimuth settings for correct orientation.
Performing drive tests once sites are working.
Senior Technician
British Rail August 1988 June 2000
Install, commission and troubleshoot all telecom equipment relating to the rail industry MITEL SX2000, PABXs, CCTV, Customer Information Systems, Concentrators, SPTs, Concept 32, SDH, PDH, Alarms, Radio Systems.
Supervisory experience gained on large installation projects.
SKILLS & ABILITIES
Multi Vendor SDH/DWDM Experience including, NSN, Ericsson, Alcatel Lucent, Nortel, Marconi, ADVA.
Nokia Node-B, (Optima Ultra and Compact, and Flexi) Install, commission and integrate into network. Also expanding existing sites for extra capacity, and troubleshooting once integrated.
Ericsson RBS 2000 and 3000 series. Installation, commissioning and integrating into network. O&M of RBSs and troubleshooting.
Microwave Transmission. Minilink, Siae, P-Com, Nera.
Trained at Nokia in Huntingdon. Ericsson in Haslemere.
Also undertake quality audits on work carried out by 3rd parties, and approve for handover.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Dundee College (1988 1990) gained an ONC in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
T-Mobile training (2000 2007) Ericsson RBS 2x02, 2x06, 2x06i, Minilink, Datacomms Networking, Nokia Node-B, Nortel S8000, Cable & Wireless Siae-G, Siae-B, P-Com, Nera NL290
British Rail training (1988 1990) MITEL SX2000, PABXs, SDH, PDH, Radio systems, CCTV, Alarm systems, Customer Information Systems, Concentrators, SPTs, Concept 32
Offshore Survival UK & Medical
EQUIPMENT EXPERTISE
ALU Ethernet Media Gateway
Actelis DSL
NSN Aspen Multi Service Platform
Optera Metro 6500 O&M
Optera Metro 6100
MV 38
MV 36
EMOS
Alcatel 9500 MXC
Alcatel UHR
Alcatel UHRC
Ericsson Traffic Node
NEC Pasolink
Marconi SMA1/4/16
Marconi MSH84
Marconi MSH86
Marconi MSH11
CPL O&M
Passport 20K
Passport 7K
Alcatel 1354 RM
Alcatel 1353 NM
Alcatel 1641 SX , 1670 SM , 1660 SM, 1650, 1662, 1696
Ericsson Commissioning RBS 2101,2102,2202,2106,2206
Ericsson Commissioning Micro Cell 2302,2109
Ericsson Commissioning Mini Link
Optera Metro 3500 O&M
Optera Metro 5100 O&M
Optera Metro 5200 O&M
NSN Surpass hiT7070
NSN Surpass hiT7060HC
NSN Surpass hiT7020
NSN Surpass hiT7025
NSN Surpass hiT7030
NSN Surpass hiT7050
NSN Surpass hiT7065
Siemens SXA
Siemens SL64
Siemens SLD16
Siemens SLD16E
Siemens SLR16/WTTR
Siemens SMA 1K
Siemens WL8
Siemens ULAF
Huawei U2000
OptiX OSN 6800
WDM OTM
PERSONAL DETAILS
DOB 17 February 1971
Driving Licence Full / clean
Health Excellent
Leisure pursuits Skiing holidays, socialising, reading, playing / coaching football and spending quality time with family
REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST
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