Telecoms Engineer

BSc, CeMAP, MSCTE, CCENT

Summary
An experienced Telecom Project Engineer with over twenty years’ experience of fixed line, mobile & utility
telecommunications including Railway FTN-GSMR, National Grid, United Utilities Electricity & Scottish Power
A disciplined engineer with 13 years military back ground
Able to work as a Technical lead engineer on Fibre Optic & High Speed Transmission Technologies
Able to oversee and control projects from start to completion using Foundation level Prince2 knowledge
Good customer facing skills
Able to meet with new challenges and meet customer expectations
Able to add value to any environment I am introduced to and am prepared to work worldwide to fulfil the needs of
the customer

Specialties
• NPPV3 clearance
• ECS CSCS Advanced Data Comms
• SC Cleared
• C&G 3666
• 17th Edition
• Inspect & test 2391
• Have held Virgin Media keys and passes
• Scottish Power AME/SS, WI2, WI3 limited to L32 (till 27/11/18)
• Certified Ciena 6500 Packet Optical Platform OAM&P Commissioning
• Certified ADVA ACE Commissioning Engineer
• DSLAM
• Huawei 8800
• DWDM OSA SNR, ORL, OTDR testing
• Sycamore Networks SN3000, SN8000 & SN16000
• Alcatel 1511, 1640, 1650, 1660, 1692, 6850, 7750
• Lucent OLS400G, STM 1, 4 & 16 & B M, Lucent DMX
• Nortel OPTera LH & DX, Tn1x, Tn4xe, Tn16x, Tn64x
• GPT Marconi STM 1, 4, 16, MSH64, MSH86 & EMOS
• Cisco 7000, 6000, 5000, 4700, 2600 etc
• MCI WorldCom F&E platform & Data (NOC circuit provisioning)
• COLT Expercom circuit Design & provisioning platform (NOC circuit provisioning)
• SDH Protection (SNCP, MSP, MS SPRing)
• Keymile UMUX 1200, 1500, FOX 512, 515, IMUX 2000 MSP’s
• Rail FTN
• Rail Signalling
• Fibre Optic Splicing
• Fibre Optic Design
• GRIP & CDM
Experience

Audit Engineer
Sep 2017 – Nov 2017
Auditing various sites across Europe

PDH Project Engineer

Mar 2015 – Jun 2017
Working on Vodafone / Scottish Power
SC Cleared
Installation & test of Avara DB4X & DFX1000 cards
Keymile Fox 515, 512
DSLAM
Huawei 8800
Working within 33Kv & 132kV substations around North Wales
Test of X.21, V.24 & Ethernet over fibre circuits
Overseeing the Q1 management rollout of all Nokia and Comtel sites
Site survey of all Liverpool Substations
In charge of Substation Health & Safety requirements

Project Engineer (Rail)

Dec 2014 – Mar 2015
A 3 month contract Working on Alcatel / Network Rail NEXUS project Overseeing a number of outstanding issues
Technical meetings with the client in London Drawing up WWPs and detailed designs

Senior Telecoms Engineer

Jul 2014 – Mar 2015
Test & repair of Alcatel Lucent, ADVA, Marconi, Sorrento & Zhone PDH, SDH & DWDM legacy equipment
Installation & commissioning telecom platforms to accommodate legacy telecoms equipment
Lead engineer advising on telecom issues to enable repair technicians the ability to repair faulty telecom cards
and equipment

Telecom Engineer
Mar 2014 – Jul 2014
Working with Tristar Telecoms to enable the upgrade of Alcatel 7750 R12 to release 10
Also doing card infills on ALU21CN

ADVA DWDM Project Engineer

Mar 2013 – Mar 2014
Working on ADVA FSP3000R7 as an ADVA certified engineer
Installation and line up of 1U, 7U systems with either 4ch or 32ch cards point to point
Working on BT Openview projects for Talk Talk & EE
10g LAN/WAN
1,2,4,8 Gig Fibre Channel
1Gig Ethernet
STM 1, 4, 16, 64, OTU 1, 2
Installing and test of DC & AC power supplies
Installation of Cisco Routers

DWDM & CWDM System Engineer

March 2012 – Nov 2012
Installing & testing OLS400G for BT
Upgrading Vodafone, Virgin Media CWDM Transmission systems UK wide
Install & test of Ciena 6500 platform
Installation of CAT5 Ethernet cable, termination and test
Installation of Cisco Routers
OPtel Project Engineer
June 2010 – March 2012
National Grid Competent Person qualified EUSR number EUS159257
Basic Electrical Safety Competence qualified
Performing Site Acceptance Tests (SAT) of SDH multiplexers and associated point of service (POS) access
connections at the customers HV substation sites within the UK and Factory acceptance Tests (FAT) with
associated system access connections at ABB in Stone
Responsible for writing risk assessments and method statements (RAMS) covering CDM
Generation and validation of technical specifications, FAT & SAT reports, test specs and design drawings to a
high standard as required by the customer – National Grid.
An engineering focal point for customer approval activities
Provided technical support to communications team members and project management
Give technical support in evaluating customer requirements and answering associated technical queries
Reporting and maintaining network KPIs and SLAs as required
Worked on the Fox 515 & 512 with a good understanding of Ericsson within a substation environment
Provide daily updates on current work issues
Configuration of cisco routers & switches
Telecom cabling. Voice circuits testing, Krone frame termination and testing
In charge of Training ABB Personnel to configure and test SDH & DWDM systems
Responsible for all substation Health & Safety requirements

Network Rail

FTN GSM-R Testing & Design Engineer

October 2007 – June 2010
Design of the rail network to migrate existing legacy telephone circuits & signalling technologies over copper,
fibre, HDSL & SDH including 3G services for GSM-R
Test & configuration of Cisco switches and routers
A1 IRSE Assessor
Produce scope of work documentation to ensure the safe migration of critical rail circuits
PTS & TMTH
ERTMS Trials
Coordination of new FTTB installations and migration of new sites
Liaise with all departments of the rail industry to ensure all circuit requirements (New & Old) are met
Supervise FTN network migration and routine maintenance activities as directed by the Project Manager
[Migration]
Supervise the work of a number of Technician Engineers and ensure company standards are followed
Maintains attendance records and rosters
Explain and enforces safety regulations
Audit site as-built information delivered by the project integration contractor against the design documentation
Add interface cards and associated wiring to support migration and network enhancement.
As directed by the Project Manager [Migration] and/or the Telecom Engineering Control Centre
Complete configuration and circuit provisioning activities to enable migration of services from legacy infrastructure
Carry out site and network testing in cooperation with staff from the TECC and document results as directed by
the relevant work instructions
Migration of Scada, signalling, X.21, V11, Voice & Data Circuits
Test & Integration of Alcatel Lucent 1650, 1660
Peek Traffic (Highways Division)

CWDM & DWDM Commissioning Engineer Alcatel

Feb 2007 – October 2007
Alcatel Installation & Commissioning
Building and establishing telecommunications within the new NOC
Working on the motorways telecommunications upgrades
Installing and commissioning Alcatel 1692 CWDM platform
External & Internal Fibre splicing
Installing & testing Alcatel 6850 Omni Switch & Alcatel 7750 Router
Commissioning & testing 12 & 24 KVA generators

United Utilities Electricity

Project Implementation & Design Engineer

May 2004 – Feb 2007
Working on the United Utilities GMPRP upgrade
Working on Keymile UMUX 515, 512 and Music
Dealing with internal customers, telecom suppliers, senior managers
Assessing initial bids & tenders
Carrying out circuit planning and technical design for substation telecoms
Working on Optical Fibre, HDSL, X.21, VF, VF-WB, PDMX, SDH, PDH circuits
working closely with civil engineering laying Fibre Optics, OTDR Testing, Working on Telecontrol (SCADA)
Installation of Optical Transmission Racks, ODF, MDF, DDF
First Aid, Health & Safety, HV & LV H100 electricity trained and certified for United Utilities
In charge of Substation Health & Safety requirements

Ericsson (Netherlands)

SDH / DWDM NOC Engineer

May 2003 – May 2004
Working within a 24/7 shift pattern, remotely monitoring a DWDM network, (MHL 3000), of (Telefonica Germany)
and acting, including reporting on occurring faults. Ensuring impacted end-user services are restored ASAP
independently or with help of other parties.
Planning migration activities and re-routing spans to facilitate equipment reconfiguration.
Using Marconi’s Service On Optical, (SOO), via the MV36 EM and MV38 NM perform preventative maintenance
by performing predefined recurring Operation and Maintenance routines. Signalize upfront deviations and prevent
unplanned service downtime.
Remotely perform parameter changes in the DWDM network and it’s components in line with change process

Sycamore Networks (Europe)

Optical Meshed Network Engineer

February 2001 – May 2003
Network engineer, working on SN3000, SN8000 (METRO, OTRN & ULH), SN16000 optical switch
Knowledge of IP (Subnetting) to redesign the network to replace leased line and switched services in the WAN
Involved in the rollout of a meshed network across the UK for Vodafone which includes a Data Communications
Network (DCN) consisting of Cisco 7000, 6000, 5000, 4700, and 2600 routers, and 3-Com
Nortel Networks (Holland, Norway& India)

Commissioning Engineer
February 2000 – February 2001

Commissioning and Fault diagnosis on Nortel OPTERA LH & DX in Europe including Cisco routers for Level 3
telemetry

Lucent Technologies (Stockholm)

Technical Pre Sales Manager
March 1999 – February 2000

Technical Pre-sales DWDM consultant liaising directly between Lucent & Telia Sweden, Telia Net Denmark on
the Pan Germany OLS400G network

GPT Marconi

Commissioning Engineer
Jul 1997 – March 1999

Royal Air Force

Terminal Air Traffic Controller

April 1991 – July 1997 (6 years 4 months)

Royal Corp of Signals

Radio Relay Systems Engineer

June 1983 – June 1989 (6 years 1 month)

Education

• Telecommunications BSc 2:1

T110 PDH Technology
T111 SDH Technology
T126 ATM Technology
T204 DWDM Technology
T412 Mobile Communications
T466 Signalling Architecture
T510h Digital Transmission
T644h Network Architecture
Qualifications

• St Johns Ambulance Emergency First Aid Appointed Person Cert No:00289601

• RF Safety Awareness: CVS ID 28545
• Working at Heights: CVS ID 28539
• Cisco CCENT Registration No: 245974362
• IOSH Working Safely Cert No: WS9951
• Health & Safety in the work place Level 2 Cert No: 787198
• EAL Domestic Installer 100/4501/6 Cert No: 96661653
• City & Guilds 2382 - 17th Edition Electrical Wiring
• BESC & EUSR National Grid Cert No: 159257
• Prince2 Project Management Foundation Cert No: 02280425-01-QZK7
• Cramer 6
• NOCN Level 3 Copper Testing & Installation Cert No: 4382275
• Railway Signalling Design (Network Rail)
• Alcatel Lucent 1640, 1650, 1660 Operation & Maintenance
• Alcatel Lucent 1511 PDH Certificate
• City and Guilds 2377 - 002 - Portable Appliance Testing
• City and Guilds 2381- 16th Edition Electrical Wiring Regulations
• City and Guilds 3666- Fibre Optic Splicing & Cabling
• Alcatel 1692 CWDM Commissioning & Installation Certificate
• Alcatel 6850 Omni Switch Commissioning Certificate
• Alcatel 7750 Router Commissioning & Installation Certificate
• UPS & 12 & 24 KVA Generator Install & Commissioning
• SAFT 54v DC Equipment & Service Training
• Nortel Networks Commissioning OPTera LH & DX
• Nortel Networks Commissioning TN16x
• Lucent Commissioning Wavestar OLS400G
• Siemens SLT/D 16 Commissioning
• Marconi Training Certificates for Commissioning STM1, 4, 16
• Marconi Training Certificate for Commissioning Cmux2
• BTEC Higher Award in Mobile Telecommunications
• Diploma in Mobile Telecommunications
• (RAF) Flight Systems Operator / Terminal Air Traffic Controller
• (RAF) Assistant Air Traffic Controller
• (Army) Radio Relay Systems Engineer Class 1