Sep 2021 – Aug 2022 · 11 mos · Huntingdon, England, United Kingdom

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr · Waterbeach, England, United Kingdom

Jul 2018 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Jul 2017 – Jun 2018 · 11 mos

• Leading a team of highly motivated Project Engineers for the London LTE project.

Sep 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Responsible for delivering site builds, through life cycle. Ensuring all factors are in place for on the day. Ranging from materials to manpower, access to traffic management.
• liaising with vendors and customer. managing manpower and a team of Project Engineers and customer expectations.
• Providing guidance and advice to team members.
• Resolving issues during planning and on the day builds. Ensuring where possible that a build goes ahead despite what may seem to be insurmountable problems.
• Realising and managing costs within each build, reducing costs where possible , keeping build creep to minimum.

Jun 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Huntingdon

• War Room Project lead on Vodafone RBS LTE Commissioning project
• Corporate PBX migrations onto R4 networks (DPNSS, Q931 signalling)
• Tellabs 8660 (MSSR) Configuration
• Tellabs 8660 (MSSR) VPN and Pseudowire creation
• BSC/BSCi/BSC2i/BSC3i/Flexi Hardware & Software Upgrades
• BTS Software/Hardware Upgrades (Ultra’s/Talkfamily/Metro’s/Flexi)
• 2G/3G/R99/R4 network troubleshooting, data creation, planning
• RNC H/W & S/W upgrades
• WBTS Rehosting/Upgrades(Flexi/Ultras)
• Transmission Fault Finding CAT5/CAT6/Fibre/Coaxial (IP/ATM/ETH/STM/E1)
• Network Patching (DDF / ODF)
• Fully proficient with software tools (HIT/TANG/Reflections/Filezilla/FTT)
• Colleague training to Perform BSC and RNC Upgrades

Jun 2009 – Jun 2012 · 3 yrs · Bristol, United Kingdom

• 13 years Cellular Engineering experience working on Nokia 2G/2.5G/3G/R99/R4/Huawei/ Core and Ran elements and associated transmission, completing Integrations / Upgrades (SW+HW) / Rebalancing / Decommissioning / Fault investigation / diagnosis and resolution. Also providing 3rd Line Support to a team of 30 Field based engineers, and training + support to 3rd party contractors and Global Delivery Centres.
• Good working knowledge of NSN 2G/3G/R4 platforms including associated MML / OSS Netact and CM tools (xml Plans) / Tellabs MSSR – MPLS Cross-Connects / Lucent PSAX – PVC/SPVC Cross-Connects

May 2006 – Jun 2009 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Software and Hardware upgrades to NSN Core and Ran elements.
• Integration builds/Decoms/Rehosts and Renetworking for 2G/3G/Core elements.
• GPRS speed increases.
• Reactive and Proactive identification and repair of Network faults.
• End To End Transmission build and testing on Tellabs MSSR and Lucent PSAX networks.
• Route Configuration, expansion and Testing of Interconnect links to 3rd parties.
• 3rd Line Support to Field based engineers

Feb 2003 – May 2006 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• A GSM Access/Core Network Engineer working within a TMC(Technology Management Centre). Responsible for remote reactive/proactive monitoring and diagnostics of Nokia UTRAN (Node B/RNC), Nokia DX200 BSS/NSS, Ericsson GPRS and NEC SDH radio rings. Fault rectification, reporting and escalation including liaison with contractors, field and switch engineers to ensure efficient network coverage and minimise fault downtime

Aug 1999 – Feb 2003 · 3 yrs 6 mos

• A GSM Access/Core Network Engineer working within a TMC(Technology Management Centre). Responsible for remote reactive/proactive monitoring and diagnostics of Nokia UTRAN (Node B/RNC), Nokia DX200 BSS/NSS, Ericsson GPRS and NEC SDH radio rings. Fault rectification, reporting and escalation including liaison with contractors, field and switch engineers to ensure efficient network coverage and minimise fault downtime