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| Ref # |  | JS175742 |
| Year of birth | | 1972 |
Permanent/Home Location/Address |
| City or Town | | Reading |
| Country | | UK |
Current Location/Address |
| Country | | UNITED ARAB EMIRATES |
Languages |
| Primary Language | | Fluency |
| English | | Read, write and speak fluently |
Nationalities |
| Main Nationality | | UK |
| Other Nationality | | CANADA |
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Experience Classification |
| Job Function | | Years Experience |
| Telecommunications Engineer | | 3 |
| Project Engineer | | 2 |
| Project Management | | 2 |
| Consultant | | 3 |
| Assistant Resident Engineer | | 2 |
| Industry | | Years Experience |
| Railways | | 3 |
| IT and Computing | | 14 |
| Building and Construction | | 2 |
| Telecomms | | 3 |
| Consulting Engineer | | 3 |
Qualifications |
| Highest Qualifications | | Degree |
| Qualification | Subject | Establishment/Country | Year |
| Degree | Engineering Management | UK | 2006 |
| Trade Qualifications | City & Guilds | UK | 1989 |
Other Qualifications, Memberships, Certification
MIET, IET, Institute of Engineering & Technology (member) |
Computer Skills and Software Used |
| Microsoft Office packages, competent user of MS project, Visio, Access, and Solid Works CAD software. |
Work Locations |
| Are you willing to move or relocate? | |
Yes - I will travel domestically
Yes - I will relocate domestically
Yes - I will travel internationally
Yes - I will relocate internationally | |
Availability |
| Earliest Start Date | | Given 4 weeks notice |
Ideal Next Job |
| Looking for work in a site engineering role in the Middle East on a single status basis. |
Required Salary & Conditions |
| Minumum Salary is; USD 4500 per month plus housing and car in package. |
Employment History |
| Total Years of Work Experience: | | 17 |
| Commenced Full Time Work: | | 1995 |
| Job Title: | | Engineer |
| Duration | | From : 2007 To: |
Summary |
| has experience of a range of technologies including; wired, radio, wireless, mobile, optical fiber. Consultant engineering work includes; document review, feasibility studies, site engineering, inspection, surveys, bid preparation/evaluations, requirements capture/analysis, specification, procurement, configuration, fault finding, design, project management, acceptance testing/witnessing, reporting. An articulate and versatile engineer with excellent presentation, written and inter-personal skills. |
Work Experience |
Profession: Engineering
Specialisation: ICT/IBMS (Information & Communications Technologies, Intelligent Building Management Systems)
Last Position in Firm: Site Engineer
Engineer experience:
• Abu Dhabi, UAE, 06-08 to present, ICT/IBMS Site Engineer for new campus in Abu Dhabi, the first facility to be built in the world’s first carbon-neutral, zero emissions city, reporting to the Project Manager, responsible for delivery of state of the art ICT and IBMS systems.
• Pre-delivery responsibilities included; requirements capture, technical specification, Request for Proposal (RFP), tender management, recommendation reports, workshops, responding to technical queries, clarifications, coordination of review, pre-bid meetings, presentations, managing bidder presentations, evaluations and recommendations on bidders’ proposals.
• Delivery responsibilities include; progress reporting, checking drawings, designs and quantities, selection and requisition of materials; negotiating price for materials and services on behalf of the client. Ensuring cost-effective solutions and proposals put forward. Liaised with other consultants, sub-contractors, supervisors, planners, quantity surveyors and the general workforce involved in the project; liaising with clients and their representatives (architects, engineers and surveyors), including attending regular meetings to keep them informed of progress, writing detailed reports. Commissioning and acceptance testing of ICT & IBMS systems.
• IBMS tasks include; review BMS-IBMS design strategy and various tertiary sub systems strategies. Ensuring IBMS supplier had sufficient information to progress topographical design drawings by qualifying sensor devices and meters were shown on the drawings. Assisted IBMS specialist to manage, organise and rationalise the IBMS point’s schedule, hosted workshops with client, main contractor and tertiary system specialists to gather information. Acted as liaison with construction team on site, managed requirements both technically and against Construction Programme. Liaised with Clients Commissioning Consultant to provide mitigation measures where required to ensure programme was met.
• General Electric Company of Libya (GECOL), commissioned a national telecommunications transmission network as part of national power networks upgrade. UK based Assistant Engineer, responsibilities included; peer reviews of preliminary specifications, detail design and test specifications for communication systems, radio, optical, data and voice communications.
• GECOL, UK based, Assistant Engineer, desktop study of Wireless Communications technologies, Libyan wireless infrastructure and radio spectrum availability. Wireless technologies reviewed to asses suitability for extending SCADA telemetry network across 11 kV Sub-Station network. Findings presented in draft and final reports.
• ZEKC-PT, BiH (Sarajevo, Bosnia), Clients Engineer for Site Acceptance Test (SAT), reporting to the Director of Telecommunications, responsibilities included; programme review, daily reporting and briefings & test witnessing. A national telecommunications transmission network built over unified power network, using optical ground wire (OPGW), 400 SDH/PDH transmission nodes, network transmission lines; STM-16, STM-4 and STM-1 SDH Backbone connections 2Mbps G.703 and Ethernet connections.
• Bristol Parkway station regeneration, GRIP Stage 3- 4. Assistant Engineer, assisted principle on site visits, preliminary surveys, reporting, telecoms survey, capacity review of existing systems cable routing, cable condition and issues with the concentrator system. Additional work included development of detailed design report, including new cable routes, CCTV, personal information displays and signal telephones.
• Irish Rail Telecommunications Design Support, Assistant Engineer, Irish Rail required a consolidated turnkey communications interface. PB provided communications requirements analysis. Desk top study involved documentation, peer review, customer requirements analysis and technical drawings.
• National Stations Improvement Programme (NSIP) Wessex route GRIP stages 1-3. Assistant Engineer, assisted principle on site visits, preliminary surveys, drafting reports, option and risk workshops. Prepared high level study and report for project development to advance GRIP stages.
• Transport Initiative Edinburgh, Assistant Engineer, The Edinburgh Tram Network is a 28km, £40m light rail system, including 32 tram stops. Responsibilities included; technical drawing, peer reviews of: requirement specifications, for communication systems, radio, optical, data and voice communications, prepared by colleagues for clients.
• Major Metropolitan Control Centre, Assistant Engineer, responsibilities included; system and application requirements capture and analysis, preparation of technical specification, outline design, contract supervision, commissioning and acceptance of command system.
Relevant Skills:
• Reporting including; statistics, photographs, graphical presentations etc.
• Arranged and chaired regular progress meetings with client, designers, main & sub-contractors, ensured prompt provision of agreed minutes.
• Conducted risk identification exercises to determine the discrete features of the project which might cause time and cost overruns and/or result in failure to achieve the required quality and operational requirements.
• Propose actions for mitigation of risk to the owner by reducing likelihood of occurrence or reducing impact.
• Methods of improving performance also determined, such as; the allocation of additional resources, detailed working procedures, incentives, use of standard components and sizes, reduced interfaces, detailed planning and more intensive management activity.
Work Experience (1995 to 2004):
04/04 – 09/04
Unipart Group (Temporary); Junior Business Analyst, primarily responsible for producing daily and weekly reports comparing Key Performance Indicators with stock movements. Reports were emailed and presented to departmental business managers according to strict schedule.
05/03 – 03/04
Oxfordshire County Council (Temporary); Programme Administrator, working with the UK Job Centre Plus, I administered new deal job programme, monthly statistical information and managed job seeker attendance. I also had responsibility for induction of clients onto programmes, carried out client placement reviews.
02/01 – 03/03
Oxstrad Ltd, Project Support, areas of responsibility included liaising with clients on programme delivery, document control, equipment and services procurement. Other tasks included new business and managed services development.
02/00 – 01/01
Concentric UK Ltd, Technical Account Manager; business development responsibilities included selling ecommerce services and technically supporting clients with set-up issues, specifying collocation requirements, managing DNS propagation and progressing domain name registrations.
09/95 – 01/99
Westcoast Ltd, ICT Configuration/support/Technical Sales; 1st & 2nd line technical support to customers and staff. As a configuration technician I installed components and software into all types of hardware. In technical sales I specified Digital/Compaq servers and rack equipment, responsible for preparing my colleague’s quotations.
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Comments/ Hobbies/ Interests etc: |
Voluntary Experience:
Kings School Oxford 03/06 -07/06
I provided one to one ESOL tuition to a 19-year-old Angola student.
Oxford and Cherwell College (The Bridging Project) Oxford 03/06 – 05/07
A limited role as teaching assistant with 16-19 year old ESOL ethnic minority ESOL students new to the UK.
Additional Information
Played an active role at university as the field representative, an elected position that dealt with student academic and welfare relations. Attends the gym, enjoys playing for football team, various leisure water sports, SCUBA diving and spending time with friends and family.
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Last Updated on 03-Jan-10
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