Skills

 

Telecommunications

Project management, service design, service configuration management, consultancy, transmission, decommissioning telecommunications assets and cost estimation for capital/MPM infrastructure works.

Other skills

First principles cost estimation for rail signalling and associated interface telecommunications including cabling networks; rail station upgrades (Systems); signalling compressed air networks; electrical high voltage bulk power and reticulation (HV AC and DC); traction substations (1500V DC and 750V DC); 1500V DC, 750V DC and 25kV AC overhead wiring (OHW) systems; HV DC Feeders; civil works associated with rail systems and structures; electrical commercial and industrial construction.

Organisational experience

    • Rail Corporation (Project Manager; Service Configuration Manager; Senior Telecoms Consultant)
    • Argus Telecommunications (Project Manager; Service Design Manager; Senior Telecoms Consultant)
    • Telstra (15+ years with 9 years design experience, including 2IC of Wideband Design, Transmission)
    • ESAT Telecom (Transmission Engineer)
    • Turner and Townsend (Consultant – Senior Cost Manager, Systems)
    • Laing O’Rourke (Consultant – Cost estimation for telecommunications & signalling)
    • JMD Rail (Consultant – Cost estimation)
    • Novo Rail Alliance (Senior Estimator, Signalling & Telecommunications; Consultant – cost estimation)
    • O’Donnell Griffin (Senior Estimator, Signalling, Electrical & Telecommunications)
    • Marcom Consulting (Principal)

Key technical competencies

Telecommunications

      • Project management
      • Wideband design
      • Configuration management
      • Consultancy
      • Transmission
      • First principals cost estimation
      • Civil construction

Electrical

      • Industrial and Commercial construction

Project cost estimation

      • Telecommunications systems
      • Rail signalling, signalling telecommunications and signalling compressed air networks
      • Rail DC Traction Substations
      • Rail traction power overhead wiring (OHW) AC & DC networks
      • Rail HV DC Feeder upgrades
      • Rail maintenance and stabling facilities
      • Station system upgrades
      • HV AC bulk power and reticulation
      • Civil construction: Combined service route, Local service route, ULX, UCX, URX

Experience

      • Project management of capital works and major planned maintenance projects at RailCorp, Argus Telecommunications, Telstra and ESAT Telecom; including large-scale infrastructure construction projects.
      • Manager, Service Configuration (physical network inventory for telecommunications and network services) at RailCorp.
      • Manager, Service Design (Telecommunications) for operational and admin wideband/broadband data services at Argus Telecommunications.
      • 2IC Wideband Design (PTTO2), responsible for the design of all wideband data services in the Sydney Metropolitan area at Telstra.
      • Senior Telecommunications Consultant at RailCorp and Argus Telecommunications.
      • Telecommunications Service delivery process. The whole process from the customer order, through the design process (including risk analysis), backbone cable build (IEN & CAN), equipment installation, circuit/Mux testing and commissioning, packet switch testing and hand-over to the client.
      • Network transmission (DDN, PDH, SDH, ATM, DWDM) installation and commissioning at Telstra and ESAT Telecom.
      • Network transmission (IEN) and customer access networks (CAN) design, construction, configuration and commissioning at Telstra and ESAT Telecom. Optical fibre and structured cabling.
      • First principles cost estimation of rail infrastructure projects and associated telecommunications elements at Turner & Townsend, Advisian, Laing O’Rourke, JMD Rail, O’Donnell Griffin and Novo Rail Alliance.
      • Electrical commercial and industrial construction.

Project management experience (telecommunications)

      • Project management of capital works and major planned maintenance projects at RailCorp, Argus Telecommunications and Telstra.
      • South coast electrification and re-signalling (Telecommunications) project for RailCorp; new Comms rooms, external plant civils, backbone inter-exchange cables, local cabling, data and voice services.
      • Victoria to Lithgow 72SMOF cable installation project.
      • ATM NMS EoL router and switch replacement.
      • ATM NMS Reliability upgrade.
      • Decommission low capacity Comms Rooms.
      • ATM 7470 capacity upgrades.
      • DWDM rollout for ESAT Telecom in the Republic of Ireland.
      • SDH network upgrade for ESAT Telecom in the Republic of Ireland.
      • Remote nodal installations at customer premises to provide network access for ESAT Telecom in the Republic of Ireland.
      • Train Station CCTV rollout (ISDN) at Argus Telecommunications
      • CCTV bandwidth upgrades at Argus Telecommunications.
      • Hitachi dark fibre project at Argus Telecommunications.
      • Installation and decommissioning of Comms Rooms and Exchanges for RailCorp.
      • Sydney GPO telecommunications Exchange decommissioning and recovery for Telstra
      • Dalley Street Exchange (old) decommissioning and recovery for Telstra.
      • Auditing RailCorp telecommunications network infrastructure, operational and admin services, then overseeing the input of the information into the organisation’s Asset Registers.

 

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