Experience

VX Fiber

• Sweden
• Telecommunications
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of Design and Planning

  • Aug 2020 - Present



CityFibre

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Network Planner (Central Design Team)

  • Jul 2018 - Aug 2020

  Duties & Responsibilities:• Oversee the design of agreed full fibre network architectures to satisfy company and customer requirements.• Attend workshops to develop, implement and then champion CityFibre underground and aerial network topologies.• Work with internal & external software developers, offering ideas and solutions in order to help enable improved automation of planning designs and processes.• Promote consistency, quality, suitability and cost-effectiveness for FTTP and PSN designs.• Work closely with detailed design partners providing support with general planning guidelines and the improvement of planning designs, CFH processes & best practises.• Create KMZs providing detailed designs and core fibre network for the build teams and partners to take to councils so they can highlight where the civils construction is planned to take place, and arrange to complete the construction in conjunction with the council’s own build plan.• Create divisions along natural and manmade geographical boundaries within the full city workspaces enabling more design partners to plan in the area and thus increase volumes.• Quality check high-level designs and maximise them to their potential prior to being issued to the design partners for them to complete the detailed designs. Key Achievements:• Attended ‘incubators’ in the UK, Belgium and Ireland with software developers and planning partners providing input and advice regarding changes and improvements to planning practices.• Introduced a standardised geographical SLD format for the Core Network; the basis of which is now used throughout the company and by CFH’s design partners.



Virgin Media - (Network Expansion & Diversionary Works)

• Network Fibre Planner

  • Apr 2015 - Jul 2018

  Duties & Responsibilities:• Produce detailed planning packs and schematics for new Core, Access, Trunk and FTTP fibre networks, and provide naming conventions for contract partners.• Complete feasibility studies for network expansion with costs, showing benefits for any proposal and highlighting special engineering difficulties along the routes.• Plan new STM-1, STM-4 and STM-16 rings, MSANs and HFC Nodes to provides services for new developments and to facilitate in expanding the existing network.• Survey Headends & PoP sites to determine the equipment needed, power requirements, costs and timescales regarding the installation.• Attend diversionary meetings & site surveys with clients, developers and other utility company representatives to determine if Virgin Media network is affected.• Provide detailed costs and planning packs relating to any new works for the civils & cabling contract partners, order all stores required, identify any hazards associated and request outages via VM internal departments for the works.• Reserve, allocate and record fibres on existing networks via the Microsoft Access database and update the records on the main schematics & tube schematics using AutoCAD, Gcomms and Microsoft Visio.• Work closely with other internal departments to ensure as smooth an installation as possible and support Virgin Media Business with their fibre and CWDM requirements when requested.Key Achievements:• Planned and arranged major outages over a several nights on the VM Core and Access Networks in order for the new M6/M56 by-pass to be completed.• Planned fully diverse fibre routes to provide FTTP services to Chester, Wrexham and North Wales as part of Virgin Media’s Project Lightning programme including introducing ribbon fibre to the region for the first time.



Virgin Media

• United Kingdom
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Access Fibre Planner

  • Mar 2008 - Apr 2015

  Duties & Responsibilities• Plan and maintain the Virgin Media access fibre network, trunk routes and CCTV fibre networks for the northwest region, utilising the existing fibre in the ground to its maximum potential, producing SLDs for new installations, and planning upgrades where necessary.• Reserve & allocate fibres on the access database and update fibre records on the main schematics & the tube schematics using AutoCAD, Gcomms and Microsoft Visio.• Visit Headends & PoP sites to determine civils works, cable routes and equipment required, providing comprehensive and accurate costs.• Produce detailed planning packs to the civils & cabling contractors and the in-house commissioning engineers, ordering all stores required and identifying any hazards associated with the installation.• Project Manage small to medium installations from inception to completion.• Work closely with other internal departments to ensure as smooth an installation as possible.• Mentor and assist apprentices and new team members.Key Achievements• Costed for, planned and project managed a new Manchester city centre fibre network offering full diversity for businesses in the area.• Introduced passive CWDM filters into the Virgin Media network across NW England resulting in an eightfold increase in the fibre capacity.



The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Telecomms Switch Engineer

  • Jan 2004 - Mar 2008

  Duties & Responsibilities:• Manage the day to day running of the telecommunications network across three major acute sites and several clinics.• Build telephone lines, hunt groups, pick-up groups and rectify faults from the user through the network to, and including, the switches.• Attend site surveys and meetings, planning migration procedures and timescales and offering advice and information with respect to feasibility and capacity requirements.• Commission and maintain IVR services for the trust call centres, programming phones and installing software onto supervisors’ desktops.• Work with internal and external network providers commissioning additional circuits and DDI ranges into the hospitals via fibre-optic, microwave, and VOIP networks across all sites.• Move and amend services for departments at times that suit – these would usually take place out of normal working hours.Key Achievements:• Installed and commissioned new Siemens VOIP switches and compatible phones with voice control command software.• Migrated the hospital switchboards over a weekend from three locations to a central location, diverting all necessary numbers. All work completed on time without issues.



NTL

• Access Network Engineer

  • Nov 1994 - Oct 2003

  Duties & Responsibilities:• Design and build PDH, SDH & Data telecommunications networks for larger businesses, hospitals and councils throughout the northwest.• Programme and configure transmission cards from Headend switch sites to the customers’ premises testing for stability before handing over.• Test and commission National Ethernet, MIA, MEVPN, P2P, ISDN2, ISDN30, DASS2 and DPNSS circuits ensuring the data-fill is correct and the compatibility between the customer’s equipment and the network.• Fibre splice, test light levels and provide trace readings for customers for CCTV security systems.• Complete as-built records and verify any changes to the original planning pack.Key Achievements:• Installed, commissioned and maintained the CCTV networks for Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale & Burnley MBCs, and Greater Manchester Police.• Installed, commissioned and maintained the fibre network and subsequent transmission equipment across the whole of the University of Salford campus.



Various

• Early Career History (in brief)

  • 1986 - 1994

  • Sept 1988 to July 1990: Hayneswood Engineering. Trained in all aspects of mechanical engineering (milling, turning and fitting) and specialised in making fine tolerance components.• July 1990 to December 1991: Metool Ltd. Manufactured and assembled parts for the automotive industry.• March 1992 to September 1993: Cunnington & Cooper. Assembled and tested machinery for use in the nuclear core reactor at the Sizewell B reprocessing plant in Norfolk.• January 1994 to November 1994: Ministry of Defence. Supported the pensions and payroll departments.