Experience

2 Degrees Mobile

• REGIONAL OPERATIONS ENGINEER

  • Jul 2008 - Present

  Prepare processes,documents and guidelines for testing and acceptance of site quality. Co ordinate with Design Manager,Project,subcontractors and consultants in performing on site acceptance activities. Develop,implement and co-ordinate a nationwide system for verifying site quality standards in compliance with prescribed NZCL design performance criteria Co- ordinate with Project Manager,Equipment vendor for any technical issues,civil issues on network build. Prepare processes,documents and guidelines for testing and acceptance of site quality. Co ordinate with Design Manager,Project,subcontractors and consultants in performing on site acceptance activities. Develop,implement and co-ordinate a nationwide system for verifying site quality standards in compliance with prescribed NZCL design performance criteria Co- ordinate with Project Manager,Equipment vendor for any technical issues,civil issues on network build.



Kordia Ltd.

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• TECHNICAL SPECIALIST

  • Nov 2006 - Jul 2008

  Maintenance and faults of Television,FM and AM high powered transmitters for various customers e.g. TV1,TV2,TV3,Sky,Radio NZ,TRN some services up to 20KW. Installation and commissioning of Digital Television. Installation and commissioning of Satellite TV.(Freeview) Project management and preparing quotes for various customers. WiFi installation and planning of RoamAD services. Installing and commissioing of Kordia's High Capacity Fujitsu Radio Network by way of cross polarisation. Maintenance of infrastructure and management of contractors. Resource co-ordinator for the engineering staff. Show less



Downer New Zealand

• New Zealand
• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee

• ADVANCED RADIO TECHNICIAN

  • Nov 1993 - Nov 2006

  - Installation of Land Mobile VHF and UHF equipment - Installation and Commissioning of Fleetlink Radio trunked network - Radio faults restoration and call out duties - Tuning and repair of radio channels - Cellular Radio installation and maintenance - Sealink and paging fault restoration - Regular maintenance and performance checks of Land Mobile,Fleetlink and Cellular Radio. - Network monitoring of Fleetlink network - Working with Network Management on fault restoration after hours and during normal working hours. DOC radio contract build,mntce and faults. - Maritme radio install,mntce,flts. - Lighthouse maintenance. - Attended Lucent CDMA Accreditation training for the installation and maintenance of the CDMA network. This involved the in depth working of the Radio Base Station and Switching Network of CDMA. - Integration of CDMA network which requires thorough knowledge of Windows NT/95/2000 and involves the process of programming the CDMA Radio Base Stations and loading certain parameters to communicate to the Lucent switch Windows NT/95/2000 and involves the process of programming the CDMA Radio Base Stations and loading certain parameters to communicate to the Lucent switch. Testing the antenna plant of the internal and external aerials and RF cables by a Return Loss and DTF measurement and analysing problems on this equipment. Project management of the initial ‘trial’ sites and CDMA. This involves liaising closely with Lucent and Downer Management and organising the Downer staff to operate efficiently and within budget constraints. Show less



Telecom New Zealand

• India
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

• SENIOR TECHNICIAN

  • 1993 - 2006

  TELECOM MOBILE RADIO Worked in RF environment for Telecom Mobile and Downer for last fifteen years. This involves: Conventional Land Mobile VHF and UHF Telecom Fleetlink Network (Mobile UHF Trunking System) Ambulance Network(NZ) Cellular Radio Ericsson Network Sealink UHF Network Phonelink Taxi System UHF and VHF Linking Systems On all of the above networks I have been installing, maintaining and providing a twenty-four hour fault restoration . Originally installed the Fleetlink trunking network nationally and maintained the Engineering Management System to supervise the network by way of the data retrieved from Base Stations to the Central Switch. Liaised closely with all customers regarding faults on the network. Extensive experience in maintaining Fleetlink Node, Digital Audio Switch, Digital Cross-connect Switch and Site Control Equipment. Telecom Cellular Network Maintaining, installing and fault-finding on Ericsson 882,884 Radio base station equipment. 2000 Project management for CDMA network installation. Intergration and trouble-shooting for the Central North Island regarding the CDMA project. 2001 AC and DC maintenance and faults including Invensys products at cellsites and major installations. Show less



Electrix

• New Zealand
• Utilities
• 200 - 300 Employee

• ELECTRICIAN

  • 1990 - 1993

  Became Registered Electrician working on major site builds in Wellington and the upgrade of the Haywards Hill DC-DC Substation. Became Registered Electrician working on major site builds in Wellington and the upgrade of the Haywards Hill DC-DC Substation.



Commercial Fisherman

• United States
• Fisheries
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Crew

  • 1988 - 1990

  Commercial Fishing North Island crayfishing and netting. Boatmasters Certificate Commercial Fishing North Island crayfishing and netting. Boatmasters Certificate



NZPO

• Poland
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technician

  • 1973 - 1988

  Senior Technician (Transmission and Data) - Engineer-In-Chief’s Office - Telecom - Installation, Maintenance, Commissioning of Prototype NEC and Fujitsu 140Mbit Fibre Optic communications - Installation of Prototype Digital Data Network (DDN) the forerunner of (ISDN) - Company seminars with Sweden on the above equipment and technical manual make-up - Hardware and software support for DDN district involvement During this period I had four years experience in the Radio and Transmission Repair Laboratory. Duties included - - Repair of analogue, digital and optical instrumentation among which were Oscilloscopes, power supplies, Cathode Ray Tubed instruments, Logic analysers, transmitters and receivers, and microprocessor controlled instruments. - Research and development of power supplies, wideband amplifiers and various prototype equipment. Construction of printed circuit boards. Design and development of filter networks for radio and transmission systems - Calibration of all New Zealand instrumentation. Besides DSIR, Telecom had the only other standard voltaic cell to calibrate all milliwatt test sets via Hewlett Packard and Racal Dana calibration instruments and therefore calibrate all equipment accordingly to these test sets. - Technical Evaluation, with reference to CCITT recommendations and verification of specifications of all telecommunications equipment both radio and transmission imported into the country. - Liaison with manufacturers and importers regarding any problems or queries on the equipment above. - Acceptance testing of radio and transmission equipment for conformance to the Telecom network and that they comply to Electrical and CCITT standards. Show less