CURRICULUM VITAE

Driving Licence Full Valid UK Licence

Key Strengths

• Knowledge of various equipment and platforms from Lucent, Ericsson, Alcatel, Marconi, & Nortel ADMs, BWM, Switch equipment, OLS 400G, Cisco, Cienna, Alcatel and Tyco DWDM /SDH/ IP systems. Also have experience on fiber splicing , DC Rectifiers, PFE etc.
• Hardware Skills - Fault finding analogue and digital circuits down to component level. Read electronic (analogue and digital) and pneumatic circuit diagrams. .Interpret and produce SLDs also redlining any changes. Ability to use a variety of test equipment such as oscilloscopes, COTDR, OTDR, analogue / digital volt meters, logic / spectrum analyzers etc.
• Computer literate on various software packages - Microsoft Office, HTML, Unix, Windows/ 98/2000/XP, Adobe Acrobat etc.
• Management Skills - Organize regular meetings with employers and conduct regular appraisals.
• Communication Skills - Have experience of sales and negotiating at a senior level. In addition, to also develop new business strategies and deliver new product concepts
• Attended various courses by Ericsson, Lucent, Alcatel, Nortel, Cisco (CCNA) and Tyco Submarine systems.
• Certified to work at heights ( Troll climbing certificate ), Hold valid Personal Track Safety (PTS), Track Induction, Individual Working Alone certification.
• My duties have also included attending meetings where I have made contributions on direct issues, often resulted in correlating data and preparing reports.

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

Sep 84 - Jun 89 AshcroftHigh School

10 GCSE grades A-B

Sep 89 - Jun 91 LutonSixth Form College

A Levels- Physics (B) Chemistry (C)

Mathematics (B)

Sep 91 - Jun 94 UniversityOf Birmingham

BEng (Hons) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering 2:1

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

March 05 to present Alcatel Submarine System (Contractor) Worldwide

Position Lead Eng

Worked on various submarine systems, commissioning activities on both DWDM and SDH systems. Originally worked on SMW4 systems, this included various equipment such as 1620 SLTE, 1678 and1670. Also worked on power feed equipment, and installed and configured DCN (Cisco routers). Currently working on project Falcon.

Aug 04 to Oct 04 Nortel Networks Pakistan (Contractor) Pakistan

Position Senior Commissioning Eng

Commissioning and acceptance of Nortel ADMs. Operational support of exiting network. Installation, and making recommendations for any design changes. Testing all equipment with customer ensuring that it operated within spec, Writing detailed reports, and compiling maintenance procedure for local staff.

Dec 03 to Jul 04 BT Global Services (Contractor) Belgium

Position Senior NOC Engineer

Working in network operations on a 24/7 shift system providing 1 ^st and 2 ^nd line response to network problems from 2Mz to 10Ghz. Worked primarily with Alcatel equipment such as 1640 dwdm, 1641, 1651, 1661 and 1664 mux equipment, all of which was monitored by Alcatel SH and RM. Fully conversant with network operations procedures such as proactive maintenance, procedures and escalation issues. Use of various database and TT systems such as clarify, and lucent active view.

Jan 01 to Nov 03 Tyco Telecommunications (Contractor) Worldwide

Position Senior Commissioning / Testing Engineer

Installation of various cabling equipment. Commissioning and acceptance of DWDM / SDH network verifying network parameters were within specified tolerances. Fault finding where necessary if test proved to be out of spec. Worked on various DWDM and EMS equipment i.e. SLTE, WTE, PFE, ADMs (Alcatel 1664s,1670s), Ciena, Nortel, UNME, LME, 1353 SH, 1354 RM, 48v dc rectifiers, Cisco routers, WAN and LAN Set-up, UNIX programming, Cisco router config etc.

May 99 to Jan 01 Global Crossing 240 East India Doc Road, London Position Senior NOC Engineer

Originally Team leader of junior engineers within a NOC environment, providing 24 hour first and second line support. Responsible for monitoring services on all fibre optic submarine cable systems SDH and IP services, i.e.E3 to STM- 64 (OC-48). This was monitored from various Network Management tools such as ITM-NM, SNMS, and 1354RM. Have worked on various DWDM systems including Lucent (OSL 400G, Bandwidth Managers) Alcatel (SLTE), and TYCO (HPOE). Also experience of various Add Drop Mux including Lucent 16-1, Alcatel 1664 / 1670, Nortel TN16 / 64X.

I was then transferred to the provisioning department. Provisioned ccts from E1 - OC48 (STM-16) level.

During the last few months I was in charge of re-engineering whole of network database structure to optimize capacity management. This replaced the present database with a central database management system overseeing all operations and networks, included creating customer orders right through all network inventory, design and acceptance of orders.

Feb 95 to May 99 NERA Telecommunications 171 Camford Way, Luton, Beds.

Position RF Microwave Field Engineer

I initially started work as part of a manufacturing yield improvement team. This was an area critical to increasing our manufacturing volume. My job

required me to establish more efficient and compact test fixtures as well as maximizing benefits of ATE and structuring test process to address higher fault probabilities first. In parallel with this activity, another team was established, led by myself, to look at test efficiency. Since the last year I have been working within the service department. My duties are a responsibility for developing customer support and performing an active role in installation and commissioning of microwave radio links (SDH & PDH). This also involves detailed report writing and technical support to customers.

Jul 94 - Feb 95 Measurement Tech. Ltd Power Court Road, Luton, Beds

Position Test Engineer

Involved in testing and fault finding of complex electronic assemblies and sub assemblies as required. To resolve complex faults and changes especially regarding new products. My key tasks involved setting up and maintaining automatic testing stations for the test department, and I also had to liaise with senior engineers on complex faults and changes to design.

LANGUAGES

I am fully conversant in Urdu and Punjabi and have a basic understanding of Arabic.