Clifford Gower

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cgower

 

 

 

 

 

云计算和移动解决方案架构师 - 工程 / 技术经理

解决方案架构师 / 解决方案工程师 / 技术审核 / 技术经理 / 项目经理/ CTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cloud, Telecommunications, IT & Data Communications, Security

 

 

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Overview

Pre & Post Sales Enterprise Solutions Architect.

Senior Technical Management – Solutions Director – Business Unit CTO.

Practical Project Management.

Small Business Management (SBDC).

Technical and Process Auditor IT/Telecommunications.

Engineering Planning and Integration

Cloud & Data Centre Architectures and Solutions.

Mobile and Wifi Architectures and Solutions

Infrastructure Architectures and Solutions.

Network Architectures and Solutions.

Security Architectures and Solutions.

IoT/SCADA/PLC Infrastructure Architectures and Solutions

Customer Relationship Management.

 

 

 

Industries

Global Service Provider : Global Vendor : Global Banking : Global Financial : Global Enterprise : Campus : Mega-Sports Complex’s :SCADA

Introduction

Pre and Post Sales Enterprise Solutions Architect performing Client Consultation and Business Analysis for Business Solutions Design and Engineering solutions, along with Technical Auditing on existing solutions, Program/Project Managing the implementation and integration of these solutions. Overseeing the full lifecycle for Technical Engineering, Managed Services and Operational Support. Tender and Contract negotiation, Technical advisor to legal departments. Prior experience as an Engineer rising through the ranks from apprenticed engineer through installation & commissioning, field support, operations, design and engineering, through to CTO. Still maintain hands-on skills as emergency support for my teams. Past experience as a successful Entrepreneur for 4 years. Additional solid functional knowledge and ability in Electrical, Mechanical, and basic Civil Engineering for DC Facilities.

Experience; 

Over 35 years Hands-on Global Engineering and Management in Telecommunications, Mobile, IT Systems, Cloud, Data Centre, Enterprise Data Communications, Electronics. Multimillion Dollar Special Projects with Large Global Corporations. Highly versatile Data Communications, Telecommunications and Information Technology Specialist, grown with the Industry.

Primary Management skill-sets 

Telecommunications, Data Communications, IT;

·   Technical Account Solutions & Service Management and Development.

·   Business Unit Chief Technical Officer – End2End Operations Managed Services and Technical Support.

·   Business Unit Director of Solutions – End to End Solutions Responsible Architecture and Technical Pre-sales.

·   Technical Management (Multiple multicultural teams of Managers, Engineers, SME's & Trainees)

·   Senior Project Management. – Project Specifications and Scope, Finance and Costing, Risk, Implementation.

·   Stakeholder Management and Consultation.

·   Security and Risk Management.

·  Executive Committee Member, Project Steering Committee Member.

·   Consensus and Dispute Management, Technical Advisor to Legal Counsel.

·   Service Delivery, Service Support, Change Management & Change Control, ITIL, eTOM, ISO

·   Standards Conformance & Quality Assurance (ISO, BS, 3GPP, etc)

·   Vendor and Logistics Supply Management, 

·   Exceptional Client Satisfaction Management skills, Training and Mentoring at all levels.

Primary Technical skill-sets;

Audit, design, planning, implementation and integration for Cloud, Data Communications, IT, and Telecommunications;

·   Lead Solutions Design & Implementation End-to-End.

·   Lead Business Analysis for Technical Solutions.

·   Stakeholder & Client Consultation, Business Case Development and Presentation.

·   Presentations from C-Level to Staff level for Solutions & Service delivery.

·   Technically Engineer complex End-to-End solutions.

·   Perform Technical Audits of Architectures, Processes and Procedures.

·   Project Manage Full Life-Cycle End-to-End solutions to Operational handover.

·   Develop and Design High Level Solutions Design and produce documentation and presentations.

·   Conduct Proof of Concept testing, fine tune, and present results to clients.

·   Test Applications and Test Tools, analysis and configurations.

·   Produce Project Plan and Resource matrix and costing.

·   Perform Risk Assessments and Project Budgeting.

·   Develop and Document Low level detailed design and build documents.

·   Produce detailed plans; Data Centre & Hub/Satellite Site specifications and build documents.

·   Produce Cable Matrix, Power Matrix, Rack Layouts, Cooling & Airflow Map, and Floor Plan.

·   Produce detailed Bill of materials, Source vendors and get costing, Negotiate discounts and delivery and 3^rd party vendor management for outsourced solutions.

·   Manage the QA, Staging and on-site installation, Power up and initial testing of the devices and materials.

·   Produce detailed plans; Physical and Virtual Servers specifications and build documents. 

·   Produce detailed plans; Infrastructure, IP addressing & Sub-netting specifications and build documents.

·   Produce detailed plans; Database specifications and build documents.

·   Produce detailed plans; Cyber-Security specifications and build documents

·   Produce detailed plans; Storage specifications and build documents.

·   Produce detailed plans; Applications specifications and build documents.

·   Perform Security Assessment and produce detailed Security plans and configurations.

·   Detailed design and planning of Disaster Recovery, High Availability and Service Continuity.

·   Hands-on Engineering, POC, Configurations, Integration and Support.

·   Mobile Core Network, Routing & Switching, Optical and Microwave Backhaul, RF-Node and WiFi Access, Services, Virtualization, Clustering, Servers and Operating Systems, Database, OSS/BSS and Applications, Security, SDN & NFV.

·   Produce detailed Method of Procedures and Change Controls. Produce Integration plan and configurations for overall systems integration, and the OSS/BSS and Operations. Systems installation, configuration and integration.

·   Produce step by step detailed CLI and GUI commands, scripts, processes and procedures documents. Perform all configurations and setup of devices and test.

·   Perform Install of software, firmware and upgrades, and log and produce documentation.

·   Perform the cut-over to operational status in the change window and test and troubleshoot.

·   Support the solution and optimise through the initial Operational acceptance phase.

·   Generate logs and reports, performance monitoring, GAP analysis and complete all documentation.

·   Close out the project, and finalise stakeholder acceptance and signoff.

·   Perform stakeholder and client satisfaction survey for self improvement.

 

Functional Life Cycle

·   Solutions, Projects, and Operational Lifecycle Management.

·   Initiate, Plan, Evaluate, Implement, Integrate, Migrate, Optimize, and Decommission.

·   Development, Staging, Production, Decommission, Attrition.

·   TOGAF, ITIL / eTOM, COBIT and IEEE & ISO Standards & Frameworks implementation.

·   Service Delivery & Service Support, Quality Management and Control.

·   Process and Procedures design and deployment.

·   Service Level, Capacity, Configuration, Performance, Continuity, Incident and Change Management.

·   Optimization and Technical Auditing.

·   Documentation & Training Manuals Authoring.

·   Repositories, version control and database/data-warehouse.

·   OSS and BSS Support Systems implementation and interpretation.

 

Core Positions Brief:

·   Business Unit Solutions Director/Lead Enterprise Solutions Architect & Business Analyst.

·   Business Unit CTO – Managed Services

·   Senior Technical Manager – Solutions & Support

·   Head of Cyber-Security

·   Senior Technical Project Manager

·   Lead Technical Auditor

·   Solutions Architect

·   Senior Solutions & Support Engineer

·   NOC / Tier 2 Engineer.

·   Entrepreneur: Electronics and Electrical Engineering Business Owner.

·   Field Service & Workshop Support Engineer

·   Installation & Commissioning Engineer

·   Trainee/Apprentice – Telecommunications Engineering.

·   College - Communications Electronics Engineering

 

 

 

 

 

Current Position

BellTel- SMC Group.    Philippines         3/2016 –                                

Head – E2E Security and Infrastructure Solutions Architectures and Solutions.

·   Strategy and Planning of E2E Security Policies, Solutions and Architectures.

·   Establish end to end information-security governance program to ISO27001/2 and other standards.

·   Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning.

·   Design and implement security processes and procedures 

·   Created development plans, technical plans, project documentation, and test cases.

·   Collaborate with external auditors and conduct in-depth compliance audits and penetration testing

·   Risk and Security Management. Regulatory compliance.

·   Manage identification and evaluation of all critical systems.

·   Managed Security budget, perform cost benefit analysis on all recommended strategies;

·   Plan and Implementation Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Content, AAA, AD/LDAP, encryption and all security devices.

·   Strategy Planning & Positioning, Design for Virtualization and Cloud based Architectures for 5G

·   Cloud: Secured Zones architectures, CGNAT, VPN & MPLS

·   Restructuring of IP Architectures for scalability, high availability, security, and positioning for the future and 5G

·   SDN and NVF architectural design and positioning and roadmap.

·   Belltel was acquired and closed down.

 

Summary of Companies- Project Based Positions:

Head – Security and E2E IP Architectures	BellTel(SMC)-Philippines	04/16-08/16
Lead Solutions Architect & Project Manager - Cloud	CDS - USA	03/13-03/16
Principal Consultant- Special Projects; Hi-Density WiFi	PCM -USA	01/14-11/14
Principal Consultant - Special Projects; Data Centre	PCM@CDS - USA	04/13- 01/14
Business Unit Solutions Director & CTO combined	Huawei - Malaysia	08/10-02/13
Senior Technical Manager – IP Services & Solutions	ZTE - Hong Kong	12/08-05/10
Technical Manager – Managed Services IP/Core	Siemens/Nokia@Network Norway	05/08-11/08
Technical Architecture Auditor	T-Mobile - USA	11/07-03/08
Senior Technical Manager- Infrastructure	Digicel - Papua New Guinea	08/07-11/07
Technical Architecture PM - Infrastructure	T-Mobile - USA	05/06-07/07
Technical Architecture Auditor – IP/GPRS	Orascom - Algeria	01/06-05/06
Technical Architecture & Project Manager (Packet/IP)	Siemens@Maxis - Malaysia	02/05-11/05
Technical Solutions Manager- Infrastructure and Core	Siemens@Telenor - Pakistan	01/05-02/05
Technical & Project Manager	Vodaphone Safaricom - Kenya	01/04-12/04
Technical Manager –Integration and Packet/IP	Siemens@Digi - Malaysia	02/03-11/03
Technical Manager- Reference Core & P S  Design	Ericsson Euro Labs - Germany	07/02-01/03
Technical Architecture Auditor	Bayer AG - Germany	01/02-06/02
Technical Solutions Architect - E2E	Concert (BT/AT&T) - USA	02/01-11/01
Technical Solutions Architecture & MS Support	AT&T@Citibank EMEA - Germany	05/98-11/00
Technical Solutions Architecture & MS Support	AT&T@Citibank - Switzerland	10/98-04/98
Alpha Test Engineer – Gig Ethernet Product	3Com - England	09/97-12/97
Senior Network Engineer -Data Centre	Bridge Financial (Reuters) - England	05/94-08/97
Entrepreneur: Electronics Design & Manufacturing	Gower Tech -  South Africa	1991-1994
Senior Communications/Computer Engineer	Siemens - South Africa	1984-1991
Electronics Research & Development Engineer	GEC/Fuchs Electronics – S. Africa	1982-1983
Telecommunications Apprenticeship & College	Siemens - South Africa	1979-1982

 

Previous

Consolidated Data Services-Omnicom Group.    Texas - USA         3/2013 –03-2016                

Principal Solutions Architect & Engineering Project Manager –Special Projects.

·   Enterprise and Solutions Architect for Omnicom Group - Global Multi-Tennant Data Centres for Cloud.

·   Lead Solutions Architect for end to end solutions design and deployment for On-boarding and Operations.

·   Project Manager of Solutions implementation for Agencies and Clients of the Omnicom group (over 2000)

·   Stakeholder Management and Consultation, C-Level and Board of Directors Interaction.

·   Shared and Dedicated Services for the Hybrid Cloud. Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Services.

·   Nested Cloud Services, Shared Services, Dedicated Services, Three Tier Services.

·   Proof of Concept Lab environment.

·   Virtualized and Physical Services.

·   Hardware and Software Full Life Cycle Design, Support, Optimization and Attrition.

·   Portals: Self-Service and Password-Reset

·   Multi-Tennant: Unified Communications, Voice Solutions and Shared VoIP and SIP services.

·   Hardware Platforms and Services Dimensioning for servers, appliances, infrastructure, licensing, end-to-end.

·   VMware vCloud, MS Azure, OpenStack Platforms with Service Overlays.

·   Operating Systems; Windows, Linux and Dedicated .ofv Appliances.

·   SOA Tiered Services: Web, Application, Database Servers.

·   Stand alone and clustered Databases: Microsoft and MySQL.

·   Infrastructure; Cisco IOS/Nexus Range, HP, Palo Alto, with TRILL/Fabric Path, Spine & Leaf, Secured Zones.

·   ruVPN, and B2B VPN, Multi-tier security, VRF & MPLS WAN, BGP, OSPF.

·   SAN and Storage, Disaster Recovery, Backup and Recovery, Patching and Anti-Virus.

·   Directory Services, Domain Controllers, MS & Mixed Mode, and DNS/DHCP.

·   Service Overlays and Tennant VPN overlays, Security Contexts and Secured Zones for Multi-Tennant.

·   SDN & NFV.

·   Operational and Business Support Systems (OSS, BSS), Monitoring, Reporting, KPI & SLA.

·   Service Desk and Help Desk, Change Control, and Documentation Processes and Procedures & Templates.

·   Applications: Exchange Mail, Sharepoint, Dynamics, Cognos, 360, Apache, Adobe, Citrix, many more.

·   Vendors: Cisco, HP, Palo Alto, Riverbed, Microsoft, RedHat, SAP, Brocade; NetApp, Oracle, SCOM, VM-Ware and more.

 

 

 

PCM                                            USA                     04/2014 – 11/2014                           

Lead Solutions Architect & Engineer, Project Manager.-USA

·   Presales support Hi-Density WiFi and IP Core for Large NFL American Football & Sports Complex's.

·   Design and implement Hi-density WiFi Solutions for American Football League Stadiums & Sports Complex’s.

·   Site survey, with Air Magnet

·   Stadium infrastructure build-out, configuration and integration management.

·   Enterasys/Extreme and Cisco AP’s Controllers, and Core equipment.

·   Extreme S-series and Cisco Nexus/ASR Core and Access Switches,

·   Network Access Controllers - Radius

·   Wifi Access Points - Indoor and Outdoor Planning.

·   Enterasys/Extreme Netsight OSS/BSS

·   Performance Management

·   Manage Gameday Support & Troubleshooting.

·   VIP, Press & Crowd User Support and Training Management.

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Consolidated Data Services- Omnicom Group. Texas - USA   04/2013 – 01/2014     @

Principal Network Solutions Architect & Engineer, Project Manager

·   Enterprise Solutions Architect for Omnicom Group - Global Multi-Tennant Data Centres for Cloud.

·   Lead Solutions Architect for end to end solutions design and deployment for On-boarding and Operations.

·   Project Manager of Solutions implementation for Agencies and Clients of the Omnicom group (over 2000)

·   Stakeholder Management and Consultation, C-Level and Board of Directors Interaction.

·   Shared and Dedicated Services for the Hybrid Cloud. Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Services.

·   Nested Cloud Services, Shared Services, Dedicated Services, Three Tier Services.

·   Proof of Concept Lab environment and test environment.

·   Virtualized and Physical Services.

·   Hardware and Software Full Life Cycle Design, Support, Optimization and Attrition.

·  Virtualization, Hardware, Hypervisors, Operating Systems, Applications, Infrastructure, Service Overlays, data bases, Storage, Security, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring and Support systems, OSS/BSS

·   Self-Service Portals:

·  Multi-Tennant: Unified Communications, Voice Solutions and Shared VoIP and SIP services.

·  Hardware & Services Dimensioning and Licensing, end-to-end.

·   SOA Tiered Services: Web , Application, Database Servers.

·   Stand alone and clustered Databases: Microsoft and MySQL.

·   Infrastructure; Cisco IOS/Nexus Range, HP, Palo Alto, with TRILL/Fabric Path, Spine & Leaf, Secured Zones.

·   ruVPN, and B2B VPN, Multi-tier security, VRF & MPLS WAN, BGP, OSPF.

·   SAN and Storage, Backup and Recovery, Patching and Anti-Virus.

·   Domain Controllers, Domain Services,MS & Mixed Mode,  and DNS/DHCP.

·   Service Overlays and Tennant VPN overlays, Security Contexts and Secured Zones for Multi-Tennant.

·   SDN & NFV with Cisco ACI, OpenFlow, HP and others

·   Operational and Business Support Systems (OSS, BSS), Monitoring, Reporting, KPI & SLA.

·  Service Desk and Help Desk, Change Control, and Documentation Processes and Procedures & Templates.

·   Applications: Exchange Mail, Sharepoint, Dynamics, Cognos, 360, Apache, Adobe, Citrix, many more.

·   Vendors: Cisco, HP, Palo Alto, Riverbed, Microsoft, RedHat, SAP, Brocade; NetApp, Oracle, SCOM, VM-Ware and more.

 

Huawei Malaysia08/2010 – 02/2013              @

Business Unit CTO & Head Solutions Architect (SR). E2E.

·   Business Unit Lead Solutions Architect End to End for Presales Support. - Combined roll with

Business unit CTO for After Sales Support and Managed Services.

·   Strategic planning, Evolution, GAP analysis and Reporting of all Network Architectures.

·   Manage the Solutions Partnering with other Vendors.

·   Hands-On Technical Project Management.

·   Business Solutions evaluation and development, Technical Architecture for business needs.

·   Solution Responsible; High and Low level Network Designs for;

RAN, Core, NMS/OSS, IMS, NGIN, Smartcare, Data Centre Migration to NGN and Cloud, Security Policies and PCRF, Billing, BSS, ePC, LTE and 4G Backhaul, QOS/QOE.

·   LTE SAE / ePC, SingleRAN e-NodeB, Backhaul, MME, S-Gateway, P-Gateway, enhanced Microwave,

·   UPCC - Unified Policy and Charging Controller (PCRF/PCEF), Diameter and QOS.

·   LTE Network evolution design for production rollout end to end;

IP-RAN, Backhaul of e-Microwave, Optical Fibre, Metro Ethernet, Core Network, VAS, OSS, IMS, VoLTE, Routing & Switching, Security, Enterprise, FEMTO and WiFi access.

·   Cloud Computing: Paas, Iaas, Saas

·   Data Centre Evolution and Security.

·   Enterprise and Wire-Line services; Sonet/SDH, Routing & Switching, LAN, WAN, Optical, DWDM, MPLS, Metro Ethernet, VAS, Customer Edge, Last Mile Fibre & Cable, IPTV, VoIP/VoLTE

·   2G/3G/4G Production Network  augmentation and expansion, introduction of new services and equipment

BTS/Node-b,  BSC/RNC, Backhaul,  SGSN, GGSN, PCRF, M-Gateways, Routing & Switching Infrastructure, Core, IP-RAN, HLR, OSS, VAS, Billing, End to end – Services, Infrastructure, and Platforms.

·   CTO for After Sales Support and Managed Services for escalated issues with the client for end-to-end. 

·   Head of Change Control Board, Service Delivery and Service Support E2E;

·   Infrastructure and Services end to end, responsible for Operational and technical support, incident and problem escalation resolution, release management, configuration, service level, capacity, performance reporting.

·   Multi-vendor interoperability issues investigation and problem resolution

·   Contract interpretation and legal issues management and resolution.

 

ZTE – CSL 3G/LTE Pilot ProjectHong Kong12/2008 – 05/2010                   @

Senior Project Manager & Technical Manager

IP Infrastructure, Services & IT Solutions, Security & Tier2/3/4 Support.

Senior Technical Manager of 4 Departments;

Tier 2, 3&4 Infrastructure Support; Solutions Design; Solutions Implementation; Network Security.

·   Technical & Project Manager of IP Infrastructure & Architectural Solutions for Production Network, Operations Network, and Corporate IT Network.

·   Member of Executive Committee, and Program Steering Group

·   Strategic planning, Operating Model, Risk Management, GAP analysis of the Network Architecture.

·   Manage and technically review the Design and Implementation of IP Infrastructure, IT solutions, OAM Solutions & Network Security Solutions.

·   Operational Support managing Tier 2,3 4, and Managed Services, SLA’s, KPI’s, Reporting for escalated issues with the client for everything IP, end-to-end

·   Corporate Security Policy, Standards and Procedures

·   Subject Matter Expert (SME) IP Core, IP-RAN, VAS, OSS, OAM, Security, IT, LTE, all IP Infrastructure and Services end-to-end. Databases and Database management.

·   Pre-Sales Technical support as SME for presentation to prospective new clients Board of Directors

Service delivery and Service support; managing and reporting to Client C-level on IP

Infrastructure and Services end to end, responsible for Operational and technical support, incident and problem escalation resolution, release management, configuration, service level, capacity, performance reporting.

·   Multi-vendor interoperability issues investigation and problem resolution

·   Contract interpretation and legal issues management and resolution.

·   Manage the teams. Build employee knowledge and skills in specific areas of expertise.

 

NSN Managed Services to NWNNorway05/ 2008 –11/2008              @

Technical Architecture & Support Manager (IP &Packet )–Managed Services

·     Business Unit: Customer facing on site to Network Norway.

·     Subject Matter Expert for all IP and Packet Technical Architecture issues.

·     Strategic planning, Evolution, GAP analysis and Reporting of all IP Network & Security Architectures.

·     Service delivery and Service support on NSN Packet Network and IP Networks.

·     Infrastructure Design, planning, deployment, operational and technical support of;

·     Integration and Optimisation of the Technical Architecture solutions;

·     Member of Change Control Management Board.

·     Performance Management statistics, health check reports, KPI Data Collection and Reporting Tools.

·     Manage Scheduled Backups, Software upgrades, Repositories, MOP’s for change management.

·     Managed services for IP Core/Packet Backbone Planning and Implementation, Optimisation  & Integration of Packet Backbone Network Nodes

 

T-Mobile USAUSA11/2007 – 03/2008                   

Senior Technical Architecture Auditor

·   Audit the Infrastructure Network. Cisco, NSN, Juniper, Ericsson & Alcatel.

·   Manage the audit and report to Operations VP.

Digicel – Pacific RegionPapua New Guinea08/2007 – 11/2007                   

·   Technical Architecture Manager- Infrastructure and Core (Right hand to the CTO)

T-Mobile USAUSA05/2006 – 07/2007                      

Infrastructure Technical Project Manager. 

·   Project Managing and Engineering the rollout of full complement of Infrastructure NE’s for 3G/UMTS and Wimax/UMA

DJezzy / OrascomAlgiers01/06- 05/2006                          

Technical Architecture Auditor

·   Network Audit to tight Deadline

·   Network Performance Analysis and Optimisation

Siemens Malaysia (Maxis Project)Malaysia02/2005– 11/2005                    @

Technical Architecture & Integration Manager- Infrastructure and Core, OSS

·   Integration & Implementation Project Manager - Data Services (including IP, VAS & OSS)

Vodaphone Kenya (Safaricom)        Kenya           01/2004 – 12/2004                     

Technical Architecture Manager – Project Manager

·   IP Core, Packet Backbone GPRS, VAS, NOC & OSS deign and support

·   Hands on Project Manager and Project Engineering for GPRS Rollout

Siemens Mobile Networks (DIGI Project)    Malaysia            02/2003 -11/2003                   @

Technical Architecture Manager- Infrastructure and Core, OSS

·   GPRS / IP Infrastructure, Security & OSS, NOC Design, Implementation & Integration

Bayer AG.            Leverkusen, Germany.        07/2002 - 01/2003                            

Lead Technical Architecture & Process Auditor

·   Process Design, Analysis & Documentation for ISO Accreditation

Ericsson Eurolabs EED.            Aachen, Germany.        01/2002 - 06/2002                      

Technical Architecture Design Manager - Reference Core & Packet Backbone

·   Technically lead in the Design of the 2G/3G Multi-vendor GPRS Reference Network.

Concert Networks.                  Reston, Virginia, USA.  02/2001 – 11/2001                   /

Technical Solutions & Support Engineer: Engineering Department

·   Senior Network Planning Engineer, OSPF and BGP configurations and troubleshooting.

 

AT&T Solutions-Citibank            Dusseldorf, Germany.                        05/1998 - 11/2000             @

(AT&T Solutions-Citibank.           Zurich, Switzerland 01/1998 - 04/1998 )

Managed Services Technical Solutions & Engineering

·   Customer Engineer onsite, interfacing from engineers to CEO level, CCIE level of work.

·   Design &Support, Hands-on Implementation and Integration, Optimisation and Troubleshooting on Multi-protocol Global Bank network.

3Com.                England.    09/1997 - 12/1997.                                   

Alpha Test Engineer

·   Writing Test Specifications Conduct Alpha testing of new products

Bridge Financial (Reuters).           London, UK.            05/1994 – 08/1997.                      

Senior Network Engineer.

·   Real time Service & Data Delivery to London and Global Stock Market Floor

 

Emigrated to UK - 1994

History - Pre 1995

South Africa

 

Small Business Entrepreneur – Electronics & Electrical                             1991 to 1994

Started and owned a business designing, building and servicing specialized equipment to component level for military, agriculture and industry.

Design, manufacture, installation and services of;

Process Line Controllers (PLC) and SCADA

Specialised Communications equipment.

UPS’s and Switch Mode Power Supplies.

Printed Circuit Boards (PCB)

Power & Toroidal transformers

Electric Motor & Coil rewinding and repairs.

 

Siemens Computers

Field service and commissioning engineer also installations of all types of Siemens servers and mainframes.

Workshop component repairs of faulty equipment

 

Siemens PABX/PBX

Field service and commissioning engineer also installations of all types of Siemens PABX/PBX systems

Plessey / GEC           

Electronics Design Engineer

Communications Equipment. Using cell library techniques designed and developed first ever wholly South African built telecommunications electronic communications controller integrated circuit.

 

Fuchs Electronics 

Electronics Design Engineer

Designed and tested Military and Commercial Electronics devices and also designed and built automated Test equipment for the production line to test the manufactured devices.

 

Siemens - Computers

Mainframe and Midrange Computer Installation, Commissioning and Field Service Engineer.

 

Siemens – PABX

PABX Installation, Commissioning and Field Service Engineer.

 

Siemens – Fixed Line Public Exchanges

Installation and commissioning Engineer of public Telephone exchanges.

 

Siemens – Telecommunications Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship Telecommunications Engineer.

 

HR Clegg/ MSN

Commercial Artist

Commercial Design Artist at printing and advertising company that moved from advertising to manufacturing and assembling Printed Circuit Boards (PCB) and electronic thick and thin film integrated circuits.

South African Navy

Leading Seaman

Defense Force compulsory conscription for two years, so volunteered for Navy, specialised in RADAR and Navigation.

Project Management PRINCE-2 techniques Stakeholder & Client Consultation Technical Feasibility & Risk Assessment Alternate Solution Assessment & Evaluation Business Plan / Business Case Development & Evaluation Technical Solutions Architecture - Planning ( High & Low Level) Contractual & Legal Requirements Assessment & Negotiation Service Level Agreement Negotiation & Evaluation Project Planning & Rollout Implementation & Integration Supplier Costing & Delivery Negotiation. Change Control & Quality Control Engineering Business Record Database Design & Implementation Large Multi-Cultural Team Management Service Delivery and Operational Support Training Instruction & Presentations   Planning & Implementation Formulate Project Design Requirements Establish Project Architectural Model Logical Design Physical Design Component Selection Project Implementation Project Engineering Project Management Solution Integration, Optimization & Troubleshooting Standards and Procedures ITIL / ITSM, ISO, eTOM, ISO, TOGAF, RFC’s, DOCSIS and others.( 3GPP and 4G to LTE/NGN and beyond Optimization & Restructuring

Project Engineering GPRS/UMTS 2G/3G/4G LTE Packet Switched Backbone Architectures Banking & Financial Network Architectures IP Core and Access Architectures Operations and Maintenance Architectures Circuit Switched Architectures Corporate Network Architectures Multi-Layer Architectures Network Planning & Design Network Integration Network Implementation Network Optimisation Network Auditing Alpha Testing  Quality Engineering Testing - Electrical & Environmental Commissioning & Acceptance Electronic Product Design & Verification -Component Level Data Centre and Site Rollout Value Added Services Network Integrity & Security End to End Solutions Technical Audit Technical Infrastructure Auditing Process Auditing KPI Metrics Measurement & Analysis Reporting & Presentations Training

General Information

 

Languages

 

English – Native

German – Conversational

Dutch - Conversational

Some Major Technologies Experience over the years;

Cisco IOS & NX-OS Cisco HW Full Range Hypervisors Type1&2 Checkpoint/ Cisco ASA Routing & Switching Cisco Fabric-Path, Cloud PaaS,Saas,Iaas VMWare Azure Active Directory, LDAP MPLS BGP OSPF SQL Databases EIGRP IS-IS RIP Multi-Cast Policy Routing ACL’s NAT (PAT) Web and App Servers IPSec VoLTE, LTE, GPRS MME, S-Gw, P-Gw

MCDBA MCSE ATCA L4 Switching Spanning-Tree RAS / VPN ruVPN Radius/ AAA/ Diameter DNS/BIND DHCP SNMP MIB Sets Director Switches QOS, QOE. SAN/Fibre Channel iSCSI/IP Metro Ethernet Ethernet Token Ring TRILL/FabricPath IP RAN

RS232 & Serial G.7xx SONET/SDH DSL / DOCSIS ISDN PPP Openview/Netcool SQL Database IPv4, IPv6 SS7 SigTran VoIP RTP, SCTP LAN WAN MAN Frame Relay ATM Backhaul Billing CDR’s

HSRP X25RAS Data Centre Migration WiMax/WiFi IP Satellite IP Microwave DSL Mainframe Integrated Cct’s Solaris Clustering Unix/Linux PBX/PABX VoIP Juniper MX& JUNOS Power Engineering PCB Design Ladder Logic, PLC’s HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL Cabling CAT & Optical X21/ V35/802.x

Education

Formal

Communications Electronics Major (Johannesburg Technical College - BSc eq.);

·   Engineering Mathematics

·   Engineering Physics

·   Engineering Drafting

·   Communications Electronics

·   Digital Electronics

·   Electronics Physics Theory

·   Telecommunications Theory

·   Radio & TV Theory

·   Electrical Engineering (Electrical Heavy Current)

 

Apprenticeship - Telecommunications (Siemens)

·   Telecommunications Engineering Apprenticeship Government Trade Tested.

General Training

Management

·   Small Business Management - (Small Business Development Corporation - SBDC)

·   Practical Project Management - (CSHoldings)

·   Customer Relationship Management for Service Engineers - (Siemens)

·   Mercantile Law (Contract and Business Law) - (National Education Dept. South Africa)

·   ITIL Foundation - (CSHoldings)

·   IT Business Analysis Fundamentals – (CM)

 

Technical Stage 2

·   Cloud Solutions: Building the Cloud.

·   Cloud Solutions: Securing the Cloud

·   Certified Cisco Network Professional.

·   Cisco Certified Network Associate.

·   MCSE Courses – Network Essentials, Security, Implementing Workstation & Server, Active Directory

·   MCDBA Courses – Administering MS-SQL Server, Programming MS-SQL Server, T-SQL Queries.

·   Internetworking : Bridges, Switches & Routers

·   TCP/IP : Introduction and Advanced Workshops

·   Dynamic Routing and OSPF, BGP and MPLS

·   Routing and Switching Protocols – Layer 2 and Layer 3

·   WAN Technologies.

·   LAN Technologies.

·   SAN & Storage Technologies

·   Data Network Design & Performance Optimisation

·   Bay Networks Routers & Switches

·   IBM Tivoli & HP Openview

·   Checkpoint Security FW1

·   COBOL Programming (1985) – (ICL)

·   Siemens SGSN & Siemens (Cisco) GGSN, Cisco MME, S-GW, P-GW, PCRF/PCEF

·   Cisco  Catalyst Switches, Cisco Routers, ASR’s, IOS, Cisco Nexus Switches, NX-OS, UCS

·   ZTE Network Solutions

·   Huawei Enterprise and Mobile Products and Solutions

·   Palo Alto Security Solutions

·   Cisco Data Centre Solutions – (FabricPath, OTS, VPC, UCS)

·   VMWare Virtualization Solutions

·   Extreme/Enterasys High Density WiFi Solutions - Sports Stadiums & Complex’s

·   Adobe Creative Suite – Dreamweaver Web Design with HTML, CSS, PHP and Js.

 

Technical Stage 1(Siemens)

·   Telecommunications Engineering Apprenticeship Government Trade Tested; ,

·   Siemens EWSD Fixed-Line Public Telecommunications Switches

·   Siemens full range of PBX/PABX Systems, EMS21/30/90/601/Hi-Path

·   Siemens Mainframe – Hardware, VTAM/NCP, Cluster Controllers, Test Tools, Operating System BS2000

·   Siemens Mainframe Peripherals - Printers, Terminals, Storage Devices, I/O systems,

·   Siemens Unix / SINIX Operating System

·   Unix Advanced Systems Administration

·   Siemens Blade Servers – MX300 and MX500 Hardware and Operating Systems

·   Teleservice (Remote Systems Service and Management)

·   LAN and WAN Networking.

 

Other Courses

·   Quality Control Engineering - (Altron)

·   Plant Electrical Engineering –Factories (Siemens)

·   PLC Programming Fundamentals – (Omron)

·   PLC Advanced programming – (Omron)

·   Industrial Automation Systems – (Omron)

·   Electronic Test Equipment – Oscilloscopes, Spectrum Analysers, DMM’s, Logic Analysers etc.

·   Antistatic Precautions and Protection – (Siemens)

·   Cleanroom Design Essentials & Practices - (Altron)

·   Professional Soldering Techniques – (Siemens)

·   Flow Soldering and Rework for PCB Manufacture – (Altron)

·   Construction Site and Workshop Safety – (Siemens)

·   FireFighting Techniques and Fire Prevention (SA Navy)

·   RADAR and Navigation (SA Navy)

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