RESUME - Michael Van Niekerk
Michael Van Niekerk
Project Manager, Program Manager or Construction Manager
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
- Bachelors Electrical Engineering.
- Marine Engineering.
Experience & Skills:
- Project Management:
- Technologies:
- OEM’S:
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Installations:
- Test Equipment:
- Tools & Databases:
- Full life cycle turnkey project management from design to integration.
- GSM, CDMA, GPRS, WIMAX, UMTS, DAS, 3G & 4G LTE Networks.
- Ericsson, Nokia & Siemens.
- RBS, BBS, AAV, FTTC & MW.
- Anritsu, Wiltron, Bird, Megohmmeter, Multimeter, Fiber Optic & T1
testing.
- Site Handler, Nols, Granite, Homer, Norad / Swift Trac, Siterra, Insite,
Avion, Netsuite, CCIsite, Clear Vision.
- Project Management Tools: - MS Projects, Sap R/3 Ps 7, Project View (Mobideo).
- Computer Literate:
Certificates & Training:
- Project Management Sap R/3 Ps 7.
- Advanced firefighting & personal rescue techniques.
- First Aid.
- Adult, Child, Infant CPR / AED.
- Blood Borne Pathogens.
- OSHA 10/13
- UMTS Boot camp.
- Nokia Ultra Site Edge BTS training course.
- Concrete Technology and Re enforcing.
- Code welding (mig, tig, co2, arc, oxy acetylene, brazing).
- Rigging (Techniques, knots, descend and rescue techniques).
- Restricted Radiotelephone Operating License.
- Yachtmasters Coastal. (Theory & Practical)
- STCW 95. (PSSR & PST, First Aid, Marine Firefighting)
- Word, Adobe Acrobat, Excel, Access, Power Point, Outlook, Explore,
Corel Draw, Acad, Visio, Orcad.
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
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Employed By:
Date:
Position:
Project Summary:
Location:
Responsibilities:
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Employed By:
Date:
Position:
Location:
Accordant Communications Llc.
05/17/2013 – 06/30/2014.
Director of Operations.
Project Summary: New Site Builds, Mods, MW & Fiber Back Haul, LTE Upgrades, Network
Modernization projects for Sprint, ATT, T-Mobile, Mastec.
Coast-to-coast.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure that the market organization structure is clear to all and that everybody’s job is defined.
- Ensure that the market organization is capable of meeting the roll-out targets
- Raise “Red flags” on endangered milestones
- Identify and make proposal / recommendations on possible training for market team members
- Ensure the Market milestones and dead-lines are met and sites are accepted on time as per Market
Master Rollout Plan.
- Follow up the creation of WP in eTracker.
- Approve eBOQ / Call-off BTS equipment.
- Prepare Market Plan dates into E-PM.
- Prepare and send out weekly/daily working schedules.
- Ensure that market’s reporting is accurate.
- Daily review of progress achieved and targets.
- Propose / approve action plans for remedial actions as required.
- Load eBOQ to gMIR upon verification that Subcontractor PO is correct and services ordered match
work scope required.
- Ensure the CW- and RF materials are ordered by subcontractor and client in the sequence of site
implementation plan.
- Ensure forecast and call-off’s are done in time.
- Ensure that market’s eTracker, eTracker Quality Module, gMIR data is one-hundred (100%) percent
accurate on a daily basis, for Daily and Weekly Reports , including Lemcon Tracker
- Ensure that all market documents are in E-PM.
- Ensure Acceptance in the market, Quality in the market, Market Readiness, Market Closure, Logistics
forecast and management & Commissioning spares management.
- Arrange on-site pre-construction meeting at every Site with the General Contractor to verify the
design, scope & material requirements.
- Arrange on-site post-construction meeting at every Site with the General Contractor to verify closure
of the punch list.
- Arrange one-hundred (100%) percent “on site” quality audits of the first fifty (50) sites in each
Market.
- Ensure the accuracy of PO’s and invoicing milestones in eTracker.
- Check Subcontractor’s extra works requests.
- Keep ALL ESV records up-dated per client’s defined processes
- Obtain approval from Customer for ALL Change Order Scope.
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- Identify and escalate possible extra works and/or additional site & WP volumes to RM.
- Attend client market’s Progress Review meetings.
- Attend Operator Progress meetings at client request.
- Report to VP about progress and forecast to Completion.
- Address any problems with PM’s.
- Keep minutes of all meetings; ensure minutes are distributed to all meeting attendees and that they
are uploaded into E-PM.
- Ensure Action items are closed and recorded.
- Coordinate integration schedule with PSC.
- Attend Weekly project meeting and take actions where necessary.
- Ensure and maintain high Customer satisfaction by performing works on agreed time and quality.
- Ensure Subcontractor issues daily activity report in a timely manner.
- Provide Market specific red flags to RPC for weekly report.
- Weekly Inventory Report of Commissioning Spares and RF materials and CW materials.
- Ensure Daily and Weekly reports are accurate and issued on time.
- Ensure E-Tracker and Lemcon Tracker is accurate 100% daily.
- Ensure and arrange one-hundred (100%) percent audit of ALL documentation created during the Site
Survey, including Site Acquisition Process.
- Ensure and arrange “on site” quality audits to encompass a subset of the full survey scope as
identified by the local PM that will not exceed a total of twenty (20%) percent of the full scope. The
volume of “on site” audits will be fifteen (15%) percent of ALL sites in each Market.
- Verify Quality Reports and escalate issues. Prepare corrective action plan and close issues
- Coordinate and ensure with the National Quality and Safety Manager that all field personnel are
equipped with proper and type-approved tools and equipment thru random Tool Audits.
- Identify Subcontractor’s capacity and inform Regional Manager about possible shortages
- Ensure that Subcontractor has a reasonable stable weekly workload.
- Guide and advice Subcontractor about technical changes and processes.
- Keep Subcontractor within Contract.
- Ensure that Subcontractors utilize their commissioning spares properly.
- Ensure materials are forecasted on time and have arrived on time.
- Chair and minute Subcontractors weekly progress meetings.
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Consulting For:
Date:
Position:
Location:
Civil Solutions Inc.
05/21/2012 – 05/17/2013.
Operations Manager.
Project Summary: New Site Builds on projects for Sprint Network Vision & T-Mobile
Modernization.
Florida, Houston & Austin TX.
Responsibilities:
- Data entry, accounts payable, payroll, grant report entry, managing the organizations HR., helping
and creating organizational and program budgets in collaboration with the ED and Program Direct,
and other misc. tasks.
- Reporting to the ED and serving as a member of the Management Team along with the ED, Program
Director and Development Director, this position's primary responsibility is ensuring organizational
effectiveness by providing leadership for the organization's financial functions.
- Working with the management team, the position also contributes to the development and
implementation of organizational strategies, policies, practices and Mop’s.
- Reporting to and interact with the Board of Directors.
- Ensure that the field personnel have been adequately trained to complete the task correctly and
without incident. Send out Daily Work Schedule.
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- Confirm that the field personnel have a clear and comprehensive understanding of the entire scope
of work.
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Improve the operational systems, processes and policies in support of organizations mission -specifically,
support better management reporting, information flow and management, business
process and organizational planning.
- Manage and increase the effectiveness and efficiency of Support Services (HR., IT and Finance),
through improvements to each function as well as coordination and communication between support
and business functions.
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Play a significant role in long-term planning, including an initiative geared toward operational
excellence.
- Oversee overall financial management, planning, systems and controls.
- Management of agency budget in coordination with the Executive Director.
- Development of individual program budgets.
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- Payroll management, including tabulation of accrued employee benefits.
- Disbursement of checks for agency expenses.
- Organization of fiscal documents.
- Regular meetings with Executive Director around fiscal planning.
- Supervise and coach office manager on a weekly basis.
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Employed By:
Date:
Position:
Emzo Services.
11/15/2010 – 05/11/2012
VP Operations & Co-Owner.
Project Summary: Managing UMTS implementation projects for Mastec / Nsoro / ATT.
Location:
Kentucky / Tennessee / North Carolina.
Responsibilities:
- Developing and implementing strategies to effectively build, project manager and deploy large scale
metropolitan markets.
- Manage, coordinate and assist all aspects of construction including, but not limited to, site
acceptance, assembling bill of materials, interfacing with firms, and meeting cost and schedule
requirements for each site.
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Interview and add general contractor resources, reviewing bids, and operating within budget.
- Manage firms, review drawings and track drawing status and due dates.
- Confirm sites meet company specifications and quality.
- Develop and manage accurate weekly projects regarding site construction status for the Project
Manager and Operations team.
- Develop and refine current company construction process and standards
- Manage timeframes and scheduled dates.
- Assist Construction Managers in market to obtain and achieve deadlines and schedule.
- Oversee all construction and site build activities for a defined market
- Responsible for interviewing and adding General Contractor resources, reviewing bids, and operating
within budget.
- Manage A&E firms, review drawings and track drawing status and due dates.
- Confirm sites meet client specifications and quality.
- Develop and manage accurate weekly projects regarding site construction status for the Project
Manager and Operations team
- Develop and refine current company construction process and standards
- Approved site designs of all new build sites
- Coordinate construction and engineering of site, from bidding to handling of environmental issues to
management of A & E firms.
- Ensure projects stay within budget
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Invoicing to funding sources, including calculation of completed units of service.
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- Supervise repair, modifications and upgrades on all cell sites
- Review all RFP’s and OOS’s and approve.
- Prepare and send out weekly/daily working schedules
- Ensure that market’s reporting is accurate
- Propose / approve action plans for remedial actions as required
- Ensure
- Acceptance in the market,
- Quality in the market
- Market Readiness
- Attend Operator Progress meetings
- Report about progress and forecast to Completion
- Coordinate integration schedule with PSC
- Attend Weekly project meeting and take actions where necessary
- Ensure Subcontractor issues daily activity report in a timely manner
- Attend project training when instructed by RM
- Ensure that audits are performed on ALL documentation created during the Site Survey, including
Site Acquisition Process.
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Identify Subcontractor’s capacity and inform Regional Roll Out Manager about possible shortages
- Ensure that Subcontractor has a reasonable stable weekly workload
- Guide and advice Subcontractor about technical changes and processes
- Keep Subcontractor within Contract
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Consulting For:
Date:
Position:
Ericsson / Clearwire.
08/16/2010 – 11/14/2010
Project Summary: Network Deployment on projects for Clearwire Wireless Networks.
Location:
CW Lead Construction Manager. (Miami Dade Sites)
South Florida.
Responsibilities:
- Developing and implementing strategies to effectively build, project manager and deploy large scale
metropolitan markets.
- Oversee all construction and site build activities for a defined market.
- Manage, coordinate and assist all aspects of construction including, but not limited to, site
acceptance, assembling bill of materials, interfacing with firms, and meeting cost and schedule
requirements for each site.
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Interview and add general contractor resources, reviewing bids, and operating within budget.
- Manage firms, review drawings and track drawing status and due dates.
- Confirm sites meet company specifications and quality.
- Develop and manage accurate weekly projects regarding site construction status for the Project
Manager and Operations team.
- Develop and refine current company construction process and standards
- Manage timeframes and scheduled dates.
- Assist Construction Managers in market to obtain and achieve deadlines and schedule.
- Oversee all construction and site build activities for a defined market
- Manage, coordinate and assist all aspects of construction including, but not limited to, site
acceptance, assembling bill of materials, interfacing with A&E firms and meeting cost and schedule
requirements for each site.
- Responsible for interviewing and adding General Contractor resources, reviewing bids, and operating
within budget.
- Manage A&E firms, review drawings and track drawing status and due dates.
- Confirm sites meet client specifications and quality.
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- Develop and manage accurate weekly projects regarding site construction status for the Project
Manager and Operations team
- Develop and refine current company construction process and standards
- Approved site designs of all new build sites
- Coordinate construction and engineering of site, from bidding to handling of environmental issues to
management of A & E firms.
- Ensure projects stay within budget
- Supervise repair, modifications and upgrades on all cell sites
- Review all RFP’s and OOS’s and approve.
- Prepare and send out weekly/daily working schedules
- Ensure that market’s reporting is accurate
- Propose / approve action plans for remedial actions as required
- Ensure
o Acceptance in the market,
o Quality in the market
o Market Readiness
- Attend Operator Progress meetings
- Report about progress and forecast to Completion
- Coordinate integration schedule with PSC
- Attend Weekly project meeting and take actions where necessary
- Ensure Subcontractor issues daily activity report in a timely manner
- Attend project training when instructed by RM
- Ensure that audits are performed on ALL documentation created during the Site Survey, including
Site Acquisition Process.
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Identify Subcontractor’s capacity and inform Regional Roll Out Manager about possible shortages
- Ensure that Subcontractor has a reasonable stable weekly workload
- Guide and advice Subcontractor about technical changes and processes
- Keep Subcontractor within Contract
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Employed By:
Date:
Positions Held:
Location:
Nokia Siemens Networks.
07/01/2010 – 08/15/2010
Project Manager.
Project Summary: Project Manage on projects for ATT & Centennial 2G / Edge GSM roll out for
MI, IN, WI, IL, OH, AM, MS & LA.
Based in Detroit.
Responsibilities:
- Manage vendors.
- Schedule all swap outs.
- Report events to ATT.
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Employed By:
Date:
Positions Held:
Location:
Mycom North America.
03/01/2010 – 06/30/2010
Senior Project Manager.
Project Summary: Project Manage on projects for Open Range Communications Wimax Roll
Out.
Nationwide with HQ in Denver.
Responsibilities:
- Manage & Oversee all TI & EF&I activities for the national Wimax Roll Out.
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- The profitable execution of network roll-out and implementation activities within a specified
geographical area. Implementation typically entails the end-to-end deployment (delivery,
installation, commissioning, and integration) of BSS and/or NSS equipment in accordance with a
defined scope of work and share of responsibility.
- Ensure Mycom’s contractual obligations are satisfied and that services are delivered on-time, within
budget, and meet the quality expectations of the customer.
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Interfaces directly with the customer Project Manager or designated Roll-Out Management
representative and is the primary point of contact within the project for all issues related to the
services provided by Mycom.
- The aggressive pursuit and attainment of invoice able milestones, thus ensuring steady cash flow
and minimal time-to-profit for the company. This is, in part, realized through successful achievement
of the three tenets of project management noted above; schedule, budget, and quality.
- Act as primary customer interface for all Mycom related issues at the project level. Attend customer
/ account meetings as requested by the customer and participate in other project related meetings
as required. Represent Mycom in a professional and proactive manner, satisfy customer service
demands, escalate project issues for management consideration in a timely fashion, and promote
Mycom service solutions whenever possible.
- Prior to the commencement of roll-out activities, prepare and submit a detailed project plan for
management approval (all project plans will be written using the Mycom project plan template).
Routinely monitor and update performance and deviation to ensure planned attainment of goals and
objectives. Provide direction to and supervise the daily planning activities (work assignment and job
scheduling) of the Field Manager(s) under his / her direction.
- Provide requested input to the Regional Project Manager and Competence Manager(s) for the
creation of the baseline project budget. Monitor budget performance versus provided P&L reports
and initiate corrective actions necessary to rectify deviations.
- Ensure that purchase orders are received in advance of performing work and that purchase orders
accurately reflect the scope of work to be undertaken and the contractual price for services. Also,
ensure that changes to the agreed SOW are documented (via change order) and agreed with the
customer prior to undertaking the work in question.
- Observing company policy, create a project specific quality plan which addresses both contractual
requirements and any unique market driven requirements governing the quality of the services to be
performed.
- Create an initial resource forecast for the project prior to beginning roll-out activities and appraise
the competence manager(s) weekly thereafter of changing resource needs.
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting of all time cards and expense reports within the project. On a
weekly basis he/she will review / approve all Mycom time reports in TESS, as well as time and
expense reports for consultants and contractors working for Mycom.
- Ensure the project library is established in accordance with company policy and that all project
correspondence, minutes, reports, audits, and technical records are numbered and archived
accordingly.
- Perform an initial risk analysis prior to the start of the project, define corresponding contingencies
and mitigation plans, and implement continuous and regular risk assessments thereafter.
- Manage customer inventory within the agreed project SOW to ensure adequate equipment and
materials are on-hand to satisfy the demand plan. Ensure scheduled inventory reports are provided
to customer management and escalate delivery issues which jeopardize roll-out objectives.
- Prepare and submit scheduled and ad-hoc reports (both internal and external), meeting minutes, and
correspondence as identified in the project plan.
- Perform other duties as requested by management.
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Employed By:
Date:
Positions Held:
Mastec Nsoro.
04/18/2009 – 02/28/2010
Project Manager. (New Site Build)
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Project Summary: Building of new Ericsson GSM & UMTS Sites on ATT Turfing project.
Location:
Project Manager. (Implementation)
South Florida.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee all construction and site build activities for a defined market
- Manage, coordinate and assist all aspects of construction including, but not limited to, site
acceptance, assembling bill of materials, interfacing with A&E firms and meeting cost and schedule
requirements for each site.
- Create OOM’s and upload all project expenses into NORAD.
- Responsible for interviewing and adding General Contractor resources, reviewing bids, and operating
within budget.
- Manage A&E firms, review drawings and track drawing status and due dates.
- Confirm sites meet client specifications and quality.
- Develop and refine current company construction process and standards
- Approved site designs of all new build sites / Installations.
- Coordinate construction and engineering of cell site, from bidding to handling of environmental
issues to management of A & E firms.
- Ensure projects stay within budget
- Coordinate utilities and equipment for all sites
- Supervise repair, modifications and upgrades on all cell sites
- Review all invoices and conduct follow-up
- Oversee management of approved construction vendors
- Prepare and send out weekly/daily working schedules
- Ensure that market’s reporting is accurate
- Daily review of progress achieved and targets
- Propose / approve action plans for remedial actions as required
- Ensure
o Acceptance in the market,
o Quality in the market
o Market Readiness
- Attend Operator Progress meetings
- Report about progress and forecast to Completion
- Coordinate integration schedule with PSC
- Attend Weekly project meeting and take actions where necessary
- Ensure Subcontractor issues daily activity report in a timely manner
- Attend project training when instructed by RM
- Ensure that audits are performed on ALL documentation created during the Site Survey, including
Site Acquisition Process.
-
Identify Subcontractor’s capacity and inform Regional Roll Out Manager about possible shortages
- Ensure that Subcontractor has a reasonable stable weekly workload
- Guide and advice Subcontractor about technical changes and processes
- Keep Subcontractor within Contract
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Consulting For:
Date:
Positions:
Location:
Responsibilities:
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Civil Solutions Incorporated.
11/01/2008 – 04/15/2009
Construction Manager.
Project Summary: Network Augmentation, Maintenance & BBU Roll Out on T-Mobile UMTS
project.
South Florida.
RESUME - Michael Van Niekerk
- Oversee all construction and site build activities for a defined market
- Manage, coordinate and assist all aspects of construction including, but not limited to, site
acceptance, assembling bill of materials, interfacing with A&E firms and meeting cost and schedule
requirements for each site.
- Responsible for interviewing and adding General Contractor resources, reviewing bids, and operating
within budget.
- Manage A&E firms, review drawings and track drawing status and due dates.
- Confirm sites meet client specifications and quality.
- Develop and manage accurate weekly projects regarding site construction status for the Project
Manager and Operations team
- Develop and refine current company construction process and standards
- Approved site designs of all new build sites
- Coordinate construction and engineering of cell site, from bidding to handling of environmental
issues to management of A & E firms.
- Ensure projects stay within budget
- Coordinate utilities and equipment for all sites
- Supervise repair, modifications and upgrades on all cell sites
- Review all invoices and conduct follow-up
- Oversee management of approved construction vendors
- Prepare and send out weekly/daily working schedules
- Ensure that market’s reporting is accurate
- Daily review of progress achieved and targets
- Propose / approve action plans for remedial actions as required
- Ensure
o Acceptance in the market,
o Quality in the market
o Market Readiness
- Attend Operator Progress meetings
- Report about progress and forecast to Completion
- Coordinate integration schedule with PSC
- Attend Weekly project meeting and take actions where necessary
- Ensure Subcontractor issues daily activity report in a timely manner
- Attend project training when instructed by RM
- Ensure that audits are performed on ALL documentation created during the Site Survey, including
Site Acquisition Process.
-
Identify Subcontractor’s capacity and inform Regional Roll Out Manager about possible shortages
- Ensure that Subcontractor has a reasonable stable weekly workload
- Guide and advice Subcontractor about technical changes and processes
- Keep Subcontractor within Contract
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Consulting For:
Date:
Positions:
Location:
Nokia Siemens Networks.
03/01/2007 – 10/30/2008
Construction Manager.
Project Manager. (Implementation)
Project Summary: UMTS Overlay & GSM Upgrade of Nokia Equipment on T-Mobile UMTS
project.
South Florida.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate eBOQ / gMIR with RSE
- Prepare Market Plan dates into E-PM.
- Prepare and send out weekly/daily working schedules
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- Ensure that market’s reporting is accurate
- Daily review of progress achieved and targets
- Propose / approve action plans for remedial actions as required
- Ensure that market’s eTracker, eTracker Quality Module, gMIR data is one-hundred (100%)
percent accurate on a daily basis, for Daily and Weekly Reports , including Lemcon Tracker
- Ensure that all market documents are in E-PM
- Ensure
o Acceptance in the market,
o Quality in the market
o Market Readiness
o Market Closure
o Commissioning spares management
o Arrange on-site pre-construction meeting at every Site with the General Contractor (TI
partner) to verify the design, scope & material requirements.
o Arrange on-site post-construction meeting at every Site with the General Contractor (TI
partner) to verify closure of the punch list.
o Perform one-hundred (100%) percent “on site” quality audits of the first fifty (50) sites in
each Market.
o Perform fifteen (15%) percent “on site” quality audits of the remaining sites in each
Market
- Check Subcontractor’s extra works requests
- Attend NSN Market’s Progress Review meetings
- Attend Operator Progress meetings at Nokia’s request
- Report to NSN about progress and forecast to Completion
- Coordinate integration schedule with PSC
- Attend Weekly project meeting and take actions where necessary
- Ensure Subcontractor issues daily activity report in a timely manner
- Attend project training when instructed by RM
- Ensure that one-hundred (100%) percent audits are performed on ALL documentation created
during the Site Survey, including Site Acquisition Process.
- Ensure Subcontractor is using eTracker Quality Module (eTQ) form and sending them to BTS-FAs
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- Ensure that Subcontractor has a reasonable stable weekly workload
- Guide and advice Subcontractor about technical changes and processes
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Consulting For:
Date:
Position:
Location:
Nokia.
06/01/2006 - 10/31/2006
T1 Transport Coordinator.
Project Summary: New Nokia GSM Builds & Hot Slide and Ericsson UMTS overlay on Cingular
Wireless (AT&T) project.
Louisiana.
Responsibilities:
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Liaise with Regional Manager & Operations Manager.
- Coordinate with Bellsouth & contractors the T1’s installed and operational.
- Schedule integration dates with switch and Nokia.
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Consulting For:
Date:
Position:
Nokia.
02/01/2005 – 05/30/2006
Cingular Wireless QAI.
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Identify Subcontractor’s capacity and inform Regional Roll Out Manager about possible shortages
RESUME - Michael Van Niekerk
Project Summary: New Nokia GSM Builds & Hot Slide and Ericsson UMTS overlay on Cingular
Wireless (AT&T) project.
North & South Carolina.
Location:
Responsibilities:
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Liaise with Quality & Regional Managers.
- Ensuring delivery of sites as per schedule.
- Schedule site walks & prioritize workflow.
- Maintain schedules & budgets.
- Quality Inspection on sites on Nokia BTS’s & Emerson UPC cabinets.
- Audit sites. Retrieve & verify information from BTS via BTS software, sites are alarms free,
equipment inventory and parameters within criteria and to specifications.
- Relay all reports back to pm and update live tracker.
- Reporting of alterations, improvements or repetitive issues at meetings.
- Ensure punch lists are cleared and sites are handed over from contractors to Cingular alarm free.
- Work with radio planners, marketing team, planning and operations to define project requirements,
develop and define scope of work, determine project cost & schedule, and assist in developing
proposals.
- Ensure adherence to standards, quality, project costs, gross profit, scheduling and all related
activities.
- Cooperate with other company departments and offices (i.e. operations, accounting, etc.) to ensure
quality of service.
- Create and archive all redline and as-built drawings as required for proper documentation of all
installation activities.
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Consulting For:
Date:
Position:
Responsibilities:
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Harris Corporation.
02/15/2004 – 11/30/2004
Field Engineer / QA Inspector.
Project Summary: New Site Builds and MW Backbones.
Location:
Nigeria.
Liaise with PM and prioritize workflow.
- Maintain project schedules & budgets as dictated by PM.
- Manage the expansion, installation and construction of sites in a cost effective and professional
manner.
- Oversee and quality controlled the Radian (Le Blanc) towers erection, implementation and
commissioning. (Self-supporting Towers 209’ – 560’)
- Do MW installations.
- Do onsite training of sub-contractors.
- Manage quality assurance.
- Manage handover to Econet / Vodacom according to the FAT’s and observations.
- Promote the overall installation capabilities and products of Harris.
- Establish and maintain good relations with the local communities.
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Employed By:
Date:
Position:
Hortel RSA.
06/30/2003 – 01/31/2004
Project Director.
Project Summary: Various Network Expansions, upgrades, installations and equipment supply
Location:
Sub-Sahara Africa.
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Responsibilities:
- Sourcing of equipment.
- Maintain detailed project schedules & budgets.
- Manage the expansion, installation and construction of sites on schedule and in a cost effective,
professional manner while at the same time, promoting the overall installation capabilities and
products of Hortel.
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Liaise and manage with procurement, legal and financial department.
- Establish and maintain good relations with the local authorities.
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Interface with both internal and external staff and consultants and employees to schedule and
manage the project from pre-construction through completion.
- Researching technical issues, and evaluate all documents incl. structural, civil surveys as needed for
all sites.
- Maintain project paperwork to include contracts, revisions, estimates, work drawings and
specifications.
- Ensure adherence to standards, quality, project costs, gross profit, scheduling and all related
activities.
- Cooperate with other company departments and offices (i.e. operations, accounting, etc.) to ensure
quality of service.
- Hire and manage employees and subcontractors to ensure professional and timely installation
processes.
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Consulting For:
Date:
Position:
Msi Cellular (Telecel, Celtel, Mobitel).
05/01/2002 – 06/30/2003
Project Director.
Project Summary: New GSM Sites and Network Expansions.
Location:
Democratic Republic Of Congo, Uganda, Sudan, Zambia.
Responsibilities:
- Reporting to CEO.
- Prioritize workflow.
- Work with GM / CEO, radio planners, marketing team, planning and operations to define project
requirements, develop and define scope of work, determine project cost & schedule, and assist in
developing proposals.
- Maintain detailed project schedules & budgets.
- Manage the expansion, installation and construction of sites on schedule and in a cost effective,
professional manner while at the same time, promoting the overall installation capabilities and
products of Mobitel.
- Participate in proposal activities in regards to time and cost estimating and installation requirements.
- Work with Program Managers, Account Executives, Customers, and Contractors to develop and
implement projects including equipment installations, de-installation, asset recovery, and materials
management.
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Liaise and manage with procurement, legal and financial department.
- Establish and maintain good relations with the local authorities.
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Interface with both internal and external staff and consultants and employees to schedule and
manage the project from pre-construction through completion.
- Researching technical issues, and evaluate all documents incl. structural, civil surveys as needed for
all sites.
- Maintain project paperwork to include contracts, revisions, estimates, work drawings and
specifications.
- Ensure adherence to standards, quality, project costs, gross profit, scheduling and all related
activities.
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- Cooperate with other company departments and offices (i.e. operations, accounting, etc.) to ensure
quality of service.
- Hire and manage employees and subcontractors to ensure professional and timely installation
processes.
- Create and archive all redline and as-built drawings as required for proper documentation of all
installation activities.
- Develop installation process for power and grounding that meet all Mobitel specs for the industry.
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Consulting For:
Date:
Position:
Siemens / Cell C.
05/01/2001 – 05/31/2002
Civil Build Manager.
Project Summary: New GSM Network rollout on the Cell C project.
Location:
South Africa.
Responsibilities:
- National GSM, GPRS network roll out.
- Project management (Turnkey).
- Scheduling.
- Reporting.
- Meeting deadlines & budget.
- Costing.
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Liaising with contractors, local authorities and suppliers.
Interfacing with engineers, planners, CAD Eng.
Site surveying and hand over.
All technical issues and problem solving.
- Adherence to all local, national laws and acts (Incl. OCHSA).
- Public meetings incl. EIA issues.
- Adherence to ISO standards and quality control.
- Documentation (test, commission and hand over certificates).
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Site inspections and final hand over.
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Consulting For:
Date:
Position:
Telecel.
06/01/1999 – 04/30/2001
Regional Project Manager.
Project Summary: Manage and Implement all New GSM Sites in various Regions.
Location:
Responsibilities:
- Project Management (Turnkey Roll Out planning)
- Generate, maintain and implement projects & schedules.
- Ensuring meeting hold points and deadlines.
- Progress Reports and reporting to head of project management.
- Generate & maintain purchase order information and controlling expenditure.
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All technical issues and problem solving.
Site selection with Radio planner, Acquisition and EIA sub-con.
Liaising with planners, CAD office, network planners, radio planners, RF planners, site acquisition,
civil build supervisors, sub-contractors, local authorities, suppliers and customer.
- Adherence to all local, national laws and acts (Incl. OCHSA).
- Adherence to ISO standards, Quality assurance and control.
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Site inspections and hand over.
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Central / West Africa - Burundi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Ivory Coast.
RESUME - Michael Van Niekerk
- Environmental issues.
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Employed By:
Date:
Position:
Andrew Corporation.
06/01/1998 – 05/31/1999
Project Summary: Manage all new Towers & Mast Projects for Sub-Sahara Africa.
Location:
Manager (Towers & Mast Division Sub-Sahara).
South Africa.
Responsibilities:
- Project Management (Turnkey).
- Product Development.
- Marketing & Sales.
- R&D & Prototyping.
- Technical Issues.
- Quality Assurance & Control & Method statements.
- Administration (Quotes & Commercials).
- Civil and Installation field procedures.
- Safety Method Plan.
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Liaising between Engineer, Client and Factory.
- Faultfinding and problem solving.
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Consulting For:
Date:
Position:
Mtn Wireless.
04/01/1995 – 05/31/1998
Area Project Manager.
Project Summary: Manage and Implement all New GSM Sites in various Regions.
Location:
South Africa.
Responsibilities:
- Project Management & planning (Turnkey).
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Site Construction.
- Technical Issues.
- RF & Equipment Commission.
- MW Installation.
- Quality Control.
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Consulting For:
Date:
Position:
Responsibilities:
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Vodafone.
08/01/1993 - 04/01/1995
Field Manager.
Project Summary: Manage and Install all New GSM sites.
Location:
South Africa.
Site Construction.
- Technical Issues.
- RF & Equipment Commission.
- MW Installation.
- Quality Control.
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