Experience

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  Dalhunty certified accountants

  Apr 1997 - Dec 2004

  It manager and consultant

  Part time and weekend job• Maintenance and administration of Windows NT/2000/2003 Networks.• Provision of technical support and advice including, purchase, upgrade and installation of new hardware and software, IT support and general trouble shooting.• Writing programmes in Visual Basic and MS Excel• Designing report layouts in Sage and SAP.

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  Heathrow mail centre ltd

  Jul 1999 - Dec 2002

  It manager

  • Managed the IT Department. Scheduling and allocating IT tasks to colleagues within the Department. • Database management and software programming including the use of Visual Basic, dBase, Excel.• Development of complete database application for customers.• Mail merging and LAN network administration.

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  King's college london

  Sept 2000 - Jul 2004

  Student

  Master of Electronics Engineering (Computer Systems and Electronics)

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  3d digital design and development ltd

  Sept 2003 - Jan 2004

  Software engineer

  Completed a very highly successful project as part of Extra Mural Semester placement for MEng degree course. Wrote a real time data acquisition database orientated application software in Visual Basic and C++ (with 3rd party Activex) for Tempulog4, an industrial data logger and alarm system. The software developed is being distributed by the company with their commercial product, Tempulog4 www.tempulog.com.

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  Aeroflex

  Dec 2004 - Jun 2006

  Design engineer

  Worked as embedded software engineer in enhancement and support of a GSM base station test set and providing support and training to customers and field engineers.Responsibilites and projects included:• Working on a team of 6 on a multi million dollar project to implement AMR technology to an exiting base station test set (Racal 6113). • Responsible for adding new features and fixing bugs in CiTA GPS PC software written in Visual Basic 6. • Training and supporting customers. Integration and resolving customers issues onsite, inside and outside UK.• Development of Bespoke Software for Customers. Show less

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  T-mobile international uk

  Jun 2006 - Aug 2008

  • Execute and analysing fault behaviours of terminals in the context of an international test team on given terminal products and interfacing issue resolution and technical queries with the technical counterparts from the terminal vendors.• Responsible for development and updating of Local UK Radio test cases and Technical Accountant for SIM/USIM, development of test cases for SIM and liaising with terminal and test equipment vendors. • Testing Uu interface on 2G/3G/3.5G terminals and ensuring terminals meet 3GPP and DT standards. • Testing protocols for e.g. NAS, RRC, RLC and MAC using tools such as QXDM, XCal, Agilent, DebugMax etc.• Root cause analysis of the faults and raising it with the vendor with follow up to ensure corrections are delivered prior to release.

  • Senior Integration and Validation Engineer & Technical Key Account

    May 2007 - Aug 2008

  • Terminal Integration and Validation Engineer

    Jun 2006 - Jun 2007
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  Deutsche telekom (uk)

  Aug 2008 - Jun 2013

  • Functionally leading an international team of test engineers, managing test campaign of products and technical relationships with other terminal vendors, International Equipment Marketing, Products and Services and other T-Mobile international groups.• Manage terminal vendor Samsung and the international test team to ensure speed and quality to market with minimal usage of testing resources. Engineering team which can meet both international and national work deliverables in an increasingly competitive, technology and resource challenging framework.• Responsible for the integration plan, test scope, test specifications, defect management, the coordination of the environment design, deployment and liaising with vendors and functions across business. Show less • Technical Key Account and interface for two major chipset vendors. Analysing chipset technology trends and making sure DT technical and commercial requirements are incorporated in vendors roadmap.• Managing integration and validation tests between chipset vendors and DT Terminal and RAN integration teams on new platforms, technologies and features.• Responsible for validation and integration of LTE tests in UK and training of terminal validation team.• Acquire expertise of the new technology in order to specify the relevant terminal requirements in the Mobile Terminal Requirements document and development of test cases for Terminal validation team.• Research and study of new technologies coming to market and development of test cases for validation and integration. Show less

  • Senior Specialist Integration Engineer

    Aug 2009 - Jun 2013

  • Technical Manager

    Jan 2009 - Jun 2013

  • Technical Key Account

    Aug 2008 - Jun 2013
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  Intel corporation

  Jul 2013 - Sept 2014

  Telecommunications consultant

  Intel Mobile Communications is mobile research and development division of Intel Corporation. IMC develops and manufactures innovative semiconductor products and 2G, 3G, LTE protocol stack, software and solutions for wireless communications.Responsible for verification and development of GSM, UMTS, and LTE test cases on a range of network simulators for validation of the relevant stacks under development on Multi-SIM and LTE platforms.

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  O2 (telefónica uk)

  Sept 2014 - May 2015

  Senior test and integration engineer

  Telefónica is one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world in terms of market capitalisation and number of customers. The company has a significant presence in 21 countries and a customer base that amounts more than 341 million accesses around the world. Telefónica has a strong presence in Spain, Europe and Latin America, where the company focuses an important part of its growth strategy. As part Device Integration team in Network Operation responsibilities included:• Working closely with Radio Design team on integration and validation of new features on Devices• VoLTE and IMS test and integration• Responsible for development of test cases and setup of test environment for new features. Show less

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  Viavi solutions

  Jun 2015 - now

  At VIAVI Solutions, we are global leaders in the provision of advanced wireless coverage and mobile communications systems, producing innovative, cost-effective solutions that address market requirements for improved connectivity, greater capacity and better quality of experience.• Technical interface between customers and VIAVI R&D and sales, ensuring customer requirements are accurately captured and implemented in VIAVI products (New Radio 5G/LTE/UMTS/GSM UE simulator).• Providing pre-sales demos and answering customers technical queries.• Responsible for integration of new products and verification of newly developed features at customer premises. • Providing product and technology training to customers and FAEs in other regions.• Providing remote and onsite support for customer, debugging of customer issues and follow up with R&D until successful resolution. • Working closely with Sales and Marketing teams to identify new business and product opportunities. Show less

  • Technical Project Manager

    Jul 2020 - now

  • Principal Field Application Engineer

    Jun 2015 - Jun 2020