RESUME
Name Kulbir Singh Malhotra
Contact Mobile: 043*-***-***; Landline: 02-62651416
Job Details E-mail: acfimi@r.postjobfree.com;
acfimi@r.postjobfree.com
1. Educational Qualifications
. Bachelor of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering
. Member, Institution of Engineers Australia
. Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration
2. Employment History
Current Employer: Department of Defence, Electronics Systems Division, DMO
(Defence Materiel Organisation).
Period of Employment: 3 years - and continuing
Job Title: Project Director/Project Manager
Duties Performed:
1. Project Management - End to end management of projects within allocated
budget and time frame; conforming to various contractual obligations,
Acts and Legislations.
2. Providing leadership and direction on the development of Defence
capabilities related to Telecommunication, e.g., Civil, Mechanical,
Electrical and Electronic Engineering construction work.
3. Modernisation of Defence Test & Evaluation Laboratory & field equipment
(both hardware and software) for Countermeasure Development & Validation
involving Mobile, 2G/3G/4G and Fibre optics technologies
4. Facilitating the requirement definition of development of the
GSM/2G/3G/4G Mobile Tower.
5. Preparing Project Management Plan for "Test & Evaluation" Laboratory set-
up for Defence Science & Technology Organisation.
6. Liaison with Army Headquarters, Finance department, Defence Capability
Development Group and Engineering cell in preparing submissions for
Parliamentary committees' approval of funds for Defence projects.
7. Providing leadership and direction for Material Procurement,
Engineering/Technology/Quality assurance & ILS (Integrated Logistic
Support); Commercial disposal of the equipment.
8. Land acquisitions, land access for various projects, negotiations with
traditional Owners of the land, following corporate laws, legal and
regulatory processes.
9. Budget Planning and monitoring, Providing input to Ministerial
submissions for funds allocations and financial approval.
Last Employer: Telstra Corporation Ltd
Period of Employment: 18 years 8 months
Job Title: Manager, Program Management/Senior Network Engineer, Design,
Construction & Maintenance
Duties Performed:
10. Project Management - End to end management of projects (MDU's &
Greenfields) within allocated budget and time frame; conforming to
various contractual obligations, Acts and Legislations.
11. Providing leadership and direction on the development, operation and
maintenance of the customers' services infrastructure.
12. Design and construction of the network (both Mobile and fixed network)
suitable for the products that match the customer demand.
13. New technology implementation: Developing, processes/procedures,
training curriculum, staff briefing packs for implementation of new
technologies related to FTTP(FTTH), NBN, Satellite, Mobile
(GSM/2G/3G/LTE), Radio & telephony.
14. Contract Administration - I have managed contract administration and
compliance of contractual requirement for the annual budget of
approximately $120 million (90% Capex & 10% Opex); including technical
support & input for preparing RFTs (Request for Tenders).
15. Liaison with customers and other stakeholder, e.g., Industry
Regulators, National Parks, Local councils and other utilities, arranging
periodic co-ordination meetings.
16. Issuing regular reports on the progress, performance against target,
financial reports, engineering reports, HS&E (Health, Safety &
Environmental) reports, etc.
17. Resolving complex customer complaints and other community concerns.
18. Market demand & products analysis: - Analysis of Customer demand,
converting demand in to engineering specifications, matching the
specifications with the products available.
3. KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS
Telecommunication Engineering
Having worked for over 25 years in Telecommunication industry in the areas
such as R&D, planning, design and construction of Satellite, microwave,
Radio, Mobile, Fibre optics, Coaxial and copper cables, I have extensive
knowledge & thorough understanding of Telecommunication network (both wire-
line and wireless), Underground & aerial, submarine, river crossings,
national parks; Products (narrowband & broadband), Systems (planning,
design, construction & recording data bases), New technologies,
Legal/regulatory, Processes and factors that influence customer demand.
Telecommunication Towers
Design & construction of Towers (on land, hills and buildings), hoisting
of antennas, transmission equipment hut/building and related transmission
equipment (GSM/2G/3G/LTE) and power plant (both traditional solar
powered)
National Broadband Network
Thorough knowledge and work experience in building FTTH, FTTP, NBN
network, both external and internal plant, end to end management of
construction projects (new developments, Greenfields & MDUs) right from
planning/design stage through to its completion, including quality
management for all systems and processes for the service delivery team;
providing technical & customer engineering support to Marketing, Sales
(both wholesales & Retail).
Thorough knowledge of various technologies used in FTTP/FTTH & NBN
including BPON (conforms to the ITU-T G983.1 specification) & GPON
(conforms to the ITU-T G984.1 specification).
Related Civil Engineering
Pit, pipe and manholes - open trenches, Directional Boring, in new
estates (shared trenches) and infill areas, River crossing submarine,
road crossing (Council & RTA road), on rail corridors, national parks;
Poles (steel and timber). Pipe work and related earthing for Electricals.
Lead-in pipe in multi dwelling and commercial buildings; Maintenance of
the civil work.
Hauling, jointing and termination
Copper (mains & distribution) both aerial and underground,
Optical fibre - Single-mode and multimode cables, aerial and underground
- fusion jointing; customer premises equipment, and related outdoor
equipment on streets and inside the manholes.
MDF (Main Distribution Frames)
MDF related work for commercial buildings, MDU's, customer premises and
in the exchange buildings, working in exchange cable chambers, installing
racks/sub-racks in exchanges, customer premises MDFs. OFDFs (Optical
fibre distribution frames)
OH&S, Quality Assurance and project audit
Trained OH&S auditor; highly experienced OH&S procedures, legal and
regulatory processes, construction work quality and work audit in
accordance with Telstra contractual obligations.
DA Rehab Work
Highly experienced in Distribution Area (Pillar) Rehab work.
Power plant and Solar powered plants
Highly experience in power plant, batteries, related earthing systema,
etc.in the exchanges and remote area, customer premises, especially for
solar powered plants for remote areas
Project Management & Contract Administration skills
Excellent knowledge & experience in program/project management, contract
administration (Lean Six Sigma trained) & Change Management (Attended
training - "Leading teams during rapid change").
Field Construction practices & Quality Assurance
Thorough knowledge of construction field practices and highly experiences
in quality assurance and Design/field audit.
Forecasting & Material Procurement
Highly experienced in material forecasting and material procurement
procedures and practices.
Leadership Skills
I have extensive experience in leading and managing staff, including
coaching and mentoring skills. As Regional Program Manager (directly
reporting to General Manager), my role involved providing leadership,
supervision and guidance to following teams which included engineers,
technical staff, admin staff, field staff, consultants and contractors:
a) A team of several project managers responsible for site acquisition,
land access, building & civil work, sharing trenching with other
utilities, joint use poles, getting environmental impact studies
completed. Work also involves:
. dealing with state/federal/local government bodies/Councils/National
Parks, in accordance with Telecommunication Act 1997,
Telecommunication Low Impact Determinant 1997, Regulations and other
state & territory laws,
. Community consultations as per Australian Communication Industry
Code ACIF-c564.
b) A team of Design Engineers & technicians responsible for design,
installation, testing and commissioning of Electrical/Electronic
equipment & related cabling as per specified standards.
c) Admin team responsible for scheduling work, issuing work orders to
contractors, processing payments, etc.
d) A team of Program Managers managing complex & high profile projects end-
to-end, from Project concept brief, through to Planning & Design,
Executing, Controlling/Monitoring,and Closing.
I have a proven record of:
a) Reducing number of held orders/CWIs (customers waiting on
infrastructures).
b) Reducing unit rate (cost /unit)
c) Managing complex & multi-disciplinary projects within allocated budget &
time line
d) Introducing various H&S measures in the work place, conducting H&S self
assessment
Continuous improvement and implementing change for increasing productivity
. I have established a Program Management team from scratch when Company
decided to outsource construction work to external contractors,
incorporated various local processes that helped the team emphasise
commercial issues and also created awareness about pertinent OH&S issues
that arose.
. I have set up an intranet web page for the purpose of inviting
suggestions for improvement from staff, and assisted in forming a local
committee to review and implement suggestions, and reward staff for
submissions.
Strong relationship management skills
I have a proven record of displaying sound relationship management skills
while working as Project Manager, dealing with customers, contractors,
vendors, legal & regulatory authorities and my own staff. I have good
listening skills and the ability to create empathy.
I have negotiated, resolved and signed various MOU's, site acquisition
agreements, site lease agreements and development applications with various
councils and National Parks, and shared trench & joint use pole agreements
with various utilities.
I have also resolved complex community concerns for mobile/radio base
station sites and numerous complex customer complaints.
Highly developed written and oral communications skills.
I have extensive experience in presenting:
. Regular and ad hoc project monitoring reports.
. Project briefs and proposals before a budget committee for funds
approval. I have also prepared and Health Safety & Environment
presentations as HSE coordinator
. Informative and promotional presentations to corporate customers
regarding the various products & services provided by the company.
I have also written, published and presented nearly 100 research papers in
several international conferences/workshops/seminars.
Strong Health, Safety & Environment focus
. Trained Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) self-assessment auditor.
. Trained in incident reporting & management and risk/hazard assessment.
I have convened regular HSE committee meetings in accordance with the OH&S
Act, and arranged work place inspections, fire evacuation trials, vehicle
checks, conducting self-assessment audits and field inspections in
accordance with the HSE Plan.
REFERENCE DETAILS
1 Les Nietoski; Telstra Corporation Ltd
My ex-Manager/Supervising Engineer
02 93973711; 041*******, email: acfimi@r.postjobfree.com
2. Len Favier; Riverlands Telephone Co
My ex-Manager/Supervising Engineer
02 4739 3913, email: acfimi@r.postjobfree.com
3. Dan Burke; Telstra Corporation Ltd
My General Manager
07 3455 2663, email: acfimi@r.postjobfree.com