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Project Manager Telecommunications

Location:
Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia
Posted:
August 21, 2014

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RESUME

Name Kulbir Singh Malhotra

Contact Mobile: 043*-***-***; Landline: 02-62651416

(612-********)

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



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