Project Manager Management

Name: Phillip Matson

West Australia

Email: ***********@*****.***

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Summary of leadership positions:

Nov'12 - Jan'13 Senior Project Manager - Wireless design and deployment -

Ansaldo, Australia

May'12 - Oct'12 Senior Project Manager - 4G (LTE) and Fibre network design

and deployment. Telstra,

Vodafone, Ericsson

2010 - May'12 Program manager, Digital Voice Radio deployment, BHPB,

Sino Iron, TransTel, Australia

2009 - 2010 Project Director, 4G (WiMAX), Vividwireless, Australia.

2009 - 2009 Project Director,2G, 3G deployment and operations - Huawei,

Malaysia (Jan09 - May09 )

2008 - 2008 Regional Project manager Network deployment and operations, 2G,

3G Huawei, Indonesia

2007 - 2008 National Deployment manager 2G, 3G and Fibre - Vodacom,

Ericsson, South Africa

2007 - 2007 Telecom Civils and QA manager 2G, 3G (Swap project) - Vodacom,

Ericsson, Japan.

2005 - 2007 State manager, Turn Key infrastructure deployment 2G, 3G

- Optus, NSN, West Australia.

2005 - 2005 National Site Acquisition and Design manager - SIEMENS,

Qatar (May - June)

2002 - 2005 State Project manager Transmission deployment - NSN and

TCI

(Total Communications Infrastructure - Australia.)

2002 - 2002 Regional construction and deployment mgr 2G - Motorola,

Nigeria.

2001 - 2002 OSP(Fibre) and Data networks consultant - Saudi

Aramco, Kohbar, Saudi Arabia

Science Application International (Arizona -SAIC) Saudi

Arabia

1999 - 2001 National Implementation and deployment mgr - Lucent

Technologies, Australia

1998 - 1999 National OSP (Fibre) technical review mgr - Lucent

Technologies, Saudi Arabia

1997 - 1998 Operations manager - Tomen Corporation/Cable and Wireless,

Indonesia

Qualifications and Affiliations in Professional Project Management.

Advanced Diploma in Project Management.

Certified Practising Project manager (CPPM) - Australian Institute of

Project Management (AIPM)

Member # : 00016402

Cert IV in Project Management - December 2006 APMM

Credited Program Manager - September 2001 from Stevens Institute of

Technology -USA.

TITAB Registered Cabling assessor ( Lic Number # W01015R)

Nov'12 - Present

Senior Project Manager - Wireless design and deployment - Ansaldo,

Australia

. Snr Project manager for design, cost control and client acceptance of

a Tetra network for the Roy Hill iron ore project..

. Liaise with senior management and client to provide cost effective

solutions to meet contract KPIs and deliverables.

. Support senior management on best solutions to add value to existing

contracts.

. Provide mentoring and support to junior members of the project team.

. Develop project documentation and liaise with client for project

acceptance.

. Provide project reporting, financial management and cost controls

during development of project plans.

May'12 - Oct'12

Senior Project Manager - 4G (LTE) wireless and Fibre network design and

deployment. Ericsson

Description of position.

. Snr Project manager 4G (LTE) wireless and fibre network deployment and

operation of Vodafone fibre) and Telstra 4G (LTE) networks.

. Managing various Optical (Fibre) projects. 40 + people. Designers,

Project managers, Integrators, project controls and operations.

. Managing 4G (LTE) project deployment.

. Provide cost solutions to Ericsson to enable value adding to existing

projects.

. Customer contact interface for project progress reporting and

monitoring.

. Development of project deployment plans and schedules (using Primavera

and MS project formats).

. Financial management and reporting.

. Logistics and warehousing.

. OH&S governance.

. Provide direction and leadership to various technical and

administrative disciplines to meet client delivery objectives and

network KPIs

2010 - 4th May 2012

Program Manager, TransTel, EPCM for BHP Billiton and Sino digital Voice

radio networks

Description of position.

. Program manager for full Turnkey network deployment and operation of:

- BHP Billiton's digital voice radio (P25) network. Capex Value

Aud$19Mil.

- Sino Iron's digital voice radio network. Capex Phase 1 Value

Aud$865,504

. Responsible directly to the board of management for the successful

design, construction, commissioning and launch of a new digital voice

radio system.

BHP Billington

- Install and commission new 18 x radio base stations, antenna and

feeder systems to BHP Billiton repeater network (350 kms in total).

- Installing digital radios in 250 light vehicles, 44 Heavy vehicles,

77 locomotives.

- Setting up of operational monitoring systems in various terminal

sites.

Sino Iron.

- Plan, manage the execution of Sino Iron's Greenfield Digital Voice

radio network.

- Install and commission 3 x new radio base stations, towers, Comms

shelters, power, antenna and feeder systems.

. Fibre networks. Customer and enterprise networks, LANs, Residential

estates, Long haul.

. Management of project teams ( RF planners, BTS technicians,

infrastructure and technical sub contractors across 2 client networks

).

. Management of contracts (Head and Sub)

. Development of project deployment plans and schedules (using Primavera

and MS project formats).

. Financial management and reporting

. Logistics and warehousing,

. OH&S governance.

. Provide direction and leadership to various technical and

administrative disciplines to meet agreed board delivery objectives

and network KPI.

2009 - September 2010

Project Director for 4G (WiMAX) network deployment, Vividwireless

Australia

Description of position.

. Project Director for Full Turn key network deployment and operation.

Value Aud$18Mil

. Responsible directly to the board of management for the introduction

and successful launch of Australia's full WIMAX carrier grade network.

Deploying Huawei Baseband radio units, Temp VSAT back haul

transmission links, ASN gateways and beam forming antenna, Juniper

routers and Dragon Wave IP Microwave (18 & 23Ghz). Including fibre

cabling to nodes.

. Developed and managed:

Project office, staff recruitment ( RF planners, BTS technicians,

Transmission engineers, Site acquisition planners and real estate

agents), infrastructure and technical sub contractors.

. Authorised and released sub contracts, HR job descriptions to support

recruitment.

. Developed project deployment and integration plans ( MS project

format).

. Logistics and warehousing,

. OH&S governance.

. Full project reporting and management of financial budgets.

. Built, commissioned 142 sites in less than 6 months.

Provide direction and leadership to various technical and

administrative disciplines to meet agreed board delivery objectives

and network KPIs

2009 (Jan - April)

Project Director for Network deployment, Huawei Malaysia

Description of position.

. Project Director for Full Turn key infrastructure deployment and

Maintenance services. Value US$150Mil

. Build and commission 1,500 BTS over 4 regions in 3 build phases.

Swapped out Nokia radio cabinets with Huawei.

. Manage a project office with 95 staff.

. Manage a transmission upgrade project to compliment the RAN project.

. Provide customer interface on all issues relating to the project.

. PMO - Responsible for the development and management of a project

management office at country level to handle multiple 2G, 3G, SDH, PDH

projects within Malaysia and Indonesia (APAC area).

Responsible for commercial, contractual, Infrastructure (Technical and

Engineering) for wireless access networks, transmission, site

acquisition, civil and electrical engineering, project controls, Q.A,

logistics, warehousing and full financial administration of projects.

2008 (Apr - Dec)

Regional manager for Network deployment, Huawei Indonesia

Description of position.

Full Turn key project for 850 sites in East Java, 120 sites in Bali and

Lombok. Value US$ 125Mil

Regional manager for 3G and 2G network deployment, for Axisworld (STC)

involving:

. BTS installation, integration,

. Transmission (Microwave and VSAT satellite links),

. Site acquisition,

. Civil and electrical engineering,

. Project controls, Q.A, logistics, warehousing and

. Full financial administration of the project.

Responsible for a regional project office and 85 staff not including

consultants and sub contractors.

Deployment and management of a new telecom network on behalf of Axisworld,

for 2G (1800mHz), 3G (UMTS) with SDH and PDH transmission.

Additionally responsible for the ongoing maintenance, warehousing,

workshops and managed services contract.

2007 - 2008 (April)

National Deployment manager - Ericsson South Africa

Description of position.

Network Deployment project manager for a proposed re engineering project.

Responsible for a project organisation involving installation,

implementation, NOC (National Operations centre), Network monitoring, Tiger

teams and 8 Regional (state) deployment teams, Q.A and integration for

Cellular, Transmission and Wimax projects post trial phase.

Senior bid manager for Outside Plant engineering for national cable

networks in South Africa.

Civil engineering, route surveys, Right of Way permits and acquisition,

contract and commercial management.

. Post contract award, assume the operational role as national

deployment and implementation project manager with direct staff

responsibility increasing to 113 -120 people (not including sub

contractors) for 2G and 3G deployment projects.

. Provide Microwave Transmission management for new technology project

(WIMAX)

. Prepare and develop processes, procedures and refine contracts, bid

and tenders.

. Assist the HR departments in rationalising appropriate organisational

structures for hiring deployment teams, SME (Subject matter experts),

managers and engineers.

. Assist the Sub contract management group in developing RFPs (Request

for Price),

scope of works (SOWs) for quotations.

. Outside Plant engineering (OSP). As part of the senior leadership

team, manage and support other business enterprises and projects in

Africa. ( MTN fibre long haul, Telkom Broadband fibre (FTTH) tenders)

. Coach and mentor mid level and junior project managers in project

development plans, risk analysis, logistic control, leadership and man

management training.

. Establish Project controls and Maintenance engineering support.

. Train and coach local staff and sub contractors in deployment

processes and procedures.

Previous positions.

(Jan 2007 - May)

Design and Construction manager plus Q.A manager 3G Ericsson - Japan.

Description of position.

Design and construction manager for the Kansai (Osaka, Japan) project.

To replace 4,000 Cellular cell sites to new technology equipment throughout

the region of Osaka.

. Management for project site designs for all 4,000 locations.

. Civil engineering site deployment solutions and provide technical

direction to field engineers.

. Power management. Liaise with clients engineers for work around

solutions.

. Q.A management of on site build quality in the field and work

performance standards for all sub contractors on the Kansai project.

(July 2005 - Jan 2007)

JV State Manager, Nokia Optus/Vodafone - West Australia

Description of position.

Senior project manager for full turn key and transmission deployment

projects.

Manage junior project managers, Project engineers and coordinators.

Manage supply chain, warehousing, maintenance and to provide customer

interface to the joint venture partners. (Optus and Vodafone)

. Manage a project office, sub contractors and take full responsibility

of a US$25M contract.

. Financial, legal, technical and civil deployment of both cellular

(Wireless) contracts in West Australia.

. Provide senior level project management of a full turn key project

and to provide technical administration of existing network re-

arrangements.

. Joint Venture (JV) client management. Prepare and deliver weekly and

monthly project progress and financial reports to client and internal

executive management.

. Meeting project KPIs and Service Level Agreements (SLA's).

. HR. Setting up of a multifunctional project office, recruit

professional engineers and project administration staff. Write job

specifications, recommend salary levels for positions created by the

demands of the project.

Develop and manage staff PDRs (Personal Development and Reviews) and

to make recommendations for salary increments and bonus award.

Develop training programs for junior engineers and project admin

staff. Provide career development, guidance and counselling.

. Q.A. Manage the project Q.A systems. Develop procedures and conduct on

site field inspections. Provide weekly and monthly Q.A reports

including accident, lost time and near miss procedures.

(May 2005 - Jun 2005)

National Site Acquisition and Design manager - SIEMENS Doha, Qatar

Description of position.

. Leading a team of professional engineers and technicians for site

survey and development for construction and technical designs. To

prepare for the deployment of a new network for QTel (Qatar Telecom).

. Conduct site surveys on existing client wireless 2G sites nominated by

Qatar Telecom (QTel) for 3G (UMTS) deployment in Doha.

. Provide engineering and technical assessment of all nominated existing

sites for conversion to 3G (UMTS) technology.

. Advise and provide guidance to board level in Qtel and SIEMENS for the

most efficient means for construction and installation for wireless 3G

deployment.

. Assessments and feasibility reports covering Radio Frequency

engineering, Civil, electrical, design and cost objectives.

(May 2002 - 2005)

Regional Manager - Total Communications Infrastructure,

Description of position.

Regional manager for West Aust, South Aust and Northern Territory.

Take responsibility of 150 site deployment program covering all three

states.

Manage a project office and develop deployment procedures, project

schedules and risk plans.

. Manage multiple projects for clients such as Optus (SingTel),

Vodafone, Nokia and Personal Broadband Wireless (PBA).

. Manage project managers/ implementation managers for client

deliverables (KPIs) and contract compliance.

. Full budgetary and legal responsibility for all projects.

. Represent company with various clients in project meetings, monthly

accounts and assist clients to achieve their own project

deliverables.

Meet and discuss with clients, budgetary constraints versus project

targets and assist in developing solutions to meet implementation

and financial targets.

. Responsibility of subcontractor selection, assessment and

accreditation.

. Manage a multi disciplined project office of engineers, project

schedulers and site co-ordinators.

Including Site acquisition consultants such as planning and real

estate professionals as well as surveyors, electrical engineers,

suppliers and vendors.

. Supervision of contractors and accreditation compliance, the actual

build process, build quality and site design solutions.

. Responsible for the successful testing and commissioning of GSM

sites. Including Micro wave, Line Of Sight (LOS) surveys and

installation, Satellite ground station construction and

installation, network re-arrangements and In Building coverage.

. Antenna maintenance programs and re-design of existing sites.

. Fibre transmission - co ordination, installation and commissioning.

. Represent clients at government level for site access and site

build approvals.

. Manage all reports for financial and project progress including,

logistic planning and human resource requirements.

(March 2002 -May 2002)

Regional Construction Manager - Nigeria

Description of position.

Responsible to the senior management team of Motorola for a GSM rollout on

behalf of Econet.

Regional responsibility for the Joss - Bauchie region (North East Province)

GSM build and deployment.

. Site Acquisition. Provide assistance to Econet site acquisition team

by liasing with local government officials for site selection and

build permits.

. Provide a first point of contact to Harris Microwave deployment

engineers for the backbone transmission network.

. Liaise with the local electrical power authorities in supply

electricity to delivery to Econet GSM sites.

. Develop construction plans, schedules and BOQs (Bill of Quantities)

for suppliers and sub contractors.

. Manage construction programs spread over 150kms.

(October 2001- March 2002)

Data networks consultant, Saudi Aramco.- Saudi Arabia

Description of position.

SAIC (Science Application International (Arizona U.S)) Data networks

consultant for Saudia Aramco - Dhahran Saudi Arabia.

. Conduct feasibility studies.

. Prepare and make recommendations for the upgrading of Aramco's LAN,

WAN and switching systems.

. Document and develop a cable management and maintenance system plus a

Telecom/IT asset management system. To be remotely accessed and

managed from a single point in Dhahran, across all regions of Saudi

Arabia.

. Prepare risk plans and Quantity surveys (QS) for the transfer of

redundant equipment technologies to new technologies.

(December 1999 - 2001)

GSM Deployment project manager, Lucent Technologies. Australia.

Description of position.

Regional and then National deployment manager, GSM implementation and

construction,

Lucent Technologies - Australia.

. Develop and maintain construction and Implementation project plans.

. Manage a deployment field work force of civil engineers, riggers and

Q.A co-ordinators.

. Manage state and national project office for civil and implementation

aspects of a state and national deployment project.

. Develop risk control procedures for equipment and parts delivery for

the project.

. Design and build roof top structures, Greenfield monopoles and Towers.

. Power survey and installation.

. Management of preliminary construction drawings and General

Arrangement drawings.

(Used for Site Acquisition)

. Testing and commissioning into the GSM network.

. Oversee management of design companies for the supply of construction

drawings, Bills of Quantity (BOQ) and Bills of Materials (BOM)

including the delivery and assessment of

"AS Built Drawings".

. Organising group "caravan visits" with RF, Transmission, Civil and sub

contractor representatives to assess and review sites for selection.

. Contract management and supervision of sub-contracting companies in

the execution of works.

. Writing tenders and Scope of works, change orders and site

instructions.

. Selecting and developing/ training personnel in administration and

technical core competencies required for the project.

(May 1998 - December 1999)

Saudi Arabia.

National Technical manager, Lucent Technologies for Outside Plant

Engineering and Construction- Fibre and copper designs.

Description of position.

Responsible to the director for the management of the technical planning

and review department.

To ensure design, cost and schedules are to agreed contract specifications

and constructible for GSM, WLL and Outside plant and Data networks.

0. Provide a customer first point of contact and to represent Lucent's

interests when negotiating with client and customers.

1. Manage 127 civil and technical local and expatriate staff in 10

regional offices including the national office.

2. Develop high level and detailed regional project plans.

3. Review and approve all long distance, junction, customer access

networks (CAN) and Access designs received by Lucent Technologies are

constructible.

4. Approve designs to contract specifications.

5. Provide technical solutions to copper designs for optimum performance

and cost effectiveness.

6. Manage contractual agreements for lines to be built.

7. Manage all contract/ project change requests (change and variations) to

relative to contract agreements.

8. Prepare amended agreements for inclusion into Work plans and schedules.

9. Liaise with key departments of Network Planning and Out Side Plant

(OSP) construction of all designs.

10. Provide operations support and coordination between fibre/ Long

distance and Access networks.

11. Administer the running and operation of all work and staff engaged in

Access design reviews.

Achievements with Lucent.

12. Improved the standard and quality of Access designs received from

design contractor (Norconsult).

13. Designed and developed computer databases to manage Lucent's 1.5

million Line contract.

14. Trained local and expatriate staff in office administration of Access

networks contracts agreements.

15. Introduced office procedural processes.

16. Developed administrative procedures between Norconsult and Lucent of

day-to-day activities.

17. Developed resource management and tracking on behalf of Data Networks

implementation.

18. Developed Project resource management database.

19. Designed and conducted computer training for senior mangers within

Norconsult.

Previous responsibilities were:

1. Supervision.

OSP (Outside Plant) construction standards of sub contractors.

This includes, copper and fibre optic cable installation on Primary and

secondary cable networks.

I.e.:

Rodding and hauling cable splicing and termination onto exchange MDF's,

cabinets and poles.

Providing Link cables between OSP networks and WLL installations.

Acceptance testing performance of the copper and optical fibre networks.

2. Provide supervision of all civil works

This includes construction of Manholes, Trenching, laying of Ducts.

The on site supervision of WLL construction of poles and towers plus

ancillary equipment.

Construction of telephone exchanges.

Construction of conduit bridges and river crossings.

3. Provide detailed reporting of project progress.

This includes weekly/monthly reporting to higher management.

I have developed step-by-step procedures for Vendor testing of completed

portions of the OSP civil construction and developed formal Acceptance

testing procedures.

4.Manage a project office.

Manage the daily activities of a project office.

Developed office procedures for project administration.

Have computer skills in all Microsoft products.

5. Coordinate the activities of subordinate contracting companies.

This duty also includes conducting and chairing meetings with sub

contractors.

Conflict resolution between contractors to minimize construction delays.

6. Provide liaison between client and subordinate contracting companies.

7. Manage a multi-disciplined team.

(July 1997 - May 1998)

Indonesia

Description of position.

Project Manager for a Telephone Expansion contract, TOMEN/Cable and

Wireless - Indonesia.

Regional Operations manager, responsible for the efficient management of

project schedules, programming and management the construction and

commissioning activities 9 sub- contracting companies.

. Create and develop a regional project office.

. Recruit project engineers and office project staff.

. Establish a logistic supply chain.

. Develop contract/project plans and schedules.

. Establish client review meetings and report project progress.

. Set up and manage a project controls.

. Planning, design and construction of Telephone exchange buildings and

the installation of switch, transmission and power equipment.

. Installation and implementation/cutover of cables and conduits into a

customer network.

. Administered all Bill Of Quantity (BOQs) and costs to project

financial limits.

. Site Acquisition and construction GSM. - Coord site selected by RF

engineers from preliminary site search brief to full site survey, to

negotiate and secure appropriate GSM sites, Acquire site and

Construct.

. Build and commission Teleports ( Satellite ground station) and link to

Transmission repeater network from Pontianak (Indonesia) to Sarawak

border (Malaysia)

Work history (Prior to 1997)

Telstra Australia: (December 1975- July 1997)

OSP Outside Plant Maintenance Co-ordinator (Telstra).

Responsible for the construction and repair of cable networks and

infrastructure for Primary and Secondary cable networks within the state

of West Australia.

This role involved field supervision, cost control, budgeting, man-hour

resource and project planning.

Responsible for the minimizing of Outside Plant faults in the network by

systems analysis and to provide training to field people in correct use

of methods and practices of construction, cable jointing and deployment

of fault finding instruments.

Areas of expertise

Manage/ Supervise Cellular Construction, implementation and Outside Plant

cabling projects.

Cellular Construction/ Implementation Acceptance Test procedures.

Managing / Controlling material and resource budgets.

Administering / managing of new work standards.

Managing Regional Outside Plant maintenance projects.

. Outside Plant (Primary and Secondary) Fault reduction technical

analyst.

. Outside Plant Supervisor - Construction and Maintenance.

. Construction quality Assessor.

Details of experience

1. Comprehensive knowledge of Outside Plant, Estimating and Design in

network construction.

Have managed the Outside Plant maintenance program at regional level

which involves the planning and re designing of existing cable routes to

minimise disruption of cable Networks, due to outside disturbances either

by environmental or human influence.

I have experience in estimating and design for urban land developments in

the secondary

cabling networks using established design rules in use by Telstra

Australia.

2. Comprehensive knowledge of Outside Plant. Construction of cable

networks. (Copper and Coaxial conductor cabling).

Have wide range of Outside Plant, experience in Primary and Secondary

works, in pit and duct construction in city, urban and country

environments.

This includes trench construction for the preparation of major cables and

in multi layered duct configurations.

Managed/ supervised major projects in cable hauling using various types

of network cables that includes copper, grease filled, pressurized,

aerial, moisture barrier and coaxial and also optic fibre.

Have also extensive experience in cable jointing practices and

termination of major cables within commercial, industrial buildings. This

experience involves managing projects and the supervision of field staff

in cable cut-overs and re arrangements.

Experience also includes Aerial cable construction and installation.

In West Australia and in Indonesia, I have been involved in supervising

long distance aerial trunk and secondary cabling, together with urban

aerial cabling with drop leads to industrial commercial and domestic

buildings.

3. Telecommunications Trainer.

Qualified Telecommunications trainer who has completed both internal and

external trainer schools and courses. I have proven experience as a

trainer with Telstra

and at Australian Government employment programs for the general public.

I have also experience as a Learning and Skills development consultant at

manager level,

involving skills gap analysis, new technology development and enhanced

skills training.

I also have managed the states training programs for lines and technical

work forces.

4. Telecommunications Supervisor.

Field supervisor in charge of multi functional work teams, carrying out

construction of urban networks and the installation of telephone systems.

I also have been

involved in the supervision of fault management in our networks, all in a

field

environment, using the latest fault location and testing instruments.

5. Management of Civil works

Managed all building programs that include construction of telephone

exchanges,

building and erection of WLL (Wireless Local Loop) and remotely located

repeater towers.

Qualifications (Australia)

20. Advanced Diploma in Project Management 2013

21. Certified Practising Project Manager (PMP)

(Member of Aust Institute of Project management) 2007

22. Cert 1V in Project Management 2006

(Aust College of Asset, Project & Maintenance management)

23. Project Manager course. 1999-2000

24. Licensed and Registered Telecommunications Cabling Assessor

(Austel) 1996

25. Accredited Workplace Assessor 1996

26. Project Manager Development course 1992

27. Supervisor Development program 1986

28. Accredited Telecommunications Trainer 1985

29. Outside Plant Telecommunications Training 1975

I hope that my experiences are suitable to your needs and that I may hear

from you in the near future.

Yours faithfully

(signed)

Phillip Matson CPPM (AIPM -PMP)

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