Cuthbert C. Cuffy
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Technical implementation and Project Management
Executive Summary
A futuristic sava and proactive professional, with over twenty-two years of experience in ICT industry, who have combines project management with extensive engineering practices in implementation, operation and maintenance of telecommunication network, specializing in cellular, fix and wireless transmission systems. A skilled communicator with international experience, achieving results above and beyond project targets, in multicultural, challenging, and dangerous environments and able to make a significant contribution to a business, growth, development and success. This have lead me in turning around productivity that improve quality performance by resolving conflicts, building cross functional teams, breaking down barriers against tight timelines and budgets, ensuring the realization of business enterprise requirements. My leadership skills with capacity to build on are complemented by being a people orient person, good at startups and news buildts, with other attributes such as,
Self-motivating with strong analytic and planning skills and has high regards for business ethics and protocols.
Costumer focused, result oriented professional with good understanding of organizational dynamic and enterprise development and ability to work in rapidly changing environments.
Mentorship, training and coaching skills, who are able to transfer and impact knowledge
Education
DeVry University On Line Bachelor of Science in Management with concentration in Project Management - cum laude honours 2015
SPORTMANAGEMENTWORLDWIDE On Line
Certificate in Cricket Business Management August, 2015
University of the West Indies Cave Hill, Barbados
Certificate in Business Administration October, 2005
Cable & Wireless College Coventry, England
BTEC Diploma in Electronics and Telecoms Engineering April, 1996
Employment History
Provide consultancy services, service calls, corrective and preventive maintenance, installation and provisioning systems for multiple vendors and ICT companies. The systems includes but not limited to wireless and fix line, multiplexers, ADMs, Wifi APs, point of sales system, PBX, switches, routers, patched panels, servers, VOIP, D-mark and T1 extensions, optical fibers, coax and cat5e at department stores, corporate offices, hospitals, Medical facilities, data centres, educational institution and airports for Fujitsu, NCR, Insight Global, Verizon, AT&T, Mitel, Earthlink,
A contract engineer for Integra for the maintenance of Verizon Optical network of ADVA systems
IT Project Consultant – STG – Hackensack University Medical Canter – NJ, USA Oct 2014 to Aug 2015
Plan and coordinate hardware deployment activities, allocate and schedule resource to facilitate the hospital transition to EPIC and provide onsite support during go live period.
Manage inventory using asset tagging for all equipment receive, deployed and remove from the project.
Implementation Project Manager – William Air-con Technology – Woodlands, TX Oct – Dec 2013
Manage the deployment of HVAC systems of 16 residential buildings (10 to 16 rooms each) with 4, two men crews
Implementation Manager II – Ericsson USA - T-Mobile Network Modernization project – NJ, NY & DC market August 2012 to October 2013
Assist in successfully managing implementation activities for the deployment of up to sixty-five (65) sites a week with 15 Approved Service Provider in upgrading and integration new technology of GSM, UMTS and LTE cellular mobile radio systems, satisfying costumer and client KPI’s requirements.
Implementation Manager - Ericsson Barbados August 2011 to January 2012
Successfully managing the Network Role Out activity for Digicel Barbados, enable to launch their WCDMA 3G cellular mobile service on their schedule time by exceeding project expectations through proper management of vendor and field engineers to satisfy contract requirements and obligation and within CAPEX budget.
Senior O&M Systems Engineer - Digicel – Haiti January 2006 to May 2007
Lead the integration team of 4 consultant and 8 local engineers in the deployment 150 GSM cell sites, associated radio links and responsible for the Final Acceptance Test Procedures of over 600 Mini-TN radio link, overcoming physical and logical challenges in risky environments, exceeding project expectation.
Network Restoration Consultant - Digicel – Grenada September 2004 to November 2005
Manage and Plan activities to and provide detail solutions for speedily restoration of cellular service and maintain operations of the network and critical support services, after the passage of Hurricane Ivan, by effectively communicating with all stalk holders and identifying, recruitment and allocating of limited available resources.
Engineer Transmission (ag) - Cable and Wireless Ltd – Dominica September 1999 to August 2001
Responsible for Planning, Provisioning, Installation, Commissioning, Operation, Maintenance of SDH and PDH fix and wireless Transmission Systems, which includes the following, Eastern Caribbean Fibre system, Digital Eastern Microwave Systems and The National Transmission and Mobile Network
Transmission and RAN Implementation Consultant – Ericsson January 2008 to July 2012
Implementation Supervisor – Ericsson Grenada - Successfully manage Digicel’s Transmission Network upgrade for the deployment of WCDMA 3G system January to April 2014
Puerto Rico – Open Mobile - Supervise 4 ASP teams in the implementation and Costumer Final Acceptance Procedure of 80 ML TN radio links to facilitate the LTE system deployment. Feb - July 2012
Aruba – Digicel - Responsible for ATP, sign off and hand over to customer of Transmission network and 3G WCDMA cellular mobile systems. May - July 2011
Haiti – Digicel - Assist in the restoration of GSM cellular mobile service by the re-routing and re-direction of SDH and PDH radio links and traffic migration in the aftermath of the catastrophic January 12 earthquake, by managing a team 8 Field Engineering teams. Jan - Mar 2010
Afghanistan - Responsible for the preparation of MDRS 155 EC nodes and associated hardware for implementation and co-ordinate the deployment of the Marconi LH, MDRS 155 EC. Oct to Dec 2009
Kenya Manage Services – Field Maintenance Supervise - Responsible for the preventive and corrective maintenance of Orange GSM cellular systems in Kenya South, supervising and training a team of five field engineers through implementation of a formal On the Job (OTJ) training systems. April 2009 to June 2009
Ivory Coast & Benin – Moov – Manage the Network Role Out activities swapping out of legacy Semen’s to Ericsson’s 2116 RBS with a team of 4 local subcontractors. Supervise the network upgrade to 500 Ericson’s RBS and 600 ML TN Transmission link and manage the Implementation of 4 node protection ring of OMS1154 and MDRS 155. April – Dec 2008
Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi – Lead RBS Integrator, Train, coach and provide technical support to engineers in commissioning and Integration of RBS for AT&T USA UMTS network. Aug 2010 to Jan 2011
Other skills, training and certification
OSHA 10 Certification May 2016
Microsoft Project, Excel, Word and Power Point
A certify life and health Insurance Producer
Serve as a telecommunications advisor on the National Disaster Steering committee – Grenada 2005
Serve as a councillor on the Carib Council, a local government body for the indigenous people in Dominica.