Management Engineering

ACADEMIC PORTFOLIO AND EXPERIENCE MIX (CURICULA VITAE-RESUME) FOR TENDAI PETER MUNYANDURI

Date of Birth:01/01/1966

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Telephone: 068-27679

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Education

Master of Science In Electrical Power Engineering(U.Z.)-UPPER Second class 2.1(merit) grade-University Of Zimbabwe(U.Z.)

Masters Of Science In Strategic Management specializing in marketing(CUT) pass

Masters In Business Administration specializing in Finance(U.Z.) pass

BSc In Electrical & Electronic Engineering(U.Z.) 2.1 Upper Second class grade.

Diploma In Marketing (I.M.M. –S.A)

Diploma In Management (I.S.M. –U.K)

12 years at Senior Management level-District Manager (8 years), Engineering & Marketing Manager(4 years)

132 kv, 33 kv and 11 kv ZESA Switching Senior Authorized.

Corporate member of the Zimbabwe Institute of Engineers/member Engineering Council Of Zimbabwe.

More than 10 years commercial experience in the energy and power sector-knowledge and experience with power stations e.g. hydro, solar generating stations, thermal, wind fields

More than 5 years experience in service and product pricing

More than 3 years in substation construction and maintenance upto 132/33 kv substations(breakdown maintenance, scheduled annual/ periodic maintenance, condition based maintenance methods and predictive maintenance methods)

More than 7 years in power system planning

Practical hands on skills in cellphone repair, computer and radio repair with electronic wiring diagrams including installation of satellite dishes.

Witnessed construction of several base stations, Glen Norah, Kadoma and Cold Stream Chinhoyi (transmission tower, remote radio unit(rru), antennas, dish, generator cubicle, automatic transfer switch, base station wiring of power and communication circuits,, battery bank).Configuring of radio to make it join the system using a laptop.

Joining of communication cables e.g. 1000 pair copper communication cables. Fibre optic with splicing machines including heat shrink technologies.

EXPERIENCE IN cellphone and computer repair including radios and TVs and touch screen Ipads(LCD –solar cells technology)

Experience in use of splicing machines in fibre-optic jointing

Jointing of upto 1500 pair communication cables

Specialist knowledge of distribution technology

Excellent management, analytical, communication and teamwork skills and ability to interpret financial ratios.

Good understanding of electricity sector reforms, particularly technical regulatory issues

More than three years in the design and management of electrical reticulations including construction of overhead lines and installation of cables upto 132 kV. Practically joined the first 33 Kv XLPE cables in Harare Region and switched most switchgears upto 132 KV.

About 8 years in District Management

5 years experience in installation of satellite dishes, management of cellphone and computer repair, joining of 200 core communication cables, 800 core communication cables, 300 core telecommunication cables using splicing machines, scotch-locks and sleeves for copper paper cables to jelly PVC cables and also of fibre optic cables with splicing machines using color coding for fibre identification and jointing, computer networking LAN, MAP, CISCO switches, routers and computer room management, wireless computer equipment,server management.

On and off-work experience in telecoms, computer sciences and marketing and ability to interpret market ratios as well as financial ratios in aiding management decisions.

Gained building construction and maintenance experience when working for the Ministry of Public Construction And National Housing and also as ZESA Senior Engineer(substations)

Well read on Personal information Machines(cellphones, laptops), exchanges(switch), mobile switching centres, base stations(BSs),Strowlger and digital Fetex Exchanges, Base Tranceiver Stations, cabinet and marshalling kiosks. Message attenuation, signal to noise ratio in decibels, time division multiplexing, frequency division multiplexing, microwave and radio uplinks and down links

Witnessed installation of base station electronic security systems Glen Norah.

Vast experience in power system planning and load-forecasting

Vast knowledge in design and interpretation of engineering drawings, civil engineering drawings and layout plans, single line drawings, protection schematics, wiring drawings and wiring schedules.

Off work experience in marketing, slogan design, flyer design, creative message design, poster design, personal selling and flyer distribution, brand management, segmenting, targeting and positioning.

Television presentation experience and have wide publicity experience in National newspaper publicity. Video and audio control units, teleprompt and newsproduction room.

Experience in crafting network expansion/development plans

Part-time lecturing experience in mechatronics department(Power Electronics) -Chinhoyi University of Technology.

Skills

Technical knowledge related to Electricity and consumer services business

Strong administration skills and experience

Computer literate

Product pricing skills

Substation and line maintenance skills upto and including 132/33 kv substations and 132 kv lines

Good report writing and communication skills

Ability to manage the power industry business

Track record of outstanding leadership(As District Manager (Kadoma) my District was the best in Northern Region), strategic planning skills, organizing, management and strong visionary skills. Motor vehicle garage management skills.

Good communication and marketing skills

A passion for achievement, results oriented with high level of personal initiative

Good financial and business skills including customer handling skills

Focus on service excellence

A strong understanding of the energy sector(more than 10 years relevant experience) and technologies around the world(Was a subject at Masters level), have read various magazines on energy technologies including renewables and have towered various countries e.g. India, South Africa, Excellent presentation skills(Was part-time lecturer in Power Electronics ) at Chinhoyi University Of Technology.

Television presentation skills and a knowledge of broadcasting studios layout including microphones, digital cameras, teleprompts, video control units, audio control units, carrier signals, broadcasting frequency band and transmission

Knowledge of the photocopying business, computer, TV,radio and cellphone repair, book perfect binding and book writing industry.

Professional Membership

Corporate member Zimbabwe Institute Of Engineers/

Professional member -Engineering Council of Zimbabwe(ECZ)

Clean class 4 Zimbabwean Driver’s licence

EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW

Substation design including substation construction upto and including 132/33 Kv substations. Preparation of single line diagrams, protection schematics, wiring drawings and wiring schedules, including civil engineering drawings. System planning and demand forecasting. Project appraisals using payback period, discounted payback period, net present value e.t.c. Experience in breakdown maintenance, scheduled annual/periodic maintenance and condition based maintenance methods including predictive maintenance. Use of vibration monitoring, inspection, machine parameter and machine efficiency measurement, analytical ferrography or oil analysis. Preparation of system development plans. Customer services- face to face, telephonic and electronic service support. Overhead line and underground cable projects upto and including 132 KV .Fault-finding in electrical networks using fault locators and multimeters. Fault finding in telecommunication cables using cable haunts and other fault locaters. Eight(8) years District Management experience with a subordinate base of 305 multi-racial and multi-professional(Accounts, Administration, Loss Control, Engineering, Commercial, garage). Marketing and sales experience, managing electrical installations. Market segmentation, targeting and positioning of products and brands. Crafting strategic plans and strategy implementation, control and review. Maintenance of electro-mechanical systems. Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder mapping. Planning and design. Solar installation experience and skills(solar fields and wind fields).Strong theoretical and practical experience in product pricing(cost plus margin, penetrating pricing, scheming, time of use, psychological pricing methods and weather based tariffs). Experience in the use of Distribution and Transmission code .Knowledge about FACTS and HVDC. Knowledge in green generation methods e.g. solar generation, wind generation e.t.c.

Skills & Expertise Acquired

Solar installation skills, Substation design skills, electrical reticulation planning and design skills, substation and overhead line maintenance skills, power system modeling skills, demand forecasting skills, project management skills, people management skills, planning skills, load-flow studies skills, skills for crafting system development plans, marketing skills, customer care skills, communication skills, advertising skills, management skills, administration skills, financial analysis skills, maintenance management skills, persuasive skills, negotiation skills, strategic planning skills, tactical planning skills, stakeholder analysis and stakeholder mapping skills, engineering skills, commercial skills, garage management skills, human resources management skills, loss control skills, risk management skills, budgeting skills, strategic planning and implementation skills, preparation of wiring and schematic drawings skills, and effective stakeholder engagement skills, corporate governance skills, service excellence skills, effective fund management and utilization skills, innovation championing skills, performance management skills using the balanced score-card and results based management system(RBM), policy formulation skills, budgeting and cost management skills. product pricing skills(penetrating pricing, scheming pricing, cost plus margin pricing, psychological pricing )

Experience Mix

2009-Now-Senior Engineer (Planning)

Key responsibilities

System planning and design

Research in smart grids, renewables and network/grid intelligence

Crafting system expansion/development plans

Power system modeling and Load-flow studies

Load-forecasting

Stakeholder analysis and stakeholder-mapping

System development plans.

PSIP submissions.

Project appraisals

2004-2009-Engineering & Marketing Manager

Key responsibilities

Management of installations(electrical fittings and satellite dishes installation)

Management of repair of electric motors and computer hardware

Product and service pricing

Repair of computer and cellphone hardware

Computer networking use of CISCO switches and hubs

Marketing and sales management

Market segmentation and crafting strategic marketing plans

Segmenting, Targeting and positioning of markets and products

Strategy and policy formulation

Strategy implementation

1996-2004-ZESA District Manager (Kadoma)

Key Responsibilities

Coordinating and creating synergy among commercial, engineering, accounting, human resources and risk management sections

Strategy formulation, strategy implementation, control and review

Corporate policy and policy implementation

District management

Rural electrification

People management

Crafting of strategic and tactical plans

1993-1996-Senior Engineer(Substations)

Key responsibilities

Crafting of civil engineering drawings, single line diagrams protection schematics, wiring drawings and wiring schedules

Management of construction and maintenance of substations upto 132/33 kv

Substation commissioning

Maintaining a database of substation load readings

Budgeting and cost control during substation projects

1989-1993-Senior Engineer(Mains)

Key responsibilities

Commercial activities

Customer care

Planning & design

Load-forecasting

System planning diagrams

System development plans.

Crafting network expansion plans

Load-flow studies

PSIP submissions

Design of electrical reticulations of residential, commercial and industrial entities up-to and including 132 Kv

Fault finding in electrical networks

Customer management

Management of overhead-lines and underground cable projects

Processing customer application forms

Customer service

Management of subordinates in the section

Budgeting

TELECOMMUNICATIONS EXPERIENCE(Telone/Econet/Powertel)

Participated in joining 400 core communication cables outside Harare Telone Main Exchange. Have gathered that the biggest cable in Kadoma is 1 200 core. Inspected these cables(300 core, 400core, 800 core and

1 200 core in the main hole outside Kadoma Main Exchange and have seen these communication cables elsewhere. Witnessed connection of 300 core communication copper cables using splicing machine opposite ZETDC Kadoma District. Witnessed connection of telecommunication copper cables to paper Telone communication cables using sleeves and scotchlocks.

Worked and saw the Strowger Exchange in the then PTC Harare Main Exchange . Saw and inspected the Fetex Exchange Kadoma and Chinhoyi Exchange and the about 35 000 core or more are a total of cores entering an Exchange.

Witnessed and participated in the joining of fibre optic cables using a splicing machine along Parklane Street Harare. Have seen and visited

1.Harare Main Exchange

2.Kadoma Exchange

3.Chinhoyi Exchange

4.Avondale Exchange

Witnessed the building of Kadoma Base station on top of the mountain and realized the use of hollow cables in communication(conduit for fibre optics). Witnessed building of Waverly and Spaceman GlenNorah Base stations and telecommunications tower from scratch.

Method of research and Experience Acquisition

1.included sampling all off-cuts in terms of cables and excess material analysis and being a spectator during all the construction of Base Stations, Base Transceiver Stations and general work in the communication and telecommunication industry.

2.Being a voluntary worker during weekends and Holidays and 5 years I was employed with M.E. Electrical(2004-2009) for telecommunications companies Telone/Econet/Powertel/M.E. Electrical and also weekends when formally employed by ZESA.

3.Leaving employment contracts hanging with telecommunication companies(I offer and I accept concept).Maintaining clean employment contracts. This will help in protection design which is a telecommunication functionality in ZETDC.

4.Taking close interest and giving priority to staff construction base stations in Kadoma, Harare and Chinhoyi.

5.Managing customer-supplier relationship to acquire knowledge during all the time I was employed by ZESA/ZETDC.

6.Reading textbooks on telecommunications and digital signal processing.

7.Working with and watching television, radio, computer and cellphone repairers for 5 years(2004-2009) and upto now during spare time.

8.Working with satellite dish installers e.g. COSDISH and M.E. Electrical.

9.Digging and participating in repair of two wire black 48V-52v (if 0.63mm copper Imax=5 A)PTC/Telone communication cables.

10.Visiting Mobile/Main Switching Centres(MSC)

11.Research on base station design and telecommunication IN standard textbooks and internet.

12.Discussions with Chief Telephone Technicians and telephone technicians during field work.

13.Watching with keen interest telephone distribution installation in buildings e.g. Building near ZETDC Kadoma-Mutetwa building,ZETDC Northern Region.

14.Work in cabinets and distribution points, installation of telephone handsets and WI-FI.

15.Making friends with telephone industry experts

Fault-Finding in telecommunication underground cables using fault locators e.g. cable haunt/hunt. Distribution points.

TYPES OF LINKS IN THE TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY

1.WIRE Links(48-52 V)-e.g. copper, fibre optic, paper copper cables, jelly pvc copper cables e.t.c.

2.Radio or wireless links(E.G. Base stations and cellphones)

3.Satellite links

Terminal equipment in telecommunications

1.Telephone handsets

2.Cellphones

3.Computers

4.Radios and televisions

5.Fax machines e.t.c.

6.Protection relays

7.antenna

Intermediate equipment in telecommunications

1.Splitter-filter

2.Modem/router

3.Exchange/Main Switching Centre

4.Pulse-code-modulators(PCM)

Main Points In The Telecommunication Industry

2 pair cable to telephone handset bandwidth=0.3-3.4 KHz which is utilized for voice and data. Lower side voice and upperside data which is achieved through a bandpass filter called a splitter

WIFI –MODEM/ROUTER Transmits WIFI signal to end user gadgets.

When joining copper paper cables we have to use sleeves to minimize width of cable.

Scotchlocks have to be used when joining jelly filled copper. The scotchlocks themselves are jelly filled

For fault-locating in telecommunication cables we use cable haunts, Time domain reflectometer(TDR) for faults on copper cables and Optical Time Domain Reflectometer(OTD) for fibre-optic

FETEX is a digital Exchange and Strowger an electro-mechanical switch

Hobbies

Reading literature on social sciences (Widely read on solar energy, Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, political science and social science)

Watching athletics

Watching TV

Marketing

Research and reading engineering and scientific journals.

Being a voluntary worker in engineering, telecommunication companies of interest during weekends and holidays and also whilst on official leave.

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