Benjamin Burnside Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Project Manager for commercial build programmes, ensuring delivery of the Hyperfast Fibre Network to N.Ireland communities and people.Project manager for ACORN - £34M Capex for 64k homes (Feb 21 - Sep21)Project manager for HALO - £32M Capex for 70k homes. Actions completed by me in the infancy of HALO included: Full network design review, setting up the project, implementing governance such as programme framework, PID, RACI, appointing / hiring for roles, Contracting and completing financial reviews.

United Kingdom

NGA Headend Capacity and Infrastructure replacement programme manager.Monitoring the network capacity and bandwidth, proactively deploying network infrastructure and IT solutions to meet demand.Approx. 15 million services across 90,000 FTTC DLAMS.Managing a team of delivery managers.Accountable for several million pounds of CAPEX across several delivery solutions.

Belfast, United Kingdom

IT solutions and systems delivery manager.Solutions specialist for software delivery on the NGA servers across three network vendors.Strong external vendor and partner management skills.Ensuring successful upgrade path on the whole NGA estate with stakeholders management at all levels.Key stakeholder for system upgrades and introduction on the Openreach Estate. Team Lead and coaching consultant.

Belfast, United Kingdom

FTTP Delivery Manager for the first commercial roll out programme in Northern Ireland.50,000 homes passed in year one. Multimillion pound investment programme with new system and process introduction.Complex network understanding and insight with good business acumen.Stakeholder management and commercial influence.

Belfast, United Kingdom

Coaching and Leading on the use of the planning and reporting systems to ensure comprehensive data was available for the Government Reporting framework. Analysis of data to a very high standard and presenting at board level SMT.Coordinator and delivery agent for the PMO on the Government reporting framework, liaison officer with the Department for Enterprise, Trade and Investment. Configuration manager (Change management) for plan and build changes made to the deployment plan and Intervention Area.

Belfast, United Kingdom

Network Lead on coaching others in the business improvement and continuous improvement initiatives.Holding the company to charter and driving LEAN principles on business improvement through positive culture change.Good business and commercial understanding with strong negotiation skills.

Belfast, United Kingdom

Worked as an Engineer on many aspects of the network, deploying the new NGA fibre network through DSLAMS.Solid foundation and understanding of the beating heart of our telecoms network, able to fault and fix complex issues.Promoted to Broadband Specialist where I would be sent to difficult technical issues impacting customers Broadband speeds and creating bespoke solutions through ingenuity.Generated many process improvement methodologies which were implemented across the whole of the UK.Created process documents and coached others on new ways of working.Spokesperson for the Apprenticeship programme.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Telecommunications Engineering

Nvq, Business Administration And Management, General, Distinction

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Engineering