Craig Siddle Email & Phone Number

Havant, Gb

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Founder and Managing Director of CNS Networks Ltd Fibre Splicing. CNS provides Fibre engineers for splicing and testing of business work and Re-seg packs across the South Coast and Thames Valley for Virgin Media and BT.*Manage and develop both channel and vendor relationships. Work closely with other departments to implement cross discipline synergies*Assist in the development and management of e, processes and offerings for Virgin Media and BT*Mentor and support professional development of departmental managers and supervisors.*Develop and implement processes and procedures for the Telecom organisation and drive continuous improvement in these areas*Provide vision and guidance for enterprise voice and collaboration roadmap, assess emerging technologies, and provide strategic leadership for organisation*Provide guidance and support for product and service development and implementation

Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

*Site managing delivery of various FTTP builds including Blackbird Leys, Didcot, Old Basing and Chineham*Reporting to Build Manager to deliver release targets month on month*Assisting sub-contractor deliver by carrying out splicing and testing on VM’s behalf to ensure delivery dates

London, England, United Kingdom

Delivery Manager Overseeing all aspects of Zayo account including BAU, Diversionary work, network overlays and call out Working with commercial team to complete work tenders.*Selecting and setting up supply chain SPC for client*Attends meetings with internal departments and vendors to ensure successful service delivery of all production activities and project deployments. *Reviews, evaluates and participates in the Request for Proposal process in order to identify network and voice solutions that adhere to agreed standards. *Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending conferences and workshops and reviewing technical publications*Provide technical expertise as an escalation point for the Network and Telecom Team*Manages staff, consultants, and contractors on network and voice related activities, ensuring priorities are clear and tasks are understood, assigned, and tracked to completion. *Hires, develops, evaluates, and makes authoritative recommendations in employee performance. *Mentors and coaches junior staff members, and ensures their continued training on technologies and tools

Southampton, United Kingdom

Director of Operations responsible for business strategy and development across various clients including VM, BT and JSM.Managing a team of managers and admin staff looking after circa 100 operational staff including direct employees and supply chain of sub-contractors. Commercial reporting to the Finance Director Procurement of contracts, staff and kit Pricing of new work and completion tender documents

Southampton, United Kingdom

*Responsible for installation BT DFTS CCP Project, various LDN networks*Customers included Ministry of Defence, BT, Level 3, EU Networks and Virgin Media*Handled all network expansions and installations*Responsible for maintaining network diagrams*Inspected, organised, inventoried, and ordered equipment and materials*Became an expert in splicing single fibers or ribbonising any number of fibers*Trained countless technicians on how to splice cables and on all nuances that came with being a technician *Spliced fibers using fusion splicing or other techniques.*Used Optical Time- Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) to locate faults and measures distances of cables.*Recorded and analyzed test results for daily work reports.*Cleaned and maintained tools and test equipment.Was promoted internally to Project Manager with duties including but not limited to:*Responsible for the delivery of business cable and civils work across the Thames Valley region.*Reporting the Contracts Manager for the South West and accountable for contractual SLAs to the client *Chairing daily conference calls with the client to pride detailed updates on both fluid and non-fluid jobs to manage customer expectations *Working alongside commercial team to manage costs of in house crews and the agreement of un-planned works. *Managing program of work and scheduling of customer installation