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Manchester, Gb

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Working towards bringing about positive and permanent change in terms of net zero built environment, regeneration of deprived areas into Places in which to live and work, and creating sustainable employment and prosperity in major towns and cities across north west England.•Identifying potential ‘off-market’ residential, commercial and mixed-use regeneration development sites and bringing forward for development.•Researching Land Registry database for development site ownership details, title deeds and title plans.•Researching local authority strategic regeneration frameworks.•Market Research, analysis, and specification of optimum Business Use Cases and Financial Appraisals.•Presenting large value packaged proposals to private sector investors.•Highways/next gen vehicle parking/charging/Mobility Hubs/Logistics Hubs/Micro Hubs.•Brownfield multi-level light industrial, higher density proposals.•New net zero house type design, heat pumps, Solar PV, batteries (BESS).•Youth support schemes to address symptoms of deprivation.

Freckleton, England, United Kingdom

Regeneration of a commercial storage and plant nursery brownfield site for an end-to-end delivery of a high-end exclusive residential development consisting of 12 x 5-bedroom 2.5 storey bespoke detached executive timber frame homes with garages & all associated infrastructure and multi utilities.•Project Planning, Goals/Objectives, Stakeholder Engagement, RACI, Quality Planning, Time Planning, Budget Planning & Management, Change Control, Risks & Issues, RAID.•Planning Cash Flow Forecast and Finance Draw Down schedules.•Set up JCT Contracts for all trades, detailed work schedules (POAP) for each trade to achieve overall time plan.•Construction phase execution – Risk management & mitigation, Time Plan tracking and corrective actions, Quality Standards, Building Regs and LABC compliance.•Vendor, Supplier & Plant Hire sourcing and management.•Material, Subcontractor and Service sourcing and procurement.•Construction Design & Management Health & Safety, RAMS.•Managing inspections with Funders or Clients Monitoring Surveyor.•Reengineering of planning consent to include an extra 25% of floor space and increasing GDV by £1,2500,000.

Warton, England, United Kingdom

Regeneration of a commercial car repair brownfield site for end-to-end delivery of a high-end residential development consisting of 7 x 5-bedroom 2.5 storey detached executive timber frame homes with garages including all associated infrastructure and multi utilities.Land Acquisition Finance Facilities - Development Finance Facilities – Business Management - Market research - Architect/Structural Engineer Liaison - Legal process – Planning Permission Supplier/plant hire sourcing/management - Building contractor management – Project Management – Cost Management/Control - Building Regulations - Building Warranty - Contamination Investigation and Remediation - Geological/Topographical Surveying – Road Construction - Drainage systems - Utility company management – Advertising and Promotion - Marketing Strategy - After Sales Service.

Hook, England, United Kingdom

Managing delivery of the Virgin Media MTP (Mobile Transformation Project) Step 2/3 transitioning Virgin Media from a thin MVNO completely reliant on EE to becoming a full MVNO.The project was to integrate the new 2G, 3G and LTE Huawei Voice and Date Core Network using both TDM and IP into the wider network including:•Integration with EE RAN for voice and data - Interconnection to other UK MNOs to also include MNP (Syniverse.•Interconnect to BT PSTN for voice calls - Interconnect to BT SDIN signalling and media (VoIP using SIP/RTP).•International Roaming via a hub provider BICS, Proximus and SHM.•Integration of the Core Network into Huawei BSS - for Provisioning and Real Time Charging.•Third party Virgin Media IT services such as Evident Mediation offline charging and Wholesale Revenue Assurance.•OSS – integration of Huawei U2000 into Remedy.•Lawful Intercept (SS8).•OAT - UAT - Field Trial - Pilot and hand over to O&M Managed Service.As part of project governance, I chaired the Virgin Media/Huawei Project Review meeting, attend the Virgin Media/Huawei Program Governance meeting and I was a member of the Tripartite Review Board with Virgin Media, EE, and Huawei.

Warton, England, United Kingdom

Remediation and regeneration of a commercial petrol station site for end-to-end delivery of a retail development comprising of a Tesco Express food store of 372 sqm (4,000 sq. ft.) gross floor space and a smaller separate Subway unit of 93sqm (1,000 sq. ft.) gross floor space including car parking spaces, service bay, new vehicular access from the main road including s38 works and all drainage and multi utilities.•Remediation of hydrocarbons on a former petrol station site - Incorporation of ground gas protection measures into the foundations.East Beach, Lytham – Project ManagerConversion and refurbishment of four apartments in a Grade 2 Listed building into 2 x 4-bedroom high-end sea front 3 storey townhouses.

London Area, United Kingdom

Delivery of final development and deployment of Juniper’s newly developed mobile packet core as a new entrant into this sector into Elisa network in Finland.High Level Design, Low Level Design, Test Design, Inter-Operability Testing, Lab Test, Field Trials, Friendly User Trials, Live Traffic Trials, CommercialLaunch & Migration and hand over to Operations.

Oslo, Norway

Mobile Technology Solutions department, Deploying a Huawei 4G/LTE core network (HSS, EPC - USN (MME), UGW (P-GW & S-GW) and PCRF; IPCLK, DBS (eNode B), M2000) for Packet services.Integration & Test phase and commercial launch of the new Huawei 3G voice and packet network ((MSS, MGW, STP, M2000 (using M2PA, M3UA, H.248and C7 signalling)) and Cisco IP backbone) and managed the migration of the NSN BSS/RAN, POI and VAS (Including NSN IN, Symsoft Nobill, NSN SMSC, Comverse VMS, NSN MMS-C, MobileArts AMC, Roamware VMCC and EIR, Logical GMC EIR) from the legacy 2G/3G NSN Core onto Huawei 3G Layered Architecture Core. Integration of a new Acision SMSC into the Huawei 3G Core (STP) using IP over Huawei Sigtran and also the modernisation of the existing interfaces tothe new Huawei 3G core network to all IP over Ethernet AOIP and IUOIP.

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

Managing short term telecoms consultancy assignments.

Lytham St Anne'S, England, United Kingdom

2009 - Regeneration of a site with demolition of existing property and development of a large 6-bedroom 2.5 storey detached high end home with double garage and large landscape gardens including all associated infrastructure and multi utilities at Inner Promenade, St. Annes.2006 - Promotion of demolition and regeneration of a site for high end residential development of detached housing at Rothdene, Haslingden.Project Finance, Site survey, site acquisition, layout design, planning consents, utilities, feasibility study, risk assessments, Transport and Highways Assessments accessibility and sustainability reviews, construction phase project execution/management to statutory quality standards; material, resource and service sourcing and purchase management, financial management.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Systems Integration Testing of Telfort Huawei 3G (MSC Server, Media Gateway, Radio Network Controller, Node B’s, SGSN and GGSN) network into Telfort Ericsson 2G network, Tekelec STP using SIGTRAN (M3UA), IN,SMS, MMS, Internet, WAP GW and MPLS backbone including all the relevant interfaces and protocols (ISUP, MAP, INAP, CAP).3G Core network roll out (including RNC’s.) HSDPA live network trial. Telfort test bed including Huawei 3G, Ericsson 2G and Comverse.Project Dragon - Pre Sales/Bid Support for KPN 3G Core Network which resulted in Huawei being chosen to replace Ericsson 2G and 3G CS and PS Core Networks.Acted as the lead in bidding for an outsourced managed service for management/operation of the KPN network. Pre Sales/Bid Support for Orange UK, Orange France and Mobistar (Belgium)Core Network.

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

Customer Facing Project Manager• O2 (Telefonica) Core Network 3.0 (including IN interworking with HP SCP solution)• O2 (Telefonica) SOG 9.2.4 upgrade to EMA 3.2• O2 (Telefonica) EIR v6 upgrade to v7 • Vfe RANOS – Cramer Inventory Adaptor• O2 (Telefonica) Super-Charger• Manx Telecom BSS & CSS R10 Pre-Study• Guernsey Telecom BSS & CSS R10 Cost of Sales/Pre-StudySolutions Delivery Manager• T-Mobile BSS R8.0 Classic (Shadow FOA)• T-Mobile BSS R8.0 GPRS (Shadow FOA)• T-Mobile CSS R8.0 ((G)MSC & HLR)• T-Mobile (now EE) CSS R8.1 (Ericsson SSF/SCP) this was the initial delivery of a new IN network consisting of SSF ((hosted within MSC/VLR), SCP third party products SDP and SRF providing functionality for a pre pay service based on INAP CS1+ protocol, this was later updated for CAMEL. The prepay service was developed by T-Mobile and as such integration testing was performed with the vendor and the internal T-Mobile development team. • Vodafone CSS R8.0• CN2.0 Pre Study for all UK customers• Trial UMTS network to demonstrate the first UMTS Circuit Switched and Packet Switched calls for T-Mobile.• Trial network for UMTS Inter-Operability Testing and Multi-Vendor ServiceIntegration testing.

Bury, England, United Kingdom

2004 - Regeneration of a residential site, Demolition of existing house and construction of a large executive detached house at Holcombe Road, Greenmount, Bury.2003 - Regeneration of a brownfield site for residential development of executive detached houses at Moss Gate, High Crompton, Shaw.

Bury, England, United Kingdom

2002 - Regeneration of existing residential buildings - Strip Out & Full Fit Out and Refurbishment – 2 properties at Garnett Street, Ramsbottom, Bury and Hollins Lane, Hollins, Bury.2002 - Promotion of regeneration and remediation of hydrocarbons at petrol station site for semi-detached development at Ainsworth, Bury.2001 - Regeneration of existing shop and storage - Strip Out & Full Fit Out and Refurbishment into 2 apartments at Hollins Lane, Hollins, Bury.2000 - Regeneration of a residential site for high end executive detached development at Greenmount, Bury.

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

Project Manager within New Public Networks• OneTel TL4 and new switches in London, Paris and Amsterdam• Orange GSM Pro• Orange GPRSManagement Consultant• To review their internal processes within the ESO customer support functionvfor GSM, propose and advise on implementation of improvements• To manage migration of the ESO support function for GSM operator Libertel from The Netherlands to England.• To review the customer interfaces into the ESO support group and propose improvements.

Bury, England, United Kingdom

Residential development of executive detached houses on greenfield site at Church Meadow, Walshaw.Residential development of executive detached houses on brownfield site at Croich Hey, Hawkshaw, Bury.Residential development of semi-detached houses on brownfield site at Park Street, Hopwood, Heywood.Regeneration of existing residential building - Strip Out & Full Fit Out and Refurbishment – Birch Road, Birch, Rochdale.Residential development of semi-detached houses on brownfield site at Heaton Drive, Hollins, Bury.Regeneration of existing residential building - Strip Out & Full Fit Out and Refurbishment – Heaton Drive, Hollins, Bury.

Rijen, North Brabant, Netherlands

Providing consultancy on technical and managerial systems within ETM structuring them to serve the rapidly changing needs, demanding environment and competitive marketplace associated with modern mobile operators.Programme Management for several ongoing projects in Network Innovation group which includes the ESO and several other groups developing and introducing new functionality on an assortment of platforms. Verification – AXE10 GSM products towards Libertel,I was responsible for the FOA projects (including roll out) for BTS R9, RBS 2000, OSS R5.0, BSC R5 (including CM’s rollout), SS R5, MXE R4b and c. Integration - Management of technical and O&M support for integration of all network elements before launch.Implementation - Post launch integration of additional elements such as Utrecht AXE10 MSC new AXE10 BSC’s at Eindhoven, Arnhem and Groningen, new MXE at Rotterdam. RBS 2000 Pilot in readiness for roll out.Roll out of new software.Pre-study and feasibility study for Mobile IN for Libertel.

Borehamwood, England, United Kingdom

Manage Process Action Team (PAT) for Integration, Verification and Acceptance (IVA) activities on GSM/DCS 1800 AXE10 based equipment prior to Initial Service System.After the successful launch I managed several projects within the business towards national coverage of their network and developing service features to allow the business to lead competition in the marketplace.Verification and Integration/Implementation of new features.Addition of new network elements by acceptance and integration testing of hardware from switching network suppliers.Chaired various groups that involve controlling Trouble Resolution, IVA and other roll out activities including new Software/Hardware Verification and Implementation of new network roll out.

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

Manager of the AXE10 Application Systems Management - Manage the departments affairs in terms of organisation of projects and personnel in meeting stringent timescales and quality requirements. Interfacing with the customer at different levels through meetings, telephone and written reporting to project management and quality control departments. Inter-departmental co-operation with project management, quality control, product support, field support and sales departments.

Newbury, England, United Kingdom

Chief Engineer of the System Support department - administering the department’s affairs in annual finance, budgeting, personnel, staff organisation and motivation, progress report production and attending/chairing meetings such as Trouble Report Review Meeting, Operational Review Meetings, Technical Review Meeting, Progress Review Meeting.Engineer, Senior Engineer and Principal Engineer - maintenance of AXE10Mobile Telephone Exchange and all equipment within a geographical area controlled from the switching centre. Organisation and supervision of regionalised maintenance personnel and providing detailed technical support to these areas. Interfacing with equipment manufacturer’s engineers on technical matters after raising Trouble Reports using ASA code and PLEX.

Bury, England, United Kingdom

Regeneration of a light industrial site for high end residential detached development at Melton Drive, Hollins, Bury.Residential detached development at Rhine Close, Tottington.Regeneration of existing residential building - Strip Out & Full Fit Out and Refurbishment – Rochdale Road, Bury.

Saudi Arabia

Inspection and supervision of contractors in installation, testing, preliminary and final acceptance of communications equipment throughout the Saudi kingdom on the telephone expansion project and including telephony, radiotelephony, data communications. Factory inspection of PRX at Philips factory in Den Haag.

London Area, United Kingdom

TXE4 telephone exchanges - Troubleshooting down to component level on a range of technologies - digital electronics - multi-rack testing.