David Eccles Email & Phone Number

Bushy Park, TAS, AU

Strategic Asset Management

Strategic Asset Management Engineer for Distribution Network at TasNetworks

NSW And Tasmania

Working for Specific Electrical Engineering Consulting Pty Ltd for continuing my electrical engineering and management career.

Wallsend

Manage a team of Electrical Engineers and Engineering Officer survey designers in 132kV, 66kV, 33kV and associated distribution lines for subtransmission overhead line designs, related component assemblies and some subtransmission and 11kV distribution underground cable system designs.Urban,rural, industrial and coal mining locations.Managed major.

Qurindi, NSW, Australia

Helped initial concept, natural zeolite exploration lease prospecting, sample processing, initial processing plant electrical systems generator stand alone plant to prove the product process. Help seek Mine Lease and Development Consent. Concept of visually low impact campaign mining operating process was developed with RAA Smith & Associates Mining.

Contestable Design and Projects Co-ordination for design and construction of overhead reticualition in subdivisions, URD subdivisions, rural extensions, and for supply at 66kV or 33kV subtransmission lines and HV Metering at HVC connectionpoints for Hunter Valley area major coal mines developments, refurbishments, and maintenance works. New steel poles for.

Change management experience for amalgamation of 6.3 utilities,Network Policy Engineer standardising and consultation processing a common Network Policy, Procedures, Manuals and Intranet delivery. ISO 9002, 4001, NSCA 5 Star Safety Certifications, documentation process certification.Metering QA Laboratory Facilitator for obtaining NATA Accreditation for.

Upper Hunter Shire - Muswellbrook Singleton

1991/1992 gained Court Expert Witness Experience in successful Singleton Magistrate’s Bushfire Coronial court case for Westbrook Fire ( caused by wind to birds nest of wire flashover).Assisted Prof AD Stokes with field observations, especially that for aerial conductor arcing melts, and for examples of non-fire electrically pruned trees to match Lab tests.

Singleton

11/11/86 new District Engineer Singleton with Shortland County Council,Hunter Valley. Managed district CAPEX and M&R budget, staff of 65, and a rural and coal mining boom growth…, with total load of 100MW.plus.with reliability and capacity problems. Managed local Network1987/88 innovated improvements in Power line Helipatrol TI (basis for EC 10 Guide ).

Cadet Engineer, Graduate Engineer, Engineer in Mains Training & investigation in URD and UG XLPE 33kv Cable systems development,Relief engineer in Districts -Seven Hills, Penrith, Windsor, Blue Mountains, Hartley, 1978 Engineer Substations Branch 1979 for HV HRC fuselinks testing project management, creating new Instructions manuals consultative.

Adv Dip Project Mgt, Project Management

Mba (Tech Mgt), Poject Management

MBA (Tech Mgt)

Post Graduate Diploma Of Agricultural Economics, Applied Economics

Rural Distribution Systems interact with rural business customers , and knowledge of their business issues helps in customer service.

Be (Hons), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Electrical Engineering Honours Thesis was to build a demountable vacuum crowbar switch for circuit breaker synthetic test circuit

High School, Hsc, Hsc

Activities and Societies: interschool debating