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 subtransmission line feeder new and augmentation works design , as project managed delivery of design for capital works and limited life pole asset replacement in an extensive network growing since 1894 (Newcastle ) and 1904. (Sydney). Use UAV D&C &M .

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 Processing Engineers . RAA Smith & Associates specialise in mineral processing , but also skill provided low impact mine blasting planning. Mine Lease site on Castle Mountain is in a visual proximity to township of Quirindi , and neighbouring rural residential properties. Its natural zeolite mostly clinoptilite and some mordenite in this mine deposit is red to pink in colour. For high quality natural zeolite multi-grade activated zeolite mostly clinoptilite and some mordenite natural mineral products to try to better suit environmental remediation of water and nitrogenous wastes , ruminant feed additive enhancer , and slow release of nitrogenous fertilisers in sown crops, aquaculture water quality control, and intensive livestock areas waste smell mitigation. see Castle Mountain Zeolites details on website www.cmz.com.au

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 bushfire resisting line designs ,Mine Subsidence for undermining design resilience in overhead line redesign and other major mine supplies and existing line asset relocations works ...HV Live Line Product Champion for all of EnergyAustralia 2001-2008

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 NorthPower Metering Services Calibration Laboratory at Tamworth , NSW Consultation process , wrote or edited full range policy documents , procedures , etc . Set up and managed on Intranet database in Lotus Notes. Managed initial interfacing of SCADA systems of the several amalgamated utilities for linked system control across northern NSW in 1995.Assisted in initiation of NSW SEM Market Code Change for Chapter 7 from Monopoly Metering Services to Contestable Metering Services and Data Forwarding ..A world first to avoid market failure 100kVA level of load customer rollout Helped Initial conceptualising of a Merchant LInk Interconnector B.O.O.. based on differential price arbitrage , scoped first HVDC VSC bipolar and underground cabled Internetwork connector called Direct Link , now Terranora Interconnector. NSW / Queensland grids First underground ploughed HVDC VSC as a segmentation in NSW to Qld grids in 1999. in a high load growth rate urbanising load area of 90MVA at 10% growth rate , As 180MWe 80kV HVDC bipolar , . Initial surplus capacity was tradeable interconnector , n-1 to & VARS l network services when Market Code evolved . Used ABB HVDC LIght and first Ultrapure XLPE cables over 60km long through existing corridors of roadways and railway As Policy Engineer also looked at some radial network alternate generation options In 1998, reviewed f tethered Flying Electric Generators (tethered rotorcraft ) by University of Western Sydney Associate Professor Bryan Roberts under NSW Jetstream

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 for his paper and court evidence )Assisted team for Scone Court’s Magistrate’s Bushfire Coronials for two major Muswellbrook bushfire cases continued under boss David Barr The 17 sitting days Donalds Creek Fire the Kiora Stud bushfire1991/92 Liason /Project Management of HVC 11kV augmentation and staged upgrading of Singleton Army Camp , 1992 innovated the first “Opencut Coal Mines Generic Safety Training Course” for Shortland Electricity personnel to save time delays and costly duplication1992 team management ,performance assessment ,performance management training( MENTOR) undertaken for introduction to Region’s management team1993 assisted , with others, A/Prof AD Stokes in developing his “electrical pruning” research ideas by seeking samples for experimental tests, and by field identification /investigation of real world cases Sept 1993 as acting Regional Manager Muswellbrook ,helped conclude Scone Bushfire Coronial for Moonan Flat after 17 sitting days, and assist the other case – Kia Ora bushfire Coronial with LV arcing fault evidence

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 ), Directional Pruning & Tree Clearing, Bush Fire Prevention minching ,recommended review of live line technique procedures, liased with SES ,Bushfire brigades , , trialled Mine subsidence mitigation on overhead lines with shallow long wall miners,…installed SCADA retrofits to Zone subs, Maintenance repairs to 132kVand 66kV OCB’s, designed rural 11kV and 22kV augmentations, including innovation idea for 415V power point step-up 12.7kV SWER OH line extension to homestead supply off 132kV Barnard River Pump Station Auxiliary Switchboard , 11kV augmentation to Ellerston, and 132kV feeder aug., 1991/92 initiated AS 2124 -1986 based Contract Management Training and Contracts Manual , for Shortland Electricity change culture relocation of 5MVA 66/11kV Lemington Zone Substation , 66kV &11kV feeders , for Hunter Valley No1 Mine (this was managed on time and under budget, plus a new underground 66kV feeder tail at Singleton 132/66kV sub., and concrete pole 66kV augmentations and relocations, several 11kV jobs, Relief District Engineer Muswellbrook included Superintendent’s rep for Feeder 95U 132kV concrete pole and Olive phase conductor line construction by Contractor Dal Singh including erection of a 630m )on active Muswellbrook Coal Company mine lease site On Sunday 23/12/90 Hot Winds saw /caused multiple Bushfires cause damage–restoration works , and fire cause investigations 1991/92 customer negotiated /design checked /precommissioning witnessed , inspected and commissioned six Coal Mine High Voltage Customer Substations ,

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 development to publication , Transformer Workshop Engineer ,Subtransmission Planning Engineer (1980 Amalgamation ) , URD Subdivision Engineer at Penrith (181/82) Substation Procurement Engineer (1982-84) , Subtransmission Underground Mains Engineer (1985-1986)

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