Dermot Spillane Email & Phone Number

Ballygirreen

County Dublin, Ireland

Monitoring and control for operational ATM equipment/systems.Corrective and preventative maintenance of ATM systems.Diagnosis of faults.

Dublin

Radio Project Manager:• Management of engineering and construction teams on behalf of Ericsson for Vodafone 4G network roll-out.• Management of a team of 10 for drive testing and repeater installs for Surecom customers.• Customer relationship management including customer meetings and delivery of complex customer requests• Budgetary responsibility improvement of profit margins • Technical lead for Surecom repeater and radio departments.Mobile Technical Consultant (Sept 2013- Feb 2014):• For 6 months I worked within Eircom business department to upskill all members of the business sales department.• Supporting account managers to ensure retention of existing business and also to win new corporate accounts.

Dublin & Uk

Vilicom specialises in design, testing, optimisation, analysis and strategy for RF and cellular networks. My key responsibilities were:Transmission Engineer:Consultant transmission engineer, for a more detailed information please see my past experience.Telecoms Engineer Ireland and UK:• As an in-building engineer I designed in-building phone coverage systems by analysing coverage on an operator’s customer location. Ericsson RBS’s using 2G/3G and LTE technologies were designed• Drivetest technician • Data analysis and reporting errors and issues to the customer with recommendations for performance improvement.• Improved the efficiency of these tests by introducing techniques and procedures to ensure these tests ran more smoothly and reduced the time it takes to complete the work.• One of 2 engineers who specialise in ICNIRP emission tests in Ireland and UK including Jersey. For the Irish tests my reports are available publicly on the ComReg website.Other Duties:Mentor for new employees, leave cover for UK project coordinator, PPE Inspector, 24/7 On-Call for operations and maintenance of customer’s equipment, Innovation, Technical interviewer for graduate and student positions.

Dublin

• Worked for a period (2012) on the Mosaic project (O2/Meteor consolidation) • Responsible for creating Ericsson technical proposals for site consolidation for 2G and 3G networks.• Worked to tight KPI's and worked within budget while minimising disruption to the live networks for both operators • Software planning tools used: Atoll and Asset

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• Worked on the National Broadband Scheme (NBS) (2009-2011).• Consistently requested by the operator to work on short and long term project on a regular basis.• Link engineering of microwave links, Cramer, VLAN and IPs for transmission links. • Completed complex connectivity plans for the VLAN network.• Line of sight and site design of towers and rooftops.• Assisted with site design to comply with planning regulations.

Dublin

• Tested Curam’s own software program to ensure compliance with customer requirements and specification.• Ensured quality control of the software product by developing processes to reduce human error.• Communicated on a daily basis to managers to ensure my work was up to date.

Tipperary Town

• Repaired electronics and electrical components in refrigerators and vending machines owned by Coca Cola.• Produced daily reports on each machine.

Ballina, Co.Mayo

• Delivered Microsoft Certification for independent software vendors.• Tested software for faults.• Worked with customers to ensure their products passed Microsoft tests.• Visited and worked in some customers businesses to ensure proper software testing.• Management Reports.

Bachelor Degree; Honours, Electronic Engineering

Subjects included: Signals & Systems, Asics, Control, Active Circuits, Telecommunication Systems, Communication Theory. Final Year.

Education record

Abbey CBS, Tipperary Town. Leaving Cert.