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• Overseeing daily operations with meticulous attention to detail
• Supervising, coaching, training, motivating and mentoring personnel, setting clear goals and expectations, providing relevant feedback and discipline as required
• Establishing, implementing and overseeing effective systems, processes and controls
• Managing routing, switching and virtual platforms; researching next generation deployments for greenfield and existing infrastructure
• Capacity planning, including analysing current data from SNMP based applications
• Conducting bench testing; creating test beds for recommended designs and equipment configurations, focusing on IGP recovery and behaviour

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• Managing global core engineering team of eight personnel, located in South Africa, Dubai and Pakistan
• Assigning KPI Metrics to Core Engineering; ensuring the achievement of Core Network Business SLAs
• Involved in core design, product design, RFP vetting and acceptance, maintenance, troubleshooting, research and development.
• Defining strategies for virtualisation and automation

• Managing senior NOC staff, access technical engineers and senior infrastructure engineers
• Managing VSAT and Wireless operations, focusing on site surveys and deployment
• Overseeing fault allocation tickets; monitoring allocated tickets, acceptance and handling of escalations
• Responsible for frequency management design and planning
• Arranging global DC inspections and audits
• Documenting the scope of works regarding auditing physical equipment, recovery strategies and cabling structure, including improvement plans and growth options

• Configuring and building customer equipment
• Managing access integration for IPv4 Global Public network and MPLS provider edge for on net and offnet third party providers
• Managing circuit performance testing and customer handover
• Working closely with global NOC and third party vendors on fault resolution and closure
• Deploying VSAT technology into Africa including link budget design, site inspection, VSAT infrastructure deployment, equipment configuration, commissioning and handover
• Designing and implementing wireless national network

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Activities and Societies: o Enterprise Core o Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation o Enterprise Design o Design Professional.

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