- Managing telecommunications projects throughout their life cycle, including the preparation, execution and delivery phases, and in particular: requirements gathering for voice and data communication network solutions and IT infrastructures- Responsible for preparation of technical specifications and participation in procurement processes for supply and associated services.- Project management, control and reporting, ensuring compliance with approved deadlines, cost, scope and quality baselines.- Creating, maintaining and monitoring all phases of the project plan, budget, deliverables and schedule and managing associated risks- Accountable for appropriate recommendations and tactics for problem solving and stakeholder management.

Member of 2nd Line TX - Planned Works & Cramer - Atlantic NOC (Network Operations Center) UK• Planning and creation of network configuration data and connectivity to vendors/Operations in agreed time frames and to agreed standard.• Analyse requirements and plan circuit routes, identify and request details as appropriate.• Quality checks of all data /connectivity and information prepared before issue to the vendor to ensure that network errors are kept to a minimum.• Update, maintain and create data for the radio and transmission networks.• Work closely with other departments to support optimisation activities and data /connectivity related discrepancies and faults.• Report and maintain network KPIs and SLAs as required.• Good understanding of ATM / SDH / PDH / IP / Ethernet technology.

Part of the Discover Graduates program from Vodafone Portugal. Member of 2nd Line TX - Planned Works - Atlantic NOC (Network Operations Center) UKEnsure planned work activities, network rollout and software upgrades in transmission & network nodes:• Implement transmission parameters changes;• Perform node integrations and swaps, including ATM switches, IP routers, LAN switches and SDH/PDH switches; • Ensure interface with other teams, in case of incidents, network change management, and other areas related with Network Operations and Support;• Ensure all actions and escalations, internal or external, necessary in order to achieve service restoration min case of faults;• Participate in activities of testing and implementation of new software versions, as well as of major network’s alterations, for the network elements in scope;• Perform acceptance tests for the integration/configuration of new network elements;• Perform statistics configuration and performance management, and indicators trend analysis;• Take corrective measures based on performance analysis, and propose changes (capacity, configuration);• Ensure all preventive activities, in order to maintain the best network performance;• Assist 2st Level RAN team, in terms of transmission issues, services and technologies.8 months of experience in 2nd Line RAN - NSN and Huawei - Support role, ticketing and dispatching. - Work developed concerning performance, degradation analysis and clock synchronizationTX equipment dealt with:• Tellabs 8660, 8630 and 8605;• Lambda Unite;• CBX (Lucent WAN Switches);• Nokia Microwav.TX applications used:• INM Tellabs;• OMS;• CBGX;• Remedy;• Cramer;• Netcool;RAN applications used::• U200;• NectAct;• Evenflow;• ZEN;• VISMON;• Netviewer;

Project: Experimental demonstration of 10 Gbit/s fibre-to-the-home network downstream transmission employing an electroabsorption modulator