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Austria

Austria

Designing and building enterprise networks with a strong view on the future. Hybrid and Cloud design

Austria Area

Vienna Impact Hub, Toouls, Akvorrat

Having been on advanced study sabbatical for the last 2 years, I have been supporting several startup initiatives with technology design and strategy. I am also engaged with AKvorrat as a writer for a digital rights advocacy group.A key project I am currently developing involves offering an enhanced educational platform to ensure refugees and distance learners are able to continue to educate them to their own national curriculum but with enhanced learning tools that the platform will provide.

Consulting Engineer/ Service provision oversight Global Communications infrastructure Nature of business: Provider of Global Satellite Communications Infrastructure and Services. Operating in Asia, Europe, Russia, Africa and the Middle East, customers include Government agencies, NGOs, multinational enterprises and the military. My initial remit was to structure and manage the end to end delivery of technical services to the CTBTO for the Global Communication Infrastructure (GCI) network. This included initial design review to acceptance testing and implementation. My duties were extended to I also developed measurable benchmarks to meet customer SLA requirements as per the TOR requirement and provide daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual statistical reports and analysis as well as drafting both technical and executive reports on behalf of UltiSat to CTBTO.

Reporting to the Chief of Communications, I was a Unit Manager responsible for managing the satellite network unit UNLB operating in excess of 120 independent satellite links used for voice, video and data services. My duties involved frequency planning, allocation as well as transponder planning and link budgeting for the 10 satellite transponders in support of global peace keeping operations. My team also prepared and tested equipment of mission critical strategic deployment communication hardware and coordination of network support services for both military and civilian requirements on the converged network.Selected Achievements: ➢ Special Project: Developed and operated the satellite segment of the UNLB which had an annual budget of 12 million dollars in satellite unit resources. It also included a year on year budget of over 200 thousand dollars of hardware and software development budget. ➢ Staff development & management: Effectively managed a team comprising 10 engineers. ➢ Contributions towards technological expansion:o Built an IP/Satellite development lab; successfully trialled several projects including migration from serial to IP protocol which lead to all UNLB links to a shift from serial to IP hardware in all peace keeping missions. The hardware I was responsible for identifying, specifying and testing became the de facto standard hardware for the DPKO missions globally. This involved work the IP sniffers, Satellite simulators, BER testers protocol analysis of layers 2 to 4 mainlyo I wrote the RFPs for hub and station upgrade to full IP over Satellite network improvements and also performed technical reviews of RFP bids.o Managed the migration from TWTA to SSPA systems for all the UNLB HPA systems to optimise transmission capability increasing power capacity in all systems by 2 fold. Completed a deployment on modulation schemes which also saw a 25% increase in throughput.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Operations Engineer (1999-2002)Project Engineer (CTBTO 2002-2005)Europe Customer Support Engineer Hughes Europe Principal support and design engineer for the Global Communication Infrastructure network of the Comprehensive Nuclear-test-band Treaty Organisation (CTBTO), responsible for overall support management including all engineering processes within the global nuclear activity monitoring network and the sizing of network bandwidth resources. Supporting the Project Management team and reporting to the Chief Scientist, my role encompassed attending to second level support as well as developing testing and implementing solutions network failures and offering redesign solutions to meet the ever-changing customer network usage requirements.Selected Achievements: • Designed and installed the VoIP system on the CTBTO network. • Designed and installed the switched monitoring infrastructure in the CTBTO network to meet the CTBTO’s needs to centrally monitor traffic throughput of the network. This action corrected the statistical throughput data of the network for the first time. My design included STP applied over a multivlan environment with traffic statics collection• My implementation also ensured that all network data would control remote to remote traffic by creating a logical star network for all traffic across the network which, had never been fully implemented up until that point.• Extended the routing of the CTBTO network from partial static to full Dynamic routing protocols across CTBTO network using BGP, OSPF, RIPv2, EIGRP, HSRP, and VRRP The implementation enhanced the operation of link failure recovery and cut convergence time to a minimum• I was primarily responsible for second and third tier network troubleshooting for all matters relating to the CTBTO network

Harere

Working under an umbrella technology investment company, I was charged with building a satellite networking company to offer satellite network services in Zimbabwe through a managed Hughes Network Systems hub. This included writing the business plan for the company and providing a technology and marketing strategy.Selected achievements:My team hosted the first VSAT conference in Zimbabwe and I was the key keynote speaker. The program I developed to cosponsored with then PTC allowed corporate customers to pilot VSAT technology as an alternative means of private networking. This strategy resulted in a continued and growing interest in satellite networking in the corporate services and mining sector

Post Graduate Dip (Eeng), Telecommunications

PGD: Electronics Engineering: ICT

Post Graduate Certificate, Innovation And Technology Management

Post Graduate Dip: Advanced Networks

PGD: Advanced Networks

Advanced Post Graduate, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications