Reinaldo Valbuena, P.Eng. Email & Phone Number

Oakville, Ontario, Canada

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Designing and overseeing the implementation of facility expansion, space planning, layout, various systems (AC and DC Power), and quality controls in Atlantic Canada.• Planning and coordinating infrastructure and equipment upgrades and activities for 48V Power Plants, Batteries, Distribution Cabinets, Diesel Generators, UPS, Switch-gears and Panel boards. • Coordinating and overseeing contractors performing AC Power and DC Power activities as well as provide L2 support to design and maintain Telecommunication’s Central Offices.• Evaluating facility infrastructure to ascertain, improve operational efficiencies and life cycle to ensure cost effective and provisioning, on time and on budget delivery.

Halifax, Canada Area

• Plan and design network capacity of DC power and building space infrastructure in Atlantic Canada• Time and size installation of power network elements such as rectifiers, batteries, inverters, distribution, and power plants to support growth and strategic deployment of Bell network elements.• Life cycle and financial management of projects to ensure cost effective and provisioning, on time and on budget delivery.• Provide support and critical information required to design AC power network, UPS and HVAC infrastructure in Telecommunication’s Central Offices.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Researched energy-saving gas and water meters such as ultrasonic and insertion and suggested cost effective installation to corporate clients resulting in 40% of savings from purchase of meters • Interpreted electrical consumption on energy bills and updated company database to support information from blue prints for two large hotel chains; forwarded for review as part of an energy management plan

Venezuela

• Coordinated over 1000 infrastructure deliverables and dealt with Engineering, Procurement and Construction phases to provide civil, electrical, and mechanical solutions to expand core, access and switch networks • Managed life cycle of network DC power elements from telecom contractors such as Huawei, Ericsson, Alpha Technologies, Eaton Powerware, Emerson Power, Nokia to improve the network performance during the deployment of new technology such as 4G-LTE • Supervised procurement processes including Request for Proposals and Quotes (RFP / RFQ) to evaluate and choose over 40 contractors to build approximately 100 new radio sites.• Worked with more than 25 internal and external partners to apply financial management analysis to determine cost effective and in time provisioning as well as on time and on budget delivery for over 180 telecom projects to increase services to up to 20 million customers• Supervised teams composed of engineers, operations, contractors and suppliers to comply codes and reliability standards to meet project management office specifications for core, access and switch networks

Venezuela

• Designed AC power network and systems components such as transformer bank, grounding, UPS and HVAC infrastructure in central offices and data centers using Telcordia standards to build a robust electrical system with redundancy, solving power failures and operation problems in 40% of the network• Planned and estimated network DC power elements such as batteries, rectifiers, converters, inverters, and power plants to install critical network equipment and select building space infrastructure to increase reliability to up to 70% of the core, access and switch networks.• Conducted business cases for telecom projects to determine appropriate funding based on network investment needs and risk management for the implementation in 400 radio base stations• Prepared technical reports and reviewed AutoCAD drawings from site surveys and field audits for AC and DC power elements and put information in a template to facilitate the strategic deployment and upgrade technical data during implementation of 350 radio base stations for wireless technologies like 3G-UMTS and GSM-EDGE.

Venezuela

• Assisted Logistics department to complete spreadsheets to log equipment details and entered information in SAP to ensure power systems were distributed properly to 250 new sites avoiding installation delays in order to increase productivity and reduce cost• Calculated total load based on energy requirements for central offices and building space infrastructure to select prime and stand by diesel and generators to permit 36 to 72 hours of autonomy to implement a continuous process improvement in the access and core network• Solved operational problems to support wireless technologies following telecom protocols when network DC power elements was commissioned, decreasing time of failures by 35% at 150 CDMA-TDMA radio sites and ten central offices

Venezuela

• Appraised electrical components at an oil and gas refinery using design tools such as ETAP (Electrical Transient Analyzer Program) to design reactive loads (kVAR) for the installation of a capacitor bank which increased voltage level in main bars to over 0.97 pu• Documented results from electrical studies including load flow, short circuit, arc flash and stability and developed recommendations to upgrade refinery performance according to electrical codes, standards and regulations

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Graduate Certificate, International Business/Trade/Commerce, International Business Management

Graduate Certificate, Business/Commerce, General, Project Management

Master'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering