Harish Kumar
Mulgrave
Summary
Results oriented telecommunications professional with over 24 years of experience in telecommunications and a passion for building relationships and exceeding client and management expectations. Proven success in the area of project management, Client liaison, Large scale network deployment, Sub-contractor management and Service delivery. Strong skills in team building, communication & presentation, as well as cross-functional and executive client relations/account management. Known for thriving in dynamic and high pressure environments with a proven ability to balance priorities and meet strict deadlines.
Overview
39
39
years of professional experience
Work History
Delivery Courier Driver
Capital Transport Services
09.2022 - 09.2024
- Delivered packages on time by planning optimal delivery routes.
- Used handheld devices to track and confirm delivery status.
- Ensured customer satisfaction by providing friendly service during deliveries.
- Navigated local streets to ensure timely delivery of goods.
- Loaded and unloaded packages carefully, maintaining product integrity.
- Improved customer satisfaction by ensuring timely and accurate deliveries of products.
- Managed customer inquiries and complaints in polite and professional manner.
Delivery Courier Driver
Allied Express Transport
01.2020 - 04.2022
- Followed company policies and procedures during shift.
- Developed strong relationships with customers through courteous service and proactive problem-solving abilities.
- Greeted recipients, delivered packages, and parcels and acquired proper signatures for all deliveries.
- Safely loaded items into delivery vehicle to minimize damage while in transit.
- Maintained a clean driving record while navigating various traffic conditions efficiently, reducing fuel consumption expenses for the company.
Senior Project Engineer
Decon Technologies
06.2018 - 11.2019
- Manage the day to day work of construction by sub contractors
- Ensuring pit, pipe and cabling infrastructure is installed to defined standards
- Manage the performance of suppliers related to assigned projects, such delivery of cable, pits etc
- To installers
- Assist in the development of project plans for large projects, Project Management Framework and manage delivery in accordance with those plans
- Act as the primary point of contact for specific project implementations, managing expectations and communication with customers and other stakeholders
- Manage land access activities in accordance with the Telecommunications Act and ACMA guidelines
- Develop an awareness and manage environmental, cultural and heritage constraints
- Liaise with land owners, local councils and utilities as required to coordinate land access approvals and construction activity
- Coordinate the activities of land access consultants for complex jobs
- Assist in the preparation of proposals and quotations as required
- Assist in the development of documented construction specifications and methods
- Ensure adequate hand-over documentation is provided at the completion of each project
- Complete Quality Assurance and WHS Audits on a regular basis to ensure continued improvement and compliance
Design Manager- Network Construction (HFC, MIMA & FFTc)
SKYBRIDGE Communications
05.2016 - 04.2018
- Leading a team of Field designers & CAD Designers to ensure all design deliverables produced in the time frames required by the business
- Managing constructibility reviews with field supervisors, Project engineers and sub-contractors to deliver projects within agreed time frames and cost
- Managing multiple site deployment projects end-to-end, including initiation, execution of the build on-site, all commercial aspects of subcontractor quotes and purchase orders, implementation of change requests, variations, logistics requirements of hardware delivered to site, and review of all handover documents for closure
- Providing clear breakdown of head contractor & sub contractor buy and sell prices for gross profit estimation
- Planning & executing numerous, concurrent high volume HFC, FFTC, MT MIMA projects across Victoria, Queensland and New South wales
- Evaluate changes in scope between Network design documents, Field inspection reports, Detailed design documents
- Fostering collaborative relationships with project engineers, client representatives and commercial team to develop project proposals, providing cost/benefit analyses of various possible options
- Work collaboratively with program managers, network audit teams, designers, constructors, planners, and Technical specialists to deliver our accountabilities
- Responsible for all handover documents including as-built documentation and project closures
- Actively managing in-field design variations including approving sub-contractor claims and console orders
- Working as part of a centralised Project management office, responsible for managing and reporting all commercial aspects, Construction and scheduling issues
- Developed fully automated Excel BOMBOQ tool, exporting subcontractor data from Console/SharePoint to enable high level analysis and weekly reviews
- Responsible for flagging all OH&S issues identified during filed constructibility walkout with supervisors and sub contractors
- Developed and automated high-level financial spreadsheet covering all projects for repricing and budget forecast as well as a detailed breakdown of cost categories for each individual project
- Managing various companies and a team of designers overseas in India, provided training on different projects related to NBN as well as built plans
- Quality audited internal designs and designs from offshore design delivery partners according to NBNCO standards
- OTDR testing from exchange end to the DLJ’s and simulated reports
Senior Complex Designer/ Detailed Designer QA (ND, FSD & NARA)
Service Stream Communications
02.2009 - 05.2016
- Successfully delivered Various NBN (Type-1 & Type-2) & Telstra Projects such as NBN New-Developments, Brownfield, FSD-NARA, Developer Direct, Telstra A & AS and Telstra DIAS Projects across Australia
- Prepared Internal Detailed Design Documents of TTFN, DFN & LN Highlighting requirements for the successful delivery of FTTP (ND) design projects by liaising with NBN Co planners and design specialists
- Performed specialist design activities such as Network planning, Preparing SLD’s (TTFN, DFN & LN), ODF Capacity planning, PON Patching requests
- Manage End to End network design from CI validation to design approval
- Validate planning design based on NBN design rules and capacity allocation for local fiber and transit network
- Make TTFN and FDH splicing and provide End to End connectivity in Spatial Net, fix design defects in Spatial NET, provide solution for design issues in Spatial NET and AutoCAD, updating PON Patching for FAN/TFAN for requesting SOW, preparing bill of material and bill of quantity based on schedule of rates, Creating cabinet fiber record, fiber splicing and splitter record
- To run DDD scripts and important reports such as Straight line tree report, LFN report to check splicing sequence, Address QA report to make sure all valid GNAF’s have been allocated fibre
- Physical Splice and splicing checks for MPT’s, AJL’s, LJL’s, FDH (PAR 01/02) both for Aerial and Underground design
- Proposing boundary changes for the FDA’s within the same FSAM, where there is a benefit of avoiding extra cost for a new augment or pit upgrade etc
- Working knowledge of Telstra’s copper Network including RIM, CMUX, ISAM and other Small Pair gain Systems, CONEN and ITAM etc
- Liaised with internal land access teams to plan suitable underground network routes for transit and distribution networks to avoid potential delays at network construction
- Managed Field based Project variations by liaising with regional construction teams and also acted as a contact point for getting final approval from NBN
- Managed service stream’s FSD-NARA Design Projects across Vic, NSW, SA & NT
- Provided complete design and construction abstract to internal PM and NBN as a main point of Contact
- Part of design change management group which is responsible for developing new design processes, design automation to increase the design productivity
- Acted as a point of contact to provide on call Technical assistance during Network construction phase to internal field crews and external sub-contractors across various regions
Design Operative - Network Assurance
Telstra Corporation Limited
07.2007 - 02.2009
- As a Customer Solutions field designer at Telstra and being a key member of a National group, predominately involved with finding solutions for customer access network orders that are held for distribution and mains shortfall
- Data Loading and operational of relevant systems:- TOMS, RAPID, AIMS, AXIS TOW, GDD, Npams, Multiman, INTEGRAL, SIMPLAN
- Responsible for preparation of detailed design, plans, drawing, material order and quotes in accordance with standards and statutory requirements
- Manage own work performance and work safety
- Perform task within prescribed parameters
- Understand how the Team’s performance impacts on broader business
- Recommend improvements to reduce variance
- Provide high level of support and guidance
- Liaise with project management, construction operation staff
Senior Internal Access Designer/RF Broad Band Network Designer
Visionstream PTY LTD
04.1995 - 11.2006
- Working with the design team at Visionstream PTY LTD for past 11 years and gaining experience in training and supervision as an Internal access designer for our client (Telstra) in customer access network and RF Broad Band network Designer
- Responsibilities within the Production design team as an Internal Access Designer are as follows:- Distribution pairs design; from pillar to customers end
- Main pair design; from Exchange to pillar
- Exchange, Tie cable design
- Infrastructure design
- Internal & External plant design
- Design cut-overs, DA splits
- CC plans/ Civil works/ Site survey
- Health & Safety procedures
- RIM/ CMUX/ISAM Optical Fiber Design
- Installation of SDH Equipment in Telstra Exchanges
- Telstra Data Base including: Trac, Npams, Vaprs, CAD Link, Dbor, Multiman, GDD System
- RF Broad Band Network (HFC)
- RF designer in Cable TV broadband network
- Familiar with lode data and technical specification of GNA, line extenders, taps and power supplies
- Design Knowledge in Lode data and the specifications
- Familiar with all cables associated (Cx75, Cx50,Cx32, RG11, RG6 )with design and their db
- Losses
- Installation of GNA, LE, Taps, Powers Blocks, in associated pit
- Quality controls on designs
- Managing the transmission of as-built records to Telstra CPR
Senior Chief Electrical Officer
Indian Navy
05.1985 - 04.1993
- HF, VHF, UHF Transmitters/Receivers of Low/High outputs with analog and digital systems and microprocessor based equipment for optical fiber, pulse code modulation, TDM and digital regenerators
- Solid background of RF Principles and system Engineering
- Incentive knowledge of GSM: - switching system, base station system (towers) and the operation and support system
- Experienced in all aspects of repeaters links and remote control systems both radio and land line and coaxial cable
- Integration communication systems, installation, preventive maintenance, servicing and assembling advanced HF systems
- Two way radio Communication TX/Rx which included portable and static set knowledge of modules of each stage / Trunked radio system
- Installation of mobile two way radio and mobile data terminals in commercial vehicles
- Transmission lines, impedance matching transformers, aerials, associated common aerial working
- Calibration and maintenance of electronic measuring, telecommunications and indicating Instrument according to established strands: - Signal generators, Spectrum analyzers and Network analyzers and Double beam oscilloscope
- Test reports containing the results of testing, test data generated in compliance with documented procedures
- Routine maintenance and repair to a wide range of equipment’s and related devices
- Prototype assembly circuit for electronic equipment in accordance with technical manuals
- Assessed reasons for faults, workshop repairs to components level and minor modification if essential
- Documentation of process and preparation of commissioning reports
Education
Bachelor of Engineer - Electronics/ Telecommunications
Indian Navy University
Radio Technician Certificate -
Trade Certificate - Electronics
Skills
- Site management and Project closeout
- Design review
- Environmental regulations compliance
- Analyzing information
- Proactive approach
- Network engineering
Technicalproficiency
AutoCAD, GDD, TPNi, Spatial Net, MapInfo, Visio, Excel, Project, Access, Console, Share Point
Professional Development
- NBN Safety and awareness course/training
- Construction industry white card
- Emergency Management, WHS Risk Management for Managers and Incident Investigation Certification
- Bachelor of Engineer in Electronics/ Telecommunications from Indian Navy University
- Radio Technician Certificate
- Trade Certificate in Electronics (Australian recognised)
Timeline
Delivery Courier Driver
Capital Transport Services
09.2022 - 09.2024
Delivery Courier Driver
Allied Express Transport
01.2020 - 04.2022
Senior Project Engineer
Decon Technologies
06.2018 - 11.2019
Design Manager- Network Construction (HFC, MIMA & FFTc)
SKYBRIDGE Communications
05.2016 - 04.2018
Senior Complex Designer/ Detailed Designer QA (ND, FSD & NARA)
Service Stream Communications
02.2009 - 05.2016
Design Operative - Network Assurance
Telstra Corporation Limited
07.2007 - 02.2009
Senior Internal Access Designer/RF Broad Band Network Designer
Visionstream PTY LTD
04.1995 - 11.2006
Senior Chief Electrical Officer
Indian Navy
05.1985 - 04.1993
Radio Technician Certificate -
Trade Certificate - Electronics
Bachelor of Engineer - Electronics/ Telecommunications
Indian Navy University
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