Customer

Project Name

Description

2007-08 ESCC/BT

NGN Schools Project

5.8Ghz Radio WAN linking Schools and Corporate buildings to BT Core MPLS network for East Sussex County Council. The £2m project was on schedule and under budget.

2008 Clyde & Co

Cable Fault Review

Review of an installation fault on a submarine power cable in Scotland as part of a Wave machine test facility.

2007 Oldham Primary Care Trust (PCT):

Oldham PCT WAN

An integrated network of Fixed Wireless Access Point to Point and Point to Multipoint FWA and BT Openreach fibre links to connect various Health Centres and GP Surgeries to the PCT main servers and onward to NHS net (N3). The £250K project has been delivered to time and 10% below budget and has been expanded to include other links

2006  ESCC

Next Generation Network (NGN)

Contract negotiations to provide an integrated IP telephony and an MPLS data network to all areas of East Sussex Council offices and schools.  The £10m+ project was negotiated to a signed contract on time, with BT and within the Council’s budget.

2005 - 06 ESCC

SAN Renewal

Negotiated a contract with DELL/EMC to refresh the Council’s Storage Area Network (SAN). This doubled capacity, increased access speed and reduced operating cost by 10%, enabling the Council to improve its in house information services and providing the advanced services required of the new NGN IP telephony system. Contract value £2.5m over 5 years.

2005 ESCC

Print Room Renewal

Negotiated the upgrade and review of all supplier contracts to the Council’s in-house print facility where the key performance target was to reduce in costs of £100K per year. The project was fully implemented on time and to budget. Contract value £5m.

2004 Polarnet

Polarnet

Reviewing and recommended actions to enhance the insurance, contract and project management plan of a new telecom company called Polarnet, jointly based in Russia and London.

2004 JLT

Australia - Japan Cable

Working in conjunction with a leading law firm, I reviewed the contracts, business plans and associated project plans, of NEC Corporation. This included working with one of their major customers AJC, to solve a major contractual default and business interruption event. In addition I advised lead underwriters and NEC on the management of NEC’s ongoing telecom contractual, project and business risk.

2003 Clyde & Co

Bass Strait

I carried out an evaluation of a major Submarine Power system supply project across the Bass Strait in Australia. This involved reviewing the project plan, risk register and disaster recovery operational plan, for a subsidiary of the National Grid Company.

2003 Clyde & Co

APCN 2

Reviewed the ongoing problems of the APCN 2 Cable.

1999 - 2001 Pangea

Pangea - 1

Project Managed the Submarine Cables as part of the Pangea -1 network including negotiating a £100m contract with Alcatel Submarine Networks.

1998 Marconi Portugal

Azores

Bid, contract and project manager in charge of the $25m Azores submarine network for Marconi Portugal including the supervision of the development and sub contracting of a new 400Km system. I was congratulated by the Marconi director on single handily managing the project despite huge operational problems.

1997-98 OTE

Greek Islands

Bid, contract and project manager in charge of a system for the Greek national operator OTE and a variety of other submarine network projects in Greece. I worked closely with the unit director and sales & marketing managers advising customers both on the business and contractual aspects of various possible network solutions.