Preliminary, Detailed and IFC design relating to optical fibre, leaky feeder (tunnels) and site monopoles/outdoor equipment site designs. Project value approximately $60M.
South Country Distribution Automation and Digital Mobile Radio Upgrade Packages A and B1.
Upgrade and establish new DA/DMR base sites, including towers, shelters and MW backhaul,
across 40 sites.
CBD SCADA Automation - optical fibre civil and internal designs for various Perth CBD sites.
Bluewaters Power Station – Mobile coverage enhancement for 6 buildings
As a member of the Huawei-UGL JV team, produced Site Reference Designs for site selection,
worked with subcontractor Longmont on power and induction studies, worked with
subcontractor Roam in monopole design, worked with Huawei team and the client (PTA) on
Backhaul Transmission Network Design, to ensure constructability, safety and architecture
issues were fully addressed and to minimise cost and risk to UGL.
Produced Technical Architecture, Feasibility, and high level costing for the proposed WA SuperNet for ARC Infrastructure and CBH.
PTA Radio Systems Upgrade Tender – worked within the UGL Tender team and Huawei to develop the tender costing and schedule for the RSR project, including proposed sites, towers and pole types and heights, optical fibre topology, leaky feeder upgrade and all other constructability issues.
Worked with UGL technical staff to finalise the SDR and items associated with the completion of the R42 Relocation project for DBP.
Pilot cable replacement strategy
Radio Signal Strength Measurements for reclosers in Perth Metro and WA Country.
Telecommunications Assessment for the Abrolhos Islands (Dept of Fisheries).
Cellular Mobile coverage improvement works.
General consultancy work in the power and telecommunications arena.
Project management activities for Western Power Optical fibre telecommunications civil
construction and maintenance. Quality Assurance of existing infrastructure.
Radio Signal Strength Measurements for reclosers in the Donnybrook and Capel.
Reprogramming of metro area MR Radio reclosers for ACMA UHF channel rearrangements.
Project closeout activities and site instructions including deployment of optical fibre
infrastructure to construction offices and CCTV camera locations.
Construction management for lifecycle replacement of DC power supplies and installation of communications racks for 30 DBP Main Line Valve and Polled Access Valve sites.
Procurement and construction management for replacement Lane User signage and associated cabling, and control boxes.
Procurement and construction management for $7M project involving construction and commissioning of 13 towers between 30 and 70m, 7 hops of MW, SDH and PDH transmission over optical fibre, voice mobile radio, including fabrication and fitting out of 15 telecommunications shelters, rebuild of Narngulu Comms room, delivered 3 months ahead of schedule and under budget.
Planning and design for EPCM Offices, site optical fibre network, and associated
telecommunications infrastructure for this project.
Planning, specification and scope of works for all LAN/WAN and telecommunications infrastructure for this project.
Planning and design for all optical fibre routes and associated telecommunications infrastructure
for this project.
Measured RSSI at 321 locations in Metro and Country WA for Western Power.
As a subcontractor to Zurce Communication Network, installed direct-buried optical fibre over a 7km route.
Performed detailed audit of all Western Power Communications structures where site sharers
are on site, including AC power, earthing, huts, antennas and feeders at 41 sites in Perth and
Country WA. Produced detailed report for each location to Western Power.
Management of all leveraged assets for Western Power Secondary Systems Asset Management, as follows:
Ensured quality of all civil works, managed contractors in project manager’s absence.
Planning of all new Western Power Recloser SCADA communications bases - reviewed annually
Coverage prediction studies, site selection, co-siting with Telstra or other entities. Produced
plan for AA2 regulatory period (2009-2011) for Perth Metro and WA Country sites (24 in total).
Wireless LAN specification for new Perth Airport office, including Access Point placement.
Produced detailed plan to cut over to new corporate 5 digit number plan from existing
numbering to integrate into Corporate VoIP numbering plan. Including removal of 1 PAX switch
and some trunks. Liaison with Telstra for indial number ranges to match extension number
range.
Audit of existing UPS subcircuits in Data Centre and externally. Made recommendations to
Project Manager.
Diversified DC power feeds to all DC powered racks. Managed cutover of all UPS feeds from
old sub-boards to new sub boards, including installation of new submains from main UPS
boards over 2 cutovers, and 2 new UPS circuits to each new IT rack. Produced floor plan to
accommodate 2 new IT equipment suites. Managed whole project.
Wrote IT Construction Standards document for Western Power’s IT Branch. Includes cable and
rack labelling, cable management standards.
Specified, design and managed the installation of Emtelle Blown fibre infrastructure for all 11
floors (2 diverse risers) of Western Power Head Office.
Worked with team on project definition for DBNGP analogue MW replacement. Also produced a
number of FM radio prediction studies for ACMA. Assisted with cabling and pit and pipe
specification for accommodation village at Barrow Island for Gorgon Project.
Rollout of Optical fibre communications network to 200 distribution substations in the Perth CBD area, including approximately 20km of new pit and pipe build, and installation of DC power and Westermo RS232 – fibre dual path modems. Redesign and rebuild of Head Office Communications (PAX) room including new DC RPS (live cutover), new traywork, racks, earthing, and DC power reticulation. New installations for data concentrator sites at FESA and QV1 Distribution substations. Project value $3.7M.
Planning, design and rollout of 61km of optical fibre and pit and pipe and direct buried, from
Kwinana Power Station to Mandurah then Pinjarra for zone substation telecommunications over
a 6 month period. Including direct management of all contractors. Project Value $2.5M.
Managed up to 3 in-house contractor staff during the above projects.
Other projects
Transmission
Transmission Engineer for the 4000km of Optical Fibre, 40 amplifier or regenerator sites. 4
capital city sites. Including repeater spacing design. Project value $155M.
Vendor selection for DWDM and SDH equipment. Design and Factory acceptance testing of the
Marconi (now Ericsson) Solstis (UPLx) DWDM system.
Buildings and Power
Specification, design and quality assurance of all repeater buildings, DC power and
Transmission equipment. Includes alarm extensions, solar powered sites, acceptance of works.
Service Commissioning
Commissioning of all new customer services in all states for IP1. Formally trained by Marconi in
MV36/38 (Service On Inventory) and SDH and DWDM products.