Electro Mechanical Engineer
qatar national broadband Network
Total years of experience :17 years, 4 Months
Management of resources to perform implementation activities on nationwide scale.
To identify and eliminate risk areas to ensure timely delivery of the project.
To conduct weekly meeting with vendor in order to facilitate project activities and progress.
Perform moderately complex duties in the electrical, electronic, electromechanical, or mechanical areas.
Construct, troubleshoot, calibrate, adjust, test, and maintain equipment, components, devices, or systems within the central Office.
Interpret electrical and mechanical drawings, specifications, and control diagrams.
Develop or modify products and equipment to requirements/specifications.
Supervise electro mechanical work including but not limited to generator, ATS, UPS, electrical wiring, cabling, BMS, HVAC, Plumbing, firefighting, fire alarm, access, security and surveillance systems and other mechanical equipment’s.
Direct and supervise day to day work activities of vendors to ensure proper implementation and execution.
Conduct inspection/ investigation on central offices and evaluate services provided by the Vendor.
Handle, implement and address all maintenance issues within central office.
Ensure timely preventive and corrective maintenance is made to all central offices.
Monitor and coordinate with vendors any maintenance activities completion ensuring that their work is properly completed as per agreed SLA.
Follow up & escalate any major electro-mechanical issues identified and ensure a timely resolution.
Prepare technical reports for proper documentation and provide updates to the direct manager.
Ensure compliance with government and client standards, execute corrective measures if necessary.
Practice duties and roles in line with the authorities as illustrated in the authority matrix.
To conduct site surveys in order to identify suitable locations for new central offices.
To work closely with OPS Planning Team in order to acquire suitable location for central offices.
To Analyze, Design & Dimension AC & DC Power Systems at core sites, BTS and Data Centers of Telenor
2. To design renewable/green energy ( Solar, Slar wind, Solar Wind hybrid) solution for BTS sites
3. To dimension entities i.e Solar panels, Batteries, System Autonomy, Wind turbine, Charge controller as per load and site geography requirement and KPIs.
4. To prepare the renewable/green energy business cases considering CAPEX, OPEX, Payback period and NPV as per BTS sites load demands.
5. To make the budgetary estimates and forecast it to business planning department.
6. To conduct the feasibility analysis of the sites by conducting site surveys.
7. To perform Load calculations of the site equipment at Core and BTS Sites of Telenor
8. To do battery backup planning & rectifier/UPS requirements at BTS sites of Telenor.
9. To Analyze, Design & Dimension HVAC system at core sites of Telenor
10. To ensuring appropriate HVAC of the site equipment at Core Locations
11. To conduct power (DC & AC) arrangement & allocation of various equipment for the whole BSS network at core locations of Telenor.
12. To generate power & implementation plans of Rectifier, UPS, HVAC and allied equipment at core & BTS Sites of Telenor
13. To generate technical document of RFQs/RFPs such scope of work, Technical specification, Split of Responsibility, Liquidate Damages, Service Level Agreement, Acceptance procedure for core & BTS sites of Telenor.
14. To conduct test trials of new initiates to save OPEX & CAPEX for core & BTS Sites of Telenor
15. To do new potential product evaluations and comparison with existing products and to develop business cases to calculate ROI & TCO
16. To conduct technical site surveys in order to generate requirement for AC & DC Power System and HVAC.
17. To forecast (budget & technical) expansion up till next five quarters at core & BTS Sites of Telenor.
18. To evaluate & propose future power expansions at BTS and Core sites of Telenor
19. To conduct Acceptance Procedures at Core & BTS Sites of Telenor for AC, DC & HAVC Systems
20. To develop business cases for the efficient utilization of the renewable energies and the existing network power sources for Core and BTS Sites of Telenor.
21. To take Operational efficiency improvement for the core and BTS network
22. To perform renewable energy analysis and it’s planning/designing for BTS sites of Telenor
23. (Solar/wind energy)
24. To do power planning & designing of site sharing projects for BTS Sites of Telenor
Major Projects:
1. RFQ/RFP of Electricity Supply Controller, Power interface Unit & Battery Backup enhancement
2. Renewable Energy Test Trails & RFQs
3. Global Frame Agreement- Renewable Energy RFQ
4. Solar & Wind Hybrid Sites (2000 Sites Project)
2. Power Swap Design of DWDM Sites,
3. Power Swap of Metro Sites
4. Power Swap of Core Sites.
5. Test Trials of Power interface unit, GS Yuasa Battery banks, remote monitoring system of LCC, Power Oasis.
6. Test Trail of Solar & Wind Hybrid Solution of Eltek, HISEL, ZEUS, ZTE
7. Development of Technical documents like Scope of Works, Technical Specification, Vendors evaluation, compliance document, Executive Technical Summary, Split of Responsibility, liquidate damages, services Level Agreements
a. Vendor’s response evaluation.
b. Test Trail supervision & analysis.
8. EoL rectifiers Swap at BTS Sites.
9. Core Power Swap and Expansion.
10 Power Rollout of BTS sites and sharing sites Power equipment analysis.
11. Metro and DWDM Sites Power expansion.
12. RAN Power Expansion.
To evaluate and verify electrical (AC & DC Power System) & Mechanical (High rating generators
& HVAC) designs proposed by different vendors for Core and Access Locations of PTML.
To do different product evaluations for the improvement of efficiency of existing power systems.
To provide Level II/Level III support to regional team for the resolution of electrical and mechanical issues
To design and implement different hybrid solution (i.e Generator solar battery, Generator battery etc) for the access network of Ufone.
To conduct nationwide load calculation on monthly basis for the AC & DC Power System to
ensure smooth operations of Network (Core and BTS Sites)
To conduct Power and Mechanical Audits of Core and Major BTS Sites on quarterly basis and generate report.
To assist Director Operations for the smooth operation and maintenance Power and Mechanical Setup, renewable energy solutions and precautionary measure to reduce OPEX and CAPEX at core and BTS Sites.
To conduct sites visits to perform corrective maintenance and any live expansion in the network.
To meet with regional operations team & Manager for the sites design and operation issues resolution
To develop different cost affective hybrid power solution for Access locations of PTML.
To ensure 100 % KPI achievement based on projects delivery and O & M at Core and Access
Locations
To conduct ATPs at Core Locations for the verification of implemented design, installation, commissioning of Batteries, Generators, ATS Panel, HVAC, Transformers, Rectifiers, UPS, Inverters DC & AC Distributions, Alarms verifications, Wiring Diagrams, As built Single Line Diagrams etc.
Ensuring smooth Field Operations by Implementing, Monitoring & Controlling the escalated trouble tickets within a prescribed SLA/KPI.
To ensure proper maintenance of DG, AC & Commercial Power & to ensure earliest possible faults rectification to meet NW availability targets.
DG Overhauling, spares, maintenance services management.
Follow-up with field teams in timely PM & CM fault rectifications.
To ensure proper and effective preventive maintenance of all BTS/BSC/MSC/MGW sites as per assigned targets.
Timely closure of Trouble Tickets, submission of RFC to customer and getting closure acknowledgments.
Vendor Performance Monitoring & Management.
To ensure focus on Power & Environment issues and timely rectification of Power & Environment Faults
Monitoring & Controlling of sub-contractor activity, fueling, DG Set O&M, Air-cons O&M, Commercial Power/Switch gear O&M & Security related issues
Major accomplishments in Operational Efficiency Improvement:
Developed business case and deployed installation and commissioning of motion sensors at all core and BSC sites of PTML (Ufone), which has significant impact on electricity bills.
developed a business case and deployed solution for the optimal VAR compensation at core sites of PTML, which has signification impact on electricity bills.
Developed a business and deployed Advance cyclic Li-ion and high discharge rate batteries at
Access Location and Core Sites of PTML.
Nationwide Core Sites DC Power Systems configuration audit, which has signification impact in batteries health and root cause analysis of batteries premature reduction.
Nationwide Major Hub Sites power audit, which has signification impact on high rate hardware faults due to poor grounding, unsuitable environmental conditions for gensets, LCs, site equipment.
Nationwide external alarms patching on UPS and Rectifiers.
Nationwide battery banks testing and swapping
Nationwide ATS Panel Swapping
Engineering Resources that I worked with during my job
1. Major accomplishments as AC and DC Power Systems Designer and Solutions Provider
Following are the accomplishments as AC and DC Power Systems Designer and solutions provider.
Provided Hybrid power solution for access network, core network and Transmission Network
Provided renewable energy solutions i.e. Solar energy, solar DG battery etc for the access network
Co-ordination with Managed Services/Customer and Ericsson Product Development Unit on Pre- sales and post sales issues
To prepare RFP & RFQ responses for different customers of Pakistan (Ufone, Telenor, Warid,
Mobilink etc)
Compilation of different business cases (Gen-set 10kVA, Shelter with Hex, Hybrid and Solar
System) with KAM in terms of CAPEX and OPEX saving
Coordinated with sourcing for detail analysis of quotes received from different sun cons.
Presented different solution to Customer on basis of CAPEX and OPEX savings (e.g remote monitoring, smaller rating generators for BTS/RBS sites)
Battery Backup and Battery enhancement calculation for new and expansion sites
Weekly meeting with customers and vendors on issues related to Generators, batteries and power systems
Quarterly compilation of Products comparison and detail analysis with market competitors
Presentation to customer on updated Ericsson products roadmap and technology
Power Planning for expansion requirements.
complete project management including detailed designing of AC and DC Power system right from planning and building.
To dimension the Power capacity of AC generators, Uninterrupted Power Supplies, Power
Cables, Distribution boxes (480/230 volts) Rectifiers and Inverters for a facility
Be proactive to the load management and resource management
To meet the customer satisfaction index by updating the customer about the status of the project
To achieve the project in a given timeline
To prepare site design document for the customer proposal
Main Projects:
Warid Phase 5 & Phase 6 AC & DC Power design.
Preparation of detailed design document such C-modules, K-modules, H-modules etc.
Preparation of SDD (site design documents)
Renewable energy design such as solar, grid, battery etc.
Preparation of configuration files.
Complete core & BTS Power dimensioning.
2. Major accomplishments as Power Engineer in Managed Services Warid @ Ericsson Pakistan.
After completing the project as Power system Designer I was transferred to Operations and
Maintenance department which is called Managed Services WARID The statement of my duties is as under
Preventive and Proactive Maintenance on quarterly basis
Corrective maintenance of any outage
Integration of Power Systems on expansion sites, ATP’s & as build feedback to Solution
Engineer.
Remedial actions against the escalated Power issues
Firmware up gradation
Daily Power routine health check, Complete health check of DC power System
Cleaning of power System, Configuration check of power System
Software test
External Alarms testing, Battery Discharge Test
Repairing and Replacing of Rectifier Modules
System reconfiguration, Battery Replacement, Outage Analysis, Outage Reports
DC & AC analysis of Power System, Parts replacement
1st line of support of DC Power system and Radio Base Station sites to Field Maintenance Team.
Preventive maintenance includes the following practices.
Complete health check of DC power System
Cleaning of power System
Configuration check of power System
Software test
External Alarms testing
Battery Discharge Test
Weekly Outage report.
Corrective Maintenance includes
Repairing and Replacing of Rectifier Modules
System reconfiguration
Root Cause analysis
Battery Replacement
Outage Analysis
Outage Reports
DC & AC analysis of Power System
Parts repacement
Smart-working, savvy professional with a proven record of success in pre-sales & post sales Power Design, projects, efficiency programs and managed services in telecom power industry written communications, professional presentations, and marketing. Success- focused attitude, wise diplomacy and core values of honesty, loyalty, duty and integrity greatly enhance professional talents. Excellent leader/team player experienced in project management, Power systems designing and process development
