Senior Telecommunication Engineer
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority
Total years of experience :21 years, 10 Months
Working as Senior Telecom Engineer (Acting Assistant Manager Transport) responsible for managing Transport unit and ongoing projects, operating and maintenance of IP and SDH network and prepare scope and specifications for any future modifications or projects.
•Managing daily operation of transport unit (Seven engineers unit), distribute tasks to engineers, prepare annual budget and objective of all unit engineers and prepare evaluation at the end of year for engineers.
•Prepare scope of work for new systems and network refurbishment projects, evaluate bids and manage ongoing tasks related to the ongoing projects.
•Operating and Maintenance SDH Fiber Optic Equipment ABB FOX 660 (STM 4/16- 10GE), ABB FOX 515T and FOX 515X (STM 4/16), ABB FOX515 (STM -1 /STM-4), Marconi OMS 1240 (STM 4) and Marconi OMS 1654 ( STM -4 / STM-16)
•Planning the PDH and SDH network, reconfigure the traffic and prepare scope needed to add new Equipment to the network.
• Operating and Maintenance PDH Equipment type ABB FOX-U, ABB -FOX515 RFL IMUX 2000, Nokia DN2, DM2 and DF28.
•Operating and Maintenance Industrial routers (Ruggedcom RX1500, MOXA EDS 405 and EDS 509 and CISCO CGS2520) where these routers are used to transfer data from substations ( IEC 104, IEC 101, Ethernet channels, 2Mb trunk(E1) and CCTV traffic).
•Operating and maintenance of FE and GE EoSDH links (Ethernet over SDH)
•Prepare scope and any necessary modification for MPLS IP based CCTV network which built using CISCO 7609, ASR9001 and CGS 2520 switches.
• Projects:
Mamzer Beach Tunnel Security and Telephony coverage
Project Manager to manage all the tasks inside the 14 Km Tunnel which includes
- 14 Km Fiber Optic cable laying and splicing.
- Intrusion alarm system
- CCTV system ( 26 PTZ and 50 Fix cameras)
- Industrial Network switches.
- TETRA telephony coverage (using leaky Feeder cable)
CCTV Project
Technical team leader to manage all the tasks related to the network for the CCTV project where DEWA cover 179 substations with more than 2000 camera, the network part which contains 3 layers
• MPLS Core layer formed by CISCO 7609 routers
• Aggregate layer formed by ASR 9001
• Access layer formed by Cisco Industrial switches CGS 2520
Water SCADA Network
Design a communication network for Water SCADA based on layer 3 switches for connecting RTU over IEC 104 links up to the master station my role includes the design, tendering, analyzing bids and communicate with bidders with PTCs and the implementation phase.
TCC and DCC
Part of Transmission Control Center and Distribution Control Center projects where I was following Telecom part which includes modification in telecom network to extend four data routes from each substation up to the new TCCs and DCCs.
The scope includes installations and integration of new multiplexers (SDH and PDH), NMS, Synchronization GPS clock and data extenders.
Emirates Monitoring Center (through which all emirates authorities are connected in one national grid) where I followed up all the site activities for SDH equipment, teleprotection equipment, PABX, CCTV, Access control system and metering system
Working as communication Engineer responsible for:
Issuing QDRs (Quality Deficiency Reports) after attending the Site Acceptance tests for telecom, metering and SCADA inside the monitoring center and attend the corrective work done by the contractor.
Operating and Maintenance SDH Fiber Optic Equipment ABB FOX 515
Testing fiber Optic cables using OTDR, Power meter and Laser source.
Operating, Testing, and Maintenance Teleprotection Equipment type ABB TEBIT.
Testing and Operating Teleprotection Channels using MK-11 toolkit
Operating and maintenance of Sopho PABX (IS 3000)
Operating and maintenance of Marathon Evolution voice recorder.
Operating and maintenance for ENG (Emirates National Grid) metering system (SIGLON metering system).
Operating and maintenance CCTV system ( JVC )
Operating and maintenance Access control system
Working as communication Engineer responsible for:
Operating and Maintenance SDH Fiber Optic Equipment Nortel TN-1X (STM-1)
Operating and Maintenance PDH Equipment type ABB FOX-U, ABB - FOX515 RFL IMUX 2000.
Planning the SDH and PDH network, reconfigure the traffic, add new PDH Equipment to the network and management system, creating cross-connection, Alarm Clearing.
Testing and Operating SCADA Channels (Analogue and Digital) using Level generator and Level meter Types (PSM 137, SPM 32) and PFA 35 and EDT 135 for Digital Channels.
Supervise the splicing and Testing of Fiber Optic Cables (OPGW and Underground) and prepare the Testing Reports
Testing fiber Optic cables using OTDR, Power meter and Laser source.
Operating and Maintenance Power Line Carrier Type ABB ETI 21, ETI 101, ETL 81 and Selta STE-N
Erecting, Operating and Maintenance Outdoor Coupling Equipment for PLC Connection to the Power Line (Coupling Filters and Differential Transformers).
Operating, Testing, and Maintenance Teleprotection Equipment type ABB NSD (40, 41, 60, 61, 50, 70), ABB TEBIT, Selta TPS-N and RFL 9745GD.
Testing and Operating Teleprotection Channels using MK-11 toolkit
93% average
