Telecom Projects Engineer, Commissioning section
national petroleum construction company (npcc)
Total years of experience :17 years, 1 Months
• Revise & comment on Factory Acceptance Test documents/ procedures (FAT)
• Participate in Factory Acceptance Tests (in the UAE and overseas)
• Generate punch-lists and follow up with vendor for clearance
• Lead pre-commissioning/ commissioning of communication, AV and IT systems such as: Public Address systems, UHF/VHF Radio communication systems, CCTV, PABX, Data Network System (such as SDH systems), Instrumentation systems, Control systems (such as Substation Control Monitoring Systems)
• Identify professional system integrators
• Participate in client/ vendor meetings and discuss alternate solutions
• Manage meetings with sub-contractors
• Develop OTP (Operation Test Procedure) sheets for various telecom disciplines
• Develop Telecom systems commissioning strategy
• Plan and supervise installation/ testing of communication systems
• Conduct tool box talk (TBT)
• Design a website for the Commissioning section
• Meet with clients to discuss needs, participate in site surveys
• Review & write specifications and technical submittals
• Design audiovisual systems for venues such as malls, theaters, auditoriums, government facilities, hospitals and houses of worship
• Prepare and submit quotations and bill of quantities
• Provide end-user training and documentation
• Write technical documents such as Operation & Maintenance manuals
• Administered system including daily/monthly backup
• Technical support for all remote sites, products (booking stations, criminal reporting & investigation workstations, matching stations, coders)
• Managed help desk calls from customers (Ministry of the Interior)
• Database administration
• Implemented fingerprint based solutions and law enforcement systems in various CID remote sites such as civil services centers, immigration offices, border control gateways, and airport arrival & departure gates
• Analyzed & solved various system problems on Microsoft WINDOWS XP SP2 platforms
• Installed & configure IBM platforms/biometric matchers & booking stations that consist of imaging and matching devices running on WINDOWS XP SP2 applications
• Customized applications to serve client needs
• Create and develop UNIX scripts for several applications
• Troubleshoot system bugs and hardware failures
• Compose French and English weekly/monthly/yearly updates and technical reports for SAGEM SECURITE-Group SAN FRAN Headquarters in Abu Dhabi & France
• Create & implement bidding systems for contracts & projects
• Organized various meetings with the clients’ administration, represented by various departments of the Ministry
• Negotiated solutions with customers
• Planned & participated in international exhibitions (Qatar 3rd MILIPOL-Military & Police exhibition)
• Wrote operational procedures in support of management policies
• Tested and commissioned newly implemented projects such as criminal investigation workstations
• Created and implemented automated system tasks using CLI (Command line interface) and GUI (Graphical User Interface) such as backup & system restore policies for catastrophic events