Robert Bernardino, Traffic and Restoration Engineer

Robert Bernardino

Traffic and Restoration Engineer

Gulf Bridge International

Location
Qatar - Doha
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Experience
22 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :22 years, 3 Months

Traffic and Restoration Engineer at Gulf Bridge International
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since February 2012

The position is a multi-role position for various telecom areas such as Customer Service Delivery, Network Planning, Design and Implementation, Customer circuit path design, Restoration, Capacity Management

Responsibilities:
• Responsible for developing and implementing service delivery procedures and will liaison with 3rd party providers for all off-net requirements, testing and handover. Deliver customer services on agreed RFS and to make sure that the contractual SLA is achieved with high customer satisfaction.
• Take care of network inventory and updates using Operational Support Systems and carry out network checks and audits
• Performs network risks analysis, mitigation plan, and business continuity development.
• Work closely with Transmission and IP NOC ensuring that the agreed solution is well understood and implemented in an orderly fashion
• Planning Design and Implementation of Network circuits including building of STM-64 bearers and IP backbone capacity making sure that capacity will be readily available for future customers’ circuits
• Planning, Design and Implementation of customer circuits
• Review capacity feasibility requests from Pre-sales team. Work closely with Engineering team thru providing capacity report and suggesting upgrade solutions to ensure capacity is available for future customers’ circuits
• Planning, Design and Implementation of Interim restoration solution in the event of network fault, assuring customer business continuity
• Work closely with onsite support teams across all GBI Landing Sites to ensure proper handling of onsite support requests

Senior Project Engineer at Pacnet
  • Philippines
  • January 2007 to January 2012

Promoted to Senior Project Engineer for managing the direct implementation of Subsea Upgrade projects for C2C and
EAC Networks • working with cross functional team of project stakeholders, Operations team, NOC team, Capacity
and Network planning to meet program objectives • Presented detailed project summaries to senior level management
and conducted post implementation analyses to determine areas for project improvement

Project Engineer at Pacnet
  • Philippines
  • January 2006 to January 2007

Promoted to Project Engineer to direct implementation of SDH and DWDM Terrestrial Backhaul Projects • working with cross functional team of project stakeholders, Service delivery manager, Operations team, NOC team, Capacity and Network planning to meet program objectives • Presented detailed project summaries to senior level management and conducted post implementation analyses to determine areas for project improvement

Colocation Support Engineer at Pacnet
  • Philippines
  • January 2004 to January 2006

Customer colocation deployment in Asia-wide PACNET facilities that involves sales inquiry evaluation • approval and
implementation of colocation order • Maintain suitable database for order tracking, as-built documentations • Worked
closely with Pacnet Engineering Facilities Manager, Operations, sales and Product team to ensure consistent network
deployment in Asia region.

Telehouse Engineer at Digitel Crossing Inc
  • Philippines
  • February 2002 to August 2004

Operation, administration and maintenance of Digitel Crossing’s Layer 1 to Layer 3 facilities such as Lucent ADM16/1, Lucent TDM10G, Alcatel TDM3600 Bandwidth managers, Cisco routers of different model • Worked closely with ANOC (Asia Network Operations Center), ASC (Asia Service Center) for proper fault addressing and resolution • Performed circuit provisioning for clients to connect to DCI data services • Such services include IPL, IP Transit, ATM, Frame Relay, Colocation, etc. • Provide technical support to clients as well as to interconnecting carriers • Performed fault isolation, clearing and restoration of transmission backhaul facilities • Worked closely with different carriers for circuit provisioning and fault clearing • Outside Plant maintenance for Digitel Crossing’s Backhaul Network • Perform site provisioning and testing of various DCI/PACNET circuits at customer premises

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communications Engineering
  • at Technological Institute of the Philippines Quezon City Philippines
  • October 1999

Graduated BS Electronics and Communication Engineering

Specialties & Skills

Service Delivery
NETWORKING
CISCO ROUTERS
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
MS Visio
Operation of Various Telecom Network Analyzers
MS Project
Vendor Management
Microsoft Excel
Project Management
Inventory Management System (OSS)

Languages

English
Expert
Filipino
Native Speaker

Memberships

Institute of Electronics and Communication Engineers-Qatar Chapter
  • Member
  • March 2014

Training and Certifications

 Ciena 6500 Type B3 OneControl Management Operation Class (Training)
Training Institute:
Ciena
Date Attended:
September 2015
 Ciena 6500 BB PL Operation and Maintenance Submarine Repeatered ILT Class (Training)
Training Institute:
Ciena
Date Attended:
September 2015
 Xtera Optima /NXT/NMS Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Xtera
Date Attended:
September 2012
 Xtera NXT Type A, B1 and B2 Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Xtera
Date Attended:
June 2010
 Mitsubishi LTU with Advance TRX Training – Operation and Maintenance (Training)
Training Institute:
Mitsubishi Electric
Date Attended:
April 2010
 Xtera NXT NMS B3 Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Xtera
Date Attended:
February 2010
 Tyco Type B1 Training for UNITY Cable (Training)
Training Institute:
Tyco
Date Attended:
October 2009
 Xtera NX10 – Operation and Maintenance Type A, B1 and B2 Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Xtera
Date Attended:
February 2009
 Mitsubishi LTU (3rd Generation LTU) – Operation and Maintenance Type B Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Mitsubishi Electric
Date Attended:
September 2008
 Navis Optical Management System (OMS) - Ethernet Management Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Lucent Technologies
Date Attended:
May 2007
 Lucent TransLAN Wavestar ITM-CIT – Operation and Maintenance (Training)
Training Institute:
Lucent Technologies
Date Attended:
May 2007
 Alcatel 1696MS - Operation and Maintenance Type B Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Alcatel
Date Attended:
November 2006
 Turin 1600 Add Drop Multiplexer - Operations and Maintenance Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Turin
Date Attended:
May 2006
 Lucent Metropolis ADM (universal Shelf) - Operation and Maintenance Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Lucent Technologies
Date Attended:
December 2005
 Lucent Lambda Unite - Operation and Maintenance Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Lucent Technologies
 Lucent Lambda Unite - Operation and Maintenance Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Lucent Technologies
 Layer 3 Network Design and Implementation (Training)
Training Institute:
Informatics
 Layer 3 Network Installations and Configuration (Training)
Training Institute:
Informatics
 Basic Router Configuration (Training)
Training Institute:
Fujitsu House Makatic Philippines
Date Attended:
July 2002
Arsystem Remedy Web Based Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Asia Netcom
Date Attended:
February 2003
 Lucent ADM16/1 and TDM10G OAM - Lucent Integrated Network System Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Lucent Technologies
Date Attended:
April 2002

Hobbies

  • Singing
  • Playing Drums
  • Playing Guitar
    Self Satisfaction