Highly motivated professional with 17 years of experience in operations, maintenance, system integration, and network management. Currently serving as a Manager in the Singapore network operation team. Dedicated to taking on challenging assignments in a healthy and stimulating environment that fosters mutual development. Expertise includes service delivery, service assurance, project implementation, and ISO27K & ISO 45K audit. Responsible for effectively managing POP sites in Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, and Bangladesh.
- We responsible for delivery & testing of newly received orders at POPs spread across 11 different locations in Singapore
- Co-ordinate with partner / DC provider for sites situated outside Singapore to get patching completed
- Support customer / backbone scheduled restoration / migrations as per downtime provided
- Handling the testing, commissioning of new circuits from E1 to 400G level
- Perform preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance on equipment to monitor the performance characteristics or to prevent faults
- Manage the inventory and maintain the integrity of spares by audit of spare cards against diverse pool of devices (2 times in a year)
- Handling installation & testing of new Equipments (Layer-1, Layer-2 & Layer-3). Need to study plan & confirm space & power feasibility to them. Take quote for local consumables, rack & power termination
- Perform physical installation, testing & commissioning by coordinating with Engineering, project manager & local contractor
Having hands on experience on below systems
- Operation and Maintenance of Submarine Optical Cables namely SMW4, FLAG, ADC, TIISCS & TGN-IA. Alcatel, Fujitsu & Tyco Submarine PFE. SLTE Alcatel 1620LM, Fujitsu FLASHWAVE S650, Ciena 6500, Tyco G2, G3, G4, Infinera FlexILS XTS3600 & G42 shelfs
- Metro DWDM network (Huawei 1600/ 8800, Adva FSP 3000 7HU/ 9HU/ cloud connect shelfs, Infinera G42 shelfs)
- Layer-2 ethernet devices (Cisco ASR 9010/ 9904/ 9001, Ciena 5160/ 5142/ 3960, Adva EGX, Cisco NCS 5501 / 5508/ 540)
- Layer-3 Routers & Switches (Juniper MX240/ MX480/ MX960, Cisco 3400/ 2900/ 3600/ 7609/ 12000, ALU 7750SR7/ SR12/ SRA8, Cisco NCS 55A1, UfiSpace NCP3 S9710-76D/ NCP Lite S9701-82DC)
- Digital Cross Connect Systems (Alcatel 1678 MCC, Ciena CD, Turin 2000, Turin 200, Ciena 5430, Marconi 1664, Nortel)
- Test set & fault localisation devices (OTDR, COTDR, Optical Spectrum Analyser, ANT-5, JDSU 5800, JDSU8000, ANT 20, EXFO FTB-1, EXFO FTB-4, EXFO FTB-500, VIAVI ONA-1000)
- Handle many complex migrations which include shifting from one platform to another platform, spectrum optimisation as well as physical POP shifting.
- Submarine system commissioning
- Handle circuit delivery at F1 & MotoGP race location for Singapore, Thailand & Malaysia.
- Contributed significantly to update audit related files.
- Many times involved in Submarine cable repair activity