PAUL DEARING

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

 

November 2001

 

 

Senior O&M Consultant working with Mobile and Fixed network operators, and system suppliers.

 

1. CONSULTANT EXPERIENCE (1994 to Present Day)

 

July/August 2001- Network Operations bid support to Ericsson UK for combined IP/TV/Telecoms network.

 

March/April 2001 – GSM Network Management System delivery project EMT Estonia, Tallin

 

October/November 2000 – GSM network operations audit Telstra Mobile Australia

 

August/September 2000 –  Developing network service assurance techniques with a major UK mobile operator.,

 

July 2000 – Network Operations bid support to Ericsson Germany for combined CATV/Telecoms network

 

March/April/May 2000 – Turkcell Network Control Centre – detailed design and implementation project, Istanbul.

 

February 2000 – Eircell GSM O&M support improvement project - Dublin

 

September 99 to January 2000 – One2One GSM 1800 O&M support for mobile internet system operations.

 

June/August 1999 – Turkcell GSM Network Control Centre outline design project, Istanbul

 

April/May 1999 – Ericsson O&M development for Ericsson Radio Stockholm

 

March 1999 – ImpSat Network O&M system bid support.

 

November/December 1998. Miditel Mexico. Mobile and fixed network O&M study and recommendations report.

 

October 1998 – ImpSat (South America) O&M requirements analysis and presales bid development

 

September/October 1998 Ericsson O&M Consultant Development Course Stockholm. Course development and tutor.

 

June/August 1998 – Telia UK Network Performance measurements.  Requirements study and recommendations.

 

April to June 1998 – First Telecom London. Network O&M requirements study and recommendations.

 

February to April 1998 -  Telia UK London. Network and Operations audit and improvement plan project.

 

October to December 1997. O&M services development and implementation of Ericsson NOC in Stockholm

 

April to September 1997. O&M services (Network Operations Centre Build, Operate, and Transfer) delivery project at Telfort BV in Amsterdam

 

March 1997 - Post delivery audits of Ericsson Mobile supplied customer care and billing systems in the Balkans (Serbia, Slovenia, and Macedonia).

 

November 1996 to March 1997. O&M services development at Ericsson Stockholm

 

 

2. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

 

1995 - 1996.

 

One year contract with Guernsey Telecoms.

- Project management of the Guernsey GSM customer care and billing system supplied by Ericsson UK (ETL) and ERA.

- re-negotiation of the Guernsey / BT Interconnect contract.

 

 

1975 - 1994

 

BT (British Telecommunications PLC) is various roles:

 

1988 - 1994

Interconnection Management. Team Leader in BT Headquarters managing the commercial and technical agreements between BT and other UK operators including Mercury, Cellnet, Vodafone, Manx Telecom, Kingston Communications (Hull), Guernsey Telecoms and Jersey Telecoms.

 

1982 - 1988

BT Network Planning.  Team leader of BT/HQ network routing and capacity forecasting group. Initially involved in the UK trunk network modernisation programme (1982 to 1985) then primarily concerned with interconnection of BT network and other operator’s network.

 

 

 

1979 - 1982

BT International data services

Analogue data and X25 packet switched services.

 

1975 - 1979

BT Marketing.  Product development of medium sized PBXs.

 

 

3. PERSONAL DETAILS

 

Date of Birth: 14th July 1955  

Status: Single

Nationality: British