frank mcgrath

fttp planning engineer

About

After an apprenticeship with BT I was employed for 17 years in the External Network Plannimng department. In 1994 I left to join C&W, I have been through an outsource (to Atkins Consultancy) and recently been re insourced to C&W. Specialties: Copper and fibre planning/design wayleave negotiations and liasion with local authorities/third party suppliers.

Country

united kingdom

City

glasgow

Industry

telecommunications

Skill

telecommunications, fiber optics, project planning, optical fiber, transmission, network design, ip, managed services, planning, sdh, networking, voip, negotiation, fiber, cabling, microsoft office, dwdm, broadband, fttx, dsl, pdh, wireless, synchronous digital hierarchy, visio, excel, wireless technologies

Experience

fttp planning engineer

cityfibre

2016-8 - Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

external planner

1976-1 - 1994-1 · 18 yrs 1 mo

fibre planning engieer

vodafone

2013-4 - 2014-3 · 1 yr

plan the route etc and estimate the cost of fibre optic cable installation for customer connections, and network build.

external planning engineer

cable & wireless

2009-5 - 2013-4 · 4 yrs

* Planning all aspects of major civils and fibre installations. * Customer connections to the existimng network * Liaison with local authorities * wayleave negotiation * Cost estimation for all aspects of fibre installations.

fibre planning

atkins

2001-1 - 2009-1 · 8 yrs 1 mo

planner

mercury communications

1994-1 - 2001-1 · 7 yrs 1 mo

external planning manager and engineer greater glasgow area

1979-9 - 1994-4 · 14 yrs 8 mos

Employed on major projects and customers connections planning on bothe the copepr and fibre network in the Greater Glasgow area of Scotland, Also spebt 1 year in the London area on secondment.

fibre planning engineer

4site networks

2016-7 - Present · 10 yrs 3 mos

Fibre Planning engineer working on the NBA project in Ireland. produce detailed costings for the NBA test area of Tullimore Ireland using software programs FME, QGIS and FiberPlanIt. Prior to roll out of project to all rural area's in the Republic Ireland

senior fibre planning engineer

vodafone

2014-3 - 2016-3 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Carryout detailed design and costing for the fibre cable works involved on the network site closure project for numerous sites with in the UK, including fibre records management , cable material and consumables indentification and ordering. fibre cable outage booking and liaison with supplychain.