Ravin Singh

Grid Edge Solutions & Mission Critical Systems

Locate or propose potential business deals by contacting potential partners; discovering and exploring these opportunities. Screening potential business deals by analysing market strategies, deal requirements, potential, and financials; evaluating options; resolving internal priorities; recommending equity investments. Develop negotiating strategies and positions by studying integration of new ventures with company strategies and operations; examining risks and potentials; estimating partners' needs and goals

Designing and technical sales support for all sub-Saharan customers and distributors. Design technical Support for SMA South Africa Sales team. Technical Market analysis, competitor analysis. Liaises with Key Customers on technical Matters SAP/CRM Quotations , New Corporate accounts , Sold to party Technical support to Service line assistance , on site customer support Technical fault Finding for Service / Field Service, On Site Commissioning relief for Field Service. Provision of Communication and training of new products including technical updates to customers regarding Hybrid Solutions.

Provide independent commissioning, maintenance and repair of solar inverters for large scale PV Customer support on single and three phase inverters Monitor and implement product improvement process Customer training Provide Project Manager with required on site updates

 Design and Implementation of new micro controlled systems.  Installation and commissioning of microwave units. Testing of previously implemented equipment and ensuring the equipment is within required specifications. Report writing and documenting previous designs. Maintenance (repair down to component level) of the systems used on radio telescopes and related equipment. Operating and maintaining complex workshop test equipment Supervising and training HartRAO and SKA Project technicians

The Agricultural Research Council is a premier science institution that conducts fundamental and applied research with partners to generate new knowledge, develop human capital and foster innovation in agriculture, through technology development, dissemination, and competitive commercialisation of research results. As a senior research technician for the ARC (Institute for Soil, Climate and Water), I am required to manage and maintain the areas of Kwazulu - Natal. Key responsibilities include: Manage, coordinate and provide regional technical maintenance and calibration activities (in compliance with WMO and other scientific parameters/standards). Perform and plan regional maintenance activities for self and subordinates according to national aims. Identify the need for resources (Capital, equipment and human) in regional project(s) Compile and manage regional project budgets. Planning and co-ordination of regional technical project work activities and systems for self and subordinates. Ensure optimal utilisation of resources. Marketing, with allocation of new Automatic Weather Stations. Designing new solutions to adhere to customer needs. Installation of new weather stations. Collects, captures, processes and interprets weather data to identify technical problems Responsible for decisions on integrity of weather station sensors and equipment, and inputs/suggestions regarding data & results

Electronics is a branch of Digicore Holdings which specialises in vehicle tracking and fleet management. The company is listed as one of the JSE's top 100 companies. Major responsibilities included: Providing services and support on vehicle management system and Kivellert Guard monitoring system. Relaying technical information to research and development for the improvement of product quality. Present solutions to customers on software related problems. General support to software including set up and driver installation. Extensive Customer training on products with makeup of equipment. Repairs to customer C-Track tracking/fleet management units from around the world. Hardware upgrades. Software upgrades to clients over the air (OTA Upgrades) using GPRS. Setting up of clients GPRS base stations on site. Repairs down to component level with ISO standards being adhered to.

In order to complete a diploma in Electrical Engineering a minimum requirement of 54 weeks has to be served under inservice training. Training included: Report writing - Documentation on specific repair or maintenance. Use of testing equipment - multimeters, oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, function generators, vector network analysers etc. The design and implementation of a test jig. Basic repairs (component level). Learning the Open Office package including basic.