Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Educationalawards
Accomplishments
References
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Praveen Gounder

Praveen Gounder

Whitby,Porirua

Summary

I am interested in applying as a Project manager or Contract Manager in a company to advance my knowledge and skills in civil, roadworks and or challenge all aspects of business. I acquired my experience on job working for Downer New Zealand Limited based in Wellington, New Zealand. Prior to that I have worked and gained expertise in Transfield Service and Nortel Networks, etc.

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager

Telecommuncations New Zealand Limited
01.2023 - Current
  • Working mainly managing general civil works (excavation, trenching, compaction and clegg testing)
  • Cartage materials (Roadwork’s, Spoil and sand etc)
  • Reinstatement work (Concrete and Asphalt)
  • Landscape, Drain and road Maintenances
  • Paving installation that includes inspection, managing, groundwork’s
  • Estimating projects
  • Managing jobs in progress and do cost vs budget
  • Dealing with tender and customers for prompt deliver
  • Managing Health and Safety

Project Manager (BPL)

Downer New Zealand Ltd
01.2016 - 01.2023
  • Manage and lead jobs created for Chorus and Vodafone clients
  • Assess design and cost prior engaging crew
  • Order materials and arrange CAR and traffic management plans
  • Book for stand over if required and create P O
  • Engage internal Downer crew or Sub contractor
  • Create RFQ and tender to subcontractor for large Fibre or Road works jobs
  • Plan and schedule jobs in Planit with timeframe to deliver
  • Do random health and safety assessment and site visit to maintain good quality
  • Do near misses and investigate any incident or injury for future prevention
  • Work involves Road works, New Property Developments, Cabinets cutovers/ rehabs, Fibre cutovers, copper cutovers and complete the financial report (cost vs budget)
  • Attend meeting and find solution with developer, Council and clients

Telecommunication Designer

Downer New Zealand Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2016
  • Started as copper designer and then migrated to fibre designer
  • Scope and do site visit and liaise with customer on daily basis
  • Design and estimate copper and Ultrafast Broadband projects
  • Order materials
  • Peer review colleague design and material
  • Generate RFQ to sub contractor to engage work
  • Process it to build team to deliver product to Chorus standard

Fibre Optic Technician

TOTAL TELECOMMUNICATION LTD
01.2012 - 01.2014
  • Test fibre drum before civil installation with test equipments such as OTDR, Laser Fault or Tracer
  • Haul and install fibre as per customer requirements
  • Lume, figure 8 and lasing fibre optic cables
  • Taken correct measures with Setup, Splicing and disposing Shards
  • Prepare closures, setup the fibre optic cable as per plan, splicing, storing/placing in trays and install in closures (Coyote, Fost, BDD, FIST, Cabinets, etc types)
  • Poles and Pit closures
  • Learned to read plans, schematics and installing procedures
  • Have worked in Wanganui with ULTRA FAST BROADBAND TEAM on going basis and trained some of the new stuff members
  • Have also worked in Blehnium, testing and splicing, labeling
  • Always looking for challenge and have also work in Telstra clear network, FX networks, etc

Field Technician

TRANSFIELD SERVICES LTD N.Z
01.2007 - 01.2011
  • Was part of the team to re-build Christchurch after the earthquake
  • Maintenance of Transpower communication equipment
  • Restoration and Maintenance of Telecommunication Network system (residence and Business lines)
  • Provisioning, installing and repairing broadband services (adsl, adsl2+)
  • As Fault man I have worked in various line of business within Transfield Services Ltd which has broadened my knowledge and skills (e.g
  • Cable fault, Data, locating network cables and 049 underground lead, ADSL or broadband fault and repair)
  • Have received multiple customer satisfaction feedback

Systems Technologist

Nortel Networks
01.1993 - 02.2007
  • Company Overview: Calgary Canada
  • Experienced in CDMA (assembly, board level testing and troubleshooting, various system level configuration and test and t/shooting
  • Experienced in Meridian side (PBX) of the Nortel business (full functional test, configuration on various packs as per customer orders and troubleshooting
  • Also worked on Meridian mail products
  • Responsible for delegating daily service targets to team members
  • Acted as Quality coordinator, inspecting defects and resolving problems with product defects
  • Gained vast experienced working with variety of products in Nortel and achieved my desired telecommunication job knowledge and set skills to deal with any Nortel products globally
  • Worked initially on CDMA products, such as TRU2 radio and broadening product knowledge migrated into system level, 1900/800 mhz BTS
  • Have performed testing, configuration, and troubleshooting on meridian option 61c/81c/11c and 51c and meridian mail
  • The Meridian Products (PBX) that I mainly worked is from China, Mexico, Singapore, India, United States and Military services, Australia, Japan, and Canada etc
  • Calgary Canada

Education

Diploma - Electronics and Computer Technology, Telecommunication Technology

ASET Canada
01.1993

Diploma - Electronics and Computer Technology

Wellington Polytechnic
01.1986

High School Diploma -

Xavier College
01.1985

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • Project planning and development
  • Project Scheduling
  • Cost vs Budget
  • Analyse design and order materials
  • Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint
  • Civil work (hard surface reinstatement and paving)
  • Telecommunications
  • Designing (Fibre and Copper)
  • Digger/ Tipper

Educationalawards

  • 01/01/86, Wellington Polytechnic, Fiji Government scholarship to complete a Diploma in Electronics and Computer Technology in Wellington New Zealand.
  • 01/01/93, ASET Canada, Diploma in Electronics and Computer Technology, Diploma in Telecommunication Technology.
  • 01/01/00, Member of the Alberta Society of Engineering Technologist.
  • 01/01/12, Certified Fibre Optic Technician.

Accomplishments

  • 01/01/98, Part-time Sub-contracted for Rik’s Electrical in Calgary, Canada.
  • 01/01/04, Owned and successfully operated a store (UPS/Postal Service) in Calgary, Canada.

References

  • Doug Stickley, Manager at Downer Power and Gas, +64 021856432, doug.stickley@downer.co.nz
  • Dave Williams, Owner: Greenstone concreting and Asphalt, +64 0274515445, admin@grnstn.co.nz
  • Ross Kelly, Owner: Tier One Group, +64 0276626816, ross.kelly@tierone.co.nz

Cover Letter

Dear Sir,, I am interested in applying as a Project Coordinator in Wellington area. I acquired my training and customer service relationship with internal and external customers in the telecommunication industry. Have strong work ethic habits and a great team player. Always willing to help and go the extra mile if needed to get the task completed and commitment met., Yours sincerely,, Praveen Gounder

Timeline

Project Manager

Telecommuncations New Zealand Limited
01.2023 - Current

Project Manager (BPL)

Downer New Zealand Ltd
01.2016 - 01.2023

Telecommunication Designer

Downer New Zealand Ltd
01.2014 - 01.2016

Fibre Optic Technician

TOTAL TELECOMMUNICATION LTD
01.2012 - 01.2014

Field Technician

TRANSFIELD SERVICES LTD N.Z
01.2007 - 01.2011

Systems Technologist

Nortel Networks
01.1993 - 02.2007

Diploma - Electronics and Computer Technology, Telecommunication Technology

ASET Canada

Diploma - Electronics and Computer Technology

Wellington Polytechnic

High School Diploma -

Xavier College

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