Adrian Sumner

 

email adrian.sumner@ntlworld.com

 

 

Profile:

Company director of local property maintenance company, working director with joint responsibility for quotation, design and implementation of customer requirements.

Background is as a Senior Telecom Engineer with a broad Experience of Mobile and fixed Telecoms solutions. Managed, designed and integrated complex solutions with Motorola and third party vendor equipment for regional & country wide radio and data network deployment.

UK security Cleared to level SC

 

Achievements: Motorola Peak Performers Award, Top 100 out 150,000 employees

 

Work Experience

 

Jan 2004 - Present Director Wokingham Services Ltd 

  • Property maintenance solutions
  • Plumbing and heating system design installation, commissioning, fault diagnosis and repair.
  • Electrical system design, installation and testing
  • CITB registered competent person for design, installation, commissioning and servicing of Unvented hot water systems

1997 – June 2004 Systems Integration Lab Manager Motorola Ltd 

  • Managed a systems integration lab for Tetra infrastructure/radios for world wide deployment.
  • Design customer solutions then build a sample network for integration/stress testing
  • Design and build sample IP core networks for integration with radio systems
  • Support seven test teams in resolving network issues during integration phase
  • Manage customer and customer expectations during Factory acceptance tests
  • Managing lab team of 6 technicians to make sure test systems are configured correctly.
  • Third party vendor selection against system requirements
  • Provide engineering support for field installation group on 24 x 7 basis
  • Debug field operation issues after installation which are out of scope of field support teams
  • Train customers and Motorola staff on new systems
  • Provide support for Non UK based development teams in the USA, Germany , Malaysia, Denmark, Switzerland and Israel
  • Manage lab development budget
  • Configuration management of software test loads and baselines using Clearcase
  • Develop Unix scripts for test cases for cycle time reduction 
  • Document and manage test case environment for test systems
  • Contract negotiation with external suppliers
  • Support of interoperability test facilities for use by Nokia, Sepura and Thales 

1995 - 1997 Staff Engineer Motorola Ltd.

  • EMC test and certification of Motorola Products to BS / EN specifications
  • Establish Motorola UK in house EMC test facility
  • Hardware design modification of equipment to ensure conformation with EMC specifications
  • Joint EMC problem rectification projects with other Motorola sites, Copenhagen , Schaumberg
  • Travel to external test houses to witness and provide technical support during testing of Motorola products 

1993 - 1997 Senior Systems Engineer Motorola Ltd.

  • System design for Channel Tunnel on train radio system
  • Familiar with MPT1327 , 5 tone signaling and SmartZone trunking systems
  • Production of system Functional Design Specification for customer approval and contract sign off
  • Cell/RF site planning for mobile solutions.
  • Hardware design of On Train radio system control equipment to component level
  • Test and certification of system software functionality 
  • Design of equipment to meet Rail standards specifications RIA 12 and 13
  • Incorporation of vibration protection into equipment design
  • 6 months on site vibration and EMC testing at Siemens Plessey Laboratories, Titchfield
  • On site test and commissioning UK, France, Germany and Belgium
  • Customer site RF coverage surveys 

1989 - 1993 Systems Engineer Motorola Ltd.

  • System design engineer for PMR radio systems, including British Airways Heathrow and Gatwick, Tyne and Wear Fire Brigade, BNFL Sellafield, London Buses, Surrey Fire and Ambulance Service, Lancashire Police
  • Coordination of installation and commissioning teams for above radio systems
  • Factory and site acceptance testing
  • Post installation site visits for fault tracking and rectification 

1987 - 1989 Systems test Technician Motorola Ltd.

  • In house customer system testing to functional design specifications
  • Factory acceptance testing of customer systems prior to ship acceptance and field deployment.
  • End to end test and fault diagnosis of Motorola Trunked radio systems.

1985 - 1987 Test Technician Storno Ltd.

  • Testing radio and system infrastructure components
  • Preparing equipment for customer inspection
  • Fault finding digital and analogue equipment to component level
  • Meeting set quality goals

1984 - 1985 Electronics Craftsman Royal Aircraft Establishment

  • Calibration and repair of test equipment 
  • Design and construction of measurement equipment interfaces
  • Installation and maintenance of gas turbine engine control and test systems

1980 - 1984 Electronics Apprentice Royal Aircraft Establishment

  • 4 year electronics apprenticeship 
  • Electronic design and fault finding
  • Workshop skills

 

Training Courses

 

  • EAL Domestic Electrical Installer NVQ
  • C + G 2381 16th Edition Electrical Regulations
  • CITB Unvented Hot water systems Certification

 

  • CISCO ICND Interconnecting CISCO Network Devices
  • 3COM IP Training
  • Nortel Passport Frame Relay Operation and configuration
  • Hewlett Packard Unix Fundamentals and programming
  • Frost & Sullivan Digital Telecommunication Principles
  • Phillips Associates ISDN Fundamentals
  • Critical Chain Program Management
  • Ray Castle Tetra Radio Systems
  • BeTa Workshop Practice and Safety
  • Essentials of Motorola Management
  • Motorola Internal Training, Smartzone Radio Systems, Dimetra Radio Systems, Project Management , Ethical Practices

 

Technical skills

 

  • Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of  3Com, CISCO and HP network equipment
  • Configuration of Zhone IMACs WAN multiplexers.
  • RF site survey experience using Chase and R+S RF measurement equipment.
  • Unix command line scripting, Clearcase, XClearcase. 
  • Installation and configuration of HP UX 9 and 10.20 , DOS, Windows 95 / 98, 2000, XP, Windows NT 3.51 / NT4 workstation and server , Redhat Linux 8 and 9
  • MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio.
  • 2D and 3D Mechanical design using Autocad 12, 14, 2000, 2002
  • PC, Macintosh and HP workstation hardware installation and fault finding
  • Assemblers 8031, 8085

 

 

Education

 

  • EAL Domestic Installers Qualification NVQ
  • C + G 2381 16th Edition Electrical Regulations CITB
  • Unvented Hot water systems Certification
  • Currently studying for CISCO CCNA at Basingstoke College.
  • C + G Radio Amateurs Certificate Bracknell College of Technology 1989 - 1990.
  • BTEC Electronics Level III Brooklands Technical College 1986 - 1988. 
  • C + G Electronics Servicing Farnborough College of Technology 1981 - 1995  .
  • Yateley School 1976 - 1980.
    • Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering Drawing, English, French