Ronaldo H.

Romero

Contact Details
Contact No. : +639177386345
Email : ronaldo_romero@yahoo.com.sg
Home Address : #8 Sampaguita Street Longos, Malabon City
Metro Manila, Philippines

Summary
Specializations: Telecoms Systems Design and Engineering, Voice and Date Network
Integration, Telecom Systems Operation and Maintenance, Project Engineering, Project
Management, Customer Technical Support Services, Change and Defect Management.

Successfully completed the following Large Telecom Projects:

1. Saudi Arabia TEP 6 - Inside and outside plant engineering and implementation.

2. Saudi Aramco- Structured Cabling System

3. CDMA deployment for Reliance Telecom in India.

4. Next Generation Network for Reliance Telecom in India

5. IMS and Next Generation Network for Bolivia Tel.

6. 5ESS Customer Regional Support

7. VOIP Deployment ( New Bangkok International Airport, Macquarie projects and in

Indonesia)/

8. IMS deployment for Telecom New Zealand.

Education
Graduate Year : 1986
Institute/ University : University of the East
Qualification : BSECE

Work Experience
Duration : October 2011 to July 2012
Position : Senior Telecom Specialist
Company Name : Qatargas Co.
 Carry out installation, preventive maintenance, removal, re-
Job Description : installation, repair and testing of telecommunication and IT
equipment.
 Conduct maintenance work which includes overhaul of complete
piece of equipment involving changing of units, modules and
components.
 Install, connect, test and lineup IT equipment in predominantly
land based locations.
 Check whether test and results measurement are within
specifications. Take corrective action such as re-tuning, re-
wiring; repair damaged cables and replacing faulty components.
 Investigate causes of defective operation in systems and
equipment, recommend modifications to equipment or
operational conditions and discuss recommendations with direct
supervisor.
 Ensure practical implementation of HSE safety rules and ensures
that work places are left clean and tidy after work completion.
 Ensures that work is carried out at all times in accordance with
technical requirements and standards.
 June 2010 to May 2011
Senior Telecoms Design Engineer
Duration : TransTel Engineering Singapore
Position :
Company Name : 1. Attend both technical and commercial meetings with clients, vendors &
sub-contractors in order to negotiate viable engineering and commercial
Job Description : solutions.
2. Site visits to conduct installation, commissioning & Site Acceptance
Testing of the delivered products.
3. Detailed engineering design, product selection and proposal creation in
cost effective manner.
4. Creation of engineering Pre-CAD drawings and documentation, testing
procedure and other reports.
5. Supervise a team of engineers in doing the technical proposals,
engineering designs and quality works and make sure to meet time lines.
6. Coordination with the Project Management team in reporting issues,
progress, and issue prevention and resolution
7. Creating Field and Customer Acceptance Manual.
8. Supervise the installation team in doing equipment integration.
9. System start up, pre-commissioning and verification
10. Pre-FAT and vendor coordination.
11. Design and Engineering of the following systems:
 PASSIVE NETWORK DESIGN FOR FIBER AND COPPER:
1. Conducting a route survey to gather the data required for the assigned
projects such as the following:
- Determined from customer their application of the Optical Fiber and
the copper cable either for outdoor and indoor application, this is
needed to provide the proper cable type, right of way, sizing, protection
and other needed facilities for a smooth installation.
- Fiber Optic Link Loss Calculation.
Structured cabling system:
1. Determine the customer's requirements for voice and data structured
cabling system.
2. Building survey to determine the location of the horizontal and
vertical cabling facilities, including the equipment room.
3. Identify the cable and facilities location and installation (raised floor,
ceiling type, trays and cabinets).
 4. Identify the cable type and sizing.
5. Developed the installation, termination, testing and acceptance plan.
 Voice Network (IP-PBX) Cisco, Nortel, Broadworks
- Traffic Analysis, Bandwidth calculation, Equipment sizing
and selection, Routing and dialing Plan creation, Carrier
Interconnection, user creation and features validation.
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 Data Network (LAN/WAN) Cisco
- Equipment selection and interconnection.
- IP networking/Administration
- Network Management System

 Mobile Radio & Dispatch System Motorola

- Frequency planning
- radio coverage analysis.
- Equipment Selection
- Telecommunication Tower requirements.

 Security Electronics
- CCTV (Video Coverage)
- Access Control System,
- Intrusion Detection System
- Paging and Alarm (Sound Coverage)
 Video conferencing and Video Recording Systems. Polycom
 Telecom Network Management Systems through RTUs and
SNMP.

Duration : August 2007 to May 2010

Position : Technical Project Manager/ Voice and Data Platform Manager
Company Name : Alcatel-Lucent Singapore
Job Description : 1. Defines documents and executes medium-scale projects, actively
participating in all phases of the project. Identifies, assesses and manages
risks to the success of the project.
2. Estimates costs, timescales and resource requirements for the successful
completion of each project to agreed terms of reference.
3. Prepares and maintains project plans and tracks activities against the
plan, providing regular and accurate reports as appropriate.
 4. Monitors costs, timescales and resources used, and takes action where
these deviate from agreed tolerances.
5. Ensures that deliverables are implemented within these criteria.
6. Manages the change control procedure gaining agreement for revisions
to the project from project stakeholders. Provides effective guidance to the
project team ensuring that team members are motivated and developing their
skills and experience.

VOICE/IP PLATFORM MANAGER

1. Preparing/studying customer’s Network Topology, readiness, traffic and

Policies.
2. Traffic Analysis (Erlangs determination) and capacity.
3. Equipment Sizing, platform selection.
4. Network nodes planning (Infrastructure, routers, switches, firewalls, remote
access servers, IP assignments and bandwidth determination.
5. Dialing and routing plan preparation and creation based on customer's
requirement and standard policies for On-Net and Off-net calls
6. Features and services configuration.
7. Performing Diagnostics, Network Fine Tuning and Maintenance, Monitoring
Alarms, Performance Measurements, Health monitor, Call Diagnostics,
Protocol Monitoring
8. Performing Gateway configuration, ISDN interface and voice trunk, Network
integration and Initial system testing, Performing System back-up.
9. Coordination and interfacing with PSTN and other voice networks.
10. Performing Customer’s Acceptance Test, Resolving Issues.
11. Providing a Remote Technical Support to customer.
12. Conducting a Customer’s knowledge sharing and training.

Duration : June 2000 to July 2007

Position : Voice and Data Network Integration Engineer
Company Name : Lucent Technologies Singapore
Job Description : Technical Support Service Engineer
1.Responsible in providing a remote technical support to ASEAN region
customers for the following Lucent Voice and VOIP network products (5ESS,
BZ5000, BZSP, Broadsoft/Broadworks , FXO, FXS, IADs, Lucent Compact
Switch (Telica), MaxTNT, APX1000 and 8000, CISCO switches and routers,
 ACME SBC).
2. Project deployment, responsible in bringing up the customer’s system, do
the initial provisioning and commissioning, Customer Acceptance.
3. Provides system support for problem isolation and resolutions to customers.
4. Work with higher tier support and development to duplicate issues and
problems in the lab to help provide a solution.
5. Responsible in doing a network integration job (switching, VOIP, MSC).
6. Responsible for preparing integration plan for a complete VOIP and
switching networks, install and configure gateways and switches, generate the
appropriate tests that prove proper function of the various network elements,
perform interoperability testing, feature testing, and performance testing if
required.
7. Plan, develop and load dial plans, routing, trunk and call processing
translations for Voice and VoIP customers based on the provided network
input, debug translation field problems.
8. Conduct a customer OAM training.

Duration : August 1997 to March 2000

Position : Voice and Data Design Engineer
Company Name : AT&T (Western Electric Saudi Arabia)
Job Description : Inside Plant Engineering and Structured Cabling
1. Create detail engineering design to effect the construction and
implementation of the Voice/Data network system (Horizontal
distribution system) / structured cabling system (Belden/CDT, NORDX
& Avaya) as per Saudi Aramco telecommunication standard SAES-T-
916, EIA/TIA-568, EIA/TIA-569, BICSI–TDM Manual and Shell
Standards.
2. Provide, develop and implement all facets of the Network
Infrastructure-physical layer.
3. Detailed design of Telecommunication rooms / enclosures, in
compliance with BICSI-TDM manual code, as per Saudi Aramco
standards.
4. Detail design of LANs which includes Logical diagrams/Wiring
diagrams for Data connectivity using Alcatel, Cisco switch.
5. Develop detail engineering design to interface with existing SDH
system (Alcatel-1660SM) for Voice/Data services.
6. Develop configuration and layout design of Telecom and Voice/Data
 equipment cabinets, frames, relay racks and pathways and spaces.
7. Detail design of Telecommunication grounding system, in compliance
with Saudi Aramco Telecommunication standard-795 and EIA/TIA-607.
8. Preparation of project proposals, Construction scope of work &
specifications, material take off, site surveys for various
communication projects.
Outside Plant Engineering:
1. Design and implemented of Out-side plant Conduit system,
Manholes and Pedestals as per EIA/TIA-758 and Saudi Aramco
Telecommunication engineering standard -911.
2. Prepared schematics for Optical fiber & Copper cables as per
industry standards.
3. Prepared Transmission link loss budget, pulling tension
calculations, cable reel assignment and Transmission parameters
for Optical fiber and Copper cable.

Duration : January 1992 – March 1997

Position : Electronics Project Engineer
Company Name : National Engineering and Services Marketing Company NESMA – Riyadh KSA
Job Description : 1. To provide technical support to corporate customers.

2. To plan, schedule and update progress of projects.

3. To coordinate with other parties to ensure timely and high quality deliverables.

4. To verify and manage the possible risks of the projects in different phases.

5. To conduct pre-implementation testing and post-implementation review.

6. To prepare and present management reports on the projects regularly.

7. To support operational handover, skill transfer and training.

8. Project inspection and prepare the project progress report.

9. System commissioning and provisioning.

10. Design and Engineering of the following system:

 Electronic security system IDS/SACS/CCTV

 Digital Instrumentation for Oil Refinery.

 LAN and WAN Network

 Outside Plant (Fiber and Copper)

 Digital Microwave and Fiber Optic Transmission system.

Duration : August 1991 – January 1992
Position : Telecom systems Design Engineer
Company Name : Electro-Systems Manila Philippines
Job Description : 1. Responsible in interpreting of customer’s need into system specification at
the outset of the project. Document technical requirements and obtain
customer written approval.

2. Attend customer’s meeting and provide technical assistance to customer’s

query.

3. Conduct a site survey, collect information on site.

4. Prepare the bill of materials, baseline drawings and scope of work.

5. Project inspection and prepare the project progress report.

6. System commissioning and provisioning.

7. Design and Engineering of the following system:

 Fire alarm system.

 Electronic Security Systems (CCTV/Access Control/Intrusion Detection)

 Paging and CATV system.

 Voice and Data Cabling

Professional Qualification
IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS Support Engineer, NGN engineer, 5ESS Technical Support Engineer,
VOIP support engineer. BICSI former member

Language
English (Excellent)
Other(s) : Tagalog

Computer & Other Skills

o Certified Lucent IP Multimedia Subsystem IMS engineer.
o Certified Alcatel-Lucent VOIP and NGN engineer
o Certified Lucent Voice switching and signaling engineer, 5ESS.
o Experienced with Fusion and manual FO Splicing & use of OTDR, OLS
o Attended the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
o Attended the Systimax structured cabling (Copper and Fiber) design and installation
training
 o CAD 2G
o Attended the Cisco and Broadworks IP Telephony training.
o Attended the Alcatel Lucent SDH SDH 1660 and PDH 1511 max training.
o Kaplan – Management and Leadership Training
o GIS Geographical Information System

Other Relevant Information

1. Familiar with EIA/TIA-568, EIA/TIA-569, BICSI–TDM
2. Transmission system: SDH, PDH, MPLS.
3. System Administration: UNIX, Linux, Solaris, Windows
5. Familiar with the following tools: OTDR, OLS for Fiber cable testing, UTP cable scanner.

Availability
Immediately Available

Employment References
Available upon request