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Paul N Brown
NAME: PAUL NICHOLAS BROWN ADDRESS: Please contact by email EMAIL: pbrown@walnuts.co.uk WWW URL: http://www.walnuts.co.uk/ STATUS: Married MAIN SKILLS SUMMARY:Roles:- VV&T Engineer, VAX DCL Developer, VAX System Manager, Network Management, Technical Author, Network Requirements Documentation, Systems Security Compliance DocumentationPlatforms:- DEC VMS, UNIX Languages:- DEC DCL, BASIC, UNIX SHELL SCRIPT, ORACLE SQL Database:- ORACLE Applications:- MS-OFFICE ADDITIONAL SKILLS and EXPERIENCE: Roles:- Requirements Capture, Install & Upgrade Engineer
CONTRACTSNOVEMBER 2000 - MAY 2002Systems Consultant & Technical Author - HIS Consulting Production and maintenance of Network Requirements and
Security Compliance documentation providing essential continuity between
Customers, Designers and Implementers. The work required a good overall
understanding of systems at the forefront of Digital Network Management
Technology in the UK.
APRIL 1998 - MARCH 2000Systems Consultant - High Integrity Systems (HIS Consulting) Two years Y2K compliance testing and proving of the UK's largest PDH Network Platform. Work that included the provision and maintenance of a comprehensive Test Reference Model enabling full end-to-end PDH and inter-platform testing with SDH and PSTN. A wide range of technologies and hardware platforms were involved.
NOVEMBER 1997 - JANUARY 1998My main responsibility was to devise a test strategy and plans for the
Integration and System testing of a national telephone Customer Care and
Billing System. A challenging and exciting role in one of the world’s
biggest and most up to date "green field" telecommunications projects.
The system is designed to provide an integrated solution incorporating
"best of breed" components.
SEPTEMBER 1996 - NOVEMBER 1997
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![]() | Manager and Professional Grade 2 (1992-1996) BT Systems |
![]() | Integration Department - OMC Project |
![]() | Technical Officer (1988-1992) - BT Research and Development |
![]() | Technical Officer (1984-1988) - BT National Networks |
![]() | Technical Officer (1970-1983) - BT Exchange and Transmission Construction - Southend Telephone Area |
![]() | Technician IIA (1967-1970) - BT Exchange and Transmission Construction - Southend Telephone Area |
![]() | Telecom. Engineering Apprenticeship (1964-1967) G.P.O |
1984-88 Technical Officer - Nation Networks
Transmission Construction
I installed Chelmsford Packet Switching Exchange and supervised installation
of the digital switch. Implemented WORKSAID transmission equipment database
in the Regional HQ. Installed Multistream, VASCOM, Megastream, Kilostream,
Hypergroup Codecs, NICAM digital and '1037' HF program equipment, TDM &
SCVF telegraph equipment. Supervised as Clerk of Works the installation
of a Radio Television Link, Higher Order Digital Multiplex Equipment, 140
Mbits Line Systems, Optical Fibre Terminal and Line Equipment, CELNET Base
Station.
1970-82 TO & TOA - Exchange and Transmission Construction
Organised work for a construction group of 15 based at Maldon Telephone
Exchange (Group Swiching Centre) and was responsible for a variety of Exchange
equipment types. Directed staff and was Clerk of Works for a new Repeater
Station, important Strowger exchange extensions (including BT's Transit
Network and International implementation), new large TXE2 involving a change
over from an extended and overloaded UAX13. My broad experience was particularly
useful on circuit provision duties (mostly involved with Exchange Junction
and Private circuits but also included the now 'not so secret' Nuclear
Defense circuits and systems).
1967-70 Tech. IIa - Exchange & Transmission Construction
Planned and set up procedures for eliminating backlog of circuit provision
work in Chelmsford Telephone Exchange in the wake of STD conversion. The
work involved training and leading a small team for three years.
1964-67 G.P.O. Telecom. Engineering Apprenticeship
![]() | Basildon College (1985) - Micro-electronics II credit |
![]() | Southend and then Chelmsford Technical College(64-66)-C & G Certificates. in Telecommunications |
![]() | Moulsham Secondary School, Chelmsford (58-64)- 'O' level Mathematics English Physics & Geography |