Marinus Serfontein

I am extremely hard working, helpful and eager to learn. I have a good self-esteem, which makes me self-assured yet humble. I am bilingual and can understand and communicate clearly with my peers. I have high moral values and consistently try to use them in everyday life. I am creative and work well with my hands. I have excellent leadership skills. I constantly want to learn more and educate myself further.

Fibre and Copper Technician - INT (Interface Network Technology)

(2010-01 - 2012-12)

• Fibre Splicing
• OTDR
• Testing
• Fault finding
• Panel preparation
• Joint preparation
• Cat 5e
• Cat 6
• Cat 6e
• Panel Termination
• Stock Control

I.L.O – Installation Liaison Officer - SAAB- Grintek

(2013-01 - 2016-12)

• Site management/ Supervisor of 12 Sites
• Route supervisor
• Manager and engage with workers ensuring deadlines are met
• Quality control
• Site report daily
• Abide by the set time scales
• Adhere to Company policies and departmental procedures
• Quality checks on all installations
• ILO must do an onsite kick off walk through with the contractor on each project
• Manage various contractors simultaneously
• Monitor projects to ensure that they remain within timelines
• Highlight special conditions indicated on Way Leave to the Contractor
• Liaise with the property owner where necessary
• To liaise with the contractor and to give daily documented feedback to the Project Manager about the progress of the project
• Compile report after project using all information obtained from contractors
• Inspect breaks and determine remedial action whether repair, rehabilitation or relocation of fibre optic cable network is required
• Determine, with assistance of Fibre Maintenance, the length and number of fibre optic cables to be installed and locality of fibre joints
• Arrange with appointed contractor to repair break and float fibre optic cable(s) and request quotation for work to be executed
• Fibre to the home
• Panel splicing
• Joints splicing
• Team leader
• Fault finding
• Working with micro fibre from 12 to 144 core

Splice Manager / Inst & Commissioning Engineer - PMDMS

(2017-01 - 2018-12)

• Check the quality of work completed
• Do the QA's with the customers on site
• Drive to various sites to check up on the splicers and the quality of their work
• Training the splicers in the office and live training on site
• Testing with max tester and power meter and light source
• GPON
• POTN
• Manage teams and stock
• FSP 3000
• Installation of shelfs
• Starting to learn how to commission on Putty- Program

Position not specified - OFL

(2019-01 - 2021-12)

• Splicing
• Splice reporting
• Manage client needs and monitor quality checks
• NLD Sec 3 to 6 – liquid telecom
• Manage teams and stock
• Stock check

Position not specified - MetroFibre

(2021-01)

• Splicing
• Cut overs
• Reports on all necessarily incidence and cable breaks
• Working on the DWDM and ROADMS
• Do change overs for big customers StandardBank
• Knowledge of all SFP's and QSFP's
• Team leader
• FOA Certification in Advance testing
• Fast reporter

High school - Excellentia Study Centre- Private school