Philippus Harmse

Proven, reliable technician with N6 Electric-Electronic Engineering 30 years’ experience working as a qualified Electronics Equipment Mechanician (RED SEAL WITH DISTINCTION) in both maintenance, installation and fault-finding. Used thorough testing protocols to save maintenance costs by catching intermittent faults in electrical components prior to or during installation.

Excel by using technical, organizational and problem-solving skills in every job.

• Design custom circuits to adapt installations to employer and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinated and/or worked with a team.
• Intensive and various fault-finding and diagnostic methods to test components in-circuit while the circuit is often live, reducing down-time by at least 24%.
• Responded quickly to breakdown maintenance calls, rectifying faults 15% faster than the average.
• Successfully performed both planned and reactive maintenance work without having access to schematics as often as 4 times out of 10.
• Reviewed maintenance work orders to ensure all requirements/preparations were fully undertaken before commencing work, shaving downtime.
• Troubleshooting and repairs down to component level.
• Supervise and advise the production staff when cleaning the machines.
• Train and advise the production staff on the machines to improve the quality and promote production.
• Supervise and train junior maintenance staff.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office to prepare maintenance schedules.
• Oversees the replacement parts inventory for the company's production line and electric motors (AC/DC), maintains orderly storage areas and accurate records.
• Purchases required parts and assemblies.

1. STC/Alcatel Altech Telecoms/Telsaf
2. DIVISIION TELTEC

• Fault finding and repairing of electronic exchange system PC boards at component level.

1. DIVISIION: SOR18

• Fault finding and repairing of SOR18 PC boards at component level, calibration of RF coils, quality assurance.

1. DIVISIION TELEMATICS: ENGINEERING

• Build of type DEM-1 boards for modems, MUX systems and SAM 1+1 systems
• Build and testing of power supplies.
• Drafting of schematic diagrams of PC boards using OrCAD page. 
• Fault finding on prototype PC boards.
• Testing of prototype boards and calibrating these boards.
• Programming EPROM’s.
• Logging of performance data for MODEM BOARDS.
• Build of prototype enclosures for newly designed products. 

1. (TYPES OF MODEMS USED: LTU, NTU, CTU)
2. DIVISIION ALCATEL ALTEC TELSAF

• Fault finding and repairing of MICROWAVE SYSTEM BOARDS, POWER SUPPLIES at component level.
• Calibrating the branching frequency filters.
• Repair IF boards.
• Repair modulator and demodulator boards.
• Rigging of towers, equipment installation, sweeping of wave guide, module insertion, power up, commissioning, fault finding, quality assurance and handing over of the following systems:
• Microwave Radios
• R2L (16QAM), SR7, SR8, SR13, SR15 (SDH).
• ADD DROP MULTIPLEXERS (MUX).
• Program, testing MUX and fibre optic.

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Proven, reliable technician with N6 Electric-Electronic Engineering 30 years’ experience working as a qualified Electronics Equipment Mechanician (RED SEAL WITH DISTINCTION) in both maintenance, installation and fault-finding. Used thorough testing protocols to save maintenance costs by catching intermittent faults in electrical components prior to or during installation.

Excel by using technical, organizational and problem-solving skills in every job.

• Design custom circuits to adapt installations to employer and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinated and/or worked with a team.
• Intensive and various fault-finding and diagnostic methods to test components in-circuit while the circuit is often live, reducing down-time by at least 24%.
• Responded quickly to breakdown maintenance calls, rectifying faults 15% faster than the average.
• Successfully performed both planned and reactive maintenance work without having access to schematics as often as 4 times out of 10.
• Reviewed maintenance work orders to ensure all requirements/preparations were fully undertaken before commencing work, shaving downtime.
• Troubleshooting and repairs down to component level.
• Supervise and advise the production staff when cleaning the machines.
• Train and advise the production staff on the machines to improve the quality and promote production.
• Supervise and train junior maintenance staff.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office to prepare maintenance schedules.
• Oversees the replacement parts inventory for the company's production line and electric motors (AC/DC), maintains orderly storage areas and accurate records.
• Purchases required parts and assemblies.
• Supervise material usage and contractor person-hours to keep projects in line with budgetary restrictions.
• Supervise technicians and contractors on site in performing rigging, installations, commissioning, troubleshooting and implementation of telecommunications equipment.
• Collaborated with personnel and managers to meet strict timelines.
• Prioritized and delegated workload based on available materials.
• Collaborated with management and fellow supervisors to organize operations and achieve demanding schedule targets.
• Evaluated team member strengths and assigned tasks based upon expertise and background.
• Assisted managers in interviewing and selecting new workers.
• Troubleshot issues to keep machinery and tools operational.
• Enhanced communication between management and personnel to facilitate smooth project completion.
• Supervise rigging of towers with microwave antennas, coax cable and fiber cable (0.3m antennas to 3.2m antennas).
• Installation of microwave equipment on towers and inside containers.
• Microwave equipment installed, commissioned, evaluated, and implemented (RTN 950, RTN 950A, RTN 980, RTN 905 2F).
• Installation, commissioning, testing and implementation of RRU’s and BBU’s
• Commissioning, testing and implementation of the RADWIN equipment.
• Supervise installation, commissioning, testing and implementation of fibre optic equipment (Optix OSN 1800, ATN).
• Supervise Installation of rectifiers (50A, 48V, Huawei R4850g2).
• Supervise Installation and commissioning of outdoor shelters.
• Splicing of fibre optic cable and testing.
• Installations and commissioning of V-SAT.
• Site surveys and site survey documentations.
• Create acceptance test procedures.
• Intensive Maintenance
• Managed customer complaints resolved issues and adjusted policies to meet changing needs.
• Rigging of towers and microwave antennas (2.4m to 3.2m), elliptical waveguide.
• Sweep the waveguide with WILTRON sweep gear.
• Install SRT1F TRUNK SDH microwave radio, line up the antennas and evaluate the microwave radio (in station test, link test and BER test).
• Install hiT7035 and hiT7060 fibre optic MUXES.

Test, commission and implement the MUXES

1. STC/Alcatel Altech Telecoms/Telsaf
2. DIVISIION TELTEC

• Fault finding and repairing of electronic exchange system PC boards at component level.

1. DIVISIION: SOR18

• Fault finding and repairing of SOR18 PC boards at component level, calibration of RF coils, quality assurance.

1. DIVISIION TELEMATICS: ENGINEERING

• Build of type DEM-1 boards for modems, MUX systems and SAM 1+1 systems
• Build and testing of power supplies.
• Drafting of schematic diagrams of PC boards using OrCAD page. 
• Fault finding on prototype PC boards.
• Testing of prototype boards and calibrating these boards.
• Programming EPROM’s.
• Logging of performance data for MODEM BOARDS.
• Build of prototype enclosures for newly designed products. 

1. (TYPES OF MODEMS USED: LTU, NTU, CTU)
2. DIVISIION ALCATEL ALTEC TELSAF

• Fault finding and repairing of MICROWAVE SYSTEM BOARDS, POWER SUPPLIES at component level.
• Calibrating the branching frequency filters.
• Repair IF boards.
• Repair modulator and demodulator boards.
• Rigging of towers, equipment installation, sweeping of wave guide, module insertion, power up, commissioning, fault finding, quality assurance and handing over of the following systems:
• Microwave Radios
• R2L (16QAM), SR7, SR8, SR13, SR15 (SDH).
• ADD DROP MULTIPLEXERS (MUX).
• Program, testing MUX and fibre optic.

09/1993 – 09/1993

Trade Test - Electronics Equipment Mechanician (RED SEAL WITH DISTINCTION)

Olifantsfontein Trade Test Centre

01/1991 – 05/1993

National N-6 Certificate: Electrical/Electronic Engineering

Kempton Park College

01/1983 – 12/1987

Matriculated

Vryburger High School

Courses/Certificates

SDH structure

SDH Microwave Radios-(SR7/8/13/15, SRT1C, SRTIF, SRA1, SRA4, SRAL, HDR4, CERAGON, DMC, MINI-LINK, RTN)

R2L

SDH Mux (various)

Flexible Mux (various)

Supervisory systems (TTS10, DAS)

V-SAT

ULTRA PHONE 110 (USA)

First Aid

Height Safety & Fall Arrest Technician

Radwin