Fari Sazegar

Advanced Metering Infrastructure at Powercor

Location: Melbourne Area, Australia
Industry: Telecommunications

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Fari Sazegar's Overview

Current

Advanced Metering Infrastructure at Powercor

Past

Telecommunication Recruitment Consultant at Hudson
Operations Manager at Nextgen Networks Pty Ltd
Senior Network Engineer - Customer Operations at Silk telecom

Project Engineer at Powercor Australia
Data Specialist Engineer at Nortel Networks (Now part of Ciena)
Trainee Engineer (Skilled Engineering Group - NDC) at Telstra

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powercor

Advanced Metering Infrastructure

Powercor

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry

March 2011 – Present (2 years 4 months)

Telecommunication Recruitment Consultant

Hudson

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; HSON; Staffing and Recruiting industry

July 2010 – March 2011 (9 months)

Specialist Recruitment in Telecommunications Sector - Service providers, telecommunication infrastructure providers, equipment suppliers, utilities, etc.

Operations Manager

Nextgen Networks Pty Ltd

Public Company; 51-200 employees; ASX; Telecommunications industry

February 2007 – February 2010 (3 years 1 month)

As Operations Manager – NOC, I lead a team of 9 NOC Engineers and over 20 contractors. My responsibilities include the following:
 Accountable for all Silk telecom Network Operations in VIC, SA & WA.
 Responsible for ensuring performance and customer satisfaction SLAs are met / exceeded.
 Management of Operations team.
 Operations team employee satisfaction.
 Development and implementation of company wide Service Assurance Process.
 Development of operational work instructions for all aspects of operations.
 Management of Tier 1/2 technical support.
 Provision of 24x7x365 network monitoring and fault rectification.
 Staff roster and schedule management.
 Period Performance Reporting.
 Tier 1 customer meetings on service performance.
 Validation of top 10 customer’s service activation designs.

Senior Network Engineer - Customer Operations

Silk telecom

2003 – 2007 (4 years)

 Service provisioning
 Field force coordination
 Customer interactions – service acceptance and fault management
 Network monitoring
 Service design
 Network maintenance & software release control

Project Engineer

Powercor Australia

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Utilities industry

2002 – 2003 (1 year)

 Silk telecom (then Powercor Australia Telecom) SDH access network deployment based on Marconi (now Ericsson) SDH equipment.
 Contractor management
 Schedule implementation

Data Specialist Engineer

Nortel Networks (Now part of Ciena)

Public Company; 201-500 employees; NRTLQ; Telecommunications industry

1999 – 2002 (3 years)

 Joined in the Fast Track Program working on entire data product range of Nortel – Passport 8K series switches, Baystack range of Switches, EoSDH portfolio comprising of OM4K series SDH equipment, Passport 7K & 15K series ATM switches.
 Engineering support for Asia-Pac projects – Design, Network Pre-staging, Integration & Testing.

Trainee Engineer (Skilled Engineering Group - NDC)

Telstra

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TLS; Telecommunications industry

1997 – 1999 (2 years)

 Worked with DDN Group (Digital Data Network) to commission private line solution for major enterprise customers.
 Coordination with GOC (Global Operation Centre) of Telstra to test the link and transfer to the customer.