Paul McCutcheon

Design, deploy, manage IT infrastructure to the CPE virtual data centres in each state of Australia. Onboarding of applications for internal clients of the Telstra Wireless Network business. Engineering level ownership and escalated support for the CAVE and WNMS private cloud hosting environments nationally. Transformation activities, migration from discrete server hosting to virtualisation, including deployment of OpenStack based NFVI and VMware virtual hosting environments as IaaS, PaaS offerings

Rationalisation of existing IT systems, and also design and provisioning of key IT systems as part of the NextG network build, which was one of the most rapid new-build 3G mobile network rollouts ever achieved in the world. Responsibility extended from technical project management, solution design, vendor management, contractor management, conflict management, operational readiness & documentation, to testing and acceptance of solutions, and technical advisory to commercial negotiation of contracts.

SME, SEM, lifecycle management for the Ericsson 2G and 3GSM Operations Support System - Ericsson OSS-RC. Commercial off-the-shelf system that provides element management, network monitoring and alarms, radio network configuration management, statistical data collection and distribution for Telstra’s 2G GSM and 3GSM networks. Comprises 5 regional platforms, provides feeds to the NetCool Service Management system, via dedicated collection servers for Network monitoring at the Global Operations Centre.

Provided national support for Base Station Subsystems in Ericsson CME-20. Hardware and Software acceptance testing for the R7.0 rollout with BYB501 212-25 processor based BSC. Provided efficient, effective and timely support for field staff conducting operations of integrated GSM network equipment, including fault replications and analysis in model test plant environments.

Type approval testing of AMPS mobile stations to Australian Technical Standards. Acceptance testing of GSM mobile stations and Fax/Data systems to Telstra Corporation compatibility standards, IEEE standards, and CCITT standards and recommendations. Utilising Rhode & Schwarz CRTP. Acceptance testing of AMPS base station hardware and software. Design, construction and implementation of specialized radio testing systems.

Software Development Operating Systems Digital Circuit Design Engineering Project Management High Distinction Thesis in Microwave Millimetre Integrated Circuit (MMIC) chip design, 0-50GHz distributed amplifier on GaAs substrate used in Satellite communications systems