Philipp Bechlars

Monitoring and Consulting of subcontractors for building infrastructure for ePassport Project (Civil Engineering, Electical Engineering, Main & Emergency Power Distribution, HVAC; Air Pressure Distribution; Industrial Floors; Building Fire Protection; Access Control, CCTV.......)

Project Management and consulting services of new residential buildings for all related civil works, water supply, electrical systems and alarm systems. Technical design planning and installation of “Solar Heating Systems” and “Photovoltaic System” at Littlewood Garden Lodge in South Africa. Project Management support and consulting for “Green Solutions” and electrical design. Planning and implementation of solar heating system for “The Lofts Hotel” and Bakery “Ile de Pain” in South Africa.

Manage and support all project management related activities, project setup, establish regional PMO, project scheduling, risk management, contract & change management, consulting assignments, documentation & process support, project control & auditing.

Contract Compliance & Claim Management at PPP Contract for the Department of Labour.

Senior Project / Program Manager of short term GSM/UMTS and IT Projects in South Africa as globally. Establish regional PMO, Execute project planning, project setup, purchase order and claim management, resource planning, risk management, civil works, project execution, subcontractor negotiations, cost & budget calculations, team building and knowledge transfer to local staff.

Senior Project Manager & Senior Turnkey Consultant for multi million US$ GSM/UMTS Projects in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan and Germany. Establish regional PMO, setup FTK (Full Turnkey) project teams through the tender, pre-acquisition & realization phase. Execute resource planning, process flow control, implementation and preparation of SW-Tools, set-up of project plans and technical documentation.

Senior Project Manager in South Africa for the key account “Cell C”. Responsible to re-structure and re-pricing of BTS Site Models with a project value over US$ 42m. This comprises over 700 Base stations (BTS, BSC) incl. civil works, RF-Installation and container reticulations. Handling of purchase order and claim management with a value over US$ 10m and implementing processes for commercial invoicing.

Project Manager in South Africa Cape Town, Pretoria and Midrand. Establish regional PMO and roll out of Cell C GSM and IT Network, especially of EWSD core switches (VLR/HLR) and NMC. This includes all civil works, ancillary systems, installation, commissioning and integration of the core network equipment (e.g. Cisco, Sun Microsystems) with a project value over US$ 40m. Establish SAP structure, handling of purchase orders and claim management.

Program IT Manager of the NMC in South Africa, Johannesburg. Developing and establishing an overall country wide Network Security Concept in the Network Management Centre NMC for various network elements/services (VLR, HLR, IN, SC, VAS, VOMS, VMS, SMSC, OMCB, CP/SSNC etc.)

Project Manager Switching Engineering in South Africa. Core network planning and design (Siemens/Alcatel) for country wide expansion and digitalization of the Telkom SA network.

- Network Planner/Designer in Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia; - Product Manager; - Project Manager in Syria, P.r. China, Indonesia