Philippus Harmse
About 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.
- STC/Alcatel Altech Telecoms/Telsaf
- DIVISIION TELTEC
- Fault finding and repairing of electronic exchange system PC boards at component level.
- DIVISIION: SOR18
- Fault finding and repairing of SOR18 PC boards at component level, calibration of RF coils, quality assurance.
- 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.
- (TYPES OF MODEMS USED: LTU, NTU, CTU)
- 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.
Experience
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
- STC/Alcatel Altech Telecoms/Telsaf
- DIVISIION TELTEC
- Fault finding and repairing of electronic exchange system PC boards at component level.
- DIVISIION: SOR18
- Fault finding and repairing of SOR18 PC boards at component level, calibration of RF coils, quality assurance.
- 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.
- (TYPES OF MODEMS USED: LTU, NTU, CTU)
- 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.
Education
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
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