Telecom delivery, from the inside
Telecom programmes combine long vendor chains, site and circuit lead times, regulated services and billing systems that cannot go down. That is where most of my delivery work has been.
What that means for you
- Network programmes that reach the last site, not just the pilot.
- Someone who started as a network implementation engineer and understands RAN, core, BSS/OSS and SD-WAN from the ground up.
- AI and automation applied to billing, collections and service operations.
- PMO rhythms that survive carrier, vendor and client complexity.
More than a rollout
A network programme is won or lost before the first truck rolls. I run the whole lifecycle.
- Site planning Surveys, site and circuit inventories, equipment and circuit lead times, and a readiness checklist for every location.
- Budget Cost per site and per wave, forecasts and variance, and financial reporting against the contract value.
- Schedule One integrated plan across carriers, vendors and the client, with waves sized to what the field teams can really deliver.
- Migrate Pilot sites first, then waves, each with a pre-cutover checklist, an after-hours window and a tested rollback path.
- Stabilise Hypercare with the service desk, legacy decommissioning, asset records and the handover to operations.
Proof
- A nine-figure SD-WAN, cloud connectivity and voice modernisation across a national branch network, delivered wave by wave without disrupting day-to-day branch operations.
- Province-wide 2G/3G network rollouts with 30 or more vendors and engineers across multi-vendor RAN and core, plus a BSS/OSS operations plan that cut revenue leakage by 40 per cent and network downtime by 30 per cent.
- Wireless broadband, 2G/3G and fibre rollouts as an implementation engineer and team lead.
- Agentic AI and RPA for billing and collections at a large national telecom.
- Telecom, cloud and cybersecurity programme delivery, and nine-figure network pursuits as presales lead.
The full story, on my personal site: Network rollout case study ↗ Article: why network modernisation comes first ↗
NDA first, on request. I take a small number of clients at a time.