CV Profile No.30298

Experience in the following industries :

• Engineering, development studies
• Public buildings and works sector, construction

Professional experience

• Self Employed Consulting Engineer
• Consultant to Building Engineering Companies
• Since 05.2019
• Provided professional assistance to various engineering consultants firms by : Designing of electrical building engineering services which included designing, specifying and supervising installations of the following services: artificial building lighting; artificial sports lighting; artificial area lighting; fire detection and alarm systems; access control systems; intruder detection and alarm systems; CCTV systems; telecommunication systems; data reticulation systems; lifts, escalators; low voltage power reticulation systems; medium voltage power reticulation systems; UPS systems; public address systems; generator standby power systems; Photo Voltaic power systems and lightning protection systems. b) Preparing tender documentation which includes contracts, technical specifications, bills of quantities and drawings c) Adjudication of tenders and supervising of erection and installation of electrical building engineering services to relevant standards and industry best practise. d) Preparing interim and final payments due to electrical contractors during construction. e) Checking and approval of proposed maintenance and operation manuals for building electrical engineering services f) testing of electrical building engineering services g) preparing test certificates of building electrical engineering services h) commissioning and hand over of completed electrical building engineering services

• Founding Managing Director.
• Fractal Dimension Consulting Engineers Pvt Ltd in Zimbabwe
• 07.2012 - 04.2014
•  Developed the business plan and strategy for the new practise.  Identified key opportunities and clients within the construction industry market in Zimbabwe.  Carried out designs and tender documents preparation for proposed projects.  Carried out site engineering duties which included preparation of installation drawings, supervision and monitoring of the erection of electrical installations on mixed mode multi storey buildings comprising of shops, offices and residential accommodation. Planned activities on site and coordinated with other specialist subcontractors to ensure that the progress of electrical installation work was in accordance with the main contractor’s program of work time scales. Inspected and tested completed works. Ensured that health and safety issues were observed on site as covered by various acts and regulations governing the general installation and use of electricity.  Designed electrical installation services and prepared tender documents for a haulage trucks staging park. The park comprised of a single storey office block, warehouse, a public ablution block, public canteen and car park for haulage trucks and ordinary cars.

• Senior Electrical Engineer
• Qed Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd in Botswana
• 03.2009 - 06.2012
• Employment History - March 2009 to June 2012  Designed, supervised and managed the erection and installation of electrical buildings services of projects which included construction of a fire station, educational buildings for schools, a retail shopping mall, control and ancillary buildings for a 90MW power plant, an educational examination centre and warehouses in an export processing zone.

• Senior Electrical Engineer.
• Systems & Services Engineers Pty Ltd in Botswana
• 03.2007 - 03.2009
•  Designed, supervised and managed the erection and installation of electrical buildings services of projects which included construction of an army infantry school, an integrated sports facility for soccer and athletics, telecommunications authority monitoring centre, magistrate court building and a food technology research centre.

• Senior Electrical Engineer.
• Brian Colquhoun, Hugh O’Donnell & Partners in Zimbabwe
• 09.2006 - 01.2007
•  Designed, supervised and managed the erection and installation of electrical buildings services of banks for a financial institution.  Investigated and provided solutions for building office blocks which were experiencing electrical power quality problems.

• Director of the Electrical Engineering Department
• MAT Consult Pvt Ltd in Zimbabwe
• 09.1999 - 08.2006
•  Designed, supervised and managed the erection and installation of electrical buildings services of projects which included construction of office buildings, banks for a financial institution, a filling station, a vehicle mechanical equipment work shop, a telephone exchange centre and a regional magistrate court building.  Trained, supervised and appraised junior electrical engineers.

• Senior Electrical Engineer.
• UKM Consultants Pvt Ltd in Zimbabwe
• 09.1998 - 08.1999
•  Designed, supervised and managed the erection and installation of electrical buildings services of projects which included construction of residential multi storey accommodation buildings, banks for a financial institution; multi-story hospital laboratory building; a shopping mall; retail supermarket and a mixed mode multi storey building with retail space, office space, banking and car parking spaces.

• Electrical Engineer and rose through the ranks to the position of Senior Electrical Engineer.
• Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing of the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe
• 01.1991 - 08.1998
•  Designed, supervised and managed the erection and installation of electrical buildings services of projects which included construction of multi storey office blocks; a remand prison with hospital wing, kitchen, laundry area and holding cells; a plant quarantine station; a TV production services centre comprising of office accommodation, film editing studios, a hall with staging lighting and audio recording studios; hospitals with paediatric wings, operating theatres, mortuaries, dental clinics, pharmacies and consultation wings; a media centre with office accommodation, editing rooms, a press briefing hall and a canteen.  Represented the Ministry Of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing of the Government of the Republic of Zimbabwe at the Technical Committee of the Standard Association of Zimbabwe tasked to update the Wiring Rules standards.  Trained, supervised and appraised junior electrical engineers.