Kolin Tregaskes

Current

Owner/Photographer at Squashy Frog Photography/ E-lusion Limited (Self-employed)

Past

Data Co-ordinator at Mono Consultants
Project Administrator at BBC
Project Co-ordinator at Vodafone Limited

Systems Integrator at Bechtel Limited
QA Manager/ Admin. Manager at The Bitmap Brothers
Code Supervisor at Infogrames

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Education

John Ruskin College

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Industry

Telecommunications

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Kolin Tregaskes’s Summary

A highly motivated IT and telecoms professional with a sound knowledge of business and customer service, and well developed technical and administrative skills gained working within large and small/medium enterprises. Used to working under pressure, on projects and delivering to tight deadlines. In addition, can manage and maintain own schedule.

Achievements

• Involved in delivering £58m project, rolling out 3G broadband to all sites in Vodafone network
• Involved in delivering high speed data rates to core Vodafone corporates and central business district
• Created and maintained a database to show all 5500 3G live sites on the Vodafone network, gathered data from many sources and liaised with other team members to meet their needs
• Developed a reporting and monitoring schedule which helped elevate Bechtel to one of the highest performing teams for Vodafone on project IVOR
• Made many improvements to processing the reports and databases at Bechtel & Vodafone which saved timed and thus costs to the project

Kolin Tregaskes’s Specialties:

Technical Knowledge

Basic Level
• Adobe Acrobat
• Microsoft Project and Visio
• Oracle

Intermediate Level
• DOS, Microsoft FrontPage & Access
• Business Objects (reporting tool)
• Clarify Insight (work package creation + workflow scheduling tool)
• Cramer (transmission management tool)
• Adobe Photoshop (photo editing)

Advanced Level
• Evenflow (Omnix) – telecoms database
• Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word & Windows

Kolin Tregaskes’s Experience

Owner/Photographer
Squashy Frog Photography/ E-lusion Limited (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Telecommunications industry)

October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Squash Frog Photographer: Photography service, photographs and more.

E-lusion Limited: Computer consultancy and general services from an IT and games software professional.
Data Co-ordinator

Mono Consultants

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

July 2008 — April 2009 (10 months)

Employed on recommendation of former Bechtel colleague, now Mono Project Manager on Vodafone project

• Produced Excel and Business Objects reports for the project & senior management for the whole of the UK
• Work flow management tool (Evenflow) support and administration - the day to day maintenance and updating of data within the system, including raising new Network Requirements and Site Options for the projects, initiating active plans and updating workflow dates
• General administration and project support
Project Administrator

BBC

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BBC; Broadcast Media industry)

April 2008 — June 2008 (3 months)

Short term Siemens project to audit all BBC telephony in London and various regional offices in preparation for further VoIP project/upgrade

• Check and organise all information gathered by auditors and converted to electronic form
• Tracked progress of audit via Excel spreadsheets used by the project manager
• Completed project 2 months earlier than planned due to quick efficient gathering and entering of data
Project Co-ordinator

Vodafone Limited

(Public Company; VOD; Telecommunications industry)

October 2005 — September 2007 (2 years )

Worked on project HSDPA, 3G Broadband and ATP

• Work flow management tool (Evenflow) support and administration - the day to day maintenance and updating of data within the system, including raising new Network Requirements for the projects, initiating active plans and updating workflow dates
• Produced Excel and Business Objects reports for the project & senior management
• Raised work packages requirements in Clarify, raised and mapped 2G and 3G transmission requirements in Cramer plus raised and receipted sales orders for hardware kit
• Gained knowledge of 2G and 3G networks while liaising with Vodafone key suppliers (Ericsson, Nortel and K&N) to ensure that the hardware requirement for the project deliverables were delivered accordingly
• Held regular meetings with transmissions provider to determine delivery date and update database with latest forecast dates
• General administration and project support
Systems Integrator

Bechtel Limited

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

November 2003 — September 2005 (1 year 11 months)

Worked on Vodafone project IVOR

• Data extraction, cleansing, comparison and clarification
• Redesign of analysis tables giving greater clarity when producing progress updates, and enabling data to be updated more easily
• Migrated data in preparation for software integration to the main VF database, Evenflow.
• Redesigned Bechtel’s database forms via their web-based database
• Generated reports for senior management with Business Objects
QA Manager/ Admin. Manager

The Bitmap Brothers

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2000 — December 2002 (2 years 10 months)

Employed, on the recommendation of the Lead Designer to construct and promote a new corporate website (www.bitmap-brothers.co.uk).

• Redesigned, coded and implemented a new corporate website (which helped increase traffic dramatically)
• Officially promoted in March 2001, having organically grown the initial Webmaster role and incrementally accepted additional responsibilities
• Supported the Technical Manager to later take full responsibility of IT support within the company
• Carried out various other tasks including design and maintenance of an Access bug database (improved data quality, user interface and more accurate reporting)
Code Supervisor

Infogrames

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

1996 — 2000 (4 years )

Initially joined Warner Interactive as a Junior Tester.

• Deputised for both the QA Manager and Assistant QA Manager during their absence
• Acted as lead tester on a number of game titles, organising the workload of 4/5 members of staff and coordinating the testing areas
• Carried out various administration tasks, including, testing software, assistance of office relocation, code record keeping, bug database maintenance and proofreading manuals

Kolin Tregaskes’s Education

John Ruskin College

Computing, Business Studies 1993 — 1995

Additional Information

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Kolin Tregaskes’s Interests:

Photography (http://www.e-lusionn.co.uk & http://www.squashyfrog.com), website design/editing, drawing and art, reading, contemporary music, modern films, science-fiction, sports (cycling, rugby, and football)