Ron Stevens - Chairman of the Board
(NZCE (Telecommunications Engineering), REA)
Ron started in the telecommunications industry as a telephone switching technician for the NZPO in 1967. He became an Engineering Associate in 1974 and undertook switching design work for 13 years. Ron transferred into Telecom New Zealand Ltd in April 1987 and from that date has work in a number of management positions within the telecommunications industry.
Ron is currently the National Quality, Training and Safety Manager for Downer EDI Engineering Ltd.
Phone: +64 4 577 8349
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A. C. (Chris) JONES M.IPENZ, NZCE - Executive Officer
Chris commenced work with the New Zealand Post Office as a temporary mechanician in August 1954, became a Member of the NZ Institution of Engineers in 1979 and rose to the position of Telecom’s General Manager Network Planning and Development.
Chris’ prior responsibility before promotion to the General Manager role was as Project Manager for the first three years of the TASMAN 2 Auckland to Sydney optical fibre submarine cable project. This project required an extensive range of budgetary, project management, business and new technology investigation experience (TASMAN 2 at 140 Mbs was then state of the art).
Chris retired from Telecom in April 1993 to accept the establishment position of Executive Officer with the Telecommunications Industry Training Organisation (TESSO). In July 1996 TESSO successfully merged with the Electrotechnology ITO to avoid the need to establish significant apprenticeship administration resources in TESSO, the first ITO to merge by choice.
Chris remains the TESSO Executive Officer and TESSO remains the recognised telecommunications industry “advisory group” to the ETITO and NZQA.
Phone: +64 21 658 953
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Bruce Emirali - New Zealand Defence Force
Bruce is currently the Head of Frequency Management for the New Zealand Defence Force. Previous experience included 22 years with the Royal New Zealand Air force in various technical roles in the radio environment. A former graduate of the US Inter-service Radio Frequency Management School, lead to his involvement with policy, ops and relief exercises throughout the Pacific region.
Bruce has extensive background the NZ radio communication regulatory reform and provides consultancy to government. Bruce is involved with the following associations and societies:
Chairman of the NZ Spectrum Users Advisory Group (SUAG), three past Chairman terms with The NZ Public Safety Radio Management Group, four past Chairman terms with 5 Nation Combined Communications-Electronics Board (CCEB) Spectrum Working Group, NZ candidate for the ITU Radio Regulations Board, and accredited member of the NZ delegation to all World Radio communication Conferences and associated preparatory meetings.
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David James Cox (Dave) Dave joined the telecommunication industry in 1976 as a telephone exchange technician for the NZ Post Office. Dave went on to become a software and hardware specialist for the NEAX switching systems, then moved in to fulltime training for Telecom New Zealand in 1987 (Dave figured he could fix more faults this way). From there Dave spent 5 years bouncing around the world and NZ for Telecom NZ and NEC Japan teaching telecommunications. In 1992 Dave was charged with the task of the re-development of technical training from being content focused to outcome (competency) focused. The move to training in 1987 has seen Dave start to realize his lifelong passion...to help people grow and to achieve their goals. Changes within the telecommunications training industry in 1996, caused Dave to set up the PTE & Associates Ltd (CITT) to attempt to keep training alive and well for the industry. Today Dave, as Managing Director of DJC (now partly owned by Downer EDi), is still in love with training people and seeing them grow and develop into skilled and confident people...who in turn help their organisations competently deliver their telecommunication services to the New Zealand public.
Phone: +64 27 486 2036
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Sid Giliomee - Alcatel-Lucent New Zealand

PMP {PMI}, B-ED {Hons}, NHDip {Adult Education}, NT Dip {Light Current}

At present Sid is responsible for managing training across the Alcatel - Lucent organization in NZ. He joined the Telecommuncation industry in 1967 in South Africa. After training was completed he held position Technician, Senior Technician, Technical Supervisor, being responsible for a Telecommunications network including radio and landline networks. In 1982 he took up the position of Senior Training Officer (Technical) at the company central training centre, presenting Transmission training. In 1990 he moved into Training consultancy, presenting computer and communication training for the ITITB and other institutions. In 1997 he was appointed Training Manager for Alcatel South Africa (E10 Switching) in Johannesburg and in 2000 moved to Wellington NZ to join the Lucent Technologies project Roll-out team for the CDMA network as training manager, he later moved into Project Management, qualifying as a Project Manager Professional with the Project Management Institute. Currently he is Learning Programme Manager for Alcatel-Lucent New Zealand.

Telephone: +64 (4) 803 7919

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