b'VIRGIN MEDIAwith further education, as things have panned out, I do not think it made a great deal of difference to my career path Rashid Collins or where I have ended up which I put down to simple hard Operations Director work, durability, and the support of my colleagues. Virgin Media Contract I joined Kelly Group in 2000 as one of several engineersThecurrentversionofourVirginMedia/VMO2 Tuped across from an outgoing supplier on an NTL BusinessContractcoversarangeofservicesacrossNorth Installations contract in Bedfordshire. London, Essex, the Home Counties and East Anglia. I am ultimately responsible for the Non-Consumer Projects I became a site supervisor in 2002 on the same contractwhichincludeBusinessInstallations,Emergency andthensitemanagerin2003followingtheawardofRestorationofServices,Diversions,SiteExitsand the Telewest Business and Network Contract in London.Electrical Vehicle Charging Points which are detailed as I continued in site management roles across London andpart of this feature. In addition, I also head our regional the SE up until 2013 when I became a regional manager,FTTP Build projects for VMO2 & NexFibre which have responsible for a number of SE sites delivering the samedelivered Fibre coverage directly to more than 20,000 range of services, our client now being Virgin Media. homes in Essex over the last 2.5 years.Telecoms for me was initially a part-time or summer jobArangeofcivilsoperatives,cablingteams,andfibre that I would do in and around further education at Sixthsplicersareemployedontheseprojects.Giventhe FormandthenUniversity.MyStepdadgotmeintocomplex nature of the orders we delivertheindustry(thankyouMark!)whenIwas17withanO ur lead engineers are amongst some of the American-owned company, Triax, in Cambridge. I got to know a little about the component elements and design ofmostexperiencedandlongest-servinginthe CATV and HFC network build and it provided an incomecompanywhile I was studying. Although Ive no regrets about sticking 16 .The Networker Autumn 2024'