b'COMMUNITY FIBRE Community Fibre Special Ciara Crossan - Project ManagerCiaraCrossan,ProjectManagerforouraccredited.Alongsidetheseaccreditations, CommunityFibreBuildcontract,joinedthethey receive training in TRR, subducting, fibre business in 2016 and worked through a varietyblowing and fibre splicing which can be utilised of roles before being promoted to her currentnot only on our Community Fibre contract role. Ciara gives us an insight into her journeybut across the business as a whole.and her recent role with Community Fibre.IfoundmyselfinthetelecommunicationsOnceengineerscompletetheirin-house industry by chance and quickly realised howtraining,theyareallassignedtoshadow interesting it is to learn about how the worldanexperiencedengineerinordertobuild around us is getting connected and I genuinelytheirconfidenceandprovidefirst-hand enjoy being able to learn something new everyexperience working on the network in the skill day. theyreundertaking.Oncetheyreworking independently,wehavemultiplesupport I started my journey with Kelly Group in Julychannelsavailableforengineers,ensuringCiara Crossan - Project Manager2016 as a Project Coordinator working in thethey succeed within their new roles including VirginMediabusinessdepartment,inKellyour Field Agents who are present each day in House,Wembley.Eventually,Imovedontothe field to assist and support engineers where our Virgin Media Major Programme Projectsrequired. Our office staff is also just a phone and Team Manager, then transferred over tocallawayifanengineerrequiressupport. our Openreach ONSA project as Back-OfficeSince its a smaller contract we all know each Manager for Wembley and later Ashford. Iother very well and try our best to support got involved with our Community Fibre Buildeach other and try our best to support in any project as our ONSA contract came to anway possible.end and this new opportunity aroseI was delighted to be promoted to Project Manager.T hefuturelooksbrightfor KellyGroupwasawardedourcurrentKellyGroupspartnershipwith CommunityFibreNetworkBuildcontract duringthefirstquarterof2021.ScopeofCommunityFibreandwere works includes building serviceable homes, byhopingtosuccessfullyassist providing all network build processes prior to the actual installation to homes. We are proudtheexpansionoftheirnetwork to have 13 engineers completing network buildbuild project to new areas within works, including civils, test rod and rope, fibreLondon. blowing and fibre splicing. To date as a team, weconnectedjustshortof25,000homes andbusinessesacrossLondon,whichisanOur success is a result of our engineers and incredible achievement for such a small team.office staffs dedication and hard work, and I am excited to see what the future brings for C ommunityFibreisLondonsus. largestandfastest100%full- Withinthisspecialfeatureweredelighted fibre broadband, which, utilisesto introduce you to a selection of engineers, JoshuaBangert,JordanOdwyerandLuke itsownnetworkmeaningitsGreenfield who are working on different stages notdependantonanyotherof our network build project; and Laurence output to feed its consumers.Langley our Scheduling Manager.CommunityFibrehaswonmultipleawards for being the best ISP for both homes and businesses across London. All our engineers complete in-house training in our state-of-the-art national training centre at Brimsdown. Community Fibre is installing itsequipmentontelecommunicationpoles owned by Openreach, therefore all engineers arerequiredtobeOpenreachandPIA The Networker Winter 2022 9.'