About

HA&C Ltd was formed in 2006 by myself, Howard Brown. After working in the Telecommunications industry for 18 years, for companies including GEC Telecommunications, Alcatel Telcom and ADC Systems Integration, I decided to offer my services out as a self-employed consultant.

My career began in 1984 with GEC Telecoms in Coventry. My introduction to the world of Telecoms began as a Commissioning Engineer on the new digital exchange equipment.

After 8 years with GEC, I joined Alcatel Telecoms in 1992 as a Systems Engineer. My new role at Acatel involved working with PDH, SDH and other transmission systems and my work traversed the length and breadth of the UK.

I left Alcatel in 1998 for a new and exciting challenge at a small private company who were subsequently acquired by ADC Systems Integration (now part of the Tyco Electronics group). During my time at ADC, I moved into management where I initially took responsibility for a small team of installation and commissioning engineers. Our work was primarily focused on installing SDH and DWDM equipment for Energis and COLT communications amongst others. I then moved onto projects in Europe where we deployed similar equipment, as well as ATM and packet based systems. Customers here included established long distance carriers such as Level 3 Communications and Global Crossings.

This new found experience gave rise to new oppurtunities and I was deployed to the USA to work with Alcatel US. As a Lead Systems Engineer reporting out of Dallas, Texas, my work took me to many parts of the USA including New York, San Francisco, Atlanta and Hawaii. I also enjoyed a short spell in the US territory of St.Thomas in the Virgin Islands. The principal clients were AT&T and Sprint.

 

During the summer of 2000, I gained promotion to the position of Operations Manager for the UK. For the next 5 years I had responsibility for 80-100 staff and numerous clients. Key accounts included Energis, Level 3, Sonus Networks, Ciena and Fibernet.

The experience and knowledge gained during this perod gave me the confidence to form HA&C in the summer of 2006 and offer my services to the industry. Notable achievements so far have been: 

Delivery of a 200 rack Data Centre in the Channel Islands - 2006Fibre delivery project for BT 21CN - 2007Delivery of a 90 rack Data Centre in the Channel Islands - 2007Property and utility cost reduction project in Jamaica - 2007Delivery of a140 rack Colocation Centre in Lonon - 2008Delivery of steel-framed building housing 4 x 70-rack Data Centres - 2009