Peter Brown - Associate

Peter Brown is a telecoms industry professional to his finger tips with extensive skills and experience in property and facilities management including the management of large scale projects.

 An effective negotiator he was Property Manager for Racal Telecommunications/ Global Crossing from 1995 to 2002 where responsibility was held for all aspects of property strategy including acquisition, disposal, new build and operational management. This included the associated aspects of facilities management, security, property taxation issues, insurance and road transport management.

 The dimensions of this post covered 150 leased offices and technical sites totalling more than 1,000,000 sq ft, and 1500 telecom co-location installations which required an operational budget of £42M with capital expenditure of up to £14M annually. A number of individual projects were successfully completed that involved large scale relocation projects for 50,000 sq ft offices and larger, which involved location selection, acquisition, fit out, staff consultation, move management and disposals.

 No less important was the management of technical buildings/ facilities in support of this major national network where the use of railway wayleaves predominated.

 Peter originally joined the Civil Aviation Authority in 1969 training as a radio technician and he undertook a wide range of management courses before joining the British Railways Board technical organisation in 1974. Here his achievements included the initial testing and commissioning of the Mercury fibre optic cable network, installed alongside the railway, and representing the first use of the technology in the United Kingdom.

 By 1992 Peter had been appointed as the Building and Transport Services Manager for BR Telecommunications Ltd, the organisation established to bring commercialisation to rail telecom activities. He determined and implemented strategy to separate telecom property rights between BRT and Railtrack, and compiled and valued the company asset register. He also had the day job of managing the complete property and vehicle portfolio.