Aaron Donnelly

Complexus Limited Director

Professional, versatile and hands on technical assurance specialist. With proven expertise over more than twenty years’ experience across both mobile and static Information Communications Technology (ICT).

Career spans both military and commercial mission / safety critical solutions. Having held various positions across many projects. These have included requirements capture & analysis, design, implementation, integration, configuration, testing, defect management and live operational / business support services.

Achievements

Head of system testing for the worlds largest multi-agency public safety TETRA system.
Chairperson of the Dimetra User Forum
Engineered a national geographically redundant, multi-agency public safety Integrated Communications Control System (ICCS) into an existing TETRA system.
Planned and executed the relocation and re-engineering of the entire backhaul connectivity for British forces in Kosovo from a temporary location to a purpose built facility.
Presented an overview of military telecommunications systems and capabilities to members of the Royal Family.
Engineered the satellite connectivity at a multinational demonstration of new technologies for the military, with more than 100 circuits in use over the same link, a first in its time.
Solved an interoperability problem between UK and German military HF communication systems, which had been an outstanding issue for many years beforehand.

Key Skills

System design across a multitude of platforms, including but not limited to:

Experienced in a multitude of network monitoring and optimisation testing platforms including but not limited to:

Cisco
Nokia
Juniper
Motorola
HP
Nortel

Ericson
Dell
Fortinet
UNIX
Linux
Windows

Splunk
OpenView
CiscoWorks
SolarWinds
NV36/38
NMS10 & 100

SilkPerformer
LoadRunner
TestManager
NetCool
ZENOSS
UEM

Liaise with both technical and non-technical staff/clients.
Co-ordinate/manage both internal and external customers.
Co-ordinate/manage 3^rd party interfaces.
Development of ICT systems to improve business processes.
In depth knowledge of verification, validation and testing of various OSS / BSS platforms.
Experience in a variety of testing methodologies including white box, black box, agile, risk based, static and dynamic approaches.

Plan, install, test and commission secure ICT systems in both commercial and military environments.
ICT system diagnostics down to component level in both the wireless and fixed connectivity environments.
Design, install and test Voice over IP and video conferencing over satellite and ground based connectivity.

“Aaron Donnelly, from Complexus Limited, has been essential to the successful delivery of the Dimetra XCore R9.1.1 upgrade project. He has been committed, extremely flexible and a pleasure to work with throughout a highly pressured project. I like to describe him as a technically fearless engineer as no matter what problem comes up Aaron can research, and problem solve, and he demonstrated this continually throughout the project. I know we will all miss his bubbly personality as he is a great addition to any team. It was a pleasure to have him as part of the TETRA Ireland team for the second time.”

Neville ReillyOperations Director at TETRA Ireland

“Having you on the team in our migration journey made big differences even if I felt at times that your brain had an intel9 processor and mine was still in its infancy. Your expertise and relentless solution seeking mindset greatly contributed to our success.”

Nelly VeugeoisMotorola Solutions

"Complexus Limited supplied Dimetra Specialist Engineering that facilitated the end to end system design, integration and testing of a Dimetra Release 8.2 DIPC Platform into the overall Shah Deniz 2 package.
Motorola Solutions has experienced highly professional solutions and services in its cooperation with complexus.
We highly recommend Complexus to supply services in the integration and commissioning of Motorola DIPC systems."

Axel Rettig / Lothar WuenschDirector of Distribution / Senior Programs Manager

“Aaron Donnelly, from Complexus Limited, has been essential to the successful delivery of the Dimetra upgrade project. Committed, extremely flexible and a pleasure to work with throughout a highly pressured project. I like to describe him as a technically fearless engineer as no matter what problem comes up Aaron can research, and problem solve, and he demonstrated this continually throughout the project. I know we will all miss his bubbly personality as he is a great addition to any team. It was a pleasure to have him as part of the TETRA Ireland team for the second time.”

Neville ReillyOperations Director at TETRA Ireland

Nelly VeugeoisMotorola Solutions

Axel Rettig / Lothar WuenschDirector of Distribution / Senior Programs Manager