Lawrence McKenna

Principal Engineer, Cumarsaid

Lawrence is the founder of Cumarsáid, an ICT engineering firm. Over the last 30 years. Lawrence has worked for Queensland Rail, Project Services (QLD Dept of Works), SKM/Jacobs and Wood & Grieve Engineers; conducting ICT projects in all jurisdictions for both government and private sectors. Lawrence’s engineering experience includes voice networking (inc. PABXs, regional-wide networks, VoIP), telecommunication and transmission networks (optical fibre and microwave radio), Structured Cabling designs, WANs, CANs, LANs, Audio-visual systems, security systems, and various radio (LMR, DMR, Sat) communication systems, WLANs and WWANs and other ICT systems.

Furthermore, Lawrence is actively involved in Standards committees; Standards Australia (EA Representative) – CT-001 Communications Cabling and CT-002 Broadcasting and Related Services; Communications Alliance (Industry SME) – WC-80; Communications Alliance (Industry SME) – IOT Advisory Group to IT-042.