Responsible for overseeing Deutsche Telekom network technology, managing the building, maintenance, and security of Telekom‘s leading fixed and wireless network, broadband, and extensive IP network serving our loyal customers across the country. Building the biggest Fiber network in Germany! Responsible for more than 20k internal employees and many more externals. Wir bauen Zukunft!

Line management of more than 2000 top quality employees, DevOps responsibility for Voice, Data and TV platforms as well as the data center infrastructure, E2E lab as a service and common services (e.g. OSS).

As SVP Technology Architecture & Innovation, in addition to serving as group chief architect, Abdu is in charge of the strategic development and architectural evolution of all technology domains such as access (mobile and fixed), transport, core, OSS, technology Innovation management, patent management and standardisation across the group.

Awarded promotion, in reflection of performance in previous position, to play major role in attainment of Huawei’s 5G product development goals and applications spanning drones, cloud AR/VR, Smart manufacturing, automotive, eHealth areas and more.  Responsibility is held for product planning as well as go to market strategy, partnering and over all ecosystem development. This is a position with significant culpability for leadership of a joint team of R&D, product management and market operations. • Leveraging strategic business goals by driving multinational industry alliance and optimizing the performance of the marketing team distributed across Europe. • Directing all aspects of 5G product planning, ecosystems development (xlabs) and c-level strategy alignment with major partners, including vertical industries, governments and operators.

5G team leader with responsibility for 5G E2E joint innovation, inclusive of, transport, core and RAN, plus business model innovation. • Spearheaded delivery of major strategic innovation programs in the area of IoT and V2X (Vehicle to x), including the NB-IoT joint innovation, from initial concept testing towards commercialization. • Worked in close collaboration with representatives, including at c-level, from world leading utility companies and car makers.

Senior Innovation Manager at the European Wireless Product Line Management. Responsible for market analysis, pain point analysis, traffic forecast, strategy alignment and solution innovation within the Joint Innovation Center between Deutsche Telekom and Huawei.

- Responsible for the Wireless Network and Infrastructure competence center. Closely working together with the global competence center leader.- Key expert on Radio Network technology, proposition management and Innovation Managemnt.

Verifying designs and testing printed circuit boards (PCB) after manufacturing. Electronic design automation (EDA) for semiconductor. JTAG