Abdul Khalid Shariff Email & Phone Number

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Project Manager: Thales North-South Railway (NSR) project for Saudi Arabian Railway (SAR). Contract Scope: Telecom & Security Equipment installation & Cabling for 6 Passenger stations and a HQ building
• Develop quality communications solutions of medium to high complexity to meet customer business requirements. The process starts with the collection and analysis of all pertinent data essential to understanding.
• Provide presales design support for medium - high level complexity solutions for both new and existing customers requiring company's Services Solutions managed networks services or IS contracts in support of sales..

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Identify target companies and devise appropriate technical / professional services offerings
• Lead the bid teams - working alongside a project manager and technical authority
• Advise and communicate with senior management with presentation skills.
• Provide system engineering, program and test consultancy to internal and external customers
• Awareness of commercial and technical issues on a program, with an ability to perform trade-offs and impact analyses.
• Propose, design, procure, implement & train the customer staff for upgrade & optimization of the clients two main satellite stations complex & VSAT remote links.

Jubail, Saudi Arabia

• Deploying an IPTV based CATV system for Jubail Industrial City. Delivery is through FTTH / FTTx Optical fiber network using GPON Access network.
• Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) wide data network for the Jubail Industrial City.
• IP/MPLS based Triple Play service delivery using Cisco 7600 series Aggregator/Routers.
• Participate in project meetings with Global vendors: Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, Motorola, Cisco, StreamTel, Espial & local Contractors to review the project progress and dependencies.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Designing Upgrade for different elements of Dirab Earth Station, Riyadh including Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA), RF Converters, 11m Antenna upgrade & expansion & upgrade of Digital TV control system software.
• Design Remote Monitoring & control NMS system (NetMAC) for all the Riyadh satellite equipment for easy operation from one remote site. (This helped STC to reduces 17 of their operation staff)

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

• Designing Upgrade for different elements of Jeddah Earth Station including High power Amplifiers (HPA), RF Converters, Voice & Data Modems & conversion from Analog TV to Digital TV (Tandberg, Norway).
• Design Remote Monitoring & control system (NetMAC) for all the Jeddah satellite equipment for easy operation from one remote site.
• Provide a smooth and trouble free route to digitalization on INTELSAT & ARABSAT satellites.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Designing Upgrade for different elements of Dirab Earth Station, Riyadh including Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA), RF Converters, 11m Antenna upgrade & expansion & upgrade of Digital TV control system software.
• Design Remote Monitoring & control NMS system (NetMAC) for all the Riyadh satellite equipment for easy operation from one remote site. (This helped STC to reduces 17 of their operation staff)
• Train the local staff for the operation & develop a team that can handle Digital transmission on their own & do periodic testing & maintenance.

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

• Responsible for the operational health of the Jeddah Satellite Earth Station. Including INTELSAT & ARABSAT C & Ku-band Stations and INMARSAT Land Earth Station (LES)
• Manage the Occasional TV broadcasting (Barco & Miteq) for Saudi TV & other TV service providers on INTELSAT & ARABSAT satellite.
• Database Administration of Oracle based systems of INMARSAT LES, included SQL scripts, planning of Oracle Databases, backup and recovery procedures, monitoring and tuning of database performance in distributed.
• Fault rectification upto card/module level, Configuring & programming of NERA ACSE for optimal performance. Management of LES Data including Accounting, Charging/Billing, and Operator Management.
• Co-ordinate all technical actions related to the every day activities needed to maintain the networks
• Installed & tested (SSOG) INTELSAT DAMA Terminal at Jeddah Earth Station.

Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

• Responsible for satellite earth terminal links and terrestrial circuit connectivity through INTELSAT & DOMSAT satellite Earth Stations. Responsible for all real world satellite network engineering requirements.Salient.
• Supervision of TV transmission of important events on INTELSAT satellites, using FDM Analog Transmission (NEC, Japan).
• Installed INTELSAT F-3 Antenna (with SSOG 201) as VSAT Hub & numerous VSAT Terminals.
• Digitalization of a Domestic earth Station from FDM Analog to Digital TDM/IDR.
• Jointly executed DCME compatibility test with INTELSAT labs team.
• Installation of Hughes TDMA Terminal and all preliminary tests.

Karachi, Pakistan

Experienced Product Development (Full cycle, Design, prototype, Hardware/software):Plotter Emulator for HP Laser Printer (US customer)Leather Area Measuring machine (Local Industry)PC-based Telex card (Local retail)PC based High speed modem (US customer)

Pakistan

Product Development including Hardware design and Firmware/Software:Operator Queuing System (Local customer)

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical Engineering, A+

Activities and Societies: Science Society, DX Engineering Club (Amateur Radio)

M.S Candidate, Computer Systems Engineering

Candidate for Master of Engineering in Computer Systems Engineering, however, left the university sometime before completion of the.