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Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Manage and Support the 5G Wireless, Transport, and Wireline programs within the eastern region Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic.Support the 5G Uplift and New Site Build Planning, Implementation, and Operation programs.

Mississauga, Ontario, Ca

Established Rogers 5G uplift program in Ontario and GTA. through Ericsson's subcontractor Genwave Technologies. In two months' time all the required plans, processes, procedures, Quality standards, and reports were established, verified and rolled out.Operations Director, Managing SAAS solution, website, IOS and Android mobile applications development project for client(s), engaging and managing outsourced designing and DevOps teams, managing the scope revision with the client, create the User Requirements URS and wire framework, identify the governance structure, develop timelines, and monitor budget along with the DevOps activities. I also managed hosting the solution on AWS and Azure, integrating payment gateway, building the commercial plan, define the QoS and SLA, CAPEX and OPEX Control, testing and end to end solution acceptance.

North York, Ontario, Ca

Managing Business Intelligence BI and Enterprise Data Warehouse EDW projects within Bell Canada

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Successfully completed several wireless and wireline Projects and Programs On-time within Scope, budget, and Quality. the Programs and Projects I managed were under the NFV, IoT, 5G, Information Security, SIP Trunking, Call Control, CRTC Wireless Code of Conduct mandates changes, Smart Roam, and Customer focused.• Ensure interlocking the projects with the company’s programs, portfolio, and strategy. • Practice the project and program management aspects during the projects’ lifecycle.• Assist and advise in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.• Coordinates internal and external resources for the flawless execution of projects.• Develops a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress of all tasks, dependencies and deliverables.• Closely manages all changes to project scope, schedule, cost, and quality. • Proactively monitors, tracks and controls project outcomes resolving issues, mitigating risk and cross project impacts to ensure overall business readiness of the solution.• Sets and continually manages project expectations while appropriately delegating and managing deliverables with engagement, development and testing teams.• Measures project performance using appropriate tools and techniques i.e. SPI and CPI.• Creates and maintains comprehensive project documentation including Project Charter, Project Plan, Issue and Action Log, Risk Management Plan, Communication Plan, Status reports.• Expertly manages project cost estimating, budgeting and control activities to meet budgetary objectives.• Solid experience on SAP-ERP system.• Contributed in the DevOps transformation process and activities..

Doha, Doha, Qa

• Managing the Radio Planning, Radio Optimization, RAN Planning and CME Planning teams delivering the RF designs, clusters optimization, network performance and special events; along with the cell-sites and data centers civil, power and cooling systems designing.• Owning and directing all the Radio and CME projects.• Managing USD 200 million+ budget “CAPEX and OPEX” Annually.• Defining and continuously improving the RAN and CME strategies and applying them within the teams and network elements.• Development of business cases for various projects from conception to launch to help determine NPV and ROI.• Responsible for the Customer experience from the technical perspective.• Translating Ooredoo Group’s and Asaicell’s mission and Vision into Long and Short terms plans, projects and budget. • Derived building the 1st modular data center and expanded the current ones.• Introduced the Solar system as the first Green Solution.• Introduced several OPEX saving sites solutions and mechanisms.

Doha, Doha, Qa

• Defines the technological strategy with the development team of the project.• Assesses technical risk and mitigation plan.• Establishes standards and procedures to track and measure project's progression.• Evaluates development team(s), identifying strengths, problem areas, and developing plans for improving performance.• Evaluates interview candidates for technical positions.• Scouts for and evaluates new technology and tools as opportunities for innovation and development excellence.• Pre-production Oversees technical design documentation process for correctness and timeliness.• Provides input to the other disciplines on the practicality of initial design goals and impact to the overall project timeline.• Evaluates software implementation on design and task thoroughness• Helps to identify high risk areas for the Project Director.• Identifies weak software systems that need code improvement and schedules corrective action, when possible.• Creates automated test process for system features, where possible, and contributes to the build system.• Aids in all stages of post-production including during finalizing.

Doha, Doha, Qa

• Project budget USD 800,000,000+• Successfully completed the 1st phase of the network modernization, implementing the DBS, 10 ports antennas, Outdoor cabinets, BSCs, RNCs, IPBB, SGSN, GGSN, PCRF, MGW, MSS, access transmission and Backbone transmission.• Drive the 3G and network modernization projects covering all the related fields and network elements.• Define the project’s organization chart and functional responsibilities.• Drive the project management team which includes 12 project managers in the head quarter and in different provinces as on ground project managers.• Defined the time lines to meet the soft and commercial launches, and the milestones.• Revise the overall designing starting from the Marketing studies and services, RF designs, Transmission designs, and core elements designs in order to ensure the designing harmony.• Presenting the mile stones achievements to the board and management.• Defined the RFP requirements and the closing evaluation for the project management consultancy companies who are requested to drive the modernization projects.• Drive the commercial plans along with the Marketing and sales teams.• Contribute in building the products business cases.• Drive the financial studies and report.

Doha, Doha, Qa

•Managing the RAN team delivering the RF designs, clusters optimization, network performance and special events.•Introducing and upgrading the required planning and optimization tools.•Define, follow up and ensure a competitive RAN strategy in the market.•Prepare and update the five years Business Plan for the RAN and CME network, taking in consideration the organization vision and the vendor’s road maps.•Extensively work on the 3G RFP nationwide following the 3 years business plan, covering the RAN, CS core, PS core and transmission.•Design the 2G and 3G Radio networks including the BSC’s and RNC’s boards, interfaces, license and features•Define the required 900MHz Re-farming requirements and methodology.•Evaluated the RAN vendors contributed in the 3 Years RFP technically and commercially.•Defined, negotiated and implement the Pay As You Use PAYU concept for the RAN software and licenses and upgrading it to All You Can Eat AYCE license concept.•Modernizing the RAN interfaces to IP i.e. ABIS, Gb, and A.•Plan the network upgrades, modernize and swap to the cost efficient hardware and software.•Starting the purchasing process for the RAN and CME network elements and follow it up with the related departments.•Negotiate the vendor’s price books, and the deals through the year, to get the best competitive offers.•Check, prepare and confirm the contracts, BOQ, PIP, Layout, RFQ, RFP, and RFI.•Introduced GSM in a Box “village solution” concept to increase the operator’s coverage with the lowest possible cost.•Introduced the FEMOT CELL.•Monitor the Quality and capacity KPIs of the different network nodes and components and take action in case of any malfunction.•Identify to the business any external (e.g. regulatory) requirements in their specialist area, which could have an impact on the business, and suggest specific tasks/functions, in order to minimize any risk of non-compliance.