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Canada

Canada

• Implementation of a large-scale cellular network expansion project, entailing the deployment of about 136 new cell sites across the province.
• Developing and managing project plans, defined project cost estimates, budget, and resources requirement, for new build sites.
• Managing contractors and driving compliance by ensuring timely job completion, mitigating risks, removing impediments, and managing conflicts.
• Ensuring stakeholder requests are followed through in a timely manner with appropriate communication.
• Maintaining relationships with contractors, consultants, and utilities for permitting and infrastructure access.
• Documentation sign-off and infrastructure record accuracy confirming scope completion to Roger’s standards as part of project close out.

Canada

• Coordinated the deployment of engineering design, construction, and financial management of LTE, 5G, and Transmission networks from inception to closeout, with a budget of about $10 million.
• Enhanced the material procurement process by forecasting early, and meticulously communicating with equipment manufacturers and supply chain team, effectively reducing material lead time by 15%.
• Worked with engineering groups to interpret, schedule and execute engineering work orders and technical documents using Remedy, Oracle E-business suite and Gemini.
• Effectively tracked, compiled and communicated project updates to senior management, and maintained strong work relationships with stakeholders from all functional areas of business.
• Collaborated with the procurement team on RFQ/RFP procedures, monitored vendor expenses, participated in negotiations, and supervised project scopes.

• Managed several simultaneous multi-year projects for Nokia and Huawei, overseeing a team of over 100 people, 6000 cell sites, data centers, and a budget of about $10 million.
• Profitably executed the project budget by ensuring financial targets were met and baseline profit margin of 20% was preserved.
• Provided support to project team by managing project scheduling, tracking issue management, risk management, change management, and status reporting throughout the project lifecycle.
• Revamped the fleet management model, successfully meeting business objectives by improving cost and performance efficiency by 12%.
• Effectively handled stakeholder and customer relationships while ensuring SLA’s and business requirements were upheld, translating to 100% customer retention.
• Planned, managed and communicated the progress and achievement of project milestones with stakeholders and team to ensure a positive momentum is maintained throughout the project.

• Served as a liaison between the client (Nokia), internal stakeholders, and the delivery team (about 40 individuals maintaining 800 cell sites and data centers) on network key performance indicators, project constraints.
• Coordinated activities of the project team by ensuring day to day execution of tasks, facilitation of meetings, and handling workforce management via WFM tool.
• Identified and managed project risks, tracked budget and schedule, change management, and conflict resolution by promoting close collaboration with all stakeholders across all regions.
• Improved preventive maintenance and safety standards, which resulted in a 10% reduction in corrective maintenance costs.

• Managed the operations and maintenance of BSCs and RNCs for MTN (Africa’s largest mobile telecommunications provider) at a mobile switching center, connecting over 1000 cell sites.
• Optimized network performance by ensuring swift fault resolution, in-depth root cause analysis, alarm and trouble ticket handling.
• Performed daily Network KPI Trend Analysis and reporting to determine and resolve performance degradations, and escalate field issues for physical intervention.

• Led a team of 25 field personnel in the implementation of a Network Operations and Maintenance project for MTN cell sites for 2G/3G/4G RAN and Transmission while maintaining 99% Network Availability.
• Awarded by the client in 2016 for excellent service delivery and maintaining an SLA of 99.5% Network Availability
• Successfully coordinated multiple special projects such as Infrastructure modernization, BSC/RNC Rehoming and swap projects, with the objective of optimizing network efficiency and customer experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in Ericsson, Nokia, and Cisco-based networks and devices, ensuring compatibility and seamless integration, commissioning and troubleshooting.
• Handled incident management for network failures, security issues and access management on site.
• Collaborated with project team and stakeholders, managed vendors to meet end-user requirements drove network KPIs for the region.

• Supervised about 15 field technicians, riggers, and administrative staff for a network managed service delivery project with Alcatel-Lucent.
• Ensured adherence to the network uptime service level agreement through ownership, accountability and diligent follow up with team members.
• Coordinated daily field service activities and provided second level technical support to field team in the resolution of network problems.

• Responsible for the operations and maintenance of about 50 telecommunication cell sites on 2G/3G/4G radio access and transport network, for telecommunications service provider Etisalat.
• Installed, configured, and troubleshot a wide range of Nokia and Ericsson nodes including Base Stations, Node B and Microwave Transmission radios (Ericsson Traffic Node and MINI-LINK Long haul, Nokia Microwave Packet.
• Precise implementation of change requests, preventive, corrective, and configuration work orders.

Project Management Professional

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics

Activities and Societies: AIESEC

Diploma, Telecommunications Engineering