• 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.• Providing onsite representation of Roger’s with developers and contractors, including but not limited to material deliveries and completion timelines.

• 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.• Managed all aspects of the project including project scoping, resource assignment, project plan development, project tracking, monitoring, and reporting.

• 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 and a budget of about $250,000.• 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 Radio – 9500 MPR, and Microwave Service Switch - MSS-1, 4 and 8).• Precise implementation of change requests, preventive, corrective, and configuration work orders.