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South Sudan

• Oversees MNOs/ISPs technical regulatory and business operations matters.• Analysed and managed all technical regulatory & business issues related to MNOs/ISPs operations.• Enable digital transformation for faster and smarter workplace processes, develop analytics for meaningful insights while working with internal and external partners to coordinate Telecommunication/ICT projects status, activities, and achievements.• Oversees the ccTLD of South Sudan domain names and coordinate with global and regional internet registries on the planning and allocation of IP address space (AS) and IP numbering plan.• Monitor and maintain the Network performance, availability, security of ICT/Telecommunications infrastructures while ensure smooth operations and timely resolution of network and operational incidents.• Oversees ICT/Telecommunications inspections while review and evaluate Contraventions on Telecommunication/ICT Infrastructure.• Uphold NCA service level agreements (SLAs) /KPIs on Network Coverage, Capacity, Quality, Reliability.• Oversee the deployment and distribution of NCA electrical systems while managing its design, schematics, maintenance, and testing.

South Sudan

• Support in identifying requirements and the operational design, budgeting, planning and deployment of technology solutions and systems.• Plans network installations by implementing technical specifications and preparing an installation schematic.• Establishes IT communications systems by programming voice and data telecommunications network circuits and equipment.• Establishes voice and data networks by programming features, establishing interfaces and integrations.• Analyses network performance and prepares and presents reports based on that analysis.• Maintains network by troubleshooting and repairing outages, testing network back-up procedures, and updating documentation.• • Contribute to the privacy Impact assessment by filling the IT Security risk matrix and by implementing the mitigating measures.• Respond to queries from users, understanding and resolving issues, providing solutions, advice and ensuring IT/SCOPE/Telecom policies, procedures, systems, and tools are correctly applied to support business continuity.• Keep track of the issues and coordinate with WFP Global Service Desk Management for resolution.• Assess Technology and needs for staff and help develop appropriate training material.• Support the management of the Inter-Agency security communications infrastructure.• Represent TEC Unit when called for meetings to report on Cluster activities, needs and requirements on IT and Security telecommunications.• Contribute to the preparation of operational plans and deliver resource requirements at the onset of an emergency.• Support the co-ordination of new application implementation in order to provide WFP staff with the tools they need to perform effectively

Republic Of South Sudan

• Successfully completed and lead the project on the day-to-day deployment of LTE network rollout at Niletel.• Successfully manage timeline; ensure budget adherence, margin delivery, and quality of deployment and act as the interface on daily progress and deliverables.• Implementation and archiving of all relevant project documents and tools.• Work close with the Vendor and Project team to ensure all project documents are prepared to meet contractual obligations and PROPS C compliance.• Prepare documents including translation of budget requirements, time constraints, and deliverable expectations.• Ensure project setup in database as defined in the project specs.• Plan & design RF Requirements are defined based on Network requirements.• Drive Testing for propagation modeling.• Design and analysed broad spectrum of radio and network protocols spanning IoT, 5G, 4G, 3G, 2G and WLAN based wireless broadband networks.• Manages operational and work assignments of a Core/ EPC Design teams to ensure consistency of approach and design assumptions.• EPC Design requirements, KPI and End-to- End Performance metrics are documented in the Agreement as well as defining the test cases that will ensure the delivered network meets the documented requirements. Manages the Core and EPC Installation, Commissioning, Integration Tasks through Acceptance Test cases to ensure contract deliverables and performance objectives are met.• Utilizes information management, access controls management, configuration management, program integration and communications, and risk management processes to support project teams.• Utilizes earned value or other management techniques to understand relationships between planned work, executed work, and actual costs

Juba,South Sudan

To ensure that MTN South Sudan is manage and monitored according to MTN standards and changes are made and managed through the MTN Change Management standards and procedures.• Network Management Center.• Fault management and escalation.• Change management• Remote access management.• Ensure MTN South Sudan OSS, ENIQ,BO and other Multi-Vendor NE monitoring tools administration, operations and maintenance.• Ensure traffic data and performance counters are configured and transferred to the Performance reporting tools.• Responsible to prepare weekly/monthly reports of the department/division.• Handle trouble shooting activities to solve encountered OSS, ENIQ, FACTS and other Multi-Vendor and performance statistics problems and escalate them to vendors if required.Responsible for NOC team management, including Front Office and Back Office.• Responsible for the achievement of SLA and network KPI target of NOC team• Responsible for the management of customer relative departments and 3rd party vendor.• Responsible for network fault management, and implementation of preventive maintenance, monitor the fault handling and problem escalation• Responsible for network change plan review and implementation, and the development, rehearsal, and implementation of the network contingency plan• Responsible for promoting operation efficiency to reduce the cost

Juba

• Manage the overall RAN & BSS network configuration and determine logical size increments in the BSS equipment whilst assist with BTS/ENodeb features and testing.• Swap and rehoming the 380 BTS/EnodeB Sites from Sudan to South Sudan separation in 2011 RBS Rehoming and Swaps.• Creation, extension/reduction, and Initialization of BSCs parameter to accommodate subscribers.• Upgrade HSDPA (Create Cross connection from BTS to Transmission, Trance & create transmission link to RNC following nE1 following, Create cross connection & Commissioning by OSS.• Ericsson OSS system administrator while ensure smooth running of OSS complex (OSS, UAS, ENIQ, etc)

Khartoum

• Operates 50 BSCs elements (TRAU and BTS) in whole MTN Sudan network.• Handle trouble shooting activities to solve encountered BSS network problems and escalates them to BSS Supervisor• Supervise contractors.

Juba

• Establish Vivacell networking environment by designing system configuration, directing system installation, and defining, documenting, and enforcing system standards.• Monitor and implement new solutions and improve resilience of the network systems.• Maximize Vivacell network performance by monitoring performance, troubleshooting network problems and outages, scheduling upgrades, and collaborating with network architects on network optimization• Undertake Vivacell network fault investigations whilst secure network systems by establishing and enforcing policies and defining and monitoring access.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Management Information Systems, 3.07

Dissertation:The Impact of Management Information Systems (MIS) in United Nations Agencies

Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering | Thesis: Radio Propagations In Gsm/Umts

Sudan School Certificate, Science And Mathematics

Science and Mathematics