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Islamabad, Pk

Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

• Plan and execute complex marine installation projects, including submarine fibre optic and power cable deployment.• Manage project timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful completion.• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including engineers, contractors, and technical experts, toensure project objectives are met.• Conduct risk assessments and develop mitigation strategies to address potential challenges inmarine installations.• Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulations, and safety protocols for marine projects.• Monitor and report project progress to stakeholders, providing regular updates on milestones andkey performance indicators.• Collaborate with clients to define project specifications, objectives, and deliverables, ensuringalignment with their needs and expectations.• Procure necessary equipment, materials, and services for project implementation.

Islāmābād, Pakistan

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

•Project Management of large scale submarine cable projects.•Provide subject matter expertise on marine operations in support of major submarine cable construction projects.•Oversee different projects of Oil & Gas Industry (ADNOC), for establishment of submarine cable connectivity to various offshore platforms and Islands in UAE.•Preparation and issuing of technical specifications (RFQ) for the potential subcontractors.•Discussions with Subcontractors with the aim of clarifying offers and aligning them to Customer requirements.•Examination of the received proposals from potential subcontractors from different points of view: technical, financial and for scheduling/timing of the work.•Undertake specific marine engineering activities including validation of desk top study, route engineering and marine installation reports and procedures.•Formulating Plan of work and generating Daily Progress Reports (DPR).•Organize mobilization and demobilization for submarine deployment and maintenance projects.•Ensure Project readiness - availability of operational resources on cable ship for smooth implementation of project.•Prepares weekly/monthly progress reports and scrutinizes the sub-contractor’s invoices against services and materials received. •Site visits, if necessary, to understand logistic aspects of the job, check feasibility of solutions, contacting potential subcontractors, e.g. for civil works, etc.•Liaise with various clients and other agencies to identify their requirement for new projects.•Perform the necessary cable engineering works including supervision during submarine cable repair & maintenance missions, when assigned.•Perform all kind of optical and electrical tests in submarine cable systems on both land and cable ships using equipment such as COTDR/OTDR, PFE (Power Feed Equipment), Insulation and resistance measurements (IR/CR) and all aspects of installation and lying of such systems.

Islamabad | Pakistan

•Responsible for smooth operation and maintenance of RAN network (160+ cell sites) within assigned business unit.•Responsible for providing guidance to field and vendor teams on the technical and operational issues.•Ensure all equipment related RAN activities are carried out properly and execution of monthly preventive maintenance exercise (environmental issues, backup power, and external alarms verification) in accordance with the schedule.•Ensure the timely completion of corrective maintenance activities against faults occurrence in the network. •Ensure that all processes are implemented in my domain as per agreed SOW with all vendors.•End to end responsibility and accountability of complete O&M tasks and L1-KPIs (NUR, MTTR, T-Prime, Site Fluctuations, TCH Availability, etc.) commitment under my domain.•Ensure that site Preventive & Corrective maintenance is completed as per standards and all related KPIs (SQI, PSR, etc.) are up to the mark.•Perform coordination with other departments for improving radio network quality with target to achieve main KPIs (increasing of call setup success rate (CSSR), reducing of call drop rate (DCR), and reducing of network blocking (TCH blocking)).•AC and DC Power Systems analysis and fault control. Evaluations of Power cube systems, battery back-ups, generator-less operation (GLO) systems and daily reporting to management.•Supervision of field teams and ensures that 60% site audits are performed each month. •Ensure that sales/customer care trouble tickets are resolved in minimum possible time to minimize revenue loss.•Handling cooperate customer complaints for both voice and data issues.•Keeping track record of Generators fuel issuance and its consumption, and taking measures to save fuel to minimize OPEX.•BSS spare management to ensure smooth operations.•Establish and manage multiple cross-functional relationships, coordination and communication lines with operating units like Sales, Commercial, and Marketing teams.

Islamabad, Pakistan

•Corrective and Preventive Maintenance of Optical fiber backbone network and ensuring 99.999% availability of network on 24/7 basis.•Standalone PAT, Integration and commissioning activities of Huawei SDH & DWDM nodes.•Plan and design the most cost effective network topologies in order to achieve a stable and robust fiber optics network.•Tenders evaluation and performance assessment of contractors for fiber optics development, corrective and preventive maintenance projects.•Analyze the variances and initiate corrective actions for 99.999% availability of the fiber optics back bone network.•Prepare Fiber Network in Map Source Software, implement GIS, GPS and mapping technologies to provide the highest resolution data for early fault localization/restoration and design database for optical network management system.•Identify the forecasts costs, requirements and achieve the target budget.•Preparation of RFP, comparison of BOQs and technical evaluation and in-depth analysis of proposals.•Develop department standard operating procedures, control methods and maintain performance standards.•Determine fiber optics network risks and develop contingency plans.•Issue preliminary acceptance and final acceptance certificates to the vendors and ensure all tests meet the standard protocols and satisfy ITU-T criteria.•Exercise and practice controls that are essential to ensure the performance of contractor in accordance with the contracts and service level agreement (SLA).•Procedures development, preparation of guidelines documents and defining processes for OSP & ISP implementation according to standards.•Evaluate daily progress work, detect delays and refer to the concerned departments.•Provide technical support to the field teams when required and follow up all outages with the teams and vendors.•Manage OSP network resources e.g. fiber utilization, traffic restoration and final repairs.

Multan And Lahore, Pakistan

Planning and construction of Mobilink Optical Fiber Backbone Network in Central region. Major responsibilities were as follows:• Managed multiple optical fiber cable deployment projects that include Planning, Surveying, BOQ/Cost estimates preparation, Cable laying, Jointing, Testing and Commissioning of OFC links.• Responsible for providing engineering support to contractors throughout the whole project and ensure that laying standards & optical specifications are accurately followed.• Successfully executed & supervised Mobilink Long Haul Optical fiber deployment Project in Southern Punjab Region of more than 900 KM in Ring topology.• Prepared technical recommendations, guidelines, and progress reports for issues related to design and laying of optical fiber networks.• Identified and assessed the potential problems/risks for the whole project life-cycle and worked on risks mitigation strategies to ensure project deliverable and targets are achieved without or minimalrisk exposure.• Interaction with contractors, subcontractors on daily basis, assisting in getting approvals, deployment of inventory and ROW acquisition for timely completion of the projects.• Preparation of guidelines documents and defining processes for OSP & ISP implementation according to standards.• Attended & conducted weekly project status meeting with contractors; update project milestoneand other stakeholders.• Testing of optical fiber links after terminations and jointing for different measurement protocols byOTDR (EXFO & JDSU) and Power & Source meter equipment.• Ensured that all projects are managed and executed according to Project Implementation Plan, Cost budgets, Delivery targets and Quality standards.• Maintained Invoice track record of each vendor on all projects performed.• Verification of invoices as per actual work done.

Lahore

•Served as OSP Engineer in optical fiber connectivity project for Wateen Telecom in Lahore, Pakistan and implemented successful deployment of fiber rings (90 KM). This included planning and surveying, civil works, cable laying, splicing, testing & commissioning and acceptance testing to the client.•Prepared Project Cost estimates for labor & materials according to drawing plan.•Prepared documentation like Bills of Quantity (BOQ), As-Built drawings and updating of Wateen’s Network Key maps and Monthly & Quarterly Accomplishment Report for Management Review.

Master Of Science - Ms, Project Management

Bsc(Engg), Computer Engineering