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Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

• Overall responsible for site delivery from site Ready for Installation (RFI) till PAC, invoicing and Project Closure. • Coordination with the Ericsson internal site readiness team to secure sites Ready for Installation as per Weekly and Monthly Plan.• Ensuring required ASP/Subcon resource available per region to meet the project requirements.• Ensuring site material including 3rd Party material is in stock in regional warehouse based on the SOA (Site ONAIR) forecast.• Daily project meetings with regional teams to update progress and supporting regions in case of any challenges.• Weekly meetings with Subcon/ASP management to align the scope of work in progress and future allocations.• Setting weekly targets for Site ONAIR, PAC and Invoicing to achieve committed monthly plans.• Coordination with Huawei (MS Partner) and Nokia (Transmission Partner) to discuss and resolve the issues on a weekly basis.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Appointed consultant as Huawei Regional Project Manager for Vodacom MPU region for Modernization Projects.• Main interface between Huawei and Vodacom Region customer.• Responsible for planning, execution, monitoring and controlling all activities of the project.• Planning sites survey in a cluster and ensure modernization design and solution fulfil all customer requirements.• Close coordination with Remote Service Delivery teams as well as resource on ground to avoid any communication gaps.• Motivating and securing site approvals from customers including tower loading and 3rd party approvals.• Tracking all streams progress including U900 / U2100 / L900 / L800 / L1800 / L2600 / NR700M and NR3500M 5G projects.• Setting invoicing targets based on the forecast and ensuring timing invoicing and sign offs.Successfully achieve customer satisfaction by achieving all 2021 annual targets by November 2021.

Jakarta, Indonesia

Early involvement as Senior Project Manager for the delivery of 3109 Wireless New 3G/4G Site Built and 5116 RAN Upgrade, Expansion and Modernization as part of 2020 Rollout plan for Hutchison 3 Indonesia.Defined Project Master Plan to complete the entire project in line with customer requirement.Aligned with the regions to survey all Wireless New, Wireless Upgrade, Wireless Expansion and RAN moderanization.Regular meetings with 3rd Party Tower Provider and Customer Management Team to review weekly progress and identified risks related to site readiness.• Monitoring Daily Progress and setting weekly targets with the regions in line with rollout activity plans.• Focusing pre-implementation activities to create site readiness pool, including Site Survey Approvals, Third Party approval, ensuring power, mounting poles and access arrangement in advance. • Equipment ordering to the regional warehouse based on the delivery forecast.• Defining weekly targets with Subcon teams based on sites readiness by third party tower provider.• Successfully completed Kalimantan region NEFPA 2019 Project WL New and MW UPG project sites.• Close communication with regional teams and subcon to resolve issues blocking site integration, ATP, CAC and PAC..• Setting quarterly targets with customer. Attending weekly Rollout & Progress Review meetings with customer.• Coordination with Managed Services teams for smooth handover of the sites after site integration and alarm clearance.• Close coordination with Technical Team and Transmission team to ensure site get integrated without any delays.• Weekly and Monthly project activities review in line with approved budget and project timelines.• Completed 99.2% overall delivery scope based on the site readiness by the end of September 2020.

Key Achievements and Tasks;Lead end to end IBS Project Delivery including plan, execute, control and completion of the IBS projects.Critical Milestones Delivered that includes 45 DAS system implementation, 54 WiFi system swap and 41 WiFi new system design and implementation, 62 Huawei Lamp Site (iDAS) system design and implementation.• Defined and Articulated Project Objectives and Scope of Work based on customer requirements.• Established project best practices, like templates, tools and processes and identified best ways to deliver Project Objectives by having detailed analysis of work packages.• Established optimized teams and resources as per project requirements, to ensure all projects are delivered as per customer expectation and within target date.• Close coordination with SAQ, Rollout, Transmission, BSS and RNO team for the smooth running of the projects.• Ensured successful engagement with customer management team. Presented weekly/monthly program progress report. Lead customer relationship building, confidence and trust.• Articulated project scope based on Project Contract and secured the necessary resources and monitored all project activities. Defined Project baseline with due consultation with MTN.• Effectively managed subcontractors to help ensure Project agreed timelines were secured.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Key Achievements/TasksMain objective of the project was to identify the potential areas/sites where urgent upgrades were required to improve the network quality and to improve the end user experience.• Set up a war room to ensure close communication about daily plans, team structure and deliverables in time.• Arranged resources to complete on site physical upgrades by replacing and adding the required hardware resources.• In depth analysis of the sites to understand key dependencies and solutions.• Seeking customer approvals on the tower loading and antenna swaps where Antenna required.• Arranged regular meetings with customer to provide weekly plans and update in terms of progress, network quality, network performance and end user experience.Achieved all major milestones and achieved 1001 technologies upgrade target in a month including 3G and LTE.• Ensured all physical upgrades are completed as per defined quality and acceptance standards and customer requirements.• Confirming alarms status, to ensure no active alarm on site after each site upgrade and handing over the sites to Radio Network Optimization (RNO) team to perform Drive Test (DT).• Aligned resources to ensure all sites are getting timely acceptance to support revenue targets.• Managed internal, in house team and subcon teams to achieve daily plans as agreed with the customer.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of Full Turnkey sites within MTN Gauteng North Region.• Coordinating the efforts of team members and third-party contractors or consultants in order to deliver projects according to plan.• Manage day-to-day operational aspects of project scope and prepare status reports for management.• Responsible for safe and incident free execution of assigned projects by following EHS requirements.• Work with project teams to drive project schedules and contract deliverables with a focus on delivering on every commitment made to the customer.• Arranging weekly internal meeting with Rollout, BSS and Transmission team to define weekly targets and progress review of the past week plans and deliverables.• Forecast main project risks and analysing them to mitigate in time.• Resolved all technical or non technical issues that arise during the project by liaising with all stakeholders (Customer, Internal Departments etc.)• Responsible for the in time delivery of the site built and equipment delivery to meet master plan timelines.• Analysing the Radio equipment requirements and forecasting equipment planning• Communicating with Supply Chain for the meeting equipment demand and with Procurement team to meeting the teams and resource requirements• Routine meetings with the customer at the regional level on a weekly basis to review weekly progress of all the deliverables within the running month.• Assigning projects to the subcontractors including Civil Work/MW/BTS and power pack installation and project acceptance within 15 days after the completion of the project.• Arranging handover meetings with Operation and Maintenance team to deliver the sites to O&M after site acceptance.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Assigned Responsible as Regional Project Manager for 2G/3G/4G Radio Access Network (RAN) swap within MTN Gauteng North Region.• Mainly responsible for the 1300 BTS and Wireless sites Swap from E/// to H/// in Pretoria, Centurion and East Rand Region.• Scheduling daily swap plan and execution, after detailed cluster analysis• Ensuring pre installation is done and pre quality check is done before the actual cutover.• Providing technical support to the 2G/3G SWAP teams.• Coordination with Tx, BSS and RNO team for cluster swap preparation.• Managing subcontractors to implement the sites according to the Huawei quality standards and MTN requirements.• Subcontractor performance appraisal on a quarter bases.• Managing customer complaints after swap• Train project team to maintain installation quality as per standards.• On site visit for the system and quality check.• Meeting with customer after each BSC and RNC swap to review the KPIs and performance of the network.• Coordination with Core Network team to ensure each site is created on the core network and performing as normal.• Arranging meetings with MTN HQ to review overall progress of swap project and timelines review.

As a Project Manager in the Gulf country Salanat of Oman, I worked in Huawei for Omantel Project to implement LTE network in the Huawei regions. Main activities includes;• Working with the Radio Planning team to finalize the LTE master plan and obtaining customer approval.• Ensure a full site BoQ is delivered to the customer for the quote approval and Customer PO.• Arranging night time activities with the team to upgrade the Radio equipment and activate LTE.• Ensuring a change request (CR) is approved by the customer before any network changes.• Close coordination with Radio Optimization team to ensure network KPIs are acceptable and approved by the customer in time.

Worked as Regional Rollout Manager for MTN Nigeria Full Turnkey Project and was responsible for the following main activities. • Assigning projects to the subcontractors including MW/BTS and power pack installation.• Setting targets for the subcontractors and monitor them on daily basis.• Ensure all monthly targets achieved as agreed.• Routine meetings with customer at regional level to align with the transmission team and rollout team.• Close coordination with MTN transmission team to resolve transmission related issue.• Meeting with Tower Sharing companies for timely readiness of the sites for BTS and MW installation.• Close coordination with Huawei BSS and MW team to ensure all sites scripts and configurations are ready.• Performing site visits with MTN regional team for the site acceptances and handover.

Durban Area, South Africa

Key activities;Overall responsible for the entire region Radio equipment and Access Network (RAN) swap within MTN Kawa Zulu Natal (KZN) Region.• Mainly responsible for the 1280 BTS and Wireless sites Swap from E/// to H/// in entire KZN Region.• Established a Rollout, BSS and Radio Optimization team to be based in the region.• Set up kick off meeting with customer to define cluster swap plan.• Scheduling daily swap plan and communicating to the entire team on a daily basis.• On site visit for the system and quality check.• Train project team to maintain installation quality as per required standards.• Providing technical support to the 2G/3G SWAP teams.• Coordination with Tx, BSS and RNO team for cluster swap preparation.• Ensuring pre installation is done and pre quality check is done before the actual cutover.• Managing subcontractors to implement the sites according to the Huawei quality standards and MTN requirements.• Subcontractor performance appraisal on a quarter bases.• Managing customer complaints during and after swap• Meeting with customer after each BSC and RNC swap to review the KPIs and performance of the network.• Coordination with Core Network team to ensure each site is created on the core network and performing as normal.• Arranging meetings with MTN HQ to review overall progress of swap project after each BSC/RNC swap.

Main Tasks and AchievementsAs a Site Quality controller for MTC Namibia Swap and expansion project, I was mainly responsible for the following main activities.• Planning weekly and daily SWAP plans and getting approval from the customer.• Providing training to the subcontractors about Huawei site installation and quality standards.• Routine site visits to inspect the site installation quality and strict supervision of the subcontractors to implement the sites according to the Huawei quality standards.• Weekly meeting with the customer, to review the progress of the project and discuss various issues related to the sites and installation quality.• Managing the SWAP material delivery back to warehouse as per customer’s requirement.• Evaluating the subcontractor’s performance and pushing subcontractors to clear the snags in time to get the site acceptance.• Site testing and alarm clearing including VSWR alarm and handing over the sites to MTC maintenance team.

Istanbul, Turkey

Key Roll and Responsibilities.As National Site Acceptance Manager for Vodafone Turkey 3G project, I successfully achieved below tasks.• Defined Site acceptance procedure for Vodafone 3G network site acceptance and finalizing the site acceptance procedure with customer approval.• Arranged multiple trainings for subcons to explain the Huawei installation quality and acceptance standards.• Close coordination with CEG team to pin point the key issues related with subcons to be improved.• Work together with Huawei Field Maintenance team in order to define site hand over procedure after site ONAIR.• Routine weekly meeting with subcons to improve work quality and follow up to clear the pending issues at site.• Regular communication with regional acceptance team to get the day to day progress and issues detail and maintain the overall site acceptance progress report.• On site visit for installation quality inspection of BBU, RRU, Antenna, Radio Links, PTN & GPS and giving on site instructions to maintain the site quality standards.• Active member of revenue collection team to complete all the requirements for invoicing.• Support finance team to eliminate all mis-matching to ensure the invoicing date is correct.• Cross checking Maximo data to be sure that all network elements installed at site has been bar coded and there is no conflicting or missing item.• Support PMO office to define and manage and achieve key milestones of the project.• Conduct motivational and recreational activities and training programs.

Main Roll and Responsibilities.• Responsible for monitoring and controlling of the nationwide roll-out activities, including forecasting of the new and expansion sites. Plan, control and monitor different projects that include BTS roll out, BSC expansion, MSC expansion and Site Sharing with other operators.• Meetings with different vendors on regular basis to ensure the monthly deliverable in time.• Regular visits to the regions to ensure regional implementation team is aligned with the HQ team and enforcing different work flows for the on going projects.• Arranging teams to conduct Drive Test for those sites planed by the Telenor RF team and getting a confirmation of site acceptance and handing over the sites to O&M for putting the sites commercially on air.• Follow up for availability of permanent power at BTS sites with transformers. • Plan and manage the resources as per monthly plan and provide solutions to achieve the monthly targets within the current month.• Close coordination with transmission department for the availability of transmission for BTS sites.• Preparing high level project progress reports and presentations for higher management.• Close follow up with vendors and coordination with different departments including Site Acquisition, Site Design, RF, Operation & Maintenance, BSS & Transmission and Regional Offices for smooth running of the projects.

Working for GSM and CDMA WLL project, I was involved in all the activities of BTS site installation that includes, conducting Technical Site Survey (TSS) as per RF plan, site survey evaluation, preparing site proposals, arranging resources, planning, scheduling and monitoring installation activities, that includes, concrete poring, tower erection, telecom installation work, testing and commissioning of BTS, site integration, arranging teams to perform drive tests and conducting acceptance testing.

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