Executive Engineer
ZTE Pakistan
Total years of experience :12 years, 5 Months
• Support pre-sales technical, engineering, services. Work with Sales Personnel to provide services, business and technical knowledge in support of pre-sales activities
• Preparing Tender Preparation Plan and Responsibility Matrix for the bid team, organizing conferences and kick-off meetings, and Coordinating and organizing multi-disciplinary bid teams comprising the personnel from technical, commercial, financial, engineering and etc.
• Scrutinizing the tender document in all aspects, including technical, commercial, legal, financial, engineering and etc in conjunction with the respective departments.
• Leading the bid team for the production of customized and competitive proposal within a given time frame which comprises technical and commercial portions
• Ensuring the bid response comply with the agreed strategy in respect of conformity or deviation to/from the tender
• Managing and organizing responses to technical clarifications associated with the tender requirements and coordinating with personnel from respective department to complete the technical responses.
• Participating and organizing the contract negotiation meetings with the customer.
• Involved in Tender/RFQ/RFP processing and proposal.
• Involved in the development of pre-sales and marketing documents.
• Performing technical presentations and demonstrations for the customers.
Major Products
Performed configuration based on the customer requirements for the following ZTE products:
• ZXSS10 SS1b Soft Switch Product
• ZXMSG9000 (MT-64, MT-256) Media Gateway Product
• NetNumen N31 Network Management Product
• ZXMSG 5200 Multi-Service Access Gateway Product
Major Projects
Played an active role in solution design and successful delivery of the following projects:
• PTCL IPTV Project
• PTCL C-5 NGN Project
• PTCL Level-3 O&M Support Service Project
• PTCL Signaling Monitoring Project
• SCO ZXJ10 Project
• PAF NGN Project
• Worked as Telecom Engineer in NGN Documentation & Training Department, successfully produced manuals and training material for the following products in coordination with SMEs, R&D engineers and the feedback from the customer.
Soft Switch ZXSS10 SS1b
Media Gateway ZXMSG9000
PSTN Switch ZXJ10
Monitoring Equipment ZXMT
• Produced more than 20 documents on System Hardware Architecture and Software configuration with special emphasis on network entity, various control, signal and media flows and the related protocols, Hardware and software installation techniques, Data configuration and operation, Troubleshooting Procedures etc.
• Work in liaison with R&D to test the equipment and find solutions for technical issues and acquire product knowledge relating specifically to access networks.
• Support Technical Marketing and Customer Support departments for on time delivery of good quality technical manuals and specifications.
• Deliver trainings to fellow engineers and dispense/guide them with their tasks.
• Install, support and maintain NMS and SQL server hardware and software infrastructure.
• Provide training and technical support and to other engineers relating to access networks, information systems and security.
Commendations held: Outstanding employee award (March 2007, June 2007), department’s outstanding employee award for exceptional performance in September 2007.
• Giving training to students (PTCL Employees) with varied backgrounds, experience and product knowledge in a blended learning environment.
• Researching and analyzing EWSD Switching System in order to provide training support and technical support to field offices.
• Evaluating individual performance and providing feedback and coaching.
• Simulating actual environment (in laboratory) to troubleshoot faults in EWSD Switching System including consulting maintenance manuals.
• Conducting Lab practice on subscriber administration, routing, traffic and tariff administration and tracing call setup.
Vendor/Environment Experience: Alcatel, Siemens, Linux
• As Support Supervisor( Microwave Network) for the Riyadh Maintenance Center, managed Digital Microwave, PCM, Radio, Power and SRS team for preparation and execution of quick solution to problems in the respective network entity for STC-LDN O & M Project
• Testing and fault tracking on the PCM/SRS equipment, creating and updating data network element’s and ring information’s etc.
• Arrange and follow up repair and replacement of spare unit with repair center and MC store
• Responsible to support all PCM and SRS sites under jurisdiction of Central Region
• Carried out the acceptance testing (PAT) for the new sites
• Coordinated and prepared schedule for route tests and measurement
• Manage and schedule work plans and action plans (RAMZAN and Hajj) of the system in order to monitor and
• Control on work accomplishment and communicate with senior management on the result and get necessary advises.
• Prepare on request investigation and outage reports.
Vendor/Environment Experience: NEC, Nera, IRT-1500, IRT-2000, Tellettra etc.