Hasham Niaz, Technical Specialist

Hasham Niaz

Technical Specialist

Saudi Telecom Company

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
Master's degree, PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Experience
13 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 3 Months

Technical Specialist at Saudi Telecom Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since July 2016

* Data Analysis and Support of EBU Products & Services
* Automation of Bulk Trouble Ticket Handling
* Multi Domain and Architecture Support
* Presented Multiple Presentations on Technical Visits
* Providing RCA, IR Reports and Suggesting Future Preventive Measures
* MDT Announcements for EBU Section
* Escalating and Resolving EBU TTs on Fast track
* IBM Dashboard Monitoring, Covering Top CCTs in the Kingdom
* Improvising SOPs and KPIs and Helping to Enhance Team Efficiency

Senior Engineer VoIP/SMS Operations at VOPIUM a Denmark based Company
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • May 2011 to December 2015

*Department Role: Team Lead VoIP Operations
Assisting Chief Technical and Chief Financial Officers
*Linux Domain: Installing VoIP/SMS Servers and resolving dependencies
*Security: Helping Fraud Prevention/NOC/IT Team to Minimize Fraud Issues
Introducing Rules and Policies for IP-tables / Firewalls
*Domain Trainer: Worked as a trainer for other team members and Outsourced Support partners
*Level-3 Support: diagnosing by using wire shark and sniffing calls to analyze call Flow
Troubleshooting of calls failure reasons and testing the voice quality through different Scenarios
*SQL Scripting: Writing Scripts for VoIP and SMS applications/monitoring/Updates/Inserts etc
*VoIP/SMS: Communication with Carriers to ensure Qos of Voice/ SMS traffic, Routes costing Resolving Carrier Grade
issues and exchange parameters for integration
Hands on Experience on Asterisk/openSIPS
Hands on Experience of Kannel an open source WAP and SMS gateway
Integrating SMS gateways using SMPP and http protocols
Integrating Voice Carriers for Inbound and Outbound calls
Maintaining up to date Area prefixes of A to Z destinations
Pre and Post Deployment Support:Giving support to partners product by identifying bugs, resolving issues
Worked on Voice and SMS solutions for 7 partners around the Glob
*Vopium Wiki Writer: I am also a writer of Vopium Wiki Section VoIP Operations team. Covering Domain knowledge.


And As a VoIP Engineer

VoIP Engineer
*Assisting Carrier Relationship Manager to Deal with more than 25 (Voice/SMS) Global Carriers
*Assisting Head of Operations and Developing Reports to Present daily Operational Issues
*Voice Optimization of A to Z destinations depending upon Call Quality, ACD &ASR
*SMS optimization of A to Z destination to Ensure maximum delivery of SMS
*Voice and SMS data reconciliation and Verification
*Maintaining costs of Existing Voice and SMS offers
*Level 1 and Level 2 24x7 Support Diagnose
*Keeping Numbering Plan Up to date For SMS and Voice Calls
*Analyzing Inbound and outbound calls and Traffic trend on daily basis
*Testing New Products with Software Quality Assurance Department

Network Engineer at Wateen Telecom
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • October 2010 to April 2011

Good hands on experience in the field of Unified Communications and Networking. Currently I am working as part of IPCC/IPT MSO onsite team for Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd and parallel responsible for remote IPCC/IPT & PGW2200 remote support for different customers.
• O&M
• Installation, configuration and usage of Network Monitoring Systems like IP Monitor, Solar Wind Engineering version, RMS, RTMT and CMNM. Windows system state backups.
• Satisfactory concepts of Cisco IPCC solution. Possess reasonable knowledge of installing the core components of IPCC.
• Micro Trend Antivirus software Installation and configuration in server/Client mode for IPCC.

Internee Engineer at Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • July 2009 to August 2009

Internship in PTCL Lahore in following departments to understand Telecommunication Industry in Pakistan.

**Transmission
**Switching
**Broadband

Electronics Project Team Lead at Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2009 to July 2009

Worked in CDLE (The Center for the development of Laboratory Equipment) Department to
Develop Hardware of RPM counter to Count RPM of every motor machine present in the
equipment of CDLE department. That can count up to 9999 rpm at a time.

Education

Master's degree, PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  • at COMSATS UNIVERSITY
  • July 2018

Research Based Thesis: "Challenges with Telecom User Authentication and Its Impact on Telecom Economy and User Growth "

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Telecommunication Engineering
  • at COMSATS UNIVERSITY
  • July 2010

## BS Engineering Final Thesis Project: “Design & Implementation of MPLS based VPN”. ## BS(EE) Semester Projects: * OSPF Design (networking). * CDMA Based Mac Protocol for Wireless Adhoc Networks. * Micro­strip patch Antenna 4x2 array 4.5 GHz * WIMAX Technology * Multiplexed Seven Segment using Micro controller * Network programming in Linux

Diploma, Pre­Engineering
  • at Government College University
  • August 2005
High school or equivalent, Science
  • at Shakir Science higher secondary school
  • April 2003

Specialties & Skills

Telecommunications Engineering
Project Collaboration
Administrative Support
VoIP and SMS Carrier Relations
Packet Tracer, C/ C++, Perl, Linux , OpenSips, Bash Scripting, Solaris, VoIP, MySQL Workbench
GNS3, MySQL, SQLyog, VMware, Routers ,Switches, SMS Gateways, Asterisk, Application Design, NMS
Network Tunnels, SBC gateway
AEL Scripting, TFTP Server, eyebeam, X-lite, Putty and SecureCRT, Wire shark,Cascadpilot
Operations and Development

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Memberships

Pakistan Engineering Council
  • MEMBER
  • February 2012
CISCO
  • CERTIFIED
  • January 2011
COMSATS
  • ALUMNI
  • May 2010

Training and Certifications

CISCO (Training)
Training Institute:
Corvit
Advance Linux / Asterisk / Solaris (Training)
Training Institute:
Corvit

Hobbies

  • I like to improve and this habit makes me a good learner. I like to travel and see the world.
    * Reduced Company Vendor Expensive by 75% by Introducing new Design and new Agreements * Developed new mobile numbering series for Bakri Telecom Indonesia and Vopium Denmark * I have Represented Vopium Denmark in many Platforms *Writer of a Vopium WIKI which is in use by Vopium for Support purpose *Known as a Vopium Domain Expert Conducting *Got Three Promotions in 5 years