Waseem Amjad, CEO / Senior Independent Consultant

Waseem Amjad

CEO / Senior Independent Consultant

Private (Confidential)

Location
Pakistan - Rawalpindi
Education
Master's degree, Telecommunication
Experience
21 years, 4 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 4 months

CEO / Senior Independent Consultant at Private (Confidential)
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • My current job since August 2012

- Managing Electromechanical, Solar Energy, Civil Infrastructure, real estate small projects.
- Serving as “Senior Independent Consultant” and providing consultancy to telecom companies mostly in Gulf Region for LTE, 3G, 2G, SDH, DWDM, OSP, ISP Network Roll Out and O&M Programs from beginning to end including telecom, electromechanical and Civil domains.

Customer Project Manager at Ericsson
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • May 2012 to July 2012

- Served as “Customer Projects Manager” on LTE/3G/2G Network Roll Out projects.
- Managed and delivered LTE/3G/2G (4G-1 including IBS project), 3G/2G (3G-6) and 2G Modernization roll out Projects of “Saudi Telecom Company”, Saudi Arabia.
- I also served as “Project Manager Close Out” for 2010 and 2011 2G/3G projects of Saudi Telecom Company’s account in order to clear pending/rejected sites.

Senior Implementation Manager at ZTE
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2011 to February 2012

- Served as “Senior Implementation Manager” on LTE/3G/2G Network Roll Out Project of “Saudi Telecom Company”, Saudi Arabia.
- Planned and executed STC USF3-3G6 project consists of 482 sites which includes 245 new Greenfield sits and 237 swap indoor and outdoor sites, 8 repeaters, 5 BSCs, 3 RNCs.

Regional Technical Manager / Chief Engineer at Huawei Technologies
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2010 to March 2011

- Served as “Regional Technical Manager” on Huawei Technologies world’s first LTE-TD Network Roll Out project and 2G Roll Out Project of Mobily Telecom, 3G/2G O&M Project of Saudi Telecom, Saudi Arabia.

Project Coordinator at Systems Networks Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2009 to August 2010

- Served as “Assistant Program Manager-PMO” on a Billion Dollars C4I Program of Royal Saudi Arabian Air Force which consists of 3 Projects. I directly managed Infrastructure Optical Communication Network roll out project (OSP & ISP) as "Project Manager" on 7 Airbases of Royal Saudi Arabian Air Force, KSA and indirectly managed other 2 projects of C4I Program as "Program Coordinator" and assist "Programs Manager".

Project Coordinator and Senior Engineer (3rd Party Contract) at Saudi Telecom Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2009 to December 2009

- Served as Project Coordinator and Senior Engineer on SDH, 3G, 2G rehoming project of Saudi Telecom Company, Saudi Arabia in central region.

National Teams Lead & Project Coordinator (3rd Party Contract) at Mobily
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2009 to August 2009

- Served as National Teams Lead & Project Coordinator (Huawei Technologies) on Managed Services - (SDH / DWDM) project of Mobily Telecom, Saudi Arabia. I managed nationwide field operations teams, NOC Team and Back Office Team.
- Served as hub and Single Point of Contact (SPOC) between different departments of Mobily Telecom, Saudi Arabia, generating requests for Back Bone Connectivity with SDH/DWDM network.

Education

Master's degree, Telecommunication
  • at University of Management and Technology
  • April 2004

This degree program is equivalent to M-Phill with 52 Credit Hours and covers in-depth study of Telecommunication technologies and telecom project management.

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at Hamdard University
  • December 2002

Specialties & Skills

Finance Management
Vendor and Subcontractor Management
Network RollOut AND Managed Services
LTE 3G 2G SDH OSP
Telecom Portfolio Or Program Management
Telecom Portfolio, Program and Project Management According to PMI Standards
Vendor / Subcontractor Management
Human Resource Management
Telecom Network Roll Out, Managed Services and Operations Management
Finance Management
Telecom Network Technologies (LTE, 3G, 2G, SDH, OSP, ISP)
MS Office 2013
Optical Transmission Networks (OSP, SDH, SONET, PDH)
Telecom Network Deployment
Microwave Transmission
RF Planning and Optimization
Microsoft Project 2013
Microsoft Visio 2013

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

ISP Setup (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2004
Valid Until:
January 9999
WiMax (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2004
Valid Until:
January 9999
Network Securities (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2004
Valid Until:
January 9999