Abdelhady Ragab, Roaming Services Senior Specialist

Abdelhady Ragab

Roaming Services Senior Specialist

Etisalat Misr, Egypt

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Physics
Experience
15 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :15 years, 8 Months

Roaming Services Senior Specialist at Etisalat Misr, Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since April 2013

Planning, Implementing and Operating new Roaming Services’ projects.
• SMS Policing
• A2P & P2P Business Management
• CAMEL HUB Solution
• LTE Roaming (PoC & soft launch)
• Data Control sessions solution

Managing the business partnership with Etisalat SMS HUBs, roaming service providers and vendors. Participate in implementing new network technologies and quality systems. Managing Roaming Services Financials (Invoices, Reconciliations, Approvals and Settlement processes). Roaming Budget Planning (CAPEX & OPEX) with quarterly reporting. Building business cases and financial pricing (Feasibility study, Vendor Surveys, P&L and Cost-Benefit analysis, ….etc).
Develop new business KPIs and alarms (Shell scripting & SQL) that supported the daily reporting and detected the services’ failures on time.
Develop internal SMS Business Monitoring System (group of alarms, KPIs and reports to detect new spammers, revenue decline behaviours and system failures).
Involve in Commercial Solutions Design (CSD) creation process, performing user acceptance testing (UAT) for new marketing promotions and offers for both base subscribers and OB/IB roamers.
Participate in Roaming Services Projects planning and annual SMART objectives setting.
Perform statistical analysis status reports for sudden events/phenomena or crises.
Prepare top management presentations and reports.

Roaming Specialist at Etisalat Misr, Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2010 to April 2013

Planning, Implementing and Maintaining new Roaming Operations’ projects.
• Roaming Revenue Reporting System
• OB Roaming auditing system (E2E monitoring & reporting system)
• Roaming cost optimization initiatives

Participating in new Roaming Services related projects (NRTRDE, RAEX, OB Roaming Control Project... etc).
Responsible for Roaming testing - TADIG and Billing phase (succeeded in exceeding the company planned targets for 2010 and 2011).
Reporting the Weekly, Monthly and yearly Roaming Operations achievements.
Investigate new problems and network errors that may result in revenue decline, service quality faults or customer dissatisfaction. Generate reports and perform reconciliations to assure services quality and minimize poor quality costs.
Performing UATs for new Preferred Roaming Agreements (PRA) and new services implemented.
Handling Roaming Replicator Process with internal and external parties. Tracking New Commercially Launched operators on daily basis process. Defining new testing operators in the billing system.
Handling technical adhoc requests from company departments (Marketing, RA, IT App. Support, CC HU Teams….etc) and Etisalat RPs. Perform regular health checks on Etisalat TAP billing system, production reports and live services by means of group of reporting tools & KPIs.
Daily Roaming Revenue Reporting, Daily Reporting of IB and OB High Usage (suspected fraud).
Handling IB and OB roamers technical complaints (TAPs, RAPS, Billing, …etc).
Developing new reporting systems via various platforms (Dashboard, Data Were House (DWH) and Business Objects “BO”); that supported achieving the business requirements and operational needs.
Managing Roaming Fraud Monitoring and Roaming Revenue Assurance systems based on latest GSMA standards and Bilateral Roaming Agreements with Etisalat RPs.
Deliver training sessions and prepare the required material for internal technical trainings (Roaming Rollout, TADIG & Billing and Messaging Business).

Roaming Coordinator at Etisalat Misr, Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2008 to November 2010

As a member of Roaming TADIG team, I’ve supported in exceeding the company planned Commercial targets for 2008, 2009, 2010.
Building save well-restricted internal system for keeping Roaming Operations databases and confidential information secured and up to date.
Monitoring and maintaining roaming data exchange traffic between Etisalat systems, different Data Clearing Houses and Etisalat Roaming Partners’ systems.
Handling IB and OB roamers technical complaints (TAPs, RAPS, Billing, …etc).
Responsible for Roaming Rollout reporting system, consolidating Rollout teams achievements and reports for management updates.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Physics
  • at Faculty of science - Cairo University
  • September 2008

- Bachelor of Science in Physics - Faculty of science (Physics major group)  Accumulative grade (Good - 72%)  Fourth year grade (Very Good – 84%)  Graduation project grade (Excellent - 100%).

Specialties & Skills

Negotiation
Statistics
Leadership
Telecom Technologies
Marketing
ORACLE HR systems
GRAPHICS DESIGNER
Windows Operating Systems
Microsoft Office
Project Management
Planning
Supervision / Leadership
Marketing
Problem Solving / Troubleshooting
Statistical / Technical Analysis
Quality Management
Negotiation
Roaming Services & Technologies
International Business
Product Management

Languages

English
Expert
German
Beginner
Arabic
Expert

Memberships

GSMA
  • Member
  • January 2010

Training and Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) (Training)
Training Institute:
IMI Egypt
Date Attended:
September 2013
Technical Support, Customer Service and Sales training course (Training)
Training Institute:
RAYA Contact Center (RCC)
Date Attended:
July 2008
Total Quality Management (TQM) (Training)
Training Institute:
Logic Training Center
Date Attended:
December 2011
GSM, SMS, GPRS and CAMEL technical training “Troubleshooting principles and Call Routing scenarios” (Training)
Training Institute:
Etisalat Misr, Egypt
Date Attended:
January 2011
Marketing Planning- Celemi LivonTM (Training)
Training Institute:
AB Associate
Date Attended:
September 2014
Advanced Roaming Data Clearing Course (Training)
Training Institute:
Emirates Data Clearing House (EDCH)
Date Attended:
August 2009
Shell Scripting & Programming – ORACLE (Training)
Training Institute:
ITEgypt Corp.
Date Attended:
October 2014
Graphics Designer - 2D (Training)
Training Institute:
Express Training center
Date Attended:
February 2007
• Lean – Six Sigma Green Belt (Training)
Training Institute:
Business Excellence Company
Date Attended:
December 2014
MS Access, Advanced MS Access (Training)
Training Institute:
New Horizons
Date Attended:
November 2011
Finance For Non-Financials - Celemi Livon (Training)
Training Institute:
AB Associate
Date Attended:
November 2013
ORACLE Database ISQL/Plus (Training)
Training Institute:
Information Technology Center, Faculty of Engineering – Cairo University
Date Attended:
August 2009

Hobbies

  • Scientific readings, Electronics and Computers