Abdulkarim yaacoub, Engineer

Abdulkarim yaacoub

Engineer

ETISALAT

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Diploma, Effective Supervisory Skills
Experience
21 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :21 years, 3 Months

Engineer at ETISALAT
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since February 2004

Project Manager (Engineering)
-Point of contact between teams, contractors and clients
-Prepare communication including official emails, letters, commercial Billing of projects,
-Follow up with all teams according to agreed time frames to ensure project is delivered within appropriate time schedule
-Work with team to ensure project is delivered within agreed budget.
-Establish, plan & review the requirements and specifications for company telecom services
-Prepares feasibility studies & scope from the new projects
-Supervises the engineering of new installations or expansions of facilities
-Assist in the resolution of work problems
-Supervises vendors, contractors & technicians
-Review bidders list and bid documents
-Prepares technical reports
-Negotiating and maintaining contracts with clients and suppliers
-Contract, LOI, LOA, LOA, and Support agreements drafting and Editing
-Formulating official Memos internally, externally ad for top management

Projects Implemented with brief description
-NAS: National SMS Anti Spam solution
-SS7, and Sigtran planning
-Architecture and Design Agreement
-Project Coordination and documentation
-Call Flows
-ATP Agreement and coordination
-Project Handover
-IVR: Corporate Interactive Voice Response
-RBT Expansion: Ring Back Tune Expansion
-RBT Replacement: Ring Back Tone
-PBK: Phone Backup System
-MISM: Multi IMSI Single MSISDN
-FIN: Intelligent Network for Fixed Lines
-FRC: Flexible Routing and Charging
-CS expansion: Charging system Expansion
-EIR: Equipment Identity Register
-ADC-EIR integration: Automatic Device Configuration - EIR Interface
-DMR: Device Mine Reporting
-RBT renewal: Software Upgrade
-Software upgrades: Several
-Integration and Re-launch for many GSM, GPRS, NGN Services

Core Services Engineer Feb 04 - Jun 08
-Operation and Maintenance of IN services
-Troubleshoot the IN hardware and software.
-Implement FRC, Operations and Troubleshooting.
-Participated in Systems/Services Installation and Acceptance

Trainee at OGERO
  • Lebanon
  • November 2001 to September 2002

• 1st July 2002 - 30th September 2002 Ogero- Lebanon
A full research about Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) protocols and switching,
ATM implementation and how to upgrade to ATM


• 8th November 2001 - 10th August 2002
Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (switches and transmission, North Lebanon division)
Operation and maintenance of Switches and equipments in the switching and transmission sections

Education

Diploma, Effective Supervisory Skills
  • at ETISALAT ACADEMY
  • May 2006

Supervisory Skills and Team Building (Team managmnent)

Diploma, Ericsson Charging Control Node (CCN) Overview
  • at Ericsson
  • April 2006

Charging Control Node (CCN) Overview

Diploma, Network Resources Gateway (NRG) 4.0 Operations & Application development
  • at Ericsson
  • April 2006

Network Resources Gateway (NRG) 4.0 Operations & Application development

Diploma, UNIX SHELL Programming (CPT621)
  • at ETISALAT ACADEMY
  • January 2006

Using UNIX/Linux tools to create programs and scripts helping in system administration, Command lines, Loops, Analyzing previously made shell scripts

Diploma, GSM Signaling (ST - 130)
  • at ETISALAT ACADEMY
  • December 2005

Understanding signaling protocols used in GSM network, Layers, Signaling messages, Air interface interruption, Cell patterns and frequency allocation

Diploma, OSP R2.3 PLATFORM ADVANCED OPERATION
  • at ALCATEL UNIVERSITY
  • June 2005

Advanced operation and maintenance for ALCATE R2.3 PLATFORM, switchovers, restarts, major problems and alarms handling

Diploma, Ericsson Telecom Server Platform (TSP) System Overview
  • at Ericsson
  • June 2005

Advanced operation and maintenance for ALCATE R2.3 PLATFORM, switchovers, restarts, major problems and alarms handling

Diploma, ORACLE 9i SQL (CPT490)
  • at ETISALAT ACADEMY
  • May 2005

Relational database principles and oracle concepts, Data Retrieval, Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML).

Diploma, UNIX System Administration I (CPT624)
  • at Etisalat Academy
  • October 2004

Software installing, Managing file systems, System boot procedures, User and Security administration, System Backups and Restores.

Diploma, Fundamentals of Signaling System No: 7 (ST - 110)
  • at ETISALAT ACADEMY
  • June 2004

CCS No.7 in ALCATEL E10B OCB283

Diploma, Signaling System No: 7 (C7)
  • at OGERO
  • September 2002

50 hours course describes C7 Signaling System Functions and functional Layers

Diploma, General System Mobile (GSM)
  • at OGERO
  • September 2002

50 hours course describes GSM principles, and technologies

Diploma, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
  • at OGERO
  • September 2002

A full research about ATM protocols and switching, ATM implementation and how to upgrade to ATM

Bachelor's degree, B.Sc. Telecommunications Eng.
  • at ArcaTech University of Technology
  • March 2002

With a GPA of "A" and having HONORS list certificate Main Telecommunication courses: Analog and Digital communications, Digital Signal Processing Wave Propagation and Antenna Wireless Communication Systems Telephony, Fiber Optics Electronics courses: Microprocessor, PC Architecture Analog Electronics Advanced Electronics (Op AMP, Integrated Circuits, Analog Filter Design) Final Year Project: MPLS on existing gigabit Ethernet

Specialties & Skills

System Administration
Administration
Gateway
shell programming
Microsoft office
reporting
PC hardware
Networking
Project Management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Intermediate
Persian
Intermediate