ABDULLAH AJLAN, ICT CONSULTANT

ABDULLAH AJLAN

ICT CONSULTANT

Bureau Veritas

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
, Executive Program of Artificial Intelligence:
Experience
17 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :17 years, 8 Months

ICT CONSULTANT at Bureau Veritas
  • Saudi Arabia - Tabouk
  • May 2022 to April 2023

The ICT Consultant for NEOM Technology & Digital Hub, NEOM Innovation Hub and NEOM Logistics Park.
Reviewing the main NEOM strategic plan regularly to identify any changes to update the technology strategy accordingly in order to achieve the main one.
Design and monitor the Implementation of Project Quality Plan & Procedure for the inspection and testing of communication installation activities
Representing NEOM in the 3rd parties meetings
Pre-Qualifying the contractors
Create the contingency plans for technology projects
Develop and maintain high quality documentation such as business requirements document, future business process model, test script, technical and functional design document.

Telecom Engineer at Saudi Electricity Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2005 to October 2022
Engineering Team Leader at Zain - KSA
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • October 2007 to June 2022

Lead the engineering department in a region with a size of Germany " Makkah, Madina & Assir ".
In charge for regional network quality, contingency planning, engineering & audit
Main interface with Regional Operation, Planning, Solution and Customer Service
Manage all Hajj (pilgrimage season) operation teams for targeted service, lead risk management and contingency plan simulation for Hajj Project.
Manage the core team of 6 Engineers and guided them to achieve the company’s vision and target.
Worked as Acting Manager for a collective period of one year.
Provided direction, supervision, and support for building up whole ZAIN network from scratch for the Western Region.
Main interface to the customers of Zain NOC and Zain Marketing.
Spearheaded Western Region Network Delivery and Acceptance.
Managed all Hajj operation teams to deliver quality service during holy seasons 5 years in a row.
Deal with many companies and 3rd parties such as NOKIA, Huawei, Siemens, Roamware, Synivese ..
Work with many technologies such as 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G...

Bidding Lead at Al Majal G4S
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • November 2020 to May 2022

Reporting to the Bidding Director within Commercial Department
Identifying opportunities on which to submit bids and feeding into the decision over whether to bid for the work Working with key members of the business development and the client organisation to obtain the information required to compile the bid
Negotiating with specialist suppliers and/or subcontractors Researching current and future market trends
Responding to clients’ and other stakeholders’ queries before, during and after the bid has been submitted
Study and prepare the costing form
Understand and resolve complex technical, strategic and business issues.

Head Of Operations at Lebara Mobile
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • June 2015 to May 2022

Reported to CTO, handled three departments and managed a 30-member team on and offshore.
Facilitated various technical negotiations and oversaw $17M Operations projects
Developed and executed projects related to launch of new Virtual Mobile Operators (VMO s)
Leading the Transformation Project to move the company from Light MVNO to be a Medium MVNO then MVNE.
Directed a project for new roaming services resulting in increasing the roaming subscribers more than 52% in six months.
Consolidated two Data Centers into one location with high availability, resulting in greater efficiency, streamlined operations and savings of over 35% in the project payment bills.
Implemented new proactive operation testing, resulting in greater efficiency and consistency in customer’s satisfactions and around 50% reduction in customers complains
Prepare the company technical contingency plans.
Developed division relationships, restructured the delivery processes and improved the cross functions processes.
Main connection between Lebara Mobile and Government.
Handling the Technology Portfolio Management in the company to decide where the company can invest in the technology landscape.
Champion engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular feedback and improvement.
Drive the performance of the technology services by close monitoring with strong SLA’s and KPI’s.

Education

, Executive Program of Artificial Intelligence:
  • at MIT SLOAN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
  • January 2018

Bachelor's degree, B.Sc. Electrical Engineering,
  • at King Abdulaziz University
  • January 2004

Specialties & Skills

operations
Engineering Management
Quality Systems
Management
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
LEADERSHIP
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
OPERATIONS
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

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English
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Arabic
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