Abdallah AlHalawani, IBS/RAN Design Manager

Abdallah AlHalawani

IBS/RAN Design Manager

Ericsson

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Communication and Electronics engineering
Experience
10 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 6 Months

IBS/RAN Design Manager at Ericsson
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2018

Evaluate operational efficacy, methods, and stakeholders to achieve core business goals. Leverage expertise in identifying risk and suggesting appropriate solutions for mitigation. Oversee first and initial rollouts of 5G indoor system designs utilizing Ericsson RDS solution. Manage development and exploration of indoor solutions with pre- and post-signal analysis along with optimization for landmark and mega venues. Analyze stadium and high-capacity venue capacity as well as traffic patterns to address current technological needs. Develop financial reports and assess overall costs to present projected budget left while directing budget plan to reach defined targets throughout project.
- Schedule projects and define budget constraints while supervising daily design efforts for more than three client projects with a total budget of +300 MSAR.
- Established business and functional requirements, reengineering business processes, delivered training, and designed change management modules while leading team of over ten engineers.
- Spearheaded development of first massive MIMO designs for 5G stadium coverage (Ericsson AIR solution).
- Utilized Ericsson Radio products (ERS) and 3PP solutions, evaluated and determined technological solutions to improve customer experience.
- Developed financial reports and assessed total expenses to present projected budget left; administered budget plan to reach defined target throughout the project.
- Boosted project sales of SAR 220M in 2020 by coordinating business development initiatives including developing bids, BoQs, and design specifications.

Senior IBS Design and Projects Lead (STC Account) at Ericsson
  • Saudi Arabia
  • November 2016 to October 2018

- Lead customer projects for the design stage.
- Following IBS designs from site Survey till the implementation start.
- Site visits, customer meetings and designing for VVIP sites

IBS Project Manager at Al-Babtain LeBLANC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • March 2016 to November 2016

- Responsible for requirements gathering and site survey properly.
- Following up with the team’s IBS design engineers to develop the designs according to the gathered requirements.
- Following up with the Electromechanical and implementation teams to make sure delivery for of the project following the highest possible quality standards.
- Prepare all project plans considering time, quality and cost of each step of the project.
- Reference and communication point of the project in front of the customers.
- Following up and finalizing the BOQs, POs and invoices for the project.
- Leading the team to work in harmony.

IBS Design Engineer at Rawasi Al-Binaa Investment Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • February 2015 to March 2016

- Site surveys at indoor sites to obtain information for IBS designs.
- IBS (DAS) Designing and Planning using IBWave Design Tool, Design for GSM/WCDMA/LTE Network.
- Preparing schematics, cable layouts & antenna positioning, Link & power budget calculation & Bill of Quantity arrangement.
- Documentation arrangement & preparation (Full design package).
- Preparing technical specifications for equipment used in IBS designs.

Site Engineer at Rawasi Al-Binaa Investment Co.
  • Saudi Arabia - Medina
  • May 2015 to June 2015

Responsible for the implementation teams and the workflow in New Madinah International Airport Project.

L1 Managed Services Engineer | STC Managed Routers Services, STC NOC at NavLink Middle East Company (An AT&T affiliated company)
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • December 2013 to February 2015

- Network nodes monitoring and first level troubleshooting
- Trouble tickets ownership: opening, updating, referring and closing
- Issuing customer requests and modifying the CISCO routers configuration
- Customer notifications: email, phone and technical support
- First level problem resolution and escalation to higher levels
- Weekly, monthly and on-request customers reporting
- Writing Shift reports
- After working hours customer and NOC support

Education

Bachelor's degree, Communication and Electronics engineering
  • at Applied Science university
  • September 2013

Graduation project: Wireless Home Security and Automation

Specialties & Skills

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

iBwave Designing (Level 1) (Training)
Training Institute:
iBwave
Date Attended:
February 2015
Duration:
40 hours
Level 1 iBwave Designing Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2015
Valid Until:
April 2018
SOLiD Classroom Training (Training)
Training Institute:
SOLiD Technologies
Date Attended:
August 2015
Duration:
24 hours
Certificate of attendance SOLiD Classroom Training (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
Cisco CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
ABAD training center
Date Attended:
December 2013
Duration:
60 hours