Ahmad Darwish, Experienced Back Office Transmission

Ahmad Darwish

Experienced Back Office Transmission

Ericsson

Location
Egypt
Education
Diploma, Telecom
Experience
18 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 6 Months

Experienced Back Office Transmission at Ericsson
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since May 2012

Responsibilities:
• Give technical support to the customer
• Operation, maintenance & provisioning of the customer network
• Handling customer change request (CR)
• Handling customer support request (CSR)
• Perform First Node Implementation (FNI) to new software and hardware
• New hardware & software acceptance
• Handling emergencies & incidents
• 2nd level troubleshooting

Acquired Skills:
• Full awareness of eTOM / MSTOP
• Full awareness of Managed Services & Operations
• Working in Multi-vendor environment (6 other vendors)
• Customer interfacing & consulting

Achievements:
• Reducing number of trouble tickets (TT) by 40%
• Zero CR violation in the last 2 years

Front Office Transmission Engineer at Ericsson
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2010 to April 2012

Responsibilities:
• Operation & maintenance for the customer network
• DCN plans implementation and troubleshooting
• Software Upgrades for the nodes
• Corrective Maintenance
• Field maintenance support
• 1st level troubleshooting

Acquired skills:
• Working under pressure
• Working in a team work

Achievements:
• Clearing more than 2000 transmission alarms
• Handling more than 1000 TT
• Certificate of recognition for the grate performance

Site Acceptance & QA Coordinator at Ericsson
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2009 to May 2010

Responsibilities:
• Managing teams of quality assurance (QA) & site acceptance (SA) for new sites & expansion according to Ericsson standards
• Creating flow chart of the site acceptance process
• Creating acceptance check lists for 2G, 3G RBS & transmission equipment such as Traffic node, PT, SPO, ADM & Marconi
• Review sweep test results before handover new sites to drive test phase
• Updating data base & site handler for the new sites & expansions
• Weekly & monthly meetings with the customer to keep tracking of the QA & SA process & monitor of subcontractors’ performance

Acquired skills:
• Customer interfacing & consulting
• Negotiation skills

Achievements:
• Finishing acceptance of phase 1, 2 & 3 in Etisalat network before planned date

Operation and Maintenance Engineer at Ericsson
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2007 to March 2009

Responsibilities:
• Site acceptance
• Corrective and preventive maintenance for transmission and BSS equipment

Acquired skills:
• Troubleshooting skills
• Working under pressure

Achievements:
• Site acceptance for more than 200 sites
• Reaching zero down sites many times
• Certificate of recognition for the grate performance

Sweep Test Engineer at Alkan Networks
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • September 2006 to December 2006

Responsibilities:
• Main Job: Sweep Test for GSM networks
• Side Job: Construction of GSM macro cells

Achievements:
• Finishing sweep test for 80 sites in 8 months’ period

Presales Engineer at African Waves
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2005 to August 2006

Responsibilities:
• Presales Engineer for Free Space Optics (FSO) equipment

Acquired skills:
• Presentation skills

Education

Diploma, Telecom
  • at Ericsson Academy
  • July 2016

Ericsson Certified Technology - MPLS The Ericsson Certified Technology - MPLS Technology exam assesses an individual's knowledge, skills, and abilities as they relate to fundamental MPLS concepts and related networking technologies. Skills: Label Distribution MPLS Architecture MPLS-TP MPLS-based VPNs OAM QoS

Diploma, Telecom
  • at Ericsson Academy
  • June 2016

Ericsson Certified Associate - Optical Transport Earners of the Ericsson Certified Associate - Optical Transport credential have demonstrated the fundamental knowledge of Optical Transport technologies in a telecommunications environment. Skills: ASON Carrier Ethernet MPLS-TP NGSDH/MSPP OTN Optical Transport Products SPO SDH/SONET TDM/PDH WDM

Diploma, PMP
  • at PMI
  • June 2012

Project Management Professional: PMP® (PMP certification number: 1511024, PMI ID number: 2231197)

Diploma, Ericsson Certified Associate – Microwave Transmission (ECA-MWT)
  • at Ericsson
  • October 2011

Ericsson Certified Associate – Microwave Transmission (ECA-MWT) Topics: Spectrum and Regulation, Propagation, TDM, Management and DCN, Ethernet/IP, Protection, Synchronization, Planning/Dimensioning, Ericsson Microwave Transmission Products

Diploma, Ericsson Certified Technology – IP Essentials (ECA-IPE)
  • at Ericsson
  • September 2011

Ericsson Certified Technology – IP Essentials (ECA-IPE) Topics: General Knowledge of IP-based Networks, Ethernet Fundamentals, IP Routing, QoS, MPLS

Diploma, Ericsson Certified Associate – IP Networking (ECA-IPN)
  • at Ericsson
  • September 2011

Ericsson Certified Associate – IP Networking (ECA-IPN) Topics: IP Fundamentals, IGP, BGP, MPLS, L3VPN, BGP, QoS, Ethernet and SmartEdge Fundamentals

Diploma, 6 Sigma (Yellow Belt)
  • at Ericsson Education Center
  • December 2009
Diploma, PMP
  • at American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt
  • July 2008

Project Management Institute PMI sponsors a project management credentialing program which fosters the development, maintenance, evaluation, promotion, and adminstration of a rigorous,experience and examination-based education culminating with the issuance of a globally recognized professional credential - the Project Management Professional PMP

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications
  • at Cairo University
  • May 2005

I had bachelor's degree in telecommunications with grade good plus I had a lot of technical training courses such as CCNA, DSP and powerful training on mobile communication at Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson education center.

Specialties & Skills

Optical Transmission
Microwave
Sweep Test
Drive Test
Operation and Maintenance for 2G and 3G mobile networks
Site Acceptance
TEMS handling
Transmission Minilink TN Traffic Node
SoEM operation & Maintenance
Site Handler
SPO operation & configuration
IPT NMS
Service Delivery
Contract Management
Frequency Planning
Minilink Manager

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Memberships

Egyptian Engineers Association
  • Active Member
  • June 2005

Training and Certifications

SPO Operation & Configuration (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2012
Valid Until:
October 2012
WCDMA RAN W10 Operation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
June 2010
Mini-Link Traffic Node Advanced Troubleshooting (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Valid Until:
October 2011
OSS-RC Overview (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2010
Valid Until:
April 2010
Managed Operation NOC with MSTOP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2010
Valid Until:
April 2010
GSM BSC Operation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2010
Valid Until:
June 2010
Mini-Link Traffic Node Advanced Ethernet Operation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Valid Until:
October 2011

Hobbies

  • Reading
  • Sport