Transport Operation Senior Advisor
Mobinil (Orange)
Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months
The job responsibility was:
• Technical evaluation for all team members, and define annual personal development plan for each member through determining the needed courses, on job training, and the objectives that should reached by this plan.
• Introduce the possible transmission solutions for (4G) and the recommendations for network transition from traditional transmission network to full packet/IP transmission
• Acceptance validation for the new packet and IP transmission equipment (Packet Microwave and MPLS routers).
• Define the general parameters of the packet/IP transmission network (PHB, fault consequent actions).
• Review and managing the construction of the new transmission network based on packet microwave and MPLS routers and integration among them and the tradition packet over SDH network
• Technical vendor control (evaluation of new solution offered by vendors).
• Define the transmission quality KPIs define the targets for them and construct the program to reach these targets.
• Define the preventive maintenance, and monitoring program (including constructing the needed simple tools by MS-Office) to minimize probability of faults
• Review and validate the synchronization network design for all transmission network (SDH, MPLS, Packet MW, ...)
• Audit and test the synchronization of all of the transmission networks
Achievements:
• Build and technically support the teams to finish the following tasks
• Technical and operational evaluation for all vendors participated the packet microwave tender of Mobinil
• Define the acceptance procedure for the packet microwave links both NEC and Ericson
• Define the acceptance procedure for ALU MPLS routers
• Constructing first MPLS ring in Mobinil
• Define the preventive maintenance procedure for new packet/IP equipment and follow up process.
• Successfully achieved 32 KP OPEX saving by managing execution of the upgrade of traditional SDH network.
• Review and validate in the new packet and IP network synchronization design.
The job responsibility was:
• Technical evaluation for all team members, and define annual personal development plan for each member through determining the needed courses, on job training, and the objectives that should reached by this plan.
• Introduce the possible transmission solutions for VoIP (3G) with minimal cost
• Acceptance validation for the various digital transmission equipment (MUX & Microwave).
• Recommend the transmission solution for new projects.
• Define the general parameters of the transmission network.
• Define acceptance and audit procedure for network synchronization.
• Technical vendor control
• Define the preventive maintenance procedure and plan, define new procedure for major corrective actions that may cause huge traffic interruption to be performed with minimal outage.
Achievements:
• Build and technically support the teams to finish the following tasks
• Automation of routing optimization (through customizing the routing parameters of the network)
• Define the preventive maintenance procedure for each equipment type and follow up process.
• Transmission UR reduction 1e-4 to 5e-5 through instability tracking procedure.
• Successfully achieved 60 KP OPEX saving by managing Mobinil network synchronization audit using internal man power.
• Introduced a new process of performance tracking which improved transmission quality by 3%.
• Had a lead in solving 3G-Nokia problem which improve the 3G NUR by 0.005%.
• Had a lead in introducing new transmission solutions in order to provide needed capacity for 3G with minimum OPEX.
• Had a lead in validating new Software of ALCATEL SDH MUXs in order to overcome the bugs with older software decreases the Transmission unavailability by 20%.
• Introduce new DCN design which increases the management network availability by 3%
• Participated in the SDH synchronization network design and had valuable recommendations to enhance the synchronization redundancy.
• Supported the transmission operations team members during the major problems to reduce PST.
• Trained the transmission operations team members to track and solve the synchronization problems
• Had a lead in PDH MW management acceptance and operation which enhanced PDH MW network availability
The job responsibility was:
• Transmission quality control by defining regular preventive processes to maintain the aimed transmission QoS.
• Network audit and analyses to come out with the recommendations that improve the network efficiency.
• Synchronization network design, implementation, and audit
• Troubleshooting of critical and major faults and recommends the suitable actions for both workaround and long term solutions.
Achievements:
• Built the synchronization tree for SDH transmission network
• Produce simple tool to avoid synchronization loop
• Define the procedure to audit the synchronization quality periodically with follow up procedure.
• Create and follow up distribution plan to avoid major incidents with total outage
I worked as an L2 support engineer for Transmission network of Mobinil allover the country. The job responsibility was:
• Acceptance of the various digital transmission equipment (MUX & Microwave)
• Acceptance of synchronization equipment.
• Configuring and commissioning the transmission equipment.
• Optimize SDH network topology (Rings, linear chains) according to the equipment restrictions, and the available link medias.
• Build the transmission network on the management system.
• Perform the change in network topology including the change of equipment operation mode with minimum outage time.
• Find the solution for digital leased lines demands and Micro BTSs grooming through the inelegant PCM network (DXX Tellabs)
• Build the synchronization tree of the SDH transmission network with synchronization equipment (PRC, SSU)
• Audit of synchronization for the transmission network
• Supervise and L2 support for ALCATEL OMSN with 1353NM & 1354RM management systems
• Supervise and L2 support for the SDH Network with NEC element manager ms3201 (NMS).
• Supervise and L2 support for the SDH/PDH ALCATEL microwave equipment with 1353SH.
• Supervise and L2 support for the Tellabs DXX network with DXX manager
• Supervise the synchronization equipment (Oscilloquartz), with Syncview management system.
• Troubleshooting Faults and performing the suitable actions to neutralize outage.
• Find and create a restoration path in case of unprotected link faults.
Achievements:
• Built the DCN of the NEC SDH MUX NMS
• Built the DCN of the NEC Microwave NMS
• Built the DCN of the Synchronization equipment NMS
Hewlett Packard held the responsibility of creating a Network Operation Center (NOC) for Telecom Egypt. The Job responsibilitieswere:
• Define the procedure to collect the data about different switches and transmission equipments
• Train a team to collect this data from Telecom Egypt.
• Analyze the collected data and organize it in generic forms using computerized methods
• Data storage in DB server.
• Adapting the stored data to be compatible with the NOC database engine.
I worked as an Operation & Maintenance engineer for Digital transmission systems on Optical Fiber environment (PDH &SDH the majority of the equipment was ALCATEL). The job responsibilities were:
• Acceptance of the digital transmission equipment PDH &SDH.
• Configuring and optimizing the transmission equipment.
• Optimize SDH network topology.
• Creation of the links, Rings, Pipes, and Circuits in SDH−Delta.
• Supervise the SDH−Delta Network with ALCATEL 1353EM element manager (NMS) with 1354CMF.
• Troubleshooting Faults and performing the suitable actions to neutralize outage.
• Find and create a restoration path in case of unprotected Cable faults.
• Find the solution for digital leased lines demands through the inelegant PCM network (JNA)
• Thesis Title: “LANs internetworking over ATM. A new proposed bridge over LAN Emulation • Thesis Contents: o OSI reference model o Legacy LANs review o LANs internetworking (Bridges, Routers, Gateways) o ATM network o LAN Emulation over ATM o The new proposed bridge algorithm o Simulation program to compare the network behavior with and without the new bridge o Results analysis
• Studied Courses: o − Communication systems o − Communication theory o − Electro magnetic o − Optical Fiber, Optical Devices o − Microwave devices o − Measurements o − Propagation, Antenna o − Electronic Circuits, Devices o − Digital Electronics o − Project, Microprocessor application on Modem control.