Senior Marketing Manager MTN Accounts
ZTE Corporation
Total years of experience :15 years, 6 Months
• Responsible for marketing ZTE’s solutions and products in the Middle East and Africa region through customer engagements. Scope of solution includes Radio, Core Network, Energy and Infrastructure solutions.
• Worked with MTN and Etisalat to develop research themes for joint-innovation centers. Themes included Customer Experience Enhancement solutions, Small radio products and Site Surveillance and Monitoring solutions.
• Carried out market research projects in MTN’s markets to identify candidate OPCO’s for LTE deployment.
• Worked with MTN in Sudan, Congo, Nigeria, Zambia, South Africa and Etisalat in Sudan to identify possible venues of mutual business development. Leading to several breakthroughs including:
• Sudan’s first LTE trials and ZTE’s Radio and Core Network products being shortlisted for trials
• Selection of ZTE as the sole solution provider of data centre for MTN Congo. Project cost estimate 1 million USD.
• Successful trial and launch of ZTE’s site surveillance solutions in MTN South Africa and MTN Nigeria. Solution was launched over a 1000 sites.
• Breakthrough trials of ZTE’s Customer Experience Enhancement solutions in MTN Nigeria.
• Other marketing projects include Low-Rural Solutions and Wifi Offload Solution with MTN.
• Delivered several high-level workshops on ZTE’s products and solutions to CxO’s of MTN, Zain, and Etisalat.
• Responsible for providing branding concepts, ideas and slogans for Huawei’s key wireless solutions.
• Designed Huawei’s “Giga World” theme. “Giga World” was Huawei’s key slogan for its wireless products in events like Global MBB Forum 2011 in Berlin, 4G World in Chicago and Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona. The “Giga World” theme included developing brand names for Huawei’s latest Radio and OSS solutions e.g. “Giga Site” “Atom Cell” and “Single SON”.
Marketing Manager, Wireless Solutions,
Huawei Corporation, CHINA
• Head of Huawei's UMTS bidding team
• Responsible for allocating tasks amongst R&D group members,
managing RFI/RFQ completion.
• Assisting frontline teams in product selection.
• Delivering high-level (CEO/CTO) workshops.
• Publishing technical documents (white papers, solution slides, one- page prints, and competitor analysis.
Project experience includes:
• SAUDI MOBILY WORKSHOP
• PAKISTAN MOBILINK WORKSHOP
• AUSTRALIA OPTUS WORKSHOP
• MTS UKRAINE PROJECT
• TELENOR NORDIC REGION PROJECT
• BELGIUM BELGACOM PROJECT
• CELCOM MALAYSIA WORKSHOP
• TELENOR SERBIA WORKSHOP
• EGYPT ETISALAT
• GREECE WIND
• INDIA IDEA
• SOUTH KOREA SKT
• SWEDEN HI3G
• THAILAND TRUEMOVE
• CHILE NEXTEL
• GREECE VODAFONE
• SPAIN ORANGE
• TUNIS OTT
• BRAZIL VIVO
• NORWAY TELENOR
*Additional information available on request
Masters Signals and Information Systems 2005 - 2008 Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学) China
Bachelors Software Engineering 2001 - 2005 Shenyang Institute of Chemical Technology China
Diploma Mandarin Language 2000 - 2001 Beijing Language and Culture University China (continued)