Ali Harfouche, Head of Presales organization (Middle East, Africa, India, South East Europe, and SAGE regions)

Ali Harfouche

Head of Presales organization (Middle East, Africa, India, South East Europe, and SAGE regions)

ORACLE Communications

البلد
الإمارات العربية المتحدة - دبي
التعليم
ماجستير, CCE (Computer and Communications Engineering)
الخبرات
28 years, 0 أشهر

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الخبرة العملية

مجموع سنوات الخبرة :28 years, 0 أشهر

Head of Presales organization (Middle East, Africa, India, South East Europe, and SAGE regions) في ORACLE Communications
  • الإمارات العربية المتحدة - دبي
  • أشغل هذه الوظيفة منذ فبراير 2009

• Recruited most of the Billing experts for the EMEA organization and started up the Billing specialist presales organization in EMEA to support Sales all across EMEA (coaching, deals management, strategy with Product management…)
• Recruited most of the solution specialists and started the SIMEA regional presales Organization (From 2011) (coaching, deals management, territory management with Sales to achieve regional quota). Developed the team to be world-class consultants across BSS, OSS, Network, and SDP domains
• Maintained my technical skills and knowledge across BSS, OSS, and Network portfolios and engaged personally with customers and opportunities
• Personally managed and closed many deals in the region with Sales

Head of IT & Billing – Strategy and Architecture في Monaco Telecom International
  • الإمارات العربية المتحدة - دبي
  • يونيو 2007 إلى فبراير 2009

• Stated a management team reporting to the CNA (Chief Network Architect) where I was in charge of defining and maintaining IT and Billing Architecture and strategy for Roshan - Afghanistan (subsidiary of Monaco Telecom Int)
• Defined the Architecture and strategy document in coordination with Roshan’s IT Director and got involved in governing the successful transformation projects as per budget available (Billing consolidation, Data warehousing / Business Intelligence, Blackberry, and was the project manager for the IN migration from Alcatel to Huawei)

Quality & Revenue assurance head of department – also acting Information systems head of department في Vivacell - MTS
  • أرمينيا
  • ديسمبر 2005 إلى مايو 2007

• Started the Quality and Revenue assurance department from the ground up (recruiting people, enabling/coaching, developing the processes and procedures, as well as developed all revenue assurance controls and scripts personally) - Result was over 2% detection of Revenue leakage which was great for that function
• Assigned as the Head of Information systems department as well - managed successfully launching the VAS development unit which resulted in over 10 revenue generating USSD based services in less than four months
• Assigned as the Ericsson migration Project Manager managing virtual teams resulted in a successful migration (Swap) of Core Network, IN, Mediation, provisioning, and VAS platforms from Alcatel to Ericsson Network

IT & Billing Department Manager / Acting IT Director في areeba Cyprus (Now known as MTN Cyprus) - Startup operator
  • قبرص
  • أكتوبر 2003 إلى ديسمبر 2005

• Started up the IT division from the ground up (people, Infrastructure, IT Network, IN system, billing system… from specifications to implementation and testing
• Personally developed the interconnect system for areeba Cyprus involving complex scenarios (National Roaming and MNP)

Head of Systems and Database section / Application development project leader في areeba Syria (Now known as MTN Syria)
  • سوريا - دمشق
  • نوفمبر 2002 إلى أكتوبر 2003

• Stabilized and consolidated the Databases across the IT organization
• Coached DBAs
• Personally developed a full data warehouse for the IN platform (Prepaid) end to end from Application to disk (with web enabled reporting) - Saved the company a big value instead of buying the solution from Siemens

Many roles (billing operator,application developer, billing operations coordinator, systems/DB admin في Libancell (Know now as MTC touch Lebanon)
  • لبنان - بيروت
  • يونيو 1996 إلى نوفمبر 2002

• Performed a full migration of all billing system Unix scripts to TACL language when we moved to Tandem platforms
• Developed a lot of projects on my own (corporate intranet, mediation layer, FMS, Approvals workflow, and many more…
• This was my technical school for systems (Sun, Tandem), DBs (MYSQL, Oracle, MS SQL server) programming languages (C, C++, JAVA, Unix scripting, ASP, JSP…)

DBA / Billing operations coordinator / Application developer في Karabakh Telecom (Startup operator)
  • أرمينيا
  • يناير 2002 إلى نوفمبر 2002

• Deployed and configured all servers (Sun) and Databases (Oracle) for the Mobile billing system there (ESKADENIA billing) within few weeks
• Personally developed an end to end rating and billing system for fixed line subscribers (PSTN and Panasonic switches): Mediation, rating, billing, invoicing, web light CRM, reporting along with implementation, testing, and CSRs training all in less than 2 months - probably my biggest joy in my career and I did it outside my job description as a DBA and Sys admin!

الخلفية التعليمية

ماجستير, CCE (Computer and Communications Engineering)
  • في AUB (American University of Beirut)
  • ديسمبر 2003

Present

بكالوريوس, Computer Engineering
  • في Beirut Arab Univerisity (BAU)
  • يوليو 2001

- Graduated with an Average of around 85/100 for the five years - Earned the first prize in the Engineering Projects exhibitions for 3 years - Earned one national prize for a national engineering projects exhibition ...

Specialties & Skills

Testing
Database Administration
Administration
Billing Systems
Billing and charging
Solutions design and Architecture
Systems Integration
Telecom experience
Systems Design
Oracle DBA
Programming (almost all languages)
IN systems
Revenue Assurance
Customer Care
SQL Server DBA
Sun Solaris Administration
Project Management
Software design and development
Order Management and Service Fulfillment
Presales
People Management
Product development and management
Executive analytics and reporting
Operations management (BSS/OSS/Network)

اللغات

العربية
متمرّس
الانجليزية
متمرّس

التدريب و الشهادات

Many Management and professional courses (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Plenty
تاريخ الدورة:
February 2009
Leadership / Management (تدريب)
معهد التدريب:
Chartered Management Institute - CMI London
تاريخ الدورة:
September 2010

الهوايات

  • Horseback riding, Skiing, programming, Tennis, and Golf