Arafat Almaktri, Yemen Mobile Fulfillment Responsible (FR) /Project Manager

Arafat Almaktri

Yemen Mobile Fulfillment Responsible (FR) /Project Manager

Huawei Technologies Sana’s

Location
Yemen
Education
Master's degree, Project Management
Experience
12 years, 1 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 1 Months

Yemen Mobile Fulfillment Responsible (FR) /Project Manager at Huawei Technologies Sana’s
  • Yemen - Sanaa
  • January 2018 to August 2020

Key achievements:
• Yemen Mobile 13M revenue in 2018.
• Yemen Mobile 11 M revenue in 2019.
• Yemen Mobile 8M revenue in 2020-H1.
• Clear 40% of backlog projects.
• Support to sign two years Maintenance service Support contract with Yemen Mobile operator.
Key Projects to Credit:
• Yemen Mobile 130 LTE Project.
• Yemen Mobile PDSN Swap Project.
• Yemen Mobile NGBSS expansion Project.
• Yemen Mobile Core Network Upgrade Project.
• Yemen Mobile (2018~2019) Maintenance Service Support Project
Key Responsibilities:
• Planning, controlling, monitoring, and managing assigned project resources to best meet project objectives and adhere to project scope, time, cost and quality constraints.
• Accountable for safeguarding service for all Yemen Mobile Huawei network (CDMA Mobile Network, NGBSS network, etc).
• Facilitating preparation of service maintenance and construction budget requests using systematic, standardized procedures.
• Servicing existing clients efficiently to expand service offering. Identifying, prospecting and securing profitable long term client engagements.
• Specifying, selecting, installing and managing maintenance of factory production and machinery. Setting up work control systems, e.g. testing of equipment to ensure standards of performance, quality, cost and safety are met.
• Providing project management services to insure timely/cost effective maintenance of repaired equipment to meet/exceed customer standards.
• Planning, maintaining, modifying project schedule to ascertain on-time delivery of design/maintenance services.
• Streamlining work of all maintenance contractors, sanctioning claims/monthly payments, approving modifications to existing designs for conformance with prescribed schedules/plans.
• Submitting monthly data of performance parameters to the upper management, along with proposals to eliminate bottlenecks in maintenance. Suggested possible avenues of improving process/safety procedures.
• Organizing regular status meetings with the project team. Monitoring, tracking and reporting project status/progress to the upper management.

Sabafon Fulfillment Responsible (FR) & Project Manager at Huawei Technologies
  • Yemen - Sanaa
  • December 2013 to December 2017

Key Projects to Credit:
• Yemen Sabafon 212 MW links swap project.
• Yemen Sabafon HLR swap project.
• Yemen Sabafon 5 years Maintenance service support project (2013~2017)
• Yemen SabaFon OSN ring expansion project
• Yemen SabaFon 42 IP MW expansion project
Key Responsibilities:
• Work out the delivery strategy for the projects according to delivery strategy of the company.
• Provide customers with timely, accurate, high-quality, and cost-optimized projects delivery on behalf of Huawei.
• Monitor and evaluate the progress of the projects starting from planning until closing the projects.
• Review the project risk situation on weekly basis and give the needed indicators to start implementing the risk response plan, and put owner and deadline for any non-defined risk raised.
• Review the budget with the team and PFC (Project finance controller), and track the cost and billing/revenue situation on monthly basis.
• Releasing the progress and the financial situation of the project to the project stakeholders, Project management department, and project core team internally, and giving reports in case of necessity.
• Spearheaded a team of sales, operations and administrative personnel to achieve projected business, sales and collection targets on daily, monthly and annual basis. Ensured all targets are in synch with end organizational objectives.
• Overseeing all phases of project life-cycle (i.e. conceptualization, development and implementation) in line with organizational policies and procedures.
• Analyzing project inception plan and creating a schematic layout in view of key quantifiable parameters encompassing - scope of work, verification of calculations/ designs, project profitability and scheduling.
• Auditing and assisting technical solution provided by network solution manager, arranging project document inclusive of details of division and responsibilities, scheduling projects and monitoring engineering services of BOQ.
• Investigated /researched network issues and errors to determine causes, recommended/implemented corrections for efficient troubleshooting for different vendor's equipment’s interconnection.
• Conceptualizing and designing the project, reviewing/ finalizing designs and conducting value engineering exercise.
• Supervising and coordinating subcontracts team, providing periodic project progress reports to the upper management and performing site examination.
• Organizing various resources as per project requirement including human resource and comprehended potential opportunities to explore the same to steer the organization to higher efficiency levels.

Yemen Service Solution Responsible (SSR) at Huawei Technologies
  • Yemen - Sanaa
  • January 2017 to December 2017

Key achievements:
• PTC LTE Tender
• PTC OTN/PTN Tender
• PTC 177 MW links Tender
• Yemen Mobile LTE Tender.
• PTC Wi-Fi Tender
Over all Key Responsibilities:
• Organize and manage project requirements analysis, bidding strategy/high-level solution development.
• Organize and manage the execution of each KCP in bidding process (requirement and bidding strategy review, high-level solution review and proposal review), and organize comprehensive review, ensure the compliance of bidding process.
• Organize service bidding team to consolidate bidding strategy, high-level solution and proposal, check completeness and compliance of these documents.
• Facilitate the resolution of related issues during bidding review.
• Support Project Director to prepare ATB report.
• Work on all Huawei subsystems (ISDP -DRB, i qouter, isales, i PFM .etc) to review and output service solution document and Quotation (BOQ) for assigned Tenders.
• Analyze customer requirements and prepare a plan to execute all the activities.
• Get internal approval from technical department related to the plan prepared for customer.
• Prepare the price for the entire solution with a competitive price in the market and also with good margin to make it deliverable and also with high profit for the company.

Wireless Support Engineer & Implementation Manager at Huawei Technologies
  • Yemen - Sanaa
  • August 2008 to November 2013

Key Projects to Credit:
• Succeeded in Yemen Sabafon GSM swap & expansion project
• Yemen Y-Telecom GSM Project
• Succeeded in Sabafon 166 Links Microwave Swap Project
• Efficiently handled Sabafon 2010 BSS expansion and Upgrade Project.
• 2009, Succeeded in Sabafon 2009 BSS expansion project.
• Efficiently handled Sabafon OSN (MUX phase 5&6) project.
• Eritrea 2G swap and 3G project.
Over all Key Responsibilities:
• Responsible for implementing the installations of Huawei’s equipment and auxiliary equipment at sites, subcontractor management and be directly accountable for the engineering schedule, safety, quality and cost of each equipment installation throughout the project.
• Guide and oversee the Huawei Engineering Supervisor and OSP Supervisor, and report engineering issues and schedule to the PM in time.
• Coordinate to solve technical problems during the engineering implementation.
• Coordinate the relationship among the Owner, subcontractors and Network Planning Team during the engineering implementation.
• Responsible for the engineering implementation of Huawei’s Wireless equipment (BSC6900, BTS3900, DBS3900, BTS3012II), mainly including hardware installation, software debugging, system joint commissioning, primary acceptance test, training on the spot, etc.
• Carry out specific plans and conduct implementations based on the specifications defined by the Engineering Implementation Team.
• Provide support to solve engineering problems and perform change management of the subcontract engineering to ensure that the subcontract project is implemented by means of QA methods and within the required time, scope and cost.

Education

Master's degree, Project Management
  • at University of Science and Technology
  • January 2019
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication
  • at Aden University
  • December 2006

Specialties & Skills

Offer Development
Profit Management
Program Delivery
System Solutions
Bidding
Willingness to learn
Problem solving
Communication
Computer skills
Teamwork
ICT Service Solution
MS Office Skills
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

• Excellent Fulfillment Manager 2013 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2013
• Huawei Future Star Award of 2016 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2016
• Rep. Office Transformation Benchmark Award 2017 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2017
• Huawei Future Star Award of 2017 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2017
• Huawei Future Star Award of 2019 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2019
• Safety Awareness for Clerk & Specialist (Training)
Training Institute:
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Professional
Date Attended:
February 2018
 WCDMA RAN 3G Hardware and software commissioning (Training)
Training Institute:
Huawei Training Center, Cairo, EGYPT
Date Attended:
August 2010
 Training program in GSM BSS system. (Training)
Training Institute:
Huawei Training Center, Cairo, EGYPT
Date Attended:
July 2009
 Excellent Project Administration individual Award of 2014 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2014
 Fundamentals of project management (Training)
Training Institute:
Cube Center for Quality and Business
Date Attended:
June 2013
Duration:
30 hours
 Advance GSM BSS 2G Hardware and Software commissioning (Training)
Training Institute:
Huawei Training Center, Cairo, EGYPT
Date Attended:
October 2010
 Excellent Hard worker 2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012