bilal Khawandi, VAS Consultant

bilal Khawandi

VAS Consultant

Ooredoo - Oman

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering
Experience
9 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 7 Months

VAS Consultant at Ooredoo - Oman
  • Oman - Muscat
  • July 2018 to January 2020

Main duties:
 SMSC & MCN/Notify-Me migrations
• Request for Quote (RFQ) documents’ preparation for tendering, bidders’ technical evaluation and selection, systems planning and integrations, Solutions Geo redundancy, design and implementation and migrations
 Home Device Management (HDM) system migration - For Home devices central management.
 Improvements in Ooredoo Oman Mobile application such as deep link.
 Establishment of a new SIM applet - OTA based (Informative and Interactive for subscribers’ interaction with their services) and defining its technical specifications, tests and SLA
 USSD and SDP integrations and nodes management.

VAS department head at Africell
  • Uganda - Kampala
  • August 2013 to December 2017

Main duties:
1- Manage and develop In-house solutions (web portals, tools and applications)
2- Manage the VAS/ software development team (tasks distribution and follow up)
3- Analyze new requirements from the commercial department and set the implementation plan
4- Develop and maintain web interfaces for new services
5- Carry out routine maintenance activities on VAS applications/servers.
6- Integrate VAS processes with main systems
7- Integrate third party’s systems with Africell systems
8- Monitor VAS processes, databases and performance
9- Optimize processes and database queries to accommodate traffic growth
10- Communicate with VAS suppliers to plan new integrations or expansions
11- Communicate with VAS support to troubleshoot issues
12- Manage VAS nodes and services
Main projects delivered:
1- Manage VAS new integrations and migrations through the swap of the main nodes.
i. Nokia IN to Convergys
ii. Alcatel Lucent HLR to Huawei
iii. Volubil data charging to Alepo
2- VAS systems management, reporting and monitoring.
3- In-house integration and development of USSD, IVR and SMS applications.
4- Manage third party clients and technical integration phrases.
5- Development of full provisioning web portal for mobile SIM cards provisioning and management.
6- Development and maintenance of a secured charging gateways and processes.
7- System integrations between billing (BSCS) and value added services nodes
8- Web recharge applications for mobile services
9- Design and development of electronic draw applications
10- Finger print capture application
11- Development of Point of Sales (POS) system
12- Development of a SIM registration tool over android and its backend side.

VAS department head at Africell
  • Uganda - Kampala
  • August 2013 to December 2017

Main duties:
1- Manage and develop In-house solutions (web portals, tools and applications)
2- Manage the VAS/ software development team (tasks distribution and follow up)
3- Analyze new requirements from the commercial department and set the implementation plan
4- Develop and maintain web interfaces for new services
5- Carry out routine maintenance activities on VAS applications/servers.
6- Integrate VAS processes with main systems
7- Integrate third party’s systems with Africell systems
8- Monitor VAS processes, databases and performance
9- Optimize processes and database queries to accommodate traffic growth
10- Communicate with VAS suppliers to plan new integrations or expansions
11- Communicate with VAS support to troubleshoot issues
12- Manage VAS nodes and services
Main projects delivered:
1- Manage VAS new integrations and migrations through the swap of the main nodes.
i. Nokia IN to Convergys
ii. Alcatel Lucent HLR to Huawei
iii. Volubil data charging to Alepo
2- VAS systems management, reporting and monitoring.
3- In-house integration and development of USSD, IVR and SMS applications.
4- Manage third party clients and technical integration phrases.
5- Development of full provisioning web portal for mobile SIM cards provisioning and management.
6- Development and maintenance of a secured charging gateways and processes.
7- System integrations between billing (BSCS) and value added services nodes
8- Web recharge applications for mobile services
9- Design and development of electronic draw applications
10- Finger print capture application
11- Development of Point of Sales (POS) system
12- Development of a SIM registration tool over android and its backend side.

VAS department head at Africell
  • Uganda - Kampala
  • August 2013 to December 2017

Main duties:
1- Manage and develop In-house solutions (web portals, tools and applications)
2- Manage the VAS/ software development team (tasks distribution and follow up)
3- Analyze new requirements from the commercial department and set the implementation plan
4- Develop and maintain web interfaces for new services
5- Carry out routine maintenance activities on VAS applications/servers.
6- Integrate VAS processes with main systems
7- Integrate third party’s systems with Africell systems
8- Monitor VAS processes, databases and performance
9- Optimize processes and database queries to accommodate traffic growth
10- Communicate with VAS suppliers to plan new integrations or expansions
11- Communicate with VAS support to troubleshoot issues
12- Manage VAS nodes and services
Main projects delivered:
1- Manage VAS new integrations and migrations through the swap of the main nodes.
i. Nokia IN to Convergys
ii. Alcatel Lucent HLR to Huawei
iii. Volubil data charging to Alepo
2- VAS systems management, reporting and monitoring.
3- In-house integration and development of USSD, IVR and SMS applications.
4- Manage third party clients and technical integration phrases.
5- Development of full provisioning web portal for mobile SIM cards provisioning and management.
6- Development and maintenance of a secured charging gateways and processes.
7- System integrations between billing (BSCS) and value added services nodes
8- Web recharge applications for mobile services
9- Design and development of electronic draw applications
10- Finger print capture application
11- Development of Point of Sales (POS) system
12- Development of a SIM registration tool over android and its backend side.

VAS Engineer at Telco zone
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • May 2012 to August 2013

Development of various VAS systems and applications (web, windows and mobile apps)

Software Developer at SoftSTM
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • January 2010 to May 2012

Development and maintain the following:
1- Parking management System (access control, barriers and ticket dispensers)
2- key rack system (to manage parking and cars motion)
3- Time management system (using hand punch machines)
Achievement: Developed a new driver for hand punch machine which works under windows vista and above. This saved the product from becoming obsolete.

Software Developer at SoftSTM
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • January 2010 to May 2012

Development and maintain the following:
1- Parking management System (access control, barriers and ticket dispensers)
2- key rack system (to manage parking and cars motion)
3- Time management system (using hand punch machines)
Achievement: Developed a new driver for hand punch machine which works under windows vista and above. This saved the product from becoming obsolete.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering
  • at Islamic University Of Lebanon
  • July 2009

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Telecommunications
Team Management
Databases
Software Development

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert

Memberships

Order of Engineers and Architects (OEA)
  • Member (Engineer)
  • January 2010