Hatem Abdali, CSO chief strategy officer

Hatem Abdali

CSO chief strategy officer

Giga for Telecommunication and Technology

Location
Libya - Tripoli
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telcommunication
Experience
21 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 4 Months

CSO chief strategy officer at Giga for Telecommunication and Technology
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • My current job since September 2023

I lead the development and execution of the company's strategic vision and goals, leveraging my 20 years of experience on the telecom industry I oversee the alignment of the company's business model, technology roadmap, and customer value proposition, ensuring the delivery of innovative and scalable solutions that meet the market needs and expectations.

Chief Technology Officer - CTO at LTT (Libya telecom & Technology)
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • March 2021 to September 2023

- Developing LTT's strategy for using technological resources.
- Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably, and securely.
- Evaluating and implementing new systems and infrastructure.
- Managing network Operation, planning & Quality
- Project Director for multiple portfolio projects
- Building strategic relationships with others CSP's

Chief Operating Officer - COO at LTT
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • January 2018 to March 2021

Strategic:

-Patriciate on the company strategic view by recommending the projects & highlight the priority
-Preparing and following up on service exchange agreements between the company and other companies
-Leading settlement committees between the company and other companies
-Leading cost reduction and network optimization committees
-Part of all LPTIC telecom sector war rooms created on the force major to grantee the service continuities by finding alternative routes and support the logistic operations to all LPTIC companies
-Coordination of workshops with service providers to see the most appropriate and recent solutions & technologies

Operation:

-Managing Network operation and maintenance for the entire LTT network & service (Core network IP & Tx, Wireless network 4G & WIMAX, fixed networks ADSL &FTTH, VSAT networks, leased line services, Power, Environmental & civil activities …. etc.)
-Preparing annual operational and development budgets
-Recourse planning & workload assessments
-Follow up project works and support project managers with the necessary resources
Develop operational plans for urgent and periodic maintenance work
Leading Technical Proposals Preparation
-Leading RFP's Preparation
-Follow up with manufacturers and suppliers regarding technical offers
-Evaluating the network and studying its requirements
-Managing of service level agreements with vendors and service providers
-Evaluate the requirements for operation and maintenance of equipment, safety tools
-Evaluating spare parts, distributing them to regions, preparing purchase orders, and following up with suppliers
-Working on spare parts offers and discussing prices for purchasing spare parts
-Improve network quality and monitor network efficiency
-Develops procedures for all operating departments.
-Providing and organizing spare parts for the regions
-Preparing the required periodic reports& statistics
-Coordination and preparation of training plan and negotiation plans with companies
-Creating & supervising small working groups within the department to study the network upgrade requirements and come out with upgrade projects

Project Director for NGBN (IP/MPLS) upgrade at LTT
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • July 2017 to January 2018

- Provides leadership, direction, and decision making support for PM & the rollout manager
- Management and coordination of the of project shipments and responding to issues at the level to meet project objectives
- HLD network design and auditing
- LLD network design and auditing

Head of Telecom Transmission Network department at LTT
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • February 2012 to January 2018

- Putting the department strategic, policy & procedures planes.
- Calendar & time management for the team.
- Provides leadership, direction, and decision making support for department employees
- Monitor the network performance & quality.
- Manage & follow all the ongoing daily tasks in the support & installation units.
- Manage the department resources allocation.
- Coordination & Functional relationships outside the department
- Preparing the department training requirements and planes.
- Preparing the department technical requirements & tools.
- Preparing the department budget and monitors the expenditure of budgeted funds
- Regular meeting with the department staff & Head of the units.
- Attending the technical administration Regular & urgent meeting
- Preparing the department spare part requirements.
- provide a local training for the existing & new employees
- Documentations & Maps of all transmission networks.
- Preparing the regular reports (BSC, WSR…… etc)
- Participate in future networks design, related to the LTT new Projects & current network
- Responsible for the operation, upgrade & design of LTT telecom network.
- Installation, Testing & troubleshooting.
- Cooperate with NOC for the daily issues & providing the technical support
- Providing Up links for the Access service.
- Installation of transmission equipment.
- Installation & troubleshooting of international up links.
- Network design.

Head of cost reduction and network optimization committee at LTT
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • February 2015 to June 2017

- Transmission network cost optimization for the sake of cost reduction.
- looking for alternative routes and transmission medias
- plan for disaster recovery & backup solutions

Head of settlement committee between LTT & HLC at LTT
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • February 2015 to April 2017

-Review & adjust all the bills received from HLC from 2008 up to 2015
-Inventory of all connections and services provided between LTT & HLC
-Prepare an agreement for the outages & cost module calculation on the normal and force major scenarios
-Final report + recommendation to LTT CEO & chairman

NGBN project Roll-out manger at LTT (Libyan telecom and technology)
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • May 2010 to December 2016

- Working as installation & commissioning manger (rollout manger) in LTT (Libyan telecom and technology) under project management office for (NGBN) next generation backbone network project, the project is done by ALU ALCATEL-LUCENT to cover all Libya by NGN DWDM transmission & IP MPLS network., responsible for site accusation, site installation, commissioning, corporate and participate with the technical teams from ALU for the HLD (high level design from the transmission side, LLD (low level design ) for the traffic matrix of the distributed wavelengths (wavelength allocation)
- Participate in the network technical requirement and requesting the

Transmission network planning expert at LTT
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • February 2015 to June 2016

- Providing transmission links to offered LTT services through LTT network. Via (Optical network, MW, VSAT)
- Planning for international links to offered LTT services through international networks
- Network planning for New projects and network upgrade upgrades
- Follow up and proceed requesting and delivery process with related parties.
- Proceeding and reporting leased transmission links and their due to
payments.
- Auditing of transmission bills for new links and in each billing cycle for leased links and match it with Technical and Finance records.
- Sync service start date with LTT Procurement and with service provider.
- Auditing and optimizing current transmission networks and systems and new projects and find out solutions for challenges and sticking points.
- Attending related meeting to transmission part with Telco companies and committees and share meetings outcomes with related parties.
- Spare parts, tools control & PO’s

Transmission Network Eng. at LTT (Libyan telecom & technology)
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • June 2008 to February 2012

Working as optical transmission Engineer in LTT (Libyan telecom and technology) under transmission.department the main LTT fiber backbone network
- installation commissioning & configuration of ZTE SDH ZXMP S380.
- Installation commissioning & configuration of ZTE DWDM ZXMP M800.
- Installation commissioning & configuration of HUAWAWI NGN SDH OSN .
- Configuration of various CISCO switches and routers.
- Configuration of various HUAWEI switches.
- Configuration of varies E1, FE, GE, STM-1, STM-16, STM-64 Links
- Configuration of WIMAX fiber nodes Up links
- Part of the LTT NGBN technical committee for choosing the Vendors.

Telecom Field Engineer at AREVA t&d
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • August 2006 to June 2008

1- Working as a site Engineer in AREVA T&D under the SCADA/TELECOM Project NCC&TRCC for local and remote end to end for 220/66/30 Kv substations for establishing SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) system for various processes. It includes both Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Equipment to collect data and transmitting
•Commissioning and testing of remote terminal unit RTU-S900 and with all SCADA remote operation, adaptation work in various substations.
Installation, commissioning of AREVA S900RTU-SIC Panel.
Survey of substation for SCADA RTU engineering.
Testing of various Analog and Digital cards
•Preparation of I/O list, and other related documents as per the Project Specification.
•Data modelling for SCADA and DMS.
•Integration of IED’s with RTU’s
•I/O Engineering and Database Engineering using Data engineering tools DBB
•Integration of various DCS substations using IEC 60870-5-101 protocol

Telecom Field Engineer at GECOL
  • Libya - Tripoli
  • September 2003 to August 2006

1- Working as a site Engineer in GECOL under the SCADA/TELECOM Project NCC (national control center) tracking and supervising AREVA Transmission & Distribution company.

Company profile:

GECOL is a Libyan company in Power Generation, Transmission & Distribution and communication Division is responsible for establishing SCADA (Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition) system for various processes. It includes both Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Equipment to collect data and transmitting.

I have experience in the following field under AREVA& ALCATEL units.

-FIBER OPTIC Commissioning and testing using EXFO OTDR (optical time domain reflectometer), (ODF to ODF)
- commissioning and configuration of SDH&PDH equipments for ALCATEL 1660 SDH & 1511 PDH & 1515 cross connect
-Commissioning and testing of AREVA PLC 1790 (power line carrier) communication
-Commissioning and testing of remote terminal unit RTU-S900 and with all SCADA remote operation, adaptation work in various sub-stations.
Installation, commissioning of AREVA S900RTU-SIC Panel.
Survey of substation for SCADA RTU engineering.
Testing of various Analog and Digital cards.
(Generation of Data Base) Application.

Website designer at rawaj
  • Libya
  • February 2003 to July 2004

Working as website designer in RAWAJ E_commerce company

Company profile:

RAWAJ is one of the leading companies in Libya in website designing and applying of web application and systems.

I have experience in the following field under RAWAJ.
Designing and programming of various websites.
Designing and programs of various systems

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telcommunication
  • at Tripoli university
  • March 2003

Completed (Electronics and Communication) B.E. Degree from -Tripoli university Engineering faculty in 2003 Year.

Specialties & Skills

Business Development
Network Design
Partner Management
IT Management
IT Operations
Transmission Network troubleshooting
Optical Network design
Optical network design
Roll-out Management
negotiation
system design
operations management
Team managment
Operation managment
Project managment
maintenance management
problem solving
Project planning

Social Profiles

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

1662 SDH Operation & Maintenance - ALCATEL LUCENT University (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2012
Troubleshooting and Maintaining CISCO IP network CCNP (TSHOOT) - Dubai (Certificate)
Attendance PMP preparation Makman certified PMI training center (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2019
Attendance Certification, Interconnection CISCO networking Devices CCNA Dubai (Certificate)
RTU & SCADA Certificate ABB university, Mannheim, Germany (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2005
1626 DWDM Operation & Maintenance - ALCATEL LUCENT University (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2013
1626 DWDM GMPLS - ALCATEL LUCENT University (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2014
International Professional Project Manager Diploma (IPPM) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2015
Valid Until:
December 2020

Hobbies

  • swimming , football , travel, reading