Hisham Imad, Wireless Engineer

Hisham Imad

Wireless Engineer

Sultan Telecom

Location
Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
Education
Master's degree, Networking and Telecom
Experience
17 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 2 Months

Wireless Engineer at Sultan Telecom
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • My current job since December 2012

Profile: Telecom Radio Engineer
Client: Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC)
• Monitoring and Management of the TETRA network (Hytera System - Formerly Rohde and Schwarz).
• Monthly Preventative Maintenance of the TETRA system which includes performance measurements.
• Generating periodic Reports.
• NMS-511 Fault Management System
• Managing Groups and users.
• Network configuration of Tetra Radio Base stations for different sites of KNPC.
• Network Management System Functionality.
• Programming/Configuration of Portable (Motorola) & fixed radios (Sepura).
• Resolving end user Radio problems.
• Satellite Phone installation (Thuraya) for KNPC Crisis management center. Configuring & Setting up of Satellite & GPS Antenna’s.
• Configuration of the SAT phones.
• Management of Telecom Invoicing (Mobile lines) for KNPC employees.

Project Engineer at Kharafi National
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • My current job since December 2015

• Responsible in handling various stages of Contract cycle like tender package review, Bid Evaluation, Clarifications, negotiations and preparation of final contract document.
• Handling variation to Contracts through Adjustment Orders.
• Preparing and responding to all contractual correspondence.
• Managing monthly invoice generation and payments to Contractor.
• Ensuring all Contract works are carried out in compliance with the Company requirements and contract agreement.
• Identifying the contractual conflicts and problems and analyze its impact, thus evaluating and developing alternative solutions

Project Engineer( & maintainence) at Indra Sistemas
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • April 2012 to October 2012

Working on Project to implement the Communication system for New Kuwait International Airport. Implementation of Fiber optic network, MW links, Radio and Telephony.

Telecom Engineer at Knetco (Faud Alghanim group)
  • Kuwait - Al Ahmadi
  • May 2009 to March 2012

• Involved in configuration and management of:

o Configuration of Cisco Routers and Switches.
o Vlan configuration and trunking.
o Switch and router configuration/maintenance, monitoring and analysis.
o VPNs - GRE / IPsec.
o Configuration of OSPF, EIGRP.
o Implementing traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists,
o Configuring Routing using OSPF.

o Cisco IP phone’s 7970, 7960, 7911 models and Cisco IP Communicator in an environment of 2000 users.
o E1, FXS and FXO.
o Cisco Routers 2811, 3845 and Analog Gateways VG 224.
o Cisco IP Phone DNs, dual lines, shared line and integration of PSTN numbers
o Voice mail features for the DNs in the Cisco Unity Server.
o Troubleshooting different call features: call forward, call forward all, call transfer etc in IP Telephony.
o Cisco Unified Call Manager (CUCM)
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Network Administrator at Credere Infotech
  • India - Bengaluru
  • February 2007 to April 2009

Managing and Configuration of Network consisting of 70 end systems.
• Configuring a Network with Cisco Router 2500/ 2600 /2800 series.
• Switches 2950/2960, 3560/3750.
• LAN/WAN design and implementation using Cisco routers and switches.
• Configuration of Routing Protocols EIGRP and OSPF on Small & Medium Network.
• Access Control lists operation and configuration.
• Configuring of VLAN’s, Trunking .
• Implemented Traffic filtering using Access Lists, Distribute List and Route Maps.
• Excellent Troubleshooting Skills related to IP Networks.

Education

Master's degree, Networking and Telecom
  • at International Institute of information Technology ( I2IT) Pune
  • March 2007

GPA of 2.8/4.0

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications
  • at Bangalore Institute of Technology , Bangalore
  • August 2004

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Access
Integration
•Routing – OSPF , RIP , EIGRP . Switching - VLAN, VTP .
• WAN -Frame Relay, PPP, ISDN . Access lists , NAT
CCNA certified
BSCI(Routing)

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Memberships

Kuwait Society of Engineers
  • Member
  • February 2013

Training and Certifications

Currently pursuing CCNP (Training)
Training Institute:
Network Expert
Duration:
120 hours
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2008
Valid Until:
September 2011
Switching Module 642-812 - Score: 819 / 1000 (Module of CCNP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2010
Valid Until:
July 2013

Hobbies

  • Chess
    Achieved 2nd Position in Interschool Level in Kuwait.