Chief Technical Officer
IHS Towers
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :18 years, 3 أشهر
Chief technical officer for IHS Cameroon. Network quality and passive deployment for 2500 towers with two main clients MTN and Orange Cameroon. Operations and Rollout
Propose plan of all capital expenditures in the subsidiaries to Group CTO;
• Follow up Build-to-Suit (BTS) and Buy and Lease Back (BLB) programs (building new
sites and acquisition of existing sites);
• Liaise with procurement for vendor selection and commercial terms;
• Work on optimizing cost, setting specifications for various site equipment (towers, alarm
systems, DC and AC power systems, solar and wind systems, civil works, etc.);
• Study, analyze, and propose capital allocation among subsidiaries;
• Follow up rollout activities with various subsidiaries
Generated reports for project startup that included: Radio and Microwave BOQs, new site cost, salary scales, acquisition process and cost, co-location cost, office rental cost….
Completed Radio and Transmission designs for the following operations: Burundi; Tanzania, Congo DRC (Total of 600 sites, G9 / D18 and 3G bands). Tools used: Pathloss and Asset.
Completed radio and transmission survey for all the above.
Part of the technical team who was in charge of discussing, reviewing, negotiating, approving and finalizing engineering designs and technical details proposed by ZTE for all radio side equipments.
Review of the price and contents of the hardware and software list proposed by ZTE to be delivered to BOL. Proposal of optional features to be bought by BOL Tanzania.
Finalized contracts and deals with subcontractors related to operation startup: civil works, MSC room preparation, site acquisition, operation and maintenance, site co-location, shipping and custom clearance.
Finalized all needed licenses with Telecommunication Regulator for network startup
Finalized interconnection agreements with different operators
Reviewed and approved scope of work with different contractors
Prepared project plan for GSM operation ( expected to be live end of this year)
Organized and recruited personnel for BSS department: radio / transmission planning, Operation and Maintenance, Microwave, Power.
Coordination of acceptance preparation for the different BSS systems. Discussing, reviewing, negotiating, and proposing structure and contents of different acceptance standard test plans written by ZTE.
Generated reports and recommendation regarding existing CDMA network.
Was in charge of site operation and maintenance of CDMA network; which included: BTS, Microwave and Power.
Managed Radio/Transmission planning and Operation/Maintenance departments.
Provide technical and strategic leadership and direction for the BSS section of the network
Prepared a detailed plan to expand network from 450 to 700K. Plan included radio / transmission and traffic planning, site survey, detailed hardware BOQs, Tower and civil work preparation.
Finalize deals with suppliers. Review of the price and contents of BOQs to be delivered to Africell.
Managed rollout plan of 50 sites that included civil work; tower erection; radio, microwave and BTS installation in four month.
Responsible for inter coordination between different departments and subcontractors to meet project deadlines and KPIs.
Prepared procedures for site acceptance. This included civil work, tower erection, BTS installation and Drive tests.
Generated weekly and monthly reports reflecting ongoing work, operation cost and network performance
Restructured BSS department.
Definition and preparation of routine maintenance procedures.
Responsible for implementing work flow procedures to maintain a proper network performance and meet KPIs between different departments (Optimization, BTS, Power, Transmission, BSC) for 99 dual band sites.
Coordinated Siemens third BSC integration and network software upgrade from BR.7 to BR.9.
Onsite maintenance for BSC, BTS, Microwave and Power failures
On call engineer 24/7
Performed new sites installation ( BTS, Microwave, Antennas, Power) and commissioning ( BTS / Transmission)
Performed BTS swap, re-configuration and sites upgrades.
Issue and follow up of tickets with vendor
Transcoder ( TRAU) installation and commissioning
Preparation of scripts for BSC database modifications that include addition of new sites; sites upgrades, site re-homing….
Site planning (radio / transmission) and survey.
Experienced with design of SDH/PDH & IP links. Pathloss Calculation, Interference analysis, Link budgets and capacity dimensioning.
Performed network optimization (physical and parameters), drive tests using Asset and TEMS.
Performed optimization for Sierra Leon project as member of radio team.
Prepared frequency, neighboring and traffic plans
Maintained network KPIs by monitoring network stats, performing optimization, drive test, traffic planning hardware maintenance, site upgrades and adding new sites.
Drive tests for identifying Coverage holes, capacity requirements and new coverage requirements, Site Auditing, which includes antenna bearing measurement and rectification & giving mechanical tilts to the antennas.
Analysis the Network performance Statistics (KPI) e.g. Handover statistics, Drop Statistics, their reasons and take necessary action.
Analysis of drive test files, to determine the External and Internal interference in the Network, Which involves analysis of BER, Rx Level, SQI, RxQual, FER
Power Budget Calculation, Coverage Simulation, Network Capacity calculation, preparing Frequency Plan, Interference Simulation and BOQ.
Performed installation and integration of one BSC.
Prepared plans and scripts for site re-homing between different BSCs
Was involved in MSC power dimensioning and integration of new rectifier system