Ijaz Ahmad, Sr.Technical Analyst Converge Solutions

Ijaz Ahmad

Sr.Technical Analyst Converge Solutions

ZAIN Telecom Kuwait

Location
Kuwait - Hawali
Education
Master's degree, Information Technology
Experience
19 years, 10 Months

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Total years of experience :19 years, 10 Months

Sr.Technical Analyst Converge Solutions at ZAIN Telecom Kuwait
  • Kuwait - Al Kuwait
  • My current job since June 2008

• Implement and manage Telecom Business and Operations Support Systems (BSS/OSS)
• Implemented and managing the Ericson CBiO ( phase I completed covering Charging/EMM/EMA and CRS and phase II already started to implement BSCS and Oracle Seibel CRM target 3rd quarter of 2016)
• Implemented and Manage Comptel Eventlink in ZAIN Telecom and act as primary source in the design and deployment of all processing streams.
• Work along with Comptel’s Solution Manager to prepare high level design for Mediation and with the development team for finalization of functional Specification to implement all processing streams.
• Work along with Comptel’s Development team for final system design and customization with respect to Zain’s customize requirements
• MNP and VO-LTE implementation in EMM
• Implemented and manage the NSN-R4 structure and abandon the legacy R99 in TABS/Comptel/EMM mediation as well as in TABS billing system
• Implemented and manage Nokia- Converged IN unified-Unstructured CDRs in EL.
• Implement and manage Huawei eGCDR (GGSN) and NSN FlexiNg eGCDR and PGW CDRs for LTE in TABS and Comptel mediation.
• Implement and manage Huawei PGW/SGW (LTE) in EL and EMM systems
• Multiple VAS nodes Implementation in Mediation system(TABS/EMM/EL) as well as adopt its it implacted changes in TABS Billing systems includeing Huawei MMSC/VAS/CMS/SMSC CDR structure and accommodate all the billing and rating requirements in TABS and Comptel
• Implement and manage the NGRC, URC CDRs streams in TABS & Comptel.
• TABS Billing system integration with new CBiO/EMM to eliminate the legacy postpaid charging system for data services.
• Closely working with BI and RA for the source and processed data accuracy and interconnect settlements
• Optimization of BSS Operations by introducing several techniques i.e Dashboard, SharePoint, knowledge transfer from all areas of BSS/OSS to operation team.
• Responsible for the month end billing activities

Senior IT Executive BSS/OSS Operations at China Mobile Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • February 2007 to April 2008

BSS/OSS Project
 Member of the BSS/OSS solution implementation team in the newly enter world number one mobile operator China Mobile in Pakistan
 Attend product presentation for different vendor for the BSS/OSS solution implementation for China Mobile Pakistan.
 Bid analysis/ reconciliation and system compatibility of all the vendor and prepare the prioritize/compatibility list
BSS/OSS System Requirement Analysis:
• Conduct all BOSS system requirement analysis within the entire organization and arrange sessions for all the department with the BOSS vendor
• Information sharing with Asia Info team for old system data structure and data migration plan.
BSS/OSS system Development UAT/Cutover plan:
• Monitor system development activities. Plan the system UAT
• Conduct following systems UAT•Production management
• OCS Billing system/account management system (back end process MDB to XDR conversion and
• Hot billing and offline billing process’s & MSC charging reconciliation
• MNP system implementation in BOSS from start to till system implementation
• CRM system element relating to OCS and account process
• CRM system elements relating to postpaid billing.
BSS/OSS system Cutover plan:
• Cutover plan with other stake holders (network planning network vendors Tekelec/ZTE/Huawei for IN/HLR/MSC cutover.
• STP migration from Tekelec to Huawei and implement the LSMS for the pre-BOSS cutover.
• Cutover the old MNP system to BOSS system
• Execute the BOSS system operations.
BSS/OSS Operations.
 Team leader for day to day BOSS operation
 Receive and analyze the customer complaints and prepare for the timely resolution
 KPI planning for team member for the day to billing complaints and root cause identification and resolution
 Take the ownership of all the tasks escalated by CSD and other department and resolve within the agreed SLA’s.
 Arrange the intra departmental coordination for quick problem understand and analyzing.

Executive IT BSS/OSS Operations at Millicom International Cellular (MIC) Paktel Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • January 2005 to June 2007

Post Paid Billing System:
• Responsible of all month end mid month billing activities for Paktel Pakistan
• Coordinate with Credit management department for the billing issue analyzing and its timely resolution
• Implemenation of changes in the billing system software and coordination with the billing software.
• Day to day TT handling for those quries that are not been solved by the CSD staff (back end support )
• CDR Reconciliation of all Paktel GSM MSCs and Billing System
International Roaming
 Successfully done the data clearing house migration from MACH to ARCH in China Mobile Pakistan.
• Planning for the prepaid Roaming solution implementation in the China Mobile Pakistan. Negotiation under way with different vendor ie. N-tel UK.
• Coordination with DCH (Data Clearing House) MACH Luxembourg, for routine IR Issues.
• Tariff Rates update with new countries launches according to the approved business rules and update new tariff/feature induction from time to time.
• TADIG(Transfer Account Data Interchange Group) Testing before commercial launch with IRPs.
• Responsible for Charging of TAP IN/OUT.
• Audit of IR Revenue Reports
INTECH Mediation and IR System
• Active member of Paktel INTECH Mediation and IR systems and done UAT, FAT with the coordination of INTECH UK based ImE Engineer.
• Responsible of all Operational Activities for INTECH ImE(Mediation) and IR Billing System.
• Integration of all network elements (upstream system )with Intech Mediation.
• Integration of all BSS/OSS element/down stream systems with Intec mediation
• Done provisioning activities by using INTECH IaT (Interactivate Provisioning system)
Sarbanes Oxley
• Maintaining 38 SOX Controls of International Roaming
Pre-paid System:
• Number Series Definition of different mobile and Land line operators in prepaid system
• Coordination with switch team regarding prepaid/IR billing/Tariff issues.
• Prepaid Provisioning sending command from IMP to HLR.

Member IT support team at Paktel Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • June 2004 to January 2005

• Provide Support to the User of the different department.
• Maintaining the software updates on the client machine through Software Updated Server.
• Make alive Backbone cable of the Paktel Head office Network
• Deal with user queries.
• Trouble shooting for the users of the north region Peshawar and Jehlum

Education

Master's degree, Information Technology
  • at International Islamic University Islamabad (IIUI)
  • April 2004

More 70% Marks Done Internship in University and work for University Intranet Atted different workshops and awarded certificates

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (Information Management)
  • at AIOU(Allama Iqbal Open University Islamabad)
  • March 2002

Done project in Distribution Database System Done internship in Ashfaq Computers.

Specialties & Skills

Client Relationship Management CRM
Telecom Applications
Software Project Management
Telecommunications Billing
telecom Converge Billing/Mediation/Roaming/Rating/CRM/Provisioning)
unix scripting/PLSQL/DUP/Perl,Windows XP,2000,NT,Office XP Typing speed 50-60WP urdu/Eng
Operating system windows 2000,XP,98,NT,Linux,MS office XP,typing speed 60 WPM

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner
Urdu
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (ITILF) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
Intel: VMware Sales Professional 5 (VSP 5) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
NSN Unified-IN convergence solution (Training)
Training Institute:
NSN Kuwait
Date Attended:
January 2011
Duration:
80 hours
ILINK 7 Architecture and interfaces (Training)
Training Institute:
Comptel
Date Attended:
April 2013
Duration:
75 hours
Asia Info BOSS Architecture (Training)
Training Institute:
Asia Info China
Date Attended:
March 2007
Duration:
80 hours
Ericsson CBiO EMM 8 (Training)
Training Institute:
ERICSSON Kuwait
Date Attended:
January 2014
Duration:
120 hours
Comptel Converged Mediation 6 (Training)
Training Institute:
Comptel
Date Attended:
January 2012
Duration:
120 hours

Hobbies

  • Hockey
    Honoured certificate in the college Hockey winning team