Marwan Ghazi, Managed Services Manager from ITS

Marwan Ghazi

Managed Services Manager from ITS

Mobile Telecommunication Company

Location
Syria - Damascus
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Electronics
Experience
9 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :9 years, 8 Months

Managed Services Manager from ITS at Mobile Telecommunication Company
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • November 2007 to December 2012

1. Zain (Mobile Telecommunication Company), Saudi Arabia (Nov 07 to date)
Managed Services Manager from ITS (international turnkey systems)
Responsibilities: ➢ Successful managing operations of the managed services teams (100 resources onsite and offsite models within the KPIs and SLAs from different backgrounds & nationalities, the operation cover the following: ➢ Application support
o TABS Billing system.
o ERP (Oracle financials, HRMS and technical support)
o E-business (intranet, internet, E-Self-care)
o IPCC Call Center.
➢ Infrastructure Area: o System Admin and Database.
o Windows Admin.
o Network and security Admin.
o Service Desk and Help Desk.
o End user support
➢ Successful leading different projects and programs of BSS e.g. Mediation split, Trewards, Dealers relationship Management, Migration of Operations to Cairo, etc.
➢ Providing support to different cross-functional areas and transforming into technical deliverables to improve the business
➢ Managing and building a multicultural team of different domains with mix model of insource and outsource employees.
➢ Developing inter and intra departmental relationships to ensure that common goals are achieved
➢ Developed different inter and intra departmental processes, policies, procedures and documentations for business.
➢ Plan and run the team in a formal manner and monitor progress against the plan.
➢ Prepare team plans and arrange for their review.
➢ Agree deliverables and milestones.
➢ Be responsible for team progress.
➢ Be responsible about the overall service delivery.
➢ Monitor service delivery performance against SLA and approve service improvement plans.
➢ Be responsible for Change Control before and after base lining of plans, including milestones and deliverables.
➢ Prepare routine progress reports.
➢ Act as point of reference for all business areas where above domains issues are a focus

Senior Manager Billing Management at MTN Sudan Telecom International
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • July 2005 to August 2007

2. MTN Sudan Telecom International, Khartoum (July '05 to Aug, 07)
Senior Manager Billing Management
Achievements
➢ Successful managing BSS operations (MAEVA - ALCATEL) and programs to support NSS and Business functions.
➢ Successful Implementation of TABS (Core Billing application)
➢ Start implementations from Greenfield and turn into successful operation mode.
➢ Managed and developed different teams of IT e.g. billing, systems, network, etc.
➢ Developed cross-functional relationships to ensure that common goals are achieved
➢ Provide assistance to cross-functional areas and ensure that billing requirements are reflected in new developments
➢ Ensure that all customer-facing staff are trained on billing-related issues
➢ Smooth installation and maintenance of Systems and databases.
➢ Develop the intra and inter departmental processes for security and business.
Special Assignments
➢ Program Manager for implementation of new Billing System (TABS) from ITS.
➢ Data migration.
➢ Designing and developing system to be used for revenue assurance system.
➢ Developing in house application for PABX billing

senior Manager at MTN
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • July 2005 to August 2007

Achievements
 Successful managing BSS operations (MAEVA - ALCATEL) and programs to support NSS and Business functions.
 Successful Implementation of TABS (Core Billing application).
 Start implementations from Greenfield and turn into successful operation mode.
 Managed and developed different teams of IT e.g. billing, systems, network, etc.
 Developed cross-functional relationships to ensure that common goals are achieved
 Provide assistance to cross-functional areas and ensure that billing requirements are reflected in new developments
 Ensure that all customer-facing staff are trained on billing-related issues
 Smooth installation and maintenance of Systems and databases.
 Develop the intra and inter departmental processes for security and business.
Special Assignments
 Program Manager for implementation of new Billing System (TABS) from ITS.
 Data migration.
 Designing and developing system to be used for revenue assurance system.
 Developing in house application for PABX billing

Telecom Management during the period the period at INFORMA
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 2007 to May 2007

➢ Mini MBA in Telecom Management during the period the period from 29/04/2007 till 03/05/2007 (INFORMA)

Training IN Alcatel at Alcatel - Sudan
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • December 2005 to December 2005

➢ Course in the field of Intelligent Networking for pre-paid, regular pre-paid and post-paid and data service operation (Alcatel - Sudan from 03/12/2005 to 10/12/2005)
➢ Training course about TABS billing system in Egypt during period from 22/06/2006 to 26/06/2006.

IT manager at Syrian Telecom Establishment
  • Syria
  • March 2003 to July 2005

3. Syrian Telecom Establishment (Mar '03 - Jul '05)
IT manager
Achievements
➢ Successful Supervision the billing systems (Jupiter and BSCS) in both GSM operators (Areeba Syria, SyriaTel)
➢ Managed interconnect capacity planning and forecasting, new points of interconnection, billing and payment procedures, auditing, reconciliations and settlements
➢ Prepared the scope of work for new interconnect billing system to be installed for reconciliation between STE and the mobile operators
➢ Revenue Assurance activities and analysis.

workshop in GSM Arab World at GSM Arab world
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2004 to January 2004

➢ Workshop about dispute resolution in telecom sector in Bahrain. 2004
➢ GSM Arab world in Dubai 2004
SCHOLASTIC QUALIFICATION

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Electronics
  • at Damascus University
  • January 1992

➢ 1987 - 1992; BA Electrical Engineering, Electronics Department, Damascus University, Syria

Specialties & Skills

Consultancy
Technical Support
Operation
Launching Of New Products
Application Management Services
APPLICATION SUPPORT
BILLING
CHANGE CONTROL
DATABASE
E-BUSINESS
FINANCIALS
OPERATIONS
SECURITY

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

yea (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2005
Valid Until:
December 2005
yes Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
May 2007
yes (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2003
Valid Until:
July 2003
yes Certified (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2004
Valid Until:
April 2004