Mohamed Hassan Abu Shawally

Project Manager responsible for the network sites quality and ensure applying company specs through the effective and efficient initiation, planning, monitoring and control, implementation and close out of projects, Create and executes project work plans and revises as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.

 Manage Audit modification project, its target is modifying the installation of sites’ items to ensure to mitigate the risk of any incident.
 Manage and control audit projects for sites' quality & safety enhancement over the whole network sites which reflected positively on the major network’s KPI target as for SQI & NUR.
 Manage and control L1 maintenance service agreement with 4 contractors (Huawei, Mobiserve, Orascom and Systel) from quality perspectives, contractual obligations, compliance and teams’ implementation.
 Improving network performance via reducing NUR (Network Unavailability Rate), increasing the SQI and robust control of subcontractors.
 Audit the execution of modernization projects and ensure to mitigate its negative impacts on the networks' Quality, Safety & Performance.
 Assure all the spec's (environmental and radio) meet to Orange standards, that reflects directly on the Network Availability.
 Lead tendering, negotiation and contract preparation activities.
 Manage and control the activities of the audit consultant.
 Manage and control the preventive maintenance activates for all types of sites and generators for the network(has more than 7000 sites).
 Manage, control and follow up the preventive maintenance plan of the contractors.
 Ensure power supply & stability of the network sites and search for alternative power sources and provide studies for a new solution.
 Exercise new power and environmental solutions serving the network sites performance.
 Evaluate the vendors’ performance and assure the delivered service quality VS the contract and the industry standards.
 Provide expertise, guidance, and support to the subcontractors, consultant, colleagues and team members, correspondingly to avoid problems repetition.
 Coach and train the audit teams regularly.
 Evaluate the audit team performance by checking their audit activity on sites and re-audit the sites after their visits.
 Validate L1 maintenance monthly Key performance indicators.
 Manage L1 maintenance monthly dashboard (monthly fees analysis, alarm analysis, spare parts fees analysis, extra works, etc…)
 Audit, check and monitor maintenance department processes implementation and its relative indicators.
 Troubleshoot and deeply inspect the vendors’ low performance and analyze their potential plans to suggest enhancement actions and follow up.
 Set the audit plan according to company objectives.
 Audit, check and monitor Offices & stores of the subcontractors status to assure all the spec's (environmental and radio restoring & healthy storage of maintenance equipment) meet to Orange standards.
 Interface with the security department for H&S issue over the network.
 Interface with the HSE department for H&S issue over the network.
 Interface with the network deployment department for construction, assets’ restoration and modification issue over the network.

Major activities including but not limited to liaise with and oversee vendors (Motorola, Alcatel, Nokia, Huawei, Ericson and NEC), subcontractors (Motorola, Orascom, Mobiserve, etc…), and Telecom Egypt, ensuring the highest standards are achieved and provides L2&L3 support to the engineers on site, whilst achieving service targets of new entities.
 Manage installation, commissioning and integration of GSM/GPRS/3G infrastructure, transmission backbone and SDH transmission rings and responsible for testing and acceptance with vendors.
 Responsible for providing expertise, guidance, and L2 / L3 support to subcontractors and Orange staff, correspondingly.
 Solid understanding of BSS engineering, planning, and network capacity enhancement via upgrading and reconfiguration for BTS, BSC, RXCDR, GPRS, and transmission backbone network.
 Sound knowledge with BTS coverage, transmission routing, GSM network backbone and line of sight problems.
 Coordinate with all involved teams to put the site on air after the phase of production
 Receiving new sites from production team and controlling the site transfer to the subcontractors
 Improving network performance via reducing NUR (Network Unavailability Rate), efficient alarm handling and robust control of subcontractors.
 Routine preventive maintenance of the network‘s sites.
 Mange, Liaise with and supervise subcontractors ensuring the highest standards are achieved and provide support to them on site, whilst achieving service targets of new entities.
 Support and follow up the preventive maintenance of the subcontractors.
 Follow and report all PM (Preventive Maintenance) by Orange or Subcontractor in BTSs and BSCs.
 BSS sites supervision in emergency case.
 Test and troubleshoot all technical problems in the BSS sites (Hardware, Software, MW and Quality problems).
 Follow up & handle the daily fault report of all minor& major alarms in the network elements.
 Robust knowledge of GSM principles, architecture, and infrastructure (Motorola and Alcatel).
 Cooperate in network optimization, RF, interference analysis, and antenna engineering
 Motorola and Alcatel (BTS, BSC, RXCDR, and PCU~GPRS) maintenance, operation, calibration, and acceptance.
 Qualified in test equipment i.e. frequency counters, power meters, PCM analyzers, protocol tester (Tektronix K12), Site master (Anritsu), Signal generator (HP), and spectrum analyzer (Motorola).
 Good knowledge with NOC (OMC-R&S), NMS systems (Nokia, Alcatel, and NEC), NSS (Alcatel SSP and RCP), and interfacing with BSS.
 Familiar with EDGE, 3G, 3GPP, UTRAN, CDMA, UMTS and 4G system architecture and protocols.
 Transmission systems technical support for Microwave, PDH (NEC, Nokia, Alcatel, and Sagem), SDH (NEC & Alcatel SDH system), Optical Fiber (Alcatel and Siemens) (Telecom Egypt side), DXX, Laser links, and HDSL.

Responsible for MSC (Delta Region) and in the same time support the BSS Maintenance teams in all activities.
 Operation & Maintenance for the GSM Network Switching Sub-System (Alcatel SSP, RCP, SMIM, DAM …etc.).
 Responsible for NSS troubleshooting (Alarms, HW fault messages, faulty PCMs, System backup, etc…).
 Switching equipment installation survey
 Manage installation, commissioning and integration of GSM/GPRS infrastructure and transmission backbone and responsible for testing and acceptance with vendors.

BSS Support engineer responsible for installation, commissioning, integration, optimization, and Troubleshooting Motorola radio equipment.
 Providing Technical Support to Customer (Mobinil).
 Courses Trainer for new engineers.
 Support and follow up the preventive maintenance for our Teams in the field.

Working with Motorola Pakistan as BSS Support Engineer to enhance the mobile network (Mobilink Network) there by:-
 Dual Band Project (Adding DCS (1800) Band) more than 250 sites.
 Perform installation, commissioning, integration, Optimization and Troubleshooting of MOTOROLA Horizon macroII BTS (GSM and DCS).
 Sites Upgrade and Expansions.
 Installation, Commissioning and Integration of MOTOROLA GPRS (PCU).
 Providing Technical Support to Customer (Mobilink).
 Drive test using Ericson equipment (GSM).

Area Team Leader Responsible for installation, commissioning, integration, and Troubleshoot for MOTOROLA radio equipment and supporting our Transmission Teams for the Mobinil project in Alex and Delta region.
 Perform installation, commissioning, integration, Optimization, and Troubleshooting of MOTOROLA Equipment :
o M-Cell 6 BTS
o Horizon macro/micro BTS (GSM & DCS).
o Horizon II macro/mini BTS (GSM & DCS).
o BSC.
o XCDR.
o GPRS (PCU).
 Sites Upgrade, downgrade and Expansions.
 Optimization and Troubleshooting for all above MOTOROLA equipments.
 Perform diagnostic check, re-configuration, upgrade and downgrade BTS radios for fault clearing.
 Perform site inspection, routine and preventative maintenance of BTS, BSC, XCDR and ancillary equipment.
 Perform site surveys for validation of new sites.
 Site auditing.

Lead the transmission maintenance teams to maintain, testing and troubleshooting (Maintenance level 3) of 2Mbps SAGEM and ALCATEL Microwave equipment and infrared links in Alexandria and Delta regions (Mobinil Network).

Installation, operation, commissioning, testing and troubleshooting of 2Mbps Microwave equipment and Infrared links for Orange project in Egypt.
 Installation, operation, commissioning, testing of 2Mbps SAGEM Microwave equipment.
 Installation, Commissioning, testing of 2Mbps Infrared links for Orange GSM network
 Planning of the Microwave systems, Map study and preparation of path profiles.
 Path and Ground-reflection calculations and determination of Antenna Heights, Field survey and site determination and Frequency planning.
 Experience in antenna alignment on towers.
 Experience in Routing and connecting New Sites to the BSC.
 Testing equipment to establish faults down to unit level. Using testing equipment such as digital analyzer, BER HP tester, power meters and rotary van attenuator.