Senior Project Manager
Vodafone - Egypt
Total years of experience :19 years, 7 Months
- Project Management & Delivery of Life Cycle management project of ~ 5 Million GBP under VF UK Spring II Program umbrella.
- Managing Automated Test System project to automate all manual testing activities for VF-UK voice core domain in the network.
- Manage the full life cycle of the voice core projects using different
Agile frameworks.
- Successfully implemented a new 3GPP standardized A5/4 algorithm
for encryption in GSM, First off across Europe.
- Managing all software upgrades and expansions projects for
Ericsson & Oracle ACME SBC 6300&6350 nodes.
- Accountable for the delivery of new features& MDEs in the network.
- Interviewing and shortlisting the potential project managers for
VF-UK& VF Germany accounts.
- Managing the 3rd parties (Altran, Accenture, Aricent, SysMech,
TechMahindra, CACI, NCC, ..etc) to deliver all relevant work
packages in the projects.
- Leading a team of solution authorities and technical experts.
- Responsible for the validation of RFQs and raising the POs&
receipting GRNs for the selected suppliers and vendors.
- Identify and assess all projects risks and provide alternatives to
mitigate and eliminate the risks.
- Creating the projects time plans with the contracted milestones.
- Presenting& reporting the projects progress, status& achievements
in the weekly program governance meeting.
- Monitor& Control projects performance against baseline plans.
- Supporting the customer to achieve all business values.
• Managing the E-Declaration project with Egyptian Tax Authority.
• Managing the Digital transformation program with all governmental
entities to deliver all payment solutions (CC, e-wallet& POS).
• Delivered successfully the electronic payment project for IDA.
• Working closely with Sales, Presales, Procurement, Development, IT
& Operation teams to achieve the business goals of the projects.
• Agree with sales on the defined scope in the contracts.
• Participating in the contracts amendments if needed.
• Reporting the projects status& achievements on weekly basis to the
board of directors& CEO.
• Supporting the Presales team in the offering phase for the new
projects.
• Managing the E-Declaration project with Egyptian Tax Authority.
• Managing the Digital transformation program with all governmental
entities to deliver all payment solutions (CC, e-wallet& POS).
• Delivered successfully the electronic payment project for IDA.
• Working closely with Sales, Presales, Procurement, Development, IT
& Operation teams to achieve the business goals of the projects.
• Agree with sales on the defined scope in the contracts.
• Participating in the contracts amendments if needed.
• Reporting the projects status& achievements on weekly basis to the
board of directors& CEO.
• Supporting the Presales team in the offering phase for the new
projects.
• Managing the E-Declaration project with Egyptian Tax Authority.
• Managing the Digital transformation program with all governmental
entities to deliver all payment solutions (CC, e-wallet& POS).
• Delivered successfully the electronic payment project for IDA.
• Working closely with Sales, Presales, Procurement, Development, IT
& Operation teams to achieve the business goals of the projects.
• Agree with sales on the defined scope in the contracts.
• Participating in the contracts amendments if needed.
• Reporting the projects status& achievements on weekly basis to the
board of directors& CEO.
-Responsible for integration activities for the new products based on cloud and openstack.
-Manage resources over the projects.
-Customer Prime for the new mobile networks projects.
March 2009-December 2015
Alcatel-Lucent Egypt
Job Title: Integration Professional
Project: Vodafone Qatar- (Field Technical Manager) (May 2011 - Present)
- Customer prime interface for the technical aspects, leads & manages technical escalations from Customer.
- Plans and monitors delivery phase of project.
- Responsible for internal and external project reporting.
- Introducing new features & Hardware to improve Network Performance.
- Attending weekly Customer meetings to review the progress of running projects.
- Lead the integration team to achieve the project objectives.
- Lead the planning, Execution of the project.
Project : PTC Yemen - (Fixed Network Expert) (December 2012 - July 2013)
- Customer interface in all technical issues.
- Customer meetings to review the project status.
Project: GO Mobile- MALTA- (Mobile NGN Technical support) (August 2012 - October 2012)
- ALU representative in front of the customer.
Project: Mobinil Egypt - (Maintenance Engineer) (August 2011 - November 2011)
- Mobinil New Numbering Plan project.
Project: Orange Jordan - (Maintenance Engineer) (March 2011 - May 2011)
- SW Upgrade R25 R27 (3 Sites)
- Installing Clean MD (R272.4.11)
- PCFS Acceptance
Training
On job SBC Training (SOMTEL-Hargeisa January 2015)
• SBC (Session Border Controller) Solution Introduction.
• MGC-8 & MGW7510 Hardware& Software description.
Honors& Awards
Raya Achievers Club membership in 2006 and 2007.
- WCDMA Training Course and Product Training Course include:
1- Node B (BTS3812 and DBS3800) Hardware system structure& Configuration
2- RNC (BSC6800 and BSC6810) Hardware system structure& Configuration
- ON Job Training in Mobinil includes:
1- Principles of Antenna (Patterns, parameters, Polarization)
2- Radio Propagation Theory
3- Propagation Models (Cost 231- HATA, SPM model)
4- Site Survey Principles.
5- GENEX NASTAR, ASSISTANT, PROBE, Analysis Tools
6- KPI Optimization (Call Drop, CSSR, IRAT, SHO)
-Analysis of mobile phone schematic, troubleshooting of NOKIA phones, Level 4 fault analysis and repair.
-Handling my team with high responsibility and leadership and following up any problem.
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Cairo University, faculty of engineering, electronics and communication dept. 2003 Final Grade: Good. Graduation Project: TCM modem which was implemented in the voice band range. DSP processors were used to implement the Modulation and Demodulation processes on it.