Senior Manager Network Operatons
Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited
Total des années d'expérience :29 years, 10 Mois
Fostering an environment that is conducive to enhance productivity and business skills thereby meeting the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) set for the zone and associated divisions in the zone. Constantly working for Customer Solution Innovation and continuous improvement. Mentoring and knowledge sharing with the new inductees in the company
As Senior Manager I am the team lead to manage operation and maintenance of Core Switching Network as well as Access Network including more than 300 NEs comprising of Alcatel E-10B, Huawei HCTE, ZTE ZJX10, Siemens EWSD, ZTE OLTs, 100+ MSAGs in FTTC formation and ZTE NGN including one Soft Switch, nine MSG 9000 and 87 MSAG 5200. I am also looking after WLL core network including 01 Huawei MSC Csoft X3000, 02 BSCs and 100+ BTSs along with its microwave (DRS) system. I am also team lead for managing the power plant equipment of the entire region.
• Improving Business skills of the team by identifying functional competencies, analyzing skill gaps and further alignment with the functional competencies by arranging Technical Trainings as well as enhancing Soft Skills
• Mentoring and knowledge sharing.
• Member focus group for Customer Solution Innovation and Continuous Improvement
• External and internal customer handling for improving their experience with the company.
o Ensuring Maximum Network Availability.
o Ensuring Redundancy as per topology (ERPS, STPs, LACP, HSRP, VRRP)
o Supervising the Operation and Maintenance of NGN
o Migration of Voice services from circuit switching to packet switching (NGN)
o Migration of DSL and IPTV services from DSLAM to MSAGs (NGN)
o Auto Service Provisioning integration of voice and DSL services of NGN
o Subscriber administration, Database administration and traffic management of ZTE SS Multan
o Voice, DSL, IPTV and complete configurations of MSAGs ( Multi services access gateways)
o OFAN Integration (OLT, ONUs) in NGN
o GPON integration in NGN
• Provisional acceptance testing and Service Quality Testing of the newly installed equipment
• Triple play services (Voice, Data, Video) configurations and Troubleshooting
• Arranging resources for corrective maintenance for the field units.
• Controlling field units to achieve their KPIs.
• Leading the team responsible for technical evaluation in the tendering process.
• Providing Level II support to the field units for TDM switching and for NGN.
• Traffic analysis of TDM exchanges, ASR, CFR and take corrective measures
• Analyze TRGPs for MSAGs and DSLAMs to ensure proper bandwidth utilization.
• Planning preventive maintenance of switching and power plant equipment.
• Supervising of fuel topping activities ensuring maximum fuel saving
• Supervising of O&M activities relating to switching and power plant.
• Formulation of service level agreements (SLAs) with different vendors/suppliers
• Conducting SQT and PAT for the newly installed equipment in the company
• Managing a human resource of more than 230 members including 05 senior engineers, 30 engineers
• Monitoring alarms of 29 Alcatel E10B, 04 EWSD, 02 Huawei HCTE, 01 Huawei MSC, 02 BSCs and 360 WLL BTSs in the zone Configuration management of CDMA2000 base stations through MML and OSS scripts.
• Integration of CDMA2000 base stations to MSS, BSC, RNC and OSS using MML and XML scripts.
• Creation of Abis, MAP and SS7 links to integrate WLL MSC with BSCs, WIN and TDM switches.
• Execution of network optimization change requests from planning wing using MML and MACRO scripts.
• 24/7 Alarm monitoring, troubleshooting and escalations of TDM/NSS/BSS.
• Trouble ticket generation, follow-up and Coordination for switching alarms.
• Remote support for field operation and maintenance personnel.
• Daily health check of complete network.
• Provide technical expertise and support to NOC staff in doing fault management and configuration management activities of Switching Network.
• Ensuring that system requirements have been properly implemented and procedures carefully followed by the staff at shift duties
• Monitoring and intimating all concerns regarding site network performance and service availability
• Routing, zoning, charging and SS7 signaling database creation
• Management of A links and F links
• Categorization of alarms, alarm monitoring and rectification
• Software uploads, database backups and database uploads
• Security management including password management and user access restrictions
• Performance data collection, processing and presentation to PTCL head quarters
• Core network planning and optimization depending on the results of the performance data
• SS7 call tracing for finding reasons for unsuccessful calls
• Planning and execution of preventive maintenance program to avoid faults occurrence
• Timely execution of corrective maintenance thereby reducing mean time to recover (MTTR)
• Coordination with different wings within the company and with other operators
• Successfully implemented New Numbering Plan in all NEs of Multan region
• Successfully implemented Mobile Number Portability database in Alcatel E10 B exchanges of MTR
• Implementation of TLV2 billing patch in all Alcatel E10 B exchanges in MTR
• One of the pioneer in executing XATR/XATX file expansion in Alcatel E10 B exchanges
Duties/Responsibilities/Activities:
• Delivered lectures on Intelligent Network, OSI model, data communication to 180 newly inducted B.Sc. Engineers in 2002-2003
• Conducted full length course on mobile communication and GSM architecture to 180 newly inducted B.Sc. Engineers including RF planning, large scale and small scale propagation models/techniques, types of fading, Control Channel architecture, radio optimization, Core network dimensioning and mobile traffic analysis
• Conducted 3 week course on GSM to Supervisor Class
• Member course development team
Duties/Responsibilities/Activities:
•Operation and maintenance center controlling 4 Siemens EWSD exchanges including two transit exchanges and about 50 associated RLUs in the region
•Job description just like in NMC. The only difference was the exchanges were EWSD
Duties/Responsibilities/Activities:
•Installation of Computer Networks
•Repair and Maintenance of Power Equipment
Taxila/Pakistan Main focus: 3G Mobile System
MAjors in Communications
