IT Director
Jinan University
Total years of experience :22 years, 0 Months
Recruited to build and manage a high-performing IT department and to upgrade and replace obsolete technologies within the university network infrastructure.
- Scope of position is expansive and includes departmental direction and full design, installation, engineering, implementation, support, training, administration, and management authority for:
* Network Administration
* System Administration
* 24x7 Data Center Computer Operations
* Lab Administration
* Web/Internet Design & Operations
* Help Desk Operations
* Database Administration
* Application System
- Responsible for management of IT projects, supervision of departmental staff members and recommendations regarding IT policy and procedures that improve internal processes and enhance productivity.
- Evaluate business requirements, identify technical solutions, schedule/ implement changes for defining functional specifications for IT projects
MobiNetS (Gemalto Subcontracting Company) is a consultancy company and a software provider specialized in radio mobile telecommunications (established in 2003 in France and Lebanon). My scope of work was to manage and deliver Mobinets projects related to transmission networks to Europe, Africa and Middle-East customers.
- Leading Mobinets’ projects in different countries: UK, Morocco, Ivory Coast and Lebanon
- Preparing project schedules/ plans for maintaining project SLA parameters, issuing work schedules to client/ other stakeholders for approval
- Coordinating with other internal departments (software development, testing & integration) in order to ensure the timely and properly implementation of the Projects
- Optimizing resource utilization by deploying required resources across projects for maintaining operational efficiency
- Writing technical proposals and commercial offers for deploying MobiNetS solutions
- Conducting researches, writing specifications and answering RFP/RFQ for transmission networks solutions
Vodafone - UK (July 2013 - November 2013)
o Leading Mobinets team to integrate support for 4G networks within Mobinets tool and provide automated connectors to interface with CRAMER in order to import Vodafone 4G live network into NEP, which will be used as a single platform for network management and planning.
o Leading Mobinets team to integrate the generation of transmission KQI reports within NEP.
INWI - Morocco (Feb 2013 - June 2013)
o Leading Mobinets team to import INWI Network into NEP and to develop 3 additional modules to be used by INWI for their daily tasks: Cost module, Stock management module & workflow module)
o Performed full network upgrade analysis and capacity requirements for the 3G/4G rollout for year 2013 with different scenarios: 30Mbps, 70Mbps & 100Mbps
OCI (Orange Group) - Abidjan (July 2012 - Jan 2013)
o Leading Mobinets team to provide automated connectors to interface with OCI SDH/IPMPLS transmission NMS from different vendors (SAGEM, ALU and CISCO) in order to import OCI live network into NEP.
MEDITEL (Orange Group) - Morocco (Feb 2012 - June 2012)
o Leading Mobinets team to provide automated connectors to interface with Meditel PDH/SDH/WDM transmission NMS from different vendors (HUAWEI, ALU, ERICSSON and NSN) in order to import Meditel's live network into NEP, which will be used as a single platform for network management and planning.
Ericsson - Lebanon (March 2011 - Jan 2012)
o Leading the design & planning transmission team in order to perform the 2G-to-3G upgrade of Alfa Network. (Alfa is one of the two operating GSM networks in Lebanon managed by ORASCOM Telecom)
o Performing full 2G routing upgrade in order to replace all existing Ericsson ML with new Ericsson TN (AMM2p-AMM6P-AMM20P)
- Designing the configuration on new TN (MMU, LTU, ETU ) including the design of internal DDF connections while facing DXX, Huawei PTN, Alcatel SDH
- Performing several 2G rerouting design, especially in Beirut area, due to new buildings blockage
- Maintaining/updating Alfa transmission database: TRM link database, sites configuration, backplane soft routing, ADD/DROP & physical internal connections, Cabinet/shelves configuration
o Planning/Designing full 3G routing for the new 3G service in Afla network - with 29Mbps/NB, layer2 switching and 3/1 data overbooking - including the SW/HW upgrade of the existing transmission links and the new capacity demands
o Planning & designing the requirements for 50 LTE sites with 75Mbps each
o Putting together a complete SID (Site Integration Document) including the new routing & site configuration data, full link budget study report, BoQ data & site's new antennas positions.
o Following up with the onsite integration team, Alfa acceptance team and via the SOM (Service On Element Manager tool) in order to avoid any deviation between the SID and the As-Built configuration.
o Performing an upgrade study for year 2012 which will include the extension of new 500 2G/3G sites.
Orange Moldova (Dec 2010)
o Worked closely along with Moldova's Engineers in order to perform their network migration toward full hybrid IP/MPLS network. Migration included: Routers introduction & configuration, Transmission Links SW/HW upgrade & configuration, NodeB IP traffic migration & routing, ADM rings configuration, Routers statistical Multiplexing configuration, Logical connections configuration (PW, MPLS, MLPPP )
MEDITEL (Orange Group) - Morocco (Jun 2010)
o Conducted a preliminary study/audit of the existing 2G CASA transmission region and provided the upgrade requirements in order to accommodated new Mbps 3G demand as well as new WIMAX demands.
Mobilkom - Austria A1 (Sept 2008)
o LAC/RAC optimization: Maximizing the NSS network capacity by minimizing the paging signaling, the location area update, and the mobility between different zones
Orange Moldova (Jun 2008)
o Involved in designing a new planning & full network management platform to optimize 3G network's design. End to end network management by providing full network topology, detailed routing information, link capacity visualization, bottleneck detection, link congestion prediction, and future growth study.
- 'Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA' - Lebanon, 2007
Nortel Networks - Montreal, Quebec - Canada (2000- 2004)
- Network Planner - Optical Networks -
- Designed and planned complex optical networks for Metro, Long Haul, as well as Under Sea applications
- Primed network activities with a wide variety of customers such as AT&T, Bell Canada, Bank of Montreal, Boeing, France Telecom, Group Telecom, IBM, KDDI, Microcell, SBC, Southern X, Telus, Teleglobe, Verison
- Performed many different stages of the Optical planning process, from DWDM link engineering, to OADM & regenerator placement, traffic capacity planning, growth planning, as well as tributary and shelf configurations
- Actively participated in the RFI/RFP responses to answer technical questions and assure compliance with customer requirements
- Prepared and priced detailed equipment lists pertaining to the network design being quoted
- Compiled complicated technical models for many bays and shelves usually comprising and optical network. This includes Optical/Electrical Switch bays, DWDM Line Amp Bays, Regenerator bays, SONET ADM bays
- Architected and Managed technical presentations with detailed equipment diagrams to be included in customer responses
- In parallel of network planning duties, I was maintaining the Optical Sales Engineering website, and performed some Software Development responsibilities
- Website Administrator - Optical Sales Engineering Website -
- Introduced and generalized the Auto-numbering process for the project numbers
- Maintained and updated the database and the project logs
- Prepared the monthly summary of all North America Optical projects
- Major website shared by Sales Engineers all across North America, Europe and Asia
- Website is based on Microsoft ASP language and Microsoft Access database
- Software Development - Optical Planning & Pricing Tool "TNC" -
- Actively participated in the development of this planning and pricing tool
- Was responsible of testing the Beta version of SONET and DWDM models
- Implemented the OPTera LH4000 and the Transport Node OC 48 models
- Actively participating in the OPTera Metro 5200 link Engineering Tool
- Based on PSL (Nortel Networks proprietary programming language), TNC is used to model the various equipment (DWDM, SONET & SDH) within an Optical Transport System. It's capable of generating detailed equipment lists and prices for the modeled network as well as graphical representations of the different sites
- 'OPTeraMetro5000 Link Engineering' - Nortel Networks, 2000
- 'Transport Node OC-192/MOR Engineering' - Nortel Networks, 2000
- 'Transport Node OC 12/OC 48 Engineering' - Nortel Networks, 2000
- 'TNC/Quick Quote Workshop' - Nortel Networks, 2000