Syed Faizan Ali, Project Operations Manager

Syed Faizan Ali

Project Operations Manager

Gulf Business Horizon

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication Engineering
Experience
10 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 7 Months

Project Operations Manager at Gulf Business Horizon
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • August 2019 to September 2022

Project Operation Manager Central Region KSA
Saudi Telecom Company, Managed services project Transport Huawei
Operations management, client management, 200+ resource management, warehouse management, fleet management, disaster recovery plans, financial planning & Budget forecast, SLA negotiations & KPI achievement plan, OSP civil infrastructure lead, civil design planning & implementation for fiber network, Hiring and retention, team management matrix

Project Manager at Sitaf Saudia Ltd.
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • April 2018 to July 2019

Project Manager West Region KSA
Saudi Telecom Company, Managed services project Transport Huawei
Operations head, customer management, 200+ resource management, Spare part management, Fleet Management, disaster recovery plans, financial planning, OSP civil infrastructure lead, civil design planning & implementation

Senior Engineer - Field Manager WR at Gulf Business Horizon
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • October 2016 to March 2018

Saudi Telecom Company, Managed services project Transport Huawei
24*7 O&M technical support over FON, MSAN, Transmission & EM equipment’s
Resource management - SLA negotiations - PMR & Customer interface.

Consultant & Regional Team Lead at WIPRO ARABIA LIMITED
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • June 2013 to October 2016

Handling the Transmission & Operation and Maintenance scope in the West region of KSA for CIENA systems deployed in Mobily as Regional Team lead.
Accountable for the task delivery, customer facing & analyse risks
Manage all aspects of project scope, time, quality, risk, integration & change management.
Ensure customer acceptance, operational handover & acceptance.
Maintain professional relationship with the customer, suppliers & team members.
Promote the use of consistent standards and procedures.
Ensuring team has the necessary skills to guarantee delivery.
Establishing a reporting structure & escalation matrix.
Responsible for all O&M activity.
Supervising Teams in Western region for O&M project.
Providing 24*7 Support to teams, Trouble shooting, Expansion plans.
Conduct PMR’s at regular intervals.
Execution of Preventive Maintenance Routines (PMR), Maintenance Down Times (MDT), Backup Savings and Routine Maintenance tasks.
Fault diagnosis and rectification of transmission media within set SLA's
Analyse the network performance and investigate the reasons behind degradation of KPIs.
Extraction of daily data for performance monitoring, analysis and reporting.
CWO (Circuit Work Order) / SOR (Service Order Request) implementation & interpretation.
Prompt Support to field Staff using Network Management Systems.
Originating, referring, updating and clearing/closing of Trouble Tickets.
Conducting surveys for possible site for the expansion program of the network.
Ciena Equipment expansion (CN 5430 (SONET/SDH), OME 6500 DWDM & CESD 5150), local termination of fiber link to ODF
Testing the ports with test sets EXFO/JDSU, OTDR & Spectrum analyser.

Deployment Engineer at NAHJTECH
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2012 to June 2013

*Conducting surveys for possible site expansion program of the network.
*Ciena CN-5430 (SONET/SDH), OME6500 (DWDM), CN5410 / CN5150 & CN3930 (MPLS) rack shelf
installation, local termination for fiber link patching equipment to ODF. Power layout, Floor Plan.
*Testing, Integration & Commissioning of Ciena Equipment.

Operations Team Leader at ABANA
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • March 2012 to September 2012

*Worked on STC FTTH Service Delivery project as a lead splicer.
*Preparing new fibers before splicing to get a perfect low loss connection
*Repairing damaged fiber optical cables, using the equipments Fusion Machine, OTDR Optical Time Domain
Reflecto-meter, OPM Optical Pwer Meter, Laser to trace the route

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication Engineering
  • at National University Of Computer And Emerging Sciences
  • December 2011

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Office Applications
Optical Transmission
Telecommunications
Team Leadership
Project Management
Team Leadership
Telecom Transmission MNS (Managed Network Services)
Microsoft Office
Operation Management
Financial Planning & Sourcing
Fleet Management
Project Management
Planning
Warehouse Management
Resource Management

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Expert
Urdu
Native Speaker

Memberships

Saudi Council of Engineering
  • Telecom Engineer
  • February 2014
Pakistan Engineering Council
  • Telecom Engineer
  • February 2012

Training and Certifications

F100 Line Maintenance (FLM) Expectations & Process Overview Course (Training)
Training Institute:
CIENA WBT
Date Attended:
January 2014
Duration:
3 hours
PMP TRAINING (Training)
Training Institute:
PMI-KPC
Date Attended:
May 2015
Duration:
35 hours
F200 Laser Safety and Fibre Cleaning (Training)
Training Institute:
CIENA WBT
Date Attended:
January 2014
Duration:
3 hours
T-412 5430 FLM course (Training)
Training Institute:
CIENA WBT
Date Attended:
January 2014
Duration:
3 hours

Hobbies

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