IT Project Director
Afiniti
Total years of experience :26 years, 9 Months
Working as project director for Afiniti’s global deployment team in the EMEA region.
● Plan and lead programs from start to completion for Global Deployments
● Supervise and mentor project managers, analysts and other staff globally
● Manage US based accounts for deployment and delivery
● Formulate, organize, coordinate inter-connected cross-project activities and teams
● Formulate reports to top management for visibly on programs and deployments status and schedule
● Gained good working knowledge of SI, BA/ETL & AI related to the Afiniti solution
Qadir Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a one-stop IT & Telecom Service & equipment Provider, Digital Media Marketing Creative Studio & Consulting house, all combined into one.
Responsible for C level relationship management
Worked as Project director for Warid Telecom Power infrastructure Project
Responsible for all Telecom Product & Services Bids and Proposal Submissions
Responsible for Qadir tech’s Bid or No-bid decision based on financial and technical feasibility
Provide consultancy to operators on Project Rollout, Network Upgrades and Operations(MS) planning
Responsible for Account management, driving customer strategy and C-level relationship management for Wateen Telecom Ltd. Wateen is the first and one of the largest 4G Wimax networks in the world. I still enjoy excellent C-level relationship at Wateen, along with relationships at all critical positions. I was responsible for sales, project delivery and Managed Services as a whole.
List of Key Achievements & Projects
Wateen 490 sites (Wimax) - Project delivered - Approx $45M
Wateen Managed Services - Delivered - Approx $34M (from 2008-2011)
Wateen Wimax CPE supply - Delivered - Approx 19M (from 2008-2011)
Key advisor to CEO and other C-Level Team
Managed to sustain Motorola as the single RAN vendor at Wateen (during my time)
successfully sold & ran World’s first Wimax network Managed Services for 3 consecutive years
TM (Technology Manager) heads the presales team and is responsible all Post & Pre Sales technical matters. I worked closely with the Project Director to drive project successfully, providing project support, end-to-end solution architecture and initiating/developing new sales. I was jointly responsible for Sales Targets, along with the Account Director.
I was also responsible for RFP response, technical bid preparation and bid negotiations.
List of Projects participated in, are as follows:
Warid Phase 6.1 Project Commissioned Approx 80 MUSD
Warid Phase 6.2 Project Won - Commissioned- Approx 350 MUSD
Warid Phase 6.3 Project Won - Commissioned - Approx 25 MUSD
Warid USF Project lost - Approx 16 MUSD
Key advisor to CTO and Technical Management
• Heading the Network Planning & Operations for country-wide Data & Transmission network (3.5 Million subs).
• Responsible for Bid preparation, contract negotiations, transmission network engineering and planning, integration, test plan preparation & design verification for my area of expertise.
• Working on quality (TQM / ISO 9001:2000) systems for PTML.
Project management & implementation of DSL/ATM project. This comprised of Ericsson’s ATM and Lucent’s Stinger DSLAM Network
• Marketing/Sales, designing (presales) and implementation of WAN solutions.
• Participating in tenders and making proposals.
• Implemented several satellite based WAN links for several Oil & Gas companies.
• Implemented countrywide access network for Pakistan Telecom Corp. Ltd (PTCL - PTT) & Paktel
• Designing and implementation of WAN solutions, mainly through PDL’s (Pak Datacom Ltd) fibre backbone and satellite bandwidth.
• Provided solutions and after sales support to customers. This company had a large customer base comprising mostly of Oil and Gas companies and ISPs.