Wellington Muzengeza, Implementation Manager - SAQ

Wellington Muzengeza

Implementation Manager - SAQ

Ericsson

Location
Zimbabwe
Education
Master's degree, Regional And Urban Planning
Experience
13 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 7 Months

Implementation Manager - SAQ at Ericsson
  • South Africa
  • January 2017 to December 2018

• Roll Out and Implementation
• Customer interface
• Subcontractor & Vendor Management
• Construction Supervision
• Site Quality Evaluation
• Manage site leasing and acquisition agreements for the installation of telecommunications infrastructure at multiple sites.
• Report the status of projects to clients, subcontractors, and other involved parties

Site Acquisition Manager - Roll Out at Huawei
  • South Africa
  • September 2014 to December 2017

Site Acquisition for the deployment of BTS Telecommunications Infrastructure on the MTN Bulk PO Project (South Africa)
FTK Greenfield New Site Builds
3rd party NSB Greefield
3rd party Micro Wave Tx
FTTS
TE - MW & RF
Technical Site Surveys (TSS)
Temp solutions design
Roll Out and Implementation
Customer interface
Subcontractor & Vendor Management
Construction Supervision

Telecommunications Site Acquisition Manager at Sanctum SA (Pty) Ltd
  • South Africa
  • September 2010 to October 2014

Manage planning to ensure that the selected sites meet the Client Roll out plan from initial site identification, to Lease Negotiations, Permitting to implementation
• Leading role in creating the Roll out plan forr infrastructure, driving and coordinating the pace of execution
• To develop, promote and manage the effective planning of new regions across South Africa
• Contribution to the Planning Departments strategic development
Site Acquisition & Project Management:
• Ensure that the activities of the Department are undertaken in accordance with the governance, policy and regulatory frameworks of clients
• Develop and promote the internal and external profile of the Department, ensuring effective communication channels and appropriate interaction with staff and other stakeholders such as Local Authorities, permitting Contractors
• Manage all the Site Acquisition processes, permitting processes, lease negotiations, liaising with local authorities and logistics
• Manage monthly rentals negotiations and annual escalations amount with Property Team
• Manage Permitting Process, permitting policies and procedures to develop alternatives to improve and expedite time frames
• Liaison with customers, sub-contractors, consultants, engineers and town planners and overseeing permit applications with subcontractors
• Assist Contractors in meetings with local authorities
• Manage forecasting schedules of project roll out, endeavour to reduce permitting turnaround time
• Meeting deadlines and on time delivery of project goals for the planned network roll-out
• Compilation of various reports and customer documentation, into format that is clear and presentable to Management
• Visiting site locations when required
Liaise with councils and governmental institutions on policy procedures, time frames and approvals
• Attend weekly meetings with radio planning and implementation, daily interaction with these departments on developments

Project Manager - Urban & Regional Planning at Afrinetworks Consulting
  • South Africa
  • September 2007 to October 2010

Preparing the local level development plans for new office centre openings to achieve growth targets
Building a pipeline of potential new office centre locations and acquisition targets
Preparing the business cases and financial models to evaluate the commercial feasibility of each new opportunity
Negotiating agreements with property owners through a combination of partnerships, investments, merger & acquisitions and franchising transactions
Compiling intelligence on competitor performance and analysing customer demand
Building strong relationships with property owners, developers, investors and real estate brokers
Managing the rent review and renewal of existing leases

Valuer at ZB Building Society
  • Zimbabwe
  • May 2005 to July 2007

Advising the Building Society(Mortgage Financier) on all valuation issues
• Valuation of all collateral in the form of immovable property for the purposes of
• lending in accordance with the provisions of the Building Societies Act
• Valuation of Works - in - Progress.
• Computations of the cost of construction using building plans for all proposed
• building works
• Building Control:- Inspection of land to determine suitability for building
• Monitoring adherence to building by-laws and town planning provisions for all
• ongoing construction projects financed through mortgage loans.
• Approval of disbursements of funds at various stages of construction upon
• inspection.
• Valuation Research
• Preparation of Valuation budgets
• Compilation of monthly and quarterly reports on developments in the property
• market in relation to changes in building costs, rental and market values of
• immovable properties.
• Maintaining a systematic filing system for Valuation records and schedules of reports
• Property Administrator
• Management of all Society properties;-Tenant and landlord liaison
• Lease Administration - Sectional Title Administration
• Property maintenance:-Preparation of job specifications, drawing tendering methods
• and procedures for each job, recommending invoices of work done for
• payment, preparation of maintenance programmes

Education

Master's degree, Regional And Urban Planning
  • at University Of Zimbabwe
  • August 2021

Construction and Telco Infrastructure Deployment Techniques

Bachelor's degree, Regional and Urban Planning
  • at University Of Zimbabwe
  • April 2005

Regional and Urban Planning

Specialties & Skills

Languages

English
Expert

Hobbies

  • Reading/writing