Yara Ali, Head Of North&South Europe and LAM region ODM

Yara Ali

Head Of North&South Europe and LAM region ODM

Orange

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications & Electronics Engineering Major, Department of Telecommunications
Experience
7 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :7 years, 1 Months

Head Of North&South Europe and LAM region ODM at Orange
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2013 to December 2013

- Heading Service implementation team of 11 ODMs managing all networks services implementation of North& South and LAM region Customers along with some Diamond customers and critical projects.
- Develop resources and team members to perform effectively and efficiently including recruiting team members.
- Provide strong leadership to the staff members in order to be able to manager their performance.
- Monitor and measure KPIs of the team and ensure delivery of all RFCs as per agreed SLA with the customer.
- Act as second escalation point in service transition.
- Represents the team in the customer meetings and service reviews.
- Define clear SMART goals, objectives and career development plans to all team members, and responsible for the team performance management.
- Schedule staff training, leaves requests, rosters and fulfill overall staff administrative requirements.
- Accountable on the team member's performance and quality of work in order to enhance the global management performance for the team.
- Coach the team to assess, develop & plan implementation schedules to ensure the best service quality offered while ensuring the team is well equipped with all the basic knowledge & technical skills required needed to perform tasks assigned.
- Ensure that the team meets or exceeds the targets set by the management with regards to customer satisfaction.
- Ensure the proactive Order management of the team work to reduce escalations and performance issues.

Team Leaders /Supervisors at Orange
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2013 to April 2013

-Handling the overall Team Performance.
-Analyzing the performance and come up with solutions to strength the weakness and improve the overall performance.
-Attending meetings with the QCMs discussing the performance.
-Support Team members work wise or personal issues

Senior Order Delivery Manager at Orange Buisness Services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2010 to December 2012

-Accountable for managing all functions in the Service Transition chain, from the customer sign off of the RFQ until close of the RFC and handover to the operation teams as per pre-defined milestones.
-Accountable for the successful delivery, on time and right first time within or below Budget as agreed with the customers headquarter.
- Ensuring that the Service Transition processes are fully applied and no deviation is observed unless authorized
- Remains responsible for customer communication and maintain and provide status reports to the customer and management team.
-Commit to overall team goals set by the management team..
-Management of Expedite Orders.
- Ensure correct billing is triggered on time to the customer once service acceptance has been agreed with the customer.
*Extra Task:
-Team Leader and Manager assistant and backing up members work wise or personal issues.

Solution Delivery Manager at Orange Business Services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2006 to December 2009

-Manage Projects for an end-to-end ownership for all services ordered from customers based in Nordics region and Greece.
-Accountable for On-Time delivery of all services within or below Budget as agreed with the customers headquarter.
-Effective management of all customer orders from the order submission date to the handover to the operation.

Escalation Manager SPOC at Orange Buisness Services
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2007 to December 2008

- Handling the upcoming Escalations, raised by customers or Project team and work to solve it with shortest time
- Managed to minimize the no of escalations and keep it for a while with Zero Escalation
-Handling expedite requests from the customer for specific sites or services requested

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications & Electronics Engineering Major, Department of Telecommunications
  • at Faculty of Engineering, HELWAN University
  • May 2005

-Telecommunications & Electronics Engineering Major, Department of Telecommunications -Grade of last year : Good -Overall grade : Good -Date of graduation : May 2005 -Grade of project : Excellent • High School degree : -Thanweya Amma, El-Nozha Language School

Specialties & Skills

Customer Service
Managing High Performance Teams
project managemnet
Pre sales Technical Support
Escalation Management
Communication skills
Windows XP, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet
Workk with minimum supervision.&Work within a team on individually.
Time and Stress Management

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
German
Beginner

Training and Certifications

CCNA (Training)
Training Institute:
CUHTC
Date Attended:
July 2008
SITA (Training)
Training Institute:
ATM Networks and DSL Config and troubleshooting
Date Attended:
February 2010
PMP (Training)
Training Institute:
Jopitar
Date Attended:
May 2009
ITIL (Training)
Training Institute:
SITA
Date Attended:
November 2009
Fundamentals and management of GSM and UMTS Networks (Training)
Training Institute:
CUHTC
Date Attended:
January 2006
-Fundamentals of cellular communication & CDMA Standard (Training)
Training Institute:
NTI
Date Attended:
March 2006
Satisfaction through Communication (Training)
Training Institute:
SITA
Date Attended:
May 2007
Negotiation Skills (Training)
Training Institute:
IMI
Date Attended:
May 2007
- Operation & the maintenance of production studios and video tape (Training)
Training Institute:
Radio & T.V Building
Date Attended:
August 2001
-BBasic fundamentals of micro waves & satellite communication. (Training)
Training Institute:
Satellite station
Date Attended:
July 2002
Voice Over IP (Training)
Training Institute:
NTI
Date Attended:
September 2008
Stress and Time managment (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
June 2008

Hobbies

  • Swimming, Reading ,Travelling