Zakaria Bouchfar, Service Operations Manager

Zakaria Bouchfar

Service Operations Manager

Huawei Technologies

Location
Morocco - Casablanca
Education
Master's degree, Electricity, Electronics & Communications
Experience
13 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 8 Months

Service Operations Manager at Huawei Technologies
  • Morocco - Casablanca
  • My current job since December 2014

• Led Digital transformation of operations and processes by introducing best practices, influencing mindsets, and building a scalable digital platform, using robotic processes automation (RPA) tools.
• Succeeded two Knowledge Certifications of “Digital Maturity & Transformation” and “Digital Business Ecosystems”, Foundation Level, from TM Forum.
• Led the automation as a key strategy established for successful operations. The purpose is to optimize the networks monitoring (under scope) by automating the manual repetitive tasks, robotizing the frequent reports, adopting the “Zero Touch” and “DIY” (Do It Yourself) strategy and centralizing the dashboards “Online” using analytic tools… to reduce the human mistakes, meet the SLAs, improve the efficiency, reduce the escalations and improve the customer satisfaction.
• Mentored the teams by defining the most important operational and organizational levers to pull to thrive in an Automation-First mindset and enhance team’s enthusiasm for the automation.

• Consulting projects: GNOC Ivory Coast + Senegal

• Most challenges:
- People mindset towards Digital Transformation
- Robotic processes automation complexity

Delivery Project Manager at AL WADY CONSEILS
  • Mauritania
  • February 2011 to December 2014

Set and managed the survey and quotation for a 1700 km inter urban fiber optic cable. The Mauritanian Government was the project owner. In order to increase the geographic accessibility to broadband networks and reduce the cost of communications services, Mauritania has engaged in the West African Regional Communications Infrastructure Program - WARCIP - initiated by the World Bank.

Engineer | Broadcasting Dept. at SOCIETE NATIONALE DE RADIODIFFUSION ET DE TELEVISION
  • Morocco - Rabat
  • October 2010 to January 2011

Developed an integrated circuit system to control TV/FM Broadcasting stations remotely. Set a prototype board using micro-controllers (Microchip® Technology) to constantly collect information from different sensors, encapsulate them in Ethernet frames, and forward alerts (in case) through GPRS network to a centralized platform.

Education

Master's degree, Electricity, Electronics & Communications
  • at Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs
  • July 2010

My notable internship project: Pre-sales analysis for Meditel (current Orange Morocco) to implement FTTx technology. My study targeted clients and end users in the administrative districts and industrial zones of Casablanca (Casa Near Shore, Casa Marina, Casa Finance City...) and taken into consideration the various models available (GPON in particular) and deduces the estimated benefits.

Bachelor's degree, MATHS AND PHYSICS
  • at LYCEE OMAR IBN ALKHATTAB
  • June 2007

CLASSES PREPA MATHS AND PHYSICS

Specialties & Skills

Telecommunications
Cable Management
Workflow Analysis
Project Management
Multi site Management
NETWORKING
AUTOMATION
CONSULTING
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
CUSTOMER SATISFACTION
CUSTOMER SERVICE
DUE DILIGENCE

Social Profiles

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Expert

Memberships

EMInov Club rewarding innovation among students
  • Co-founder and sponsors hunter
  • November 2008

Training and Certifications

TM Forum Digital Business Ecosystems Foundation Level (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2018
TM Forum Digital Maturity & Transformation Foundation Level (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2018