HANI AHMAD
Contacts: +971-*-********, +971********* (UAE)
Email: acd3bv@r.postjobfree.com
Remraam
Dubai Land
I am a skilled engineer with 11 years of experience in telecommunications
field; I am seeking a suitable challenging opportunity
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
V Extensive experience in wireless and telecommunication technologies
including microwave (PDH & SDH), optical communication, WDM technology
and IP technology.
V High project management skills including projects planning, execution,
monitoring and quality control.
V Proven leadership skills with ability to motivate teams to increase
productivity.
V Manage and advise both delivery and support teams
EXPERIENCE:
AIRCOM International- MENA office
MAY 2013 - PRESENT
Service & Products Delivery Consultant
Accountabilities:
< Supporting sales team by creating various use cases, presentations and
solutions
< Delivery, support and resolve escalated technical issues by the team
impacting customers.
< Managing SLA for the region.
< Manage technical resources in region to meet current and future
requirements.
< Problem management support to ensure root-cause analysis is conducted and
a corrective action plan is followed
< Ensuring that the team is meeting SLAs with quality, on time response to
customers
< Resourcing new projects and providing technical proposals including
diagrams and pricing
< Support account managers and sales department
< Project management for some projects in addition to delivery management
and presales assignemnts
< Provide customer and internal training for New products and releases as
IVD and CONNECT.
< Various planning tools migration, support and development including
CONNECT 8.1 and I- View Dimension 2.1
< Manage customer network capacity solutions along with network performance
solutions, network capacity forecast and management, issuing new plans to
the team to implement, supporting them migrate and assure customer
satisfaction.
< Provide and manage solution for customer network inventory, capacity
management, capacity forecast, automatic E2E service routing and
automatic E2E IP L3 service routing.
< Highlights
o Manage Data conversion process for seamless operation for
capacity planning tool (I-View Dimension)
o Manager Customer's Network capacity and provide solutions for
bottlenecks and allowing network upgrades
o Conversion of end to end data into I-View Dimension and CONNECT
and apply automatic routing for L1 and L3 TDM and IP networks.
o Analyse network performance and link budget using CONNECT
o 2G, 3G and LTE traffic forecast in actual networks.
o Provide Training for various products of Aircom international.
Projects:
< Transmission Planning Tools Migration for NEDJMA - Algeria, 3 Months
Manage Data Migration for Nedjma Algeria for Network capacity tool IVD
< Transmission Planning Tools Migration for ZAIN - Saudi Arabia, 3 Months
Manage Data Migration for Nedjma Algeria for Network capacity tool IVD
< Transmission Planning Tools Migration for ZAIN - Iraq, 3 Months
Manage Data Migration for Nedjma Algeria for Network capacity tool IVD
< Spectrum Measurement - ZAIN Iraq, 2 Months
< Planning Tools Training - ZAIN Iraq
AIRCOM International- MENA office
OCT 2011 - MAY 2013
Senior Transmission Consultant
Accountabilities:
< Full end to end telecom transmission network design and optimization
including issuing detailed network descriptions (as diagrams and
schematics) showing the proposed Core and Access network, including
configuration, capacity and functionality of each network element in
the network.
< Full network capacity planning and optimization including analysing
inter-node connections and the capacity requirements between all nodes
< Issuing microwave frequency plans optimized for best performance and
capacity
< Perform all required changes to the existing microwave equipment and
parameters to increase the total network availability and minimize the
interference (e.g. TX Power, Dish Sizes, Antenna heights etc
< Provide all redundancy plans and detail how resilience will be built
into the network so that the failure on any network element or links
will not seriously affect the network.
< Provide and analyse internationally acceptable KPI indicators and
corresponding target values for the hall network.
< Provide all required recommendations on processes and procedures
related to running, operating and maintaining the transmission network
< Analysis of capacity plans & utilization for GSM, 3G, CDMA and LTE as
well as microwave link budget and network plans using PATHLOSS 4.0,
PATHLOSS 5.0 and CONNECT 8.1 AND I-View dimension
< Ensure the alignment of existing frequency plans with corresponding ITU
recommendations and ensuring the accuracy of budget calculations.
< Enhance network performance by minimizing and eliminating network
interference and extra power.
< Optimization of transmission, data analysis, creation of proper links
database.
< Perform many presales tasks as assisting sales team, by preparing &
reviewing detailed request for Proposals/Information that involved
thorough knowledge of all the existing range of products to propose
a solution based on the client's current infrastructure and requirements.
< Discussing with clients to understand their current requirements and
preparing customized solutions as per these requirements.
< Maintaining key relationship with partners by product training and
updating them with the current market trends to properly equip them
to sell better and improve margins.
< Highlights
o Providing full and comprehensive audit for telecom transmission
networks.
o Providing full network optimization for all KPIs to improve
network quality and performance.
o Provide high level and low level transmission designs in terms
of link budget, performance, capacity and many other parameters
to provide high quality top class transmission network.
Projects:
< Transmission network Audit for ZAIN - Saudi Arabia, 1 Month:
o Auditing and recommendations for improvement of transmission
network KPIs.
< Optimization for SUDATEL Telecom Network, 6 Months:
o Involved in optimization and improvement of transmission network
KPIs.
< Transmission network Audit for ZAIN - Kuwait, 3 Months:
o Auditing and recommendations for improvement of transmission
network KPIs.
< Transmission network Audit and Optimization for ETISALAT - UAE, 6 Months:
o Auditing and recommendations for improvement of transmission
network KPIs.
Huawei Technologies Ltd, Jordan
MAR 2010 - JUN 2011
Senior Network Engineer
Accountabilities:
< Prepare quotations in according to company policies and propose the
desired recommendations to the department Manager.
< Prepare weekly reports for multiple activities including the status of
proposals and your achievements.
< Prepare upcoming plans for future activities in line with department
plans.
< Maintain good relationships with our clients to ensure a prompt and
reliable service to them.
< Helping sales executives in making the technical presentations of the
various products.
< Train the staff on the releases of the new products.
< Train the channel partners on the use of the firm's products & improving
the sales.
< Organize demonstrations of the product to target the sales opportunities.
< Provide after sale care to clients regarding optical equipment.
< Revise HLD/ LLD for projects and products and verify it from headquarter.
< Preparation of DN & MR based on given solutions.
< Focus on quality management & control as well as quality assurance for
various transmission projects.
< Follow up and coordinate with sub-contractors according to project
implementation plans.
< Tracking & recording installation materials with subcontractors, customer
and warehouse.
Project:
< Implementation UAE national new WDM backbone, 12 Months:
o Implementation of DU OTN backbone.
DAMAMAX
JAN 2009 - MAR 2010
Telecom & Transmission Supervisor
Accountabilities:
< Improvement of network KPIs for flawless transmission network and higher
availability.
< Planning transmission TDM & Ethernet transport networks (PDH, SDH, NGSDH
and IP) based on department 's KPIs as well as defining transmission
topology & traffic nodes for network's nominal plan and setting up
corresponding IP and VLAN plans.
< Set up transmission network planning guidelines & report templates
besides preparing MW frequency application documents, application for
frequency license to regulator.
< Analyze interface & calculated availability based on requirements
(rain/equipment availability objectives).
< Conduct reviews & discussed transmission plans provided by suppliers.
< Plan E2E circuit for E1/E3/STM1, 4, 16, 64 & IP (FE, GE and 10 GE)
circuits as well as IP based transmission including QOS, ELP, EPLAN,
EVPL, EVPLAN.
< Calculate link budget using transmission tool & provided link parameters
like antennas height, dish size, link diversity, outage time.
< Prepare technical proposals to respond to RFP/RFQ/ tenders of
transmission and update MW equipment forecast BOQ.
< Coordinate with suppliers according to equipment technical specifications
and follow up on planning issues with transmission suppliers.
< Monitor milestones/ issues reported by sub-contractors/ site supervisors
and escalate critical issues to the senior management.
< Highlights
o Rollout & integration of 50 high performance MW links inside
Khartoum.
Project:
< Implementation of DAMAMAX WIMAX network in Khartoum, 12 Months:
o Monitored implementation of DAMAMAX transmission network.
Motorola, Saudi Arabia
MAR 2008 - JAN 2009
Senior Transmission Engineer
Accountabilities:
< Define network topologies and major nodes, estimate network size and
capability using PL 4.0
< Plan E2E circuit for E1/E3/STM1 & IP (FE, GE) Circuits.
< Calculate the link budget using the transmission tool and Provide link's
parameters including antennas height, dish size, link diversity ...etc.
< Plan and design of transmission and transport networks (PDH, SDH and IP).
< Optimization to achieve higher availability, minimize the outages,
stabilize the network and providing support for transmission design
validation.
< Provide solutions and recommendations to improve the performance and to
stabilize transmission network.
< Coordinate with suppliers according to equipment technical specifications
and follow up on planning issues with transmission suppliers.
< Capacity planning and MUX design "V-node/ U-node".
< Highlights
o Rollout & integration of around 500 high performance links
inside Medina and TABOUK.
Project:
< Implementation of 2G, 3G network in Medina region, 4 Months
< Implementation of 2G, 3G network in TABOUK region, 4 Months
Previous Jobs in Brief
< Transmission Planning Engineer, UMNIAH, Jordan.
o Project - UMNIAH phase 3,4 & WIMAX planning and roll out
< TAC2 Engineer, Siemens AG, Jordan.
o Project - ZAIN Network Maintenance
< System Engineer, CISCOM, Jordan.
o Project - JEPCO transmission network optimization
o Project - ASIACELL transmission network design
o Project - Xpress transmission network design
Educational
< Bachelor Degree (Electrical Engineering/ Telecommunication), MUTAH
University, 2003
< Trainings:
o Project Management Professional (PMP), Intrinsic - Amman, 2010
o Huawei RTN 620 Training, SHENZIN - CHINA, 2009
o Huawei Transmission Planning Training, SHENZIN - CHINA, 2009
o Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)-TELEPROBE, 2008
o NEC Digital Microwave Systems "PASOLINK", CAIRO - EGYPT, 2005
o CDMA BSS6600 Engineering Training, SHENZIN - CHINA, 2004
o Cellular Networks Traffic Planning & R.F design, AMMAN - JORDAN,
2004
o GSM Cellular System, AMMAN - JORDAN, 2004
Personal Details
Date of Birth: 25th May, 1980
Languages Known: English & Arabic
References: Available upon Request
Hobbies: Sports, Chess and Reading