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Project Manager Management

Location:
Spring, TX
Posted:
June 26, 2014

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RAFIQ AHMED

**** ****** ***** **** **.

Spring, TX 77379

832-***-****(C)

aceqtl@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Project Management consultant with experience in engineering, strategic planning, designing technical solutions, managing vendor relationships, budgeting. Distinguished for bringing together management, team members, cross-functional teams in a collaborative spirit for mission accomplishment.

Portfolio Management

Resource Planning

Risk Mitigation & Plan

Strategic planning & review

Project Engineering

Process Improvement

Program Budgeting

Managed Services

Turnkey Project Management

Training & Development

Quality Assurance

Technology rollouts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

D&S Consultants Inc. Eatontown, NJ August 2013 – April 2014

Rollout Manager

Managed Telecommunication project for the acceptance of Motorola land mobile radio system.

Successfully built and directed multiple teams to maximize performance for the successful delivery and execution of project plan as per contract.

Completed system acceptance, project plan, engineering design studies, acceptance test documents and deliverables.

Delivered training plan for the engineers, technicians and end users.

Hosting daily, weekly and monthly project status meetings, delivering status reports to the Program Director, General Supervisor.

TAIT COMMUNICATIONS, HOUSTON, TX JUNE 2010 – AUGUST 2013

Project Manager Systems Deployment

Project Manager of the engineering projects for end-to-end delivery of Telecommunication projects across continental Unites States for Energy, Utility and telecommunication clients.

Managed engineering, logistics, quality control, cost management, project management, implementation and operations.

Demonstrated communication and leadership skills in effectively managing multiple departments, overseeing internal employees, and supervising contractors/vendors.

Prioritization and coordination of broad scope of all project activities including engineering design, site acquisition and permitting, site construction, system commissioning, system rollout and optimization, closeout packages, process and procedure.

Took new solutions and products through the commercialization process after the solution has been developed and tested through Engineering.

Experience in Project budgets, cost and margin analysis, project administration, risk and issue management by risk identification, maintaining risk and issue logs, communicating issues and risks to the team and project board.

Experience working on the entire proposal process including RFPs, RFIs, RFQs, Statement of Work (SOW) and Method of Procedures (MOP). Worked across both internal (bid teams, engineering and operations) and external (customers and vendors) groups to ensure that Tait delivers profitable, customer-centric products and services.

Experience with the execution of a managed service offering and service delivery requirements.

Contract negotiations, managing the project change control process for issues impacting the quality, schedule or budget of the project by documenting change requests, securing approval for changes and documenting approved changes in accordance to project governance.

Assessment of customer training needs, providing in-house and on-site training to customer engineers and technicians.

Regulatory compliance, environmental requirements related to the project deployment.

Preparation and presentation of monthly and quarterly program/Project status briefings to Senior Management and Project Board. Collaborate with Stakeholders to clearly define program requirements and tasks necessary actions to accomplish these objectives.

ERICSSON, PLEASANTON, CA FEB 2010 – MAY 2010

Customer RF Project Manager

RF Project Manager managing rollout of end-to-end project in Northern California market for AT&T wireless.

Managed team of engineers, contractors for successful completion of project on time ensuring project meets agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) and specifications.

Forecast, project, budget and recourse planning for successful completion of project using PMO guidelines in compliance to company processes.

Presenting project progress, status, budget, and resource utilization reports to senior management.

NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS, IRVING, TX DEC 2004 – FEB 2010

Senior RF Specialist (Regional Technical Manager)

Successfully completed and delivered projects in North America and Caribbean Islands supporting AT&T wireless, T-Mobile, Cable & Wireless.

Successfully built and directed multiple teams to maximize performance in consistently delivering projects on time and within budget in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment. Oversaw all aspects of deployment and integration activities with an emphasis on project management, radio access network, transmission network, core network including project operations and sales support.

Served as Regional technical manager for Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana markets for the design and rollout of engineering projects for AT&T wireless, managing cross functional project teams for the successful project deliverables.

Lead all project plan development activities, including identification of phases, activities, tasks, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, schedules and assignment of resources with highest customer satisfaction with strong emphasis on Plan-do-check-act methodology.

Represented customers in Town hall meetings, Led Hurricane Katrina recovery operation.

Authored and implemented process flow for design verification, troubleshooting, and network’s

performance improvement initiatives. Implemented standard operating procedures & training initiatives increasing technical proficiency, productivity of the performance team, resulting in 100% mission success.

LCC INTERNATIONAL, INC., MCLEAN, VA JULY 2003 – DEC 2004

Senior RF Engineer

Managed project based Engineering & Performance teams for leading wireless consultancy firm. Capital projects included Cingular Wireless Northeast Regional Performance Enhancement Initiatives, Cingular Wireless Re-home Projects, Cingular Wireless and AT&T Wireless Merger Project, AT&T wireless Home Stretch and EDGE roll-out projects.

Delivered project requirements with primary focus on large-scale integration and technology rollouts for wireless carriers throughout USA.

Managed the milestone activities of project based and engineering services with full accountability to customer objectives, profitability, and team development.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Electronics Engineering

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification,

Microsoft Office tools training, MS Project, Coaching & Counseling



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