Project Manager Management

AHMED SAEED, PMP, B.Sc Electrical Engineering

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Objective:

Want to contribute to the projects and the teams to the best of my

abilities using my project management, construction management and

Implementation management experience, skills and strategies.

Highlights of Qualifications:

. Extensive Implementation and project management experience on numerous

projects involving multiple and complex deliverables.

. PM experience on Telecom and engineering projects with vendors like

Nokia and Ericsson.

. Managed HSPA & LTE rollout and new site build projects.

. Managed implementation of Capacity Augmentation projects ( carrier

adds, sector split, sec add, CE adds, DL power upgrades ),

densification (microcells additions), Hotspots, IBS, NW augmentation

and system integration projects

. Experience on 2G/3G/4G/LTE/VoIP besides experience of IT projects

including, SDLC, Data warehousing, IPTV and First Office application

projects using PMI, Agile, XP and Scrum methodologies / techniques

. Program management experience & Process analysis, development and

reengineering experience.

. Experience in site selection (based on geotechnical analysis / proctor

value), lease negotiations, civil constructions, Installation,

commissioning and integration projects involving Rooftop cell sites,

macro and micro sites including implementation and optimization of in

building wireless solutions on Airports, Arenas and high rise

buildings and shopping malls etc.

. Experience of managing backhaul projects, involving deployment of

Fibre rings, MW hops, IP/MLS ATM Transport.

. Experience of running IP Telephony projects involving IVR Servers,

Billing platforms etc.

. Experience of installation, commissioning, expansions and Integration

of BTS, BSC and RNC.

. Knowledge on: Building HVAC, cooling, heating, and related controls

system, CCTV, security systems, and life safety systems

. Familiar with soft Switches, MGWs, Sigtran, DNS servers, Switches,

Routers, IP/MPLS, ATM, etc and protocols Like SS7, FTP,SMTP SIP, SIP

IVR H323, & VoIP. I also have understanding and knowledge of Core

Networks (Cs & PS Nodes, VAS, RNCs, and BSCs, media GW, switches, EPC,

MMEs and MSC servers).

Tools: experience with Microsoft: Office, Project, Visio; Siebel; .NET,

Visual Basic, Netact, Citrix, Netcool, VSWR equipment, iBWave, RF design

tools etc.

Tools for Project Management: MS Project, Remedy, pTrack, Rollo, Epm, NOLS,

Site handler, SRM, MUS, Clarity, SAP & Problem solving and decision making

tools, Monte Carlo analysis, NPV etc

Processes: Project Management Methodology, PMBOK, Earned Value Management

System (EVMS), e-TOM & ITIL

EDUCATION:

- B.Sc Electrical Engineering from University of Engineering

and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan Year 1992 ( specialization

in Electronics & Communication)

- Diploma in Telecom Circuit Designing from NTG Clarity

Networks, Toronto, Canada.

- Masters of Engineering (completed the course work only from

Concordia University, Montreal)

- Engineering and Business Management Courses from Centre of

Advanced Studies in engineering.

ADDITIONAL TRAININGS / AFFILIATIONS

-PMP (483899) Certification from PMI USA (775367)

- Training Certificate in Clarity and Props-C from Ericsson, UNIX and Cisco

from Network Solutions.

- Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and C language certificate from

UET.

- Interference Management online Training and Continuous Improvement

Program (CIP) introductory training.

- Cost Management and Quality Management trainings from Nokia Siemens

Networks and Ericsson.

- Multi-site project management online training from Nokia.

- Clarity, SAP, SRM, PROPS-C online accredited trainings from Ericsson.

- Acquisition regulations, Quality Assurance, Inventory Management, and

Procurement Procedures, short courses / seminars in Ericsson.

- Best Performance and Outstanding Customer Care Awards from Verisign, USA

- Member of IEEE, PMI IT & Telecom SIG (7297445)

- Member Engineering Council (PEC)

- Member PMI Toronto Chapter

CAREER HISTORY:

Project Manager / Implementation manager on Multiple Ericsson Projects,

Toronto Jan, 2010 - Mar, 2013

Worked on HSPA and LTE NW rollouts, worked on MW and new site build

projects involving civil works, Telecom equipment / shelter deployments,

installation and commissioning of nodeB and eNodeB, OSS deployment

projects, expansions and upgrades, MW integrations and troubleshooting.

Used to make sure that teams are following updated MOPs and all safety

drills and procedures. Used to conduct lessons learnt exercises and make

sure the MOPs are updated and all teams are on board and on same page. Used

to take care of post integration optimizations. I would go through

Installation/provisioning work orders before scheduling tasks, confirm

Radio Network designs and civil work orders are in line with scripts and

MOPs for all planned activities. Try new configurations as per customer

request and make sure they are supported by latest upgrades and sw levels

and share the results with R&D & NPI (New product Intro teams). Conducted

conference calls with Global support centre teams, civil teams, scripting

and NPI teams. Among various accounts I was dealing with included Rogers,

Tbaytel, MTS, and Mobilicity etc. Projects that I was involved with were

WCDMA/LTE/WiMAX technologies. Involved in site acquisition, lease

negotiations, Landlord/building management relationship management etc. I

was able successfully do MW transmission project, besides RF cell sites on

(Rooftop & Greenfields, In-building solutions involving all types of DAS. I

managed numerous projects including new build sites and existing sites

where we rolled out LTE and WCDMA, worked on carrier adds capacity and NW

Augmentation projects. This included end to end delivery as per customer

requirements/MSA; managed Ericsson service providers, and achieved customer

satisfaction by managing relationship after delivering quality projects.

- Project Implementation manager on Rogers LTE rollout. Part of PMO team

which deployed 2000 eNodeBs in one year. It was a very fast paced

project of deployment of new sites on existing, live networks and new

builds.

- Worked on the MW part of the NW rollout and successfully completed

many transmission projects including MW hops, MW hub sites, and we

were mainly using Ericsson Minilink.

- PM for National IP Schema change, NW Health improvement project and

reparenting projects of Rogers, managed CE Additions besides Software

related projects for Rogers Central, Thunder Bay telecom. The scope

includes in building sites also where we connect the Node B and eNode

B sites to new and existing DAS(MIMO, SIMO, SISO), RF Cables and

connectors PIM testing etc.

- Contributed remotely to power line projects where we were putting

NodeBs on street poles and using electric poles for Antennas and RBS

installations.

- Expert in dealing with landlords, building managements, site

acquisition management team and RF teams for selecting site

candidates, getting them qualified / validated from RF team and

completing other milestones and requirements for successful delivery

of cell sites.

- Worked as PM on all In-building solutions, successfully implemented

HSPA and LTE inside Rogers centre, Pearson Airport, TD Towers, and Air

Canada centre. I had to review floor plans, site surveys, pictures,

cable routing, Final cellular design, RND, Transmission design, call

and data testing, review propagation maps, arrange commissioning and

Integration and post integration optimisation etc. and send all

reports

- Worked as a PM / IM on Rogers OSS upgrade projects, Mobilicity project

OSS deployment during their 3G NW rollout, National GSM Rehoming in PM

/ IM perspective, BSC decommissioning, BSC expansions

- Getting all the OSS scripts, getting the sites created / defined in

OSS, from teams in Dallas was part of the routine.

- Worked on New sites builds and carrier adds and reparenting for

Tbaytel as an IM besides working as Regional lead and IM for Hotspots,

in building solutions for Rogers and Tbaytel HSPA & few other Rogers

top priority projects including development and testing of first

office applications (FOA).

- Oversee the entire deployment activities of General contractors / ASP

s.

- Schedule work with Ericsson PMO and the customer.

- Used to report projects status to Ericsson PMO and CU on daily and

weekly basis.

- Mentored new hires including newly inducted PMs, Implementation

managers & PC s

Project Manager, Parsons (Wind Mobile 3G NW Rollout), Toronto

Feb, 09 till Jan, 10

Managed this project from end to end on behalf of Parsons and successfully

deployed around 200 green field and roof top sites as per the agreed scope,

design, and quality. Being PM I was dealing with site acquisition manager

to discuss lease agreements progress on RF selected and validated sites.

Check on the progress of LOS reports besides managing construction managers

and discussing with them the bid walks and milestone reports, besides I

would also go myself on few bid walks and final punch walks for

acceptances. Successfully managed contracts and vendor relations, customer

expectations and requirement gathering, A & E companies work flow and

issues, etc. Worked closely with logistics to deliver Nokia equipment,

steel and other important material for building sites as per NTP forecast

dates. Successfully managed resources using resource levelling and team

building. Used to assist on RFP s for new projects

Telecom Consultant, Network Implementation, Rogers Wireless, Brampton,

Canada Feb 08 - Sep 09

Worked with the Rogers wireless Network Implementation group under PMO, I

managed the implementation of Microwave Transmission network for new and

existing cell sites. The assignment involved working with the respective

group and the vendors to make sure that the new and existing MW hops are

designed, built and upgraded within the timeline and delivery dates as

reflected / forecasted in project management database. Assisted Ericsson

counter parts and provided them the work orders, planning specs, Radio NW

designs, and other inputs. Completed entire MW NW and managed cutovers to

Fibre rings. The MW we build used to carry traffic loads of an OC3 and in

few cases dual OC3 in a different polarity. I was actively involved in

Transmission NW Designing and also worked closely with ransmission

engineering group. . During this project we completed numerous clusters and

replaced ATM nodes with IP nodes.

Program Manager / Regional Project Manager, NSN Feb 06 - Feb 08

Worked with NSN as PM and Program manager and lead cross functional teams

towards successful launch of Telenor GSM / GPRS. These rollout projects

involved RAN part where we rolled out over 6000 BTS sites, Core nodes

including packet core and circuit switched core nodes, worked with all org

levels and cross functional groups including network operations,

Engineering, Procurement, Real estate and internal project management

teams, and the external vendors. Besides carrying out the multi-site

projects of building new BTS sites and putting them into commercial

operation, managed the out sourced Transport work including Fiber optics,

Microwave/radio links, Nokia Siemens BTS Swaps, Network expansions and O&M

teams in their day to day operations, GPRS / EDGE Implementation teams and

also assisted the system integration teams for VAS, emergency response

contact centers interconnection with access and core networks, and

supporting the Client during IP TV service launch. As Program manager I was

monitoring program KPI for project financials like ROI, present value etc

and implemented balanced score cards for performance management.

. Management of both internal and external teams including site

acquisition, geo techs, construction managers, vendors etc during

initiation, planning and execution phases of numerous projects for

timely project deliverables. This included working with the Customer

Unit, Design and Engineering, Regional contractors as well as NSN

integration engineers.

. Identify any cost over runs and budget issues to other zone managers,

identify, monitor and log all risks likely to encounter and strategy

to deal with them in order to mitigate those.

. Managed complete site acquisition process requiring SAR, TSSR and

lease agreements, RFDS, site feasibility/site plans besides site

acceptance testing after construction by ensuring quality and

performance improvement.Managed complete construction process

. Coordinate with Construction managers, Procurement teams and assist

them in material planning, sourcing issues, and assist teams on legal

issues to manage vendors and suppliers as per their contracts terms.

. Managed distantly located teams and culturally diverse project teams.

. Planned and executed all in building projects in 5 star hotels,

Airports and arenas for better coverage and NW optimization. This

involved RF surveys, approvals of Final cellular designs, managing

civil works and cable routing for DAS, Combiners, Cables/jumpers PIM

testing, VSWR / optimization and parameter adjustments installed and

extending the Cellular coverage through repeaters and BTS

installations. This also included monitoring and optimization of RSSI

and other parameter adjustments. Use of proper tools and appropriate

In-building solution for the focus.

. Carried out a feasibility study over the geographic location

identification and resolution for wireless emergency calls

corresponding to cellular towers.

. Forecasting major milestones in Rollo, e-PM / NOLS and update on

regular basis with all documents including SAR/TSSR, site folders for

tracking/estimation of figures for CMPro, inventory database etc in

order to keep the Capex and Opex below the set up baselines.

. Ensure that the other PMs are clear on scope and their project targets

in the Region are met in terms of progress and cost by using global

tools for cost management for professionals, exercised cost control

strategies in accordance with cost baseline, business process

automation and PM best practices. I also implemented quality

management plan and ensured SQI below the threshold limit and reward

the teams with best site folders, best SQI and less reworks. I also

used to give guidance to teams on Quality standards with emphasis on

quality planning, assurance and control in order to avoid reworks and

keep CAPEX & OPEX within budget limits, in this regard I took

initiatives like resource leveling and optimum utilization during

resource allocation based on best practices and feedback of Steering

committee meetings with senior management

. Mentored other project managers and team members and advised them on

career development

Project Manager, Flash Horizon Inc. Mississauga, Canada May, 02-to-

Nov, 05

Flash Horizon used to manufacture VoIP Gateways, bundle them up with their

in house customised sw solutions, dimension and deploy for their worldwide

customers.

. Managed complete SDLC from requirement gathering, high level and

detailed design approvals, customer final acceptance tastings,

deployments, and maintenance. This included for Soft switches, call

shop softwares, billing system etc

. Worked with OEM s for customization of solutions and products.

. Responsibilities included managing deployment of VoIP Equipment and

platforms for Clients, dealing with prototypes, designs, programming

challenges, testing and debugging / troubleshoot work around, besides

installation/commissioning of IP Switches for customer, data

warehousing, network implementation, QA testing and Network management

system setup. Other responsibilities included development and

execution of the test cases, documentation and interface with the

vendors and the developers on defects and performance testing of

various software based solutions by benchmarking & running scripts etc

My job also included finding out the exact business need,

designing/auditing business processes and also project management

processes and methodologies. This being a non structured PMO so we

implemented various Project management processes and best practices

for smooth functioning and implemented change management process to

avoid cost over runs & scope creep.

. Among various projects that I executed in Flash Horizon included

building new POPs for deployment of Cisco 5350, 5400 switches for call

processing and long distance solutions for Interconnection with

telecom operators for Least Cost Routing, testing and commissioning of

routes. I also carried out the implementation of e911 service for

residential customers connected through VoIP network for which i did

the overall planning in order to make sure the service is available

while customer is at its designated address and in case if he moves to

a new location he is immediately prompted to update his new location

through web access. In all these projects proper resource planning,

work break down to activity and work package level, scheduling and

effective communication management plans along with risk management

plans was the key to the successful delivery of these projects.

. Managed the relations between R&D and customers during development and

customization of various VoIP and telecom products like Call shops,

soft switches, and IP PBX and telecom dialers for alternate routing.

Business Process Analyst, NTG Clarity Networks, Toronto, Oct

2000-to- Apr 2002

NTG provides OSS solutions to service providers and large enterprise

networks. It has its own product called NTS for Customer Relations, Network

Operations, Planning, Asset Management, and Field Operations. My experience

includes following:Performed UAT on Customer applications, this included

developing some of the test cases and interfaces with the developers on

bugs besides assisting teams as business analyst during development of

middleware/EAI. I Interacted with NTG R & D during their assistance in

customization and features add

- Team member of Service Order Delivery Process Team for Allstream, Barrie,

Canada where I was involved in network utilization by grooming, migrations

and conducting physical audits besides experience working with tools on

centralized network inventory management.

Engineer & Team Lead, Rikans International, Lahore, Pakistan

May 1997 - June 2000

Rikans was project consultants for various Telecom, HVAC and Energy

production turnkey projects for government, hospitals, Shopping Malls and

other consumers. The projects were multi dimensional and were based on

customer requirements. As an Engineer and a project lead I was supposed to

work closely with site acquisition teams, construction managers, civil and

telecom engineers, i worked closely with design and testing teams also

reviewing their schedules, verifying scope, allocating resources and

delivering milestones as per PM Best practices etc. The responsibilities

also included participating in bidding and pre-qualifications besides

working on Wi-Fi and LAN/WAN solutions. Few of the projects were mission

critical as well.

Project Lead, Electronics Base Workshop, Lahore, Pakistan Sep 1992 to

Apr 1997

Started as a Project engineer and then worked my way up to Lead role, I was

managing a team of 30 Telecom technicians. We were assigned various

projects for 2 way radio sets and telecom test equipment overhauling and

repairs besides wireless / MW deployment. Responsibilities included assign

the overall scope of work to group members as per scheduled work, assign

deliverables and track them, allocation of resources, conflict resolutions

and team member's trainings. I also built few MW repeater sites and handled

site acquisition and site engineering matters.

References available on request.

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