Atiq Saeed

Mississauga Ontario Phone # 416-***-**** Email: ac8xz2@r.postjobfree.com

ICT professional with more than 10 years of project and program management experience in infrastructure, Telco/IT application development, six-sigma process improvement. Experienced in managing the project budgets from $500K to $80M and successful portfolio of delivering the projects within defined scope, schedule and budget using SDLC, PMLC, waterfall and agile/scrum,DevOps methodologies.

Professional Expertise:

-Project and Program Management

-Public Safety Radio Networks/Emergency Services

-Executive Reporting & Communications

-Excellent communication skills (verbal& written)

-Vendor Management

-People Management

-First Office Application (FOA readiness)

-AMPs, GSM, UMTS, LTE, VoLTE/VioLTE, VoWifi, VOIP,IoT & 5G technologies

-SCTP,/Diameter/SS7/BGP,EIGRP,OSPF,VLAN Trunking (VTP),DHCP,SNMP,FTP/SIP protocols

-Budget Management/Projects Finance Controller

-Risk Management

-Process Improvement/SOP preparation

-LAN/WAN/SDWAN/MAN Networks Management

-IaaS/PaaS/SaaS Cloud Technologies

-Digitization/eCommerce

EXPERIENCE

Rogers Communications Inc., Brampton, ON Feb2015-Dec2018

Role: Project Manager

Lead project delivery in the areas of technology and business to deliver the services to the customers resulted in increased revenue.

Implemented enterprise cloud based solution of product “Unison” which involved wireless and wireline IT integration and platform modernization. Managed overall budget of $20M. Lead the entire life cycle of the project using SDLC, collaborated with business for gathering the requirements, scope locked, solution, development, QA, release and integration with OSS/BSS nodes in core network.

Recently complied with IOS12 for Push Notification Server & Emergency Call back for Rogers Enterprise Users Unison & for all IPhone users.

Implemented currency upgrade/capacity expansion projects of 76.5M by enhancing the existing capacity on the infrastructure in Rogers datacenters across Canada. This has resulted in increased bandwidth and reduce customer complaints.

Implemented & upgraded Rogers IP Backbone from existing 30Gig to 70Gig (SSR/QFX)Bandwidth in all across Canada (Splitting the said Upgrades to regional level to avoid any issues with the redundancy).

Lead the delivery of projects for modernization of Packet/IMS-SIP and Voice core including CS2K/VOIP/Security to improve network footprint and stability.

Delivered network virtualization projects for Data Rating & Billing platforms (TSP/IUM).

Prepared all kinds of project change requests & got the Change Mgmt. approval while taking care of all stake holders/resources on-board.

Completed IPV-6 modernization project at related network infrastructure nodes i.e. SGSN-MME/GGSN/DNS/HSS/HLR/NBs/MiP MSCs/eNBs/CSCF/SBG/MTAS/BTAS etc.

Completed M2M/OSS projects (OSS-RC upgrade-SNMPv2&v3), Broadband billing & Data-rating projects (IUM etc), DRA (diameter routing agent), PCRF (SAPC), VoWifi, VoLTE E911 & AAA, & other services of fire brigade/ambulatory care relating to Public Safety Radio services etc.

Coordinated with MOCN Partners of Rogers i.e. VideoTron, MTS, SaskaTel, Bell, Telus, Wind for the end-to-end projects services validation & verification.

Managed stakeholders up-to 40-50 in a project, executive reporting to VP’s by preparing mile stone dashboards, proactively identified risks, mitigations, Gantt chart schedule.

Managed overall budget of a project by forecasting, monitoring actual spent, variance analysis and ensured project is delivered within +/-10% of the allocated budget.

Identified and managed interdependencies and linkages between disparate projects; managed the activities of cross-functional project teams on-shore as well as off shore.

Facilitated problem solving and control changes to project baselines (e.g.: scope) through accepted change management practices.

Lead continuous improvement initiatives as the projects progress (with a specific focus on interim lessons learned and post project reviews).

Fostered a collaborative environment and built team engagement to promote accountability in supporting the customer first strategies

Worked with Networks using equipment supplied by Ericsson, Nortel, Nokia, Alcatel, Siemens, Huawei, HP, IBM, Alcatel Lucent, Broadsoft, Genband, Adaptive Mobile, Mavenir and XURA etc.

Etisalat (Ufone), Lahore, Pakistan Sep 2000 to Jan 2015

Role: Project Manager Technical (Jan 2007 to Jan 2015)

Performed end to end Projects deployment & roll-outs of Telecom/IT networks (Voice/Data/RAN/IT) of overall budget of $50M.

Completed many projects in relation to EBU & CBU i.e. Contact Centre build-outs, Telemetering, Transmission roll-outs (includes both terrestrial & satellite).

Upgraded existing LAN, WiFi of company across the country keeping the utmost redundancy of LAN Switches & WAN routers using fully meshed topology.

Reviewed and approved the projects IT/Telco Infrastructure deliverables and artifacts, ensuring accuracy and completeness.

Lead & Cash Ufone Phase-V 14 Million Subscribers Capacity Project with Huawei of US$540Million of Huawei provided infrastructure with existing Nortel & Siemens Networks.

Performed end to end OSS-integrations for Nortel/Siemens/Huawei networks.

Lead the set-up of PMO Centre of Excellence & Governance following full life cycle of service management that included but not limited to reporting, standards, KPI’s, performance, analysis, project intake model, compliance & governance, tools & database management, training & enablement, internal communications, project control office, financial forecast and delivery management, and process improvement.

Lead the RFPs of network expansion of budget $20M and implemented the entire project life cycle from vendor selection, infrastructure build, QA testing and hand over to operations. Besides, used to work for RFS, RFQ, RFI. (solution response documents: SSD/SDS etc.)

Actively participating in the commencement of Quality Management System Program for ISO 9001:2008 Certification for the Technical Department. Various important milestones have been achieved, including Internal Quality Audit.

Familiarity with ISO 27001, NIST, ISACA Security Policies.

Implemented a culture of KAIZEN triggers within each technical department & their KPIs tracking to comply ISO9001.2000.

Role: Project Coordinator (Jan 2004 to Jan 2007)

Assisted the senior manager and manager in coordinating the platform stability work and developed the support plans.

Performed engagement procedures designed to identify and define issues, review and analyze evidence, and document support processes.

Identified, developed and documented issues and recommendations using independent judgment concerning the portfolio of projects within the organization.

Role: Business Analyst (Jan 2000 to Jan 2004)

Develop business architecture using requirements such as scope, process, alternatives & risks.

Conduct 5+ levels of testing including functional, regression, usage acceptance, integration & performance to verify the clients’ needs are met.

Supported the project team through the design, development and testing phase, working closely with Business Managers/Sponsors, System Design and Development and QA teams.

Education & Certifications

BSc. Electrical Engineering from UET Lahore, Pakistan, Sep1995-June1999

ITIL® Foundation Certified from EXIN Feb 2017

Six Sigma (σ) Green Belt Certified from PIQC PVT. Limited Feb 2015

PMP is in progress

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