Manager Project

Mourad Lahmadi

Senior Program Manager

Alcatel-Lucent France – Qatar Branch

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Summary

Certified Project Management Professional, PMP® and SPM (Senior Project Manager).

Education: Senior Electrical Engineering & Master/DEA, 1987-1993: “Ecole Nationale d’ Ingenieurs de Tunis” in Tunisia – Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Department of Telecommunications.

February 1994, joined Alcatel as research Engineeer in different countries [France/Orvault, USA/Ashburn/Calabasas).

2003- 2008: Project manager for Application projects & Tunisia Partnership Center Manager.

2009- Till now: Senior Program manager for projects delivered to Vodafone Qatar, leading End to End complex, multi-BD programs and Turn Key Convergence Network.

Strong Project Management, ability for completing projects on time as per the scope and within the predefined budget and with the duly decision making.

Patient to focus on preventing problems, perform risk management and conflict resolution.

People management, team player with high leadership, positive attitude and high team spirit.

Leading End to End complex, multi-BD programs and Turn Key Convergence Network (Wireless/NGIN/Core, IP Transport, IP Routing, IP Optics & Platform/Motive, Fixed Access/OSP, Enterprise, VAS Application & Charging, EPC/IMS, IT) for 300 Million Euro sales during last 6 years.

Effective performance in a multicultural environment over 21 years’ experience, team buy-in and understand team motivation.

Professional Experience

è Alcatel-Lucent Qatar

09/2008-Now

General Program Manager & Head of Broadband program – Fix/Mobile Turn-Key Network Vodafone QATAR (wireless/NGIN/Core, IP Transport, IP Routing, IP Optics & Platform/Motive, Fixed Access/OSP, Enterprise, VAS Application & Charging, EPC/IMS, IT, LTE)

Responsibilities

Interface with customer for deployment planning, progress, coordination, gap analysis/improvement.

Present and manages with customer the Scope of Work for new projects in order to limit scope deviation.

Deep Engagement with sales and pre-sales team during the opportunity phase to provide the necessary effort, project scheduling and the associate payment milestones, and risk register with associate contingencies and mitigation plans.

Accountable for all Contract implementation process phases (deliverables, operation issues, budget, Risk management, Contract & procurement management, legal issues, invoicing & Cash flow follow up, sales/Margin/Customer satisfaction) and manage the key interaction between the Business and the product life cycle management;

Putting customer first and honoring the commitment.

Secure Consistency in resourcing and availability of technical persons and manage the coordination between the local and remote support team.

Accountability from Orders to Cash collection.

Main achievements

All Projects delivered on time and in sufficient quality with sales revenus recognition 300Million Euro.

Always performed Impact Assessment during the offer to ensure the up-scope is aligned to the target budget, which means mostly IPIS equal to ECPLS.

Promote & realization of significant portion of up-scopes (around 100 Million Euro).

Implementation for Fixed Network program including design/implementation OSP part with Full customer satisfaction.

Successfully launch of the E2E Broadband (Convergence IMS/ GPON/ Converged Application & Billing/Next Generation Monitoring and reporting) during 2012 for Vodafone Qatar.

Successfully launch of the “Postpaid” project and the related Core/Application program.

Implementation of Vodafone Qatar Turn Key 2G/3G Mobile Network in 2009/2010 and the related up-scopes.

Implement Margin Improvement Plan to come back with excellent Margin 60% instead of 20%.

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è Alcatel Tunisia

09/2003-09/2008

Project Manager – VAS ORASCOM TUNISIA

09/2006-09/2008

Responsibilities

Project initiation, planning, scope, milestone management and project evaluation.

Working with system architects and project executives to align the project for both business and technology.

Coordinate with sales team to understand well the client’s business for VAS (Value Added Services).

Communicating with customer to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing projects.

Project Manager – Alcatel Tunisia Partnership Project 09/2003-09/2008

Responsibilities

Deployment of Alcatel Platform for developing “Value Added Service” Applications designed for mobile Networks.

Providing developers and content provider with the logistical support they need to access the resources required to firm up their ideas for mobile communication services.

Select partners based on a set of criteria (credibility, technical and methodological competences).

Support the Alcatel‘s partners in developing, integrating and testing their VAS application/services under the Mobile Network.

Work with other project managers and R&D managers to provide costs and plans (headcount rump-up, labs equipment, tools and software licenses) for technical hosting, operation and maintenance of Alcatel Platform.

Main achievements

Successfully accompanied incubators to promote their services on the Mobile Network.

Provided technical training and engineering support for service provider

Performed the migration of the Proxy Platform to support the new Data Technologies.

Presented Alcatel’s VAS mobile products and solutions through several workshops (SMSI, existing customers).

è ALCATEL Internetworking (Calabasas, California,USA)

03/2000 – 07/2003

Principal Software Engineer ( Team Leader)

Design and developing embedded HTTP-based configuration manager for AOS and XOS. (Ageranat’s Emweb, HTML, JAVA, JavaScript, “C code”, MIP, SNMP).

Develop changes to embedded HTTP server to communicate with other subsystems such as TCP/IP, as well as API code to interface with proprietary management interface (MIP).

Developed an interface WEB ( HTML/Javascript/Java) to configure the ALCATEL IP network Switch

Design an embedded system for multi-layered switching device running Vxworks where the main language was C and C++.

è ALCATEL Tunisia, ALCATEL Ashburn USA 02/1998 – 02/2000

Principal Software Engineer

Developed a proxy agent to configure and monitor ATM VCC and PVC using C++ on Solaris

Used the following protocols: ATM, Frame Relay, CMIP and SNMP

è ALCATEL Tunisia, ALCATEL France/Orvaut

02/1994 – 01/1998

Principal Software Engineer

Developed VPN and Alarm manager using C, Oracle, Xwindow, Motif on Solaris.

Acquired extensive knowledge in SNMP and X25 protocols.

Design and Development of the “Network Management Unit” for ALCATEL switch

Trainings & Certifications

SPM (Senior Project Management) Certification

2013

AIM Adoption Overview training

2013

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

2012

Lean Six Sigma

2012

Soft Skills/People Leader Ship: Managing, Leading, Coaching

2012

LTE CPM Workshop / IMS Overview

2011

Anti-Corruption Certification

2010

Ethics and Integrity Overview

2010

Télécommunications Spatiales, ENST, Paris

2005

ATM technology, Calabasas, California, USA, December

2001

OmniSwitch family training, Calabasas, California, USA, December

2000

Education

è Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis (Tunisia)

Master, DEA,in Telecommunication for Microwave

04/1995

è Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis (Tunisia)

Degree in Electrical Engineering

07/1993

Technical Skills

Applications/SW

Java SDK, FrontPage, Excel, J2EE, BEA Weblogic ; ALU tools, MS Office, Power Point,

CS Specialization

Network OO Software Design, Embedded Systems, SNMP, CMIS, CMIP, IP and ATM protocol, Oracle, LDAP,GSM, GPRS, UMTS, WIMAX, LTE

Languages

Java, C, C++. Xwindow, SQL,TCL, HTML, JavaScript, MM7SDK,XML,SOAP, Corba

Operating System

Windows NT/9x/2000, HP UNIX, Solaris, VxWorks, LINUX

Languages

French: Fluent English: Fluent Arabic: Native language

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