Ericsson Site Project

Fatih GUNDUZ

Istanbul, TURKEY Email: ********@*****.*** GSM: +90-530-*******

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

SENIOR DIRECTOR

Delivering Breakthrough Results – Driving Cost Savings 6 Building High Performance Team, 19 years of leadership, management, and network engineering experience. Extensive experience in project and program management, supervising successful teams of multi cultural and multidisciplinary employees. Capable of delivering timely, innovative and cost-effective solutions within dynamic environments CORE COMPETENCIES

Team Work · People Management · Team Building & Leadership · Risk Management · Program and Project Management

· Conflict Management · Strategic Planning · Budget Management · Supplier Management · Customer Expectation Management · Stakeholder Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Chief Network Officer, Baghdad – Iraq

Alsard Fiber Mar 2021 –

Defining business strategies and deploying Fiber Networks (including Survey, RoW & Permissions, planning, optimization, roll-out and operations & maintenance, financial control and profitability) in Iraq

Defining fiber business strategy for deployment in country

Fiber access and backbone planning for mobile backbone, backhaul, enterprise and carrier segments. ROI, financial approval, budget and rollout.

Managed xxx MUSD investment

Accountable for Network Operations OPEX, CAPEX budget preparations, executions and effective budget management.

Strategic overview and reporting to CEO

Solutions for all fixed-line services, Operation of CRM and Billing & Charging Services.

Enabling Fixed Broadband (FTTH), Mobile Broadband (FTTS) by building a nationwide fiber network of ~ 11,000 km.

Applying of EHS culture to all organization

Open RAN Solutions Service Director, Amsterdam – Netherlands TechMahindra, Delivery Business Unit, Mar 2020- Mar 2021

OpenRan trial programme management for Vodafone_NL and KPN_NL in Amsterdam city including IOT tests, customer training, network KPI verification.

Fiber Networks: Enabling Fixed Broadband (FTTH), Mobile Broadband (FTTS), NFV & Cloud by building a nationwide fiber network of ~ 28,000 km. Central competence domain for planning, optimization, roll-out and operations & maintenance.

IT for Fixed-line Services: Solutions for all fixed-line services, Operation of CRM and Billing & Charging Services. Modernized CRM TM forum based open source container architecture

Pre-sales engagement towards a customer from initial engagement, towards design completion and hand over to operations.

Manage & provide direct input to customer RFXs / tenders.

Identify/qualify customer & prospect opportunities & define requirements

Preparation of service sales materials including budget, quotation, timeline, project plan and solution proposals.

Managing engineering teams to reflect customer requirements in feature set & road map

Strategic overview and reporting on all projects/programs to senior management 5G Readiness Programme Director, Tirana - Albania

Deutsche Telecom, Delivery & Services Deparment, Jan 2019- Mar 2020

5G reference service solution development

Fiber access and backbone planning for mobile backbone, backhaul, enterprise and carrier segments. ROI, financial approval, budget and rollout.

Business development for Wireless ISP Infrastructure service: Regulations, technical solutions, P&L, service delivery and support plans, contracting

Define and manage the 5G projects scope, WBS, project schedule, start-up cost, risks and communication for national roll out projects and up-scopes implemented into D & S organization. Leading multinational project team with around 80 employees

Define & update all technical requirements and coordinated inputs from the multi-departmental team.

Define, coordinate and execute with Network Operation Center (NOC)

Key part of the team leading the 3G&4G and MW Network Modernization Strategy, building up the RFP/RFQ requirements.

Senior Programme Director, Istanbul - TURKEY

Huawei Technologies, Nordick Project Management Office Mar 2016- Jan 2019

Managing Turkcell mobile and fix network manage service project with scope of preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, NOC, site acquisition. Scope are 9000 2G, 7800 3G, 8300 3G sites, + 10000 Ericsson MW, +

7.000.000 FTTH, 11.000 FTTE, 150 POP sites.

Fiber Networks: Enabling Fixed Broadband (FTTH), Mobile Broadband (FTTS), NFV & Cloud by building a nationwide fiber network of ~ 28,000 km. Central competence domain for planning, optimization, roll- out and operations & maintenance

Managing Turkcell Swap project with scope of site acquisition, logistic, network planning and

optimization,CW,TE installation,commissioning,cut over,dismantling.4700 2G,3500 3G mobile sites.

Leading multinational project team with around 650 employees and 50 suppliers.

Established and update ISDP and maximo tools for networks

Managing Turkcell FTTH and Backbone project, 3.000.000 FTTH, 2500km backbone, ring optimization, activation and equipment installation &commissioning.

Managed 128MUSD revenue in program

Deputy PMO Manager, Istanbul - TURKEY

Huawei Technologies, Project Management Office Mar 2015 - Mar 2017

Creating delivery strategy

Defining business strategies and Deploying Fiber Networks (including Survey, RoW & Permissions, Rollout, financial control, profitability and business strategies) in RMEA Region

Lead turnkey Fiber Projects: FTTx, Backbone, Backhaul, Digital Cities, National Broadband Plans, Industrial applications and Military Networks: Right of Way, Survey, Design and Implementation (OSP, FTTH, FTTB, FTTCell/Site)

Managing national LTE Project with scope of site acquisition, network planning &

Leading multinational project team with around 450 employees and 120 suppliers.

Applying of EHS culture to all accounts

Senior Project Manager, Istanbul Turkey

Huawei Technologies, Project Management Office Jan 2009- Mar 2015

Managing Turkcell Swap Project 2G&3G&MW swap with scope of site acquisition, network planning & optimization, CW, TE installation, commissioning, cutover and dismantling. 1900 2G and 1400 3G weresuccessfully swapped within 1 year. All KPI commitments and customer expectation was fulfilled.

Turkcell Core Network Project Manager, 28 SGSN & 31 GGSN & 43 BSC & 32 RNC network planning TE installation, commissioning, rehoming and dismantling.

Managing Turkcell Tan Swap Project swap with scope of site acquisition, low and high level design, TE installation, commissioning, cutover and dismantling. 490 node s were successfully swapped within 6 year. Regional Manager, CYPRUS

Ericsson Telecommunications, Middle East PMO Feb 2008 - Jan 2009

Managing KKTCELL full tunkey 2G new site Project with scope of site acquisition, network planning & optimization, CW & TE installation, commissioning, onair. 95 full turnkey new sites were successfully completed with 13 employee and 3 subcons.

Regional Manager, Izmir - TURKEY

Ericsson Telecommunications, PMO Apr 2002- Feb 2008

Managing Avea South Anatolia Swap Project, 2G&MW swap with scope of site acquisition, network planning

& optimization, CW, TE installation was fulfilled.

3G trial project for Vodafone Turkey in Ankara city including IOT tests, customer training, network KPI verification TE equipment installation, commissioning. 125KM backbone and 750000 home

Managing Avea MW Swap Project with scope of site acquisition, low and high level design, CW & TE installation, commissioning, cutover and dismantling. expectation was fulfilled. Roll Out Manager, Jeddah - SAUDI ARABIA

Ericsson Telecommunications, Africa Field Operation Apr 2001- Apr 2002

Rollout management in Saudi Arabia for STC Jeddah Swap Project. Leading to 10 internal rollout supervisors and 10 subcontractor teams. 150 ALU sites have been swapped in one month period with high appreciation of customer

Site Supervisor, Izmir - TURKEY

Ericsson Telecommunications, Field Operation Oct 2000- Apr 2001

Managing TurkTelekom long haul MW Swap Project with scope of site acquisition, low and high level design, CW

& TE installation, commissioning, cutover and dismantling. 1250 node s were successfully swapped

Rollout management for Turkcell full turnkey 2G new site Project. Leading to 10 internal rollout supervisors and 10 subcontractor teams. 450 new sites have been completed with high appreciation of customer EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Bachelor of Science in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering Akdeniz University, 2000

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