Project Manager Management

KASHIF ISHAQ Curriculum Vitae

Certified Practicing Project Manager (CPPM)

By Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM)

Personal Information:

House No.528 A1, Johar Town,

Mob: +92-323******* (Pakistan)

Lahore, Pakistan. (At the moment

E- M A I L : ********@*****.***

Expertise:

End to end responsibility and ownership for the definition, documentation and safe execution of complex projects, directing and motivating project team members & third party suppliers following Company led processes and procedures.

Prepare and maintain realistic project, quality, and risk plans.

Proactive communication to business owners & stakeholders.

Monitor and control team performance against project plans.

Monitor and control allocated human and material resources, associated OPEX costs and all capital costs against the project budget.

Works with Technology teams to ensure business strategy and project requirements are understood, and solution is fit for purpose. Evaluates and makes recommendations/decisions on technical options as appropriate.

Liaises with other managers within the business as necessary to drive project delivery; resolve delivery-impacting issues, escalate in a timely manner and manage stakeholder and programmes management expectations for projects.

Manage post implementation reviews by ensuring that own projects are formally closed, reviewed, and lessons learned are captured and actioned. Produce appropriate documentation to support these processes.

Identify opportunities to improve business or project processes, and ways of delivery business performance objectives.

Management of third party suppliers to review the status of projects.

Lead cross-functional project teams; allocating and monitoring tasks to ensure effective delivery.

Project Manager - Civil Implementation Telecommunication ( July 2010 TO Nov 2010 )

M.A Engineering – Pakistan (Ericsson Project)

An experienced Project Manager who has delivered both Business improvement initiatives & technical projects.

Experience of project managing multiple work stream deployments.

Managing the service quality, including KPI and SLA.

Managing the resolution of network quality issues.

Experience of managing projects with external suppliers/vendors

Proficient in Project Management - Principles, methods, techniques and tools for the effective management of projects from initiation through to implementation.

Proven management of major changes in business processes to achieve optimization of benefits.

Great commercial awareness with the ability to make recommendations on delivery to time/cost/quality based on knowledge of desired outcomes/KPIs and SLA.

Excellent all round communicator. Proficient ability to communicate with both business and technical stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

A professional qualification in a project management discipline

Demonstrated experience in the following disciplines:

o Site Acquisition

o Civil Works

o Commissioning

o Site Surveys

o Radio Equipment

o Microwave Links

Project Manager RAN Recovery 2G + 3G (Network Rollout) ( Oct 2009 TO July 2010)

ZTE Hong Kong

PROJECT: CSL NWM Project (a subsidiary of Australia’s Telstra Corporation

CLIENT: CSL Hong Kong

Responsibilities:

Project Manager (Network Rollout)

As Project Manager used to manage the end to end delivery of customer facing Network Rollout projects to cost, time and quality requirements where projects may range from 1,500 to 2000 sites swaps or upgrades for 2G and 3G with the following plan (UMTS2100 swap, GSM900/1800 swap + UMTS900 roll out), a value of several million Euros and are typically 9 – 18 months in duration.

Project Management experience of managing complex Network Rollout Projects with proven responsibility in all phases; - pre-sales, pre-study, project delivery.

Recognized Project Management qualification.

Experience with managing third party suppliers/partners within projects (incl. Sourcing, Contract management, Management of KPI’s & Management of Service Delivery KPI’s)

Proven ability to adapt, improve and implement handling of scope, risks, changes incl. customer adaptations, solution management/support.

Proven experience in presentations, negotiations, agreements, disagreements and managing customer expectations and relationships.

Demonstrated experience in the following disciplines:

o Site Acquisition

o Civil Works

o Commissioning

o Site Surveys

o Radio Equipment

o Microwave Links

o Swap out Procedures

Field Construction Manager (Aug 2008 TO 30 Sep 09):

ZTE Hong Kong

PROJECT: CSL NWM Project (a subsidiary of Australia’s Telstra Corporation)

Swapping out CSL's existing 2G/3G base stations with ZTE SDR base stations, CSL and ZTE chose the MWC event in Barcelona to claim that they had achieved a world first by demonstrating HSPA+ capability - 21Mbps base station sector capacity - on an SDR platform.

The SDR project in Hong Kong was very innovative, boasting a quad-band antenna solution covering the frequency bands for which CSL have licenses: 900MHz, 1800MHz, 2.1GHz and the 2.6GHz 4G license.

CSL’s Hong Kong SDR-based HSPA+ network project has set many first industry records.

• The world’s first all-IPHSPA+ commercial network;

• The world’s first large-scale SDR-based application

• The first large-scale migration project.

CLIENT: CSL Hong Kong

Responsibilities:

Supervision of the rollout of up gradation of CSL NWM, s existing NSN infrastructure with a fully integrated 2G and 3G ZTE equipment .

Lead and manage the project/subproject organization in order to get the project initiation, preparation, execution, monitoring, controlling and closing done according to ZTE project processes and principles.

Lead and manage the project according to contractual scope and commitment against project budget.

Communicate accurate rollout demand figures for demand planning process.

Ensure that the project (roll-out CW& TI) end to end targets are met.

Lead and monitor the project/sub project team including construction/Installation/Logistics/commissioning and MW teams.

Reporting to the PM on a daily basis in daily progress meetings on cleanup progress, site visits, snag clearance and acceptance.

Coordinates and compile meetings with customer, sub cons and ZTE on detailed site by site progress.

Creation and compliance of the P.I.P (Project Implementation Plan) and follow up the daily progress reports.

Liaising directly with the customer to provide a smooth rollout and discuss / remedy all contractual issues that may arise like GPRS issues for indoor sites.

Implementation expert with installation, commissioning, testing and integration knowledge of ZTE

Monitoring trouble tickets (TT) follow up during and after Implementations and alarms clearance.

Troubleshoot and Investigate with customers all issues related to the coverage, either solve it or refer to the concerned RF team

Monitoring the DBOR, s and documentation for final handing over and acceptance procedures.

Ensure implementation of services in delivery scope and final site acceptance (QA/QC).

Skyscrapers and dense population create a complicated wireless environment and the reconstruction of a converged all-IP 2G/3G network was a challenging task.

Zone Rollout Manager End to End (Jun 2007 TO June 2008):

Nokia Siemens Networks Indonesia

Good experience of working as Zone Roll out Manager on HCPT Project in south Sumatra Indonesia.

PROJECT: Hutchinson Project

This included construction of 3000 sites of 2G and 3G in Phase-1

And Phase-2 and 6000 new sites in phase 2 +

CLIENT: Hutchinson Telecom Indonesia.

Responsibilities:

Preparing, developing and implementing the project activities and the roll out/maintenance (CW&TI). Manage the maintenance operations of the client’s telecommunications network of the entire project in the zone as per agreed business plan.

Managing Site acquisition team, civil team, commissioning team, transmit ion team regarding site issues.

Managing Integration of Flexi BTS, Commissioning of Microwave Equipment.

Conducting meetings regarding site by site issues with the support of project manager.

Managing teams of managed services for the clearance of trouble shooting of issues in the zone and also managing the team of optimization for better network quality.

Quality control including inspections in coordination with the client’s representatives (QA/QC) and site safety issues and making sure that subcontractor properly adhere to these safety and quality standards.

Finishing the project documentation in addition to give the report to finance and accounting department in the given time frame

Coordinating provisional acceptance and final acceptance with the client for the final handing over of the site to the client.

Developing procedures and processes to ensure fault finding and repair times are minimized so that network performance targets are meeting.

Trouble Tickets follow up during and after Implementations specially monitoring the alarms.

Handling of faults reports and making sure that correct number of skilled resources/spare parts is always available for field support.

Experience in subcontractor management and resource plan.

Day-to-day operations such as operation and maintenance of networks, services and business support systems, field services, customer problem management including helpdesk, and service and resource fulfillment

Civil Works Co-ordinator Coordinator (Aug 2006 to May 2007)

Nokia Siemens Networks Indonesia

Civil Works coordinator on the Hutch GSM project in Bali, Semarang, Makassar

In charge of project BTS Greenfield and Rooftop site Installation phase and acceptance as well.

PROJECT: Hutchinson Project

CLIENT: Hutchinson Telecom Indonesia.

Responsibilities:

To supervise day to day civil works activities and make sure the completion as per schedule.

Exclusive supervision of the BTS sites’ civil works & power activities as per working drawing

Perform installation, commissioning and integration of Nokia Flexi BTS

Software upgrade.

Perform rf and system module upgrade.

Perform Functionality test such as video call and mms.

Perform site acceptance.

Supervision of installations of cable runways, feeder/Jumper, transmission cables, panel antennas.

To liaise with suppliers/contractors and update the knowledge base.

Preparation of site files.

Coordination with the warehouses & IR preparations for equipment.

Taking over the site from the contractor with the precise level of supervision and handing it over to the concerning department, completed in all respects

Senior Construction Engineer (MAY 2004 to July 2006):

I joined IKAN engineering services Pakistan as a Construction Engineer in Civil Department. And then permoted as a senior construction Engineer on Ericsson project.

Project: Warid project

ESPONSIBILITIES:

Supervision of the site construction activities involving technical decisions for execution of these activities and there progress monitoring in accordance with the specified work schedules.

Coordinating designer and providing necessary details of the selected areas (layout/location plans and area condition) for the preparation of the Detail Engineering Design (DED) of the sites.

Collection of drawings, Documentation and agreements finalizing.

Preparation of the method statements and base-line schedules for these activities even through sub-contractors.

Quality control of the works including inspections in coordination with the client’s representatives.

Liaison and coordinate with the client and subcontractor for execution of the tower foundation concrete activities

Site inspections and identification of the areas requiring major and minor repair works.

Coordinate with the client and subcontractor for the extents of the above said activities and finalize the technical matters involved.

Verification and certification of the work done for the activities involved. Coordinating and conducting inspection of site with the client for the final handing over of the site to the client. These inspections include,

a. Civil inspection: Inspecting the overall civil work of site and workmanship in accordance with the approved Design and standards.

b. Tower inspections: Inspecting the tower material galvanizing, paint (microns) and its strength (tightening) in Accordance with the approved design.

c. Environmental inspection: Inspecting the environmental systems (A/C, Fire fighting and generator) and Checking the proper routing and functioning of system failure alarm signals.

Academic Qualification

Certified Practicing Project Manager ( CPPM ) BY

Australian Institute of Project Management

B .E. (Civil Engineering)

National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) Pakistan – Risalpur Campus

Graduated in May 2004

Computer Literacy

Good experience of working on:

MS Word

MS Excel

MS Power Point

References

1) Bruce Beros

(Ex PD of CSLProject from customer side)

CSL, Hong Kong

Mobile: +61-419******

Email: *****.*****@**************.***

Or *****.*****@*****.***

2) Sam Kwek (Ex PD of Hong Kong CSL Project from zte side)

Consultant to Senior Vice President,

Sales System, Engineering Services

ZTE Corporation

Mobile: 008*****-*******

Email: *******@***.***.**

Address: 31F, R&D building, Shenzhen P.R.China

3) Adeel Iqbal

Project Manager Ericsson

Email: *****.*****@********.***

Mobile: 009***********

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