Ahmed Mehrez AKL
Ottawa
Summary
To apply my knowledge and previous experience in fulfilling the employer's requirements in the company's best interest. I will ensure the best of my abilities to meet the scope of work with the highest possible efficiency by giving the maximum output that can benefit the potential employer.
Passionate and results-driven Engineering and Business Leader with 15+ years of experience in telecom, networking, and enterprise software. Highly skilled in managing teams spanning multiple geographies. Detail-oriented professional with a proven track record of delivering telecommunications projects from diversified perspectives. More than 13 Years (2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, and OSS) experience with Huawei and Motorola (TE, TL, and TD roles). I have supported multiple projects in 22 countries (Asia, Europe, Middle East, Australia, and Africa)
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Wireless Engineer
Huawei Technologies
GSRC
08.2010 - Current
- Provide support to Perform operational tasks appropriate and procedures for Network, Check and correct the Radio Network configuration data consistency
- Provide Project technical support for troubleshooting and resolving issues
- Design, Commissioning, integration, expansion, System verification & acceptance and troubleshooting for RNC/BSC/OSS/MBTS- (eNodeB, gNodeB, NodeB, eGBTS, GBTS and Ruler-site)
- Develop and maintain NE project competence, process, and documents for network deployment
- Worked as Project Technical function including Project Call-Out/emergency on-call support on-demand basis, Carry responsibility of Technical Analysis & Technical contact Point, Coordinate actions and investigation of technical Issues between Customers, regional care management, Product Line support teams
- Provide customer support for operations and maintenance of network elements, including transfer competence to customers' operations teams for local and remote operations and maintenance tasks
- Serve as local customer interface and coordinate communication for services and issues between customer Sales teams and Huawei service lines
- Supports operations services such as traffic rehoming, network retune, feature activations, network modification, and Performance analysis
- Support Customer Lab for SW/ HW New Feature verification and validation
- Ensure the quality of customer satisfaction survey targets and carry end to end RAN support function
- Worked as Project Support Engineer for atomization of the process and improved in efficiency & execution of the task
- Configuration Management on BTS/Controller include Adjacency's value, create sites, upgrade & downgrade all SW version for NE, Commissioning& configuration for BTS, Licenses activity, Parameters modification, comparing
- Troubleshooting with field maintenance to solve all problems
- Rehoming activity for the BTS.
- Resolved complex technical issues related to the operation of wireless networks and devices.
Telecom Engineer
Motorola
Egypt
02.2008 - 08.2010
- Field Engineer in Motorola in BSS section and gained skills to test the Motorola BTS (Horizon II, horizon I, BSC, Trans-coders, and Packet control unit cabinets (PCU) by analyzing the stats
- Call transfer unit CTU GSM900 and GSM1800 testing, DRI's testing
- Cabinet swapping and cabinet expansion with different GSM and DCS configurations
- Performs site survey, installation, commissioning, integration, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Motorola GSM Equipment (Motorola BTS, XCDR, PCU, and BSC) for Orange
- In the transmission section, dealt with the troubleshooting of the E1/T1 lines
- Worked on different equipment like NEC Passolink, Passolink NEO microwave, Alcatel microwave, Nokia, and Ericsson
- Troubleshooting of Power systems, Cooling systems, Generators, Fire alarm systems, DDF frames, Rout for new sites & BSC, perform corrective maintenance requests, handled quality improvement requests to improve site/network quality problems by using specialized tools such as Frequency Generator, Power meter, site master…etc
- Perform level 1 support, like troubleshooting in the field, identifying and understanding the visual alarms, going through the logs, and identifying the faulty modules
- Can support the Level 1 field engineers over the phone or from remote
- Reset or replace hardware modules
- Download software for the BTS from the BSC or OMCR
- Knowledge to use test tools like VSWR meter (site master), Power meter, etc
- Good understanding of excel for Preparation of Daily/weekly/monthly reports
- Coordinate with the NOC team to isolate and fix the problem, etc.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering
Higher Technology Institute
Tenth Of Ramadan City 01.2008
Skills
- Wireless Site Surveys
- Equipment upgrades
- Field installation
- Equipment Maintenance
- Time management abilities
- Technical Troubleshooting
- Excellent Communication
- Relationship Building
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Troubleshooting and diagnosis
- Team building
- Task Prioritization
- Decision-Making
- Attention to Detail
- Cloud Computing
- Leadership
- Teams coaching/mentoring
- 4G and LTE Deployment
- 3G and UMTS Planning
- 5G Technologies
- Hardware diagnostics
- Disaster Recovery Planning
Projects
- Morocco- OSS L2 Support, June 2021 till Now, Supporting INWI and Orange Project
- Guinea-Bissau- Wireless TL, April 2021 till June, Supporting Orange Bissau Project
- Egypt- L2 Support, Jan 2021 till April, Supporting Vodafone L2600 Project
- Norway-Wireless TL, Jan 2020 till Dec 2020, Supporting Telenor, Telia and Tampnet Project
- Oman -L2 Support (Expert), NOV till Dec 2019, Supporting Omantel Project
- South Africa -Wireless TL, Dec 2018 till Jun 2019, Supporting MTN South Africa Project
- Australia -Wireless TL, Sep 2018 till Dec, Supporting Optus Australian Project
- India - L2 Support (Expert), March 2018 till August, Supporting Maxis Malaysia Project
- Morocco -Wireless TL, Jun 2017 till Feb 2018, Supporting Morocco IAM Telecom Project
- Tanzania -Wireless TL, Jan 2017 till May, Supporting Airtel Tanzania Project
- United Arab Emirates -OSS TE, September 2016 till 5 of January, Supporting Du UAE Project
- Ukraine - L2 Support (Expert), June 2016 Till August 2016, Supporting Kiev KYIVSTAR project
- Kazakhstan -Wireless TL, April 2016 Till May 2016, Supporting Kazakh telecom project
- Guinea -Wireless TL, Dec 2015 Till March 2016, Supporting Guinea Orange project
- Mali -Wireless TL, August 2015 Till November 2015, Supporting Orange project
- Algeria -Wireless TL, August 2014 Till August 2015, Supporting Algeria OTA project
- Morocco -Wireless TL, September 2013 Till August 2014, Supporting Morocco IAM Telecom project
- Uganda -Wireless TL, May 2013 till September 2013, Supporting Airtel Telecom project
- Algeria -Wireless TL, Feb 2013 - April 2013, Supporting Mobilis Algeria Telecom 3G New project
- Tunisia -Wireless TE, Nov 2012 Till Jan 2013, Supporting TUNISIANA 2G & 3G swap project
- Switzerland -Wireless TE, May 2012 till August 2012, Supporting Sunrise operator 2G & 3G swap project
- South Sudan -Wireless TL, July 2011 Till April 2012, Supporting Zain 2G & 3G swap project
- Egypt -Wireless TE, May 2011 till June 2011, Supporting Orange 2G & 3G project
- Hungary -Wireless TE, Feb 2011 Till April 2011, Supporting Vodafone Hungary 2G & 3G swap project
- Kazakhstan -Wireless TE, Oct 2010 Till Jan 2011, Supporting Tele2 2G & 3G swap project
Certification
- 5G: online, June 2019
- Flexi Multi Radio BTS LTE Commissioning, Integration Huawei Academy Egypt, Aug 2015
- Wireless Communication Systems (DECT, Motorola CDMA Infrastructure): Telecom Egypt, July 2004
- 2G Fundamentals (Huawei's equipment's BSC and BTS): Huawei Academy Egypt, Aug 2010
- 3G Fundamentals (Huawei's equipment's RNC and NodeB): Huawei Academy Egypt, Aug 2010
- Transmission SDH Fundamentals (Huawei's equipment's OSN and Metro): Huawei Academy Egypt, Aug 2010
- Huawei Academy Egypt: 3G Radio Access system, Aug 2010
- Huawei Academy Egypt: 3G Flexi BTS trouble shooting, Feb 2011
- Huawei Academy Egypt: RNC Operation and Integration May 2011
- Huawei Academy Egypt: RAN Signaling, April 2013
- Huawei Academy Algeria: RAN Troubleshooting, April 2014
- Training at ICT Egypt: Visual Basic.net
- Training at Telecom Egypt in the field of telecommunications
Personal Information
- Place of Birth: Egypt
- Title: Senior Wireless Engineer
- Marital Status: Married
Permitresidence
I have Canadian Work Visa and residence in Ukraine
Languages
Arabic
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
References
- Ashraf Youssef (Project manager), Canada EION, +19058087680, Ashraf@eion.com
- Mahmoud Hassan (Core Network Planner), Tele2 Sweden, +46723652570, Mahmoud.hassan@tele2.com
- Sherif Ahmed Hassan (Nordic RDM), Huawei Finland, Finland, +358442431078
- Andres Soby (RAN specialist), Norway Ericsson AS, +4745204538, Anders.soby@ericsson.com
- Geir Nevjen (Project manager), Norway Huawei AS, +4797782879
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Senior Wireless Engineer
Huawei Technologies
08.2010 - Current
Telecom Engineer
Motorola
02.2008 - 08.2010
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering
Higher Technology Institute
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