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Alaa Abou Zahra

Alaa Abou Zahra

Cairo,Egypt

Summary

Seeking a position in the GSM field within a reputable firm, where I can utilize and develop my skills and knowledge leading to professional advancement.

Having experience as SAQ manager for last 18 years. Having experience in leadership and ability on development and growth the activities based on organizational chart. Good access on approach with excellent communication, negotiations and presentation skills and knowledge of training techniques. Having experience as trainer for existing staff and present recommendations reports, orientation sessions for new employees and prepare reports on their suitability. Highly self-motivated, ambitious and leadership ability to supervise and lead site works. Good interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. Technical knowledge and administrative skills. Ability to work independently, to plan and execute.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work History

Acquisition Rollout & Legalization Manager

Ericsson
09.2016 - Current
  • Company Overview: ROT Project-Etisalat Egypt
  • Working as regional acquisition manager to manage the direct site acquisition plan and responsible for ensuring that targets are meet in the time scales allocated accordance with the client's expectations and contractual requirements, also providing a key interface between multiple teams, including deployment & operations to ensure operational readiness of new introductions and maintain close links with customer (VRM, ROT & acceptances teams) to obtain the needed approvals for site acceptance.
  • Interface with operations' problem management function to identify potential resolution of rejected invoices.
  • Define, manage and follow-up site acquisition and permitting rollout schedule.
  • Follow-up milestones in the site acquisition and permitting rollout plan and site process.
  • Implement processes and documents for site acquisition and permitting scope.
  • Manage site acquisition and permitting rollout delivery scope and changes thereof.
  • Define and implement quality assessments of Site Acquisition and Permitting Works.
  • Provide frequent quality reports using IPM quality module.
  • Implement site acquisition and permitting quality processes, documentation, tracking and supervision in the site acquisition and permitting rollout.
  • Coordinate activities in the site acquisition and permitting rollout within the Regions.
  • Manage and follow-up rollout progress in the Regions.
  • Submit full details of all non-standard sites and leases to Nokia Siemens Networks for approval.
  • Organize a planned target to coordinators and the subcontractors matching with the requirements of the customer.
  • Represent Ericsson in a weekly meeting with the operator supervisors concerning the tasks and easily reporting for the project manager.
  • Manage, monitor and follow up acceptances at different stages, with different internal and external stakeholders.
  • Act as the primary interface towards the Customers and internal stakeholders throughout the acceptance phase.
  • Apply for acceptances, monitor and follow up progress.
  • Report acceptance status and progress.
  • Report to CDM/PD/PM.
  • Secure the acceptances to achieve the monthly and quarterly targets.
  • Follow up and execute the contractual acceptance clauses.
  • End to end management of acceptance documents - collect the documents, printing, copying and archiving of documents for future use.
  • Support Project Director/Project Manager to follow up revenue recognition and customer invoicing after acceptances (RFS/PAC/FAC).
  • Support Project team to carry out acceptance activities.
  • ROT Project-Etisalat Egypt

Site Acquisition Manager

HUAWEI Technology
, UAE
04.2012 - 08.2016
  • Company Overview: du IBS TK Project - 7 Emirates (AUH/Alain, Dubai, SHJ, Ajman, Um-Alquen, Ras Al-Khaimah & Al-Fujairah)
  • Worked as site acquisition manager in IBS project starting from 2012 up to 2016 and I was responsible for all sites that belonged to Huawei/du project within 7 Emirates, especially Abu Dhabi and Dubai, this is to cover all the VIP & important buildings, also acting and managing the direct acquisition plan and deliver the allocated sites to the strategy planned ensuring that targets are meet in the time scales accordance with the client's expectations and contractual requirements.
  • Inspect and verify that the site has the right conditions to start SAQ process.
  • Overall responsibility for site acquisition and coordinate with customer inspection team.
  • Review and improve the standard of sites methods and verify that site is according to approved standards methods.
  • Mange and organize the planed targets with SAQ subcontractors according to requirements of customer.
  • Secure the delivery of site documentation in a timely manner according to the time schedule concerned.
  • Deliver site list to mobilizing stage.
  • Site inspections during implementation works.
  • Managing the Femto project.
  • Handling the PAC/FAC of IBS and get customer approval.
  • Du IBS TK Project - 7 Emirates (AUH/Alain, Dubai, SHJ, Ajman, Um-Alquen, Ras Al-Khaimah & Al-Fujairah)

Site Acquisition Manager

HUAWEI Technology
, UAE
09.2010 - 04.2012
  • Company Overview: Du Outdoor TK Project - North Emirates
  • Worked as site acquisition manager to support and managing site acquisition plan and responsible for ensuring that targets are meet in the time scales allocated accordance with the client's expectations and contractual requirements.
  • Integrated the plan for RT & GF site hunting on monthly basis, achieved more than 255 site of 328 sites in less than 9 months.
  • Follow up on the sites permitting process according to the governmental regulations and applied to the municipalities and ministry of transportation, ministry of defense and airport companies.
  • Follow up all the technical site survey for all the sites types and decide if it is possible to construct the site or not.
  • Follow up on the subcontractors and holding a weekly meeting to review the progress in the site hunting and finalize any queued issues.
  • Manage to resolve the problematic sites such as Health & safety and whatever comes up during the implementation process.
  • Super vise the progress in the permitting and legality issues.
  • Supervise and manage completion of site survey report including photos, drawings, technical specification& comments for the customer.
  • Represent Huawei in a weekly meeting with the operator supervisors concerning the tasks and easily reporting for the project manager.
  • Deliver site to mobilizing stage.
  • Follow up the site integration and implementation according to customer planed target.
  • Du Outdoor TK Project - North Emirates

Acquisition Manager (Abu Dhabi Region)

Nokia
, UAE
05.2010 - 08.2010
  • Company Overview: Du Outdoor TK Project - Abu Dhabi Region
  • Worked as regional acquisition manager to manage the direct site acquisition plan and responsible for ensuring that targets are meet in the time scales allocated accordance with the client's expectations and contractual requirements.
  • Define, manage and follow-up site acquisition and permitting rollout schedule.
  • Follow-up milestones in the site acquisition and permitting rollout plan and site process.
  • Implement processes and documents for site acquisition and permitting scope.
  • Manage site acquisition and permitting rollout delivery scope and changes thereof.
  • Define and implement quality assessments of Site Acquisition and Permitting Works.
  • Provide frequent quality reports using IPM quality module.
  • Implement site acquisition and permitting quality processes, documentation, tracking and supervision in the site acquisition and permitting rollout.
  • Coordinate activities in the site acquisition and permitting rollout within the Regions.
  • Manage and follow-up rollout progress in the Regions.
  • Submit full details of all non-standard sites and leases to Nokia Siemens Networks for approval.
  • Organize a planned target to coordinators and the subcontractors matching with the requirements of the customer.
  • Represent NSN in a weekly meeting with the operator supervisors concerning the tasks and easily reporting for the project manager.
  • Du Outdoor TK Project - Abu Dhabi Region

Acquisition Manager (Eastern & Western Region)

Motorola KSA
, KSA
09.2008 - 04.2010
  • Company Overview: ZAIN Project (MTC) - Agency Systel Egypt
  • Worked as acquisition manager to manage the direct acquisition plan and responsible for ensuring that targets are met in the time scales allocated accordance with the client's expectations and contractual requirements, also ensure that the external and Internal acquisition and planning resource deliver sites in accordance with the specification of the client's through the full site life cycle.
  • Overall responsibility for site acquisition.
  • Checking leases, permits and certificates.
  • Coordinate with customer inspection team.
  • Support customer and lead negotiations with local communes and multiple site owners.
  • Checking SAR, TSSP, TSSR documentations.
  • Coordinate site acquisition with the staff according to client standard.
  • Support legal teams and lead permit coordinators to permitting dates.
  • Coordinate and follow up site installations with construction department.
  • Prepare acceptance documentations for green field and rooftop sites.
  • Understand the KSA local permit process and time lines.
  • Acquiring sites with global deals between the operator and the government (police and ports authorities in KSA).
  • Follow up all the technical site survey for all the sites types and decide if it is possible to construct the site or not.
  • Follow up on the subcontractors and holding a weekly meeting to review the progress in the site hunting and finalize any queued issues.
  • ZAIN Project (MTC) - Agency Systel Egypt

Acquisition Manager (Ericsson & Etisalat Projects)

Mobiserve
, Egypt
06.2008 - 08.2008
  • Company Overview: Contractor for Mobinil Egypt, Ericsson Egypt and Etisalat Egypt
  • Worked as acquisition manager at Mobiserve company to manage the direct site acquisition plan and the activities in Ericsson-Etisalat Project.
  • Coordinates and exercises functional authority for planning, organization, control, integration and completion of the project within area of assigned responsibility and insure that Mobiserve mission is to offer a complete menu of services that can be bundled in any format to suit the customer requirements from the early phase of planning up to the operation.
  • Inspect and verify that the site has the right conditions to start the implementation works.
  • Receive/Accept the site from the customer.
  • Secure the delivery of works and documentation in a timely manner according to the time schedule concerned.
  • Review and improve the standard of sites methods.
  • Verify that site is according to approved standards.
  • Site inspections during implementation works.
  • Ensure that tools, test equipment, materials are available for the project.
  • Plan and organize the implementation works with SA teams.
  • Coordinate with customer inspection team.
  • Preparation of all relevant documentation.
  • Follow up all the technical site survey for all the sites types and decide if it is possible to construct the site or not.
  • Follow up on the subcontractors and holding a weekly meeting to review the progress in the site hunting and finalize any queued issues.
  • Contractor for Mobinil Egypt, Ericsson Egypt and Etisalat Egypt

Acquisition Manager

G3-International-for Telecommunications
, Egypt
02.2007 - 05.2008
  • Company Overview: Contractor for Etisalat Egypt
  • Worked as acquisition manager to act and manage the direct acquisition plan and track the sites accounts at G3I company, which is one of the main contractors for Ericsson Egypt, Huawei Egypt, NSN Egypt and Etisalat Egypt.
  • Inspect and verify that the site has the right conditions to start the implementation works.
  • Receive/Accept the site from the customer.
  • Secure the delivery of works and documentation in a timely manner according to the time schedule concerned.
  • Review and improve the standard of sites methods.
  • Verify that site is according to approved standards.
  • Site inspections during implementation works.
  • Ensure that tools, test equipment, materials are available for the project.
  • Plan and organize the implementation works with SA teams.
  • Coordinate with customer inspection team.
  • Preparation of all relevant documentation.
  • Ensure that all SAQ staff members are trained professionals with the proper academic education and above all with proven technical experience in the field, also responsible for installation planning such customer requirements, equipment availability rollout, tracking installation progress on the basis of broken down milestones, matching the integration rollout plan to the actual installation rollout.
  • Planning, coordinate and managing the site acceptance with civil consultants.
  • Planning, coordinate and managing the site Acceptance with clients.
  • Proceeding preliminary site acceptance (PAC) to check the site snags report.
  • Follow up the folder of site acquisition snags progress.
  • Proceeding final site acceptance (FAC).
  • Revising and Checking the Site Acceptance Documentation with clients and cons.
  • Ensuring that the quality standards of the vendors/Operators are strictly adhered.
  • Matching the preliminary site rollout plan to the actual site rollout.
  • Official hand over to the client through the documents.
  • Contractor for Etisalat Egypt

Acquisition Manager

Connect Service-CSC
, Egypt
11.2002 - 01.2007
  • Company Overview: Main Contractor for NSN Egypt, Huawei Egypt, Ericsson Egypt and Alcatel Egypt
  • Worked as acquisition manager, key account manager to manage the direct acquisition plan and tracking the sites accounts and at CSC company, which is one of the main contractors for Ericsson Egypt, Huawei Egypt, Siemens Egypt and Alcatel Egypt.
  • Responsible for ensuring that targets are met in the time scales allocated accordance with The client's expectations and contractual requirements, also ensure that the external and Internal acquisition and planning resource deliver sites in accordance with the specification of the clients through the full site life cycle.
  • Overall responsibility for site acquisition.
  • Coordinate with customer inspection team.
  • Support customer and lead negotiations with local communes.
  • Checking SF2, SF4, SF6 and SF51 documentations.
  • Coordinate and follow up site acquisition with the staff according to client standard.
  • Checking leases, Permits and certificates.
  • Understand the local permit process and time lines.
  • Support and link with legal teams and lead permit coordinators to permitting dates.
  • Coordinate and follow up site installations with construction department.
  • Prepare acceptance documentations for green field and rooftop sites.
  • Main Contractor for NSN Egypt, Huawei Egypt, Ericsson Egypt and Alcatel Egypt

Site Acquisition Specialist (Team leader)

Alcatel Egypt
, Egypt
02.2004 - 12.2005
  • Worked as hired employee in Alcatel Egypt through CSC to conduct the site survey activities in Alcatel regions for the following projects in Africa and Asia countries.

Site Acquisition Specialist

Brolaz Egypt for Telecom S.A.E
, Egypt
06.1999 - 10.2002
  • Company Overview: Contractor for Vodafone
  • Worked as site acquisition specialist & site development coordinator to conducts the SF2, SF4, SF51 and SF6 for sites and responsible for administrative, document control, filing to support the acquisition and the construction managers at Brolaz Egypt company which Was one of the main contractors for VF (Click G.S.M).
  • Making full site acquisition from nominal receiving to searching options by GPS and making full survey by taking panoramic photos and preparing initial layout for tower and shelter location.
  • Summary of Qualifications Handling the site from first step.
  • Raising the new candidates (Roof top and Green field) and the existing using equipment's locations (GPS, Rangefinders, compass and binoculars).
  • Uploading documents for all candidates.
  • Owner approval through signing head of terms (HOT).
  • Negotiate the final lease with property owners.
  • Contractor for Vodafone

Site Surveyor & Coordinator

Egyptian Hellenic for Telecommunications & Networks (Aldico)
, Egypt
06.1998 - 05.1999
  • Company Overview: Contractor for Vodafone Click GSM
  • Worked as Site Surveyor and Coordinator to survey the candidates and preparing the site investigation reports included the obstruction maps, locations maps, rooftop plans, conducting line of sight according to the acquisition standard.
  • RF (within radius of the nominal point provided by RF planning, normally 100m& maintaining desired Tower height provided by RF planning, normally 30-45 meters.)
  • CW (selected plot/roof top of building must be able to sustain load of erected tower.
  • Legal (check the properties legal documents provide proof of ownership of the property, rent negotiation within agreed constraints otherwise obtain approval from customer.
  • Making full site acquisition from nominal receiving to searching options by GPS and making full survey by taking panoramic photos and making layout for site and civil (design of GSM station) and structural drawings for steel frame of shelter and tower.
  • Summary of Qualifications Handling the site from first step.
  • Raising the new candidates (Roof top and Green field) and the existing using equipment's locations (GPS, Rangefinders, compass and binoculars).
  • Uploading documents for all candidates.
  • Owner approval through signing head of terms (HOT).
  • Negotiate the final lease with property owners.
  • CAD drawings (location map, plans, elevations and power drawings).
  • Preliminary LOS.
  • Health & Safety issues.
  • Contractor for Vodafone Click GSM

Education

B.Sc. of Commerce -

Al-Azhar University

Skills

  • Working command of Windows
  • Office (WinWord, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Internet Applications
  • Professional application of e-mail

References

  • Mohamed Khairy, Ericsson CPM - Etisalat Egypt Project, +201111120209, mohamed.khairy@ericsson.com
  • Tarek Shridah, Ericsson LM - Etisalat Egypt Project, +201111120154, tareq.s.shridah@ericsson.com
  • Waseem Fathy, Ericsson COM - Etisalat Project, +201001170705, waseem.fathy@ericsson.com
  • Osama Shoula, Ericsson Total Project Manager - Vodafone SA-CW Project, +2-01002221128 / +2-01005820006, ossama.youssef.shoula@ericsson.com
  • Ayman Jawarneh, du- Senior Manager - In Building Solutions Operations, +971556296492, Ayman.Jawarneh@du.ae
  • Firas Basat, du- RF Senior Manager - In Building Solutions Operations, +971556600118, Firas.basat@du.ae
  • Sameh Barakat, du- Director Implementation Access Network - NE Technology, +971 559531508, Sameh.Barakat@du.ae
  • Mohamed Shesha, Nokia - Director AUH regain, +971559814622, mohamed.shesha@nsn.com
  • Mohamed Omar, Nokia - National TI manager- AUH, +971554150807, Mohamed.omar@nsn.com
  • Belaid Moussaoui, Huawei - Programmer Director, +971554705080, belaid.moussaoui@huawei.com
  • Khaled Mohsen, COM- Ericsson Programmer, +201116605926, khaled.mohsen@ericsson.com
  • Hisham Elgenidi, NOKIA Solution Network - Project Manager, +971 55 543 1834 / +971 56 796 3045, Hisham.elgenidi@nsn.com
  • Abdallah Alsemary, du- IBS Director, +971559532479, Abdallah.Alsemary@du.ae
  • Nabeel Atyani, Huawei - Programmer Director, +971555172474, Nabeel.atyani@huawei.com

Languages

  • Arabic, Mother Tongue
  • English, Fluent

Personal Information

  • Nationality: Egyptian
  • Driving License: Private
  • Marital Status: Married
  • Place of Birth: Egypt

Timeline

Acquisition Rollout & Legalization Manager

Ericsson
09.2016 - Current

Site Acquisition Manager

HUAWEI Technology
04.2012 - 08.2016

Site Acquisition Manager

HUAWEI Technology
09.2010 - 04.2012

Acquisition Manager (Abu Dhabi Region)

Nokia
05.2010 - 08.2010

Acquisition Manager (Eastern & Western Region)

Motorola KSA
09.2008 - 04.2010

Acquisition Manager (Ericsson & Etisalat Projects)

Mobiserve
06.2008 - 08.2008

Acquisition Manager

G3-International-for Telecommunications
02.2007 - 05.2008

Site Acquisition Specialist (Team leader)

Alcatel Egypt
02.2004 - 12.2005

Acquisition Manager

Connect Service-CSC
11.2002 - 01.2007

Site Acquisition Specialist

Brolaz Egypt for Telecom S.A.E
06.1999 - 10.2002

Site Surveyor & Coordinator

Egyptian Hellenic for Telecommunications & Networks (Aldico)
06.1998 - 05.1999

B.Sc. of Commerce -

Al-Azhar University

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