Ahmed Herzallah
MBA
51 years old
Driving License
Employed
Open to opportunities
Nationality:Egyptian
Marital Status: Married
Current address: Alslama, Sari street, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Driving License:Valid (KSA and Egypt)
Visas Held: KSA Residence Visa
A conscientious and professional personal with extensive experience in Mobile communication. Over 15+ years of experience managing and planning multi-millions projects in Mobile telecommunication field
Marital Status: Married
Current address: Alslama, Sari street, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Driving License:Valid (KSA and Egypt)
Visas Held: KSA Residence Visa
A conscientious and professional personal with extensive experience in Mobile communication. Over 15+ years of experience managing and planning multi-millions projects in Mobile telecommunication field
General Manager Access Planning
Mobily
Since 2016
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
- Formulation of the company/department strategy for all Access Network layers (2G, 3G, 4G and beyond , MW, WiFi and small cells) across the Kingdome to keep Mobily Network with the latest network standards and technology
- Create, establish and develop strategic technical partnership with vendors to leverage on their R&D centres and resources to support company strategy and expansion plans.
- Study the service requests from all mobily departments including marketing, performance, finance, business, whole sales and demand management to evaluate technical requirements in order to plan and dimension the Access network based on capacity requirements/ network demand
- Planning and budgeting access network expansion and modernization based on the target long and short term strategy to support business requirements and demand.
- Develop and innovative Network solution with vendors/consultants/contractors to ensure all quality parameters and standards are maintained with highest level. Ensuring provision of technical assistance to other departments for Network plan and design.
- Prepare the access network band requirements to secure regulatory assignment via regulatory affair department.
- Planning and assessment of trials and important features needed for the network in coordination with design, optimization and vendor team to decide which products , solutions or features should be adopted in Mobily network
- Oversee and ensure necessary components of all Access layers to support mega projects and business opportunities covering whole sales, real state and all other business units.
Director Access Design - Western region
Mobily
September 2011
to 2016
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
- Formulation and implementation of the company/department strategy for all Access Network layers (2G, 3G, 4G) across the west and south region in KSA
- Developing and maintaining the technology road map for 2G, 3G, and 4G network layers and adopt most innovative solution to serve company strategy for existing and evolving service demand.
- Forecasting the long/short term budget for Access network based on technology roadmap and expansion demand also to convey and communicate the annual budget for west and south region in KSA
- Maximize the efficiency of utilizing the department CAPEX through using tools and technologies to obtain smart network planning
- Supervise west region RFQs/RFPs committees related to Access network to ensure maximum utilization/efficiency of department budget.
- Mentor the planning and design managers and engineers to ensure the most efficient and standards-compliant process.
- Develop innovative Network solution with vendors/consultants/contractors to ensure all quality parameters and standards are maintained with highest level. Ensuring provision of technical assistance to other departments for Network plan and design
- Assures that the network’s Key Performance & utilization Indicators are at their healthiest state. Brings about the most cooperative inter-departmental working environment with different teams e.g. Network Operations Centre, Optimization, Project, sales ….etc.
- Monitoring planning global Key Performance Indicators to guarantee network efficiency
- Being Chairman of some committees and member of others , my responsibility was to Plan, prepare and negotiate the vendor offers for budget of SAR 500M+ covering 2G , 3G and 4G to cater the network requirements including price negotiation and technical evaluation of the solution and products
Executive manager planning and design
Mobily
2009
to 2011
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
- Managing of the department strategy for all Access Network layers (2G, 3G, 4G) across the west and south region in KSA
- Forecasting the long/short term budget for Access network based on technology road-map and expansion demand, and manager the related network expansion requirements
- Develop innovative Network solution with vendors/consultants/contractors to ensure all quality parameters and standards are maintained with highest level. Ensuring provision of technical assistance to other departments for Network plan and design
2G & 3G planning and optimization
Mobily
2004
to 2009
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
- Monitoring global Key Performance Indicators.
- Observing the BSCs / RNCs performance in the assigned geographical area
- Initiating the process of network expansions by presenting the statistical behavior of traffic along with the anticipated trends of subscribers’ growth (2G and 3G).
- Preparing detailed optimization tender documents and negotiating with vendors
- Evaluates proposals received from vendors to meet with Mobily Management directions
- Participate and train planning team to select survey and design mobily network in the best practice to cover whole region following the agreed phases from management
- Participate and train planning team to dimension Mobily BTS/BSC network in the best practice to handle the required capacity
- Responsible for Huawei, Motorola and ERICSSON Planning and optimization activities
2G and 3G UTRAN planning and optimization engineer
ETISALAT
1997
to 2004
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
- Planning and optimization of 2G RAN, Ericsson equipment
- Planning of 3G deployments in Dubai for Huawei equipment started on 2nd half of 2003
- Optimizing the first phase of the 3G network started early 2004
- Training of newly hired engineers to work in planning and optimization section.
- Participating in the network plan and optimization for major events in Dubai with excellent performance such as
• Dubai Shopping Festival (annual event)
• Gulf IT Exhibition, GITEX (annual event)
• Dubai World cup ( annual event)
Graduated as Master of Business Administration with merit
Bachelor in Communications and Electronics Engineering
Zagazig University, Faculty of Engineering
1991
to 1995
Cumulative Very Good with honor
Graduation Project : Design and implementation of Arabic DOS using Assembly language
Graduation Project Grade : Distinction
Graduation Project : Design and implementation of Arabic DOS using Assembly language
Graduation Project Grade : Distinction
- Mobily change Management program - 2014, Riyadh
- Finance for Non finance - 2013, Jeddah
- Strategic thinking and business planning 2011 , Geneva
- Project Management professional certification preparation - 2010, Riyadh
- Advanced decision making - 2009 , Jeddah
- The 4 disciplines of execution- 2008, Riyadh
- The 7 Habits of the highly effective people 2008 , Riyadh
- Business Acumen - 2008, Riyadh
- Leadership - 2008, Riyadh
- Mini MBA
- Cellular and GSM Overview
- Radio Network features
- Cell planning principles
- Cell planning Workshop
- Radio Network tuning
- Advance system technique
- Statistics handling
- Cell planning with TEMS cell planner
- GSM Advance system technique
- GSM signaling
- GSPRS system survey
- WCDMA System Overview
- WCDMA TEMS cell planner User
- WCDMA air interface
- WCMA Radio Network design
- VPN & IP Security
- WCDMA-GSM Intersystem Handover
- WCDMA radio network functionality
- IP in WCDMA
- WCDMA system technique
- LTE overview
- LTE advanced course
- LTE Air interface
- MIMO in WCDMA and LTE
- Exploring Ethernet backhauling
