ADEEL AHMED
Bagenalstown
Summary
As a highly accomplished professional with 19 years of experience in telecommunication and data center infrastructure projects, I have developed a strong reputation for technical expertise and exceptional project management skills. I am adept at planning and executing site infrastructure projects, with a keen focus on delivering comprehensive results while maintaining rigorous health and safety standards. My proficiency in deadline tracking, coupled with strong communication abilities, ensures proactive engagement with stakeholders. This approach consistently delivers projects on time, within budget, and to the highest standards of excellence.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
THM KLS Group-Ireland
10.2022 - Current
- Lead and oversee Public lighting energy efficiency project (PLEEP) deliverables from inception to completion, ensuring adherence to timelines and budget constraints.
- Collaborate with the design team, county council, and consultants to define project objectives, requirements, and scope.
- Develop and manage project schedules, including resource allocation and task assignments
- Ensuring consistent safety and quality maintained on site, involves obtaining necessary permits for road closures, lane restrictions, and temporary traffic management, and ensuring that all activities adhere to established standards.
- Providing necessary training and guidance to project team members on health, safety, and environmental best practices
- Create and maintain a comprehensive survey programme to facilitate efficient project execution
- Facilitate regular meetings with clients and consultants to ensure project alignment with their expectations.
- Uprising responsibility for site teams; liaison with internal and external stakeholders
- Act as the primary point of contact for all project-related inquiries and issues
- Conduct weekly meetings with internal teams, including safety, traffic management, and the field team, to ensure proper coordination and alignment of project goals.
- Provide guidance and support to team members to address challenges and streamline project processes
- Monitor project budget and expenses to ensure cost-effective project execution
- Allocate resources effectively to meet project milestones and goals
- Identify potential project risks and develop strategies to mitigate them
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations and implement measures to reduce on-site risks
- Maintain accurate project documentation, including progress reports, change orders, and project plans
- Provide regular updates to senior management and stakeholders on project status and performance
- Implement quality control measures to ensure that project deliverables meet or exceed established standards
- Foster a collaborative and productive work environment for the project team
- Provide mentorship and training opportunities to enhance team members' skills and capabilities
- Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations, codes, and industry standards
- Stay updated on industry trends and best practices to maintain a competitive edge
- Continuously assess and enhance client satisfaction by meeting their expectations and addressing their concern
Project Manager
KN Circet UK Birmingham
01.2022 - 10.2022
- Drove and managed the FTTX project to meet or exceed KPI targets
- Provided direction to the project team, including sub-contractors, to ensure compliance with local authority and statutory provisions for Street works legislation
- Directed cross-functional project teams, including internal staff and subcontractors, to ensure the successful execution of projects
- Employed advanced technical skills to oversee project development, installation, and testing of Fiber FTTX infrastructure
- Utilized project management methodologies to track project progress, deadlines, and costs, promptly addressing deviations from the plan
- Managed productivity, assigned roles, tasks, and responsibilities for successful project completion
- Took ownership of the commercial aspects of the contract/project to prevent financial breaches and identified cost-saving opportunities
- Ensured compliance with the company's safety policies and procedures
- Successfully delivered programs for contracts in a safe, quality, and on-time manner
- Ensured compliance with regulatory measures related to the works and operations
- Achieved turnover and profitability for all contracts by maximizing efficiency and minimizing the cost of failure
- Managed client relationships within client organizations
- Reviewed contractual agreements, developed working methods, program, and forecast costs, identifying inaccuracies or inconsistencies
- Developed programs, assessed actual program and productivity, and reported changes to the Contracts Manager and Commercial department
- Managed the program to ensure appropriate specialists provided the necessary resources and skills
- Maintained a daily site diary and kept records of changes/variations, specialists' attendance, and work-related discussions
- Ensured that inspection and test plans, risk assessments, and method statements were reviewed, approved, and adhered to
- Supervised site teams and liaised with internal and external stakeholders
- Conducting regular risk assessments and implementing appropriate measures to mitigate potential hazards and risks
- Monitoring compliance with relevant regulations and standards to prevent accidents, injuries, and environmental damage
Regional Fibre Planner and GIS Analyst
Fullfibre Limited UK
Telford
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Responsible for new fibre build FTTP Planning, customer connections MDU and SDU network upgrades, diversionary works, and customized solutions
- Managed the day-to-day productivity of the Planning team, overseeing work volumes and priorities in line with business requirements
- Possess experience in manipulating data and metadata supporting civil route and fibre design
- Demonstrated a thorough knowledge of GIS systems and local and national authority regulations
- As a regional planner, I have a deep understanding of lit fibre services, and the ability to comprehend and produce detailed survey installation and as-built documentation such as work packages and work orders
- Exhibited a strong understanding of all aspects of fibre planning deliverables and methodologies
- Proficient in managing and producing detailed industry-standard surveys, installation, and as-built documentation
- Knowledge and understanding of lit fibre services
- Strong knowledge of Civil and Cable Planning, including ducts, chambers, poles, etc
- Experience with PIA projects and Openreach network
- Proficiency in planning for 3rd Party sites within the Openreach framework
- Skilled in using GIS tools
- Expertise in PON planning for both underground and overhead delivery
- A decisive thinker, capable of quickly analyzing information and making robust decisions
- Highly analytical, solution-oriented, and adept at overseeing a fast-moving and multicultural environment
- Operated as the primary point of contact for clients, providing GIS work order proposals with time-to-completion and budgeting estimates
- Aligned supply and demand with the agreed quarterly plan and effectively deployed resources
- Demonstrated leadership of matrix teams across planning to deliver the desired customer outcome
- Provided day-to-day supervision of planning teams, predominantly consisting of third-party contractors
- Conducted performance reporting and quality measurement across the end-to-end process, identifying risks and issues and developing action plans to resolve them
- Regularly engaged in stakeholder management at the Senior Manager level across internal and external teams
- Adapted to a growing program of work with processes and priorities still being defined, making decisions and leading process definition and optimization while remaining flexible to evolving customer demands
Project Manager
MTN Group
Cotonou
09.2019 - 12.2020
- Responsible end-to-end project management including Project time, cost, quality, resources planning and documentation which included business case, project reporting, risk management, quality check and change management process
- Managed installing and commissioning data center infrastructure components including racks, servers, network equipment, UPS, ATS, switchgear, switchboards, panels, fuel tanks, transfer and PDU power distribution units, chillers, and cooling systems
- Collaborated with client Project Managers, and stakeholders to deliver modernization projects on time, to cost, and quality
- Vendor management and coordination, role with vendors, and other internal and external key stakeholders
- Generated reports detailing project information and predictions
- Mitigated risk-coordinated plans and updated specifications to ensure safety and HSE compliance
- Diminished costs by reviewing and qualifying competitive subcontractor bids before contract execution
- Conducted technical and customer meetings to increase communication and strengthen internal and external relationships
- Maximized customer satisfaction through effective operational management aligned with quality standards and customer requirements
- Interviewed and hired top contractor talent to complete projects on time and under budget
- Delivered a high level of service to clients to both maintain and extend working relationships for future business opportunities
- Made changes to project scope and cost and effective change management processes to keep the project up to date
- Managed estimation process by preparing specialty subcontractor bid packages, and material procurement for the project
- Manage project finance and monitor project expenditure including BoM, vendor offers and PO
- Responsible for maintaining the network KPIs during the execution period, make aligning with the managed service team on the project execution plan and activities
Fiber Network Project Manager
MTN Group
09.2017 - 10.2019
- Managed fibre Network, which included FTTX and DWDM network planning and maintenance strictly following the delivery plan
- Ensured that KPIs such as fibre pack output/build completion rates, quality, utilization of the passive network and technical standards were being controlled and achieved
- Managed monitoring, reporting and escalating fibre planning and fibre capacity issues within the network deployment
- Experience in fixed and cable operator fibre design, including detailed knowledge of working on GPON, FTTX and DWDM networks
- Established network within the fibre services industry (supplier and customer)
- Excellent understanding of fibre network architectures and network topology
- Robust design experience and usage of design, survey, and inventory applications (ArcGIS, QGIS, AutoCAD Pathloss etc.)
- Extensive experience with Permit drafting/drawings, HLD, LLD and As- Built Engineering
- Experience conducting quality control of fibre engineering designs
- Experience of managing OSP design engineers
- Solid understanding of OSP network design key drivers affecting cost in OSP network rollouts
- Managed fibre survey team and reports
- Profound understanding of customer challenges within fibre network domain
- Ability to gain confidence with the customer
- End-to-end supplier management to include identification, vetting, contract negotiations and management
- Provided leadership and technical guidance to the various sections/ units in Operations
- Ensured that capacity was introduced into the network allowing sufficient headroom for customer growth
Transmission Planning Supervisor
MTN Group
01.2008 - 09.2017
- Provided leadership and innovation in Planning, design, and optimization of a sustainable and future-proof Transport network (Fiber, microwave, and IP) in line with defined business objectives
- Assisted and supported OPCOs with alignment to Group Transport strategies
- Developed and evolved MTN's Transport roadmap in line with the future network vision
- Worked with Group Procurement & Technology in selecting Group Transport vendors
- Prepared business plan for transmission according to business, core, and radio demands
- Managed Transmission CAPEX and OPEX by keeping total TCO under budget with the best KPIs
- Set future transport IP network strategies, transport architecture development and network roadmaps to meet capacity demands and business targets
- Managed annual budgets, purchase order placement, cost control and follow-up the on-time delivery of equipment
- Conduct the technical evaluation of different vendor's products and RFPs
- Planned and implemented goals of the organization's network system
- Exceed transmission microwave and optical fiber network needs by recommending changes to existing and new network operations
- Participated in bidding for frequency requirements for short, medium, and long hops
- Approve cost-effective designs for various Transmission infrastructures, medium, and technology
- Liaised with Group Technologies/Procurement on technical tender evaluation vendor selection and contracts management
- Supported Commercial teams on Tender response, solution descriptions as well as client engagement
- Technical Lead on enterprise solution design, equipment as well as vendor shortlisting and support the procurement
Transmission Planning Engineer
Areeba Network
01.2007 - 12.2007
- Created transmission expansion methods including network design to support radio and core expansion plans
- Delivered Transmission Frequency planning & Interference analysis) using TEMS Link Planner with Ericsson equipment (Mini-Link Traffic- Node ML HC & ML-E
- Performed Optimization activities for Access transmission network optimization, site re-routing, Hub & sub-hub offloading
- Re-designed & provided the nominal transmission plan and BOQ for the transmission network according to the new 2G& LAC design
- Prepared Transmission migration Plan for the BTS sites from one BSC to another BSC according to the RF request
- Trained all transmission engineering, supervised capacity for 2G network, and local interconnect and established the required expansion plans
Microwave Transmission Team Leader
Siemens Network
Karachi
09.2005 - 11.2006
- Developed the overall transport strategic drive for the company with reference OPCO specific requirements, trust, and Global dynamics
- Ensured core transmission capacity 6 months ahead of rollout requirement
- Confirmed weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports on core transmission planning activities available to higher management
- Maintained transmission infrastructure database and completed relevant data readily available on request
Senior Transmission Project Engineer
INTERSES GSM
Karachi
10.2004 - 08.2005
- Planned, and optimized Ericsson/NEC SDH and PDH links on GSM projects in Pakistan
- Prepared nominal transmission plan, transmission media selection, topology definition and microwave link budgeting
- Performed rollout, expansion, software upgrades, and routine Maintenance and fault resolution duties
- Managed Service RAN TX Project delivery
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
University of Science and Technology
PakistanSkills
- Project Delivery and Management
- Project Management Software
- Data Center Implementation
- Fiber Optic Installation
- Health Safety Management
- Team Management
- Resource and Budget Planning
- BOQ/BOM technical offers negotiation
- Vendor & Subcontractor management
- Contract management and SLA negotiation
- Project Risk evaluation
- Disaster recovery Plan
- Technical documents drafting
- Contract Management
- Risk Management
- Vendor Sourcing
- Document Management
- Procedure Development
- Project tracking
- Schedule Management
- Cost Control
- Project Planning
- Compliance Monitoring
- Project Management
- Project Scheduling
- Project scope analysis
Certification
- Princ2 Agile Project Management
- H&S CDM regulation 2015
- Mini MBA
- Safe pass
- QGIS & 3GIS
- Ericsson Radio planning
- Ericsson Backhaul transmission
- Optical fibre Design & planning
- Huawei IP/MPLS CCNP
- Project management Certified Prince2 Agile
- H&S CDM Regulation 2015 UK
- 3GIS and QGIS Training
- Streetwork PQMS certification
- Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
Accomplishments
- Delivery of PLEEP ER in nine counties
- Openreach-BT Birmingham
Timeline
Project Manager
THM KLS Group-Ireland
10.2022 - Current
Project Manager
KN Circet UK Birmingham
01.2022 - 10.2022
Regional Fibre Planner and GIS Analyst
Fullfibre Limited UK
01.2021 - 01.2022
Project Manager
MTN Group
09.2019 - 12.2020
Fiber Network Project Manager
MTN Group
09.2017 - 10.2019
Transmission Planning Supervisor
MTN Group
01.2008 - 09.2017
Transmission Planning Engineer
Areeba Network
01.2007 - 12.2007
Microwave Transmission Team Leader
Siemens Network
09.2005 - 11.2006
Senior Transmission Project Engineer
INTERSES GSM
10.2004 - 08.2005
- Princ2 Agile Project Management
- H&S CDM regulation 2015
- Mini MBA
- Safe pass
- QGIS & 3GIS
- Ericsson Radio planning
- Ericsson Backhaul transmission
- Optical fibre Design & planning
- Huawei IP/MPLS CCNP
- Project management Certified Prince2 Agile
- H&S CDM Regulation 2015 UK
- 3GIS and QGIS Training
- Streetwork PQMS certification
- Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering
University of Science and Technology
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