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Technical Consultant, Solution Designer

United Kingdom
United Kingdom
BSc. Electrical Engineering
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
BSc. Electrical Engineering

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CV - Ayaz Ahmed
CV-Ayaz-v37.docx

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Experienced IT and Telecom professional with extensive experience in delivering and supporting projects.  Have worked extensively on BSS projects. Very keen interest in cloud technologies, and I have recently completed my GCP - Professional Cloud Architect certification. I also did AWS - Solution Architect associate certification in 2020. 

Tech Stack/Tools:
Tools, Wireshark, Ms Visio, Ms. Office, Jira, Confluence, SOAP, SQL, SIGTRAN, SS7/C7, TCP/IP, FTP, MAP, REST, DIAMETER, INAP, Digital, Agile, Waterfall, Linux, Solaris, UML, Windows, 

 

Languages

EnglishFluent

Project history

Solution Designer

Projects -
* Telefonica NGIN Platform and Services,
* Telefonica VAS Platform
* Everything Everywhere (EE) NGIN Platform,
* H3G SMSC Platform


* Solved technical issues and providing root cause analysis to faults in the system.
* Held meetings with customer to discuss on-going issues.
* Incident Management, Fault Management, emergency service handling according to Service Level
agreement (SLA)

Technical Lead / Architect

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Role - Technical Lead (Implementation) / Technical Architect
Projects -
* Telefonica New NGIN Platform Installation in Test & LIVE Environments,
* Introduction of Disaster Recovery on Telefonica NGIN
* Telefonica Global IN Service (GINS) Project & Migration of GINS services from existing HP
platform to Huawei NGIN
* Telefonica Allowed Caller List (ACL) Project
* Introduction of Telefonica new VAS Cloud (SMSC) in Test and LIVE environment
* Telefonica Arcsight Integration with NGIN &VAS
* Telefonica Generic Service Broker (GSB) - Bill Spend Cap Project


* Analysis of new Statement of Requirements & Change Requests from customer
* Management of internal and external stakeholders for the projects.
* Production of documents and artefacts like Design Documents, Technical Impact Assessments,
Call Flows, Configuration Documents, Method of Operations, User Guides, Issue Logs, Acceptance
Test Plans.
* Development of project rollout plan for Test & Production environments working closely with
project manager. Technical project management responsibilities throughout the project
lifecycle.
* Held meetings with customer to discuss the solutions
* Implementation of the proposed solutions in the test and production environments

Technical Consultant

Nokia Siemens Networks
Projects - Subscriber Data Migration Project,
System Capacity Expansion Project

* Subscriber migration planning & execution across different Charging(BSS) platforms to
distribute the load and manage traffic.
* Leading the onsite Migration delivery.

Technical Consultant

Nokia Siemens Networks
Roles - Technical Architect
Projects - Introduction of new BSS(IN/Charging) platforms of Vodacom South Africa & Vodacom Lesotho
in the test environment

* Responsible for analysing, designing and developing commercially viable end-to-end technical
solution for the customers based on their specifications and business need.
* Technically lead the projects from initiation of the project till its closure.
* Development of rollout plan working closely with Project Manager. Technically managed the
project rollout throughout the lifecycle of projects.

Roles - System Specialist
Projects -Integration & Support of BSS(IN/Charging) platforms of Vodacom South Africa

* Lead the Integration & Commissioning of new BSS Platforms

ICT Specialist

Nokia Siemens Networks
Projects - Remote technical support to Level 2 engineers from 28 countries

* Worked in Global team (GCC) remotely from South Africa as BSS(IN/Charging) System Specialist,
which was responsible for providing support to Level 2 engineers.
* Provided solution to critical Technical Queries & Faults from 28 countries around the world
* Travel to different countries if required to resolve highly critical faults in the customer
network

Intelligent Network Specialist / Team Lead

Nokia Siemens Networks
Projects - Installation, Support & migration activities for BSS(IN/Charging) systems of Vodacom
South Africa, Cell C South Africa & Vodacom Tanzania

* Worked as IN/Prepaid Team Lead of Vodacom Support Team consisting of 3 engineers.
* First point of contact for escalations.
* Installation, Commissioning & Support of multiple Projects which includes introduction of new
IN Charging platform (Charge@once) in the network and migration from old classic SCPs to new
the new IN Platform.

Intelligent Network Engineer

Siemens Telecommunication
Projects - Maintenance activities for BSS(IN/Charging) system of STC (Saudi Telecom)

* Worked in a team which was responsible providing support & maintenance activities to STC
* Collection of error logs, traces and symptoms for different faults and problems and analyse
it.
* Fault Analysis

Project Engineer

Siemens Telecommunications
Projects - Maintenance activities for IN/Charging system of Mobilink

* Worked as IN Team Lead for hardware implementation & replacement.
* Responsible for doing the installations, update, upgrade, integration & testing activities
* Migration of more than 4 million LIVE subscribers from old IN Classic SCP platform to new
IN@vantage platforms (Prime Clusters)

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