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Yassein Khlaifat

Yassein Khlaifat

Riyadh,Imam Saud Road

Summary

Over 22 years of leadership, management, and engineering experience with mobile operators and vendors: STC, Nokia, Umniah-Jordan, and Orange-Jordan. Specialist in Network design with different technologies and vendors. Evaluate and determine efficient network solutions, provide strategic guidance, and build the processes to deliver an optimized and reliable network with minimum cost.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work history

Sr. Transmission Consultant

LCC
05.2007 - Current
  • Managing RFP preparation for STC Mobile/MW projects (3Gx, 4Gx, 5Gx, and WBB), and propose the best transport solutions
  • Prepare the responsibility matrix (Statement of Compliance) for STC new MW projects
  • Estimate the required MW budget and prepare the BoQ for new 2G/3G/4G/5G projects
  • Managing Transmission Design team for USF/WBB projects, including RFP preparations, Technical Evaluation and Design issuance
  • Managing a team of engineers to issue 2G/3G/4G/5G designs for STC network (existing/colocation and new sites)
  • Define the suitable backhauling type for existing and new sites where LTE/5G will be deployed, and then issue the transmission design using MW/DF/DWDM/MPLS
  • Issue and approve technical processes that define everybody's role in the transport department and the workflow with other departments
  • Provide the transmission solutions for loaded towers (civil issues) by MW rerouting, minimize the antenna's size, or downgrade the antenna's height
  • Optimize the MW network by providing suitable technical solutions for long chains, congested links, legacy links, and materials reach the end of Support
  • Optimize the backhaul solutions by offloading the legacy equipment (SDH and MBH) and utilize the MPLS aggregators
  • Support the planning team to provide 5-years CAPEX expansión plan
  • Support the performance team to find the best solution for congested links and circuits
  • IP RAN design for 3G sites migrated from ATM to IP Transport
  • ATM Design for STC 3G Network using TL8600
  • SDH mapping using DXX 6300 and Huawei ADM for new sites
  • MW Design for new sites using different vendors equipment (Huawei, Ericsson, and Nokia)
  • Rerouting and Rehoming (Changing BSC/MSC) plans for GSM sites
  • Preparation of Transmission Design for New Sites, Cell On Wheel (COW) and capacity expansions.

Transmission Team lead

NOKIA NETWORKS / UAE, DUBAI
DUBAI
05.2006 - 05.2007
  • Region
  • Managing a team of 12 people (5 Engineer & 7 LOS Technicians)
  • Perform 2G & 3G planning for all sites in Abu Dhabi Region (8 BSC's & 3 RNC's of Nokia products)
  • Perform IP/MPLS & ATM planning for TL8600 platform
  • Perform E1/STM1 mux planning for TL6300
  • Prepare all needed BoQ for access network, TL6300, TL8600

Senior Transmission Planning Engineer

UMNIAH MOBILE COMPANY
03.2005 - 05.2006
  • Following all planning issues regarding SDH Backbone Network for du project
  • Following all the BOQ regarding SDH network (Tellabs & NERA SDH systems)
  • E1 MUX planning and documentation needed for the implementation team
  • Coordinate all the LOS surveys needed from different subcontractors to get optimized MW network and find out alternative solutions for the obstacle one, Planning the Tellabs SDH & DXX network
  • Design the synchronization plan for Tellabs 6340 and 8100 network
  • Frequency planning, determine the point frequency for the links referring to distance and frequencies bands licensed from TRC(using PathLoss)
  • Preparing Microwave link Packages for each new link; PDH and STM1 Microwave Links, which contains Indoor & outdoor information, the hop configuration, link budget and Network Connectivity
  • Rerouting and rehoming (Changing BSC/MSC) plans for GSM sites
  • Prepare the hop configuration and determine the link parameters, which contains; Tx power, Rx power, antenna size, availability, Capacity, fade margin,
  • SDH network capacity planning using Tellabs NMS
  • Transmission Network Optimization; rerouting, downgrade, upgrade
  • Adding new Tellabs (6340/8100) nodes, trunks, circuits using 8100 NMS R14-SP5 & SP7.1
  • Adding daily SNC (SDH pp) circuits serving the new cells and sites using Tellabs NMS
  • Tellabs 6340/8100 network management system using 8100 NMS R14-SP7.1
  • Tellabs 6340 node management using craft terminal R14-SP3
  • Tellabs SDH and DXX (6300 families / 8100 families and A111) install, commission, integrate, test, and accept
  • Troubleshooting the SDH and DXX problem using a fault management system and taking the needed action to solve it
  • E1 distribution, planning, and updating Transmission Design database
  • Follow up all issues related to Tellabs DXX system Project i.e
  • Planning, design, Documentation, spare parts...etc
  • Follow up all matters related to Tellabs SDH (6300 families) project i.e
  • Planning, design, upgrade, documentation, spare parts…etc
  • Follow up all issues related to Management systems like Tellabs NMS and Harris StarVeiw
  • Update the indoor documents (DDF & Rack layouts) for sites and the Network Connectivity diagrams regularly
  • Optimize the Microwave network and keep its high quality by:
  • Determine the needed Capacity upgrades for the links
  • Determine the needed protection solutions (hot standby or working standby) for the links
  • Making the acceptance for the transmission hub sites (nodal sites); equipment & Racks & DDF security, earthing, external alarms and connectivity
  • Harris TruePoint and Microstar management system using StarView NMS
  • Harris MW links full control and configuration using Keypad
  • GPS (OSCILLOQUARTZ) O&M, management system using SyncView.

Transmission Engineer

ORANGE
11.2001 - 03.2005
  • Microwave link design, link by link pathloss file creation, link budget calculations, and frequency interference calculations
  • Installing, commissioning, testing, and accepting new Ericsson MW links (minilink E and C); nonprotected 1+0 and protected 1+1
  • Minilink Operation and management system using NETMAN management system
  • Tellabs DXX installation, integration, commissioning and management system
  • Maintenance for minilink E & C, using Mini-Link service manager S/W Ver.6
  • And take the needed action to solve the problem
  • Working as a group coordinator for the maintenance department and distribute the duties according to their priority and type
  • Preparing Microwave link Packages for each new link, which contains Indoor & outdoor information, the hop configuration, link budget and Network Connectivity
  • Prepare the hop configuration and determine the link parameters, which contains; Tx power, Rx power, antenna size, availability, Capacity, fade margin,
  • Frequency planning, determine the point frequency for the links referring to distance and frequencies bands licensed from TRC(using PathLoss)
  • Update the indoor documents (DDF & Rack layouts) for sites and the Network Connectivity diagrams regularly
  • Determine the needed Capacity upgrades for the links
  • Supervise the upgrade & the protection processes (providing all needed Documents)
  • Monitor all the links and check if their performance is according to ITU recommendation
  • Achievements in LCC /STC
  • Save more than SAR 100M for STC during the past 10 years by reusing/redeploying the MW equipments
  • MW verification with TAWAL for around 14000 sites within the targeted time
  • Migrate thousands of sites by offloading the SDH and MBH to the collocated MPLS aggregators or DWDM
  • Integrate thousands of mobile sites by using temporary solutions to meet the CITC targets
  • Propose and design the first 8+SD link in the region using two different bands and reuse existing antenna
  • Supervise the first worldwide MW POC link with 12+0 configuration using one antenna and 3 normal MW bands, this link avails capacity up to 8Ghz
  • Achievements in Nokia /Dubai
  • Prepare datafill for three RNC's in Abu Dhabi
  • Make one synchronization plan for all Du networks elements
  • Make all 6340 mux planning for Du network
  • Achievements (in Umniah Mobile Company, Jordan):
  • Create 1+1 protection for the traffic coming from Umniah remote BSCs Using TELLABS 8150 and A111 nodes
  • Optimize Umniah SDH rings by making sure that each of two MW radios supporting the same ring must be fused on separate sources, and making sure the east and west SDH interfaces of the same ring should be connected to different optical modules (SIMX1/4, SIM1/4 Cards)
  • Commissioning 30 nodes of Tellabs 6340 and 13 nodes of Tellabs 8150
  • The outcome 5 SDH rings performed using 6340 nodes
  • Preparing the BOQ depending on the new sites requirements, expansion for the existing sites, and the effect of edge service on the GSM network
  • Supervise on the layout and installation of all Umniah DDF; (from transmission side to BSC, BSC to Transcoder, and Transcoder to MSC)
  • DXX Network Design for the expansion needed for phase 2 and DXX sites swap to new BSC/MSC in this project by put detailed engineering design for these sites taking on the consideration the DXX nodes upgrade by adding new cards in the existing nodes, specify all circuits, trunks details after calculating the cross connection matrix availability
  • Request for Quotation: Preparation the request for Quotation Documents which include Project Scope of Work, Equipment technical specification and Network Scenario 1(DXX only) and Scenario 2 (DXX & SDH)
  • Bill of Quantity: Bill of Quantity for Both the DXX (8100 family) and SDH (6300 family)
  • Network Planning and Design: The network Design which include the equipment selection and configuration, Network Topology.

Education

Master of Business Administration (MBA) -

University of Bedfordshire
UK
09.2019 - 10.2020

B.Sc - Communication Engineering

Yarmouk University
Jordan
09.1995 - 01.2001

Skills

  • Skills and Personal Experience
  • Have customer satisfaction skills through working with the customer as senoir consutant for 16 years
  • An excellent command of spoken and written English
  • Self-motivated, well organized, work-dedicated, team player, responsible, durable and eager to learn new Technologies
  • Excellent knowledge in computer software and tools (Windows, MS Office, PATHLOSS, MAPINFO)
  • Managing a technical design/planning teams, and provide a technical solutions for issues appearing for the first time
  • Excellent experience in managing and working with Ericsson MW equipments
  • Excellent experience in managing and working with Huawei MW equipments
  • Excellent experience in managing and working with Nokia MW equipments
  • Very good Knowledge in managing and working with Tellabs Equipments (DXX 8100, SDH6300, ATM8600)
  • Very good experience in Harris Microwave Equipments (MicroStar 2 & TruePoint 5000)
  • Ability to provide end-to-end transport solution for any 4G/5G site
  • Ability to provide high level support to the operation team to solve difficult issues and propose solutions for Microwaves propagation problems as reflection, fading, diffraction, by using space diversity, frequency diversity or by changing the link parameters
  • Ability to provide support to the delivery team to solve issues like equipments shortage, temporary solution
  • Familiar with the ITU Recommendations that is concerned in transmission fields; PDH, SDH, Frequency planning
  • Line of site survey using GPS, light for optical LOS, Mirrors
  • Training Courses attended
  • Consulting
  • Financial Management
  • Project Management
  • Negotiation
  • Staff Management
  • Flexibility
  • Business administration
  • Strategic planning
  • Budgeting
  • Business Development
  • Contract Management
  • Teamwork mindset

Accomplishments

  • MobileCom Team Work Day (MobileCom Training)
  • Products & Services (MobileCom Training)
  • GPRS system survey, Amman
  • Nokia values and ways, Dubai, DIC building, one day
  • University Technical Training: Spent six months in Fastlink/Zain Jordan; the first GSM operator in Jordan
  • The training was two divisions, the first was in transmission department and the second was in the BSS department; from this period the first knowledge formed about the GSM
  • Career summary
  • Extensive experience in the mobile transmission networks and advanced engineering telecom services (NOKIA, ERICSSON, HUAWEI, TELLABS DXX 8100, TELLABS SDH 6300, TELLABS 8600, Harris MW Systems; NERA Microwave Systems)
  • Professional experience in the managing of mobile backhaul solutions and microwave communications.

Certification

MW Innovation in big Data Era by Huawei, Nov 2015 Small Cell Technical Solution by Nokia, Oct 2015 Makkah 2020 Network workshop, Sep 2015 Optix RTN Planning Advanced Training for RTN900 and RTN380 - Huawei, July 2013

Languages

English
Fluent

Timeline

Master of Business Administration (MBA) -

University of Bedfordshire
09.2019 - 10.2020

Sr. Transmission Consultant

LCC
05.2007 - Current

Transmission Team lead

NOKIA NETWORKS / UAE, DUBAI
05.2006 - 05.2007

Senior Transmission Planning Engineer

UMNIAH MOBILE COMPANY
03.2005 - 05.2006

Transmission Engineer

ORANGE
11.2001 - 03.2005

B.Sc - Communication Engineering

Yarmouk University
09.1995 - 01.2001

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