Ahmed Ali

Senior Program Manager | PMP & Telecommunications

Salary / Daily rate

Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Skills

Project Management (PMO)

Languages

ArabicDutchEnglish

About me

Intro

PMP-certified Program Manager with 20+ years in telecommunications and IT infrastructure management. Led enterprise-scale projects at Saudi Telecom, NWC Data Center, and Dell, specializing in VoIP systems, network architecture, and business process optimization. Ready to deliver strategic IT solutions and drive your telecom projects to success.

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Work experience

Program Manager - PMO (Dell Team)

solutions by stc

Mar 2023 - Present

3 years 8 months

Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Skills: PMP · Team Management · Service Delivery · Telecommunications · Business Analysis & development · Integration · Network Administration · Program Management · System Architecture

Technical & Business Project Manager (PMO)

NWC

Dec 2021 - May 2023

1 year 6 months

Al Qurayyat Saudi Arabia

At Midisglobal MDS (HP Partner), As Technical & Business Project Manager (NWC Data Center Project) in NWC Data Center Project

Technical & Business adviser (Consultant)

Saudi Telecom Company

Oct 2016 - Mar 2022

5 years 6 months

STC HQ, Riyadh, Mursalat

Technical & business development director (Consultant) Analyze, Manage, control, & supervise the planning, projects & business rules, procedures to comply with the main strategies business requirements & needs, policies on business on strategic level & regulations for the middle management & subordinates to adjust it to cope with environmental changes, Analyze solutions, projects, to strengthen our services and grow the businesses, develop rules, and implement processes, BRSDs, systems, and technology to support and enhance the operations function, including workflow and incident management, PM & PMO tasks & duty with analysis build and lead skilled teams to monitor, investigate, escalate and resolve system and network issues impacting the business, systems & production and infrastructure around the globe Develop and implement processes prepare revise & present CR, CCR, SLA, OLA, RFI, RFP, RFQ and SOP’s to measure effectiveness and performance of the business, Operations team, Proactively analyze the business, policies & design allow businesses to discover and fix problems before it impacts, Develop and maintain strategic, pilot projects, middle management, policy, regulations metrics / on monthly/quarterly support responsiveness to comply with main company strategy & policy, Analyzing & Managing Change Requests’, Service’s Concepts Requests, Plan Change Request, And Business Requirements Analysis Documents to meet business goals including work assignments, Coach and mentor business documentations processes, Subordinates, provide technical direction and guidance to Teams & staff responsible for Technical / IT support on research, documentation of details and escalations processes, Demonstrates a commitment to achieving the highest standards of processes & service in all activities and levels, Follow up, supervise the Technical procedures & steps that comply with business/analysis/documents & requirements for IT/Telecom/ISP and technical levels.

Technical & Business director

EXL Technologies

Mar 2009 - Oct 2016

7 years 8 months

Present a full solution for IT Telecom SP, multinational & large enterprises companies, main structure & back bone for the carrier grade & international & governmental companies, & Remote and local support for VoIP services and Wireless and VAS services, network, servers, Analyzing & Monitoring & supporting SIP & SIP proxy servers / Media & stream servers MCP / CSP / SBC / Gateways. IMG Integrated Media Gateway For VOIP calls transcending TDM - IP (carrier grade) CSP Converged Services Platform For VOIP calls transcending TDM - IP (Enterprise company) MSP Multi-Services Platform For all the VAS services such Ring back tones (carrier grade) SBC & RSM Supporting & maintaining SBC's & MSX's Section board controller for VOIP calls - RSM call monitoring & controlling routes (carrier grade) Analyzing & Monitoring & supporting SIP & SIP proxy servers / Media & stream servers MCP / CSP / SBC / Gateways. Extreme network's backbone data network design, maintain, analyze, troubleshooting, IMG Integrated Media Gateway, CSP Converged Services Platform For VOIP calls transcending TDM – IP (carrier grade)& (Enterprise company) MSP Multi-Services Platform For all the VAS services such Ring back tones (carrier grade) SBC & RSM Supporting & maintaining SBC’s & MSX’s Section board controller for VOIP calls – RSM call monitoring & controlling routes (carrier grade).

IT Manager

Jazan Municipality

Feb 2008 - Mar 2009

1 year 2 months

Jazan Saudi Arabia

All the IT duties & responsibility Develop and maintain strategic, pilot projects, middle management, policy, regulations metrics / on monthly/quarterly support responsiveness to comply with main company strategy & policy, Supervise and system & network administrator for All the servers, Application servers, VoIP, System Enhance all the managing & controlling abilities, Develop the integration with the application servers, enhance the network performance & the fiber optics, for the connectivity with the core & internal networks (intranet), Motioning & managing different servers & services and DB & SQL servers, Cisco routers, firewalls, Supervise all the servers, Application servers, VoIP system, enhance all the managing & controlling abilities Develop the integration with the application servers; enhance the network performance & the fiber optics. Supervise VoIP, Oracle, Cisco, Avaya servers, Maintain the systems functionality, difficulties, solutions, etc...

Senior administrator

Echo Group

Jun 2007 - Mar 2008

10 months

From 8/2006 till 6/2007 IT & Q.A. Engineer in AIMCO tech;Verizon Telecom USA

IT & Q.A. Engineer

Verizon Telecom - AIMCO tech

Aug 2006 - Jul 2007

1 year

Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt

• From 8/2006 till 6/2007 IT & Q.A. Engineer in AIMCO tech; Verizon Telecom USA

IT manager

Invent software & web & media developing & solution company

Sep 2005 - Jul 2006

11 months

Skills: PMP · Unified Communications · Business Analysis & development · Network Administration

Technical support Enginner

Raya & forte call centre

Jan 2004 - Jan 2006

2 years 1 month

HTC Mobile Technical support Engineer level 2,

instructor

Forexgen & Velocityforex

Mar 2003 - Aug 2005

2 years 6 months

Skills: Business Analysis & development · Network Administration

Support Engineer & network administrator

NETPark

Aug 2002 - Jan 2003

6 months

From 8/2002 till 2003 Maintenance supervisor & network administrator in Netpark.

Support Engineer & network administrator

A.R.T. Inc

Feb 2002 - Aug 2002

7 months

From 2002 till 2002 Support Engineer & network administrator In A.R.T.

Support Engineer & Network Administrator

Interhamok

Jan 2000 - Jan 2002

2 years 1 month

Hardware & software Support Engineer & Network Administrator

Support Engineer & Network Administrator

Craft Computer Systems

Jan 1998 - Jan 2000

2 years 1 month

Hardware & software Support Engineer & Network Administrator


Education

Al Fekey training

Marketing strategy & Modern sales Diploma

2013 - 2022

9 years 1 month

Arqam for Language & islamic studies

Bachelor of Islamic studies

2009 - 2013

4 years 1 month

Cairo University

Computer Science Diploma

2009 - 2011

2 years 1 month

Genband UK

Telecom VoIP Advanced Enginnering

2009 - 2010

1 year 1 month

Banha University

Bachelor of Business Administration & Management (B.B.A.)

1999 - 2007

8 years 1 month

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