Mohammed Baban

Experience

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  Al Maueed

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1998

  Maintenance Engineer

  • Provided maintenance services for electrical equipment.

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  Zletin Institute of Higher Education

  Dec 1998 - Apr 2001

  Head of Elecrical & Communication Department

  • Planned content of courses, owned departmental budget, supervised graduation theses.• Managed the construction of an educational power station to be used by students.

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  Asiacell Communications PJSC

  Jun 2003 - now

  Direct technological vision of a 900-person telecommunications corporation, developing and implementing a technology strategy based on industry trends, technologies, and software development. As a key member of the Executive Team, I provide input into the overall corporate vision and strategy. I am responsible for revenue generation, developing and managing the technical and IT budget.• Drive technological improvement, maintaining and optimizing GSM network, implementing new technical policies and procedures.• Manage risk assessment process, identifying potential exposures and developing contingency plans.• Negotiate cost-effective contracts with vendors and contractors, identifying and implementing emerging technology to enhance or replace existing systems and tools.• Lead continuous process improvements, introducing new charging and billing system, converting legacy system to “Plan-Build-Run” strategy, and rebuilding network following civil war.• Direct multiple projects, including CBS “CBiO” project (2013) convergence billing system with budget of $100m and work flow revisions, cutting operating expense by 30%.• Streamline operations, reducing costs and staff numbers whilst maintaining service levels; built nationwide 3G network, serving 12 million customers with total budget of $1b. Show less I led all wireless system and maintenance activities for the core network, managing 400 employees. As acting CTO from November 2007 to July 2008, I consistently improved service availability and reliability. I completed the telecommunications backbone between the southern and central region.• Co-ordinated change management initiatives, rolling out new Network Operations Centre for network management and building mobile network for five provinces in southern Iraq.• Designed, developed, and implemented technological strategy for expanded network, setting and monitoring network KPIs and introducing new preventive maintenance processes.• Led key projects, including GPRS project “Huawei” (2005), first data over cellular project in Iraq, and Network Management System, reducing service outages (total budget of $12m).• Outsourced critical operations to third party vendors, reducing costs, improving service quality, and managing vendor relationships.• Centralised Network Operating Centre (NOC), reducing nationwide NOCs from six to two.• Spearheaded development of technical staff training programmes. Show less • Led all wireless system and maintenance activities. Core network equipment includes MSS,MGW,STP,HLR,M5000,SGSN,GGSN,SMSSC,VMS,MMS,CRBT,USSD,ADM,MDSP and anti-spam. Owned departmental budgets. Led a team of 400 employees.• Worked as Acting CTO from November 2007 to July 2008 until the new CTO was recruited.• Constantly improved service availability and reliability. • Managed all change requirements. • Led vendor relationships; devised & imposed vendor penalties when required.• Led development of technical staff training programs.• Set and monitored network KPIs• Rolled out a new Network Operations Centre (NOC); a central hub for network management. • Built new Euphrates mobile network over five provinces in southern Iraq.• Created a new operational structure to support the expanded network.• Successfully completed the backbone between the southern and central regional networks. • Introduced new policies & procedures that led to a significant uplift in network KPIs.• Introduced new preventive maintenance processes for all network elements. Show less

  • Senior Advisor to the Chairman of Board

    Feb 2019 - now

  • CTIO - Chief Technology and Information Officer

    Mar 2012 - Jan 2019

  • CTO - Chief Technology Officer

    Jun 2011 - Mar 2012

  • Operations Director & Deputy CTO

    May 2010 - Jun 2011

  • Operations Director

    Sept 2005 - May 2010

  • Baghdad Project Manager

    Jun 2004 - Dec 2005

  • Regional Technical Manager

    Apr 2004 - Aug 2005

  • Network Subsystem Senior Engineer

    Jun 2003 - Apr 2004