Walid AKL

Experience

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  Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise

  Jan 2008 - Oct 2008

  • Technical Project Manager

    Nov 2001 - Oct 2008

  • CTO for MTN account

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2008
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  Ericsson

  Oct 2008 - Aug 2009

  Prime Integration Consulting Lead
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  华为

  Aug 2009 - Jun 2011

  Managed Services Project Manager
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  Ericsson

  Aug 2011 - Dec 2021

  • Leading the delivery portfolio, supporting sales opportunities and development of full solution plans for multi-million USD annual sales.• Leading Strategic Transformation Programs using Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.• Drive planning, forecasting, dimensioning and optimization of delivery based on the customer business needs.• Listen actively to the customer needs, problems, pain points, and goals to ensure delivering customer appreciated value.• Taking proactive steps to improve process efficiencies and effectiveness and boost the performance.• SPOC for the customer during presales, and delivery phases (analysis, Design& planning, establishment, realization, handover and conclusion) for OSS Domain.• Regularly assessing Risks, identifying new risks, develop mitigation plans and manage risks.• Communicate the programs status, achievements, next steps, risks, dependencies to the C & VP levels of the customer.• Lead the program governance to report the P&L, Program status, strategy compliance, support needed to the Internal Senior Leadership, sponsors, and stakeholders.• Deliver the customer value with the high-quality standards to ensure customer satisfaction.• Drive cost controls and responsible for capturing add-on sales into the customer environments and maintain strong and positive customer relationships.• Manage and motivate 200+ people in diverse teams and geography, both in a line and matrix capacity.• Resources leadership, talent, and competence development planning. Negotiate and achieve results through others. Show less

  • ICT Program Director

    Apr 2016 - Dec 2021

  • Senior Project/Program Manager

    Jun 2012 - Mar 2016

  • BSS Line Manager

    Aug 2011 - May 2012
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  Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Jan 2022 - now

  Strategic Program Lead