Mehdi Witwit

Experience

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  Hull/Oxford Uni

  May 1994 - Sept 1998

  Research Follow

  An EU funded project to model PCB board heat propogation that been generated by passive embedded components the second project was funded by BT to investigate the multi-service architecture within IP/TCP protocol including WFQ and CBQ scheduler mechanisms performance.

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  Oxford Brookes University

  Oct 1998 - Nov 2000

  Senior Lecturer

  Main duties are:- Lecturing at MSc and BSc levels - Supervision of final year and MSc projects - Researching in the area of IP multiservices networks- Acted as a PhD internal and external examiners

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  Motorola

  Dec 2000 - Mar 2011

  Global PS Strategic Alliances Manager responsible for Motorola PS suppliers. These include third party management and identify new suppliers. Specific responsibility included- Monitor vendor performance in terms of solution delivery, issues resolution, escalation process etc- 3PV Roadmap alignment with Mot PS services roadmap- Evaluate other vendor solutions costing to leverage better pricing- Continually evaluate new products from 3rd party vendors for use within the delivery of PS services- Manage the transition process of a vendor products and services Show less Service Product Manager responsible for Motorola CDMA service release. These include new and enhancement service features, as well as ensuring compatibility of tools with new system release. Specific responsibility included:• Customer engagement to gather market requirements• Create and prioritize service requirements• Generation of business cases for new features to ensure commitment of funding from the organisation• Approval of detailed requirements• Negotiation and management of 3rd party contracts• Management of critical relationships between Motorola departments• Generation of Customer presentations and brochures• Derivation of pricing guidelines for base load and optional features Show less - Create requirements for numerous varying product service portfolio including GPRS, UMTS, WiMAX, CDMA 1X ETE optimisation services. - Traffic model for numerous applications and VoIP solution - Equipments dimensioning and planning for various wireless technologies utilising both internal and external tools. - WiMAX KPIs and application benchmarking- Requirements were produced from several regional team supporting Fastlink Jordan, Telsim Turkey, MTS Russia and CMCC China, Zain Kuwait, WorldMAX etc. Show less

  • Global Professional Services Alliances Strategy Operational and Technical Manager

    Feb 2010 - Mar 2011

  • Service Product Manager

    Mar 2009 - Jul 2010

  • Senior System Eng

    Dec 2000 - May 2009
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  Nokia

  May 2011 - now

  Network optimization and service assurance manager responsible for NSN NPO internal and external tools. These include third party management, new tools deployment. Specific responsibility included:- Provide pre-sale support for global customer teams on internal and external tools- Manage the relationship between NSN and 3rd party vendors - Work with service team on introduction of new services/tools - Leverage business volume within our suppliers to reduce 3PVs costing- Track all 3PVs open issues - Organise ops review meeting with main 3PVs Show less

  • Customer Project Manager

    Jul 2020 - now

  • Global Services Network Optimization and Service assurance Commercial and Technical Manager

    May 2011 - now