Karim Elhusseiny

Experience

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  IEEE

  Aug 2009 - Sept 2010

  Chairman

  IEEE Ain Shams University Studeny Branch is a volunteering work which provides technical knowledge to students for free through Technical courses , Scientific tours , Scientific research competitions , etc.. )

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  IEEE Egypt Section

  Jan 2011 - Oct 2011

  Materials & Equipment Lead at Egyptian Engineering Day
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  Huawei

  Dec 2011 - Apr 2020

  Job Roles: Technical Director & Line Manager (Appointed Hay-Grade: 18)Managing 17 Core Network staff including 11 Egyptians, 3 Tunisians & 3 Ethiopians to achieve the below targets;1. Delivery & Operations Targets;• The first owner for all remote operations related to core network products (CS/IMS/UDC/Signaling/EPC) to guarantee 100% E2E output quality (Design & Operations).• Build the strong resource pool. The first owner to satisfy resource requirements based on the monthly resource requirements from Local Office, ensure key resources to be available in time with No gaps.• Monitor projects progress, issues solutions & risks during project execution stage, escalate and track critical issue to resolve. • Ensure Projects Milestone, timeline are running smoothly without delay.• Take the DTRB responsibilities. Review technical solutions for the project in early phases and highlight all possible risks, propose mitigation plans, ensure proper responsibility matrix, and issue tracker with owners & due date to accomplish• Summarize & share excellent remote delivery cases, solidify platform workflow with successful remote delivery experiences. • First owner for my team cyber security follow up, process compliance, account management, information security, GTS Quality red lines. 2. Skill Improvement Plan. • Apply Company strategy for cross product skills enhancements through practical training sessions, with individual customized plan for each staff.• Set clear individual target for each staff, measurement criteria, quarterly horse race ranking.• Enroll pioneer staff in cross product projects under L2/L3 staff mentoring to complete convergence plan.3. Automation and standardization• Define standard package for all provided services by RSC, setting timeline, input materials, supplier, procedure, output structure and format.• Continuous optimization to remote Workflow process to achieve optimum efficiency &smooth delivery & provide flowchart for manual tasks Show less Job Roles: Integration, Solution Architect, Technical Director (TD)TL & TD Responsibility;• Interview resources who join projects.• Provide necessary project’s documents to team members, and guide them to understand the project.• Interface between Huawei and customer for all technical issues for the whole project.• Provide and review technical solutions to be implemented in the live network.• Provide project’s technical time plan, and mention all the tasks’ deadlines.• Provide Technical issues tracking sheets to follow up pending issues, specify tasks’ owners, severity of each task, planned and actual dates for each action.• Follow up the project’s progress and send daily/bi-daily/weekly reports to all team members including huawei and customer teams.• Hold meetings with the customer including managers and CTOs to confirm and update the project’s plan, clear pending issues and discuss all necessary actions to finish the project on time.• Review technical issues in the contract between huawei and the customer.• Attend cutover/migration operations, guide the team members, troubleshoot problems and take technical decisions.• Provide trainings to Huawei local staff and to customer. Show less Job Roles: Integration, Solution Architect.Responsible for all CS/SDM/IMS Core Network products E2E delivery and maintenance including;1. Network Design Implementation including High Level Design (HLD), Low Level Design (LLD) and Deployment Design (DD).2. Deliver hardware & Software installation.3. Deliver commissioning and network integration.4. Provide ATP documents, perform hardware, service and provisioning acceptance tests, and get customer’s signature on the PAT.5. Provide and deliver Hardware & Capacity Expansion Solutions.6. Provide and deliver Software Upgrade Solutions.7. Implement Network solutions like MSC Pool, chain backup solution, CSFB, Gr’ Interface, HD voice, TrFO, Redundancy solutions …etc8. Provide and deliver subscribers’ migration, swap and cutover solutions.9. Provide managed services & technical supporting including dealing with technical problems, network’s Services troubleshooting, maintenance operations, system verifications and health checks.10. Perform network performance analysis and KPIs monitoring.11. Use huawei export and import tools for subscribers’ migration in the HLR/HSS. Show less

  • Cloud Core Network Product Manager

    Sept 2018 - Apr 2020

  • Senior Cloud Core Network Product Engineer (CS/USC/IMS)

    Jan 2016 - Sept 2018

  • Core Network Engineer

    Dec 2011 - Jan 2016
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  Ericsson

  Apr 2020 - now

  Job Role: Managed Services Delivery ManagerFocus on operational & financial performance in accordance with the WLA, covering both service delivery performance & customer infrastructure performance:1. Drive operational excellence for CS/IMS/VoLTE & EPC/5G Core Networks.2. Responsible for Operational Management: Ensure that the Service Delivered by the Optimization team is compliant as per the contractual SLAs and drive Operational Excellence end to end.3. Identify add-on sales opportunities.4. Assist in the development of a service proposal.5. Participate in knowledge sharing activities.6. Collect and document customer requirements.7. Develop technical presentations and proposals, and perform customer presentations.8. Build strong collaboration and team-spirit across the delivery teams to enable performance towards overall account targets.9. Ensure optimal team dimensioning with respect to the scope of delivery.10. Lead, motivate, and support the team.11. Maintain delivery models, frameworks, job roles, assessments, and strategies.12. Lead sponsors on all levels within Global Service Delivery.13. Drive Service Delivery Efficiency programs through implementation of automations.14. Initiate and drive improvement plans to correct operational or financial performance deviations towards the global benchmark and targets. Show less Job Roles: Solution Architect, Team Lead. Handle design & optimization related activities in Telecom Egypt (WE):• Responsible for IMS, CS, UDC & fixed domains of Telecom Egypt.• Providing technical solutions regarding hardware and configuration problems in agreed time frame.• Specialized troubleshooting for IMS, CS, UDC & fixed products, and Leading major cases troubleshooting with other domains.• Interface and Interact with the relevant stockholders within organization and ensure the timely progress on Customer service request for Critical/ Priority cases• Solution architect, responsible for scope, defining and designing solution offerings; driving technical solutions• Analyze and solve to handle and provide support in critical and Emergency cases when needed• Network KPIs Analysis and Enhancement.• LLD Documents update.• Network Capacity Analysis and study.• Service and hardware Configuration Audit.• Network Impact Study & Special Event reports.• BO Support in critical/new solutions, and Emergency Handling.• VoLTE preparations, including acceptance cases troubleshooting, and LLD documentations.• Apply automation and create tools to speed up daily work and decrease man-hour.• Involve in many AoS meetings/discussions and shared different ideas/documents with relevant parties. Show less

  • Core Optimization Manager

    Mar 2024 - now

  • Senior Core Network Design & Optimization Lead

    Apr 2020 - Feb 2024