TAHAR CHOURIA

• Launched staff engagement, gender diversity and cultural programs in addition to robust reporting tool that increased operational quality.
• Managed budget implementations, employee evaluations, and contract details.
• Cultivated strong relationships with clients, vendors, and partners to ensure long-term success and loyalty.

Responsibilities include:

• Roll-out of routers and WDM components from hardware suppliers Huawei, ADVA, and Infinera (Coriant) in the TEF-O2 network for the POC project.
• Roll-out of routers and WDM components from hardware suppliers Huawei
  in the O2 network for the IP-Evolution project.
• Technical coordination, management, and coordination of all entities
  involved in the construction, including team members, subcontractors,
  suppliers, and customers.
• Ensuring timely and quality planning and implementation of the rollout.
• Ensuring optimal collaboration internally and externally with partners and
  contractors.
• Monitoring project reports for deviations and implementing corrective
  measures.
• Conducting project meetings and providing regular updates to project
  leaders and organizational unit leaders.
• Follow-up of the weekly progress tracking for router installation, router
  swap, WDM build/swap, and LLD creation.
• Follow-up of the technical acceptance process. Tracking material deliveries.
  Supporting material and rollout forecasts.
• Established team priorities, maintained schedules and monitored performance.
• Developed comprehensive rollout plans to ensure all necessary steps were completed efficiently and effectively.
• Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated to other team members.
• Maintained positive customer relations by addressing problems head-on and implementing successful corrective actions.

• Planning & Documentation of Abis, Iub, S1/X2, Gb, Ater und Iu plans with Xakta
• Planning & Documentation of MPLS plans
• Planning & Documentation of Link-Swaps
• Planning & Documentation and update of Sync- & DCN-plans
• Creation of integration and update tickets
• Planning & Documentation of new BSCen und RNCen in south and west
• Regions.
• Planning & Documentation of Huawei, Coriant and Infinera routers in south & west regions
• Planning & Documentation of CWDM Muxer of Huawei (OSN1800)
• Performing of consolidation project in south region (SUR)
• Performing of Tool-Integration project in south region: Transtool->Xakta
• Performing of Alpha and JSL projects: router connection over Fiberlinks
• Performing DCN Migration Project: cDCN structure (common DCN)
• Planning & Documentation of router migration project: Huawei CX600-X8->ATN950C or NE40E Tellabs-Routers->Tellabs PN8625 or Infinera DRX30 Routers
• Planning & Documentation of WDM-DCN plans
• Management of a team of 6 planners
• Used Tools and systems:
• Microwave: Ericsson ML6600 und ML6352 Serie, Siemens PDH & SDH SRAL Serie, ALCP2e
• Huawei RTN Serie, SIAE RF-Products, Tellabs TN-Serie
• SDH: OMS8700 Serie, Huawei OSNx500 Serie
• BSC: Nokia BSC Serie, Huawei BSC Serie
• RNC: Nokia RNC Serie, Huawei RNC Serie
• BS: Nokia Flexi-Serie, Huawei Node /eNodeb/gNodeb
• Router: Cisco 76xx Serie, Huawei CX600, ATN910, ATN950, NE20E-Serien; Tellabs 86xx Series, Infinera DRX30
• WDM: ADVA, Huawei & Ciena Products

• Planning & documentation of new integrated NodeB and ENodeB
• Planning rerouting of BS, NodeB, ENodeB, Gb Interfaces
• Planning and Integration of the new microwave links
• Planning of Link swaps and link cutback for PDH and SDH links
• Update of MPLS plans
• Update of SDH Mutliplexing plans
• Review of the radio parameters for new GSM, UMTS and LTE sites
• Used Tools and systems:
• Planning & Documentation: Transtool, NGNP, TinaRifu, IQ-Link
• Ticket Tool: Daylight
• Systems: ZTE Nb Serie, ZTE RNC Serie, Nokia Flexi Serie, Nokia BSC Serie, Nokia RNC Serie, Siemens BTS, Siemens BSC Serie, Tellabs Routers, Ericsson Minilink Serie, Siemens Hit70xx/SRAL Serie…

• Design of antenna systems for sensor solutions
• Performing of test cases

• Project manager for the following customers: end to end Project management that includes processing customer orders, I&C planning, and invoicing
• E.ON-Edis: CWDM and DWDM network with more than 1000 NEs
• EnviaTel: SDH and DWDM network with more than 500 NEs
• Desanet: WDM network
• Customer support manager: creation and update of LLD and HLD documents for the 3 previous customers
• Technical support Engineer for Projects: LTE Vodafone D2, WDM Vodafone D2, MW-Project Deutsch Telekom, SDH project Versatel Deutschland, HTP GmbH, Pfalzkom, E.ON-Netz, M-Net
• U2000/T2000 license management: including license issuing and activation for the previous customers
• Responsible for T2000/U2000 upgrade for all above mentioned customers as well for NE Software upgrade.
• Microwave Lead Engineer for the region North-East in DT MW project.
• Lead Engineer for Deutsche Telekom 400G and 1Terabit test over 2500km in cooperation with Huawei European Research Center in Munich

• Technical support for Huawei service partner responsible for installation, commissioning and site acceptance.
• Troubleshooting of link failures
• Supervision of installation, commissioning and site acceptance teams
• On-site training for service partner on: site-survey, link commissioning with Web-LCT and site acceptance procedures; that includes enabling of acceptance teams on the different measurement tools (Ethernet, E1, SDH, RF-Power Meter, Fade-Margin)
• Checking of acceptance work-packs sent from service partners
• Update of the network connectivity map according to the new link status.
• Support of LTE teams for Installation, commissioning and integration to M2000 of LTE sites
• DBS3900 commissioning
• Direct interface with Vodafone for any issues regarding microwave or LTE sites.

• Lecture delivery for all Siemens SDH (Hit7080/Hit7070 family/ Hit7060 family) and DWDM (Hit7500 / Hit7300/FSP3000) equipments, Flexi-Packet microwave solution, network planning (Transnet) and RAN(UMTS
• Course documentation development and preparation of lab environment
• Line manager for transmission networks
• Solutions and consulting services to technical and business audiences
• Planning of DWDM networks
• System Acceptance and commissioning at customer premises
• Team and Project leader responsible for commissioning of SDH, DWDM and IP Optical National and Metropolitan networks
• Examples of the types of projects I supervised:
• First level support for ESKOM DWDM and SDH networks in December-January 2008: that has included troubleshooting of ESKOM SDH and DWDM network in Johannesburg and assistance of ESKOM technicians in fault clearance situations.
• Commissioning of Central Bank of Nigeria SDH networks in Abuja
• Assistance of NSN team in Egypt for the planning of DWDM backbone for Telecom Egypt
• On the Job Training for Zain Kuwait (October 2010): hit7300 DWDM network and TNMS-Core integration.
• Assistance of Zain Kuwait for the re-planning of their installed DWDM network
• On the Job Training for Vodafone Ghana (February-March 2011):
• TNMS CORE, NetViewer and Flexi-Packet solution
• Used Tools and systems:
• TNMS-Core Management system
• Transtool planning tool
• Netviewer
• Nokia DX200
• IBM Server plateform

• Involved of the development of a basic platform of a SyncML DM client for Siemens mobile handsets
• Development, test and validation of Patch Engine for the SWUOTA for Siemens handsets.
• Compression algorithm
• Debugging applications with Lauterbach debugger.

• Elaboration of a computer system for SIEMENS EWSD switch traffic managing in C/C++ language

• Elaboration of a computer supervising system of an Industrial Machine in PICBasic and design of a PC-Machine interface using the PC parallel port.

• Visit of some EWSD exchanges and SIEMENS transmission centers.