Daniel Aburime
Regina,SK
Summary
Experienced Telecoms personnel with 23 years hands on experience in GSM Telco Industry. Good knowledge in RF Planning and Optimization, Network Operations, Fiber Management, Business Development, Managed Services and SLA Delivery, Network Quality Assurance, Project Management, Contract Management, Supply Chain and Logistics Management. An excellent people development resource.
Played a major role in delivering excellent Voice and Data services in Southern parts of Nigeria.
Major role in the equipment swap out of 1257 Motorola BTS to Huawei BTS across South Region in 2010.
Major role in 3G deployment and Integration on over 5,000 sites across South and Lagos regions.
LTE/4G deployment and integration in South and Lagos region. Over 3,200 4G sites integrated with Huawei equipment,2018. Over 2000 4G sites integrated with ZTE equipment,2018. Over 100+ sites deployed with Nokia equipment,2019.
Seamless migration of Airtel Regional Operations Scope to Managed Services in South region in 2010.
Successful transfer of Fiber Management from Huawei Services to Airtel Nigeria in September, 2020 and currently managing 3,200+km fiber across Airtel Nigeria.
Effective Diesel and Passive Infra Management of Airtel owned sites and Data centers/switch centers.
Achieving 99.50% Radio Network Availability target and meeting Nigeria Communication Commission(NCC) KPIs ie SD cong, TCH cong, CSSR and Drop call rate.
5G Rollout across Lagos. Over 150 sites deployed across Lagos.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Head,Network Operation,Lagos Region
Airtel Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
08.2022 - Current
- Develop and implement strategic plans to achieve:-
- Power and Radio Network Availability of 99.60%
- Manage over 5,000 GSM,UMTS,LTE(GUL) sites
- Coverage improvement and Capacity enhancement(including customized coverage and capacity solutions ie Outdoor Distributed Antenna and Distributed Antenna systems,Cell on wheels deployment solutions etc)
- Fiber deployment
- Microwave deployment
- New site deployment
- Sustain and improve on Lagos region revenue share contribution of 50-60% to Airtel Nigeria
- 4G Deployment and Operations
- 5G Deployment and Operations
- To lead, direct, coordinate and control all Network Operations, Maintenance and Resources in Region to ensure all goals (optimal network availability, coverage, maintaining target network KPI’s and quality standards) are met to deliver plus one network quality
- Providing local network support for both Commercial Teams in Region towards ensuring that network impacting issues are proactively resolved
- Management of all Regional Network Teams, End2End and Strategic Partners (SPs) to deliver optimal availability and customer experience QoS
- Co-ordinate annual regional operating plans,operational expenditure for all active and passive network systems in Airtel Nigeria
- Drive end-to-end process documentation, implementation and compliance to processes, procedures and policies to ensure seamless operations across all Strategic partners
- Regulatory Compliance
- Partner Management
- Team Management
Regional Technical Officer,South Region
Airtel Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
11.2015 - 08.2022
- End to End management of all Networks activities i.e Active and Passive systems across 12 states making up South region.
- Function as relationship manager between Regional Commercial Team and HQ Technical group, delivering on signed SLAs.
- Governance of Managed Services Partner(Huawei) and Equipment vendors(Huawei,Ericsson,ZTE and Nokia) and Towerco Partners(American Towers,IHS Towers and Pan Africa Towers) and ensuring strict compliance to agreed SLAs.
- Plan and manage daily Regional network operations and maintenance activities and delivering on Regional KPI
- Developing and providing reports to evaluate and benchmark regional productivity.
- Responsible for over 3,272* 2G sites, 3,255* 3G sites and 2,663*LTE/4G sites across South region.
- Responsible for 34 BSCs, 11 RNCs,1 SGSN,17 switching nodes,4 MPBN and 13 Media Gateway nodes.
- Responsible for over 3,200km of fiber running across South region connecting major backbones and metro nodes.
- Support in deployment of over 100 new sites per financial year.
- Excellent data network with South region hitting 1,000TB daily traffic threshold.
- Effectively managed transition of Airtel passive infra from Airtel Integrated System Management system to Towerco partners-American Towers (ATC) in 2015.
- Providing required Networks to support over N80Billion Revenue generation for Sales team across South region.
- Enterprise support.
- Customers experience.
- Strict Regional Opex and Capex savings.
- Full compliance to internal audits queries and recommendations.
Zonal Technical Manager, South Region
Airtel Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
06.2010 - 11.2015
- End to End Management of Airtel Networks Operational activities across 12 states,making up South South and South East regions.
- Governance of Managed Services Partner-Huawei and Towerco vendors, enforcement of Airtel Managed Services SLAs concerning Networks Availability, Networks Quality, Data Operations, Sites/Infra Deployment and Opex savings.
- Aligning Networks Operations towards supporting Sales team in achieving Revenue targets of over N40Billion, ensuring customer’s retention and ultimately meeting Airtel Business Objectives and Profitability goal.
- Providing support to all Networks functions not residence in region, enabling end to end ownership and visibility on all operational activities in region.
Team Lead, Radio Access Network
Zain Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
06.2009 - 06.2010
- To support Zain overall business Strategy in Eastern region (Rivers, Bayelsa, Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Cross-Rivers, Enugu, Ebonyi, Imo, Anambra and Delta states)
- Effectively managing Rollout (BTS and Access Implementation), Operations&Maintenance and Optimization of Zain’s Access Network in line with Group Network guidelines and Business objectives with Ericsson as Managed services partners.
Manager,RF Planning and Optimization
Celtel Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
01.2006 - 06.2009
- Responsible for all RF Planning, Network Quality and Optimisation tasks in Celtel, South-South region (Rivers, Bayelsa, Imo, Abia, Akwa-Ibom and Cross-Rivers states).
- Provide cost effective RF solutions to address corporate and subscribers’ needs concerning capacity, coverage enhancement, new coverage, indoor and repeater solutions.
- Provide end to end support to BSS rollout process.
- Support 3G, EDGE and GPRS rollout.
- Provide support to regional operations and maintenance unit in addressing Network quality issues.
- ManagingTeam of 7*RF Planning and Optimization Engineers.
- Responsible for monitoring Network Quality KPIs (TCH and SD congestion, Network availability, Drop calls rate, Paging, etc) and providing solutions in maintaining KPIs within approved company target.
Team Lead,RF Planning and Optimisation
MTN Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
03.2002 - 01.2006
- Responsible for Radio Network planning and Optimization of network in region.
- Manage design of radio network in region to ensure that sufficient capacity is provided for to support marketing’s subscriber forecast
- Manage and ensure that proactive drive testing along approved routes and fault diagnostics of network in region is performed regularly. Manage reports using Neptune and Actix software.
- Escalate issues that may delay the rollout of the BTSs in the region to the National RF P&O Manager.
- Monitor network performance both on air interface and A-BIS.
- Report regional RF activities to HQ.
- Drive and ensure timely provision of transmission, site acquisition and other dependencies for activation of BTSs in the region.
- Manage and set objectives for subordinate RF P&O Engineers.
- Manage provision of specialist technical support to all other departments in the region regarding network and radio related problems
- Ensure that adequate knowledge of competitor’s activities and competitive environment in region is maintained.
- Interface with other Network group divisions in region to monitor every stage of BSS rollout.
- Regular liaison with Network Management Center and OMC on network related and performance enhancement issues.
- Coordinate with land acquisition surveys to locate suitable network sites
- Co-ordinate equipment (RBS) upgrades to increase capacity, antenna height/azimuth change to improve coverage check interference and improve quality.
BTS Implementation Engineer
Reliance Telecommunications
02.2001 - 02.2002
- Deployment, Installation, Configuration, Commissioning and acceptance of Metro-Cell 1900 MHZ base station.
- Use of Site master in site acceptance.
- Use of Diagnostic monitor interface in commissioning of Metro cell base station.
- Use of E1 loop tester.
- Monitoring of cell sites status and alarms using Base station manager (BSM) using Unix/sun Solaris commands.
- Power level check, PN codes check; Rxlev and Quality check using Qualcomm QCT 2700 Test mobile phone.
- Installation of Harris Digital Microwave Radios (Microstar product).
- Monitoring 2mb/s link using Farscan software.
Telecoms Engineer
Mobile Systems Nigeria,Limited
03.2000 - 02.2001
- Repairs of CDMA specified cellular and fixed wireless phones, ETACS specified phones, accessories and PABX.
- Installations of VHF/UHF Motorola mobile radios, Yagi and line extenders.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical/Electronics Engineering
University of Benin
Benin City,Edo State,Nigeria12.1997
Certification On Fiber Optics - Fiber Optics,cable Installation And Maintenance
Nigerian Telecommunication Plc. Training Centre.
Oshodi,Lagos2000
MBTI Certification - MBTI Training
Kolbe & MBTI Management Training.
Lagos,Nigeria2008
Strategic Business Development Programme - Business Administration
Lagos Business School
Lagos,Nigeria01.2017
GSM,WCDMA,LTE And 5G Certification - 2G,3G,4G And 5G Technology
Celtel Nigeria Limited
Amsterdam,Holland2007
Skills
- Network Operations
- Network Optimization-RF Planning and Optimization
- Network Performance
- 2G,3G,4G and 5G operations experience
- Governance,Vendor,Partner and Towerco management
- Opex and Capex management
- Network Deployment and Vendor equipment swap
- Team management and performance appraisal
- Customer and Sales support
Timeline
Head,Network Operation,Lagos Region
Airtel Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
08.2022 - Current
Regional Technical Officer,South Region
Airtel Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
11.2015 - 08.2022
Zonal Technical Manager, South Region
Airtel Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
06.2010 - 11.2015
Team Lead, Radio Access Network
Zain Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
06.2009 - 06.2010
Manager,RF Planning and Optimization
Celtel Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
01.2006 - 06.2009
Team Lead,RF Planning and Optimisation
MTN Nigeria, Mobile Telecommunication Network
03.2002 - 01.2006
BTS Implementation Engineer
Reliance Telecommunications
02.2001 - 02.2002
Telecoms Engineer
Mobile Systems Nigeria,Limited
03.2000 - 02.2001
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical/Electronics Engineering
University of Benin
Certification On Fiber Optics - Fiber Optics,cable Installation And Maintenance
Nigerian Telecommunication Plc. Training Centre.
MBTI Certification - MBTI Training
Kolbe & MBTI Management Training.
Strategic Business Development Programme - Business Administration
Lagos Business School
GSM,WCDMA,LTE And 5G Certification - 2G,3G,4G And 5G Technology
Celtel Nigeria Limited
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