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Omar Azhar | ICT Project Manager

Melbourne,Australia

Summary

Certified Project Manager / ICT Professional with 22+ years of experience working on Telecommunications and IT multimillion-dollar transformational high visibility projects. Proven leader in managing cross-functional global teams, optimizing service delivery, and driving measurable cost savings. Expert in stakeholder engagement, agile methodologies, and digital service integration. Recognized for exceptional project outcomes, innovative solutions, and operational excellence. An expert to plan, analyze, develop, resolve, optimize, organize, direct, manage and evaluate project management processes.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience

Work History

Customer Project Manager – Managed Services

Ericsson
02.2020 - 03.2025
  • Company Overview: https://www.ericsson.com/en
  • Managed multimillion-dollar ICT transformation projects across fixed wireless, OSS, and cloud domains
  • Oversaw full project lifecycle including scope definition, team building, resource allocation, execution, and closure
  • Collaborated with CSR (Customer Solution Responsible), and ACR (Accounts Commercial Responsible) for seamless contract and delivery management
  • Led and delivered results via risk mitigation, impact assessments, stakeholder engagement, resource management, budgeting and financial monitoring, cost and change control processes
  • Https://www.ericsson.com/en
  • Recognized with top annual awards (2023 & 2024) for delivering high impact results
  • Led $15–$20M 5G Fixed Wireless NBN Regional Upgrade Program with 19% cost savings and ~6% margin growth
  • Delivered first-of-its-kind OSS & Cloud WFM (Work Force Management) & Automation Project across 2500 network sites, saving 20% costs and 45% manual effort
  • Successfully implemented 5G mmWave POC project across 3,000+ sites with 9% cost savings

Senior Project Engineer/SME - MS Fixed Wireless MS

Ericsson
04.2017 - 01.2020
  • Company Overview: https://www.ericsson.com/en
  • Led Radio Access Network (RAN) expansion project for NBN network as a Senior Project SME, optimizing operational efficiency
  • Developed testing and acceptance criteria for NBN 1MCIR (1Mbps committed information rate)/6MCIR/Lens/RAT/Combined Cells TDD expansion project from MS perspective
  • Led vetting all expansion site Engineering Designs and RF Capacity solutions related to Green Field, Rooftop, Monopoles
  • Https://www.ericsson.com/en
  • Successfully led Ericsson Expert Analytics (EEA) POC trial, leveraging NFVI and Cloud Execution Environment (CEE) thus enhancing analytics capabilities and operational efficiencies, resulting in ~5% cost savings
  • Improved processes, achieving ~1000 mins/month reduction in Managed Services build timelines

Regional Lead - 2G/3G/4G Network

Huawei
09.2008 - 10.2016
  • Company Overview: https://carrier.huawei.com/en/
  • Led large-scale swap of 2000+ network sites from Motorola to Huawei in Southwest Region for Mobily network
  • Led customer engagement, SLA reporting, and resolution of build quality issues
  • Managing teams on day-to-day basis to ensure network availability and grade of service at key cities and VIP locations
  • Https://carrier.huawei.com/en/
  • Completed Motorola-to-Huawei network swap in record 13 months
  • Designed dashboards for KPI monitoring and optimization across RAN & TX

Senior Optimization Consultant - 2G/3G/4G Network

Motorola
09.2006 - 08.2008
  • Company Overview: https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_xa/products/industrial-internet-of-things/network-of-networks.html
  • Conducted pre-launch and cluster optimization for new 2G/3G/4G sites
  • Managing teams on day-to-day basis to ensure network availability and grade of service at key cities and VIP locations
  • Https://www.motorolasolutions.com/en_xa/products/industrial-internet-of-things/network-of-networks.html
  • Optimized King Fahd Causeway mobility corridor, boosting QoS (Quality of Service) by 15%
  • Optimized Mobily Southwest cities and managed to deliver better network performance than competitors year-on-year

Systems Engineer - 2G Network

JAZZ
03.2003 - 08.2006
  • Company Overview: https://jazz.com.pk/
  • Managed regional BSS planning, transmission operations, and RF optimization
  • Ensured daily operational integrity and optimal network performance
  • Https://jazz.com.pk/
  • Successfully led first major network expansion for Jazz (formerly Mobilink) network spanning across Central region with 500+ sites deployment in record 10 months

Education

B.Sc. - Telecommunication Majors

Electrical Engineering

Skills

  • Waterfall
  • Agile
  • Lean Methodologies
  • Prince2
  • SAFe
  • Scrum
  • ITIL
  • ICT Project Management
  • Telecom Project Management
  • Service Delivery
  • System Integration
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Budgeting
  • Financial Forecasting
  • Risk Management
  • Change Management
  • Scope Management
  • Cross-Functional Team Leadership
  • OSS Technologies
  • Cloud Technologies
  • Network Technologies
  • Effective Communication
  • Presentation Skills
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Fixed Wireless RAN
  • TX Network
  • 5G mmWave
  • ViSAT
  • OSS
  • MSDP OneFM
  • MSDP OneTM
  • Citrix
  • EDA
  • EPS
  • NFVI
  • EEA

Technical Expertise Domains

Fixed Wireless RAN & TX Network, 5G mmWave, ViSAT (Satellite), OSS & Cloud, MSDP OneFM/OneTM, Citrix, EDA (E/// Dynamic Activation), EPS (E/// Provisioning Suite), NFVI (Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure), EEA (E/// Expert Analytics)

Timeline

Customer Project Manager – Managed Services

Ericsson
02.2020 - 03.2025

Senior Project Engineer/SME - MS Fixed Wireless MS

Ericsson
04.2017 - 01.2020

Regional Lead - 2G/3G/4G Network

Huawei
09.2008 - 10.2016

Senior Optimization Consultant - 2G/3G/4G Network

Motorola
09.2006 - 08.2008

Systems Engineer - 2G Network

JAZZ
03.2003 - 08.2006

B.Sc. - Telecommunication Majors

Electrical Engineering

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