About

As an accomplished Telecom Program Management professional, I bring 10+ years of extensive experience in Program/Project Proposals, Planning, Execution & Evaluation across diverse Telecoms Domain.

Skills

  • Project Management
  • ICT
  • program management
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  • Programme Monitoring and Evaluation
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  • Leadership & Project Management
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  • Telecommunications
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  • Team management and leadership
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  • Experience in data analysis with SPSS & proposal
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  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills
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  • Excellent Microsoft Office skills
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  • fiber design
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  • Task Management
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  • English
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  • Kiswahili
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Experience

George Rabar

Work experience
  • February, 2022 - December, 2023
  • Fulltime
  • Program Director - MAXIS IMS 5G Readiness
  • Spearheaded the IMS Expansion Program managing the comprehensive IMS infrastructure node expansions and upgrades in line with the proposed 5G Stand-alone Dual-core environment
  • Program Director - Project Management Office
  • Served as the PMO Lead for the Maxis account ensuring overall internal program governance and offer submissions on the Maxis Account

George Rabar

Work experience
  • Airtel Data Centre Relocation Program
  • Onsite Program Lead responsible for the successful relocation, expansion and modernization of the primary data centre to the new site
  • Activities:
  • Virtualizing the CS core
  • Modernizing charging and OS Core systems
  • Relocating the RAN and Transmission

George Rabar

Work experience
  • Etisalat Core Modernization Program
  • Leading the core modernization activities across diverse domains, steering initiatives aimed at positioning the customer closer to a 5G-ready environment.
  • Activities:
  • Migration of VoLTE Subscribers from HLR to CUDB
  • CUDB 3+1 Redundancy
  • vIMS, & ENM Implementation
  • Location-Based Services Upgrade

George Rabar

Work experience
  • Ghana AirtelTigo Merger Program
  • Leading role in the consolidation of Airtel Data Centre operations and services into Tigo to become the country’s second-largest mobile operator, serving around 10 million subscribers
  • Activities:
  • MPBN/SGSN/GGSN relocation, consolidation, expansion and upgrade
  • OSS peer expansion, upgrade and migration.
  • MGW/MSS relocation, consolidation, expansion and upgrade
  • CUDB/HLR-FE BSP migration, expansion and upgrade
  • Subscriber Migration from Airtel HLR into Tigo CUDB
  • EMA BSP migration, expansion and upgrade to EDA 1.0
  • TMA/TIC relocation, consolidation, expansion and upgrade

George Rabar

Work experience
  • Team Management
  • Direct supervision of assigned delivery staff both on and off-shore
  • Ensuring quality service delivery across domains
  • High-profile projects reporting and monitoring for Hub East
  • People Management
  • Resource forecast, assign and manage various regional project roles,
  • Establishing key performance indicators

George Rabar

Work experience
  • MTN Rwanda Core Network Modernisation
  • Proposal and program lead for core network hardware swap, expansion and upgrade
  • Implement User Data Consolidation (UDC) to assume HLR, HSS and AAA functionality
  • Replace Legacy Nodes (MSSs, MGWs EPG, IP Works, NTP)
  • Project Manager - MTN Rwanda IBS Modernisation
  • IBS site survey and design
  • Passive DAS infrastructure implementation
  • Multi-tenant DC power, full hybrid implementation

George Rabar

Education
  • Information Technology Management

George Rabar

Education
  • January, 2003 - September, 2004
  • Management of Information Systems

George Rabar

Education
  • January, 2002 - February, 2003
  • Management of Information Systems

George Rabar

Education
  • Management of Information Systems

George Rabar

Education
  • January, 1993 - December, 1995
  • Fulltime
  • Applied Statistics

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