ABDULLAH SALEM ALSUAYBI

8316 Mahmud ibn abi Hamid Street Mobile: +966 5448 31402
Address
Riyadh 14243 - 2338, Saudi Arabia Office: +966 5333 17445
Email abdullah.almuttiri@nokia.com Webpage: LinkedIn Profile and Activities

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
An accomplished senior professional, with 11+ years, who drove numerous Radio and telecom Digital Transformation Services
projects across RAN, created new use cases for sales opportunities in the digital industries for DSPs particularly in RAN, mainly
stc, based on RAN evolution and network performance, and propose FTK sites based on network performance. Successfully
influenced customers to deploy new use cases (mainly stc) such as Geosynthesis, Tutella for network performance monitoring,
Auto Cell and Site Planning, O-RAN RIC, 5G SA Network Analytics Platform, Carrier Aggregation, mMIMO and Active
Beamforming, minimizing drive tests. Have led the first Geosynthesis network digital twin, O-RAN and following up Radio
Intelligence Controller PoC on live network (stc network) in MENA region with outstanding performance. Have influenced stc
to adopt RAN digital transformation and new services projects paving the way for POs. Injected many projects expanding
outdoor and IBS POs and increasing Nokia revenue. Created the first digital twin of physical asset and other numerous
innovative MN use cases for sales opportunities. Praised and indorsed by Nokia global CSTO, VP Tech Leadership, BL Leaders,
and MENA leaders.
Achieved “Far Exceeding Expectation” (highest performance) for the last 3 years consecutively across MENA NPO/Solutions
teams (1037 professionals).
Proactively led teams to pre-sell and deliver projects in cutting-edge and emerging mobile technologies, including LTE/LTE+ and 5G
network planning and design, IoT various verticals, IoT connectivity, 5G network slicing for FWA and IoT use cases Trials. I led teams
to analyze and plan new spectrums, refarm and design cross spectrum technologies, digitize, digitalize, and automate network planning,
design, and optimization with focus on ML/AI development and utilization. I diligently worked for more than 9 years in this agile
industry in which I orchestrated and led teams to design and transform networks of 4G and NSA 5G and currently designing and rolling
out 5G SA network. I participated heavily in sales funnel orchestration and promoted Nokia NE capabilities in front of top executives
and ICT decision makers.
Conducted TNA for numerous customers, including STC, Mobily, Nokia Academy, CITC and MCIT and designed technology coursers
for section managers and above (leaders). Furthermore, I created technical solutions for more than 80 enablement trainings and
training consultation sessions in cutting-edge technology solutions from 5G Advanced, 5G NSA and SA, LTE, IoT applications
and LTE-M use cases (maximizing network monetization) to leading telecom operators and government institutes, including
MoI, STC, Mobily, CITC, MCIT, and NOKIA Academy. Designed first distinctive specialized technology audit course designated
to the new 5G network elements, delivered to Mobily Audit Board (Chiefs, GMs and Directors). Raised more than 42 million SAR
from ARAMCO for innovation and technology training partnership.
Strategized many customers approach with quick win prioritization. Delivered with exceeding customer expectations. Developed and
delivered numerous customer enablement programs with short- and long-term career path objectives. Have built governance model for
Innovation and Technology Association with KPIs and scorecards across functions.
Deep knowledge of Saudi technology market (biggest in MEA) planned mega projects, and telecom regulations I take my career
development seriously with continuous development to stay always at the edge of my field.
- Bell Labs 5G Expert Certified (Virtuoso) recognized by Nokia CSTO, the first qualified globally
- RAN Technical Solutioning, professional level for 2022 and 2023 portfolio
- Level 4 Sales MN Radio Certified (Expert) from Nokia
- Level 3 certified in: MN 5G SA Sales, Radio Evolution (LTE and 5G), 5G Network planning, and others
Leadership and Management Certifications
- Certified PMP (PMI) - Certified PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments)
- Certified MSP (Managing Successful Programs)
- Certified Level 2 Leadership from ILM | Certified Level 2 Management from ILM
Achieved a range of high-profile NOKIA certifications in Automation Solutions, Customer Operations | NPO design, optimization, and
performance, including but not limited to:
- Certified Network Automation Zero-Touch Network, NOKIA
- Certified in numerous In-Depth vendor-based Technical Cellular Networks solutions, design, and operations
- Certified Bell Labs End to End 5G Associate and 3 Professional levels (Networking, Cloud, Industrial Automation)
- Certified Nokia Digital Automation Cloud (NDAC)
- Certified 5G CoDe: 5G for the Internet of Things NOKIA
- Certified Bell Labs end to end IoT Solutions Associate and Certified CIoT (Cellular IoT), NOKIA
- Certified NCSA end to end 5G Network Solutions
- Certified IoT Security Architecture, NOKIA
- Certified NCSS Specialist LTE Network Planning and Optimization | N21S01-02 from NOKIA
- 5G Enabling NPO Certified Planning and Design from NOKIA, Associate and Professional levels

WORK EXPERIENCE
NOKIA-STC Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Digital Transformation Manager September 2021 - Present
• Act as the main contact point for RAN digital transformation for stc and act as a trusted advisor for the customer
• Define scopes and design technical RAN solutions, outdoor and IBS for network modernization and FTK sites
• Identify, develop, orchestrate, and win new sales opportunities and translating market knowledge to business opportunities
• Analyze customer technology challenges and define business requirements accordingly
• Creating and driving innovative new use cases for sales opportunities, pitching new opportunities to C-Suite
• Driving a design-led approach as a service to digitalize and simplify business processes
• Building digital transformation business cases for sales teams to attack CSP around network design and deploy
• Strategizing Network Automation and 5G use cases Sales and delivery with intensive customer portfolio awareness
• Prioritizing Network Automation focusing in automated 5G use cases portfolio pre-sales activities
• Driving Network Digitalization and Automation portfolio evolution with realization of ML/AI
• Leading Network self-healing, SON, Zero-Touch Network with cross functional teams to minimize customer TCO
• Continuously hunting for improvements and innovating around the status quo
• Developing and leading Network Planning, Design and Optimization Processes and Procedures with utilizing ML/AI

NOKIA-STC TECHNICAL INNOVATION CENTER Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Technical Innovation Consultant and Innovation Ecosystem Manager March 2021 - Present
• Creating and innovating business use cases based on CSP network and operation capabilities, mainly around I4.0
• Creating value proposition for DSP, CSP, and Enterprise in 5G network and digital transformation use cases
• Interfacing with CSP customers to pitch and co-sell new innovative business use cases
• Strategizing and managing Innovation Ecosystem Creation to realize new revenue streams
• Driving business opportunities through building viable use cases, mainly MN 5G use cases, to go into stc subsidiary and the market
• Being conducted concurrently with existing role of leading MN digitalization and automation department

TRAINER, COACH, AND CONSULTANT, SAUDI ARABIA AND UK Saudi Arabia and United Kingdom
Senior Emerging Wireless Technologies Trainer July 2014 - Present
• Directing Training Needs Analysis for technical and semi-technical training programs
• Leading design of wireless telecommunication technologies training programs for technical and non-technical
• Spearheaded hands-on training delivery for technical and non-technical trainees
• Outperformed, devised, and performed numerous technical training programs in topics including IoT domains and applications;
IoT device connectivity, and edge cloud for IoT; Mobile RAN, RF Planning, Core and Fixed Networks
• Devised and delivered over 100 professional trainings to top network and technology operators, regulators, and vendors

NOKIA-STC Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Senior Lead, Mobile Radio Access Network Planning and Design January 2019 - August 2021
• Led Network Planning and Design Teams to perform network transformation projects
• Drove Network Planning and Design team to realize Network Performance Indicators

NOKIA-STC Saudi Arabia

Planning, Design and Optimization, Senior Engineer September 2016 - December 2018
• Designed network for both capacity and coverage expansion
• Designed network to expand coverage footprint and accommodate more users with higher throughput

DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY Leicester, United Kingdom

Lecturer at School of Engineering September 2014 - September 2016
• Functioned with Innovation Center researchers on emerging technologies including IoT ecosystems, Edge cloud for IoT and 5G;
and NB-IoT
• Completed over 78 on job professional and technical staff development courses within technical standardization, telecom
technology development and teams and organizational leadership

SAUDI TELECOM COMPANY Saudi Arabia

Mobile Network Designer (RAN) July 2002 - August 2004
• Analyzed strategic planning and designing of 3G network and collocated 3G with 2G networks

ZAHRAT ALMUNTAKHAB Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Sales Director March 2000 - August 2002
• Strategized Sales funnels and customer approaches to realize revenue and payments orders
• Drove sales targets achievement and sales growth plan and execution

ZAHRAT ALMUNTAKHAB Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Business Administrator January 1998 - March 2002
• Oversaw and supervised business operations activities and teams target achievement

MINISTRY OF ELECTRICITY AND WATER Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Wireless and Sonar Systems Assistant Engineer May 2001 - August 2001
• Outperformed SONAR system operations for water level monitor and control in central and strategic water tanks

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

SAUDI INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION Saudi Arabia
Co-Founder and Board of Directors Chairman February 2018 - Present
• Driving overall strategy of innovation and technology activities from trainings, workshops, innovation indexing, innovation
ecosystems, integration awareness, and silos breaking kingdom wide in ICT sector
• Performing with MCIT and CITC to break innovation silos and create more intuitive innovation ecosystem

IOT IN KSA TECHNICAL ASSOCIATION Saudi Arabia

Co-Founder and Board of Directors Vice-Chairman April 2018 - Present
• Motivated professional leadership teams to plan, design, coordinate and organize interest groups in numerous IoT and IIoT
applications across all levels of technology with outstanding performance
• Outperformed numerous technical keynotes, trainings, and workshops to ICT regulators and operators in Saudi Arabia and Gulf
States over-achieving targets

GULF COUNTRIES STANDARDISATION ORGANISATION (GCC GSO) Saudi Arabia

Vice-Chair of Internet of Things Standardization Committee April 2017 - December 2020
• Co-leading IoT technical committee to standardize IoT devices are entering the GCC region

IEEE COMMUNICATION SOCIETY Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Chapter Chair August 2016 - July 2020

IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Chapter Chair August 2016 - December 2018

IEEE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SOCIETY Global Worldwide

Young Professionals Committee Chairman January 2015 - December 2018

IEEE YOUNG PROFESSIONALS Global Worldwide

Global Committee Member November 2015 - October 2018

IEEE DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY STUDENT BRANCH Leicester, United Kingdom

President October 2014 - August 2016

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY FOR SAUDI STUDENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM United Kingdom
Executive Organization Committee November 2015 - August 2016

SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY FOR SAUDI STUDENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM United Kingdom
Engineering and Applied Sciences Committee Member August 2014 - January 2016

IEEE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SOCIETY Global Worldwide

Young Professionals Committee Member September 2013 - December 2015

DE MONTFORT STUDENT UNION Leicester, United Kingdom

International Student Representative April 2012 - April 2013
DE MONTFORT STUDENT UNION Leicester, United Kingdom
Event Organization Team Leader October 2010 - November 2011

DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY Leicester, United Kingdom

Electronics and Telecom Engineering Student Representative September 2010 - October 2011

EDUCATION
Master of Business Administration, Gies College of Business August 2022
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana-Champagne, Illinois

Ph.D. Electronics and Communication Engineering June 2016

De Montfort University, 2012 -2016, Leicester, United Kingdom

MSC Electronics and Communication Engineering October 2011

De Monfort University, 2010 - 2011, Leicester, United Kingdom

BSC Electronics and Communication Engineering August 2008

Amman University, Amman, Jordan 2004 - 2008, Amman, Jordan

Vocational Diploma, Industrial Electronics December 2004

Riyadh College of Technology 2001 - 2004, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

DELEVERED PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Substantial training and coaching experience through designing and delivery of more than 80 training sessions to leading government
and private sectors, including STC, MCIT, CITC, NOKIA International, Princess Noura University, King Saud University, Qassim
University, and others. Topics includes state-of-the-art technologies of IoT and IoE, Big Data analytics, Cloud and Edge Computing,
5G and Next Generation Heterogeneous Networks

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
PRINCE2 Certified (Projects in Controlled Environments) by APMG. ID No. 02600633-02-JFNU.
Professional Certificate in Research Supervision, Accredited by UK HEA Higher Education Academy.
Telecoms Mini-MBA from the Telecom and Technology Academy, London, UK.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Professional Certificate, from Maryland University, USA.
Design Thinking for Innovation, from University of Virginia, USA.
Innovation in Business Strategy, Maryland University, USA.
Entrepreneurship, From Start-up to Growth, University of Illinois, USA.
Leadership Excellence Professional Certificate, University of Illinois, USA.
ACHIEVED PROFESSIONAL and TECHNICAL COURSES
Completed over 72 professional technical subject focused courses, i.e. 6G, E2E 5G, E2E IoT Ecosystems, IoT Solutions E2E LTE,
VoLTE, CIoT, IIoT Solutions, Cloud Computing for IoT, Big Data Analytics for Massive IoT; and 8 professional diplomas in
Leadership, Business Administration and Management, Data Analytics for Leading Businesses, Risk, Human Resources and Contract
Law were completed. Extensive list is available on request.

HIGH PROFILE PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles: 5 Journal articles published in highly regarded Communications and Telecommunications international journals.
Conference Papers: 6 conference papers presented and published in renowned international conferences including 3 IEEE
conferences. All papers and articles are available on request.
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS.
Outperforming numerous high-profile technical program committees’ reviews in international conferences (24 committees) to make
significant input. Previously served in high profile technical program committees to a significant contribution.
Delivered more than 6 keynote speeches and 12 workshops in leading International technical conferences and exhibitions. Topics
includes state-of-the-art emerging technologies including IoT and IoE, Big Data analytics, Cloud and Edge Computing, 5G and Next
Generation Heterogeneous Networks.

PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Member of IET (MIET)
• Member of IEEE (MIEEE)
• Member of IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS)
• Member of IEEE Communications Society (IEEE ComSoc)
• Member of IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (IEEE CES)
• Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society (IEEE SPS)
• Member of UK Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Member of UK Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
• Member of UK Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA)
• Member of Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Member of Association for Project Management (APM)
• Member of Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM)

REFERENCES
All Available upon request.

INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CERTIFICATIONS