1. Tareq Kayed
Tel: +971 50 3971251
E-Mail: Tareq.Kayed@gmail.com
Dubai – United Arab Emirates
LinkedIn Profile URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tareqkayed
Summary of Qualifications
Work Experience
Jun 2012 – Present Sandvine Inc.
Senior Project Manager Dubai, UAE
Sep 2008 – Jun 2012 Sandvine Inc.
Senior Project Manager Waterloo, Ontario (Canada)
• Manage the delivery of the Sandvine Professional Services and deployment project in EMEA, NA, LATAM
and APAC on time, within budget and with high customer satisfaction
• Chair the Kick off meetings with the stakeholders of the project.
• Define all entry and exit criteria of projects and set the proper expectations with the internal and external
stakeholders.
• Prepare scope of work documents (SOWs).
• Generating schedules and keep track of project progress
• Working closely with the Engineering Resources Manager to forecast for resources requirement and required
skills.
• Risk Management and generating risk mitigation plans
• Recruiting and managing the subcontractors to run the testing activities.
• Executing projects and applying the good practices of PMI PMBOK standards.
• Using the Earned Value Management system (EVMS) to track project progress and introduce control
measures and corrective actions throughout the various phases of the project
• Aligning Sandvine’s roadmap with the projects’ schedules.
• Interfacing with Sandvine’s Product Management team and the Sandvine’s Support Organization to escalate,
follow up with the Technical issues, discuss KPIs and customer requested ATPs.
• Supporting the pre-sales activities by reviewing the SoW documents, responsibility matrix, Project Plan,
Description documents and customer RFP responses, and helping the pre-sales solution architects in
translating the business requirements into technology and solution requirements for inclusion in contract and
statement of work (SOW) agreements
• Running weekly calls with the project teams to update the projects status.
• Seek sign off and acceptance from the customer on project deliverables
• Conduct postmortem meetings internally and run customer satisfaction surveys
• Work closely with finance department to follow up the billing milestones of the projects and revenue
recognition status of projects

2. • Working very closely with the PMO to improve the project management skills and quality of the project
management teams and partners who are engaged in complex and strategic projects, and ensured
successful project delivery in budget and in time
• Acted as the coach for project managers engaged in complex consulting projects through the various phases
of the projects
• Key Customers: Etisalat UAE, Etisalat Egypt, Superonline Turkey, PTCL Pakistan, Qtel, Zain, Nawras,
Ooderdoo, Mobinil, Hutchison Hong Kong, Atheeb Saudi, ITC Saudi, Telefonica UK, Bell Canada, Clearwire
USA, Cricket USA, Orange …etc.
• Technologies: LTE, 3G and UMTS, 2G, Cable, WiMAX, DSL, WiFi, FTTx, GSM, Satellite …etc.
• Solutions and interfaces: Policy Charging Rule Function (PCRF), Online Charging (Gy), Policy Enforcement
(Gx), Record Generation (UDRs), Quota Management (QM), Network Business Intelligence Analytics, Fair
Share Traffic Management (FSTM), Network and subscriber Protection, In-Browsing Notification, URL
Filtering, VoIP Traffic Management, SOAP provisioning, RADIUS and DHCP Integration, Subscriber mapping
…etc.
Oct 2007 - Aug 2008 Motorola
WiMAX Trials Program Manager EMEA Amman, Jordan
• PM Governance on WiMax trials across the EMEA region.
• Building first class project governance processes and leadership of program management activities for all
WiMax trials in the EMEA region, WiMax trials portfolio management, financial management of WiMax trials
controlling the budget.
• Bestowed the award of Outstanding Performance for the year 2007 (top 10% of Motorola worldwide
employees in recognition for my contributions to the WiMAX momentum in EMEA).
• Built the cost estimates for trials, including labor and non-labor costs and controlling these costs with the
assigned Project Manager during the course of the trial in order not to exceed the approved budget for the
trial.
• Handling the WiMAX portfolio management role for EMEA trials and commercial projects and being the single
point of contact for WiMAX RAN knowledge base in EMEA and interfacing with WiMAX Product Management.
• Working closely with the Design and Delivery teams’ management to forecast for resources requirement,
required skills and WiMAX Program Technical issues.
• Acquiring and managing the subcontractors to run the WiMAX trials.
• Aligning Motorola’s WiMAX Roadmap with the trials schedules.
• Interfacing with WiMAX Product Management and the WiMAX support groups to escalate, follow up with the
WiMAX Program Technical issues, discuss KPIs and customer requested ATPs.
• Managing the WiMAX Trials equipment inventory.
• Supporting the WiMAX pre-sales activities by preparing the SoW documents, responsibility matrix, P&L,
Project Plan, Description documents and customer RFP responses.
• Running weekly calls with the project managers of all the trials in EMEA.
Aug 2006 – Oct 2007 Motorola
Principal Staff Engineering Lead – EMEA Amman, Jordan
• Leading the Motorola WiMax Central Deployment team. This team consists of around 20 engineers who are
expert in RF and IP aspects of the WiMax network.
• Got extensive training on WiMax Motorola products and e2e WiMax architecture.
• Deployed a WiMax network in France-Paris for TDF initially consisting of 18 WiMax sites.
• Managed trials for Atheeb KSA, TECOM-Dubai, Neotel-South Africa, Vodacom-South Africa, WiMaxTelecom-
Austria, WorldMax-Netherlands, and MaxTelecom-Bulgaria.
• Preparing the pre-trial documentation such as Scope of Work documents, Project plans, acceptance tests and
responsibility matrix.
• Creating the WiMAX BoMs and placing the orders for the trials.
• Running several WiMAX workshops in EMEA to leverage the WiMAX experience in EMEA region.
Jan 2005 – Jul 2006 Motorola
Principal Staff Engineer Amman, Jordan
Optimization Role
• Leading Fastlink’s RF Optimization team who was responsible for optimizing Greater Amman’s network
performance. An area of which consists of 20 BSCs.
• Supporting Fastlink engineers in their optimization/RF planning/designing activities.
• Stats monitoring using Motorola’s Performance Management and recommending enhancements

3. • Carried out the RF surveys for the new sites in Amman city and selected the most appropriate GSM antennas
for those new sites
• Owned/prepared 2 Bi-Annual Network Health reports for Fastlink.
Mentoring Role
• Delivered many training courses to around 10 new Fastlink engineers in optimization and RF planning. These
courses lasted for around 2 months. The presentations included GSM overview, Optimization, RF planning,
Statistics, troubleshooting, drive testing, Handovers and Power control and many subjects in the world of
GSM.
• Delivered many presentations to the Performance department of Fastlink on weekly basis and for 4 months.
These presentations included methods of maintaining performance of a GSM network and many other
performance related subjects.
• Mentoring 4 new Motorola engineers in the field of optimization.
Aug 2001 – Jan 2005 Motorola
Senior RF Planning & Optimization Engineer Muscat, Oman
Apr 2001 – Aug 2001 Motorola
RF Optimization Engineer Kuwait City, Kuwait
Nov 2000 – Apr 2001 Motorola
GSM System Engineer Dubai, UAE
Apr 2000–Oct 2000 Motorola
GSM System Engineer Amman, Jordan
Aug 1999 – Mar 2000 Future Applied Computer Technologies (FACT)
System Engineer Amman, Jordan
Education
• Jun 1999 B.Sc. / Electrical Engineering
University of Jordan (Amman, Jordan)
Project Management Trainings
PMP Boot camp Managing Multiple Projects (Critical Chain
Management Method)
Professional Project management
Motorola PMO Academy Quality for Project Managers Project Leadership, Management
and Communications
Technical Courses
Frequency Planning NetPlan (Motorola RF Planning Tool) GSM System Overview GSM Signaling
Advanced RF Certificate Series WiMax end-to-end solution GSM Interfaces BSS Subsystem Planning
Cell Optimization Product BSS (GPRS) Network Performance RF Planning Cycle BSS Database
BSS Database Application Introduction to E-GPRS/EDGE WiMax A-Z Introduction to GPRS
BSS Subsystem Performance BTS Product Operations & Maintenance BSSC Applications WiMax ULAP workshop
OMC-R Network operations OMC-R Advanced Network Operations CCNA course Mastering WiMAX Signaling
Voice Over IP Cisco course (UMTS) Introduction to UMTS-TIPS Mastering Visual Basic 6 (UMTS) Operational Overview
PL/SQL Programming Language GPRS functionality & Network Performance Analyzer Actix Motorola BSS Tools
Personal information
• Nationality: Canadian
• Marital Status: Married
• Languages: Fluent command of Arabic and English