Felix Buatey is a Project Management Professional with over 5 years of experience in telecom systems deployment and project management. He has a Master's degree in Telecom Management and has worked on projects involving system integration of Huawei and Ericsson nodes. His experience includes implementing projects using standard project management procedures, VAS network planning, database administration, and serving as both a technical lead and team member. He has worked for Millicom Ghana Ltd., Huawei Ghana Ltd., and Kasapa Telecom Ltd.

1. Felix Buatey
P.O Box CS 8448
Tema, Ghana
Phone: +233277749356, +233554816004
Email: felixbuatey@gmail.com
PERSONAL PROFILE
A Project Management Professional with a Master’s degree in Telecom Management coupled with over 5
years of experience in telecom systems deployment and project management with a persistent and flexible
approach to the achievement of business plans to the satisfaction of stakeholders, suppliers and customers.
I draw on strong organizational skills, confidence and interpersonal skills to motivate and drive teams to
achieve business results.
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EXPERIENCE/COMPETENCIES
 Using strong communication skills and business innovation ideas as a tool for delivery of
value added services for telecom consumers to meet business targets of consumer based
departments .
 Implementation of small and medium sized and turn key projects using standard project
management and PMO procedures.
 Conversant with project cost management with practical knowledge of Purchase order,
Purchase request procedures as well as budgeting for projects;
 VAS network planning and expansion in line with business KPI achievement
 With solid experience in administration of Databases and Core network nodes I have played
the roles of both Technical lead and team member in the implementation and provision of
maintenance support for telecom value added service (VAS) projects for key network
operators in the Ghanaian telecom industry with projects involving system integration of
Huawei and Ericsson nodes

2. ACHIEVEMENTS
 As Quality Assurance Manager at Millicom Ghana Ltd
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 Rollout of tigo’s Ericsson based Core network modernization project to deliver advanced 3G
capable core and data network nodes
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 Implementation of IBM’s Business Intelligence platform with Virtualized platform based
service management capability
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 As Telco Team Lead [Project Manager] at Millicom Ghana Ltd:
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 Integration of postpaid and prepaid subs on Huawei CBS platform resulting in significant
reduction in total cost of ownership and Overall subscriber growth.
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 Rollout of EDGE SMS Firewall to create transparency and efficient management of SMS
content delivery for SMS based services
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 Rollout of IMIMobile RBT service with enhanced ring back tone services for dynamic
consumer experience and revenue growth.
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 Implementation of Allot’s Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) solution for network bandwidth
management for efficient utilization of bandwidth and satisfying of consumer data needs.
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 Deployment of Huawei’s Online Charging System (OCS) as an upgrade of existing
Intelligent Network platform to provide capability for enhanced product development to
support ever increasing promotions for market penetration and business growth.
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 Project coordinator for Kirusa’s Voice SMS platform for managing scenarios of subscribers
not reachable when called.
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 Rolled out LEIB ICT’s Cell broadcaster project by adding the Broadcaster application to the
VAS network to better utilize network resources for mass subscriber message broadcasts to
support growing products and services on the network.
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 Rolled out Huawei’s IP call centre project for enhanced subscriber support management
saving the Organization costs of paying for the same service on rental basis.
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 As VAS Specialist at Millicom Ghana:
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 Rolled out two successive projects to expand the prepaid platform to support increasing
subscriber numbers and improve service quality at a time when there were frequent service
related problems due to overloaded software and hardware licenses.

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 Certificate of Honour, VAS operations team
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 As Project Engineer at Huawei Ghana Ltd:
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 Served as project lead for major upgrade of Millicom Ghana’s ring back tone platform with
hardware and software to support 1 million users to enhance a system that previously
supported only 300,000 users.
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 Served on project team to deploy ring back tone service with an installed capacity of 2
million subscribers for MTN Ghana.
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 As Switch Engineer at former Kasapa Telecom Ltd:
 Served on project team of Kasapa engineers and ZTE engineers for major upgrade of the
network to CDMA platform with enhanced system performance and service quality.
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 Certificate of Honour, Recognition of dedicated service
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 As Club PRO, Rotaract Club of Tema(2008-2009):
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 Organizing committee member for 2009/2010 fund raising Presidential Ball
CAREER HISTORY
Dec. 15 – Feb. 16 Millicom Ghana Ltd. As Quality Assurance and Support Manager
 Ensuring quality standards in service deployment
 Planning and Implementation of quality standards in service testing
Jan. ‘10 – Nov. 15 Millicom Ghana Ltd. As Project Manager
 Telco projects planning, execution and handover based on PMO standards
 Projects budget planning and stakeholder management
 VAS network planning and Commercial services development
Oct. ’07 – Dec. 09 Millicom Ghana Ltd. As VAS Specialist
 Coordination and Management of IN Platform expansion Projects
 Integration of core Network nodes to IN platform

4. Dec. ’05 – Oct. ‘07 Huawei Technologies, Ghana Ltd. As Project Engineer
 Project Planning and Execution
 Project performance tracking and reporting to all Stakeholders
 Provision of post project deployment Service support for Customers
Jan.’04-Aug.’05 Kasapa Telecom Ltd as Switch Engineer
 Operation and maintenance of switching network
 Cooperation with BSS team in configuration and assignment of BTS nodes
 Analyses and management of Network performance statistics
 Configuration of Trunk and Signaling interconnects to other network operators
EDUCATION and TRAINING
DATE INSTITUTION CERTIFICATE/SUBJECT
Feb. 2016 LITAC Africa ISO 20000 Lead Auditor training
Feb. 2016 tmFORUM e TOM fundamentals training
March, 2014 PMI PMP
Oct. 2013 Globe Mgt. Institute PMBOK-based Training in Project Mgt
Nov.’08 to Dec. ‘10 GTUC MSc. Telecom Management
Sep.’98 - June.’02 K.N.U.S.T., Kumasi BSc. Electrical/Electronic Engineering
Jan.’93 - Dec. ’96 Presby Boys’ Secondary S.S.S.C.E
Jan. ’11 Huawei Ghana Ltd. OCS Operation/Maintenance
Jan. ’09 Huawei Training Centre, China Intelligent Network Principles
AFFILIATIONS:
Member in good standing, Project Management Institute (PMI)

5. REFEREES:
REFEREES:
Kwaku Nyadu
Development Manager
Millicom Ghana Ltd
Phone: +233277443830
Felix Adigbli
Solutions Manager
Millicom Ghana Ltd
Phone: +233277530060

6. REFEREES:
REFEREES:
Kwaku Nyadu
Development Manager
Millicom Ghana Ltd
Phone: +233277443830
Felix Adigbli
Solutions Manager
Millicom Ghana Ltd
Phone: +233277530060