Mr. Mehdi Fourali has over 10 years of experience in the telecommunications industry working on fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), fiber-to-the-curb (FTTC), and asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) networks. He has a Master's Degree in IT engineering and certifications in GPON and CCNA. His experience includes roles as a consultant performing technical audits, engineer developing and validating GPON networks, and project manager overseeing wired and wireless network design and deployment projects.

1. Master Degree in I.T.
Alcatel-Lucent FTTH GPON certified
Mr Mehdi Fourali
Bordesley Green Mail: fouralimehdi@gmail.com
Birmingham – United Kingdom U.K. mobile: +447775392472
Nationality: French LinkedIn: ae.linkedin.com/pub/mehdi-fourali/7/764/75b
International driving license
Senior FTTx consultant
Work experience
May 2013 – Aug. 2013 GPON/ADSL and PSTN Technical Auditor for TRA in Oman
(sent by Cybercom).
Missions: KPI audit: technical improvements, rewording of the KPIs.
Network QoS audit: Audit of Telecom operators methodology to measure the QoS on their GPON and
ADSL network.
Post-processing: based on tests performed on GPON&ADSL telecom operators network in Oman, and
on drive tests.
Presentations and trainings: with Visio and Power Point.
Recommendations: technical modifications proposals on existing Telecom legal texts
Nov. 2010 – June 2012 GPON development/validation engineer for SFR (sent by
Tangent International, from U.K.)
Missions: +Designing: participating with SFR GPON architects and telecom vendors in improving GPON service
and products design, bugs fixing.
+Validation/Testing:
Hardware part:
-OLT equipmenttesting:onHuawei GPON OLT MA 5600T and Alcatel OLT7342, 7302.
-BRAS:Ericsson/RedbackBRASSE1200, Alcatel 7750 SR7 BRAS.
-CPE:several versions.
-ONTs:Huawei ONT,ALU ONTs(OLT and mini-OLT).
Software part:
-NewOLTsoftware release testing:onHuawei GPON OLTMA 5600T andAlcatel OLT 7342, 7302.
+Services: several services testing (Internet, VoIP, IPTV)
+Development: 300M and 1G GPON lines per subscriber development.
+Integration: 10G network upgrade, OLS, Femto on GPON network. Annexation of FTTH network to
mobile network (FTTM)
+Fiber elements: fiber cable, joining Kits, connector, patch cords, signal attenuators
+OSP: ODF, FDT, FAT, drop cable…

2. Performance part:
-performance test:(QoS, stabilityof ONTranging,Internetconnexionspeed etc…).
+Security: testingsecuritymechanismsonequipments;especiallysoftware (OperatingSystemreleases).
Portsisolate,Arpinspection,MAC& IPantispoofing,Configure IPACLfor traffic,Configure IPACLfor
VTY, Accesscontrol to the equipmentwithTACACS,Mirroringof anetworkandclientport,Control
broadcast andmulticasttrafficstorm.
+Protocols: debuggingandtroubleshootingonOSPF,BGP,SIP,IGMP, PPPoE,
Bootp/DHCP,RADIUSetc...
+Protocol analysis: -Hardware:TracespanGPON Xpert3800
-Software:Wireshark.
Oct. 2010 – Nov. 2010 GPON and ADSL engineer for SFR (sent by Tangent
International, from U.K.)
Missions: -IP and DSLAM chain test support (Huawei 5600T, 5300-GPON OLT Alcatel 7342, Cisco 4510).
-ADSL, FTTH and IP laboratory test lines preparation and configuration
-IP ressources management
-OSPF, BGP routing
June 2009 - Febr. 2010 Network and system designer/project manager for Western Genius
(Saudi)
Missions: Design/engineering:
-in charge of wired and wireless networks, and system solutions designing for clients.
-catalogue and technical brochures writing.
Project management:
-project development from beginning to end.
-developing project plans and associated presentation documents.
-estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals.
-budget estimation, and budget modification proposals when necessary.
-interface between different the different contractors: the client – the construction/design manager –
the equipment manufacturer/supplier.
Aug. 2007-June 2009 Network and Telco deployment expert for Neufcegetel/SFR
Technical coordinator of FTTH project:
Missions: -FTTH deployment responsible: Cisco 4510R (PtP), Alcatel GPON 7342 (GPON).
-configuration files performing for FTTH equipments (Cisco
4510, Redback SE1200, OLT Alcatel)
-BAS Redback/Ericsson SE1200 deployment.
-technical documents writing and team trainer for FTTH technology
-bugs feedbacks to vendor (Alcatel) and engineers.
-team working with project managers and engineers.
-deployment process defining/writing
-incidents processing on FTTH network

3. -IP resources management
-deployment intervention reporting/planning
Results: For year 2007-2008: 35 NRO deployed from scratch.
ADSL deployment:
Missions: -testing and deploying Cisco switches 3550, 3750, Huaweî 5624 and Cisco routers 7603.
-testing and deploying 5300 and 5600T Huaweî IP DSLAM, and troubleshooting on these devices.
-configuration files performing for Cisco 3550, 3750, 7603 Huawei DSLAMs, ISAM, GELT/IAM.
-responsible for DHCP configurations all over the France (national WAN)
-IP ressources management (subnetting, ressources registration etc...)
Results: Year 2007-2008: 1700 URA (ADSL sites) deployed goal: achieved.
Year 2008-2009: 2270 URA (ADSL sites) deployed goal: achieved.
February 2007-Aug. 07 3rd line ADSL technician for Club-Internet
Missions: Lead interventions on the Local Loop and clients home interventions (searching for ADSL signal
attenuation sources).
Validating intervention demands from technician level 2 and 1.
May 2005-Feb 2007 2nd line ADSL technician for Club-internet (ISP)
Missions: Taking calls about ADSL level 2 incidents (Mac and Windows):
-Modem-routers parameters settings (all brands).
-Connexion and browsing problems / VoIP, Wi-Fi (configuration and repairing).
-Incidents and bugs reporting to the experts-technicians on Club-internet internal
tools and products.
Aug. 2004-May 2005 1st line ADSL technician for Free (ISP)
Missions: Taking calls about ADSL level 1 incidents:
-Internet connexions creation and parameters settings.
-Miscellaneous breakdowns diagnosis (systems, hardware...).
Education and training
April 2012 Master’s Degree in IT engineering at Supinfo passed
September 2011 IT management training at Supinfo IT engineering school
Content: IT management: ITILv3, ISO 17799, CoBIT
IT project management: PMI, PRINCE 2
IT governance (GRC): Sarbanes-Oxley, Basel II and SOX, LSF, COSO, Bâle II,
Solvency 2
June 2009 CCNA (640-802) passed

4. March 2009 IP and Internet advanced level training
Sept. 2008 MPLS Training
January 2008 Alcatel GPON 7342 Training and optical fiber at Alcatel University of Anvers
(Belgium)
May – July 2004 Systems and Networks Technician training
Training center Unysoft
Training place Nanterre town (France)
Program -Computer architecture and repairing/Windows and Linux OS/Networks/Office softwares
June 1996 High school graduation (A Levels)
Exam place Paul Lapie high school (High school at Courbevoie town, France)
Computer Skills
Network technologies:
Switches and routers: 25xx, 2610, 3550, 3750, 7603, 4510R
Firewall: Cisco 535 PIX
Routing: MPLS, OSPF, RIP, BGP, EIGRP, Frame Relay
Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, IGMP, TFTP, CDP, TACACS, RADIUS, Vlan, load
balancing, IPV6 …
Hardware: Routers (Netgear, D-Link, Olitec...), Cisco routers, WIFI (windows and Mac), CPL.
Telecom technologies:
ADSL: DSLAMs: Huaweî 5300, 5303 and 5600. SDSL
FTTx: FTTH (GPON, Pt-to-Pt), FTTM.
CPE: SFR different models of CPEs
ONT: Huawei and ALU ONTs
BRAS (Services routers): Alcatel 7750 (SR7) and Ericsson SE1200, SE800,
OLTs: Cisco 4510R, Alcatel GPON 7342 and Huawei 5600T
Optic/Transmission: SDH, DWDM, CWDM, CUBO, ADVA, Ciena,
OSP (Huawei devices): ODF, FDT, FAT, drop cable…
Wireless: Wi-Fi
Engineering/Validation:
Protocol analysis: Hardware: Tracespan GPON Xpert 3800 (Optical fiber).
Software: Wireshark.
Bandwidth performances/Load tests: Iperf/Kperf
Supervision: Huawei: N2000 (ADSL), U2000 (FTTx). ALU: AMS 5520 (FTTx)
Management:
Project management: Reporting, MS Visio, Excel, MS Word 2007/2010.
Other skills
Languages English: written/spoken fluently TOEIC (score: 805/1000)
French: written/spoken fluently
Arabic: written/spoken fluently
Spanish: written/spoken, school level
German: written/spoken, school level