Has done bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from NWFP UET Peshawar with honours. Major specialized subjects during studies were from the field of Telecommunications. After graduation (1987), joined Research & Development Department of Carrier Telephone Industries (CTI) Islamabad. CTI is a joint venture of PTCL & Siemens Germany. During his stay at CTI (till 1996) was involved in design & development of several telecom related projects initially as a team member and later as project leader. Relay Repeater, Fully Automatic Line tester, Digital PABX, Automatic Call Distribution System & Directory Assistance (17), Wireless Adapters for Mobiles & Switch mode power supplies are few to mention from the list of projects undertaken by him at CTI.
Joined WorldCall as a founding member as Director Technical, carried out complete network and product design & implementation of ‘Hello’ with the help of team members. Maintained close liaison with the PTA and PTCL top and lower management for this project.
when Cable TV service was legalized and licenses issued, WorldCall was the first company to come up with the Idea of Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) network including Internet Over Cable (IOC) deployment and started its operations from Lahore by deploying optical fibre cable and associated nodes all over the city. As Group Director Technical, supervised all technical aspects including technical operations of the project.
After gaining significant experience from Lahore, replicated the same HFC model at Karachi with even better approach. Optical fibre cable was deployed all over Karachi in major & minor rings with reduced node size for better quality of service and network management.
When Telecom Market was deregulated in Pakistan in year 2003 and Licenses were awarded for Long Distance International (LDI), Local Loop (LL) and Wireless Local Loop (WLL) networks, was actively involved in making policies and recommendations to the Ministry of IT & Telecom, The PTA and PTCL. As the main regulatory liaison person helped WorldCall successfully acquire those licenses and be the first one to start rolling out LDI, LL and WLL networks. WorldCall also started planning for laying Optical Fibre Long Haul network from Karachi to Peshawar in redundant Rings. As Group Director Technical successfully handled all Technical (from design to roll out and project management), regulatory and inter-operator liaison aspects of all these projects.
Left WorldCall in January 2007 to join Technology At Work (Pvt) Limited (T@W) as CEO and founding Director. From this platform is providing consultancy, project management and implementation services in ICT sector. |