Mustapha Houri

General Manager @ METCO

About

Over 30 years of experience in the field of telecommunication, always seeking a challenging position in a Senior management role to which I can apply my diversified and vast managerial and technical expertise in managing and rolling out turn-key telecom Networks/projects. Specialties: Handling MCA (Multiple Country Account) Projects and multiple projects in one account. Coaching and mentoring project managers.

Country

City

United Arab Emirates

Industry

Telecommunications

Skill

Transmission, 3G, BSS, Telecommunications, GSM, Switches, Team Leadership, LTE, 2G, Management, RAN, SS7, UMTS, WiMAX, Network Optimization, Network Design, ATM networks, IP, Integration, VoIP

Experience

General Manager

METCO

2013-3 - Present · 13 yrs 7 mos

Beirut

As General Manager I am responsible for all aspects of set-ups on the continent of Africa and heading of operations as well as Business Development in Countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo,Republic of Chad,Ghana and the Republic of Sudan,with new potentials in Tanzania,Mali and South Sudan, all in the field of Transmission and Fiber optics.

CPM Line Manager for GCC and Pakistan-SD RAN,IPBB & C

Ericsson

2011-3 - Present · 15 yrs 7 mos

Dubai,United Arab Emirates

Manging over 24 Customer Project Managers in the GCC and Pakistan areas.

Programme Manager

Norconsult Telematics

2010-1 - 2010-9 · 9 mos

Working on behalf of Norconsult for STC Saudi Arabia,as a Program Manager.

Chief Operations Officer/Africa

METCO

2009-1 - 2009-7 · 7 mos

Responsible for the company's operations in Africa,Reporting directly to the CEO.

Senior Project Manager/PMO Competence Developpment Manager

Ericsson

2007-6 - 2008-12 · 1 yr 7 mos

Responsible for developping the Competence of project mangers at Ericsson KSA and played a major role in helping to set up the PMO in the MU.Reached EPM and ESPM assessor status Also a Senior CFR and CPM on the STC account,for the GPON and MSAN projects.

Program Manger in MUSEE

Ericsson

2006-10 - 2007-5 · 8 mos

Based in Cyprus,I was in charge of two Projects: 1) Fiber optic Network expension between Cyprus,Lebanon and Syria a high profile project involving the main telecomnunication bodies in the 3 countries. 2) One GPON and one P2P FTTH Pilot projects in two suburbs of Nicosia the capital.

Program manager in MUSA

Ericsson

2005-2 - 2006-9 · 1 yr 8 mos

Program Manger in charge of the Econet Account based in Zimbabwe and later also as Program Manager based in Ghana and put in Charge of the Atlantique Telecom account operating under the logo"MOOV" in 7 countries in Central and Western Africa: Ivory Coast,Togo,Benin,Niger,Burkina Faso,Gabon and Central African Republic.

GM/CTO Spacetel Guinee Bissau,now part of the MTN network

Spacetel Guinea Bissau

2004-2 - 2004-9 · 8 mos

Based in Bissau and put In Charge of registering and starting up "Spacetel Guinee Bissau"the company from Ground Zero including the hire of member staff and workforce. Also in Charge of network start-up;Implementation and operations of the 1st legal GSM network under license in the country.

CEO Africel Gambia Ltd

Lintel Holdings

2001-2 - 2003-7 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Responsible for setting up the company and the GSM network in Gambia from scratch.

CTO and COO Africa

MTN Ghana

1996-5 - 1999-5 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Based in Ghana,Responsible for Establishing the company and setting up the network(Spacefon) from ground Zero. Also responsible for overseeing the various operations of the then owners Investcom holdings in the rest of their operations in Africa.