Bilal Diebas
Frisco,Texas
Summary
6+ years of multifamily constructions focused in drywall & paint operations, estimation- bidding process and project management. 23+ years of local & international experience in the IT / Telco industry with solid track history in consultancy, program management, and operations; good understanding of wireless, fixed communications; Setup “green field operators” with emphasis on Core, BSS, OSS and VAS. Managed a team of principal & senior consultants to support MNO's with business cases to reduce OPEX & CAPEX and increase ARPU.
Overview
33
33
years of professional experience
Work History
COO
GSC Drywall
Midlothian, TX
03.2024 - Current
- Oversaw and coordinated the entirety of project operations
- Head of estimating & software department
- Managed the bidding process by scrutinizing every proposal for accuracy and completeness, resulting in more successful project acquisitions.
- Managed the procurement of materials for various projects.
- Work collaboratively with project managers to develop and adhere to schedules, ensuring adequate allocation of resources.
- Collaborated with project managers to ensure efficient execution of daily tasks
- Conducting 5-minute stand-up meetings with field teams for every project.
- Create change orders & track completion
- Prepare & track Pay Apps
Director of Operations
Axis Contractor Services
Plano, TX
01.2018 - 01.2024
- Lead the Contract & scope negotiations with the GCs
- Staff all projects with the right crews to meet the PM schedule
- Lead and developed a safety training program and documents for new crews and made sure rules are implemented in the field
- Prepare & review all new bids to be sent out & tracking bids to completions
- Negotiated material prices with all vendors
- Work with all PMs to manage day to day activities
- Hold 5 minutes stand up meeting with each team in the field for each project & Attending project weekly meetings
- Create change orders & track completion
- Prepare & track Pay Apps
Scrum Master
SGS Services
Plano, TX
01.2012 - 01.2017
- Involved in developing new mobile business applications for a leading providers of IT products and services companies, (Insight), to create more value and convenience to its customers
- Develop and manage project plans, implement solutions using Agile Methodology
- Capture requirements for key business services by conducting sessions with key stakeholders
- Come up with the gap analysis of client requirements and prepare workflows
- Create product backlogs accordingly
- Classifying user stories and acceptance criteria to help with sprint planning
- Hold daily scrum stand-ups
- Conduct spring planning meetings, sprint reviews and retrospectives
- Worked closely with the product owner and wire-frame team
- Guide, and review test plans and user acceptance testing
- Track issues and defects found to resolution
- Worked closely with other scrum product owners to be in sync with project goals
Head of Consulting & System Integration
NOKIA CORPORATIONS
Dubai, UAE
01.2006 - 01.2011
- Responsible for delivery activities within the Consulting & System Integration, in MEA region
- Managed a technical team to design, implement and deliver a Content & Streaming solution to cellular operators within MEA region
- Manage a team of solution engineers, developers, and project managers to ensure all projects are delivered on time and milestones are met
- Support presales and sales teams to provide end to end solutions to our customers
- Involved in evaluation process of the 3rd party solutions
- Manage tier 3 support for all customized solutions and 3rd party platform
- Manage and work with offshore partners to deliver solutions
- Identify the Nokia nodes and the 3rd party nodes that we need to come up with the final design
- Evaluate the hardware needed to meet the capacity required for the customer
Team leader & advisor
NORTEL NETWORKS
Richardson, Texas
01.1995 - 01.2006
- Manage a team of sales & system engineers for Vodafone, & TMO with primary focus on deployment of features using Nortel platforms on the customer live networks with minimal or zero issues
- Supporting sales engineers by answering all technical questions and queries
- Help management in tracking and reporting the progress of each project using in house tools
- Provided input to PLM and design at the HLD stage
- Worked with PLM & design to size the feature, provide test requirements & reporting
- Responsible for integration testing of the features with other nodes on the GPRS/UMTS network
- Tested features using a live “end-to-end” system in the lab and test interactions with all the peripherals attached such as DHCP, DNS, RADIUS, CGF, Prepaid/Diameter, HA
International Sr. Circuit Engineer
MCI WORLDCOM COMMUNICATIONS
Dallas, Texas
01.1991 - 01.1995
- Technical support for sales in Europe and Middle East for all private lines orders
- Enhanced the order process and tracking for all private lines using Lotus Notes
- Managed and maintained a zero order backlog, assisted team members with technical issues, distributed work load and ensured that the databases are updated at all times
- Automating and monitoring engineer’s performance using Lotus Notes
Education
M.S. Degree - Telecommunication Management -
Southern Methodist University
12.1997
B.S. Degree – Electrical Engineering -
Southern Methodist University
12.1990
Skills
- Stack
- Plainswift
- Assemblies
- Telecoms Protocols
- VoIP
- SIP
- H323
- Circuit Based
- SS7
- ISDN
- TCAP
- Platforms
- GGSN
- SGSN
- MPE
- MTX
- DMS100
- DMS250
- WAP
- LBS
- IMS
- PoC
- CG
- IN
- Wireless Specs
- LTE/4G
- 3G UMTS
- GPRS
- TDMA
- CDMA
- GSM
- Traffic
- Tektronix
- SSC
- VISA
- Software and databases
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Project
- MS Excel
- Oracle
- MS SQL
- MY SQL
- Python
- R
- Advanced Excel
- Networking
- IP
- TCP/UDP transport
- SNMP
- IBM RTC
- Rally
References
Available upon request
Languages
English
Professional
Arabic
Professional
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
COO
GSC Drywall
03.2024 - Current
Director of Operations
Axis Contractor Services
01.2018 - 01.2024
Scrum Master
SGS Services
01.2012 - 01.2017
Head of Consulting & System Integration
NOKIA CORPORATIONS
01.2006 - 01.2011
Team leader & advisor
NORTEL NETWORKS
01.1995 - 01.2006
International Sr. Circuit Engineer
MCI WORLDCOM COMMUNICATIONS
01.1991 - 01.1995
M.S. Degree - Telecommunication Management -
Southern Methodist University
B.S. Degree – Electrical Engineering -
Southern Methodist University