Mohammad Qutishat
Fujitsu
The Colony,TX
2
Languages
1
Certification
16
years of professional experience
Experienced Wireless Telecommunications Solution Architect and Strategic Product Management professional with 16+ years of experience in RAN systems and 8+ years in 5G. Proven expertise in architecting, developing, and deploying complex, disaggregated O-RAN/vRAN solutions across multi-vendor environments. Extensive experience with leading telecom organizations including Fujitsu, Samsung, Nokia, Huawei, and Ericsson, alongside collaboration with ecosystem leaders such as Dell, Meta, Marvell, NVIDIA, Minerva, Mavenir, Rakuten, and Cisco. Specialized in O-RAN, private 5G, CBRS, FWA, and AI/ML-driven RAN platforms, with expertise spanning product strategy, radio architecture, technology development, and end-to-end system integration. Experienced in leading cross-functional initiatives, multi-vendor deployments, cloud-native vRAN platforms, SMO/RIC automation, and industry collaborations supporting next-generation wireless networks. Knowledgeable [Desired Position] with strong background in product management, delivering impactful product strategies and successful product launches. Demonstrated expertise in market analysis and cross-functional team leadership. Proven ability to drive product development and manage lifecycle processes effectively. Recent graduate with foundational knowledge in [Area of study] and hands-on experience gained through academic projects and internships. Demonstrates strong teamwork, problem-solving, and time-management skills. Prepared to start career and make meaningful contributions with commitment and drive. Hardworking and passionate job seeker with strong organizational skills eager to secure entry-level [Job Title] position. Ready to help team achieve company goals.
Work History
Strategic Product Manager
4 Months- Radio Product Strategy & Roadmap: Drive long-term radio platform vision, product strategy, and roadmap development, aligning future RU architectures and capabilities with market evolution and corporate objectives.
- Market & Competitive Intelligence: Assess global wireless and RAN industry trends, emerging technologies, customer requirements, and competitor portfolios to identify product opportunities and differentiation strategies.
- Technology & Product Development Alignment: Collaborate with R&D, Technology Development, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate emerging technologies and market needs into future radio product requirements and architectures.
- Business & Investment Assessment: Evaluate product opportunities, technology investments, business cases, ROI, and long-term portfolio value creation.
- Product Positioning & Ecosystem Engagement: Contribute to product discovery, positioning, differentiation, and go-to-market planning while engaging customers, partners, and industry ecosystem stakeholders.
Sr. Wireless Solution Architect
5 Years 11 Months- O-RAN Radio Product Architecture & Standardization: Lead technical definition, requirements development, and integration of O-RAN-compliant Radio Units (RU), collaborating with Sales, customer engineering, and R&D. Represent Fujitsu in O-RAN Alliance working groups, including WG1, WG4, and WG10, contributing to architecture, M-plane, CUS-plane, and interface specification activities.
- Private 5G & CBRS Solutions: Architected end-to-end private 5G and CBRS solutions, including integrated gNB, 5G Core, and customizable multi-band RU platforms for Department of Defense (DoD), enterprise, and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) applications.
- Cloud-Native vRAN Platform Development: Spearheaded development and validation of Fujitsu's containerized vCU/vDU platforms for TDD and FDD deployments using Kubernetes, Docker, and COTS infrastructure with Wind River, VMware, and Red Hat platforms. Collaborated with Dell, Marvell, Minerva, Intel, and NVIDIA on hardware integration, GPU acceleration, benchmarking, and performance optimization.
- ACCoRD NOFO – Technical Leadership: Lead the technical workstream for the Automated Cloud Coordination for Open RAN Deployment (ACCoRD) project, collaborating with AT&T, Verizon, Ericsson, Nokia, Mavenir, Rakuten, Samsung, Corning, and other ecosystem partners. Drive multi-vendor system architecture, integration, interoperability, test strategy, and security validation of disaggregated O-RAN systems.
- Multi-Vendor O-RAN Integration & Interoperability: Provide architecture leadership across RU, DU, CU, SMO, and 5G Core domains, integrating and validating solutions with 8+ DU vendors, multiple SMO platforms, and various 5G Core vendors.
- AI/ML & Intelligent RAN Innovation: Developed multiple xApp/rApp prototypes for RAN intelligence and automation, including anomaly detection and energy-saving algorithms, leveraging Non-RT RIC platforms and O-RAN/3GPP interface models. Built an internal RAG-powered LLM troubleshooting platform using open-source models, ChatGPT API, knowledge graphs, O-RAN specifications, and AWS Bedrock to automate cross-vendor root cause analysis.
- Telecom Security & Supply Chain Assurance: Designed and implemented certificate-based TLS/NETCONF security architecture for DU-RU management communications, replacing basic authentication with PKI-based authentication and secure certificate provisioning aligned with O-RAN security guidelines and IETF RFCs. Contributed to SecureG's NTIA NOFO3 project, delivering a PKI-based proof-of-concept for O-RAN RU traceability, supply-chain verification, and OTA security integration.
- ORCID – Industry Integration & Conformance Testing: Played a leading technical role in the Open RAN Center for Integration and Deployment (ORCID) project, in partnership with Boost Networks and the NTIA Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund (PWSCIF), supporting RU-level interoperability, conformance, and performance testing aligned with O-RAN WG4 specifications.
- System Integration, Testing & Customer Delivery: Developed comprehensive conformance, performance, security, and E2E test strategies and led PoC/PoV planning, technical proposals, SoWs, SBOM/HBOM documentation, and customer-facing technical engagements across lab, integration, and field deployment environments.
Sr. Wireless Lead Engineer
1 Year- Launch DISH O-RAN 5G SA Network in USA.
- Led customer laboratory and field activities for hardware/software feature validation, verification, and deployment readiness of Fujitsu wireless solutions.
- Led technical discussions and interoperability activities with multiple DU vendors to establish and validate agreed O-RAN integration profiles.
- Led O-RAN fronthaul interoperability testing across CUSM planes, validating Control, User, Synchronization, and Management plane interfaces against O-RAN Alliance specifications.
- Designed and executed wireless product test plans and test cases, validating functional, performance, and customer business requirements.
- Performed end-to-end 5G SA system design, integration, and simulation, including PHY, MAC, and RRC layer validation.
- Conducted 4G/5G network and core interoperability testing across fronthaul and backhaul interfaces, including PHY, RRC, X2, S1-MME, and S1-U protocols, aligned with 3GPP Release 16.
- Executed radio conformance and protocol validation, including 3GPP and FCC feature testing, using channel emulators, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, Wireshark, and QXDM.
- Led troubleshooting and root cause analysis of hardware/software issues through system logs, KPIs, performance statistics, and protocol traces; coordinated resolution with customer and internal engineering teams.
- Provided day-to-day technical leadership, mentoring, and training to engineering and test teams, including preparation for General Availability (GA) product releases.
Sr. Macro RAN SME
4 Months- Accountable for leading field integration testing efforts of all 4G/5G key features with customers, including test plan development, reviewing test plan with customers, driving cross-functional teams to execution, review of test results, issue identification and analysis and quality proofing until software acceptance is achieved.
- Handling deep technical discussion with team members and leading to right direction.
- Analysis of network performance issues (i.e. air interface, call processing, etc.) and creating solutions to meet network optimization expectations.
- Support management initiatives and guide other engineers.
- Work with the Network Engineering and Operations Teams on the cell site’s antenna and RF equipment configuration and database parameters.
- Communicate PA team budget, milestones and deliverables to project management and implement plans to accomplish the milestones within budget, as required.
- Judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions and results.
- Present ideas, technical and non-technical, in a logical, compelling manner in a written format and verbally in both small and large group settings.
- Solid understanding all technical problems in LTE, RF fundamentals and data network protocols
- Strong technical knowledge of CDMA/EVDO and LTE/Volte/5G technologies
- Advanced working knowledge of Base Station Vendor equipment (Nokia, Samsung, Alcatel Lucent and Ericsson).
5G NR/LTE RF Optimization Market Lead
2 Years 2 Months- Airscale 5G/LTE & mMIMO -Sprint Project
- Lead RF Optimization activities for 5G / mMIMO / LTE / UMTS / GSM/ CDMA / EV-DO Networks.
- Analysis, monitoring, reporting, and troubleshooting of 5G NR DC/ LTE/VOLTE Network.
- Working with Nokia NetAct OSS in alarm management, performance management and parameter configuration management. Hands on knowledge of Nokia and ALU LTE TDD and FDD parameters.
- Experience with LTE parameters, KPI counters, Operational Performance Indicator (OPI) counters, LTE power management, Carrier Aggregation, and associated call scenarios.
- Experience with Alcatel-Lucent OSS (SAM) and parameter mapping between ALU & Nokia.
- Review daily KPI reports and identify sites with performance degradation issues.
- Deep experience in network performance components and troubleshooting, network performance problem detection and solution methods, e.g., throughput issues, connection drops, blocks, etc.
- Working on Nokia tools including PNM, ALU NPO, NetAct RS, etc, creating reports and deep dive counter-based analysis.
- RF Optimization Layer 3 analysis experience using tools like ACTIX and running traces for troubleshooting/analysis.
- Troubleshooting to perform tasks such as resetting an eNB/RRH, changing a parameter, run WO, alarms, RSSI issues.
- Understanding of Radio Resource Management functionalities, e.g., handover control, admission controls, capacity management, etc.
- Knowledge of monitoring site alarms, doing health checks of sites, and resolving alarms.
- Understanding & exposure of RF design (link budget inputs, propagation models), optimization, PLANET, ATOLL and performance tools.
Sr. RF Design & Optimization Team Lead
1 Year 9 Months- Huawei STC Manage Service Project – Saudi Telecom Company
LTE/3G RNO Consultant Engineer
11 Months- Zain Excellent Project – Zain (Saudi Arabia)
RF Planning & Optimization Engineer
3 Years 5 MonthsEducation
Bachelor Degree - Electrical Engineering
High school: Amman Academy School, Amman/Jordan.
Skills
RAN & O-RAN Architecture: RU/DU/CU disaggregation
SMO/RIC platforms
3GPP and O-RAN standards (WG1–WG4).
Strategic Product Management: Radio product strategy
technology roadmaps
market intelligence
competitive analysis
and product differentiation.
AI/ML-Driven RAN Automation: xApp/rApp architecture
anomaly detection
energy optimization
and traffic prediction.
VCU/vDU & Cloud-Native Platforms: Kubernetes
Docker
COTS infrastructure
GPU-accelerated processing
and performance benchmarking.
Private 5G
CBRS & Government Solutions: End-to-end system architecture and deployment for enterprise and government use cases.
Multi-Vendor E2E Integration: RU/DU/CU/SMO/Core integration across Ericsson
Nokia
Samsung
Mavenir
Rakuten
and other vendors.
RAN Conformance
Performance & Security Testing: RU/DU conformance
interoperability
E2E benchmarking
test automation
and 3GPP/O-RAN security validation.
RAN Lab
Simulation & Planning Tools: Keysight
Viavi
Rohde & Schwarz
Calnex
Spirent
Anritsu
channel emulators
TEMS
NEMO
XCAL
XCAP
Atoll
iBwave
and MapInfo.
Technical Documentation & Delivery: SoW
SBOM/HBOM
PoC/PoV planning
test specifications
reports
and technical proposals.
AI & LLM-Based Troubleshooting: Developed an internal RAG-powered LLM platform using AWS Bedrock for cross-vendor O-RAN root cause analysis.
Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP).
- Cybersecurity CS50.
- AWS Cloud Practitioner.
- AWS Solution Architect.
- PMI’s Agile Certified Practitioner PMI-ACP
Languages
English Fluent.
Arabic as a native language.
Timeline
Strategic Product Manager
Fujitsu
06.2026 - CurrentRead More
Sr. Wireless Solution Architect
Fujitsu
07.2021 - 06.2027Read More
Sr. Wireless Lead Engineer
Fujitsu
07.2020 - 07.2021Read More
Sr. Macro RAN SME
Samsung
03.2020 - 07.2020Read More
5G NR/LTE RF Optimization Market Lead
Nokia
01.2018 - 03.2020Read More
Sr. RF Design & Optimization Team Lead
Huawei
02.2016 - 11.2017Read More
LTE/3G RNO Consultant Engineer
Huawei
03.2015 - 02.2016Read More
RF Planning & Optimization Engineer
Umniah
10.2011 - 03.2015Read More
University of Jordan
Bachelor Degree from Electrical Engineering
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