MENTOR FEEDBACK

Top 4 engineering universities across the nation have qualified

HARIS HASSAN

Haris is a Planning Strategist in the Cell

Planning Department, responsible for Network Planning & Optimization

activities in Sindh and Baluchistan.

He has been with Mobilink for 4.5 years &

was amongst the founding members who designed and launched

Broadband services under the umbrella of

Mobilink Infinity.

Engineer RF Planning – Cell PlanningMentor for NED

“ At Mobilink we strongly believe in going beyond the realms of our business to contribute towards the development of a more vibrant and thriving society – be it via our CSR platform or other fronts. Mobilink Super Engineer Competition is one such platform via which students have the opportunity to gain insights from industry professionals. This exposure will help them in their academic as well as professional career.

Being a mentor I am excited at the prospect of working with fresh talent and hope to help them in whatever capacity I can. I am thrilled at their energy, exuberance and drive to outshine fellow competing teams. ”

SAJID IFTIKHAR

Sajid is currently working as Manager Data Core

Engineering in Broadband & Carrier Division. His portfolio

includes Planning, Optimization and

Budgeting of MPBN & Broadband Networks. He

has over 12 years’ experience in

Datacom/Telecom sector in Pakistan and abroad.

Manager Data Core EngineeringMentor for CASE

“ It is indeed an excellent experience interacting with students – observing their efforts, guiding them as to what could bring efficiencies and effectiveness in their project implementation.

Interesting part is to change their approach from ‘make it working’ to ‘make it efficiently working’.

Students will deliver working prototype of the concept within given timelines, and provided they managed to deliver components’ from abroad – it will be excellent.

Disaster recovery and solutions to address disastrous situations is a key area where technology needs to complement human efforts and this is probably a good step in drawing attention towards this area for organizations like NDMA. ”

AHSAN MANSOOR

Ahsan is a Senior Engineer in the VAS

Planning team looking after Mobile Financial Services. He has been

with Mobilink since the past 4.5 years. Ahsan has

completed his MSc Degree in Mobile and Pervasive Computing

from Newcastle University, UK.

Specialist VAS PlanningMentor for NUST

“ When I found out about the project I am mentoring – Improvement in Agricultural Information Flow using web enabled Mobile Phone Networks – I immediately liked the project idea.

Firstly, it is meant to benefit our rural population who usually belong to lower middle class and are not very literate. Agriculture is the backbone of Pakistan’s economy and we need to modernize our methods to increase growth.

Secondly, the project involves giving information to the farmers in their native language, which is another positive aspect of this project. The farmers would feel more comfortable in seeking information. ”

SYED UMAR JAVEDSpecialist Core Network Optimization

Mentor for GIKI

Umar is a Core Network Engineer, specializing in

performance and statistical analysis. He has been working with Mobilink for about 3

years as an Optimization Specialist and has a

versatile experience in the Core Network

domain .

“ I am absolutely thrilled to be a part of this project. It is surprising that students nowadays have in depth awareness of subscriber retention and their commercial importance.

I am expecting the team to keep their heads down and think of every obstacle as wind beneath their wings. I am confident that they will come up with a great project proposal.

It’s application in Telco will help in identification of “key” subscribers and control subscriber churn. In today’s competitive market such advantages may prove to be more than ordinary. ”

THANK YOU!….. stay tuned to find out who took away

the Mobilink Super Engineer 2012!