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Mandela Yator

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Reliable results driven Engineer with over 18 years' experience in the GSM and IT space
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Starting at USD800/month
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Starting at USD5/hour

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  • Safaricom PLC
    Field Operations Engineer
    Safaricom PLC
    Apr 2013 - Dec 2024 (11 years 9 months)
    Site rollout-Acceptance and integration of key elements to relevant NMS. Supervision of power technicians under cluster. Maintenance of Enterprise network GPON, Huawei & Nokia OLT systems. Health and safety (H&S) chapter lead-Western Nyanza. Passive maintenance- Genset, Solar PV, Aircons. TX equipment maintenance-Microwave Aviat legacy, Multiband/E band high capacity radios, NEC 3band radios, Ericson TN. Nokia BTS-Legacy MR, Airscale 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G-Installation, Integration, Commissioning. Active maintenance-BTS Radio modules, Baseband. Digital transformation lead-Commercial and technology teams on embracing emerging IT technologies to meet customer delight. Cost saving initiatives under power and OPEX. Data Center-Kiboswa/Ngiya MSR Install
  • Safaricom PLC
    Network Operations Center Engineer
    Safaricom PLC
    Sep 2008 - Mar 2013 (4 years 7 months)
    Monitoring of key elements in GSM architecture-Radio access and Core Network. Undertook 1st line fault clearance on NetAct and Huawei M2000. Escalated site failures and module fault to relevant teams-FOs and support. Carried out change management procedures and network update reporting. Supervised site access protocols. • Customer management-Respond to customer inquiry using tools like Siebel and CRM
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    IT skills-Dev Ops, ITIL, SCRUM certified
    Feb 2024 - May 2024 (4 months)
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    Mongo DB, MySql certified
    Jan 2022 - Sep 2022 (9 months)
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    CCNA, VMware certified
    Feb 2021 - May 2022 (1 year 4 months)
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    Graduate Engineer
    Nov 2011 - Current (14 years 8 months)
    Registered under the Engineers Registration Act 1978
  • Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
    Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
    Jan 2003 - Jan 2008 (5 years 1 month)
    Second Class Honours (Upper Division)
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    KCSE
    Mangu High School
    Jan 1998 - Jan 2001 (3 years 1 month)
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    5G rollout
    Aug 2023 - Jul 2024 (1 year)
    Nokia Kisumu cluster
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    Cloud BSC/RNC rollout
    Apr 2022 - Jan 2024 (1 year 10 months)
    Kisumu Kiboswa, Ngiya
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    Airscale Modernization
    Jan 2022 - Jan 2024 (2 years 1 month)
    Kisumu cluster team lead Nokia
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    Modernization
    Apr 2014 - Jan 2023 (8 years 10 months)
    Legacy Siemens to Nokia MR-100 Sites supervision, Multiband Back haul NEC, Aviat, Kisumu aggregation nodes