Mahmoud R. Sherif

Mahmoud R. Sherif is a leading technical expert with more than 18 years of international experience in the design, development and implementation of 4th generation mobile broadband technologies and networks. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the City University of New York, USA in February 2000. His Ph.D. degree was preceded by the B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and the M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ain Shams in Cairo, Egypt in 1992, and 1996, respectively. From 1997 to 2008, he was working in the Wireless Business Unit at Lucent Technologies (which became Alcatel-Lucent in 2007), in Whippany, New Jersey, USA. Mahmoud was a team leader of the Voice & Data Quality and Performance Analysis team responsible for the End-to-End Performance Analysis of the different Wireless/Mobile Technologies. In November of 2008, he moved to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates to join the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Co. “du“ where he is now the Head of the Mobile Access Planning within du (Senior Director Mobile Access Planning) managing the Radio Planning, Site Acquisition and Capacity & Feature Management Departments. He is responsible for managing the planning of the mobile access network nationwide, Mobile Sites’ Acquisition, Strategic Planning on Mobile Access Network Capacity Management, all Feature testing and rollout across 2G, 3G and LTE, defining and managing the financial resources efficiently and with alignment with company’s financial targets (CAPEX & OPEX). He is also responsible for the mobile access network technology strategy in coordination with the commercial and marketing teams. Mahmoud is a company expert resource in the various mobile broadband technologies including HSPA+, LTE, VoLTE and LTE-A. He has published several related papers in various Technical Journals as well as multiple international conferences. He has multiple contributions to the 3GPP and other Telecommunications standards. He also has multiple granted patents in the USA.