Mohamed Abdel Monem

Mohamed Abdel Monem is an enthusiastic Open RAN & 5G Technology Architect, Researcher, and Trainer with 13+ years of experience in the Telecom field.

▶He delivered +6K hours of training in the Mobile Telecommunication fields 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G Overview,5G Core, Open RAN, 5G RAN, VolTE, and RF Planning and Optimization trained +30K students both engineers and undergraduates around the world live in classrooms and online. Also, he delivered many corporate training for Tier 1 Mobile network operators.

▶ He has his professional technical website, YouTube channel, and Facebook technical page where he walks his followers through a comprehensive understanding of the upcoming 5G technology covering end-to-end research and news.

▶ He delivered online training in Egypt, the US, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, India, and Oman. He was a speaker at many universities like AUC, GUC, Cairo University, Alex Unidverisy, Fadyoum University, Aswan University, and Ain-Shams University covering the topics of Mobile Telecom like RF domain, RAN, 4G, and 5G.

▶ In his career, Mohamed worked with several Vendors such as Huawei and Ericsson. Also, worked with different Operators such as Etisalat, Vodafone, and Telecom Egypt. Mohamed also works on graduation and research projects in the telecommunication field to enhance different mobile network performances.

▶ In the 5G Track, Mohamed delivered much technical training to cover 5G from the Overview point to specific domains like RAN, Transport, and Core. He also was invited to be a speaker in 5G MENA (the largest event in the MENA region to focus on advancing and commercializing 5G networks) in April 2019 and March 2020 to deliver a presentation about how should operators prepare their networks to be 5G-ready in the MENA Region.

▶ Mohamed started his career in Huawei Egypt as a Front Office (FO) Engineer for monitoring Etisalat and Orange networks from the RAN Side, then he worked as a Capacity Planning Engineer, and He worked as a Back Office (BO) Engineer for one year.

▶ In 2013, He joined Vodafone Egypt and worked as an RF Senior Optimization Engineer for 6 years, he was responsible for the network performance, KPIs, and Coverage complaints and worked in different technologies from 2G to 4G.

▶ In 2018, He joined Telecom Egypt as Wireless RAN Strategy Manager, in his role he worked with different vendors like Ericsson, Nokia, and Huawei to study 5G visibility and was a part of a 5G focus group that helped in many studies related to the 5G roadmap in Egypt.

▶ In 2020, He joined Rakuten Mobile, Japan, as a strategic planner and Telecom Expert, which is the first Mobile Network Operator (MNO) in the world to launch Open RAN for both technologies 4G and 5G.

▶ In 2022, He Joined Mavenir as a Solutions Architect. Mavenir’s approach is radically different from traditional proprietary approaches with a comprehensive portfolio of Open RAN and fully virtualized VNFs, cloud-native virtualization of the baseband processing is extended to the edge of the network. He delivered a network design for 5G NSA, 5G SA, and 4G projects globally to the customers.

▶ Currently, He is a Technical Telecom Presales at Intersec Group. Intersec is a global pioneer in mobile data and location intelligence solutions, locating, mapping, and alerting nearly one billion people and devices 24/7. He is responsible for the pre-sales and product technical discussion for many customers in MENA for all technologies from 2G to 5G.

▶ Mohamed was recognized as one of the Top 50 5G influencers on LinkedIn by Onalytica in 2023 and 2022.

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