Christelle Akkari, Account Manager

Christelle Akkari

Account Manager

MT2

Location
Lebanon
Education
Diploma, CCNA - Cisco
Experience
11 years, 7 Months

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Total years of experience :11 years, 7 Months

Account Manager at MT2
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since June 2015

- Create and develop ongoing business relationships with Mobile Operators
- Handle assigned accounts and coordinate with other account managers (from operator’s side) to make sure services are being fully understood and launched on time.
- Initiate, promote and follow-up on new services after studying market/operators needs and priorities.
- Draft new services’ proposals and presentations with the coordination of Advertising/Marketing departments.
- Daily monitor traffic generated from the running services with operators
- Follow up with technical team on the services that are being deployed to speed up integration
- Follow up with content department to make sure the content meets each operator’s content guidelines and policies.
- Follow up with Contracts department when signing new contracts to solve any contract related issues with operator or content provider.

Account Coordinator, Commercial and Telecom Segment at Khatib & Alami
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • March 2013 to May 2015

• Support Khatib & Alami (K&A) especially GIS Services Division (GSD) in business development efforts to achieve long-term continuity and secure continuous work and growth.
• Support GSD in Technical proposals for Telecom and Commercial projects including Wireless Telecom network designing, planning, optimization & data management, Coverage Prediction, Location Analytics and Business Intelligence, Vehicle and Personnel Tracking System…
• Evaluate scopes of work, request for proposals, technical and financial proposals, project schedule, project estimation and prepare presentations.
• Matching services provided to market growth areas.
• Build a customer database and maintain contact information.
• Initiate, establish, & carry on good business relations with customers and market players.
• Support the Solution and Product manager to recruit new candidates for the telecom engineers’ position at K&A.
• Audit the Configuration Control process based on CMMI

Sales Engineer at Computel S.A.L.
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • December 2012 to March 2013

• Establish new accounts and services accounts by identifying potential customers; planning and organizing sales call schedule.
• Identify current and future customer service requirements by providing product and IT solution for virtualization, storage, archiving, backup, BCDR, networking, security, data protection…
• Prepare quotes and proposals by studying blueprints, plans, and related customer documents; consulting with engineers and other professional and technical personnel.
• Follow up on sales leads and payments; also review new areas of reaching clients.

Trainee at Ericsson
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2011 to September 2011

• Controlled the charging system traffic cases and the charging and billing in one system.
• Acquired competence on:
- IP, BB & CORE Domain (Packet Core, IMS & MPBN)
- Radio Access Network planning & optimization in 3G
- Media and Application Competence Domain (CBA)

Trainee at OGERO
  • Lebanon - Tripoli
  • July 2011 to September 2011

• Monitored the switching network and its structure and deployment in Lebanon with respect to Alcatel, Ericsson & Siemens.
• Acquired competence on:
- Telecom Platform (3G, DSL, protocols & OSI Model)
- Mobile Network & Signaling (GSM network UMTS, CDMA, SS7, cell planning…)
- PDH - SDH - DWDM (Optical Transmission in General)

Education

Diploma, CCNA - Cisco
  • at Azm Educational Campus
  • August 2012
Bachelor's degree, CCE - Computer Communication Engineering
  • at Notre Dame University (NDU)
  • February 2012

My cumulative GPA is 3.5. I have financed 25% of college expenses through scholarship. I've been on the Dean's list for approximately every semester.

Languages

Arabic
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English
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French
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Hobbies

  • Reading books
  • Sport
  • Play Guitar