Breaking: Wateen Appoints Muhammad Azeem as CTO

Wateen Telecom recently appointed Mr. Muhammad Azeem as CITO (Chief Information & Technical Officer), told us sources within the company.

Official sources have confirmed Mr. Muhammad Azeem’s appointment who is an MBA in Marketing & Human Resource Management from University of Kansas.

He is an expert in Assesment of Technology Evolution, Network Operations, Vendor Management, Project Management and Performance Management. He has previously worked as General Manager Business Development with Transworld and as Vice President with Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited. 

He has also been working with Hewlett-Packard, Sprint Nextel, AT&T and Alcatel Lucent.
 
Wateen Engineering Department, Network Operation Center (NOC) and ENOC will be headed by Mr. Muhammad Azeem who has over 25 years of advanced technology experience in the fields of aerospace, wireless communication and information technology.

It is worth mentioning here that Wateen was looking for new CTO for more than two months because Mr. Faisal Sattar, the former CTO of Wateen Telecom left Wateen in October 2013 and joined Universal Service Fund as
Chief Executive Officer.

Update: Below is the email of Wateen CEO Mr. Naeem Zamindar welcoming new CTO Mr. Muhammad Azeem

Mohammad Azeem has joined Wateen as our new Chief Technology Officer.  He has over 25 years of advanced technology experience in the fields of aerospace, wireless communication and information technology. He started his career with NASA Jet Propulsion Lab; the unmanned deep space network division and later transitioned into mobile, wired, voice, value added services and data communication industry . He has held various engineering, management and business development positions with Alcatel Lucent, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, HP, PTCL and Transworld Associates. He is credited for playing a significant role in launching the 3G, VoIP, PTT, and other high end value added services for Sprint Nextel. His areas of expertise include infrastructure deployment, product management, customer services, business development, business intelligence, business process reengineering, and vendor management.

He received his MBA in Marketing and Human Resource Management from the University of Kansas and also holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology along with a Bachelor of Arts from Reed College.

We give him a warm welcome into the Wateen Family and look forward to the exciting innovations that he will bring into Wateen!