For Jaffar Abdulla, it has been a journey through an exciting technological landscape that Zain Bahrain opened up since its entry into the Bahrain telecoms market in 2003.
As a Radio Engineer in the start-up team and later, as specialist in the Network Planning and Business Development departments, he gained valuable insights into the Zain technological and commercial roadmap.
His new assignment as Manager, Regulatory and Interconnection will see him play a key role in managing both technical & commercial aspects of Zain Bahrain's growing network of national and international interconnections and ensuring that Zain Bahrain's reputation for co-operation and compliance with telecoms laws and regulations continues to grow from strength to strength.
Jaffar Abdulla has an MBA from the New York Institute of Technology with concentration in Finance built over a foundation B.Sc. degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from the University of Bahrain.
Dana Bukhammas' appointment as HR Manager is an extension of Zain Bahrain's core HR values that recognize leadership and promote innovation among staff.
Dana joined the company in 2003 as a member of the start-up HR team and has since been a core member in the development of HR policies, management of recruitment quality and retention and the shaping of Zain Bahrain's much-admired HR standards. She also has experience as a high-achieving Sales team member.
Dana has a track record as a recognized Team Leader who has initiated several innovative HR management processes at Zain Bahrain. She has helped set up the company's online recruitment process and helped to design and restructure Zain Bahrain's employee rewards program and employee relations program.
Dana Bukhammas has a B.Sc in Business Management from the University of Bahrain and is a certified psychology counselor, a training that helps her in resolving workplace conflicts and in analyzing and planning HR resources management
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Promotions strengthen Zain Bahrain team
- Bahrain: Tuesday, June 16 - 2009 at 13:49
Zain Bahrain has announced the promotion of two experienced team members to key posts: Jaffar Abdulla has been promoted to the post of Manager, Regulatory and Interconnection while Dana Bukhammas has been promoted to Manager, Human Resources.
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About ZainZain is a leading emerging markets player in the field of telecommunications aiming to become one of the top ten mobile operators in the world by 2011. Today it is the 4th largest mobile network in the world in terms of geographical footprint with commercial presence in 24 countries spread across the Middle East and Africa providing mobile voice and data services to 64.7 million active customers as at 31 March 2009.
Zain operates in the following countries: Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. In Lebanon, the company manages the network on behalf of the government operating as mtc-touch. In Morocco, Zain in a joint venture, owns 31% of Wana Telecom.
On May 18, 2009, Zain entered into a merger agreement with Palestinian Telecommunication Company Plc (Paltel) that will result in Zain attaining 56.5% of the company subjective to regulatory approvals.
Zain offers innovative services in its markets such as One Network, the world's first borderless mobile telecommunications network enabling customers to receive calls and sms without charge and to make them at local rates throughout many countries in Africa and the Middle East. Customers can also top up their mobiles with airtime bought in their home country or from more than 1,000,000 outlets across 18 countries.
Zain Bahrain entered the Kingdom's telecoms market in 2003 as the second mobile service entrant. Riding on the promise of innovative business practices and cutting-edge technology, Zain Bahrain has delivered on these promises by putting Bahrain on the global telecommunications map with a string of firsts - the first country with nation-wide 3G, then 3.5G and now, WiMAX coverage. Today, Zain Bahrain has developed into a successful fixed wireless service operator offering full-spectrum corporate telecoms solutions, voice and data services to customers in the Kingdom.
The company is committed to nurturing the finest Bahraini talent and has an energetic and inspired majority-Bahraini workforce. It's strong CSR initiatives have made Zain Bahrain an active partner in Bahrain's development and progress.
The Zain brand is wholly owned by Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC, which is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (Stock ticker: ZAIN). Zain is listed in the Financial Times' Global 500 Index which ranks the world's largest companies based on market capitalization.
Nadeen El AjouTuesday, June 16 - 2009 at 13:49 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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