Candidate

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First Name: Yavor
E-Mail Address: yavor.todorov@gmail.com
Country: Bulgaria
Phone: +359898400404
Current Job Designation: Telecom Director
Job Designation Applying For: Telecom Executive
Total Years of Experience: 25
Copy your Resume / CV in this box: YAVOR TODOROV M.Sc. P.Eng. PMP
+359898400404 yavor.todorov@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/yavor/
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
High-achieving and seasoned telecom executive with a record of success driving market growth, reducing costs, and achieving customer satisfaction. Able to succeed in dynamic environments and skillfully manage multiple tasks relationships and communicating effectively at all levels. Developing and motivating skilled professionals, seeking to diversify wireless experience and advance career goals by taking on new challenges within the wireless industry. Vendor selection for key projects and solutions. Experienced in Network Rollouts, Strategies, Solution analyzes, New Services development and Emerging Technologies.
Build sound recommendations to Senior leadership on New Services and Network evolution roadmap.
Establish Technology roadmap in line with company needs and global technology trends
Managing expectations by setting clear goals, develop strategies, take decisions and establish processes and practices through transparent communication vertically and horizontally.

Create Vision and Strategy, with Customer's and Organization's needs in mind
Collaboration with Industry Partners and Research communities
Achieve Results and drive Positive change with Innovative ideas
Development of the business plan and lead its implementation
Senior Leadership Strategy & Service steering committee member

Professional Highlights
20+ years proven record of Progressive Leadership
New Products, Solutions and Strategies Evaluation and Deployment with 3+years view
New Services Case built, Evaluation and Commercialization
Regulatory relations and Spectrum analyzes, deployment strategies (600, 3.5GHz, 28GHz)
Operated with $200M+ Annual budget efficiently, $20M+ of savings due to finding cost effective solutions or negotiation
Summit Key Speaker – C-V2X, 5G & Autonomous transportation (700+ people audience)
Organized and Hosted 5G and beyond Technology Town hall (300+ people audience)
Working with leading researchers of developing platforms and solutioning Smart City, MEC and Network Slicing
SaaS engineering teams lead
Ensure effective use of company's resources and budget on technology investments to grow the business and service portfolio.
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Company Strategy & Transformation Senior Expert
Yettel. • Jun 2022 –Now
Sofia, Bulgaria
• Product Manager for B2B clients
• Leading development and launching new products
• New Technology, Solutions & Features Advisory
• Company Strategy
• B2B Product Management
• Project Management
• ICT Products and Strategy development
• Wholesale product development
• B2C products evaluation and development
• Vendors evaluation and selection
• Strategic Planning & prioritization: Coordinate the development of the annual company strategy plan.
• Market Intelligence & Crisis Response: Closely monitor the telco market and geopolitical dynamics (e.g., EU vendor regulations). Evaluate threats to current infrastructure strategy and propose mitigation plans.
• M&A and Partnerships: Evaluate potential Mergers & Acquisitions and partnering models to accelerate digital transformation or fill capability gaps.
• Performance Monitoring: Synthesize KPIs from all company functions to track strategy implementation; provide "early warning" analyses to senior management regarding deviations.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Facilitate communication of strategy execution status across the organization, breaking down silos between the Technical and Commercial divisions.

• Skills: Business Strategy • Product Management • B2B Marketing Strategy • ICT • IoT

Manager Strategy and New Technology & Solutions
Rogers Communications • Mar 2019 – August 2023
Toronto, Canada
Manage a team of 8 direct employees. Reporting to Director Strategy, and with dotted line reporting to VP Innovation
• Manage and support development of 5G architectural solutions and governing policies
• Liaison with Network and IT Management, Products/Business stakeholders, and Finance
• Deliver 3-5 year network and services evolution strategy
• Using 3 Horizons model for Service development
• Deliver Cloud based solutions (AWS, Azure) for MEC and 5GC
• Spectrum analyzes and deployment strategies (600, 3.5GHz, 28GHz etc.)
• Regulatory policies analyzes and network impact recommendation provided
• Lead RFx (i.e. RFP, RFI, RFQ, etc) processes with documenting and articulating the technical functions, requirements and features, identifying suitable vendors, assessing the suitability of the offerings, and selecting new technology platforms and/or vendors.
• Produce clear, well-crafted design project plans with specified tasks, milestones, and effort required against the desired service introduction and/or modifications to existing services.
• Provide and manage project level capital and operating budgets
• Ability to present information and advice internal and external customers on proposed architectures, strategies, products and/or solutions.
• Conduct regular coaching, development plans and annual reviews with team members
• Lead and support cross-functional interlock meetings with other team managers and their associated staff
• Working with leading Canadian researchers form University of BC and University of Waterloo of developing platforms and solutioning Smart City, MEC and Network Slicing
• Managing, negotiating and controlling projects and budgets, as well as external stakeholders with Customer and Organization needs in mind.
• Network Strategy and Architecture, including spectrum strategy, Internet of Things strategy (IoT), fixed and mobile/wireless network architecture.


Director Technology, Network and Strategy
WIND Mobile • 2009 –2018 (10 years)
Toronto, Canada
Manage a team of 40+ (8 direct) employees, Acting VP Wireless Technology. Reporting to VP Wireless/CTO
• New Technology, Solutions & Features testing and evaluation – LTE, VoLTE, CA,
• UMTS/ LTE Network Planning and Optimization- 2000+ Sites
• Successful Launch of 4 bands LTE technology National wide
• Successful Refarming of WCDMA spectrum to LTE on 2000+ sites
• 90% reduction on signaling between the LTE layers and 3G layer, tremendous cost saving for equipment expansion
• Provide cost effective solution after negotiation with Telecom equipment suppliers
• Customer Satisfaction improved by adding new features to the network, such as 4x4 MIMO and Cell Throughput increase
• Identify, analyze, and summarize existing industry research, academic work, industry practices and trends, make very high level strategic decisions in the areas of Wireless communications which slashed CAPEX for the Company
• Drive new Network Designs to utilize the available resources in the best possible way
• Managed Network KPIs inside agreed ranges during additional LTE layer introduced to the network
• 100% Success rate for complying with SC-6 and E911 government organizations requirements
• Lawful interception cases analyzes and Wireless advisor to the Superior Court
• Driver for markets lunches considering technical and commercial inputs and challenges
• Spectrum analyzes and deployment strategies (700, B4, B66, B7, B12 etc..)
• Regulatory policies analyzes and network impact recommendation provided
• Liaison in policy discussions with various Government agencies – CRTC, ISED, CSIS, Regional Police departments
• Cross-functional teams coordination for successful completion of complex projects
• M&A analytical team contributor with strong technical and business analytical skills
• Ensure world-class network and data center operations and management, network security, reliability, resilience and disaster recovery
• Managing cross-functional teams and Suppliers to deliver annual Rollout target (Site Acquisition, Deployment, Operation, Customer relation, Marketing teams)

Manager Radio Planning & Optimization / Project Manager
HUAWEI Technologies • Sep 2005 – Oct 2008
Sofia, Bulgaria
• • Leadership and Management of Mobile networks development projects;
• Successful Planning and tracking of the project activities;
• Management and motivation of team members;
• • Contacts with Client's High Management, Project status Reports delivering, Problem's solutions providing
• • Program performance measurement/analysis, strategic planning, comparative and risk management methodologies,
• • Project implementation and technical supervision of the subcontractors or service partners.
• Provide training to customers, subcontractors or service partners.
• • Excellent team spirit with good communications and interpersonal skills, experience working with cross-cultural teams


Team Leader, Network Planning
TELENOR • Sep 2001- Sep 2005
Sofia, Bulgaria
•RF Design; •Performance data analyze; •CHR data analyze; •KPI's ensuring; •Network performance report preparation and analyze; •Drive test, data analyze; •Customer problems analyze and solving; •Network expansion solutions find out; •Post-processing analyze; •Nominal planning; • Model Tuning; • Coverage planning; • Capacity planning •Documentation of optimization routine and processes; •Meeting with Subcontractors to resolve technical issues & etc. • Project Manager – Project for Regional Network coverage project;
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
Executive MBA • American University in Bulgaria • Expected graduation Apr. 2026

Master of Science and Engineer, Telecommunication Engineering • Technical University

Certifications: MBA Management & MBA Leadership / Project Manager Professional (PMP)

Professional Associations
Professional Engineer • Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) • 2011-present
Professional Project Manager (PMP) • Project Management Institute (PMI) • from 2011

Awards
Special Award for High Achieving Contribution during Wind Mobile Network Launch

Course Certificates
• MBA •Project Management •Six Sigma •Ethics in working environment •Conflict Resolution •Service Delivery Management •Mentum Planet • EMF Visual •Aircom Asset Prediction Tool • Couei XCap and XCal Tools• TEMS Investigation • MapInfo Professional •UMTS Advance •HSUPA parameters• LTE• VoLTE, 5G.

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