Engineer advances career with strategic move to Ericsson's packet core team

After nearly a decade of distinguished service with Huawei Technologies across multiple African markets, Oghenemaero Oteri has transitioned to a new role as Solution Architect for Packet Core Optimization with Ericsson.

The move represents a strategic evolution in his career, positioning him to apply his extensive telecommunications expertise in new contexts while expanding his influence in the rapidly evolving mobile network ecosystem.

Oteri's perspective on the career transition reflects his commitment to continuous growth and his desire to engage with diverse technological environments.

"After years of working across different countries and network architectures, I was ready for a new challenge that would allow me to deepen my optimization expertise while working with different operational frameworks," he shares.

The role with Ericsson offers exactly that opportunity—focusing specifically on packet core services for MTN, one of Africa's largest telecommunications operators.

The position places Oteri at the intersection of operational leadership and technical problem-solving. His responsibilities encompass providing intermediate support for MTN's packet core services while ensuring service stability and strict adherence to service level agreements.

It's a role that demands both the technical depth he's cultivated over years of hands-on network engineering and the strategic thinking required to maintain mission-critical infrastructure serving millions of subscribers.

What particularly appeals to Oteri about this opportunity is the emphasis on continuous service improvement through rigorous process management. He'll be implementing and enforcing Change, Incident, and Problem Management processes—disciplines that transform reactive troubleshooting into proactive service optimization.

"The goal isn't just to fix problems as they arise," he explains, "but to build systems and processes that prevent issues before they impact users and continuously enhance service quality."

His approach to the role draws heavily on his accumulated experience. During his time with Huawei, Oteri demonstrated exceptional capability in areas directly relevant to his new position: comprehensive performance KPI investigations, capacity planning and utilization forecasting, and end-to-end application testing.

He's particularly known for his work developing KPIs and threshold limit alerts that capture service degradation early, enabling teams to address issues before they escalate into major incidents.

The move to Ericsson also expands Oteri's technological portfolio. While his expertise already encompasses extensive knowledge of packet core elements, including HSPA components like GGSN, SGSN, and GPRS DNS, as well as LTE elements such as MME, PGW, and SGW, the new role will expose him to Ericsson's specific implementations and operational philosophies. This multi-vendor experience strengthens his value as an engineer who can navigate diverse technological ecosystems.

Oteri's track record suggests he'll bring immediate value to his new position. His achievements include multiple complex network deployments completed ahead of schedule, cost-saving solutions that simultaneously improved performance, and traffic migrations managed without service disruptions. These accomplishments demonstrate the combination of technical skill, project management capability, and operational discipline that the Solution Architect role demands.

The timing of the transition coincides with an important period in African telecommunications. As operators continue to expand 4G coverage and begin planning 5G deployments, the role of packet core optimization becomes increasingly critical.

Networks must handle exponentially growing data traffic while maintaining quality of service and managing operational costs. Engineers with Oteri's background—spanning network design, implementation, optimization, and troubleshooting—become essential to navigating these challenges.

As he embarks on this new chapter with Ericsson, Oteri brings not just technical expertise but a proven philosophy: that network engineering excellence ultimately serves people. Every optimization, every process improvement, and every performance enhancement exists to ensure that subscribers can reliably access the digital services that increasingly define modern life.