SUMMARY:

• An accomplished telecommunication and IT professional with over 15 years of US and International work experience seeking to contribute to a dynamic, progressive and innovative organization.
• Proven track record of excellent leadership, communication, customer service, and problem solving skills. Experienced in managing cross - functional teams with diverse backgrounds with hands-on management style.
• Sound understanding of Telecommunications technologies; 3GPP Standards, LTE, HSPA, UMTS, GSM, MW Networks, RF Engineering and Optimization processes, TCP/IP and computer network technologies.
• Experience of SDLC methodologies for cellular network engineering, data centers & cell sites deployment, network operations and maintenance.
• Good understanding of LAN/WAN, Wi-Fi, data centers, cloud computing, routers, switches, VoIP, PBX, OSS, UNIX Operating System, and other technologies.
• Familiarity with Agile Process & ITIL foundations.
• Have completed 24 credits towards Masters in Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of Technologies.
• Proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Project, Visio and other PC tools.
• Project/Program Management
• Project Planning & Implementation
• Lead Customer Interface
• Leadership & Team Management
• Staffing & Resource Planning
• Risk Management
• Plan Interdependencies
• Project Financial Tracking
• Network & Infrastructure Deployment
• Contract Management & Negotiations
• Vendor Management
• Manage multicultural & offshore teams
• Language proficiency in English & Hindi

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Chief Project Manager

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Lead customer interface for execution of the LTE Network Deployment project that included project planning, network engineering, equipment engineering & delivery, network deployment, vendor management, customer acceptance, and project financials tracking.
• s include turning project financial from a loss to an 11% profit, significant improvement in customer satisfaction, and reduction of deployment time. Total value of the project was over 20 Million dollars.

Project Manager

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Managed project financials of over 20 million dollars project budget that included project financials reporting, risk management, vendor management, cost recovery, and cost saving suggestions to the Ericsson’s leadership team.
• Managed over 15 vendors and 25 installation crews for the deployment of the project that included initial vetting of vendors, PO and CR management, payments, and resolutions/negotiations of issues.
• Managed daily deployment activities: scheduling, status reporting, issue resolutions, customer meetings & project planning.

Project Director

Confidential, New Jersey

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of eight Project Managers and multiple cross-functional project teams that delivered and deployed all equipment and services procured by at&t. My team and I were responsible for delivery of yearly revenue targets for Alcatel-Lucent of over 50 million dollars per year.
• Led deployment of the new LTE cellular network in year which consists of LTE CORE (data centers) & 1,600 cell sites.
• Led deployment of UMTS 3G cellular network during . This included deployment of the UMTS CORE network (data centers) at five switch locations and 2,500 cell sites in the NY Metro area. The project had a very aggressive schedule that included deployment of over 900 sites per year.
• Closely worked with the customer in the design of the UMTS and LTE networks that included network topology, RF design, Backhaul design, RNCs, Media Gateways, Call Records formats, Call Records collection & processing, billing system, etc.

Program Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Activities included chief customer interface, project P&L tracking, budgeting, vendor management, network engineering, equipment engineering, ordering, material logistics, site acquisition, site construction, RF design and optimization, implementation, network testing and acceptance, etc.
• Set-up operations in Delhi and Mumbai with a staff of over 60, and delivered the MTNL GSM networks in both cities with an aggressive schedule and arduous environment.

Project and Technical Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead customer interface responsible for project planning, staffing,, management of over forty employees (geographically distributed), project profit/loss analysis & monitoring, scheduling, engineering, equipment ordering, import and customs clearance, implementing, customer technical support, change requests, resolution of all technical and contractual issues, and customer acceptance of the networks.
• Trained Local Country Nationals (LCN) to take over the project responsibilities in the area policies, qualities as well as planning and setting up a Local Field Support (LFS) organization.

System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Systems Engineer in Abu Dhabi to support the UAE AT&T team in the deployment of GSM Cellular Network for Etisalat, a contract valued at $20 million.
• Promoted to Senior Management position upon successful completion of this assignment.