SUMMARY:

• Transmission Planning and Deployment (MW, Access and Core N/W)
• Transmission Operations, KPI s & Network Hygiene (Fiber and MW)
• Network Security Operations & Information Security
• Mobility Cell sites Infra
• ECI NMS (Configurations, Troubleshooting & Operations)
• Palo Alto Firewall deployment, Configuration & Migrations
• Mobile Network Project rollouts, Transition & Network Upgrade
• Team Management & Team Building
• Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Project governance, strategic direction & leadership for AT&T project
• Accurate reporting of projects to respective Directors and Managers on daily & weekly basis.
• Automation of projects status & reporting through Azure Boards and Power BI
• Improving project management methodologies & increasing team efficiency.
• Arranging required s to Teams to improve efficiency & s
• Recruiting skilled resources with respective domain experience and s.
• Deployment of New Firewalls upon network requirement/Project requirements as per the client (AT&T) process and standards across all the Data Centers
• Upgradation of existing FW’s & Migration of firewalls from existing vendor to Palo Alto
• Datacenter Closures: Capacity Study of production Firewalls, support Traffic migrations & vacating traffic on all the production FW’s & Submitting FW’s for decommissioning.
• Consolidation of FW’s: Analyzing traffic capacities & migration of traffic from low utilized devices to high - capacity devices and reducing devices count in network
• Configuration migrations from existing Firewalls (Juniper, Check Point, CISCO, etc) to Palo Alto Firewalls using Expedition Tool
• Breaking Point Testing: Testing all the policies from old FW’s on Palo Alto FW’s under Lab environment using IXIA traffic generator

Confidential

Transport & Transmission Operations lead

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring daily critical & service effecting alarms and ensuring them cleared on daily basis.
• BER & ES monitoring on MW and closing them on regular basis
• WAN discards and CRC errors tracking and clearing them on immediate basis
• >90% hops up gradation to maximum modulation and ensuring utilization under control
• XPIC hops deployment (Ericsson & Ceragon), DC implementation where existing MW links are choked to enhance MW capacities up to 450 Mbps
• Single HOP implementation from fiber POP to all the site, traffic shifting to new MW links to ensure maximum BW to all the sites.
• Dismantling of old HOP’s where traffic shifted to new HOP’s and submitting to WH
• Dual XPIC MW links implementation to enhance MW capacities up to 940 Mbps.
• Traffic shifting of sites from nearby fiber POP’s.
• MW nodes NMS integration and ensuring 100% visibility, converting all the MW DCN to IP from TDM (97% nodes completed till date)
• Handling MW interference issues in day-to-day activities and resolving them on immediate basis.
• LOS block links re-routing to new fiber POP and traffic migration.
• MW spares management and PM activities.
• Software up gradations for all Traffic nodes and radio and patch upgrades for all the radio units.
• New fiber POP’s HO to operations and BW provisioning and traffic loading on all new Fiber POP’s, New TDM optical HO at new POP’s for 2G BW provisioning
• Monitoring fiber ring Utilizations and offloading traffic to parallel stacks, ensuring parallel stack addition wherever required
• Traffic migration to Peyto (L3) network from L2 layers and traffic monitoring in ROAP.
• Ensuring traffic protection for all the services and avoid outages due to single fiber incidents
• MPLS NNI’s monitoring and offloading all the NNI’s >70%.
• Migration of traffic from existing to new MPLS locations under extreme project.
• Traffic re-routing during dual fiber incidents and ensuring service restoration at the earliest and ensure network availability. Working in close with fiber teams for early fiber restorations.
• All BSC AOIP links migration in to MPLS networks and all the ATER conversion to IP from TDM.
• Core links provisioning, service delivery and operations.
• Monitoring of packet loss on 4G network through TWAMP server and rectifying the same by analyzing route cause either on MW or Fiber network
• HSFL packet loss on 3G network and clearing the same by monitoring the issues
• Clock and sync maintenance for 2G, 3G & 4G networks.
• CRC error monitoring on all the mobility ports and clearing them.
• ETH port utilization monitoring and creating LAG port and upgrading BW.
• Fiber POP’s re-location for all the agreement sites and ensuring traffic migration to new location along with all the MW and iWAN dependency

Confidential

Manager-Transmission Planning, Deployment & Operations

Responsibilities:

• Primary Role: Transmission planning, Implementation & Operations, BTS implementation and New Rollout
• Planning BW requirements for 4G rollout with BW partners. (Airtel, TATA, Vodafone)
• Access MW network planning with respect to BW availability and terrain.
• MW implementation and traffic configurations (Implemented more than 1800 MW links for LTE rollout).
• Implementing protection for access network through ERPS and BFD for uplink and down link.
• Transmission operation of complete access network and core transmission through media partners.
• MPLS, POI & ATER traffic monitoring and up-gradation wherever utilization increased beyond Threshold.
• Swapping of existing GO BTS with new GL BTS.
• Co-ordination with BW partners for up-gradation feasibilities and acquiring BW’s as per requirements of MPLS, POI & ATER.
• De-cascading sites: De-cascading all the cell sites which were implemented on cascading due to BW unavailability.
• Tx plan provided for all the 2G sites for extending OWN connectivity with the help of HUB points with MW partners and to surrender existing TATA ABIS media.
• Initially plan for 150 sites for vacating TATA media processed with the help of OWN MW connectivity from BSC’s.
• Extending 2nd E1’s for sites where utilization is high.
• Operational support during bulk outages, taking it up with concerned BW providers for earlier restoration
• MW SACFA responsibility- Application of MW SACFA wherever new MW links implemented and old MW links SACFA corrections.
• Support for minimum roll-out obligations
• Field operations of all the enterprise, Cell Site and POP locations transmission nodes connected on Fiber.
• Operations of Core, DWDM and access rings.
• Maintenance of ECI and ALU TX nodes from STM-1 to STM-64 capacity.
• Wire line network maintenance.
• Handling wire line complaints and resolving them with committed SLA’s
• Maintaining Centrex voice networks of enterprise customers using RAIU, MSAN and DLC’s.
• Broadband network maintenance. (DSLAM)
• Visibility of 100% nodes in NMS of both ECI and ALU MUX.
• Restoration of HW faults within committed SLA’s.
• Maintaining fair relation with enterprise customers for gaining access to their respective locations round the clock and ensuring better service for them.
• Taking over new implemented sites from project team and completing ATP.
• Maintaining the Enterprise customer Network uptime and MTTR as per SLA.
• engineers to work more efficiently and ensuring their safety and creating healthy work environment.
• Following regular preventive maintenance activities to ensure standards as per TL9000 guidelines.
• Coordination with NOC during outages.
• Making weekly and monthly presentations of Operational issues handled.
• Collecting all the data of transmission nodes and their FMS port details.
• Coordinating with Fiber teams for early restorations during fiber cuts.
• Regularly visits to customer places to ensure good quality infra services.
• Escalating infra issues escalated and getting punch points cleared in time.

Confidential

Assistant Manager in Network-EBG

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the Enterprise circuits Network availability as per benchmark.
• Maintaining the Enterprise customer Network uptime and MTTR as per SLA.
• Feasibility, Planning, configuration, Implementation, Operation & Maintenance of 3600 Uninor circuits Transmission and 1000 Enterprise MPLS circuits deliver on UBR’s.
• Coordination with Cluster Teams periodically for operational and Preventive maintenance of Fiber and MW networks.
• Scheduling and coordinating with clusters for fiber and MW rings protection tests to ensure 100% protection switch switchover of circuits during fiber cuts.
• Weekly / Monthly / Quarterly Network review reports to corporate.
• Manpower and material management for Anchor sites operation, site surveys and new BW extensions.
• Ensuring billing of enterprise circuits with regular monitoring of billing vs network circuits.
• Coordinating with MS vendors (NSN and ZTE) for BW extensions of all enterprise new circuits deliveries and BW extensions.
• Planning and re-structuring of MW rings b/w access and backbone rings.
• Supporting in GSM cell sites new BW extension and operational requirements.
• Providing Bandwidth feasibility and supporting in provisioning & Maintenance of enterprise DLC customers.
• Daily, Weekly and Meekly Transmission outage monitoring and record maintenance and records.
• Enterprise TX Data maintenance with optical and electrical port details.
• Consolidation of TX data for SACFA and SACFA application for MW TX
• Trouble shooting of Alarms from NMS.
• Provisioning and Maintenance of Media for UNINOR.
• Delivering and maintenance bulk BW, ATER and POI for other operators
• Audit processes are maintained as per the corporate guideline, regular backup maintenance, planned activities were communicated for effected customers.
• Coordinating and conducting the Acceptance test for new MW, SDH nodes implemented for enterprise business.
• Reroute the bandwidth at the time of outage for decreasing the down time.
• Coordinating with OSP team during fiber cuts for early restorations.
• Diagnosing and rectifying TX related problems through ECI NMS.
• Managing outages and providing SIP plans for repeated outages and out of SLA dockets.
• Maintained data circuits from 2 to 155 mbps, Ethernet circuits, and STM links.
• Trouble shooting of data circuits and resolving the problems with in SLA.
• Analyzing the problem and sharing the RFO/RCA.
• Maintenance of SDH nodes and MW hops from NMS.
• E1 end to end stability test and maintaining.
• Conducting LOS survey for MW hops wherever required at abnormal terrains.

Confidential

Implementation Manager

Responsibilities:

• Coordination of sites installations with field engineers and vendors.
• SPOC for media of new sites from media providers (TTSL)
• Maintenance of Quality for new cell sites.
• Coordination on infra issues with infra provider WTTIL and issue get issues cleared.
• Material management and complete track of material.
• Coordination with Vendors for integration of new cell sites.
• Coordination with Field engineers for conduction of ATP.
• Responsible for clearance of punch points for all the sites.
• Responsible feed back to be given to customer regarding sites rollout and site integration.
• Alarms clearance and responsible for alarm extension to OMCR.
• Conducting ATP with customer UNITECH and responsible for site handover.

Confidential

Cell Site Deployment Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Coordination and commissioning of new sites for entire cluster.
• Handling 1800 project and Swapping of BTS for entire state using new Flexi BTS while leaving this organization.
• Commissioning of NOKIA Ultra BTS, Flexi BTS and Flexi Hopper and E1 routing.
• Coordinating and supporting my implementation engineers in maintaining quality at new sites and site works done in time to meet project rollouts.
• Familiar with 40E1 flexi hopper installation & commissioning.
• Coordinating with planning team to get RF and transmission plans to implement them in sites.
• Testing and installation of NEC hops.
• Monitoring of VSWR and Return Losses using Site Analyzer.
• Testing and clearing of various Alarms generated in Cell Site.
• Coordinating with operations and maintenance regarding handover of new sites
• Coordinating with vendor companies in improving their efficiency and increasing quality of Mobile Network.
• Vendor teams and preparing them for project role outs.
• Handling network modification(upgrade & capacity changes) and getting them done in time.
• Material management like issuing material to vendors, ensuring proper usage of material and producing material report at the end of the project.
• Coordination with Idea Cellular LTD and NSN for implementation and new role outs.
• Taking work orders form IDEA and NSN and completing them in time with good quality.
• Installation and Commissioning of NOKIA BTS.
• Trouble Shooting of NOKIA BTS and Flexi Hopper MW
• Commissioning and Alignment of Flexi Hopper MW.
• Monitoring of VSWR and Return Losses using BIRD Site Analyzer.
• Testing and Extension of various Alarms generated in Cell Site.

Confidential

BTS Implementation Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Installation Engineer of NORTEL BTS
• Swapping of Motorola BTS with NORTEL BTS
• Installation and Commissioning of Battery Bank an SMPS
• Testing and extension of various Alarms to BSNL NOC generated in Cell Site.
• Monitoring of VSWR and Return Losses using BIRD Site Analyzer.
• ATP (Acceptance Test Procedure) of BTS, Battery Bank, SMPS, DG.