SUMMARY:

• Masters in Telecommunications with twenty - eight years of professional experience - twenty five years in senior planning positions including networking technologies
• Knowledgeable in performing technology research, budgeting and cost analysis to justify multimillion dollar applications and technologies to improve network security and efficiency - have commanding knowledge of network engineering including provisioning, operations, management system architectures, and implementation.
• Experienced in teaming with executive management and leading senior technical staff for setting technology, and IT strategy direction based on industry standards, vendor products, and competition
• Managed numerous groups of planners, engineers, programmers, and DBAs to deliver solutions to operations and business management
• Experienced in creating relationships and alliances with other key stakeholder groups and organizations to deliver effective solutions on time to resolve business issues
• Recognize the need of developing solid application systems and databases by taking into account parameters like security, reliability, scalability, portability, availability and modularity
• Comprehensive knowledge of telecommunications, data networking, topologies and Confidential technologies
• Experienced in multinational corporate project, technology management and strategy development
• Strong experience in global network technology strategies
• Creating corporate emerging technology assessment, voice and data architecture, risk assessment and business analysis to improve various network performance indicators including security, reliability, availability.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills technology vision and strategy including technology research, competitive assessments, budget creation, to communicate with direct reports, other functional groups, key stake holders and executive management for effective delivery of business solutions
• Assessing and implementing business process improvements. Creating reference architectures, Finding and implementing effective solutions through process integration, automation and new technology implementation.
• Technology assessment for new business opportunities.
• Leading technology planning to improve network operating efficiencies.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Creating corporate strategy for Internet 3.0, LPWAN, Confidential, mobile security, 5G, 3.5Ghz technology, Confidential and their impact IT applications like order management, service management, service assurance, service fulfillment, trouble management, orchestration etc.
• Working with Confidential to create a strategy to leap frog in the areas like Confidential and Confidential .
• Meeting with key stakeholders to understand their stakes in forming the strategy that will impact Confidential ’s future and position with respect to its competition.
• Scenario creation for Confidential future in above technologies

Confidential

Senior Confidential Planner

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Service Fulfillment, Service Assurance and Operational Readiness applications evolution such as Inventory, consolidation, and modernization to improve operating cost
• Looking at Confidential and Confidential technologies to be implemented to reduce the operational cost and increase network efficiencies.
• Responsible for providing leadership in developing and communicating IT application strategies and principles.
• Working closely with client areas, as well as the applications development, technical, and operational areas to bring together business application plans, and develop transition plans for delivering future business functionality.
• Advising IS and associated client areas, and keeping them informed of application strategies by developing and communicating short and long term application plans.
• Evaluating the impacts of changing business drivers on the Application Architecture, and advises IS and associated client areas on focus areas for new application, data, and technology requirements.
• Leading, directing and managing staff to ensure the effective use of HR resources.
• Maximize performance by selecting (hire external or promote from within), developing, mentoring and sustaining a high level of expertise among staff. Organize and direct work including prioritizing assignments, establishing objectives, providing regular performance feedback, conducting year end performance appraisals and taking necessary corrective action as may be required.
• Assists in staff career planning, establishes development and succession plans and ensures relevant HR procedures and policies are followed (provisions of the collective agreement, performance appraisals, discipline, grievance, etc). Accountable for provisioning and managing contracted resources as may be required.
• Accountable for promoting a productive and positive environment for staff that encourages innovation, teamwork, initiative and models corporate values.
• Motivates staff by assigning challenging work, planning and managing internal communications and awareness of corporate direction, mission, plans and activities.
• Ensuring all safety, health, environmental and code of conduct policies, programs and standards are understood and complied with at all times.
• Proactively identifying action opportunities to increase customer satisfaction (internal and external customers).
• Ensuring sound financial control within area of responsibility by developing annual operating and capital budgets, monitoring performance to budget and taking action as appropriate. Develops, negotiates and implements contracts for acquisition of goods & services related to area of responsibility.
• Accountable to research, develop, define and implement innovative long and short term plans, policies and objectives. Provides expertise to senior management providing education, studies and consulting on opportunities that will impact business strategy. Ensures alignment and integration with the corporate strategic plan and develops plan and operational metrics, including approaches for demonstrating business value.
• Accountable to proactively identify and action opportunities to improve revenue and growth initiatives, decrease costs, increase customer service levels and increase employee engagement.
• Accountable to develop opportunities to spark innovation in technology or product service delivery or process improvements.

Confidential, Virginia

Senior Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with Product Management, Product Development, Service Delivery, Customers, and Developers to architect the best Confidential solutions for the customers including Fault Management, Performance Management, Trouble Ticketing, Security Management, Service Quality Management, RAN optimization and international Least Cost Routing.
• Created technology solutions, white papers, presentations etc. in support of the pre-sales. Comparing competitive products and services along with keeping track of competitor companies’ product progress with respect to Confidential products.

Confidential, Virginia

Security Architect

Responsibilities:

• Lead architect for virtualization and clustering security application to improve reliability, high availability, security, and disaster recovery.
• Managing customer requirements for improving security products.
• Project coordination, business requirements analysis, reviewing requirement specifications.
• Interacting with customer, sales, marketing, development, engineering and testing groups to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of solution delivery.

Confidential, Virginia

Senior Confidential Architect

Responsibilities:

• Led technology planning to improve operating financials in both wire-line and wireless operations
• Provided technical leadership and responsibility for information related to interfaces into or out of Confidential including solution architecture leadership and delivery as well as Confidential Business/Service/Network Management) solution engineering.
• Assisted in the development of Confidential interface solution architecture and the strategy to deliver the overall solution according to network performance parameters.
• Analyzed system elements (software, monitoring, reporting functions and capabilities, integration architecture and processes) with recommendations for appropriate changes according to requirements.
• Managed specification development, vendors, and project progress according to internal functions and processes
• Validated architecture in accordance with the company objectives and vendors roadmaps

Confidential, Herndon, Virginia

Senior Telecom Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed 4G projects such as monitoring applications for 4G service, Production Cleanup of applications ( Confidential ) in preparation of commercial launch.
• Managed customer requirements for IT infrastructure development for customer trouble ticketing, subscriber database, provisioning system and web portal to ensure accuracy of solution.
• Received excellence award for leading the effort to provide performance and service analysis for 4G Data Service Quality Management (SQM) to improve service performance.
• Performed 4G - Confidential architecture design Service Model creation for SQM, PM and Alarm analysis.
• Negotiated Master Service Agreement negotiations for Operations Support System ( Confidential ), Elements Management System (EMS) by interacting with Vendor, Technology assessment, Product, Network Development, Marketing, Customer Experience, Engineering and IT departments.
• Communicated project vision and progress to management. Evaluated VOIP along with LCIB, and Pico cell RFP response, trained intern.

Confidential

Operations Support Systems Product Management

Responsibilities:

• Assessed current solution practices and deliverables for major clients like Confidential to set direction for future Confidential delivery practice goals and opportunities by creating solutions
• Prepared product (solution) conceptualizations in support for sales and marketing
• Liaise between development, marketing, and sales for creating new Confidential products and opportunities
• Looked for opportunities for creation of Intellectual Property for solutions

Confidential, Overland Park, Kansas

Manager, Network Management Systems Development

Responsibilities:

• Planed, designed, implemented and supported operations of Confidential systems for Confidential PCS by first creating reference architecture.
• Managed vendor and customer relationships for exceeding expectations in COTS application deployment for internal customer (Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, Network, & IT)
• Analyzed current business processes including cost justification and performed functional requirements management of $40M budget and successfully implemented Confidential (Operations Support Systems) by performing systems planning, design, COTS applications implementation, and capacity planning for Confidential PCS.
• Created, communicated and implemented the vision of the Network Management Systems architecture based on TMN and eTOM. Implemented standard SNMP MIBs for routers and switches etc. in the Confidential of multimillion dollar projects (raging from $2M to $22M with total budget of $40M) with a ROI of less than 3 years in terms of expense reduction, lost revenue recovery, cost avoidance, and enhanced network availability and reliability.
• The Confidential applications included voice and data network performance improvement systems such as Trouble Ticketing, Fault management, Configuration Management (including provisioning), Performance Management, Security Management, Event Management, Change Management, Accounting Management (Billing), Fraud detection, Inventory Management etc.
• Created Service Quality Management (SQM) vision and managed the functional requirements for Confidential PCS to improve service quality.
• Planned and researched for changing needs in Confidential infrastructure to support newer services and to reduce operations cost by evolving or replacing related OSSs.
• Analyzed deployment of Remote Cell site monitoring technology to improve field operations performance and to reduce cell management and operations cost.
• Reviewed new vendor telecom products for their validity and applicability in telecom operations.
• Budgeted for and managed Confidential infrastructure expenditure