SUMMARY:

• Around 14years of varied experiences in the key areas of Telecoms, Broadcasting, Cable, IT, Wireless and related industries

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Proven track records for successfully leading and implementing wide varieties of projects, Products & System supports, Project Management, Pre - Sales, Product/Technical Marketing, consulting, and strategic partnering.
• Extensively involved in the latest technologies, such as IPTV, Cable TV, DTH, HITS, Digital TV (DVB, ATSC, ARIB/ISDB-T, iTV, HDTV), Middleware (MHP, OpenTV, & others) Mobile phones (satellite, GSM/GPRS, DVB-H, DMB), mobile TV (DMB & DVB-H), VSAT, VoIP, Broadband/ISP (DOCSIS/Cable modem & Wireless Broadband), wireless (WiFi/Wimax), terrestrial & satellite two-way systems (DVB-RCS, DVB-RCT, DVB-S-W-CDMA ), Set top Boxes (STB) (DVB-C, DVB-T, DVB-S, DVB-RCT, ATSC, ISDB-T/ARIB, IP STB, FTA, CI, CAS (Nagravision, Conax, & others), DRM (Verimatrix, Widevine, MSDRM7/9/10),EPG, invisible dot codes, SAP, etc.
• $100Million First DVB-S/DVB-C HITS Project in Asia Pacific & 2nd in the world
• $80Million Mobile Phone & $4Million FDU/TU Projects
• $30Million STB & $10Million Digital TV projects
• $6Million IPTV & $0.4Million on CMS Projects
• $1Million Consulting & $0.3Million Maritime Antennae Projects
• Experienced in managing a variety of multidisciplinary and International projects.
• In-depth understanding of technologies & evaluation of RFI/RFP/RFQ & preparing the proposals
• Resource allocation, managing projects, maintain the quality of the product and solutions
• Domestic & multinational experiences
• Excellent analytical ability, initiative, and good planning skills
• Engineering background and work experience in various fields with multinational companies, developed strong skills in multidisciplinary activities.
• Other areas of solid hands-on experience include consulting, outsourcing, contracts/agreements, resource management, negotiation, purchasing, contract and corporate communications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Vice President

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Around $100Million DVB-S/C project
• A complete responsibilities of several Digital and analogue Cable headends
• ISP projects for all India rollouts
• Broadband / Internet service over DOCSIS/Cable modems/Ethernet/Wireless
• Decoders, IRDs, Encoders, multiplexers, PSI/SI, QAM Modulators, etc...
• CAS implementation & services
• HITS (Headend In The Sky)
• BSNL IPTV and various VAS Project
• Digital STBs (DVB-C, DVR/PVR, CAS) rollouts
• Involved in implementation of SAP
• Finalising suitable products/solutions and deciding on the technologies
• Dealing with vendors, SLA, supports and single point of contact for the corporate communication
• Securing Digital STBs and Introducing PVR boxes
• Finalising on the middleware after discussing with several middleware vendors
• Mobile billing collection (instant printing and bills to customers)
• Various iTV applications for DigitalTV platform
• Introducing nVOD, IPTV, and MobileTV
• Channel placements, and dealing with broadcasters
• Upgrading the system to MPEG4/H.264 compatible and pushing more contents in the network
• Working on the concept of hybrid STBs for both Cable & IPTV/VoD.
• Integrating Worldspace radio in the cable network
• Nationwide support to Digital H/E, STB, ISP, HITS, IPTV, and other related product & solutions

Independent Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Business development, technical marketing, and consulting for worldwide hi-tech companies
• Worked with Digital Cable TV projects for India market, and promoting headend equipments, CAS STB (DVB-C/PVR), System Integration, local support, etc
• Worked with Indian MSO’s and local partners in promoting the headend systems, and STBs
• Technical consulting, business development, technical marketing and selling systems and solutions to telecoms, service providers, System Integrators, etc.
• Business Development for IBM/DELL/HP Partners in the Server software solutions for Antivirus, Anti intrusion detection, firewall, e-mail, etc
• Worked with investment companies for digital TV projects on revenue sharing models.
• System and solutions for IPTV, digital cable TV, STB, mobile phones, invisible dot codes, VSAT, VoIP, digital TV, DVB-H and DTH related products

Director

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Multimillion dollar first IPTV project in Singapore
• Successfully implemented IPTV projects in Singapore and USA
• Worked on IPTV projects for various markets worldwide
• IP STBs, (video conferencing, Video MAIL, VOD, KOD, WiFi, PPV, games, EPG, etc.)
• Many RFI/RFP/RFQ, managed & controlled batch orders, delivery, support and maintenance, coordinated pre and post-sales services, installations, customer complaints, etc.
• First MobileTV (DVB-H) Project in Singapore
• Market Analysis and Study on MobileTV / DVB-H / DMB/DAB and future market
• Hardware and software solutions for STB (ATSC, DVB, MHP, & ARIB/ISDB-T) & iDTV
• Application developments for EPG, and UI / MMI customisation for various companies
• Dealing with various IPTV value chain companies such as STB, manufacturers, EPG, UI/ MMI, DRM, VOD, middleware, encoders, Billing, VoIP, Games, KOD, Content Aggregators, SI, etc
• Worked with several well-known semiconductor companies for STBs and digital TV
• Worked with well-known STB and TV manufacturers (Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese and Chinese)
• Worked with well-known OEM/ODM companies for STB and iDTV (PDP, LCD & CRTs) products
• Responsible for marketing new product (reading audio/video from printed materials)

Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Multimillion dollar satellite and GSM/GPRS mobile phone project
• Multimillion dollar project for FDU, TU, maritime antennae and Consulting Projects
• Several STB Projects (DVB-S, DVB-T, DVB-C, and IP), CI, CAS, FTA, etc.
• Dealing with various value chain companies related to Mobile Phone, such as such as protocol stacks, GSM/GPRS/3GPP organisation, Codec, decoders, MMS, WAP, E-mail clients, JVM, MMI, GSM/Satellite antenna, LCD, Camera, Chipset/Semiconductors, moulding, design (ID & MD) companies, foundry and ASIC, to count a few
• Project Leader for DVB-RCT project
• Single point of contact for international projects, managed and control resources
• Follow up and coordination with management, Korean Govt. (KORIL), partner companies, etc..
• Satellite two-way System (DVB-S/W-CDMA), and terrestrial two-way system (DVB-T/RCT)
• Worked in IPTV related projects over satellite (DVB-S, and W-CDMA)
• Obtained RFI/RFP, prepared best proposal and was awarded the project.
• RFI/RFPs, contracts, technical discussions, weekly conferences, regular correspondence, reporting, presentations, opportunities for new projects, proposals, etc…
• As a company pioneer, involved in almost every project
• Responsible for handling and dealing with various companies for outsourcing work.
• Outsource multimillion dollar of work to different companies
• Responsible for techno-commercial discussions, meetings, proposals, negotiations and finalisation of contracts/agreements for outsourced work to other companies

Assistant Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Recruited through campus interview. I was one of the first people to clear the campus.
• Worked on plant automation, development and programming in Yokogawa’s CENTUM CS DCS
• As an engineer, I was given charge to operate DCS & PLCs for the complete automation of one of the world’s first Midrex plant (Sponge Iron Plant).
• Assisted with development and programming of Yaskawa’s (Memocon-SC U84) PLC
• Worked as Automation engineer, and was given charge for automatic weighing systems
• With strong knowledge & systematic approach, I was handed the responsibilities to take the lead role as Shift-in-charge for the instrumentation & automation division.
• Project Leader for networking and plant automation projects.
• Worked on the SAP R/3 modules
• Worked in shifts as Shift in-charge of electronics and automation system around 4.5 yrs.
• Dealing with vendors such as DCS, PLC, and other equipment providers
• Various trainings such as TQM, QC, Kaizen, Safety, House keeping, ISO9002, ISO14001, etc…
• Training in DCS, PLC, and other instrumental devices
• Training on SAP, Networking, and other software related stuffs.
• Control system installation, project design and engineering.