SUMMARY:

• A Project Manager with professional background in scheduling & managing of concurrent ICT projects Telecommunications and Network Engineering
• IT infrastructure delivery; cost estimates; ICT tender & bid preparation. I am seeking a Project Manager role with a leading ICT solutions, products & services organization in US.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Focused teams on business objectives and tracked progress to ensure project milestones were completed on time, on budget and with the desired results. Setting budgets and agreeing project time scales and deadlines with clients.
• Mitigated risk factors through careful analysis of financial and statistical data. Anticipated and managed the project changes effectively in rapidly evolving global business environments. Led teams across broad technical, financial and business disciplines.
• Maintain client relationships. Single point of contact for all communications with the Customer, Vendors and Company. Managing staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed timeframes.
• Procurement Management, prepare Project Management Plan, program on a page, milestones and scheduling using MS Project, conduct weekly meetings, document all project assumptions, constraints, identify and mitigate project risks, issues, defects and communication to Stakeholders and other key executives. Manage status meeting, prepare project status reports & Action plans.
• Ensuring effective quality control processes are in place to monitor deliverables produced.
• Sensis (Media - Client facing): Lead the dev phase as part of over $10M Technology Refresh Project. White Pages, Yellow pages, White and Yellow care, Whereis. Deliver in alignment with business, Project Management & technology processes to ensure consistency in quality. Includes processes & methodologies such as PMBOK (PMI), Agile & ITIL.
• Responsible for identifying, analysing, measuring & managing project risks. Ensuring that projects conform to the appropriate methodology & required standards. Conducting regular impact analysis in order to assess the consequences of the project deliverables on other parts of the business. Keeping accurate administrative records of expenditure, accounting, costing & billing.
• Producing project definitions to include validated requirements, scope, roles, responsibilities, budgets, timescales and resources.
• New product & category development project - Strategically initiated, market researched, cost benefit analysed, built, presented & explained the value proposition & the steps to implementation of WIFI, wireless radio engineering, Mobile Device Management MDM & Value Added Services VAS . Plan, schedule, monitor & report on milestones & all key elements of the program.
• Consultative selling, exhibited & demoed the Proof Of Concept POC Solutions to Enterprise & Government Customers at Connect 2013 sales conference. Conduct annual national meeting. Lead a project team by creating an environment where all team members are informed & committed to achieving delivery outcomes that meet objectives. Assisting the technical team in their design and development tasks. Analyse project progress & costs, identify & correct areas outside plan and identify improvements in project outcomes or approach. Create Sales & Marketing guide by following Product Management Framework to grow & leverage clients. As the Yammer lead, I pioneered, marketed, presented & demonstrated the benefits of Yammer to the leadership team of Confidential ’s business units. Communicate & collaborate through integrated Yammer & Share point site.
• Network Data Centres - Deploy new racks, Cisco routers and switches, F5 Load balancers in the new Data Centre according to standard deployment rack patterns. Test & Certification of various networking devices.
• Pre sales - Create design quotes. Security - Firewall upgrades & refreshes. Propose, design & test Wireless LAN solutions.
• Work closely with product development staff to solve problems and improve system performance.
• Work with contractors, vendors and co-location site staff in performing site improvements and maintenance.

Project & Bid Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute, consultative and value added sales engagements through productive business relationships with internal stakeholders and 3rd parties. Engagements with Total Contact Value TCV of more than $10M. Analysis of RFP/RFI's.
• Confidential engagement across a diverse group of stakeholders in global services, including Account managers, Solution Lead, Portfolio, Program Managers, Senior Architects & BAs in professional services, SMEs across various pillars to provide an input to the cost model & bid.Create cost model, price model and Sales Business Cases for customer-specific use cases.
• Assess the opportunity, develop schedule, identify risks and assumptions, assess vendor/ third party scope and work through the Presales endorsement processes with PS stakeholders. Ensure that the deals meet PS governance and delivery criteria.
• Contribute to new business opportunities and adhere to presales methodology and processes. Thorough knowledge about business processes, methodologies and systems applied in product costing.
• Represent thought leadership of customers'; industry business needs; process and solution improvements to customers' business operationally and financially, whilst explaining the business value of various products and solutions.
• Develop financially quantified value propositions specific to a customer by providing input to the Solution Brief document, creating the Sales Business Case quotes and put together the Statement of Work.
• Build and sustain a high performance team, delivering competitive advantage and enabling profitable growth, whilst managing the end-to-end development, delivery and integration requirements for a selection of products and services.
• Responsible for leading a team of 10 technical Subject Matter Experts SMEs like Architects, Designers & Implementers in the delivery of customer solutions. Perform various roles and duties like HR, Leadership, Technical Consultant, Financial, Stakeholder management and Production of Proposals / Quotations.

Radio Frequency Design & Optimization Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prime - Managed & coordinated resources for the Confidential & Vic Track VLine train in Cab coverage project. Optimized & resolved customer impacting train lines. Used various tools & did predictions to propose new sites, site sharing with other operators, sectoring & orientation of the antenna to achieve the desired RSCP signal level.
• Planning - Precinct structure plan for new sites to be built in outer suburban / regional areas.
• Conducted a live field trial of the emerging Alcatel-Lucent’s light Radio Metro Cell solution (small cell technology) to increase mobile network capacity during the Spring Racing Carnival. Monitored, optimised their performance and integrated with Confidential ’s live 2G, 3G & LTE network. Network audit, capacity & health reports for various network platforms.
• Set up special event parameters for major events like AFL final at MCG, Etihad Stadium and Australian Open. In building coverage - Shopping malls, stadiums, Flemington racecourse, Australian Open, hospitals & airport.
• Costed Engineering Solution - Test the coverage & capacity & provide a good engineering solution to the Customer.
• Produced LTE design briefs for the Ericsson LTE roll out. Load balancing the traffic between the different carriers used.
• WCDMA Ericsson Node B Radio Optimization, site integration parameters consistency check, monitoring of KPI's and maintenance of performance and Quality of Service.
• Create & choose antenna type, height, azimuth, sites, transmitter, Electrical, mechanical tilts and predict the coverage by best server plot, pilot pollution, RSCP, ECIO. Carry out various optimization techniques.
• Monitored, analysed the statistical &drive test data to improve system performance indicators such as dropped calls, blocked calls, orientation failures, coverage issues, network traffic, throughput, sector swaps, congestion & interference hand-off features for clusters, post launch sites, new site integration, in-building testing, various handovers (IFHO, IRAT, SHO).
• Train & coordinate engineers to understand, analyse, troubleshoot, optimize network and recommend the client for cost reduction.
• BSS Integration & Deployment, working for a leading Australian telco to help deliver a superior customer experience, accommodates the timely launch of new mobile products & services; spur revenue growth & increase customer retention.
• Worked as part of the Deployment team, assisting in various deployment activities and creating technical documents and build guides for operational acceptance. Operate IP networking equipment, understanding of DNS, email systems, Helpdesk, RADIUS, easy on, firewalls, pop3tester, ping tests and modem troubleshooting. CRM applications - Tulip, Remedy.

Corporate Coordinator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Coordination and Management of the biggest sporting event in the Southern Hemisphere’s “Grand Slam Room” & “Legends Room” for the corporate clients & be part of the Corporate Sales team.
• Coordinate with IBM, the Technology partner for the event while providing venue information, referee & scheduling.
• Coordinate with vendors & clients before the operating hours for a smooth transition during working hours.
• Work with Australian Open intranet & Optus MDM to provide guidelines to IBM’s mobile, iphone, ipad applications.
• Managed a flourishing mobile business & was recognised for elevating this franchise to achieve #1 sales ranking (out of 18 locations) district-wide in 2006. Managed a team of sales representatives to liaise with various customers & resellers.
• Demonstrated strategic and analytical sales approach with focus on building relationships with Customers.
• Analyse the financial strengths and capabilities of the business & compare the value of business over time.
• Provenability to plan and manage at both the strategic and operational level within a Carrier sales environment.
• Worked with distributors from various multinational telecommunication companies.