CAREER SUMMARY

Telecommunication engineering manager and solution architect with over 15 years of industry experience, in planning, designing, implementing, provisioning, commissioning, integrating, systems and optimization and maintenance of Telecommunication Network.

Summery Skills & Attributes

Development, Provision, Commission, Integration, ATP, CTTP, Migration, Deployment, Support, Technical team Management Program Management Project Management Product line Management (PLM)

Strategic planning, execution, implementation and support

Business Development, P&L, Revenue, AOP, CAPEx, OPEx Planning

Vendor management, scope definition and management, LOE, SOW, LOB, FRD and RFP/RFQ/RFI

Software Development life Cycle, Product Development Life Cycle Management (SDLC, PDLC)

Quality Assurance, Product Verification, Test Methodology, System Integration, E2E, IOT

Scope Management, Resource Management, Time Management, Risk Management, Change Management, Quality Management, Communication Management

Pre-sales, post-sales, KPI, RCA, mitigation process, training, job aid and MOPs

Multilevel, Geo diverse department, organization, vendor and customer communication/interaction

Ground up team building and manage, talent recognition, growth vector

Technical Skills

Technologies

GSM, UMTS, HSPA, HSPA+, LTE, VoLTE (SDN and NFV)

standards:

TL9000, ISO9001, ITU, IETF, 3GPP release R3 through R10

Interface:

3G, 4G, LTE E2E interfaces, Backhaul and IP Interfaces

Protocol /Analyzer:

Nethawk, Teclec, Wireshark, Qscope, TCPDump

Entities:

Samsung/Nortel/Ericson/packet and Circuit switching E2E

Languages & Platforms:

Applications:

Database:

Protocol:

C++, Unix, Sun/Solaris OS, Linux, Shell, VBasic,

Microsoft office and project, Frame maker, Visio, CLI, CRT, Putty, Agile, waterfall

Oracle, Access

TCP, IP, BGP, Frame Relay, VPN, LAN, WAN 3G and 4G wireless E2E protocols

Sr. Manager, Sr Engineer Backhaul Migrations, Samsung Telecom America, June 2015 -Present

Manage and implement provide guidance, knowhow, training and creating MOPs as needed to internal team and external customers. Host kick off meetings and present overview of migration strategies, implementation project plans for national backhaul team and customers.

National migration team created from scratch and the migration work seamlessly transferred from 3rd party vendor within 3 months period. Got recognized by the upper management

Evaluate, validate, create and present design of cohesive technical solutions to various customer teams. Lead technical Q&A with technical teams. Work across multiple levels within Samsung and customer organizations and provide continuous technical direction

MOP, Job aid and training creation. Technical project oversight, PMO governance, strategic planning and implementation in IT, Telco wireless E2E operation management of live network

Familiar with the L2VPN (Qscope), L3VPN, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF, NGVN, IGP

Identify and draw attention to critical issues and establish, maintain and grew a high level of trust and confidence as a subject matter expert and leader. Knowledge transfer to customers. Convey professional technical information via formal written documents, presentations, email, or reports to an audience of technically skilled, management and/or operational teams

Network Performance, SLA, and manage Severe Outages for Network Operations, software Roll-outs, manage End-Customer Expectations

Solution Architect, National Core C&I Samsung Telecom America April 2012 –June 2015

MSC, MGW, MME, SAE-GW, BSC/BSM, LSMU, LSMC/R/EMS, eNB, BTS, IPA and CSR

Create and manage a trailblazer Core Commission and Integration team to work on Sprint nationwide Network for Network Vision (NV) project. Customer demo, training and troubleshoot on both 3G and 4G network.

Concept proof, lab demo, staging virtual servers, lab testing and validation. Configuration, commissioning, integration, management and optimization of Packet/Switch core elements on WCDMA and LTE Networks. MME SAE GW, EIR, PCRF. End-to-End analysis and troubleshooting of the PS network elements and interfaces (SGSN/MME, PGW- SGW/GGSN, HLR/HSS, EIR, DPI, PCRF, CG and, Li, S1, S10, S4, S3, S11, S12, S102, S5, S6a, S13, SGs, Gr, Gf Gn, Gc, Gx, Gy, Rx, Cx, Ui, and Uu are some of the interfaces)

Productize Samsung elements on E2E network from incept of the spec design through first call using Toycell. (Site walk, Planning, Bay Profile, installation, commissioning, integration, first call, ATP, CTTP and NRD) to network readiness, and after on air support and maintenance for the grace period of time

Lead, coordinate, manage delivery of network elements through various milestones and change management controls as well as integration of back office system, audit of 3G, 4G network element and delivery

Hardware and software installation and Integration testing on EPC ATCA architecture. Productize Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Define Network (SDN) in the lab environment using diverse test beds, and deployed in Sprint/Verizon lab network.

Create MOP based on FD and Lab implementation. Host reviews, approval and test the validation of the MOP. Implement of the capacity augmentation of both HW, SW new features on customer live 3G and 4G network

SW upgrade as Release, patch, correction on Nodal, system and Office wide network elements

Support Tier 2 and 3 provide RCA as needed by both internal and external customer

Cost control and operation efficiency by monitoring identified KPIs and develop tools and process automation of configuration Script, mesh, datafill audit tool etc. Development and cross training and introduction of intelligent documentation and process to mitigate errors and mess-ups

LOE, MOP, IP plan, bay profile, DD, proposal reviews and audit

Principal Engineer Core network, General communication Inc. GCI Jan 2010- April2012

Pr. Engineer, Solution Architect, support feature negotiation, scope definition, contract negotiation, device engineering and designs, to implement any E2E node in GCI wireless network augmentation demand

Nortel CDMA trouble ticket (NOC/Tier2/Tier3) with vendors reduced to 96%. Saved 80K per month

KPI of the network is greatly increased. 1%<drop calls, Block calls, No congestions, efficient routing

Network KPI’s identified and monitored to be proactive instead of reactive

Implementation of new nodes, augmentation and maintain all aspect of LTE, UMTS, WCDMA and EDGE network.

Traffic study of network elements, forecast growth and responsible for network integrity

Ericsson Network Intelligence SME. Create, identify reports. Analyze and support network abnormality

SME for Routing and translations, signaling and bearer call processing to meet established Service Level Agreement (SLA) commitments and escalations

Member of the business Growth team as a representative of network engineering and represent Network Operations needs on Enterprise Architecture caliper

System Engineer, Project lead, Project Prim, SME, Nortel Networks Sept 2006- Dec 2009

Key contributor in resolving a critical customer problem, which had project at risk with AT&T

Key contributor to the MGW traffic optimizations which became a high revenue product for Nortel

Adhere QA and Software life cycle standards like TL 9000, ISO 9000 series and ISO 12207 standard for Software development life cycle (SDLC) and use appropriate Agile or waterfall methodology

E2E, core network, system, functional and message level validation for GSM, GPRS, UMTS, HSPA+

Scope definition, feature negotiations, interactions and test strategy

Feature Test plan, ATP, CCTP creations. Template test cases for real-time embedded software validation, utilizing black box methodology (GAP) and protocol analyzer

Execution of feature, Load, function, interface, integration test Plan. Process and MOP validation

Create, validate, audit, and utilize, CIQ for Integration and implementation of the all network element

Productized suitable upgrade path for AT&T for the VSE-MSC for both Flash cut and green field

24/7 Support for level 3 for Tier 1 customer for Core Network. Rectified the issue with team, communicated the solution to the customer and escalated to R&D with appropriate procedures milestones for permanent solutions Responsible for Root Cause analysis, patch analysis and soaking to preventive process

Custodian, sanitize, and maintained gateway Core Network Offices on all aspect of the network in the lab

Lead Engineer Nortel, Richardson, Texas Aug 2000 – Sept 2006

Team lead for QA Engineering. Validate, features and feature integrations using Black box Methodology

Subject matter expert -SME on handoff feature, integration, WPS, GETs, and Sanity suite

Contributed for Patent of 2G to 3G handoff Req msg for ETSI and ANSI specifications

Lead engineer switch prime, sanity lead, Feature prim, Member of Process governance body

Lead for MGW, BSC, RNC specific traffic testing, integration and upgrade on live switches

Billing downstream QA are automated using scripts and tools

Supported the evaluation of GSM, EDGE, UMTS on IUCS, H248 and interfaces and WPS, GETs

Customer demonstration, knowledge transfer and support for initial implementation of the WPS and GETs

Custodian of R&D MGW by commissioned, provisioned and configured MGW per traffic, personalities and new feature requirements. As needed RCA generation on BICC and BICN architecture

Responsible for developing design verification feature, functional test plans, comprehensive product and product integration test plan. Member of the tiger team

Presale demonstrations and evaluation. Feature Prime for WPS and GETs to Dyne Corp for Nortel

Member of BSNL onsite-offshore team for a time critical task

Education: Computer engineering (BSc University of South Alabama), Sep 1997-2000 May

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