VIJAY REDDYVARI

Mobile: 925-***-****

E-Mail: ac1y3x@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Certified Scrum Master and PMP candidate with 13 years of combined experience in Project Management and Engineering in both Telecommunication and Information technology sectors.

Demonstrated track record of successfully managing and completing projects according to strict deadlines and within budget.

Decisive, result-oriented team leader with excellent communication skills offering talents in developing project scope, managing project plans, customer relationships, vendor management with focus on continuous process improvement and cost reduction.

Excellent oral, written and communication skills. Ability to work well, both as part of a team and as an individual.

Professional Experience:

Technical Project Manager III (T-Mobile, USA Inc. – Concord, CA) April 2016 – May 2017

This position is responsible for managing all activities necessary to deliver multiple transport projects on schedule and within budget while satisfying agreed-upon market requirements, vendor contractual obligations and specifications defined within the scope of the projects.

Responsibilities:

Lead transport projects or programs from concept through operational acceptance, to meet top operating objectives. Define projects scope.

Plan for required resources through resource forecasting, estimating and budgeting. Identify & assemble resources from all disciplines (Engineering & other departments) as required

Create a comprehensive project schedule in MS Project, project milestone baseline and other necessary project documentation. Control and track project progress vs. the baseline; mitigate negative impacts to schedule

Provide formal project reviews with the key stakeholders to identify risks, set deliverables and successfully deliver projects

Provide formal project reviews with stakeholders to perform ongoing assessments on the progress of the engineering projects; create regular project reports

Establish compliance to the company and regional processes for communication, project management and engineering; ensure compliance to the quality guidelines.

Identify Risks in Projects and use proven PM techniques to assess and mitigate.

Manage the delivery of the Project Scope and proposed Scope changes.

Facilitate cross-departmental project reviews and close-outs, document and communicate the lessons learned.

Monitor timelines and milestones for changes and corresponding project impacts; manage to strategic dates as provided by the Program Office and/or Executive Sponsor.

Participate and provide input to the budgeting and planning process

Project Manager III – RET/TMA (T-Mobile, USA Inc. – Concord, CA) Feb 2015 – March 2016

Responsibilities:

Lead RET/TMA project or program from concept through operational acceptance, to meet top operating objectives. Complete all sites pending RET/TMA upgrade irrespective of technology

Worked as part of a cross-functional team to conduct routine preventative maintenance activities for all switching center nodes, supporting the network performance and reliability initiatives

Generate the morning reports and facility walk through reports and weekly shift summary reports as requested.

Analyzes system reports in order to isolate RET/TMA failures and power alarms. Provide support to Level I technicians. Recommends process improvements to Field supervisor. Performs fault isolation tests related to RET/TMA Alarms

Regularly monitors all market alarms; create trouble tickets and works orders as necessary

Dispatches the appropriate technician for resolution of problems in the field. Supports corporate nodes as requested

Maintain spares inventory. Ensures all spares have the most up to date software and firmware.

Maintains tools and test equipment to ensure proper working order.

E2E IPMO Transport PM and SS7 West PM (AT&T Inc. – San Ramon, CA) Aug 2013 – Jan 2015

Responsibilities:

Managed San Diego, Las Vegas and Hawaii markets Transport requirements for DAS, NSB, LTE and Temporary sites (COW) based on ETTCS POR requirements

Facilitate meetings with individual markets to report project status and escalate gating issues with appropriate teams such as C&E, CPDO, L2CM, PCO and MPC

Generate service delivery pipeline report, MPC de-conflict and scheduling reports and track Work Orders in Granite and Canopi systems for each individual market

Provide weekly ETTCS migration and integration reports to upper management

Facilitate transport for COWs, Special event sites and any High priority sites

Assure a transport solution is identified for each initiative in the CASPR POR tracker

Attend market transport calls with vendors to ensure there are no transport issues

Resolve any gating issues such as POR misalignment, duplicate or incorrect IP assignment in EDPs, VLAN mismatch, Granite work template change, SLA delays, etc

Work with PCO, L2CM, MPC and NOC groups for any escalations on a need basis

Manage R4A to R4B conversions, special FFA projects, submit PT1V/T1 exceptions

Coordinate with various teams such as C&E, CPDO, PCO and MPC for meeting the transport numbers for NSB & LTE carrier based on the ETTCS market POR predictions

Schedule weekly calls with the SS7 diversity team and track West region SS7 activities through a tracker

Plan and Coordinate any migration activity in the West Region track for completion through Work Orders, CTS tickets and conference calls until completion of activity

Resolve violations, if any exists through IWOS and get waivers for no diversity issues

Modernization Project Engineer - LTE (T-Mobile, USA Inc. – Concord, CA) July 2012 – July 2013

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the support of modernization and LTE rollout project in SF CA Market

Played an important role in the completion of SJ, SFO, Q1 & Q2 launches successfully

Alarm monitoring of all the LTE sites that are integrated and being integrated

Assigning tickets to Switch, Fops & Ericsson field team based on the launch priority

Escalate service impacting alarm to West Region Operations team on a need basis

Work closely with Switch, RF & Regional teams for doing proper transition of sites

NEST sites to ensure they have zero down time and disconnect NID from AAV & CSR

Clearing alarms on the LTE sites with the help of OSS-RC & eNPS provisioning tools

Support the field ops and E// team on bringing the site down and eventually on air after the modernization work is complete

Configuring and troubleshooting the RBS nodes and CSR (Cell Site Router) for the AWS, PCS and LTE technologies

Project support and activities are accomplished via 24 * 7 help desk using a conference bridge and through a single point of contact

Monitor and ensure that all the daily scheduled sites to be upgraded are monitored and controlled in accordance with the allowed downtime schedule

Proactively communicate with the main stakeholders on need basis

Implementation Manager II (Ericsson Inc. – Pleasanton, CA) Mar 2012 – June 2012

Responsibilities:

Implemented NodeB & RNC rehome project in Central & West Region Markets

Coordinate and manage teams at various levels responsible for rehoming the sites

Monitor bridges between both client and internal teams to ensure smooth work flow

Coordinate and synchronize the work based on Pre & Post summary reports generated by both Client and Internal teams before and after the actual rehome

Monitor alarms, neighbors, KPI’s, Latency and RTT after the completion of rehome

Act as a liaison between the Client, rehome teams and Field operations to ensure smooth work flow of the rehome or the planned activity

Prepare and send hourly reports before, during and after the rehome activity

Compile and present timeline reports to upper management on a weekly basis

NCAL IUB Project Manager (AT&T Inc. – Pleasanton, CA) Mar 2011 – Dec 2011

Responsibilities:

Managing Northern California markets Top IUB Congestion & High Utilization sites.

Working with various teams in resolving the issues and coordinate the integration of the required T1’s on the IUB sites based on MRIFT & RF IPU forecast ahead of time.

Obtain the list of Top Congesting and High Voice & Data Utilization sites from RF on a Bi-Weekly basis based on the National Congestion Tracker & HQ Utilization reports.

Do the quality check analysis on these sites. Check active and pending T1’s based on RF IPU forecast, granite Work Orders, alarms in OSS and Ethernet migration queue.

Escalate the sites that are in Jeopardy (MW & Lease Issues) and Sites in Ethernet Migration queue within the 90 day migration window.

Troubleshot the sites using OSS. Prioritize and escalate the remaining T1’s pending in various pools as appropriately with the responsible groups.

Update all the concerned teams about the sites & T1’s status on a weekly call.

Send a Daily Report on all the T1’s in the form of a Tracker, Summary and Consolidated sites list and upload them on a shared documents folder.

Send a Weekly report to the SF Round table team with the NCAL IUB slides snapshot

Send a Monthly Analysis Report chart on the Congestion & High Utilization site list.

Follow up with RF on fixed sites to check, if they are Congesting or in High utilization.

Transport Implementation Engineer (AT&T Inc. – Pleasanton, CA) Mar 2009 – Feb 2011

Responsibilities:

Handling Special Events and other priority sites requiring immediate attention and results.

Preparation of CIQ Forms and submission of IWOS tickets for T1 circuits requiring MSN assignments, DACS cross-connection and Granite completion. This includes tracking the status of each request, verification for issues after the assignments have been submitted and reporting input for main tracker update.

Testing, verification and troubleshooting of T1 circuits using various ATT tools, e.g., Granite, Trifecta and OSS.

Create and delete IUB links using the Alcatel Lucent 5620 Network Manger GUI.

Add DS1 links to existing IMA groups to increase the bandwidth on the Node B’s.

Test & troubleshoot DS1 link through remote port configuration on Acterna FST 2310

Monitoring alarms and troubleshooting network issues on RNC’s and Node B’s.

Block & de-block RBS, load Scripts on RNC, RBS and RSP and change cell parameters

Identify and troubleshoot IUB links and T1 errors through MO Shell commands.

Create configuration version, export, modify cabinet and site data using XML scripts.

Configure Virtual Channel & Virtual Path connections, IMA Reconfiguration in RSP.

Detect TMA failures, NBAP issues, Antenna alarms and Cell resource problems.

Provision equipment, create cross connects and configure port complexes for Tellabs 5500 DACS system.

Perform network element tasks and tests such as resynchronization and loopbacks.

Configure & verify DCS cross connects using Tellabs Metro Watch Element Manager.

Work with NOC and Switch for any vendor alarm escalations.

Compile and present the performance reports for management on a day to day basis

Systems Design Engineer 2 (T-Mobile, USA Inc. – Concord, CA) Dec 2005 – Feb 2009

Responsibilities:

Alarm monitoring, troubleshooting Ericsson RNC’s and Node B’s through WCDMA RAN Explorer and Node Status Analyzer.

Developed scripts for alarm monitoring using XML for 24/7 support in switches.

Change UMTS parameters using RNC & RBS Element manager applications.

Add and delete neighbors, change cell values using Adjacent & Cell Channel tools.

Troubleshoot Iub links and T1 errors through AMOS and MO Shell commands.

Check IMA configuration, configure Virtual Channel & Path connections through RSP.

Daily Operation & Maintenance activities on Ericsson AXE 10 and AXE 810 switches.

Maintain market BSS availability by ensuring the sites are alarm free in Ericsson and IP access BSC’s. Work with NOC and Switch for any vendor alarm escalations.

Upgrading and loading software patches on Ericsson UMTS RNC’s and RBS’s.

Watch the sites, which are affecting the Market Network Access failure rate NAF, troubleshoot and fix them and thereby ensure error free service to customers.

Well versed with using tools XPM, REWSS, Fault Finder and Command Handler (OSS), to better evaluate the performance of sites and their overall trending history.

Identify sites in various BSC’s with issues such as RACH Failures, SDCCH Drops, SDCCH Blocks, and TCH access Failures, develop action plan and resolve them.

Work with RF exclusively on sites with issues such as Overshooting, CO frequencies, BSC boundaries, Excess Timing advance, Drop calls, T1 Errors and Inconsistencies.

Provide technical support on a daily basis to RF and Switch Operations groups.

Coordinate with Field Operations to resolve hardware and software related issues.

Deployment of software is performed locally through mops.

Work with Tier II to escalate and resolve issues affecting the market as a whole.

Work with RF extensively on sites with issues such as Overshooting, CO frequencies, BSC boundaries, Excess Timing advance, Drop calls, T1 Errors and Inconsistencies.

Participated with RF in Site surveys, drive testing and Antenna modifications.

Has knowledge of analyzing NCS, MRR reports for optimization.

BSS Operations Engineer (T-Mobile, USA Inc. – Concord, CA) Dec 2004 – Dec 2005

Responsibilities:

24 * 5 support during weekdays and On-call support during weekends for all the people who are working on the field and in easy reach through a toll–free number.

Monitoring of BSC’s for accurate alarms at Critical and Major Levels using the tool called NetXpert and escalates them immediately to the group as per hierarchy.

Creating trouble tickets and work orders using Remedy tool.

Watch guarding certain sites for the MOU per drop issues using tools like NERF and METRICA and further investigating on those sites for any possible Drop calls issues.

Using CNA efficiently for accuracy of the job being assigned and thereby ensuring the network reliability and preparedness for any kind of fallback issues.

Using OSS tools invariably, during Creation of new cell sites, Rehoming the existing sites, Frequency re-tune, Neighbor Updates, Parameter changes and so on.

Working on the Trouble Tickets and Work Orders assigned to the individual and as well as for the group too, using the command handler tool of the OSS.

Trouble shooting the problems occurred in the sites up to the core level and thereby ensuring the error free performance of the sites under any particular BSC.

Follow – Up with the management on a day-to-day basis about the issues encountered and escalating the same thru e-mails and thru weekly conferences.

Fill out the excel sheets about the work done and email it to the appropriate group at the end of the day.

BTS Rehomes Engineer & E911 Help Desk Engineer (Cingular – Pleasanton, CA) Jun 2004 – Nov 2004

Responsibilities:

BTS Rehomes Engineer

Rehoming the cell site to new BSC and to balance the traffic between existing BSC’s.

Preparing the site for Rehome, Deleting the site from the old Switch or BSC, Swinging the T1’s, running the CNA job, adding the site in the new Switch or BSC.

Collecting Site data, creating and editing DT’s, defining and de-block dips, performing allips, alarm checking on all switches.

Manual blocking of Managed Objects, removing them from service and undefined them using the OPS.

Building the CNA job includes assigning the radio frequencies and neighbor cells relations, changing LAC & RO values according to the new switch.

Check & compare with the old BSC to see if it requires any BTS software changes.

Follow up with the End Techs for the T1 cuts, or do them manually if they are new bridge (Alcatel 5620) or Backhaul (Alcatel 1631) cuts as appropriately.

Adding the site to the new switch, defining the Managed Object’s, restoring them to service, de-block them and ensures that the sites are loading and are operational.

Cleaning up after rehome, including blocking of devices and dips in the old BSC, checking that the sites is external in the old BSC.

Run adjustment and consistency check jobs in order to wrap up the rehomes.

Fill out the shift report and email it to the appropriate group at the end of the day.

E911 Help Desk Engineer

Support NOC group in Capitalized work, such as E911 and EDGE related tasks.

Log in and Log out techs into cell sites for the assigned Planned Works. An authorized Planned Work is required for any potentially service affecting work.

Log in techs and keep the Pre and Post health check of the site. By running this PRE health check, the tech can be made aware of any pre-existing alarms on the site. Trouble Tickets are verified and created if necessary.

While logging out tech from the site, a full health check is done on the site to verify if the site is taking traffic and nothing was disturbed. Any new alarms will be dealt with and the tech will be logged out of Remedy.

Provide troubleshooting and site support. This includes clearing of alarms, T1 issues, generating trouble tickets whenever needed and notify to NOC senior if any service affecting issues arise.

Store Pre and Post health check logs to be easily used as future reference.

Education:

Master degree in Computer Science from Sri Venkateswara University in 2001.

Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Osmania University in 1998.

Training & Certifications:

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) with License No 000438887 in July 2015

WCDMA Radio Functionality and RAN Configuration from Ericsson in 2008.

ATM and TCP/IP in UMTS from Award Solutions in 2007.

Ericsson WCDMA System Overview from Ericsson in 2007.

WCDMA Air interface and RAN protocols and Procedures from Ericsson in 2007.

APG 40 Operation & Maintenance (NT4) from Ericsson in 2006.

Real time Error Warning Surveillance System from T-Mobile in 2006.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Certification from Cisco in 2005.

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