Project Manager
Resume:
Aravind Rohan Sampath
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Cell: 216-***-****
Email: acqoz3@r.postjobfree.com
CAREER PROFILE
A resilient manager with successful five years’ experience in project management.
Conducted a sales presentation to acquire a turnkey project with MetroPCS and generated a new business for the company worth $2.5 million.
Successfully managed a network project for Alcatel Lucent worth $1.5 million and a turnover of $450k
Successfully executed a $1 million site integration project for Ericsson
Impeccably completed a network call testing project with AT&T with a budget of $700k.
Provided technical consulting to develop a database and dashboard using Salesforce and Tableau.
Applied Project Management Professional principles for the benchmarking project for AT&T in Georgia market
Implemented regular quality audits to ensure flawless delivery of the projects.
Excellent communicator with emphasis on building strong client relationships.
CERTIFICATIONS
Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP), May 2014
Juniper Networks: Sales Master, Switching and Routing
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Employer: Tech Mahindra Ltd.
Project: Plan AT&T Network Coverage in Georgia Market
Role: Manager - Operations July 2014- Present
Project Summary: The project involves researching AT&T’s network coverage in Georgia market and plan ways to improve the network strength and speed by employing site addition, carrier aggregation, bandwidth expansion and retuning, coverage analysis, spectrum acquisition and network rebalancing.
Planned and determined the number of sites and carriers based on financial budget provided by AT&T for the fiscal year and by performing thorough analysis of design, equipment availability, transport cost and site installation cost.
Maintained the plan of demand, plan of record, plan of execution and milestone activities and dates using AT&T Planning tool.
Arranged meeting with construction and Equipment (C&E) and finalized the plan of demand in the market.
Gathered the current FCC regulations and recent changes applied and managed the spectrum accordingly.
Determined the cellular network strength in rural areas using ATOLL coverage analysis.
Planned and implemented VOLTE coverage in market and calculated time not on LTE (TNOL)
Successfully accomplished several retuning and spectrum carving activities in Georgia market by initiating the process, creating tickets, assigning project numbers and engineers, conduct web meetings with mobility provisioning team and optimization team and monitored the pre and post retune activities for any coverage issues.
Coordinated with performance team and raised equipment maintenance tickets in case of site/carrier shut down.
Successfully managed the equipment harvesting activity and maintained inventory trackers.
Analyzed the impact of equipment harvesting, radio change, retuning of combiners and repeaters.
Requested optimization team to establish baseline KPIs after retune and harvesting activity.
Analyzed the RAN forecast tracker, bandwidth expansion trackers, monthly exception process documents from HQ and verified for accuracy and provided feedback for the need and demand in the market.
Generated templates using VBA in MS Excel to maintain all planning trackers and updated them in t-space server.
Collected information from database using SQL queries in MS Access and prepared reports on the trends and progress of the network coverage in the market.
Prepared trend reports and presented the monthly reports to the leadership
Managed various capital and expense initiatives from initial plan to final execution.
Developed stage by stage core network rebalancing plans and tracked projects to completion.
Employer: Avion Systems, Inc.
Project: RF Turnkey for MetroPCS, Tampa
Role: Program Manager March 2013 – July 2014
Project Summary: Procured a RF turnkey project with MetroPCS worth $2.5 million and applied program management principles in developing an organizational structure that helps in providing the objectives to the customer. Succeeded in maintaining the administration cost and project cost and accomplished a profit margin of ~25% for the company.
Submitted our bids, presented our sales and project overview to the regional lead and acquired the RF turnkey project with MetroPCS for a budget of $2.5 million.
Established the budget within the organization, created organizational charts, hired team members, negotiated their contracts and allocated engineers, leads and teams to the project.
Applied PMP principles to the project objectives and used Primavera software for resource and capital management.
Acquired the purchase order quotes from ASCOM, ordered testing equipment and license key as per needs of MetroPCS.
Slashed administration costs by 25% by negotiating pricing and fees with vendors, while ensuring the continued service
Establish and develop business relationship with the customers to reach the project objective.
Identified, effectively communicated and resolved project issues and risks.
Presented periodic reports on the current project, future opportunities and client issues.
Identified statistical data, conducted audits, and tracked payroll and performance ratings.
Ensured the ultimate success and acceptance of the program.
Executed projects within constraints of delivering on time and within budget.
Project: Business Analysis and Dashboard Implementation using Tableau
Role: Technical Consultant June 2013- Dec. 2013
Developed a database and dashboard for multiple clients – Sprint, Sprint CBRE, AT&T, RETEL and Towercom using Tableau
Gathered information and inputs from clients such as geographical market, planned-forecasted sites, plan of demand, plan of execution, milestones, unit cost, MOD cost, initiative etc. in order to build the dashboard
Updated the data gathered from the clients in MS Excel and presented it to the developers.
Provided them with suggestions to implement SQL scripts to enhance validation rules, look ups, inter links and updates.
Created an executive dashboard view to show the performance of the milestones and markets.
Provided the clients with weekly reports showing high level details of the progress of the site status, milestones, KPIs and project status.
Updated the data weekly to refresh the database, upload the URL on the server CLOUD for easy accessibility.
Project: RF Network Optimization, Drive Testing and Engineer, Furnish & Install Project
Client: Alcatel –Lucent
Role: Program Manager Oct. 2012 – March 2013
Project Summary: The program aims at managing three different projects – Optimization, EF&I and drive testing to install, test and launch sites within the stipulated budget and time and as required by the Alcatel-Lucent. Managed a team of 100 members including managers and lead technicians and satisfied the end user.
Successfully completed a RF Network Optimization and EF&I project for Alcatel-Lucent with a net worth of $1.5 million and improved the sales of the company by 30%.
Designed a database using salesforce for individual projects and overall program to manage work hours and progress of the project.
Conducted interviews, hired and assigned assistant project managers for individual projects and monitored their work.
Oversaw the interview process by project managers to hire RF engineers, lead technicians and field teams.
Arranged for weekly and monthly meetings to overview the progress of the project and provided consulting for new ideas.
Arranged for meeting with vendors to present the scope of work and procure quotes for testing equipment.
Analyzed the purchase orders from vendors and awarded bids to vendors.
Provided consulting in acquiring field technicians for the project by assigning job descriptions to hiring managers.
Arranged for meeting with regional Alcatel-Lucent managers to discuss about the progress and suggestions to the project.
Successfully completed the projects on time and within budget and made a turnover of $450k.
Project: Develop HR Database for Avion Systems
Role: Business Analyst Oct 2012- Jan 2013
Developed a HR database for Avion Systems to reduce the manual workload of the employees and for easy tracking of work hours.
Involved in joint application design sessions with business stakeholders to understand and identify gaps in the current HR processes.
Developed Functional Requirements design documentation plus Requirement Traceability Matrix to align with development methodology.
Proposed Salesforce.com custom solution for quick and easy to implement yet fully customizable with complex HR requirements across several legal jurisdictions. SFDC will be the single unified solution from recruitment and on boarding to post retire record management.
Capabilities for Release 1 include Organize Organization Data, Organize Employee Information, Recruitment, Track Job Description, Leave Management, Asset Information, Event Management, Training System, Performance Appraisal Review, Overtime Tracking, Exit Management, and Self-Service.
For each capability, proposed a custom solution design using standard/custom objects for data model/relationships, security and visibility using profiles, roles and sharing settings, automated business processes with workflows and approvals.
Managing user module to give access permissions to the underlying data as per the profiles defined and managing ownership of records whenever there is change of user in the organization.
Managed a technical team to implement and develop as per the requirements design and perform application configuration/customization. Collaborate with Salesforce.com certified service partners, product management, R&D and extended project team for all engagements.
Reviewed the high level test scenarios prepared by the QA team and providing walkthrough of the business capability for proper testing. Co-ordinated with the testing team for business approval and sign-off.
Write or contribute to instructions or manuals to guide end users as well as technical document with detailed workflow charts and diagrams.
Consult with managerial, engineering and technical team to clarify program intent, identify problems and suggest changes. Communicate project status to pertinent salesforce.com team members and establish Trusted Advisor status with Business and Technology stakeholders.
Project: Site Integration Turnkey Project
Client: Ericsson, TN-KY Market
Role: Project Manager June 2012 – Oct. 2012
Managed an activity based site integration project for Ericsson in Tennessee Market for a count of 350 sites within a total budget of $1 million and a constrained time limit of 5 months.
Arranged for site integration technicians, drive teams and engineers for the project.
Developed a database using salesforce to maintain the entire equipment inventory in the market.
Arranged for transportation of equipment from Ericsson warehouse to Avion’s storage house and updated the inventory in the system database.
Maintained work hours for field technicians and submitted the project hours to Ericsson for approvals.
Performed pre and post launch monitoring, E911 testing and submitted the data and reports to Ericsson for approvals.
Procured approval of work completion from Ericsson managers and submitted the purchase orders (PO) after site launch using Ericsson SRM tool.
Followed up with accounts payable from Ericsson and account receivable from Avion’s payroll department regarding the PO approvals and payments.
Completed the project on time and within budget and made a profit of 30%.
Project: Nationwide Call Testing Project for AT&T
Role: Project Manager April 2012 – Oct. 2012
Managed a nationwide call testing project for AT&T spanning one year with a limited budget of $700k.
Prepared the method of procedure, attended daily web meetings with AT&T to go through the unique call testing process in each region and get the approval from regional leads.
Managed over 70 team members nationwide, managed their time sheets, submitted travel requests and approved their expenses.
Submitted the final purchase order after completion of each activity in the region.
Successfully completed the project with a profit margin of 20%.
Project: Drive Testing Project for Ericsson, South East USA
Role: Project Coordinator April 2010- April 2012
Coordinated teams across various projects and technologies.
Synched with market leads and then scheduled testing activities for all teams.
Prepared daily work status report, maintain tracker for tasks completed and work hours.
Coordinated team deployment, prepared training material and arranged training on site.
Attended online meetings with project managers and scheduled work.
SKILLS
C
MS Access
SQL
MS Excel
MATLAB
MS Project
AutoCAD
MS Visio
ENGINEERING TOOLS
Primavera
QuickBooks
Business Objects
ATOLL
Change point
SalesForce
Actix
CLOUD
Tableau
Ansys
Pro-E
MapInfo
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Cleveland State University, Ohio, Dec. 2009
Bachelor of Engineering in Production Engineering, PSG College of Technology, India, April 2007
ADDITIONAL DATA
CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY – HIGHLIGHTS
Research Assistant working on Numerical Analysis projects for NASA Glenn Research Center
Academic Sponsorship from Power and Energy Systems Lab, Fenn College of Engineering from 2008 - 2009
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