Amit Chaudhary

Solution Architect - Telecom B/OSS, Cloud & Big Data

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Summary

11+ years of IT experience in telecom B/OSS domain covering solution architecture & design, development, migration, upgrade, transformation and systems Integration.

Practitioner of industry’s best frameworks – Togaf9.1, ITIL, eTOM, SID, TAM, SOA

Effective communication, coordination, presentation & reporting skills. Client facing experience & interactions with project key stakeholders, partners and senior management,

Successful track record in leading big scope tenders throughout, delivered several RFI/RFQ/RFP, vendor evaluation & ROI/TCO analysis.

Led the technical solution architecture & design for large scale transformation projects for telecom B/OSS domain (Billing, CRM, Ordering, and digital transformation).

Expertise in private & hybrid cloud solution architecture & design (solutions over AWS cloud platforms).

Expertise in Big Data management solution architecture & design (on Apache Hadoop 2.x Eco System, EMR, and CDH 5).

Well-versed with telecom business & technology (IT & network) domains for services like voice, data, broadband, TV, VAS.

Excellent interpersonal skills, team-work spirit and independent working capabilities

Certifications:

Togaf 9.1 Certified Enterprise Architect

ITIL v3 (Foundation) Certified

SCBCD/EJB3.0: Sun Certified Business Component Developer

SCJP: Sun Certified Java Programmer

Trainings (undergone):

AWS Certified Solution Architect (Associate) – training conducted by Amazon

Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals – training conducted by ROI Training, Google Partner

Area of Technical Expertise:

Cloud:

Solution architecture & design over AWS cloud services (AWS VPC with public & private subnet), Google Cloud platform Fundamental knowledge

Big Data Management:

Solution architecture & design of big data management projects based on Apache Hadoop 2.0/Cloudera CDH5 & Eco System (HDFS, MapReduce, YARN, HBase, Pig, Sqoop, Flume ng, Oozie, Kafka, Zoo Keeper, Chef)

Java & related technologies:

Enterprise Java, Webservices (SOAP/WSDL, REST), ORM (Hibernate, JPA), xml, JSON, Struts2, Sql/PlSql, Maven, Ant, Weblogic, Tomcat, Oracle RDBMS, Log4J, and Junit.

Telecom B/OSS Domain:

Product catalog, PoS & self-service portals, CRM, Billing, Order Management & Provisioning, Service orchestration & provisioning, Fulfillment and Mediation.

Familiar with mobile core network systems like PCRF/PCEF, OCS, IN, GGSN, SMSC etc.

Experience with B/OSS COTS Products:

Amdocs CES 9.x: CRM, Master Enterprise Catalog, Convergent Charging, AR & Collection

Comverse ONE: SelfService, Kenan FX, Product Catalog, Customer Management

Professional Experience:

July 2015 – Present: Project Architect,

Singtel, Singapore

Responsibilities:

Pursuing lead architect role in dealing with clients/business, program managers, vendor & IT teams.

Business requirements analysis & translate them into technical solution.

Provide solution architecture and design, utilizing enterprise architecture standards including documenting all solution components and configurations.

Develop solution cost structure by identifying all cost points.

Work with functional analysts, developers and development managers to ensure that all solutions are deployed within agreed timelines and supported after delivery

Prepare RFI/RFP/RFQ, vendor Evaluation (RFx responses & product demo, POC to ensure alignment to the requirements & future challenges respondent solution, along with deep technical insight towards Application, Data & Technology Architectures, Security, Service Management, pricing, risk estimations & system life etc.).

Led project team & provide technical directions to partners, solution designers, development teams and testing teams. Oversee & review of IA, DD and test scenarios.

Presentation & reports to senior management & architecture governance board

Achievements:

As part of strategic architect team, review the current state of architectures and define the future state by determining the direction for a set of business problems, a solutions road map and architectures.

Contribution to organizational SDM (Service Delivery Methodology) framework to streamlines the delivery process.

Few Recent Projects:

MVNE (Mobile Virtual Network Enabler):

Responsible for technical E2E Architecture & solution design

Led E2E procurement from technical standpoint.

Wrote RFx, evaluated vendors, ROI & TCO analysis.

Singtel’s Smart Living:

An IoT (internet of things) based project.

Responsible for technical E2E architecture & solution design.

Amdocs Insight (Real Time data streaming):

A recommendation product operating on Hadoop

Proactive Care to customers by call center agents

Offloading Enterprise Dataware House:

Offloading mass data to Hadoop from data ware house and production DB.

Network Data Analytics (Real Time Streaming):

Network bandwidth & Signaling analytics on Hadoop

Fraud detection

Mobile Advertisement (Real Time Streaming):

Real time (location based) mobile advertisement over real time network data & historical data integration.

October 2011 – July 2015: Lead Solution Designer (B/OSS Solutions),

Starhub, Singapore

Responsibilities:

Role & responsibilities covers to provide E2E solution on B/OSS and Data management (Hadoop).

Created & maintained data pipelines, setup Hadoop cluster & executed PoC for analytics over CRM, Billing and Collection Data.

Offloading data from production DB instance & dataware house to Hadoop Cluster

Interfacing client/business to understand their requirements & translate their functional requirements into technical solutions.

Prepare HLD specifying functional, technical, integration and test specifications for the system developers, integrators and QA to achieve business goals.

Led team of developers in the delivery of technical systems and components

Oversaw and review of technical deliveries (across Business, Data, Application and technology architectures), detailed designs & test scenarios.

Ensured on-time, quality release of systems and components

Recommended and assisted with development of standards and project frameworks and provided guidance to vendors

Worked with Solutions Architect to ensure smooth translation of requirements into applications

June 2011 – Oct 2011: Sr. Software Engineer,

SDGC, Noida, India

Responsibilities:

Requirements gathering, analysis and scoping of Mobile web applications for GE, USA.

Solution architecture & design of mobile web applications.

Developed and delivered efficient and cost-effective technical solutions to meet customer business requirements

Delivered detailed design, development and unit testing artifacts.

Responsible for E2E project delivery.

March 2009 – Apr 2011: Project Consultant,

Comverse Singapore

Responsibilities:

Participation in client workshops for requirement gathering and translating them to technical solution.

Worked with Solutions Architect to ensure smooth translation of requirements into applications.

Developed and delivered efficient and cost-effective technical solutions to meet customer business requirements

Managed and evaluated system enhancements and resolved system issues

Provided business analysis support and technical support and guidance to customers.

Support for testing (Sub-System, System and Integration, CATP) & bug fixing.

Prepared dry-run environment- installation of supporting 3rd-party-softwares, system-runtime platform & deployment of system application.

April 2006 – January 2009: Sr. Subject Matter Expert,

Amdocs, India

Responsibilities:

Client facing experiences & visit to client sites - Sprint, USA, VF UK, VG Hungary

Contributed to core product development for Amdocs Clarify CRM 7.5, Smart Client

Deliver several Impact Assessment (IA) / Solution Concept (SC) on Clarify CRM, AR & Collection solutions to client request.

Deliver DD, development/Coding and unit testing artifacts.

Provide support to SIT & UAT and bug fixing

Delivered knowledge transfer documentation & session.

August 2005 – March 2006: Software Engineer,

Espire Infolabs, India

Responsibilities:

Requirement analysis and design of new mobile application and games.

Managed and evaluated the enhancements and resolved application issues

Porting mobile application or games to different mobile OS.

Detailed design preparation and documentation.

Unit test case preparation & execution thoroughly.

Support to Testing (Sub-System, System and Integration) and defect fixing

Education:

June 2005: Mater of Computer Applications (MCA), Score: 75%

UP Technical University, India

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