Software Development Project Management

ANSHIKA KAPOOR

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anshika-kapoor-997ab616/ Redmond, Washington PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Strong project management skills with proven leadership of motivating and leading a strong team to deliver on business metrics. Over 15 years of rich experience in systems software, cellular wireless and cloud native software development. Extensive experience in development and testing of 4G and 5G RAN protocol stack. CORE COMPETENCIES

5G NR: Expertise in DU - F1AP, RLC and MAC scheduler.

4G LTE: Expertise in MAC (scheduling), RLC, S1AP.

Expertise in cloud native containerized software, enterprise 5G RAN solutions.

Algorithms and data structures - software design, coding, testing, and troubleshooting, using C, C++.

Tools: Valgrind, Klocworks, Coverity, Purify, McCabe, gcc, gdb, Vim, Code Collaborator, Source Insight.

Version control tools: git, clearcase, Issue tracking tools - JIRA, ClearQuest and Bugzilla.

Release Quality Checklists: Coverity, protex, BDBA, trivy scans. SDLC - Agile (Scrum), requirement traceability matrix. ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Jun 2022 – Mar 2024

Demonstrated strong project and people management skills in leading 12+ team members in 5G RAN solution across three time zones.

Experienced in monitoring progress against schedule using Agile methodologies: Scrum master for 5G NR RAN team, responsible for detailed sprint planning and execution through daily stand-up, conducting regular retrospectives, determining, and taking remedial actions as appropriate to align with the product’s quarterly OKRs.

Experience in regularly presenting written communication for plans, risks, status, and decisions to varied audiences from functional areas to executive management in the roadmap forum and Product Execution Timeline meetings.

Recognized for the dedicated management (fearless leadership) by various stakeholders, including product owner, program management and validation head.

Good experience in tracking the customer focused requirements to ensure the delivery of committed KPIs to all external partners and stakeholders, resulting in increased customer satisfaction.

Experience in negotiation of customer requirement timeline based on resource availability, task complexity, market analysis and user research.

Feasibility analysis and effort estimation: Leading the resource allocation within the team.

Good experience in driving risk Identification: Drafting change requests for change control board, handling escalations, ensuring risks are defined, communicated, and addressed through mitigation plans.

Ensuring the team has required resources/hardware/platforms available (assessing costs) to meet the timelines.

Conducting regular bug scrubs: Ensuring P1 and P2 bugs are resolved. Identifying blockers within the RAN team and dependencies with cross functional teams to get them resolved. Ensuring SDL reports are clean for all production releases.

Experience in driving forums that brings senior leaders and stakeholders together to exchange plans, status, and serve as an escalation point to resolve challenges when needed, focused on CU and DU deliverables and milestones. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Intel Corporation: System Software Development engineer May 2019 – Mar 2024

• Features demonstrated successfully to external partners with gold release criteria: CBRS Cell delete and restart, CBRS TDD slot patterns, Rx Diversity, low throughput analysis, RRC reestablishment, QoS profiles, Inter and Intra frequency handovers etc.

• Experience in development, testing, scalability of RAN features on n48, n78, n40 frequency bands with 20MHz, 40MHz, 100MHz bandwidth. Met the committed stability criteria with 99.9% uptime.

• Development of Grafana dashboards for CU and DU, scraping from prometheus, for showcasing the RAN KPIs to external partners.

• Experience in F1AP protocol development and testing. Used OSS ASN1 studio encoder and decoder for verification.

• End to end call flow debugging to meet the committed KPIs of 18 cells with 64 UEs per cell with 6.5 Gbps system throughput. Qualcomm India Pvt Ltd: Engineer III (Deputation from Global Edge Software Technologies as a module lead) June 2015 - Sep 2017

LTE eNodeB Protocol Testing: Regression and stability verification on TM500 and JDSU UE Simulators. FDD and TDD verification with 5MHz/10MHz/15MHz/20MHz using CISCO and Polaris EPC. 64UE/TTI by using DiversiEye as traffic generator.

Handover verification - X2 and S1, Intra and Inter frequency with various speeds. CMAS and VoIP verification. Radisys India Pvt Ltd: Senior Software Engineer July 2011 - June 2015

LTE eNodeB MAC Protocol: Almost Blank Subframes (ABS -LTE Advanced), Semi Persistent Scheduling (SPS), PFS and RR scheduler amendments for 4UE/TTI, L2 KPIs for capturing the distribution of MCS allocation and allocated number of codewords

Development and maintenance of LTE eNodeB Application and S1AP, S1 counters and error scenarios.

SSI (System Services Interface) support engineer for internal and external clients. Imparting SSI trainings to all LTE customers. Sasken Communications Technology Ltd: Software Engineer Sep 2008 – July 2011

Mobile application enhancement and country adaptation for 2.5G/3G Mobiles on MTK and WISE platform.

LTE reference system development and unit testing of Mux-Demux MAC module. EDUCATION

M.Tech, Software Systems, 9.1 Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani 2013 – 2015

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering (Hons), 77% Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University 2004 – 2008 CERTIFICATIONS

4G: Long Term Evolution Award Solutions, 2012

Oracle 9i Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, 2007

Basic Computer Networking Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, 2006 ACHIEVEMENTS AND RECOGNITION

Awarded a certificate of “Fearless Leadership” for planning, execution, and risk identification of the Bevo RAN project from Intel Corporation.

Awarded a certificate of appreciation for proactively handling SSI from Radisys India Pvt Ltd.

Awarded a spot recognition certificate of "Bright Spark" for meeting a challenge with a brilliant idea from LG Soft India.

Awarded a spot award from Sasken Communications, for handling the auto profile implementation and FTE (field test engineer) interaction for the Agonis model very efficiently, resulting in customer delight.

Scored a percentile of 93.41 in GATE 2008.

NITAT's Merit recognition Certificate for being placed in the top 7% (93 percentile) of the candidates in the 3rd National IT Aptitude Test organized by the NIIT.

Won Certificates of Honor along with appreciation medals for the first, second and fourth year for standing out in the B.Tech programme from Computer Science branch.

EXTRACURRICULARS

UPWARD U.N.I.T.E.S (Universities Networking with Intel for Tomorrow's Engineering and Sciences) WOMEN - Intel Mentor for women students in STEM studying in San Jose State University and Santa Clara University

STEM Club for girls - C++ Classes in Hillsboro School District, Oregon

Student Co-Ordinator - Training and Placement Cell.

Won multiple Certificates of Appreciation for being a volunteer in organizing the annual college fests - 'Udbhav'.

Co-President - English Literary Club: Organized and coordinated workshops focusing on presentation skills, public speaking.

College Secretary - Hospitality Club: Event management, resource gathering, student-engagements.

Chosen in a team of 19 (out of 360 students) as an officer in the United Students Organization for two consistent years in Methodist High School – School Secretary in 11th grade and Library Squad Captain in 12th grade.

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