Professional Synopsis
Dynamic professional with an outstanding record of over 17 years of experience in renowned organizations with extensive multi-functional exposure in Project Man- agement(Telecom), Network Deployment Active and Commercial Operations,Revenue Assurance and Stakeholder Management.
Manage administrator and organize project in cooperation with under direction of project head.
Plan,Budget,Schedule, track and Document all aspects of assigned project. Establish Project Scope and customize Project plan. Work closely with upper management to ensure the scope of each project is on scheduled.
Monitoring Projects progress,identify issues in advance and initiate appropriate es- calations.
Identify and determine scope of work related to third party needs. Interact and communicate with all stack holders from different lanes of business. Perform updates with executive leadership and escalate any isuues that will impact cot,schedule or budget.
Strong scheduling and analysis skills.
Good analytical skills to compile information into useful reports and presentations. Most proficient in the area of Microsoft standard office suite. Expertise at managing the commissioning activities & maintenance of a wide range of BSS, transmission equipment’s; implementing process enhancement & quality control techniques.
Expertise handling end to end project management In building solutions with pas- sive and active dash technologies .
Excellent communication,interpersonal, team building skills and an ability to inter- act with people from all levels of business.
Facilitated the mapping of business processes and transforming organizational prac- tices with focus on leveraging & enhancing network efficiency;highly adept and knowledge able in systems integration and management of network services & data network technology.
Education
2002-2005 B.E. candidate in Electronics and Communication Osmania University Experience
2020-till Date :Datacipher partner of Juniper as a Project Head
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2010-2020 : Vodafone Idea Ltd,as a Project Manager
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2008-2010 : Nokia Siemens Networks Pvt. Ltd, as a Project Field Manager
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2005-2008 : ASTER Tele Services as a Project Manager
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Training and certifications
2022 Project Management Professional
2015 LTE overiew certification by Mobile Communication Technologies. 2013 MS Excel advanced by TKS group.
2002 HUAWEI M2000/U2000 by HUAWEI technologies
MUKUNDA.R
Program Head(PMP)
i 03 August 1983
B Hyderabd,India
m P3785891
@ ********@*****.***
Skills
Windows 97, 98, 2003 & 2007
SAP(end user)
MS-Office
Material Planning & Control
Operations & Maintenance
Cost Optimisation
Liaising & Coordination
Project Management
Team Building & Leadership
Project Execution
Network Deployment
Network Deployment 6 Project
Execution 6 [The skill scale is from 0 (Fundamental Awareness) to 6 (Expert).]
Awards
2019 Best performer of the year in SRN activity.
2018 Employer of the year.
Career Summary
17 Years of experience in Telecom Sector.
Datacipher Solutions Pvt Ltd
• Working experience in Enterprise & Data Center environment which includes Project management,Participating in IT projects life cycle,Handling Routing,Switching & Security products,Firewalls,System Integration,Network Implementations,Network migrations,and Network Operational Support.
• Experience in working with multi-cultural teams with cross-functional coordination.
• Network & Storage project management for high value projects.
• Working with corporate and direct sales teams providing advice,guidance,solutions,and support to the customer communications.
• Providing awareness on commercial and technical issues on a program under bidding phase.
• Ensure early engagement in the implementation life cycle process and collaborate with the project team in defining solution models consistent with defined overall production support strategy and approach.
• Documenting the SoW for the project bids as per RFP requirements.
• Handling multiple projects with competing priorities.
• Define and Manage communication internally with seniors and externally with customers and vendors.
• Solution designing forNetwork and end-to-end service for Data center build and Operations.
• Liaised with Project / Team Leaders to conceptualize project execution plans, finalize scope, handle selection of sites, and conduct project evaluation in terms of outlays and pros and cons attached.
• Configuration and troubleshooting for Juniper Routers and switches used in network.
• Executing projects implementations/migrations as a Technical Lead.
• Prepare relevant documentation (SOP) for known errors, solutions, major incident reports.
• Contribute towards improvement to fine tune existing technical procedures or process workflows to increase the efficiency.
• Streamlining inventory management and initiating procurement of spares based on data analysis.
• Holds the distinction of producing project status reports, and publishing to the stakeholders, and arrange periodic team meetings and stakeholder meetings.
• Managing the relationships and partnering with subcontractors.
• Actively participated in vendor negotiation and selection, focusing on the set technical and budget parameters.
• Successfully generated new business opportunities with customers while retaining healthy relationship with ex- isting clients.
Vodafone Idea Ltd
• Prioritizing and close monitoring of new nominal sites given to IP for getting RFAI based on Sales and Marketing requirement.
• Coordinating with RF-Planning, Sales & Marketing teams to provide Network Services at desired locations through Infra Provider (IP) & Service Provider (SP) Vendors
• Site Acquisition: Based on internal and operator requirement acquire the sites within scheduled time with in the search ring.
• Giving Schedules to ware house for equipment’s dispatches as per requirement.
• Effectively coordinating with external Vendors for timely completion of projects as per the given standards.
• Getting internal approvals for IBS site in co-ordination with marketing, Sales, Enterprise, Commercial, Finance team.
• Maintaining sufficient stock by giving requirement of material in advance to Commercial team for procurement.
• Material indenting as per budget and roll-out targets from corporate and Timely conversion from PR to PO in oracle tool.
• Coordinating with OEM vendor for timely material deliveries at Ware house.
• Coordinating with SACFA, EMF team & NSN teams and ensure to submitted EMF reports with 100% compliance with in time lines.
• Coordinate with SNOC for Site Creation and Media Configurations at Router and Mux end .
• handled equipment NOKIA, HUAWEI and ZTE(2G,3G,4G,TDD & Mmimo).
• 2G NOKIA(ULTRA,FLEXI& Multi Radio);3G HUAWEI(DBS3900).
• 4G Multi Radio with FXED,FXEE,FXEF,FXEB with FSMF.
• Handled Micro Wave hops(Transmission):PDH,SDH(XPIC) Hops . Nokia Siemens Networks Pvt. Ltd
• Leading Project Engineers in Project team, ensuring work is carried out according to customer time/cost/quality criteria.
• Fulfilling the duties of the Implementation Project Engineering Personnel Enhancing project costefficiency, pre- dictability, transparency and roll-out speed by implementing Site Engineering solutions.
• Supports the PM to prepare and update Roll-out schedule as a leader of Project Engineers and/or expert of Telecom Implementation activities.
• Give Site Engineering input to project preparation/support to start-up team in customizing Nokia Site solutions and Nokia tools in Project ramp-up phase.
• Monitor and control Implementation Project Engineering functions and work, key issues and performance indica- tors.
• Support in problem solving for implementation issues on site and make sure site quality assessment is done according to project quality process and reporting requirements.
• Coordinating and commissioning of the link and bandwidth allocation based on site link budget plan by configuring Ethernet port or Gigabyte Ethernet ports.
• Responsible to get final approvals from the customer for quality of installation. ASTER Tele Services
• Handled 6 projects Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, ZTE, Huawei and ECI.
• Worked as a Projects Manager, responsible for project roll out.
• Coordination with several Teams for the achievement of monthly roll outs Supervising,Installation, Commissioning, Integration & Maintenance of BTS,Micro Wave and Mux.
• Maintaining good relation with customer for Project development by obtaining new sites, providing technical sup- port for the teams in integration of cell sites.
• Maintaining several teams as per the customer requirements, team movements and achieving the targets of Cus- tomer by providing better quality service.
• Coordination with Transmission team for E1 Related Issues.Quality Test for the Teams.
• Providing operational solutions on 24x7 basis
• Successfully completed the Swapping of transmission Equipment in Hyderabad and Telangana clusters.
• Maintenance of DPR for the project based on PO issued and work execution.
• Auditing of Quality of installation based on photos and checklist for the site.
• Conduct AT procedures after site installation with the Customer for BTS and MW Hops getting the WCC sign-off from the customer after AT procedures.
• Hands on BTS/MW/Mux installation,commissioning & AT. Significant Contributions
• Leveraged skills and abilities in streamlining the Indus master database,billing process by plugging all revenue leakages.
Took structured and meticulous approach in executing following project:
• 9000-4G Sites are Roll-out and Handed over to Network Operations.
• 8749-3G Sites are Roll-out and Handed over to Network Operations.
• 6850-2G Sites are Roll-out from and Handed over to Network Operations.
• 26000 Modules are dismantled packing indexing and transferred to other circles.
• Integration of two networks of idea cellular and Vodafone and achieved the target with in four months against the expectation of 6 Months.First among all India teams working for the same.
• Dismantling of 6432 sites and transporting it back to warehouse thus decreasing the operation expenses for the company by an average Rs0.24Mn per annum per site.And By Equipment Swapping/Removal in Co-location(4500) Sites deceasing operation expenses 0.18Mn per site per annum.
• Successfully completed external audit formalities without major Audit objections–Audit were carried out by Ernst
& Young.
Other information
Projects Management
• Providing Telecom network, pre/post project support & extending communication facilities through planning, system design, installation, commissioning, operations & maintenance of applications concentrating on network products.
• In-Building Solutions is a telecommunications solution which is used to extend and Signal within a building with high-quality mobile communication for the indoor environment such as offices, shopping malls,hospitals and air- port
• Managing the complete range of project activities right from conceptualization, costing/budgeting to installation, testing and maintenance of links.
• Carrying out advance planning for resource mobilization, manpower deployment and rendering technical support; ensuring the execution of projects within time, cost & budgetary parameters.
• Identifying areas of improvement and recommending process modifications for enhancing the operational effi- ciency.
Vendor Management
• Coordinating with partners on daily bases for allocated Site regular upgradation works.
• Conducting weekly and monthly meetings with all partners for smooth delivery.
• Updating of all dash boards on weekly and monthly bases in coordination with corporate.
• Follow-up on all the payments to made all our partners.
• Renewal of vendor codes based on expiry.
• Coordination with consign vendors for site vacation and material removal.
• Negotiating with vendors based on business requirement and delivery. I here by declare that all the information stated is true to the best of my knowledge. MUKUNDA.R