Asish Joshi
006*-**-****-***, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Looking for exciting career opportunities.
Professional Experience
Total experience 5.1 yrs
Working with Huawei as Billing Consultant
Oracle BRM 2.2 years
On-site travel to South Africa and current location is Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Direct interaction with Client.
Effective Communication Skills and a ‘Can Do’ attitude
Education
B. Tech (Information Technology) from AEC, under WBUT, India in 2006 with 7.65 CGPA.
Knowledge Preview
OBRM:
Over 2.3 years of experience in Oracle BRM with large Telecoms around the world like Vodafone Australia, Vodafone New Zealand, and Vodafone Fiji.
End-to-End OBRM Architecture and Data model knowledge.
Configuration skills of Price Plan configuration (Rate plans, price models discounting) with Pricing Centre for both Batch and Real-Time Pipeline rating using Pricing Centre.
Custom Functional modules (FMs) and Data Managers (DMs).
Billing and Invoicing policy Opcodes, Data model.
Custom storable Classes, New Service creation.
Experience with client tools such as Pricing Centre, Customer Centre and Developer Centre.
Experience in testing Price Plans.
Basic knowledge of batch Pipeline Manager Modules and Real-Time rating flow.
Standard utilities like testnap, sample_act, pin_bill_accts, pin_bill_day, bill_now.
Day to Day Billing cycle, Pipeline Rating, Invoicing – Production Environment.
BRM Payment Process.
Good in C programming.
Specialities:
Billing, Price Plan Configuration, C, Unix (Red Hat Certified System Administrator).
Huawei CBS:
3 months experience in Huawei CBS/ OCS billing system.
Collect and analyze the FRS from Client at client-side location.
Pre-paid charging and call flow.
Huawei AAA module – Installation & Configuration.
CRM:
Siebel CRM (eBusiness 7) – Product, Plan, Invoice, Account details fetching.
Huawei CRM – Post-paid, Pre-paid customer creation and testing the charging.
Overall:
HPUX, Solaris production, dev and test environments, cron-jobs, sudo access etc.
Post deployment testing (of the application/system).
Involved in Change Management activities.
Work Experience
HUAWEI:
Sessions Participated: Managed Services in BRM, BRM Architecture and Client Tools
Description : This session was initiated as a part of BRM knowledge sharing in Huawei.
Duration : 2 months
Team size : 10
Responsibilities : Share the knowledge on Managed Services with respect to the services of
BRM in a production environment.
Explain the 4-tier End-to-End Architecture of Oracle BRM.
Explain the general functionalities of the Client Tools in BRM like
Pricing Centre, Customer Centre, Development Centre.
Project : Malaysia DiGi CBS & CRM
Location : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Description : This project will be implemented on CBS 3.3
Team size : 4
Organization : Huawei
Duration : Just started
Billing Product : CBS 3.3 (Billing) and BRM (third party)
Role : Billing Consultant
Responsibilities : The project has just started. I am part of the high level FRS gathering team.
I join meetings and workshops with client to gather FRS on
payment/collection module, credit/ debt control etc. to finally propose
a solution design.
Project : South Africa Telkom
Location : Pretoria, South Africa
Description : This project implemented the upgrade from CBS 1.0 to 1.2.
Team size : 20
Organization : Huawei
Duration : 3 months
Billing Product : CBS 1.2
Role : Configuration & Testing
Responsibilities : Gather configuration requirement from client.
Configure and Test CBS 1.2 using Huawei CRM and IDT tool.
Perform CRM/SMAP configuration of CBS 1.2. Test the functionalities of
different bundles, products and their charging based on location co-ordinates
using Huawei CRM and IDT tool. End to End SIT and UAT on Huawei CBS 1.2
service features. Test the functionalities of different Pre-Paid, Post-Paid
products and their charging by using the Huawei CRM.
IBM:
Project : VHA & NZ (Vodafone Hutchinson Australia, New Zealand and Fiji)
Description : Performs day to day Rating, Billing, Revenue Management, Report
Generation for Vodafone Australia, NZ and Fiji post paid telecom subscribers.
Maintains a ticketing queue to resolve billing and rating issues of end-users.
Organization : IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Duration : Since Dec-2009 till SEP-2011
OS : HPUX
Billing Product : OBRM 7.0
Role : BRM Consultant
Responsibilities : Handle Infranet & Pipeline day to day billing cycle and pipeline rating (batch).
Resolve billing and rating related issues, run adhoc billing, and formatter,
stop/ start rating, passing pipeline semaphore etc..
Reconciliation and verification of billing reports.
Handle Pre, Post-deployment activities. Monitor month-end reports.
Project : Oracle Telecom CoE (Centre of Excellence)
Description : A team of OBRM Architects and Senior Consultants interacts directly with
business clients to gather their requirements. The specifications are then
implemented in a test environment using Oracle BRM to check the feasibility.
OBRM is customized as per the business requirement.
Organization : IBM India. Pvt. Ltd.
OS : HPUX
Billing Product : OBRM 7.4
Role : BRM Consultant
Responsibilities : Collect business requirements being part of the FRS team.
Analyze and translate Operator’s Price Plan into an equivalent Pricing Model.
Create and Test Price Plans using sample_act standard utility.
Test custom Opcodes using Developer Centre and testnap utilities.
Modify Invoice presentation.
Project : AVAYA
Description : This is a Telecom product Support and Maintenance project. Avaya is a
telecom product and service provider. The big customer base of Avaya is
is managed by 100s of web based applications running under this project.
Organization : IBM India. Pvt. Ltd.
Duration : 1.5 yrs
OS : HPUX
Web server : Apache 2.0
Role : Team Member
Responsibilities : Web application and unix prod server support and maintenance. Pre and Post
deployment activities like updating server scripts, database, web page update
and sanity testing. Direct communication with users.
Project : MAERSK
Description : This is a SSO (Single Sign-on) application Support and Maintenance project.
Maersk is the world’s largest shipping company. It has huge customer/user
base. This project manages the user credentials to access the official website
of Maersk.
Organisation : IBM India. Pvt. Ltd.
Duration : 10 months
OS : Solaris
Web Server : Apache 2.0
Role : Team member
Responsibilities : Updating LDAP with user credentials using scripts and xml files. Pre and Post
deployment activities like updating server scripts, database. Creating and
changing CRs in test environments before putting it to production. Monitoring
system.
Technical Skills
Languages : C, Java, SQL, HTML
Operating System : Unix, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Windows
Script : Shell script
Database : Oracle 10/11g
Web/App Server : Apache Http 2.0
Billing Product : Oracle BRM 7.0, 7.4
CRM : Siebel, Huawei
Tools Used
Pricing Centre, Customer Centre, Developer Centre.
Putty, TOAD, WINSCP, Remedy, TTI – Netkt, Test Director, Bugzilla
Huawei - Breeze i-deploy, IDT, USM, SMAP, i-Manager
Certifications/ Trainings
BRM 7 Server Developer, from Oracle University, Enrolment Id - 5278411
BRM 7 Essentials, from Oracle University, Enrolment Id - 5289905
RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator), Certificate No. 100-186-543
RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer), from AEM.
‘Communication Skills’, IBM Internal.
Achievements
Excellent feedback from client side.
Got appreciation mail from Project Manager for resolving numerous tickets in a short span of time during a critical client requirement.
Among the top performers in team.
SUMMARY
5.1 years of total IT experience.
Current Role – Billing Consultant in Huawei.
2.3 years experience in OBRM and BSS process.
On-site travel to South Africa. Direct interaction with clients.
Completed BRM 7.0 trainings from Oracle University – Essentials, Server Developer.
Strong skills in Price Plan configuration (Rate plans, price models discounting).
Functional modules (FMs) and Data Managers (DMs), New Service/ Field creation.
BRM Pipeline Manager modules and Real Time Rating Opcodes flow.
Configuration skills in Pipeline e.g. Registry, Grammar, mapping files.
Good in C programming.
Huawei CBS/ OCS billing product.
Worked on Huawei AAA module – Installation & Configuration.
Prepaid charging & call flow.
Red Hat Certified System Admin certification and completed RHCE training
Applications used: BRM- Customer Center, Pricing Center, Developer Center, HPSD & iremedy, Mercury Test Director, Bugzilla, putty, TOAD.
Involved in Change Management activities.
Involved in testing, review and documentation after deployment.
Personal Details
Hobbies : Playing Chess, Motor-bike riding.
Email: **********@*****.***
Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Mob: 006*-**-****-***
References
Pramod kulkarni, PeM, Ericsson. +91-900**-*****.
Sudeep Jain, Managing Consultant, IBM. +91-961**-*****.