Engineering Project Manager : GSM : 9 Years Experience
Resume:
Education:
Degree : Masters Computer Applications
Branch : Computer Science
College : Panjab University, Chandigarh
Year : July 1997 to June 2000.
Experience Summary:
Technology/Protocols Knowledge of GSM (Air and Abis Interface (L3)),
Overview and handson experience of EDGE and GPRS Technology,
Abis L1 Procedures (Timing Alignment, Block Alignment),
TCP/IP, OS Fundamentals,
Windows (Service, DLL, Static Library, Multithread Programming, Registry Handling, Socket Programming)
Design Methodology Structured, Real Time, Object Oriented
Operating Systems Sun-Solaris, Windows
Programming Languages C, C++, TNSDL (TeleNokia SDL)
Tools/Frameworks Clearcase, NetHawk (GSM Analyzer / M5 ), Code Composer Studio (CCS) for TI – C55 DSP series, Install Shield, NuMega – Bounds Checker and True Coverage, Rational Rose and Visio data modelling, Etherpeek, VC++ (editor/compiler), LifeBelt (Nokia`s UT tool), DMXSEE (Nokia’s Compiler framework), HIT (Nokia’s MML tool for controlling all the Network components). HIT (Nokia’s MML tool for controlling all the Network components), Microsoft Project.
Platform Windows, Unix, NSN DMX.
Valid Visa: US H1-B Visa Approval.
PMP Contact Training Program: Attended 5-day workshop conducted by QAI (A Global Registered Education Provider [R.E.P.] with PMI). http://www.qaiindia.com/Training/pmp.htm
Technical Awards and other Achievements:
• Team Excellence Award for the “Mobile Station and BTS Simulator, Nokia” project.
• Imparted training to technical leaders from all major sites of Nokia, in Finland, as part of “Mobile Station and BTS Simulator, NSN” project. Received appreciation mails and good feedback from the customer.
• Team Excellence Award for the “Mobile Station and BTS Simulator, Phase II, NSN” project. : This award was given only to 3 people in a team of 25 people.
• Received appreciation mail from the customer head (NSN) for good work in “Mobile Station and BTS Simulator, Phase II, NSN” project.
• Received appreciation from the customer for successful delivery of a feature (A-Interface load balancing feature) on-time and with good quality as part of “Mobile Station and BTS Simulator, NSN” (Profile as Project Manager, Customer was new)
Work Experience:
Organization: Aricent Technologies, Gurgaon. (A SEI CMM level 5 company). (Formerly Hughes Software Systems)
Duration: June 2000 till date.
Achievements:
Stood first in the MCA Entrance Exam 1997, Panjab University, Chandigarh. Also got through various other All India MCA Entrance examinations at good ranks.
Awarded merit scholarship for standing first in the course B.Sc (H) Physics (IIIrd year).
Awarded Dr. Ashok Kumar Memorial Prize for being the best candidate in the course B.Sc (H) Physics (IInd year)
Awarded merit scholarship for standing first in the course B.Sc (H) Physics (IInd year).
Awarded Dr. Ashok Kumar Memorial Prize for being the best candidate in the course B.Sc (H) Physics (Ist year).
Awarded merit scholarship for standing first in the course B.Sc (H) Physics (Ist year).
Won several prizes at the school level. (National Mathematics Olympiad Contest, Science Aptitude and Talent Search Test, Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan Sanskrit Contest, Painting Competition)
Project Details:
I. BTS (Base Transceiver Station), Release 7 for CX BTS, NSN, UK-Germany (Aricent Technologies, (Formerly Flextronics (Hughes) Software Systems), Gurgaon )
Description The project is the development of new features on top of the base Ultrasite and Metrosite (commonly known as the CX BTS) variety of NSN base stations. This project is Release 7 of the NSN CX BTS. The main features to be developed are as follows:
• WB-AMR (Wideband AMR)
• AMR-TFO (AMR Tandem Free Operation)
• Energy Saving on BCCH TRX
• Packet Service and SDCCH on DFCA (Dynamic Frequency and Channel Allocation) TRX.
• Support for A53 ciphering algorithm
Duration 10 months (Jul-2008 till Date)
Team size 18 member Development team, 30 member Testing team
Contribution I am the Engineering Project Manager of the development team for this project.
I am responsible for the following:
• Driving project specifications, high/low level design, unit testing, PWI, SSI plans from implementation technology point of view.
• Estimating size, effort, schedule, budget for the new requirements. Making appropriate assumptions about items of major impact.
• Developing a project plan and manage effectively the project to the plan and foresee problem areas before they have any major impact.
• Interacting with customers regarding project management, implementation issues, and software deliverable issues and getting them closed.
• Handle cross-functional teams interaction/issues project organization
• Define deliverables, schedules, milestones, status reports, and ensure successful completion of current and future product initiatives.
• Understand customer’s needs and give deliverables as per the commitments and with high quality. Develop trust with the customers.
• Periodic Risk Management and Risk Tracking
• Periodic Defection Prevention and Tracking.
• Communicate effectively with the team on project and team issues and ensure that each team member understands his role and assignments. Perform performance management effectively and discuss with the team. Display people leadership skills.
• Help the team in problem solving.
• Build team spirit and morale and a culture of high performance. Developing an open environment and culture.
• Take proactive measures and initiative to communicate, assess situations and take a stand and agreement.
• Handling negotiations with respect to project and team related activities.
• Competence development of the team.
• Tracking that the quality processes are effectively followed within the team.
• Handle performance appraisal of the team.
II. MS BTS Simulator and BSC Performance Tester, Release 3, NSN, Finland (Aricent Technologies, (Formerly Flextronics (Hughes) Software Systems), Gurgaon)
Description The project was the development of new features on top of the base MS BTS simulator and BSC performance Tester. This project is the Release 3 of the simulator. The main features to be developed were as follows:
• EMR
• SDCCH Handover
• Extended Cell (Support of cell radius upto 70 KM)
• Super Extended Cell (Support of cell radius upto 105 KM)
• Load Balancing at A-interface.
• NACC (Network Assisted Cell Change)
• NCCR (Network Controlled Cell Reselection)
Duration 16 Months (March 2007 to June 2008 )
Team size 25
Contribution I was technical prime for the features and also led some of the requirements as an Engineering Project Manager. I was responsible for the following:
• Handling a team of 10 members for the feature implementation of EMR, SDCCH Handover, Extended Cell, Super Extended Cell and Load Balancing at A-interface.
• Participated in the technical proposal, estimations for the features.
• Competence development of the team.
• Complete driving and execution of high/low level design, unit testing, PWI, SSI, SI and AT plans and testing from implementation technology point of view.
• Led the integration activities at customer onsite. Handled customer queries.
• Debugging problems using Nethawk and other tools. Analysing and verifying the complete end-to-end scenarios.
• In-depth knowledge of the NSN BSC installation and Radio Network configuration and setup related issues.
• Delivery of very high quality software features like Extended Cell and Super Extended Cell, on-time. They both had zero defects reported from the customer.
• Handling the customer interface for technical problems aiming at high customer satisfaction.
• Load Balancing at A-interface feature was highly appreciated by the customer for it’s high quality and understanding the customer’s requirement really well. The customer support for the queries, teleconference meetings, trainings was highly appreciated. Led this feature from the management perspective as well. (Customer was a new one – NSN MSC team.)
III. MS BTS Simulator and BSC Performance Tester, Release 2 and Release 1 NSN, Finland (Aricent Technologies, (Formerly Flextronics (Hughes) Software Systems), Gurgaon)
Description The project was the development of new feature on top of the base MS BTS simulator and BSC performance Tester. This project was the Release 2 and Release 1 of the simulator. The main feature to be developed were as follows:
• DTM (Dual Transfer Mode) (Release 2)
• DFCA (Dynamic Frequency and Channel Allocation) (Release 1)
• Common BCCH (Release 1)
• Multiband MS support (Introduction to the concept of Segments) (Release 1)
• Automatic PCU (Packet Control Unit) selection (Release 1)
• WPS (wireless Priority Service) (Release 1)
• ANSI support (Release 1)
• Edge Support. (Release 1)
The testing scenario included real BSC, real MSC, real SGSN etc. This provided quite a lot of understanding about the other network components also.
Duration 44 Months (July 2003 to February 2007 )
Team size 25
Contribution I was technical prime for the features in Release 2 and handled key features in Release 1 as Senior Software Engineer. I was responsible for the following:
• Participated in Proposal writing for DTM feature
• Led design, CUT, SSI and System Integration activities.
• Conducted ramp up trainings for the project.
• Good capability to understand the NetHawk/other traces, debug the problem and fixing it.
• Participation in complete end to end testing.
• Radio network configuration: Configuring the Abis O&M links and TRX Signaling D-channel links on the PCM physical channels.
• Configuring and mapping the Abis Timeslots to Air Timeslots on the PCM line.
• Configuring EDAP (Extended Dynamic Abis Pool) channels on the PCM lines.
• Led the Acceptance Testing at Customer site.
• I was assigned the responsibility to give the final customer demonstration and imparting 1 week training, at Finland, to all the main leads from different Nokia sites
IV. Turbo Page – Phase 2, Hughes Network Systems, USA (Aricent Technologies, (Formerly Flextronics (Hughes) Software Systems), Gurgaon)
Description This project aimed at providing data transmission acceleration available to DIRECWAY and SPACEWAY terminals (Terminals based upon satellite communication and developed by HSS-HNS).
• It reduced the response time and provides full support for mesh connectivity.
• The code was developed on Windows2000 and was ported to Vx-Works (Pentium and PPC).
• The code was terminal-independent and OS-independent.
• The protocol and the stack are HNS proprietary, but in compliance with the standards.
Duration 9 months (October 2002 to June 2003)
Team size --
Contribution I worked as a Software Engineer for this project.
• I was assigned the responsibility to be an integral part of the complete SDLC phase of this project.
• Actively participated in the requirements phase.
• Handled the mesh connectivity feature of this project, on the server side.
• I worked upon the high level design and the low-level design of this feature for the server independently.
• I handled several critical issues in the design and the requirements.
• I held teleconferences with the client to take up any open issues and discussions
V. Aurora (Next Generation Hub) development, Hughes Network Systems, USA (Aricent Technologies, (Formerly Flextronics (Hughes) Software Systems), Gurgaon)
Description Aurora was intended to replace the present day hubs with new hardware, which will seamlessly support the PES (Personal Earth Station) Classic (ISBN), DirecWay Multimedia Network (DMN), and DirecPC (DPC) return- channel services.
Aurora includes all the effort associated with the development of this hub including hardware, software, firmware, mechanical, qualification, documentation and all other concurrent engineering activities.
Duration 4 months (June 2002 to September 2002)
Team size --
Contribution I worked as a Software Engineer for this project.
• I was responsible for the enhancements in the NCC (Network Operation Center Cluster Control) simulator.
• I also went to Hughes Network Systems, USA for the integration. It provided an exposure to the embedded systems.
VI. Transponder Hopping Feature of DirecWay System, Hughes Network Systems, USA (Aricent Technologies, (Formerly Flextronics (Hughes) Software Systems), Gurgaon)
Description DirecWay Systems, an Internet service provider via Satellite, was earlier configured with fixed transponder for a user. The association of a remote with single transponder sometimes became bottleneck in speed. This feature allowed the user to hop to another transponder without any interference in service to get the better availability. The stack is HNS proprietary.
Duration 8 months (October 2001 to May 2002)
Team size --
Contribution I worked as a Software Engineer for this project.
• I have been an integral part of the complete SDLC phase of this project. Starting from being equally responsible for freezing the requirements, I was responsible for the design, CUT and FIT of two independent modules, viz. DirecWay Flow Control Broker and Hop Broker, in the DirecWay Systems for the development of this feature.
• Broker is the component on the DirecWay HUB side responsible for the assignment of the transponder to the client based on the availability and the load.
VII. NOC Scaling feature of DirecWay System, Hughes Network Systems, USA (Aricent Technologies, (Formerly Flextronics (Hughes) Software Systems), Gurgaon)
Description The feature was to make architectural changes in the existing NOC (Network Operation Control) of DirecWay Systems to make it scalable to support 2 million users instead of 20000 currently.
The requirement was to make the new architecture generic so that it should be expandable in the future also.
Duration 16 months (June 2000 to September 2001)
Team size 5
Contribution I worked as a Software Engineer for this project.
• Participated in the Low Level Design, Coding, Unit Testing and Integration activities of this project.
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