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Amitav Panda

New Delhi NCR

Summary

Telecom Technical Solution Manager with extensive experience at Nokia Networks, achieving multimillion-dollar contracts through AI-driven strategies and effective customer engagement. Focus on innovative technical transformations and strong relationships with C-level executives. Committed to utilizing 6G/5G and cloud RAN technologies to deliver significant business outcomes.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

Presales Technical Solution Manager

NOKIA NETWORKS & SOLUTIONS
11.2016 - Current
  • Spearheaded 400+ RFx responses for RAN (2G–6G) and Cloud RAN, delivering end-to-end solutions across CSPs and
  • Enterprise clients
  • Led technical bid development including Statement of Compliance (SOC), BOQ, TSDs, Service Descriptions, and commercial alignment
  • Customer presentation, Business channel partner engagement and Solution offering to CSP’s, Enterprise, Defense, Railway and
  • Datacenter customers
  • Enabled multimillion-dollar wins in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Africa, and Australia by creating AI-powered, scalable solutions for telecom transformation
  • Acted as the bridge between R&D and Product teams to incorporate future 5G, ORAN, VRAN features into roadmap
  • Business projection analysis and targeted strategy planning for pre-sales/sales/deployments
  • (Delloro, McKinsey, BCG
  • GSMA, ABI Research and IEEE
  • SPOC for AI adaption in Business Development with process Automation tools and LLMs for documentations
  • Co-authored international IEEE conference papers and blogs on 6G, AI-RAN, and Cloudification of RAN
  • Conducted internal training and grooming sessions on AI, ORAN, and 3GPP evolution
  • Facilitated C-level stakeholder engagement to position Nokia's tech roadmap and strategic offerings.

Zonal Technology Manager

VODAFONE MOBILE SERVICES LTD
Bhubaneswar
06.2008 - 11.2016
  • Led Mobile Radio Network Operations for Odisha serving 1.5M subscribers; improved CAPEX efficiency and optimized OPEX
  • Maintained 99.9% network availability using KPI-driven optimization and cross-vendor network integration
  • Liaised directly with CTO, CXOs, and internal strategy teams to plan next-gen upgrades, pilot projects, and enterprise solutions
  • Technologies managed: GSM, WCDMA, LTE, IoT, backhaul integration, and active/passive infra optimization
  • Vendors involved: Nokia, Ericsson, Cisco, Huawei, Ceragon, NEC, Infratel, M&M, Emersion.

Assistant Manager

RELIANCE TELECOM LTD
Bengal
03.2007 - 06.2008
  • Delivered BSS projects across 4 clusters, leading rollout of GSM infrastructure with Motorola and ZTE
  • Developed and deployed operational SOPs for service assurance, vendor coordination, and SLA compliance.

Education

Calcutta - General Management

Indian Institute of Management IIM
Calcutta
01.2016

India - Electronics & Communication, Mobile Communication Research

NIT Rourkela
India
01.2015

Odisha - Electronics & Telecommunication

BPUT
Odisha
01.2005

Skills

  • IoT and mission-critical communications
  • Business case development
  • AWS and load balancing
  • Funnel creation and GTM strategy
  • Bid management and compliance review
  • IoT and mission-critical communications
  • Business case development
  • AWS and load balancing
  • Funnel creation and GTM strategy
  • Bid management and compliance review

Accomplishments

  • Certified in 6G, 5G, LTE, 3G, 2G and Cloud RAN solution design
  • Application of AI/ML in Telecom solution
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner – Simplilearn
  • Internship – Centroxy (Dubai Municipality IAM project) o Implemented SSO using Gluu, load balancer clusters using F5, AWS, NGINX on RHEL 7, CENTOS
  • Cheer Excellence Business Award – $24M win (Middle East)
  • Innovation Champion – AI-driven ORAN solution (KSA Market)
  • Business Excellence Award – Enterprise Win (Australia)
  • Applaud Excellence Award for major CSP Business win at Indonesia
  • Ranked Top 1 Globally (76K employees) in Nokia Advocacy Program
  • AI SPOC for Nokia Presales Team (3+ years)
  • Bharat 6G Standard/ AI RAN Forum (2025)
  • 3rd International Open RAN & Private Networks Summit 2025
  • ET Telecom 5G Innovation Forum 2025
  • Safe City Intelligent Networks Summit 2024

Interests

Hobbies: , Technology evangelism, travel, reading, love for Nature and Ideation

Languages

  • English (Fluent), Hindi (Native), Bengali (Fluent)

    • Timeline

    Presales Technical Solution Manager

    NOKIA NETWORKS & SOLUTIONS
    11.2016 - Current

    Zonal Technology Manager

    VODAFONE MOBILE SERVICES LTD
    06.2008 - 11.2016

    Assistant Manager

    RELIANCE TELECOM LTD
    03.2007 - 06.2008

    Calcutta - General Management

    Indian Institute of Management IIM

    India - Electronics & Communication, Mobile Communication Research

    NIT Rourkela

    Odisha - Electronics & Telecommunication

    BPUT

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