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
Calcutta01.2016
India - Electronics & Communication, Mobile Communication Research
NIT Rourkela
India01.2015
Odisha - Electronics & Telecommunication
BPUT
Odisha01.2005
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
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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