BABU AJAY KUMAR P N

• Software professional with 14+ years experience in development / Deployment / Integration involving Analysis, Design, Estimation, Testing, and support in Telecom Domain.
• Working experience with Web Service and REST API.
• Working experience using Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• 1.5 years of USA experience working for client T-Mobile.
• Traveled to Spain, Dubai, Ghana for Ericsson Orchestrator(NFVO) Planning / Solutioning / deployment / Integration, Testing, Demo to Customer and system handover.
• Worked in Germany for 6 months for Client Telefonica.
• Supporting presales team in Cost and effort estimation review of NFVO, VNFM & Service Orchestrator implementations for different customer globally.
• 7+ years of customer relationship management and implementation support experience globally.
• Excellent communication skills and extensive experience working with Global Clients, Multiple teams across different time zones within Ericsson and Ericsson Product Units for handling Product Design and Implementation for global Customers in their private DCs.
• Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy.
• Conducted several KS sessions to increase competency within team, supporting in recruitment and mentoring of new team members.

• 2023 - CloudStar Award, USA ($500)
• 2022 - Above and Beyond Award, USA ($1500)
• 2022 - T-Mobile Customer Unit Ideathon Award, USA ($2500)
• 2021 - Rockstar Award, SDU O&A Award from USA
• 2020 - O&A SDU Award for H2 2020 from USA
• 2019 - Service Delivery Excellence Award (Yearly Award)
• 2019 - President Award (Half yearly Award)
• 2018 - Service Delivery Excellence Award (Yearly Award)

1. E2E Slicing – T-Mobile, USA

• E2E slicing Project involved creation of Network Slice on both RAN and Core nodes in a multi vendor setup involving Ericsson and Nokia
• RAN Slicing on Ericsson gNodeB and Nokia NetAct gNodeB using EOSO R/NSSMF (Ericsson Orchestrator- Service Orchestrator)
• Core Slicing on Nokia AMF and Cisco SMF using EO SO C/NSSMF
• RAN Slicing on Nokia gNodeB by calling Nokia R/NSSMF
• Core Slicing on Nokia Core node by calling Nokia C/NSSMF
• Lead a successful demo to T-Mobile on E2E slicing using EOSO
• Different TOSCA templates were developed as part of the project for successful slice creation with different permutations & combinations for handling both RAN and Core slice creation
• Different Jinja2 and Config Templates were developed for REST API calls to Nokia system
• Ansible scripts were developed for systems which does not support REST API for slice creation
• Exposed our product APIs to Nokia to call our EOSO – R/NSSMF for RAN Slice creation
• Worked with clients post-implementation on user testing, debugging, support and maintenance
• Presented roadmap and technology infrastructure to customers, demonstrating deep familiarity with APIs, platform infrastructure, security, and integration capabilities
• Supervised deployments and provided troubleshooting and user support
• Communicated with clients to update product and implementation status at technical / functional level.
• Presented multiple demos with handson experience for T-mobile Engineers for Slice Creation/Deletion/Updation on real 5G nodes using EOSO.

2. vIMS, CSA, cECC – T-Mobile, USA

• Capacity planning and solutioning of Ericsson Orchestrator(EO) suite of Applications for T-Mobile Infrastructure.
• Supervised and coordinated implementation of EO suite of products successfully into T-mobile infra across multiple labs and production environments.
• Supported in multiple implementation of charging nodes, IMS nodes using Ericsson’s NFVO and VNFM.
• Automated Signaling Controller(SC) 5G CNF deployment using Ansible.
• Developed Python Scripts to migrate the existing Network/IP information into Ericsson Inventory system which helped in saving significant number of man-days.
• Successful implementation of 5G nodes across 12 different sites in T-Mobile production using Ericsson VNFM.

3. UNICA – Telefonica Global

• Planning, Designing and implementation of Ericsson Orchestrator(EO) suite of Applications to Telefonica Global across 80+ DCs.
• Telefonica Global involved UK, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Mexico, Argentina, Peru etc countries DCs.
• Supported deployment of VNFs and Validation of Infra and VNFs both in Lab and production.