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Playing Table Tennis and Cricket
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DEEPAK SABHARWAL

DEEPAK SABHARWAL

CME- Principal Solution Consultant
Gurgaon

Summary

Principal Solution Consultant with 20+ years experience in the telecommunications industry


– Result driven and customer Oriented professional with a career spanning in software Delivery, Presales, consulting for CME (Communication, Media & Entertainment) Companies

- Having a rich blend of technical and managerial skills coupled with a track record of consistent delivery to objectives. Coupled with knowledge of software/COTS solution, deep understanding of Telco BSS and OSS systems


Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications

Work History

Principal Solution Engineer

Salesforce India
Gurgaon
04.2021 - Current
  • For Salesforce offering for Communication Service Providers, Media and Entertainment companies, Data Centre providers within Indian Market-
  • Managing discovery sessions and workshops with customers to uncover the challenges and issues faced- in terms of entire Lead to cash journey
  • Defining the solution presentation, demonstrations, and prototypes- for the Salesforce specific offering
  • Create awareness among customers on Salesforce value proposition around 5G and Enterprise business model
  • Delivering functional and technical responses to RFPs/RFIs
  • Driving the creation of Salesforce Point of view in terms of CME Solutions
  • Service CRM Transformation
  • B2B Marketing and Sales Automation

Domain Sales Manager

Ericsson India
Gurgaon
05.2015 - 04.2021
  • OSS/BSS offering and responsible for: -
  • Client- All Operators in Asia Pacific
  • Managing customer centric offerings in area of Ericsson OSS and BSS portfolio
  • Handling the creation and taking forward of offerings to existing or new customers with potential for substantial growth through innovative business and go-to-market models, cross all engagement models
  • Defining the end-to-end Solution Architecture and proposal for RFPs and proactive proposals
  • Defining and executing the Proof of Concept to the Customer on OSS and BSS offerings
  • Demonstrated the end-to-end demo with Sales Force and Ericsson Quote to Order stack integrated for B2B Services
  • Driving the creation of Ericsson Enterprise Offering across the below areas and doing workshops with Customers: -
  • Model driven Service Orchestration for Network Slicing
  • Enterprise Product Catalog driving the product introduction
  • Enterprise Configure, Price & Quote, Customer, Service Order Management
  • Hybrid Fulfillment taking into consideration service resources and service Orchestration
  • Hybrid Service Assurance with closed loop automation

Business Consultant

Amdocs India
Gurgaon
09.2012 - 05.2015
  • Manager and Solution Architect for multiple OSS opportunities and actively involved in Operators in Asia Pacific, Comcast USA:
  • For developing long-term relationships with key customer personnel
  • For understanding the customers' strategic issues which affect Amdocs within the OSS sphere
  • For providing pre-sales support as appropriate and when necessary for new opportunities
  • This may include customer presentations (new products etc.), and support on product road shows
  • For presenting & demonstrating the product, and in doing so articulate the functionality and benefits of the solution to the prospective client’s decision-making unit
  • Working closely with the sales channels and other parts of the Amdocs organization to ensure that the technical content of proposals is correct
  • Creating the high-level design for the new requirements in a release
  • Effort estimation of new CR’s in the release
  • Technology sessions on Metro Ethernet within the project team

Solution Architect

Comptel Communications
Noida
01.2012 - 09.2012


  • Worked as OSS, and responsible for Client- All Operators in Asia Pacific
  • Accounts team in pre-sales solution descriptions and initial IEES (Internal Effort Estimates)
  • Project Manager by providing primary input to timeline and effort estimation, project team constituency and project methodology
  • Capably converted high level customer requirements into an overall architecture by both analyzing formal project documentation & interviewing prospect/ customer's senior technical and business staff to understand their business needs
  • Proficiently involved in scoping, designing and guiding implementation of Comptel's solutions
  • Worked closely with the Delivery Team in terms of technical scope, solution implementation and Acceptance Testing for the deployed modules of Comptel

Advisory Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd
Gurgaon
06.2007 - 01.2009
  • Providing solution designs of Overall Unified GIS solution
  • Handled statement of work creation for the project as well as communicated with clients on technical issues and issues related to integration of applications with the Unified GIS application
  • Looked after the integration designs for UGIS with other OSS applications
  • Managed pre-sales work and estimation for new requirements in existing projects and new opportunities for other prospective customers
  • Overall supervision of transition process- created transition plan for transition process as well as provided guidance to team members on various knowledge transfer sessions happening

Domain Lead

With Wipro Technologies
Gurgaon
06.2006 - 06.2007
  • Worked as OSS Domain, and responsible for Client- Level3 Communications, USA (part of CenturyLink now)
  • Taking handover of OSS applications from the client- functional and technical handover
  • Manage development team and guidance in terms of technical, domain knowledge required for applications
  • Responsible for resolution towards production issues which required code fixes and data cleansing issues
  • Project management work in terms of tracking effort, planning tasks, weekly report generation and client interaction
  • Served as an active participant in Study of OSS-J platform and testing the TCK scripts with respect to the Reference implementation of OSS/J inventory API

Module Lead

Infosys Technologies
Bangalore
03.2003 - 06.2006


  • Handled the data migration and interface detailed design; migration scripts development and testing and VV&T support activities and bug fixing
  • Supervised the resolving of data migration issues with clients, design discussions on various change requests
  • Provided support towards data cleansing issues during migration dry and developed detailed design document
  • Managed Server Extensions Development in C++ using Objectel API’s, Test Plans Development for complete modules

RF Engineer

Convergelabs Software Technologies Pvt. Limited
Gurgaon
09.2002 - 03.2003

Manage RF Planning and Optimization Activities

Line of Sight Surveys

Network Design

Education

MBA - International Business

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
Qutab Institutional Area
06.2007 - 06.2010

B.Tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering

M.J.P. Rohilkhand University
Bareilly Uttar Pradesh
05.1998 - 05.2002

Skills

    CRM, OSS, BSS, Automation, AI/ML

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Playing Table Tennis and Cricket

In my spare time, prefer spending time with my son playing Table Tennis which gives me lot of focus and concentration. Participating in Local cricket tournaments helps me bring in the agility and stamina

Accomplishments


– CRM Expansion in B2B space for CSPs in India; extending with add-ons in existing Media & Entertainment companies

– Closure of Tier 1 Service provider E2E Network Slicing covering Service orchestration, Service Order Management, Service Catalog and NFVO

– Blueprint packages closure as part of “NaaS” for Tier 1 Service Provider in ANZ.

– Ericsson Fulfillment and Order management solution for a Tier-1 Green Field Operator in India

– Multi vendor SD-WAN lifecycle automation and orchestration design for Tier 1 Service Provider

– Lead the Solution Designer responsibility within Amdocs for Tier-1 US Metro Ethernet Provider- Delivered 12 consecutive releases on time with stakeholder satisfaction

– Closing deals for Amdocs OSS upgrade across for a Tier-1 Enterprise Services Provider- India and North America

– Solution design & implementation of Network Inventory

-Consolidation & fulfillment solution for a Tier-1 UK Telecom Service Provider

Certification

Salesforce Certified Administrator

Timeline

Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator

05-2022

Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder

12-2021

Salesforce Certified Administrator

08-2021

Principal Solution Engineer

Salesforce India
04.2021 - Current

Domain Sales Manager

Ericsson India
05.2015 - 04.2021

Business Consultant

Amdocs India
09.2012 - 05.2015

Solution Architect

Comptel Communications
01.2012 - 09.2012

Advisory Consultant

IBM India Pvt. Ltd
06.2007 - 01.2009

MBA - International Business

Indian Institute of Foreign Trade
06.2007 - 06.2010

Domain Lead

With Wipro Technologies
06.2006 - 06.2007

Module Lead

Infosys Technologies
03.2003 - 06.2006

RF Engineer

Convergelabs Software Technologies Pvt. Limited
09.2002 - 03.2003

B.Tech - Electronics and Communication Engineering

M.J.P. Rohilkhand University
05.1998 - 05.2002
DEEPAK SABHARWALCME- Principal Solution Consultant