G. VENKATRAJ
Tiruvallur
Summary
Dynamic Deputy Manager with extensive experience at Reliance Industries Ltd, excelling in fiber optics management and service delivery. Proven track record in achieving 99.99% OLT uptime through effective team leadership and strategic procurement. Adept at technical troubleshooting and cross-functional coordination, driving operational excellence in high-pressure environments.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Deputy Manager, FTTx Operation & Maintenance
Reliance Industries Ltd
09.2021 - Current
- Company Overview: Reliance Jio, is an Indian telecommunications company and a subsidiary of Jio Platforms, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India…... In September 2019, Jio launched a fiber to the home service, offering home broadband, television, and telephone services.
- Responsible for Operation and maintenance of (FTTH/FTTB) of Chennai north network.
- Ensuring power and BH fiber availability to OLT.
- OLT Uptime to be ensured through Infra Team at 99.99%. Fault MTTR < 4 Hrs.
- Corrective and Preventive Maintenance within SLA and 100% compliance.
- TT Acknowledgement within 30 min, TT Closure with coordination with FTMT Engineers.
- Maintenance of Feeder and Distribution and controlling of fiber cuts.
- Drive the team to achieve the target on weekly basis.
- F&D fiber MTTR Less than to 4hours and Uptime maintained Greater than 99.95%.
- F&D Hardware faults attending, Hardware mobilization.
- Fault Identification and restoration MTTR 4Hrs.
- Vendor evaluation & finalization for Duct, OFC, aerial pole, MH & accessories supplies.
- Responsible for Service Delivery for all Data links for - Enterprise, Government, & ISP Segment.
- Guiding & Managing entire Service Delivery Team.
- Material Consumption Booking RMA, RMA Maintained compliance 100% within SLA.
- OLT, ODN Network HOTO, Checking of documents, Civil and Optical compliance Within SLA.
- Reliance Jio, is an Indian telecommunications company and a subsidiary of Jio Platforms, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India…... In September 2019, Jio launched a fiber to the home service, offering home broadband, television, and telephone services.
Operation & Maintenance
Vodafone Idea LTD
09.2015 - 09.2021
- Company Overview: Vodafone Idea Ltd, (Formerly Idea Cellular Ltd) is India's largest telecom operator. Vodafone Idea is a pan-India integrated GSM operator offering 2G, 3G and 4G mobile services. Vodafone Idea has a market share of 38.3% with 443.94 million subscribers as of July 2018.
- Looked after IRU governance coordination of all operators like TCL, TTSL, Airtel, RJIO and Railtel Corporation.
- Looked after OFC O&M of chennai cluster and maintained statutory compliance of existing OFC routes of 2200km and new routes.
- Handling various service providers like BSNL, TTSL & our own MAN network.
- Co-ordination with Vendors like ECI and HUWAEI for resolving the Technical problems.
- Maintenance of the Various Reports with the Co-ordination of the Cluster Engineers.
- Maintenance of the SP Contractor Team and Preparation Of Bills.
- Fault Rectification during the Fiber Cut Within SLA(Service Level Agreement).
- Handling both fiber projects and O&M in Tamil Nadu Circle.
- Maintaining 2650KM OFC network in Chennai metro city 24F, 48F and 96 pair of fibers.
- Maintaining 300 Enterprise customers with fiber and UBR media.
- Coordination with NSN for Providing 100% Network Availability.
- 100% Dark Fiber Maintenance.
- Maintenance of 3 Large Msc locations (Siruseri Msc, Ekkaduthangal Msc and Perungudi Msc).
- Resolution of faults, Alarm Clearance in co-ordination with the centralized NOC.
- OFC MTTR maintained less than <4hrs.
- Route Survey of New OFC routes POI Backbone & NLD.
- Managing, coordination with Logistic department for O&M & Project materials transportation and performed the responsibilities.
- Handled testing of equipment's such as OTDR, Optical Power/Source Meter, Fujikura 40S Splicing machine.
- Maintaining coordination with NOC for degradation and low Rx clearance and Fiber break.
- Fibers drops with coordination with planning for new sites survey.
- Vodafone Idea Ltd, (Formerly Idea Cellular Ltd) is India's largest telecom operator. Vodafone Idea is a pan-India integrated GSM operator offering 2G, 3G and 4G mobile services. Vodafone Idea has a market share of 38.3% with 443.94 million subscribers as of July 2018.
Senior Engineer, Operation & Maintenance
FORTE SOLUTIONS PVT LTD.
02.2010 - 09.2015
- Handled OFC Projects around 1300km in Chennai and ROTN areas like Anna nagar, Kolathur, parry's, Red hills, Rettari, Oragadam, Mahindra city, Sriperumandur SIPCOT and Irungatukootai SIPCOT.
- Parallely Looking after O&M of OFC, SDH & DWDM equipment's; ensuring statutory compliance of existing and new installation of SDH equipment.
- Reduce the Fiber cut and maintain the Network.
- Resolution of faults, Alarm Clearance and provisioning in co-ordination with the centralized NOC.
- Providing connectivity to Enterprise customers in optical fiber cable.
- Maintaining coordination with Service order management group and NOC for Service and Fibers drop planning for New BSC'S.
- Defining protection path for circuits through the entire OFC (Optical fiber cable) ring.
- To find out the cable cut and splice loss in UG OFC cable and make it rectify.
- Coordinating with OFC Maintenance team for timely completion of work; rectifying NE alarms in coordination with NMS.
- Managing coordination with Logistic department for O&M & Project material transportation and performed the responsibilities.
- Applying Permission to authorities/Preparing SLD.
- Execution the work at site as per the company Specifications.
- Handover, Billing & making to Hoto.
- Handled testing of equipment's such as OTDR, Optical Power/Source Meter, Fujikura 40S, 50s and 60s Splicing machine and BER Meter.
- Updating the transmission network diagram/Fiber connectivity/ Equipment Initialization.
Technician
SPRINT COMMUNICATION SERVICES
02.2009 - 02.2010
- Restoration of tower down throughout the area of Tiruvallur, Gumudipoondi, Tiruttani and Sriperumandur.
- Conducted periodical checkup of BTS cords including replacing the same for battery healthy condition etc.
- Carried out maintenance of Electrical Auxiliaries; managed Planning, Estimation and Costing of materials during project.
IBMS Engineer - Projects
M/S. VAISHNAV INTELLIGENT BUILDING AUTOMATIONS PVT LTD
01.2008 - 12.2008
- Managed Testing and Commissioning of CVRDE site, handled BMS work in CVRDE site.
- Involved in procurement of material which includes preparation of specification, material code generation, equipment BOM updating & preservation of the materials.
- Monitored Fault finding and troubleshooting of System; provided in-house training to all the technicians for the effective and productive maintenance.
- Managed operation and maintenance of electrical instruments, provide Network Support to our well-known clients and maintaining their site.
Education
B.E. - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering And Technology
Tiruvallur05-2007
Diploma - Electronics and Instrumentation Engg
Sriram Polytechnic College
VEPPAMPATTU01.2004
Some College (No Degree) - Integrated Building Management System
Vaishnav Intelligent Building Automation Private Ltd.
CHENNAISkills
- Project planning and scheduling
- Site management
- Preventive maintenance
- Technical support
- Breakdown resolution
- Cross-functional coordination
- Team leadership
- Installation and commissioning
- Execution strategies
- Strategic procurement
- Techno-commercial operations
- Fiber optics management
- Service delivery
- Technical troubleshooting
- Vendor management
- Regulatory compliance
- Performance monitoring
- Problem solving
- Time management
Languages
- Tamil
- English
- Telugu
- Kanada
- Hindi
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 06/13/84
LANGUAGE KNOWN
English
First Language
Tamil
Advanced (C1)
C1
Telugu
Intermediate (B1)
B1
Hindi
Beginner (A1)
A1
KANNADA
Beginner
A1
Timeline
Deputy Manager, FTTx Operation & Maintenance
Reliance Industries Ltd
09.2021 - Current
Operation & Maintenance
Vodafone Idea LTD
09.2015 - 09.2021
Senior Engineer, Operation & Maintenance
FORTE SOLUTIONS PVT LTD.
02.2010 - 09.2015
Technician
SPRINT COMMUNICATION SERVICES
02.2009 - 02.2010
IBMS Engineer - Projects
M/S. VAISHNAV INTELLIGENT BUILDING AUTOMATIONS PVT LTD
01.2008 - 12.2008
B.E. - Electronics and Communication Engineering
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering And Technology
Diploma - Electronics and Instrumentation Engg
Sriram Polytechnic College
Some College (No Degree) - Integrated Building Management System
Vaishnav Intelligent Building Automation Private Ltd.