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GOPI VADDADI

GOPI VADDADI

Hyderabad

Summary

Offering an eventful career of around 29 years studded with professional brilliance predominantly in the areas of end-to-end project delivery management, program management, service delivery, executing & implementing high valued projects for niche customers, and emerging technology in Telecomm industry verticals. Experienced in Project and Program management, People management and functional expertise on advanced wireless technologies LTE, WCDMA, GSM. Worked for Telecom Giants like Ericsson Global, Alcatel-Lucent, Lucent Technologies, Microcellular, Interwave Communications, Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS). Exposed to processes like PMP, Lean Six Sigma, CMMI for the managed network services. Cultural experiences at US, UK, New Zealand.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Assistant Director – Program Management

Telangana Fiber Grid Corporation Ltd
06.2020 - Current
  • Program management throughout the project life cycle
  • Conduct Governance meetings with key stakeholders like USOF, DOT, BBNL, MSI, TPA
  • Center of excellence for establishing processes, procedures, guidelines, methodologies in consultation with Internal Domains, OEMS/ MSIs for ensuring end-to-end project rollout
  • Mitigate risks by tracking functional interdependencies weekly and by coordinating with all the domain teams and taking corrective measures
  • Oversight of Contract management, including Milestones, deliverables, Change requests & Payments
  • Artifacts Management, Stakeholder communication of critical management decisions

Program Manager

Tata Communications Transformation Services Ltd
04.2019 - 03.2020
  • Client: Vodafone Idea Limited
  • Project: VIL Mobility & Transport Managed Services
  • TCTS received new business from VIL to manage its Mobility & Transport MS business in 15 circles. There were 1 lakh physical sites and 43000 nodes (IP + Optics).
  • This also involves rebadging of 400 VIL employees(approx.) working in these circles, 1900 contractors, placing 400 vehicles and 62 warehouses.
  • The entire exercise was completed within a short span of 3.5 months with the last batch of on-roll employees joining in the first week of Jan-20.

Senior Manager-Service Delivery Management

Ericsson Global India Limited
11.2013 - 04.2018
  • Job Summary: To lead assigned customer projects securing that project goals are met customer’s expectations are fulfilled and that the customer relation is handled in the best possible way within the scope of the contract.
  • Client: MBNL is a joint venture between Everything Everywhere (BTEE), 3UK (H3G) operating Multi technology (2G,3G,4G) with Multi-vendors. MBNL has been awarded Worlds No: 1 RAN shared network.
  • Current Project: MBNL Ryder NPO
  • No of FTE in Project: 99
  • Job Responsibilities: Program Management Ownership towards customer.
  • Governance with MSIP/Region leads/Internal Organisation.
  • New Business / project establishment, along with KAM, Region Service Delivery Teams.
  • Project Mobilization.
  • Proficiency readiness and strategic pyramid structuring.
  • Customer Visit engagement –Region & End customer.
  • Scope change request for running contracts and special inclusions.
  • Point of contact for Escalation from Region & Customer.
  • Financial agreements & adherence - Budget, Network codes.
  • Promoting GSC capabilities to Region and customer to reap new scopes and additional business.
  • Pre-sales support for RFP & Add on Sales and Business Lead Generation Drive initiation.
  • Participating in Internal Project Quality Reviews and Audits.
  • Invoking Business continuity plan.
  • To Support GSC on Business Continuity Plan development and execution.
  • Perform resource allocations and workload assignments per delivery requirements.
  • Develop process improvements to achieve cost effectiveness and time saving.
  • Drive Service improvement plans to improve customer service through Automations.
  • Make critical business decisions to meet customer expectations.
  • WLA/OLA Handshake with MSIP also Risk management and mitigation plans for the projects.

DGM – Project Management

Alcatel-Lucent India Ltd
Mumbai
05.2002 - 11.2013
  • Client: Reliance Jio, TTSL-DOCOMO, Idea, Rcom, Aircell, Telecom New Zealand.
  • Job Responsibilities: Supporting Sales, Pre-Sales & Tendering team during Project launch phase.
  • Forecasting Supply Chain a business overview for remaining quarters, which allow optimizing delivery lead times.
  • Resource Forecast and planning
  • Risk identification, mitigation and response
  • Cost estimating and budgeting
  • Project Management Plan with respect to project deliverables and project dependencies, such as scope, time, cost, quality, resource, etc.
  • Project transfer of information from Sales & Pre-Sales after contract Signature.
  • Customer order processing.
  • Customer critical issues.
  • Customer Governance –Customer kick off meeting.
  • Project Roll out & Project review
  • Customer acceptance
  • Transfer to Maintenance team.
  • Document lessons learned.

Manager – RAN SME

Interwave Communications
Sandeigo
06.1999 - 04.2002
  • Job Responsibilities: GSM Network planning, Installation & Commissioning of Network elements.
  • RF Planning and Optimization of GSM Network.
  • Report generation & evaluation of traffic utilization, congestion and planning for additional Air interface, channels.
  • Planning of capacity enhancement of network.
  • Monitoring Network performance and providing solutions to improve network performance.
  • Fault Management.
  • On Site support.
  • Executing Tests & Acceptance.
  • Training of customer’s Engineers.

Assistant Manager

Astra Microwave Products Ltd
Hyderabad
05.1997 - 05.1999
  • Job Responsibilities: Design and Development of different R.F. and Microwave Sub-components such as Frequency Synthesizers, Transmitters & Power Amplifiers.

Education

M.Tech - Microwaves

University of Burdwan
12.1997

Skills

  • Program & Project Management
  • Global Delivery Management
  • Global Transition and Transformation
  • Client Relationship
  • People Management
  • Operations Management
  • Managed Services
  • Sales Engagement and Presales Support
  • Vendor Management
  • Competency Management
  • Governance meetings
  • Resource planning

Education Credentials

M.Tech, Microwaves, University of Burdwan, 1997, 8.61

Accomplishments

  • Program management for greenfield telco T-FIBER 31,000 kms underground OFC roll out monitoring across the state & commissioning of 8895 PoPs.
  • State of the art NOC / Datacentre set up for operational & business requirements.
  • HLD/LLD finalization for E2E IT applications and Non-IT Infra.
  • Streamlining of O&M Processes to improve SLAs, KPI monitoring & payment releases.
  • FTTH POC trials in 4 Rural villages, to deliver broadband, IPTV, internet and remote computer.
  • Organised Business review meetings, to track order fulfilment and service assurance dashboards to the Government Enterprise.
  • Completed Vodafone Idea Limited Mobility & Transport Transition.
  • Completed the assessment gap of the standalone networks of Idea and Vodafone and that can be migrated to a consolidated network for a PTN layer architecture in ROB & IP layer architecture in Kolkata by meeting the engineering guidelines issued by VIL.
  • Derivation of BOQ for the optimal equipment requirement to achieve the target consolidated network.
  • Cleaning up of Network by removing unwarranted SDH mux from NMS and enabling VIL to reduce their OPEX.
  • Revenue of around 2 crores achieved for assessment gap/HLD & LLD.
  • Rewards from MBNL UK (MD) -client for providing Network optimization services improvement with remote delivery from a strong team of 95 engineers.
  • ROCK STAR awards for customer delivery excellence.
  • Streamlined both EE & 3UK MBNL Ryder deliveries from initial project handover from UK to GSC to service delivery engagement by taking end to end delivery ownership.
  • Appreciation from EGI Management for successfully executing Transition and Transformation of MBNL Ryder project.
  • Able to successfully achieve high CSAT for client EE who has been the winner at Root metric benchmarking since 2013.
  • 100 % Head count/ business growth from Inception of Project.
  • Generating revenue of around 1 million USD per Quarter through various service delivery projects.
  • 10% financial efficiency generated by various initiatives like off-shoring, Pyramid flattening & Automation (RPA) of process and tools year on year.
  • Customer loyalty index (CLI) improved from 3 (2013) to 5 from 2014 onwards.
  • Driven Lean Six Sigma in the project to bring down cost significantly in operations.
  • Successfully implemented CMMI Quality Process in Ryder Project.
  • Revenues control & increase, through up scope & opportunity detection for EE & 3UK.
  • Successfully completed extensive GPON (FTTH) validation and POC in RANCORE at Reliance campus. The initial order to ALU was 2 Million USD on-going deployment PAN India.
  • Completed Idea Wi-Fi rollout well within defined budget, adding savings to ALU.
  • Successfully delivered Wireless projects of different technologies LTE, 3G, CDMA, EVDO, GSM and Wireline deployment projects within budget, timelines and quality, securing savings to organization and improving profit margins for Operators like Rcom, TATA, Aircell.

Training Programs

  • Completed 35 PDU training required for PMP Examination.
  • Advance RISK Management & Negotiation skills for Project Managers.
  • Productivity skills & Managerial practices.
  • People management skills.
  • Leadership for Professionals from Ericsson Academy.

Professional Snapshot

Offering an eventful career of around 29 years studded with professional brilliance predominantly in the areas of end-to-end project delivery management, program management, service delivery, executing & implementing high valued projects for niche customers, and emerging technology in Telecomm industry verticals., Experienced in Project and Program management, People management and functional expertise on advanced wireless technologies LTE, WCDMA, GSM., Worked for Telecom Giants like Ericsson Global, Alcatel-Lucent, Lucent Technologies, Microcellular, Interwave Communications, Tata Communications Transformation Services (TCTS)., Exposed to processes like PMP, Lean Six Sigma, CMMI for the managed network services., Cultural experiences at US, UK, New Zealand.

Additional Information

May 29, 2025 (Vaddadi Gopi)

Hyderabad

Timeline

Assistant Director – Program Management

Telangana Fiber Grid Corporation Ltd
06.2020 - Current

Program Manager

Tata Communications Transformation Services Ltd
04.2019 - 03.2020

Senior Manager-Service Delivery Management

Ericsson Global India Limited
11.2013 - 04.2018

DGM – Project Management

Alcatel-Lucent India Ltd
05.2002 - 11.2013

Manager – RAN SME

Interwave Communications
06.1999 - 04.2002

Assistant Manager

Astra Microwave Products Ltd
05.1997 - 05.1999

M.Tech - Microwaves

University of Burdwan
GOPI VADDADI