GOUTHAM LAKAMSANI

Managed risk effectively by creating contingency plans and closely monitoring project progress.

• Championed process improvements that resulted in reduced overhead expenses without compromising product quality.
• Demonstrated effective stakeholder management skills by actively engaging key decision-makers in project discussions.
• Negotiated contracts with vendors to secure the best possible resources at optimal costs for projects.
• Delivered high-quality products by effectively managing cross-functional teams of developers, testers, and business analysts.
• Created and monitored compliance with delivery schedule milestones to support consistent progress toward internal goals.
• Maximized ROI for technology investments through careful analysis of requirements, cost-benefit assessments, and stakeholder input.
• Interfaced with internal IT development teams to integrate new technologies, streamlining use of existing systems to optimize delivery and operation metrics.

• Company Overview: nbn is government operated and a wholesale open access system that service providers connect to in order to provide high-speed broadband access to customers.
• As DSO Manager, had managed the successful delivery of multiple programs of work for different units i.e. Products, Customer, Networks, Assurance.
• This is by acting as a servant leader / scrum master / Design SME and overall responsibility of end-to-end delivery of the respective programs.
• Led both Delivery and Operations teams for the applications in scope and effectively managed key stakeholders and major production issues along with introduction and adoption of CI/CD Practices into Customer Assurance space.
• Nbn is government operated and a wholesale open access system that service providers connect to in order to provide high-speed broadband access to customers.
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.

• As Operations lead, I had the overall responsibility of Application Support and Maintenance (AS&M) service delivery and acted as Operations SME for operational escalations for multiple OSS Platforms.
• Responsible for the Vendor management and coordinating with the internal teams delivering specific scope under the AS&M program.
• Delivered complex projects by managing multiple distributed delivery teams and managing the operational aspect of the impacted platforms at the same time which derives the pure DevOps methodology.
• Driven new processes and optimized the delivery and deployment process by effective CI/CD strategy, complete test automation and state of the art end to end pipelines.
• Formed and led a high performing team during the pandemic Covid-19 which led the business unit resulting in extremely positive feedback from the Coles CIO and NBN CIO.
• Led the Devops teams to build green field CI/CD processes for Network Assurance platforms.
• Delivered cloud migration project for NBN's biggest petabyte size Splunk database along with automated environment provisioning pipelines.
  Played a critical application architect role to drive the key architecture initiatives by effectively collaborating between multiple teams.

• Worked with business and IT Solution Architects to define the business and process requirements for the Strategic Network Performance Management platform.
• As a DevOps Lead and Subject Matter expert, I played lead role in contributing to the overall software development life-cycle including requirements gathering / analysis, design, development technologies, release / version control, testing and deployment across systems.

• Company Overview: OSS Consulting - Multiple Proposals & Projects
• By being part of the Design & Architecture team, worked on presales for multiple proposals and responsible for project kick-offs, proposal preparation.
• OSS Consulting - Multiple Proposals & Projects

• Working as Solution Architect and R&D Module Lead in the development of next generation OSS product components which will perform Advance Co-relation and automatic fault recover by collecting and processing the alarms from the various umbrella NMS/OSS systems.
• As an Architect, I was responsible for designing the System components, technical architecture, logical and domain architecture.
• As a Development Lead, I was responsible for delivering the solution in the given time frame, managing the Scrums and Sprints model, the main tasks including requirement gathering, developing and testing the software solution.
• As an System Integrator, executed COTS based OSS Integration projects for different Telcos in APAC region.
• Involved in design of new projects, efforts Calculation and Project kick off initiatives, involved in design, development and testing of the software modules that contributed for large IT projects that's been implemented at various telecom operators across the world.
• Executed OSS Integration projects in Malaysia, Australia and India.
• Lead the technical pre-sales in North American region supporting the Proposals, POCs and contributed in the design discussions for major Telco's around the region.
• Worked on multiple OSS Integration projects around the world which includes a major green field implementation in Malaysia.

• Responsible for Project Kickoffs and Pre-Sales activities – Working in the design and architecture team for providing the architecture for new projects and enhancements along with proposal preparation, Requirements Gathering, Project kick-offs activities.
• Performing Pre-Sales activities in North American Region and Implementing the OSS Solutions for various customers.