Over 18 years of IT experience in Telecom Domain with more than 5 years in OSS-NSS that predominantly includes, Granite Application Development and Administration, Testing and Technical Support (EBU, HBU (FTTH), WBU & IMST), Workflow Implementation, Deployment, Testing (SQT, Unit & E2E) for interfaces with external systems and G2G (Granite to Granite) Interfaces, user support for end users in production environment. Hands on Seibel CRM EIM and Configuration.
Experienced in various telecom OSS COTS products (Granite Inventory, Oracle Communication Network Directory and Expediter).
Extensive experience in Solution implementation for Order Management, Inventory Management, Provisioning, Activation and trouble ticketing areas of Telecom OSS/BSS in wireline and wireless domain.
Extensive expertise in Workflow Implementation and automating Granite Inventory workflows for RMS, RMSW, HOM and IMST in production environments.
Configuring and creating templates in Granite Inventory and new designs.
Developed tools to load FTTH Network Data into Granite Inventory (OSP & ISP).
Performed Unit and E2E testing for RMSW for various services.
Took part in successful upgradation of Granite6.5 to Granite7.1.
Coordinating with users and vendors to make sure requirements are met in time.
Highly proficient in database performance tuning and optimization, troubleshooting and problem resolution, root cause analysis, bottlenecks elimination.
Hands-on experience in database installation, migration, patching and upgrade; database design, creation and configuration, db sizing, capacity growth planning, monitoring, audit; backup and recovery.
Expert knowledge and extensive hands-on experience in SQL and PL/SQL programming, tuning and optimization; Application programming experience, excellent soft skills.
Excellent analytical skills and problem solving capabilities.
Experience in quick analysis and implementation of third-party applications; Experience in working on large projects in teams and alone.
Able to motivate and co-ordinate a team of people to ensure service levels are met. Self-motivated, punctual, creative, responsible, hard working. Able to work under pressure in a multi-task environment, manage continuous change, all with a focus on providing excellent client service. Team player, quick learner with good communication, interpersonal and time management skills, highly organized with attention to details.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Design, Developer and Technical Support Engineer
Saudi Telecom Company (OSS)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
10.2007 - 11.2022
Implemented Workflows for EBU, HBU, WBU and IMST.
Developed more than 150 Granite Plug-Ins to automate complicated Granite Work Flows to ease end users.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless project execution.
Built custom software solutions for enhanced business efficiency.
Performed Integration and E2E testing for RMSW, FTTH HOME and G2G Interfaces.
Proficient at Granite Configuration and Administration.
Provided end user support for IMSD and IMST.
Took part in successful upgradation of Granite versions.
Wrote PL/SQL scripts and developed Granite plug-Ins for Held Order Management (HOM).
Oracle database administrator and web developer
Saudi Telecom Company
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
04.2003 - 10.2007
Took part in a big project of the implementation of a large-scale telecommunications engineering network application performed for Saudi Telecom Company.
Participated in performance tuning, optimization and administration of complex databases.
Participated in multiple rounds of application design reviews to ensure its tight integration with the Oracle on the highest performance and scalability level. As a result of the work done application is able to handle larger number of concurrent users with the same resource utilization.
Automated database monitoring and performance statistics collecting, freeing DBAs from routine database checkups.
Developed web tool (Web Report) that gives live details about all the Outside Plant (OSP) across the kingdom.
Project Lead for e-Map that involves customization, administration for big cities in the kingdom.
Effectively carried out database development skills with PL/SQL. Personally coded hundreds of procedures, functions, triggers and more that 20 packages. Provided optimization recommendations for programmers to produce most efficient application code.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
Osmania University
Hyderabad, Telangana
06.1996 - 10.1998
Master of Computer Applications - MCA
Osmania University
Hyderabad
01.1999 - 01.2002
Skills
Granite Inventory Configuration and Administration
Databases:
Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g MS SQL Server, MS ACCESS;
Web Servers:
BEA Web Logic, Tomcat, JBoss and Glassfish
Operating Systems:
UNIX (Solaris), Linux, Windows NT/2000/XP, DOS;
Languages
English
Fluent
Urdu
Native
Arabic
Intermediate
Affiliations
Playing football, cricket, reading books
Accomplishments
Pat on the Back Awards:
In recognition of distinguished efforts and valuable contributions in successful implementation of Centralized Inventory Management for Transmission Network, IMST.
Appreciation Certification from VP of Saudi Data Unit, Saudi Telecom Company
Awarded for Excellent Work for the year 2004 GIS Dept. Saudi Telecom Company