NEERAJ RANA
New Delhi
Summary
Resourceful Project Manager with 18 years of expertise in organizing business operations, financial oversight, and resource management to achieve smooth flow and project operations. Monitors projects by adhering to production schedule and budget, managing production team, identifying problems, and providing targeted solutions. Knowledgeable in telecom products related specifically to IN Charging Systems.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Intelligent Network Specialist
Alcatel-Lucent India Pvt. Ltd
- CAMEL, INAP, MAP)
- Deployments, Acceptance and Operation of Alcatel Solutions
- Worked with Bell Mobility for Alcatel-Lucent’s billing solution named Prepaid Postpaid Suite (PPS) version.4.4.1 along with SDP Rating Engine (RE) version 1.4 and convergent rating engine CRE version 2.6.1
- Worked on development of promotional features for Tata Teleservices Ltd
- Provide support for configuration & database related site issues
- Development of ticket migration tool using scripting language
- Provide support for enhancement of User Web Portal using JSP
- Participate in planning & strategy evolution for execution of important project activities.
Project Manager
Ericsson Global Services Pvt. Ltd
08.2022 - Current
- Working on BEL project management with identification of plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives
- Involved in BEL NFT Testing on AWS setup with start to end phase on hardware procurement to AWS account handling and monitoring the setup created from scratch
- Technically supporting on BEL Pipeline day to day activities and reporting on overall functioning
- Achieved project deadlines by coordinating with relevant stakeholders to manage overall performance
- Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management
- Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines
- Drafted project reports to identify successful outcomes, insights, and future recommendations
- Coordinated with cross-functional teams to resolve project issues and mitigate risks
- Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed
- Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules, and conflicts
- Developed and implemented project plans and budgets to ensure successful execution.
Project Lead
Ericsson Global Services Pvt Ltd
02.2018 - 07.2022
- Worked on leading Ericsson Charging Non-fuctional testing and DMP Non-functional testing for performance and robustness testing
- Worked on QAS for EC for Quality Assessment and overall improvements
- Monitored setup procurement and deployment from scratch to achieve desired performance results
- Produced quality standards, checklists, report templates, and processes
- Planned, executed, and controlled assigned projects, ensuring work performed complied with identified requirements
- Updated customers and senior leaders on progress and roadblocks
- Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
Specialist
Ericsson Global Services Pvt. Ltd
02.2013 - 02.2018
- Trained on Revenue Manager 16B Business Configuration including RM architecture, TM Forum Information Framework (SID Model), Customer Management, Rating and Charging capabilities and End user notifications
- Working on Verification and Integration/Analysis for SOIV Team in CS/CBiO release 17A
- Worked on L2S Carrier Ethernet for enhancements of features in Orchestration Framework under EOC and ECM
- Trained on RM Fundamentals with knowledge on high level architecture along with creating products in RMCA and modules like CHA, COBA and CIL
- Worked with T-Mobile for EOC and ECM development, testing and support
- Worked with OBS Lab team for feature development and demos on various Order Care modules like ON, OM, Service Registry
- Trained on EOC and ECM previously known as ConceptWave Order care and Product Catalog
- Done training on pre-sales, support and database dimensioning of EOC & ECM
- Completed 5 weeks Basic and Advanced training from Toronto ConceptWave team
- Working for Onsite Service Creation team for Operator named Idea Services Ltd for pan India location (North and South)
- Provide support for configuration & database related site related issues
- Onsite activities along with Implementation and Deployment team with all related servers up gradation and maintenance activities.
Solution Architect
Telecordia India Services Pvt. Ltd
08.2010 - 02.2013
- Part of Onsite Service Creation Team
- CvAS Developement (ISCP, WSA, ISA)
- Develop the expertise in the products/technologies (RCS/MSE/BCS)
- Study of transition of exiting prepaid services from Camel to Diameter protocol
- Idea CvAS Solution Designer and FDD assessments
- Tier2 Support
- Customer consulting
- Excellent relationship with Idea
- Communicated with partners and clients to update product and implementation status at technical or functional level
- Installed, integrated and deployed Charging product in client environments.
Lead Consultant
Comviva Technologies
08.2008 - 07.2010
- Deployments, Acceptance and Operation of GSM Roaming Solutions
- Worked with Business Development team for feature negotiations and product functionalities
- Worked on Dialogic libraries to develop inbuilt IVR for reverse charging announcements
- Requirement study & preparation of design
- Installing the product with Syriatel Customer at Syria (Damascus) with all network integration and testing on site
- Customer follow-up, periodic customer roadmap review
- Requirement study, design & implementation of ISUP protocol support
- Support for product deployment on live customer site for Macau, China
- Provide immediate solution to customize the product for live customer site
- Mentoring new team members with training and guidance.
Senior Engineer
08.2005 - 08.2008
Education
MCA - Computers
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
07.2005
Bachelor of Science - General Science
Delhi University
08.2002
Skills
- Project planning and development
- Advanced problem solving
- Business process re-engineering
- Specialization in Telecom Networks & Operations
- Telecom Billing, Rating, VAS
- Functional & Non-functional Testing and Analysis
- Onsite implementation and development
- Lead System/Solution Integration
- Technical
- CAMEL, INAP-CS1, MAP, CDMA, IS-41, TUP, ISUP, SCCP, Dialogic, CORBA, WebServices, Diameter, Linux, C, C, SQL, Shell, Perl, JSP, JavaScript, Oracle11g, MySQL
- DMP, DMP-Next, EC, ECM/EOC, VAS, PPS, CRE
- AWS, Kubernetes, Containers, JMeter, SOAP, WireShark, Purify, KlocWorks , GNU tool
- Development of standalone solutions
- Migration & Transformation
- Planning and Deployment
- Analysis of Functional & Business Requirements
- Systems Design Documentation
- Software Development Lifecycle
- Systems Installation, Configuration and Upgrading
Accomplishments
- Alcatel CAM (Company achiever of the month – Alcatel-Lucent) Award – Delivering with Excellence 2007 (As part of the team responsible for CRE Migration work for Bell Mobility)
- Telcordia Job Well Done – 2012 (OSC Development and implementation and extension of contract for 5 years Idea.
Timeline
Project Manager
Ericsson Global Services Pvt. Ltd
08.2022 - Current
Project Lead
Ericsson Global Services Pvt Ltd
02.2018 - 07.2022
Specialist
Ericsson Global Services Pvt. Ltd
02.2013 - 02.2018
Solution Architect
Telecordia India Services Pvt. Ltd
08.2010 - 02.2013
Lead Consultant
Comviva Technologies
08.2008 - 07.2010
Senior Engineer
08.2005 - 08.2008
Intelligent Network Specialist
Alcatel-Lucent India Pvt. Ltd
MCA - Computers
Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
Bachelor of Science - General Science
Delhi University
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