NILKANTH YALAMELI
Summary
Techno-management leader with sound experience in gathering requirements from clients, designing solutions, and reviewing strategic E2E architecture and delivering large scale complex IT projects. Understanding on telecom networks infrastructure, Experience in designing on CRM, Billing, Fulfillment, Assurance, Inventory, Activation, Middleware, Interfaces (one or many) at telecom projects and rollout for various products. Core consultancy capabilities includes - Telecom Domain Consulting, Solution/Process Design, Requirement analysis, Project Planning and Execution, Customer and People Management, In-life process management and defect management, Operational support. Leading Impact Assessment, Requirement Analysis and BSS designs with full accountability for business/client expectation management, design decisions, issues resolution and meeting deadlines. Support presales activities, provide high-level and detailed consultative solutions and take part in sales planning. Excellent communications skills both technical-to-technical and technical-to-non-technical and able to manage stakeholders.
Overall 16+ years of experience in Telecom domain seeking to pursue a career in Telecommunications and IT Solutions with an interest in BSS/OSS Solution Design, and Solution Architecture.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
OSS Transformation Engineering Manager
BT eServ India Pvt Ltd
12.2022 - Current
- Leading Functional Design, and File & Data Migration
- Owning overall SIM's functional architecture and maintaining the design decision log, data mapping sheet, and the designs on the confluence (wiki) page
- Liaises with internal/external stakeholders to analyses business procedure, clarify clients' requirements and to define the scope of existing software
- Creating a framework design, Functional design, Data Model design in JSON structure, and guiding UI/UX designers to create UI/UX framework/design
- Arranging show and tells for new functionalities being developed
- Business interaction for process solutions to create the end-to-end process
- Preparing the Help Scripts, and Video guides of the new application for the users
- Formulation of Business Scenario's and acceptance criteria to facilitate the test case preparation
- Doing AS IS data analysis to preparing the Data Mapping sheet AsIs vsToBe model, and defining the Data Quality Rules for the migration
- Doing data cleaning activity as part of migration to ensure no data integrity issues in the TO BE System
- Actively involved in all Sprint ceremonies like Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog refinement with PO, Scrum masters and development team.
OSS Solution Designer and Data Migration Functional Lead
Prodapt Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2021 - 12.2022
- Leading Functional Design, and File & Data Migration
- Owning overall SIM's functional architecture and maintaining the design decision log, data mapping sheet, and the designs on the confluence (wiki) page
- Liaises with internal/external stakeholders to analyses business procedure, clarify clients' requirements and to define the scope of existing software
- Creating a framework design, Functional design, Data Model design in JSON structure, and guiding UI/UX designers to create UI/UX framework/design
- Arranging show and tells for new functionalities being developed
- Business interaction for process solutions to create the end-to-end process
- Preparing the Help Scripts, and Video guides of the new application for the users
- Formulation of Business Scenario's and acceptance criteria to facilitate the test case preparation
- Doing AS IS data analysis to preparing the Data Mapping sheet AsIs vsToBe model, and defining the Data Quality Rules for the migration
- Doing data cleaning activity as part of migration to ensure no data integrity issues in the TO BE System
- Actively involved in all Sprint ceremonies like Sprint planning, Sprint Retrospective, and Backlog refinement with PO, Scrum masters and development team.
BSS Solution Architect
Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
05.2012 - 12.2020
- Managing a team of 10+ E2E Solution Designers & Architects
- Initiate and drive discussions with EE and cross-vendor technical delivery teams, portfolio, and platform architects to establish common understanding of the requirements and to identify and recommend potential solutions for the change requests raised by EE
- Responsible for Impact Assessment covering CRM, Self-care, Product Catalogue, Service Fulfillment, Service Assurance, Billing, Regulatory requirements, and Integration Architecture
- Collaborate with the Enterprise Architect ensuring that Solution Architecture is in alignment with the overall EA and Technology strategy
- Responsible for Decision Record (DR), Rough Order Magnitude (ROM), Functional Design Walkthrough (FDW), High Level Solution Design (HLD), Technical Architecture Document (TAD), Interface Specifications (ICD), BDD (Behavior Driven Development) feature file
- Interface with Development Team for helping them understand requirement from business point of view
- Act as ready business knowledge base for the team during entire development lifecycle
- Review System design, test packs which includes SIT, E2E and UAT to ensure that the system design and test cases are in line with the E2E solution design and the test case coverage of E2E scenarios are exhaustive
- Undertakes feasibility studies for major IT developments incorporating costs and benefits, and presents proposals to clients
- Active participation in operational process improvement discussions and helping clients to improve their operational process
- Performing root cause analysis of in-life incidents / defect raised and give quick workaround solutions to mitigate and plan a strategic solution to fix them.
Solution Designer
Tech Mahindra Ltd
02.2011 - 05.2012
- Lead designs for complex business requirements independently, spanning multiple releases
- Key designs successfully delivered are Plan and Build system redesign for Provide, Cancel and Cease journey, PACS Automation – Provide and Cease Order
- Determine milestones, engage, and apprise team members on design approach & tasks and monitor progress to ensure timely delivery
- Initiate and drive discussions with business [CE, Product line, EST Service Delivery Team] and cross-vendor technical delivery teams, portfolio, and platform architects to establish common understanding of the requirements and to identify and recommend potential solutions
- Guide stakeholders like designers, E2E Delivery, IVVT, Operations, component designs etc
- To help them close critical design and delivery issues and live defects
- Design solutions adhering to BT's architectural framework; influence and drive cross platform architectural decisions as required
- Select appropriate design standards, methods, and tools, consistent with agreed enterprise and solution architectures and ensure that they are applied effectively
- Review design artifacts like component design; test packs etc
- To ensure that the system design is in-line with the E2E solution design and the test case coverage of E2E scenarios are exhaustive
- Organize and conduct walkthrough, drive agreement / approvals / signoffs for the designs
- Expert in the use of BT recommended tools like STORM, SharePoint, HP Quality Centre, and Wiki.
Provisioner, Project Management
TATA Communications Transformation Services
11.2007 - 02.2011
- Doing end to end project management across the Globe for all Enterprise Customer & Carriers for all type of services, speed ranging from DS3 to 10G DWDM, 10GE right from order in basket to service turn up
- Act as a SPOC for the SD Program Managers and Customers on 24X7 bases for all the transactions, including requests for follow up, provisioning, Work Orders and reports etc
- Reviews the final Design layout records/CIRCUIT LAYOUT RECORD for missing details related to physical or logical service design
- Working closely with Provisioning, International FO OPS, International Carriers, and Service Delivery Program Managers to deliver services as per CRD
- Guiding & performing various tests in coordination with National, International field engineers & vendors
- Prepared end to end customer order CIRCUIT LAYOUT RECORD for NOC to configure service in network
- Designed all type of circuits from 64k to 10G for all type of services in Cramer & TATA Communications Inventory system NIMS
- Solution Architect's role in planning & designing International customer circuits & Network Engineering.
Project Engineer
ITI Limited (A Government of India Undertaking)
04.2007 - 10.2007
- Carried out Project Management tasks
- Planning, Supervision, and commissioning of Mobile BTS site work
- Monitoring the field activities and reporting the project progress to BSNL Zonal officers and JTO's
- Managed and provided technical guidance/support to the project team
- Contractor people management.
Education
B.E (E&TC) -
Shivaji University
Kolhapur, India05.2006
H.S.C (12th) - Science
Sangameshwar College
Solapur, India03.2002
S.S.C (10th) -
Bharati Vidyapeeth Madhyamik Vidhyalay
Solapur, India03.2000
Skills
- Requirements and Business Analysis
- Solution Design and Architecture
- Business Process Enhancement
- Technical Team Management
- Project Management
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Stakeholder Communication
- Budget coordination
- Prioritization
- Vendor Sourcing
Certification
- ITIL v4
- CSM (Certified Scrum Master)
- ServiceNow Certified System Administrator
Global Clients
- British Telecom (BT)
- Everything Everywhere (EE)
- Openreach Ltd
- TATA Communications
- Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL)
Project Domains
- OSS Transformation
- Home Broadband products (FTTC, FTTP, ADSL, SOGEA)
- Ethernet
- Voice
- Exchange Inventory Management
- Data Migration
Requirement Management And Analysis
Business Requirements, Functional Requirements and Process Requirements, Business Rules, Impact Analysis, RTM (Requirements Traceability Matrix) creation.
Design Documentation
High level design documents (HLD), Technical Architecture Document (TAD), Functional Design Walkthrough (FDW), Interface Specifications (IC), AS IS vs TO BE Data Mapping, and Business DQ Rules
Requirement Facilitation
Workshops, Checkpoint Meetings, Conference, Review Meetings, Brainstorming, Focus Groups, Walkthrough, Prototyping and Questionnaire Preparation
Business Domain
Telecommunications and IT
Timeline
OSS Transformation Engineering Manager
BT eServ India Pvt Ltd
12.2022 - Current
OSS Solution Designer and Data Migration Functional Lead
Prodapt Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
01.2021 - 12.2022
BSS Solution Architect
Virtusa Consulting Services Pvt Ltd
05.2012 - 12.2020
Solution Designer
Tech Mahindra Ltd
02.2011 - 05.2012
Provisioner, Project Management
TATA Communications Transformation Services
11.2007 - 02.2011
Project Engineer
ITI Limited (A Government of India Undertaking)
04.2007 - 10.2007
B.E (E&TC) -
Shivaji University
H.S.C (12th) - Science
Sangameshwar College
S.S.C (10th) -
Bharati Vidyapeeth Madhyamik Vidhyalay
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