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Niranjan M

Niranjan M

Engineering Manager
Bengaluru

Summary

About 20 years of experience in telecom and network management domains. Proficient in project and program management with strong software development background. Goal-oriented leader dedicated to meeting team performance objectives and achieving set targets. Having more than 2 years of extensive leadership experience in IT industry. Committed individual well-versed in providing thorough training, setting team goals and developing innovative strategies. Superb oral and written communication skills paired with excellent time management and leadership abilities.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Engineering Manager

Nokia
10.2021 - Current
  • Drove performance of staff by creating incentives and positive work atmosphere and administering recognition and rewards programs.
  • Evaluated employee performance on monthly basis and coached and trained team members, increasing quality of work and employee motivation.
  • Led employee relations through effective communication, coaching, training, and development.
  • Administered monthly and annual reviews to direct reports and set clear and measurable goals, action plans, and follow-up procedures.

Software Architect

Nokia
10.2017 - 12.2021
  • Managed project planning, resource allocation, scope, schedule, status and documentation.
  • Supervised deployments and provided troubleshooting and user support.
  • Created migration strategies to bridge development gaps between existing software architecture and future updates.
  • Created and implemented innovative business solutions to support corporate objectives.
  • Mentored team, sharing skills and expertise and encouraged each member to bring forward ideas and suggestions for improvement.

Solution Architect

Ericsson
09.2012 - 10.2016
  • Worked closely with product teams to define and prioritize partner feature requests
  • Collaborate with stakeholders,including business analysts and clients, to understand their requirements.
  • Analyze and document functional and non-functional requirements.
  • Create high-level and low-level design documents for the system architecture.
  • Develop prototypes or proof-of-concepts to validate the feasibility of the proposed solutions.
  • Collaborate with development teams, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders to ensure a unified and coherent solution.

Software Developer

Nokia
08.2003 - 09.2012
  • Solution Architecture and Authoring RFP Response and Solution Description.
  • Design integrations for Fault Management (FM) and Performance Management (PM) systems.
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration
  • Identify opportunities for new features and enhancements to existing systems.
  • Contribute to defining the test strategy and the test cases for platform and product related testing
  • Supporting System Verification and E-2-E Customer Acceptance

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

PES Institute of Technology
Karnataka
06.1999 - 06.2003

Skills

    People Management

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Accomplishments

  • Supervised team of 18 staff members.
  • Led variance mission project to optimize resource allocation, improve project cost estimation accuracy, and enhance overall project performance by mitigating the factors contributing to effort variances in the software development life cycle.
  • Led software breakage mission to improve the reliability and stability of software deliverables, reduce effort leakage.
  • Patent Awarded: An idea titled “Intelligent location tracking based on predictive modelling” to which I have contributed has been awarded a patent from the European patent office. This Idea is on LBS domain and helps to reduce signalling/congestion in mobile network which is the need of the hour in a Smart Phone era.

Software

C, C, core Java, Python, Shell Script, Perl

Timeline

Engineering Manager

Nokia
10.2021 - Current

Software Architect

Nokia
10.2017 - 12.2021

Solution Architect

Ericsson
09.2012 - 10.2016

Software Developer

Nokia
08.2003 - 09.2012

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science

PES Institute of Technology
06.1999 - 06.2003
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