Raghuram Adapa
Project Manager
Hyderabad,Telangana
Summary
Software Professional with Fifteen Years and Eleven Months of experience in the Telecommunication domain. With a strong background in network design, fibre and copper planning, implementation, network installation, and support, has been involved in various projects focusing on voice, data, and transport for major telecom service providers. An excellent team player with proven customer focus & client interaction attributes. Possess good communication, analytical, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager - Network Planning
Velankani Software Pvt Ltd
Banglore
08.2023 - Current
- Led the team in cross functional way to deliver successful projects.
- Mentoring and coaching the team on technical side to meet customer expectations.
- Having strong knowledge of BEAD Grant programs.
- Involved in market assessment for the pre-grant application submission process.
- Supported customers in virtual estimate process for various grant programs.
- Involved in various data analysis that are required for the projects.
- Responsible for end-to-end delivery operations for VE estimate analysis
- Optimizing resources and upskilling resources based on project requirements.
- Established and maintained effective communication channels with stakeholders, ensuring alignment of project objectives and expectations.
- Implemented quality assurance processes to ensure deliverables meet or exceed stakeholder expectations.
- Spearheaded lessons learned sessions at the end of each project phase to capture best practices and identify areas for improvement.
- Project: COX communications (USA)
Engineering Manager
Congruex
02.2021 - 07.2023
- Involved in building up the team for AT&T BAU process.
- Handling team size of 27 engineers also responsible in mentoring and coaching as per the program needs.
- Collaborating with domestic counterparts to meet the delivery requirements.
- Responsible for designing work force capacity to in line with the forecast.
- Frequently monitoring team performance in terms of quality and on time performance to meet the customer deadlines.
- Identifying knowledge gaps and filling those gaps by training and couching as per the program.
- Frequent consultation with the domestic counterparts is related to the technical difficulties raised by the engineers and resolving them on timely basis.
- Has strong technical knowledge of Splitter expansion, BAU and BIC jobs which were part of BAU program.
- Understanding engineer needs and resolving them as per the business needs.
- Good at maintaining business continuity program.
- Best in making staff to get trained as per the program needs and making them flexible and agile.
- Good at running the program within a specified budget limit.
- Assignments include:
Project Lead
Cyient
Hyderabad
10.2011 - 02.2021
- Team handling and motivating team members in reaching client requirements.
- Reviewing the quality analysis for the completed orders
- Involved in escalations in troubleshooting complex orders.
- Establishing knowledge hub for making team members getting updated from time to time.
- Reviewing and QA check for NBN FTTN and FTTC designs in MapInfo.
- Reviewing of asset transfer data and copper cutover sheets.
- Have hands on experience on NPAMS database to verify copper Network.
- Reviewing FTTx designs and ensuring proper copper cutovers to avoid disconnections at customer end.
- Studying and analyzing the inputs data received from client, customer house details, land base, area design specification, and field survey details etc.
- Ensuring verification fiber connectivity from exchange to the FTTN node
- Reviewing of IFDV’s to comply with the NBN standards.
- Environment: NPAM, CEM, DBOOT and MAXIM.
- SMB_LNP Programme
- NBN
- Assignments include:
Operations Manager
WOW Solutions
Hyderabad
06.2011 - 10.2011
- Network installation support for OLT’s, ONU’s, LASER modulators, E1’s, STM’s and VOIP Media gateways.
- Based on the service request we will find the shortest path in ISP database, and we will do survey in that route regarding feasibility and permissions.
- Experience in monitoring servers.
- Configured the Network remotely with Dual level security, RSTP, Private LANs and etc.
- Developed the Zenoss application, a SNMP based monitoring systems to monitor the network remotely with automated alerting (SMS) system.
- Involved in configurations of super click routers, Net gear switches and ruckus access point configurations.
- Helping hand in site documentation.
- FTTh planning and implementation for gated communities.
- Optical Transmission Networks
- Assignments include:
Senior Network Engineer
Cavera Systems India Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
06.2008 - 06.2011
- FTTh planning and implementation for gated communities.
- Network installation support for OLT’s, ONU’s, LASER modulators, STM’s and VOIP Media gateways.
- Expert in configuration of Asterisk servers and IP phones.
- Experience in monitoring servers.
- Worked on RAID configurations in IBM servers.
- Installed and configured VoIP servers and Vera PON software.
- Implemented Vyatta Linux router for the first time in GEPON network to make Inter ONU communication possible.
- Designing the network in a stable environment to protect the system from threads, Mainly from Hackers.
- Configured the Network remotely with Dual level security, RSTP, Private LANs and etc.
- Developed the Zenoss application, a SNMP based monitoring system to monitor the network remotely with automated alerting (SMS) system.
- Involved in configurations of super click routers, Net gear switches and ruckus access point configurations.
- Helping hand in site documentation.
- Optical Transmission Networks
- Assignments include:
Education
B. Tech - Electrical and Electronics
Skills
Timeline
Project Manager - Network Planning
Velankani Software Pvt Ltd
08.2023 - Current
Engineering Manager
Congruex
02.2021 - 07.2023
Project Lead
Cyient
10.2011 - 02.2021
Operations Manager
WOW Solutions
06.2011 - 10.2011
Senior Network Engineer
Cavera Systems India Pvt. Ltd
06.2008 - 06.2011