Sashantkumar K. Sonawane
Pune
Summary
To secure a position in a well-established organization with a stable environment where I can maximize my communication and problem-solving skills, program development skills and adapting well to changed situations and environments.
Accomplished Telecom Engineer with 10 Years+ of Telecom Domain Experience seeking long-term career in a growth-oriented environment, where my knowledge and experience can be enriched and utilized towards the organizational goals.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4020
4020
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Packet core Testing Engineer (Consultant-Network operations and Services)
TCTSL
Pune
06.2025 - Current
Data-COR Manager M1 Band (Change management)
Vodafone Idea Pvt. Ltd
06.2022 - 11.2024
- Hands-on experience on CISCO GGSN (SGW, PGW, CUPS and UPF) for APN related configurations of Enterprise and commercial, traces, troubleshooting and Software Upgrades.
- Hands-on experience on CISCO GGSN (SGW and PGW Nodes) configurations of change managements activities and MOPs of activities.
- Hands-on experience on CISCO DNS (Authorative, Cache DNS, Gi DNS) for APN related traces and troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience on CISCO AAA (CPAR Nodes) configurations of change managements for EPDG, VO-WIFI and VOLTE Config.
- Knowledge of telecom industry standards such as Incident management, change management, Workflow handling, maintaining SLA.
Dedicated Service Desk (IOT)- Project: Vodafone Idea Pvt. Ltd
Tata Communications Transformation Services Ltd.
04.2020 - 05.2022
- M2M/IOT/ENTERPRISE: - Working with M2M IOT project which include testing and support to all M2M customers for their IOT devices such as Vehicle tracking, Smart energy prepaid meter, Bank ATM’s/POS Machine.
- We were providing various solutions to enterprise customers like 2G, 3G, 4G, MPLS frame-routing, Open internet, Sandvine, CMP etc. through private APN.
- We are responsible for configuration, testing and troubleshooting of all these solutions.
- Knowledge on Ericson, ZTE, Nokia Huawei SGSN’s/MME and Cisco GGSN’s.
- Logs analysis and traces of GGSN and PGW.
- Having sound knowledge of troubleshooting of 2G/3G/4G issues.
- Handled escalated cases and outages for critical customers. Also involved in activities performed in night hours.
- Having sound knowledge of Radius and diameter authentication techniques which are mainly used to authenticate IOT devices before initiating communication with server.
- Hands-on experience of HPSM ticketing tool.
- (Off Role- Prompt Personnel Pvt. Ltd.)
Purchase Engineer
Alfa Façade Pvt. Ltd.
08.2018 - 02.2020
- Purchasing Computer Hardware like Monitor, CPU, Mouse, Keyboard, Printer, Modems, Switch, LAN Cables, Security Cameras required for company Network and LAN requirement, HDD (Intel, Seggate), Pen drives, Company asset managements.
- Purchasing Software like Tally, SAP, Operating system Antiviruses (Quick heal, NP/AV).
- Dealing with Private internet service providers.
Network Engineer L1
Acute Informatics Pvt. Ltd.
05.2015 - 12.2017
- Wipro site
Desktop Support Engineer L1
PCS Technology LTD
09.2014 - 05.2015
Education
Electronics And Communications Engineering
NMU University
Pune, India 04.2008 - 01.2013
HSC: SSVPS College
Dhule, IndiaSSC: SMVK
Amalner, IndiaSkills
- SGSN/MME:
- Cisco Node: GGSN, SGW, PGW, AAA, DNS
- 2G
- 3G
- 4G
- 5G
- Cisco Node Configurations
- Change Management
- Enterprise data APN
- Commercial data APN
- IMS-VOLTE
- VO-WIFI related configurations
- Software upgrade
- Wireshark
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge and I bear the responsibility for the correctness of the above-mentioned particulars.
Personal Information
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Marathi
Timeline
Packet core Testing Engineer (Consultant-Network operations and Services)
TCTSL
06.2025 - Current
Data-COR Manager M1 Band (Change management)
Vodafone Idea Pvt. Ltd
06.2022 - 11.2024
Dedicated Service Desk (IOT)- Project: Vodafone Idea Pvt. Ltd
Tata Communications Transformation Services Ltd.
04.2020 - 05.2022
Purchase Engineer
Alfa Façade Pvt. Ltd.
08.2018 - 02.2020
Network Engineer L1
Acute Informatics Pvt. Ltd.
05.2015 - 12.2017
Desktop Support Engineer L1
PCS Technology LTD
09.2014 - 05.2015
Electronics And Communications Engineering
NMU University
04.2008 - 01.2013
HSC: SSVPS College
SSC: SMVK