Saurabh Saraswat

Working as Head- Infra operation for Pan India 116 Data Centers / MSCs & ~580 TNG locations of Airtel.

Spearheading Data centers | MSC | Power & Utilities Planning | Design | Deployment | Operations | New Product Innovation | Adoption and Replication | CAPEX Budgeting of ₹500 Cr. | OPEX Budgeting of ₹250 Cr. | Business Continuity Planning | Non-conventional Energy Planning | infra planning | project management | lifecycle management & digital infra solutions | Internal & external stakeholder management | upgradation of existing Infrastructure | SLA Governance with Partners | Techno Commercial Negotiations | War of Waste Savings | Target PUE. | 60+ Members working out of 800+ locations |

Responsibility to maintain over 135 multi-megawatt Tier 3/4 Data Centers/ MSCs PAN India spanning 25 Lacs sq. ft. with energy portfolio of 86 MW. responsible for preventive & breakdown maintenance with emphasis on safe & reliable system performance resulting in ~100% up time for PAN India infra elements. responsible to make locations fire & disaster proof with latest technologies.

Heading Smart Network Design & Planning of all Macro ULS Sites, Outdoor Small Cells, Indoor Small Cells, IBS Network, Solutions Coverage & Capacity planning across India.
Capex Control, AOP, Budgeting, RFP, RFQ, BOQ, Quarterly NFA Preparation, Nominals Validation, Planning Guidelines, Solutions Planning, Material Ordering as per Monthly deployment Plan
Open VRAN Trails, Planning of Airtel Smart Network for Indoor & Outdoor Smallcells. New Solutions, SRAN Planning, Airports, Metro Rails Coverage & Capacity Planning etc.
Smart Network Planning for Wireless technologies, Managing very large and complex operations, network buildup, Capex management and Customer experience management. Managing multi Vendor and multi domain Partner ecosystemHeading Smart Network Design & Planning of all Macro ULS Sites, Outdoor Small Cells, Indoor Small Cells, IBS Network, Solutions Coverage & Capacity planning across India. Capex Control, AOP, Budgeting, RFP, RFQ, BOQ, Quarterly NFA Preparation, Nominals Validation, Planning Guidelines, Solutions Planning, Material Ordering as per Monthly deployment Plan Open VRAN Trails, Planning of Airtel Smart Network for Indoor & Outdoor Smallcells. New Solutions, SRAN Planning, Airports, Metro Rails Coverage & Capacity Planning etc. Smart Network Planning for Wireless technologies, Managing very large and complex operations, network buildup, Capex management and Customer experience management. Managing multi Vendor and multi domain Partner ecosystem
Skills: RF Planning · RAN · Cost and Revenue Planning · Services Solution · Business Analysis

Headed Small cell & Smart city Solutions for India.

Worked on HetNet Solutions, Products & Its Services, field Trails & assessment for readiness of Commercial deployment in all the circles.

Scaling up HetNet Smart Solutions in all circles to create New Layer in addition to Macro.

5000+ Macro Sites Planning in line with network & business requirement & competitor's presence.

10000+ Small cell & Wi-Fi Smart Network Planning & optimization for Uttarakhand Circle

Lead Network Deployment of more than 10000 Small Cells & Wi-Fi APs.

Lead UBR Planning and Deployment of more than 500 links.

Part of PAN India Network Performance and RF Optimization Team in Aircel Corporate Office.

Working on MS KPIs compliance as per MS Contract & DOT.

Network Optimization Governance of Three BUs (out of Five) consists of 17 Circles.

Working with Multi Vendor environment and its network Optimization in line with different circles and Partners.

Worked as Key Account Manager for LCC Kuwait and handled all the major projects.

Services Sales & Solution activities, SOW, BOQ preparation, Cost & revenue planning, customer presentations, RFP, RFQ, RFI Response, Biding.

Leading Team of RF Delivery & Pre-sales to support on Huawei ZAIN 2G, 3G, LTE & Wataniya SRAN Modernisation, Sign offs & Acceptance.

Responsible for Solution design & Project delivery of Kuwait.

Headed Telecom Services & Product Sales, Business Development, Pre-sales & NPO Project Delivery till payment recovery through constant customer satisfaction, Sign offs and Acceptance from Major Operators and OEMs as Account Manager across Africa, India & Indonesia.

Worked on strategy planning for growing Network Planning and optimization business in Indonesia. Resource management, Cost and revenue planning, customer presentations, RFP, RFQ Response, Complex Bids.

Responsible for Complete and Independent RF Planning & Optimization and performance monitoring as Zonal Optimization Lead for UPW. Network Planning & Optimization of Existing network of Nokia and swap of siemens, Acceptance Testing.
Seimens to Nokia Swap project

Part of various projects: BSNL Haryana, BSNL UPE, Airtel Gujarat in Drive test and Optimization activities of 2G Network.

Primary Responsibilities: Associated With Convergelabs on BSNL Haryana, Ericsson to Nokia Swap Project, Associated with LeadComm on BSNL Haryana, Associated with ADA Cell Works in Airtel Gujarat & BSNL UPE
Network Optimization, Planning and performance of mobile networks, Drive test.
 Acceptance Testing (AT) of Existing and Swap sites in Network.
 KPI and Parameter Optimization of Existing network of Nokia.