Shekhar Srivastava

16+ years of experience in leading/managing projects in the areas of OSS, NMS/EMS, IOT, BSS, SDN, Private Branch Exchange, VAS (SMS, IVR), Mobile Financial Services and Web development as Lead, DTM, Architect, Manager. Led cross-functional teams (55+) in the planning, execution, and delivery of projects (Monolithic, SOA, Cloud-native). Collaborated with global customers (India, Israel, Egypt, Nigeria, Japan, Poland, Thailand, Lebanon, Qatar, Bangladesh, Spain, Brazil, UK, Germany). Controlled project timelines, resource allocation, and budget to ensure successful project completion within defined constraints. Conduct weekly, monthly meetings with CXOs and key stakeholders, share updates on project/status/deviation and key milestones. Spearheaded stakeholder management, driving coordination and alignment across diverse teams and partners to achieve project goals and enhance overall business performance. Analysis, feasibility of proposed solution, engaging with/and giving weekly feedback to PL/R&D/Regional Account Manager on issues/features. Facilitated RFPs response preparation, vetted submissions/proposals, vendor management, finalized BoQ, BoM and Scope of work (SoW) with OEMs/Vendors to meet RFP clauses. Ensured project followed best practices, processes and required tools to streamline requirements gathering, development, quality assurance and checks for impeccable projects output. Suggested initiatives by analyzing project performance metrics, identifying areas for optimization, and implementing appropriate solutions. Resource management, team building, interview/selection/shortlisting candidates and follow-ups with hiring team. Accountable for HLD/LLD/UAT preparation by coordinating with customers, vendors, and internal stakeholders, with sign off from customers. Delivery execution using SDLC, Agile/waterfall models, Six Sigma methodologies-based nature of project. Designed and developed applications in VAS domain, including SMS, Voice based services, billing CDRs, IN charging, user subscriptions, provisioning and activation for SMS/Voice based services. Maintained progress artifacts issue, risk register, plan with latest data and regularly assessing with all internal/external stakeholders along with key milestone achievements. Project wise unified alignment on processes/tools/workflow/methodologies between vendor/customer/organization for smooth project lifecycle.

• Prince2-7edition Pract., #GR467002000SS
• GenAI Overview for Project Managers (PMI)
• Advanced IoT & IoT security expert certification
• VMware VCP 5.5

• Received Nokia’s President Award, by drastically reducing manual customization efforts by 85% using automation.
• Conceptualized in-house product as replacement of HP 'Network Node Manager' with $100k reduction in solution cost.
• Increased bandwidth and resource utilization by streamlining processes, resulting in increase of 24% overall team bandwidth.
• Achieved single click product installation, reduced 7-8 days to 1 day activity.
• Achieved 15% reduction in license cost for DC EMS solution.
• Saved 12k euros by developing simulator for umbrella performance & fault management system.
• Part of HCL O3 league (Outstanding performer for 4 consecutive years).