S. Mohan Raju
Energy Manager
Hyderabad
Summary
An experienced Telecommunications professional with over 18 years of experience in Energy Management, Operations & Maintenance and Infra rollout of Telecom Cell Sites, Fiber, FTTX, IBS/DAS & COW sites.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Energy Lead
American Tower Corporation
Hyderabad
11.2022 - Current
- Job profile: Circle Energy Lead
- Power and Fuel Management:
- Maintaining Power & Fuel Margin as per target set by Corporate
- Analyzing High Opex sites based on data submitted by Operations & Maintenance Team and coordinate with field team for improving energy efficiency and optimizing energy consumption.
- Ensure Power & Fuel Billing Input Submission of 4300+ telecom sites in DBMS like Siteera & Tarantula as per schedule every month
- Tracking Energy reading submission by Operations team and validating for corrections.
- Telecom Infra Data Sign-off, Load & EB/DG rate Sign-off with customers every month based on audit data
- Ensuring Zero variance of Telecom Infra assets between actual field data and DBMS portals (Siteera & Tarantula)
- Reduction of Customer penalties & dispute settlement
- Conducting Vendor Governance meetings every month to improve energy efficiency and address Energy & Revenue leakage issues
- Improving Network availability by ensuring grid availability at optimum level
- Reduction of Electricity Grid penalties and Grid disconnections at our telecom sites by timely resolving disputed electricity bills
- Proactive provisioning of adequate funding for fuel, especially during natural calamities and Grid Outages.
- Ensure 100% compliance to company processes
- Timely submission of MIS Reports to Corporate/Management/Customers
Operations & Maintenance Planning Manager
Reliance Jio Infocomm
Vijayawada, AP
02.2017 - 10.2017
- Operations &Maintenance for AP circle.
Project Manager
IHS Towers
Lagos
02.2013 - 03.2016
- O&M
- Telecom Asset (Active, Passive & Fiber) database management: NE (Network Engineer) Tool is used for asset management throughout its life cycle
- Asset management starts from site HOTO stage
- Any equipment changes like additions or deletions during site upgrades/faulty equipment replacement is handled through various automation portals like Auto Inventory Portal, MACD Portal, Utility Inventory Portal…etc
- SP Manpower Management: Management of SP Team life cycle starts at recruitment/on-boarding stage and ends at de-boarding
- SCRUM Portal is used for this resource management
- Monitoring Preventive Maintenance(PM) & Corrective Maintenance(CM): Scheduling & Monitoring Preventive maintenance (PM) activities of all Telecom Infra (Utility, Fiber, RF & MW equipment) at eNodeB, AG1, AG2, OTN, FTTX, fiber, Small Cell & Wi-Fi sites
- SAP and other mobile apps like JPW, Jio Track & PTW are used for scheduling and execution of PM & CM activities
- Driving field team for meeting CM & PM compliances daily
- Dashboards are published using Tableau
- Imparting role specific trainings to all SP resources on usage of automation Tools & mobile apps
- SP Governance: SP Governance Meeting is conducted monthly to address critical issues in maintaining O&M performance KPIs – NWA, Infra Uptime, FTKM, MTTR..Etc
- Daily review with internal team: Conducting daily review with our internal team of Infra leads, utility engineers & fiber engineers to discuss on various critical issues, that impacted NWA
- Review is done in all domains – Utility, Fiber, FTTX & ISP and minutes are published
- Presentations: Preparation of slide packs using MS Power point, for all review meetings including NHQ meetings
- As project manager for Tower Consolidation (Site- Relocation) project, Site Upgrades, COW deployment & IBS Rollout all over Nigeria
- Project (1): TOWER Consolidation
- Headed Tower Consolidation project for both EMTS & MTN accounts
- Coordinating with RF, Tx and other required departments of the customers in identifying and finalizing the sites list for consolidation project
- 1800+ sites were finalized for this project from both EMTS & MTN accounts
- Finalizing the SOW and RM with the customer and the OEM
- Execution of contract with OEMs (Ericsson, NOKIA, ALU, Huawei & ZTE)
- Management of OEMs for conducting total site audit & report submission
- Site audits conducted for 1000+ sites
- Validation of site audit reports and forward submission to the clients for their approval and issuance of ITP or PO
- Determining site upgrade requirements and follow up with upgrade teams for timely RFI delivery
- Tracking OEMS for active equipment implementation, site integration in-line with the agreed PIP of the customer
- Follow up with the customer for Network Optimization, site acceptance & cut over
- Around 100 sites were successfully cut over
- Issuance of Site decommissioning notice to rollout & operations team
- Project (2): COW Deployment
- Deployment of COW (Cell-on-Wheels) to the locations as per customer requirements
- Successfully deployed COW at 28 locations for MTN allover Nigeria
- 24X7 maintenance of the COW including DG, rectifier, BB, Hydraulics for the duration of deployment
- Ensured uptime of 99.99% and resolved customer escalations within SLA
- Publishing daily tracker for the internal & external customers
- Project (3): IBS Rollout
- Lead and manage RF planning/ designing, site acquisition, implementation, optimization, and Operations teams for IBS
- Assess and manage project risks and resolve outstanding issues in consultation with the senior management / client while ensuring timely decisions to assure successful project implementation within agreed timelines and quality specifications
- Maintain efficient and smooth working relationship with inline departments including Site Acquisition, Procurement & Logistics, and Finance
- Select and recruit project teams, subcontractors, and consultants
- Manage quality audit and acceptance testing with sub-contractors and client
- Preparation of daily & weekly trackers of Implementation status and sharing with internal & external customers
- Achievements:
- Successfully deployed IBS at major International Airports, Hotels, Malls & Office Complexes in Nigeria for both 2G & 3G
- Site build cost has been brought down nearly 300%
Assistant Manager
VIOM Networks. Ltd
Hyderabad
01.2009 - 01.2013
- During this tenure I have handled three job profiles: Project Delivery Lead-South Region-India, Cluster Lead-Projects, IBS Lead-AP circle
- Job profile (1):
- Being Project Delivery Lead for south region (AP, Karnataka, TN &Kerala) from May’12 to Jan’13, my job responsibilities involve the following:
- Monitoring & facilitating of rollout & upgrade Sign offs by Operators within 15 days of site declared RFI
- Target Vs Actual site rollout within SLA & with no penalties
- Validation and Clearance of all vendor invoices within 10 Days of Receipt
- Regular customer escalations to be closed within TAT
- Providing cross functional / across circles exposure for development, by conducting trainings
- Process development & Adherence
- Job profile (2):
- Being Cluster lead for the projects team, my job activities comprise of Project Planning and coordinating with my site engineers to achieve the target on time
- I.e
- Building the targeted no
- Of cell sites
- Planning all the site activities for the handed over sites in my cluster from site acquisition department
- Coordinating with our field engineers, to track the status of the sites, following up the civil, tower, shelter and Class’A’ material vendors for Installation & commissioning of the equipment
- Coordinating with WH team, to track & get the material at the sites on time
- Preparing Daily Progress Report (DPR) of all the site activities within the cluster
- Maintaining tight coordination with SAQ and legal teams to ensure smooth and timely resolution of site issues during site build
- Job Profile (3):
- Being IBS function Lead, my job role comprises of complete project mgmt
- And site maintenance activities like: Survey, Design & Implementation of IBS sites, Operator Plug Ins, Conducting Drive Tests, Hand Over to Operators & O&M Team and operator Sign Offs, Preparations of NFAs, PRs and follow up for POs
- After getting SO from operator, follow up the implementation vendors for conducting Survey & preparation of Design Drawing, and validating these reports
- After Survey, NFA is prepared, and PR is raised for material & services after getting the NFA approval
- Follow up with SCM to get the Pos
- Raising MRN and follow up with the WH Logistics coordinator, for the material delivery at the sites
- Follow up with the vendors for implementation works
- After completion of Implementation, civil & Electrical works, site will be declared as RFI
- RFIed site will be offered to the Operator for moving of their BTS and support them for making the site On Air
- After On-Air, Walk Test will be conducted at the On Air site using TEMS tool kit
- Walk Test Report will be submitted along with the RFI Sign off Document to the operator
- Handling of all Post RFI issues like clearing of alarms, coverage issues of operators, owner issues within SLAs, :
- Promoted as, , while I was working as cluster lead at Vizag Cluster
- Received Spotlight Award for Effective handling of IBS sites in AP circle and to make the circle on TOP position, PAN India
- Received plenty appreciations from our customers (Airtel, Aircel, TTSL, Reliance, Idea, Vodafone), for playing major role in clearing critical issues at various IBS sites and for the extendedsupport in deploying 3G.Worked
Project Coordinator
Nokia Siemens India Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
12.2007 - 01.2008
- Being a Coordinator for the projects team., my job activities comprise of Deploying & tracking of electrical equipment required for cell sites & certification of Invoices
- Coordinating with our field engineers, and to decide the electrical equipment (DG, AC, SVS/PIU, SMPS, BB) required for the cell sites throughout AP, considering various factors like EB supply availability, and other site conditions
- After deciding the equipment required for a specified site, I will issue the MRN/MTN accordingly to our WH
- And do the required follow-up with WH team and our local site engineer to deliver the required material to the specified site on time
- Certification of vendor invoices (Electrical/Civil/Telecom Implementation), and to handover them to our client (Vodafone-AP).
Project Engineer
Idea Cellular Ltd
Hyderabad
01.2007 - 12.2007
- Being a team member in the projects department, my job activities will vary during the different phases of project, like Project planning, Project execution and Payment for vendors
- During project planning phase, my role is, sourcing the vendors for civil & electrical works, Tower works, and for BOI items like Stabilizers, shelters and DGs.
- Etc
- Sourcing of vendors involves conduct & participate in meetings with vendors
- And analyzing and comparing their efficiency, capacity with the project requirements
- And finally distribute the work between different vendors
- During Project execution phase, coordinate all the activities at the cell sites like, BTS, SMPS, Battery Bank Installation, and fixing of GSM & MW hops, and commissioning of the hops and finally prepare the cell site ready to On-Air
- During Payment phase, raising indents (PRs) for different Service vendors using Oracle system, based on our Project Plan
- And coordinate with finance Dept
- For getting necessary approvals for the Indents, raised
- After approval, coordinate with the materials Dept
- To prepare Purchase Orders for the vendors
- And finally certify & process the invoices for payment.
Site Engineer
Aster Tele services Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
08.2005 - 01.2007
- Monitor & coordinate all the electrical works at the cell sites with the vendors, deciding the routing for electrical cable & earth strip laying, which is optimum, Installation & commissioning of SMPS, PIU, I2PMS, Airconditioner, DG at the cell sites
- Provision of grounding for all electrical & electronic equipment, tower legs & fencing at site
- Main objective is to complete all the electrical works at the cell site, on time with quality
Education
M.E - Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University
Chennai 06.2003 - 06.2005
B. Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Gayathri Vidya Parishad College Of Engineering
Visakhapatnam 1999.Jul - 2003.May
Skills
C, C
Platform : MS Office, Power BI, Oracle, SAP, NE & Tableau
Other Tools : TEMS, Anritsu Site Master, Map Info 11, PL4 & Global Mapper 13Timeline
Energy Lead
American Tower Corporation
11.2022 - Current
Operations & Maintenance Planning Manager
Reliance Jio Infocomm
02.2017 - 10.2017
Project Manager
IHS Towers
02.2013 - 03.2016
Assistant Manager
VIOM Networks. Ltd
01.2009 - 01.2013
Project Coordinator
Nokia Siemens India Pvt. Ltd
12.2007 - 01.2008
Project Engineer
Idea Cellular Ltd
01.2007 - 12.2007
Site Engineer
Aster Tele services Pvt. Ltd
08.2005 - 01.2007
M.E - Industrial Engineering
College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University
06.2003 - 06.2005
B. Tech - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Gayathri Vidya Parishad College Of Engineering
1999.Jul - 2003.May