Suresh Babu
Bengaluru
Summary
Takes on challenging new role harnessing interpersonal skills, collaboration and problem-solving. Driven to deliver high-quality service and consistent results.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Head of Operation for Karnataka Circle
Bondada Engineering Limited
Bangalore
08.2023 - Current
- Lead and manage diverse team of telecom professionals, ensuring optimal resource allocation, performance management, and professional development to achieve project objectives
- Provide strategic direction for multiple telecom infrastructure projects, monitoring progress, managing budgets, and implementing quality control measures to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery
- Review project statuses and milestones regularly
- Ensure projects are on track, and take corrective actions if necessary to meet deadlines and quality standards
- Act as primary client interface, maintaining strong client relationships through regular communication, project updates, and issue resolution to achieve high levels of client satisfaction
- Implement best practices, safety protocols, and compliance measures to drive operational efficiency, mitigate risks, and maintain industry-standard quality in telecom infrastructure installations
- Maintain regular communication with clients to provide project updates, address concerns, and ensure client satisfaction
- Act as primary point of contact for client inquiries
- Vendor Relations: Manage relationships with telecom equipment vendors, negotiate contracts, and ensure timely delivery of materials and equipment required for projects
- Executed project milestones and deliverables
- Lead and directed team of 12 technical professionals.
Project Manager
Apollo Towers Myanmar Limited
Yangon
07.2015 - 05.2021
- Spearheaded to plan or direct installation, testing, operation, maintenance, or repair of facilities or equipment
- Developed to manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope
- Collaborated to support for EOL network equipment's migrations which include service migrations for all type of systems
- Negotiated with project stakeholders or suppliers to obtain resources or materials
- Led meetings to detail project milestones, brainstorm ideas and determine appropriate techniques to manage tasks
- Authorized to submit project deliverables, ensuring adherence to quality standards
- Developed and managed work breakdown structure (WBS) of information technology projects
- Maintained inventory of telecommunications equipment for customer premises equipment (CPE), facilities, access networks and backbone networks
- Inspected sites to determine physical configuration, such as device locations and conduit pathways
- Implemented system renovation projects in collaboration with technical staff, engineering consultants, installers vendors
- Handled 24x7 escalations from Operations team and provisioning team on Telecom network
- Monitored and analyzed system performance, such as network traffic, security, capacity
- Executed project milestones and deliverables.
Region Lead
MER Telecom (MER Group)
Yangon
12.2014 - 06.2015
- Implemented change management and network restructuring strategies to address underperforming areas.
- Managed profit and loss to decrease discrepancies and retain timely and under-budget project completion.
- Assisted with employee relations issues, using emotional intelligence and diplomatic communication to resolve grievances.
- Directed day-to-day work of 8 employees and motivated teams to exceed objectives.
- Established and maintained operational standards for 6 locations across region.
Sr. Engineer - Telecom Roll-Out Projects & Operations
Innovis Holdings Pte Ltd
Yangon
03.2014 - 11.2014
- Deployed, maintained and monitored telecommunication systems
- Collaborated to test and evaluate hardware and software to determine efficiency, reliability, or compatibility with existing systems
- Updated basic and integrated software in devices, network components and embedded systems.
- Replaced existing antennas with new antennas as directed
- Completed installation of all necessary transmission equipment components, including antennas or antenna mounts, surge arrestors, transmission lines, connectors, or tower-mounted amplifiers (TMAs)
- Delivered expert setup of B Node systems and call management systems for 1750 workstations.
- Managed calls during voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) session for security and quality.
- Coordinated and supported audit and on-site inspections, liaising with regulatory agencies for smooth execution.
- Planned and delivered projects to spec, on time and meeting internal quality standards.
Senior Engineer | Reliance Jio [On Contract]
Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd
Bangalore
10.2012 - 02.2014
- 4G Rollout, Wireless Broadband construction, OSP Construction, optic network
- Captured technical schematics for use in project planning and execution
- Assigned scope and requirements to assist with project design determinations.
- Kept networks updated by conducting installations, configurations and maintenance.
- Configured networks according to set specifications.
Education
Bachelors of Technology - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
William Carey University
Shillong, IndiaSkills
- Project Management
- Adaptable
- Risk mitigation planning
- Strategic thinking
- Waterfall methodology
- Problem-solving
- Strategic Planning
- Lifecycle project delivery
- Cisco systems
- System integration
- Supplier management
- Microsoft Teams
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Certification
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional
- Master Diploma in Radio Network Planning New Generation – GSM, UMTS, LTE & 5GNR
- 5G ORAN and OpenStack and Kubernetes in NFV (Telco cloud)
- OpenStack and network function virtualization (Telcocloud)
Languages
English
Hindi
Tamil
Kannada
Timeline
Head of Operation for Karnataka Circle
Bondada Engineering Limited
08.2023 - Current
Project Manager
Apollo Towers Myanmar Limited
07.2015 - 05.2021
Region Lead
MER Telecom (MER Group)
12.2014 - 06.2015
Sr. Engineer - Telecom Roll-Out Projects & Operations
Innovis Holdings Pte Ltd
03.2014 - 11.2014
Senior Engineer | Reliance Jio [On Contract]
Himachal Futuristic Communications Ltd
10.2012 - 02.2014
Bachelors of Technology - Electrical & Electronics Engineering
William Carey University
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