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Vishwajeet Brijesh

Noida

Summary

  • Seeking high level assignments in ‘New Technology Management' / Strategy / Service Delivery / Operations / Business Development preferably in Telecom & IT industry.
  • Having 21+ years of working experience with proven abilities and a track record of delivering projects within and for, complex telecom & IT environments like Airtel, Vodafone UK, Deutsche Telecom & Nokia.
  • 100% Track record of delivering successful project and support services with focus on results, continuous service improvements, value addition and cost saving.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Program Manager – Customer Engineering(R&D)

Mavenir
10.2020 - Current
  • Responsible for overall client delivery for lab & field trials in 4G, 5G NSA & SA (Sub 6GHz & milli-meter wave) domain for leading operators in Asia & Europe regions
  • Expertise in driving cross-functional programs and Stake holder management across - R&D, System Engineering, Product line, System Architects, Sales/Pre-Sales, Operations & End customers
  • Experienced in Program governance and reporting key metrics to senior leadership
  • Handling multiple customer engagements for a large program 5G NSA/SA and 4G O-RAN product portfolio having multi-million dollars business opportunity and global telecom operators as key customers
  • Strong situational awareness, proactive planning, execution, monitoring and control
  • Proactive risk identifications, follow up and corrective actions throughout the project
  • Excellent track record for on-time and within-cost delivery and successful closures
  • Preparing ‘Software Requirement specification' for explicit customer trials and determining the ‘Entry & Exit' criteria

Offshore Transformation Manager

Accenture
07.2018 - 03.2020
  • Worked on the SAP-Cloud Network Delivery (CND) program as a ‘Network Transformation manager', responsible for Data Centre Internet Backbone services (DIBS) & Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) mgmt
  • This program is to implement NFV (Network Function Virtualization) & SDN (Software-Defined Networking) within SAP data centres across the world
  • Worked on Rakuten, Japan project as a ‘Senior Consultant' for Nokia 4G/VoLTE network deployment
  • Orchestrated the Nokia 5G BTS (AirScale Cloud BTS) network planning program with collaboration of NFV, SDN & ONAP (Open Networking Automation Platform) technologies, by testing and implementing 5G NSA use cases in the Accenture lab

Test Environment and Delivery Manager

Accenture
04.2015 - 06.2018
  • Led the Radio and transmission test team of Accenture & Aricent in Vodafone-UK lab
  • Delivered many critical projects in Vodafone UK which includes Radio, Small cells, CS/PS CORE and Transmission domains
  • Responsible for: Initial engagement with Customer and business requirements analysis; define SoW & effort estimation
  • Identify Resource and logistic requirement to deliver the project
  • Responsible for design documents creation (HLD, LLD & EDD)
  • Multiple RAN vendors (Ericsson, Huawei & Nokia) node commissioning, integration, operation and validation
  • Led the team in environment preparation, test case execution, customer reporting and approvals
  • Test case execution (Unit, Integration, System, Feature, Regression & Validation testing)
  • Responsible for the Quality assurance of the project delivery; customer satisfaction survey with >90% satisfaction

Tech. Lead / Test Manager

Aricent Technologies
06.2014 - 03.2015
  • Worked on Radio and Transmission Domain
  • As a cost-saving measure, Vodafone and O2 jointly deployed the radio network using the approach of Multi operator RAN sharing (MORAN/MOCN) across 2G/3G and 4G services
  • Worked as an End-to-End Test Manager/coordinator/SPOC for test bed ensuring structured and well-managed process in a multi-vendor /operator environment
  • Closely work with Program Manager to manage and track the project plan, timelines, delivery milestones, deviations and align the test campaign (deliverables, milestones) with the volatile requirements
  • Point of contact for O2 for all RAN share activities: representing VF test bed
  • E2E test approach document writing for RAN share which is a guide to all the project resources and provides detailed information on what, why, when and how about the project
  • Meeting with other domain leads (NMS, PM/FM/CM tool, transmission, Device, Femto, Radio, CS and PS Core) to find out the impact of RAN share on their domain and identify the requirement
  • Perform gap analysis by reviewing all domain test scopes and prepare requirement list for E2E network testing
  • E2E Testing in the lab and validating all the agreed scenarios, final acceptance with all the stakeholders

Tech. Lead / Test Manager

Aricent Technologies
12.2005 - 03.2015
  • Led the Radio and transmission test team of Accenture & Aricent in Vodafone-UK lab
  • Delivered many critical projects in Vodafone UK which includes Radio, Small cells, CS/PS CORE and Transmission domains
  • Responsible for: Initial engagement with Customer and business requirements analysis; define SoW & effort estimation
  • Identify Resource and logistic requirement to deliver the project
  • Responsible for design documents creation (HLD, LLD & EDD)
  • Multiple RAN vendors (Ericsson, Huawei & Nokia) node commissioning, integration, operation and validation
  • Led the team in environment preparation, test case execution, customer reporting and approvals
  • Test case execution (Unit, Integration, System, Feature, Regression & Validation testing)
  • Responsible for the Quality assurance of the project delivery; customer satisfaction survey with >90% satisfaction

OMCR Lead

HUTCHESON
04.2004 - 12.2005
  • Leading a team of 5 engineers for Hutchison network (Now Vodafone) roll out in UP-West circle handling the ‘Operation and maintenance centre-Radio' (OMC-R) and BSC/BTS integration
  • Responsible for CM (Configuration Management), FM (Fault Management) & PM (Performance Management)
  • Commissioning and integration of BSC & BTS
  • Analysis of network (N/W) reports and implement the change in N/W parameters to enhance N/W performance
  • Performed LOS survey and site acquiring activities for new BTS towers
  • Performed the day-to-day OMCR activity for UP-West circle managing 500+ live sites

Project Engineer

Influence Services
07.2003 - 03.2004
  • Ericsson BTS faults monitoring for Airtel Delhi and troubleshoot at the BTS site to clear the alarms
  • Installation, VSWR Measurements, Commissioning & Integration of Ericsson BTS (RBS 2202 & 2206) for Airtel Projects at Delhi, Haryana & Punjab regions

Education

MBA - Project Management (Major) & International Business Management (Minor)

Allahabad Agriculture Institute (Deemed University)
12.2006

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communications

Birla Institute
12.2003

Professional Summary

  • Program, Project and Test Management experience in the Telecom & IT industries, working across global customers
  • More than 6 years' experience at customer locations in Vodafone UK & Nokia Finland
  • Experienced in Program governance and reporting key metrics to senior leadership.
  • Expertise in driving cross-functional programs and managing stakeholders.
  • Customer Interactions and Handling Customer sensitive cases effectively
  • Proficient in providing direction and strategic leadership to maximize performance and to achieve program goals
  • Highly skilled in anticipating, analysing and resolving project-centric issues while undertaking initiatives to identify solutions & mitigating risks
  • Digital transformation, Innovation & Business Process Management
  • Automation Discovery and Business Analysis
  • Service Delivery Management and Capability development.

Key Skills & Tools

Technologies: LTE, VoLTE/IMS, Cloud/O-RAN, 5G, NB-IoT, VoWiFi, WCDMA, GSM, NFV, SDN,

Vendors (OEMs) : Mavenir, Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, Spider Cloud, ALU, CommScope, Cisco,

Tech. Tools : Protocol Analyzer (TEMS-17, NetHawk, QXDM, XCAL/M, Wireshark, NEMO), Viavi Spectrum Analyzer, Signal-generator,

Mgmt. Tools : HP-ALM, Agile, JIRA/Quality Centre, MS Visio, MS MPP, XL, PPT

Certification

  • Europe's 1st live Open-RAN site deployment for Deutsche Telekom.
  • >95% Customer Satisfaction Survey score in most of the VF UK projects.
  • Received Snap award by Aricent for high level of commitment.
  • Received Employee of the year award while working with Hutch.
  • PRINCE2 certified.
  • IBM Specialist DB2 UDB certified.

Timeline

Senior Program Manager – Customer Engineering(R&D)

Mavenir
10.2020 - Current

Offshore Transformation Manager

Accenture
07.2018 - 03.2020

Test Environment and Delivery Manager

Accenture
04.2015 - 06.2018

Tech. Lead / Test Manager

Aricent Technologies
06.2014 - 03.2015

Tech. Lead / Test Manager

Aricent Technologies
12.2005 - 03.2015

OMCR Lead

HUTCHESON
04.2004 - 12.2005

Project Engineer

Influence Services
07.2003 - 03.2004

MBA - Project Management (Major) & International Business Management (Minor)

Allahabad Agriculture Institute (Deemed University)

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics & Communications

Birla Institute

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