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Vikas Dharwal

Noida

Summary

I have more 17 + years of experience in Telecom Industry. Expertise in Pre-Sales, Solution Design, Planning and Deployments. Rich Experience in Public/Private Cloud, Kubernetes , Nokia CI/CD , Microservices ,VoLTE , 5G Core & Nokia SDM products. Currently associated with Nokia Networks as Solution Architect & responsible for Nokia CaaS and CNFs Solution design.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification

Work History

Solution Architect

Nokia Networks
09.2015 - Current
  • Responsible for the Solution design and deployment of Nokia Cloud and Nokia CNFs and CI/CD Platform
  • Solution design for VoLTE, SDM,5G Core.
  • E2E handling of Subscriber DB Migration projects
  • PoC and Implementation of new features.
  • Handling of project planning & execution of activities accordingly
  • Broad knowledge of SI Processes, planning, and methodologies.
  • Managed multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring quality assurance standards were met throughout the process.
  • Supporting pre-sales team for solution offer and RFPs.

Network Specialist

Aricent Group, Nokia
10.2011 - 09.2015
  • Have worked on Nokia VoLTE and SDM Products like SBC,CFX , NT-HLR,OneNDS,HSS for RJIO project.
  • To prepare Acceptance Test plans (ATP), Migration strategy for HLR migration.
  • Preparing MOPs and Troubleshooting of issues.
  • Also part of Professional services for Teckelec STP projects.

Core Engineer

Huawei Telecommunication India P Ltd
02.2010 - 10.2011
  • Worked as Core Engineer.
  • Responsible for Integration Commissioning of New HLR (HLR-98200) and MGW (UMG8900)
  • Directly responsible for all Configuration & management of HUAWEI MSS/MGW/STP/HLR.

NSS Core Engineer

Nokia Siemens Networks
12.2008 - 01.2010
  • Directly responsible for the operation, Maintenance & trouble shooting of SIEMENS (MSC/VLR/HLR) & R4 Nodes (MSS/GCS/MGW/TMGW)
  • Necessary augmentations of E1's on POI routes, inter MSC trunks
  • Taking routine and quarterly BACKUP of all NOKIA and Siemens node
  • Database creation of GSM cell sites, transcoder creation, subscriber creation & deletion in HLR, provisioning of basic services to the subscriber.

Switch Engineer

Vodafone Essar Delhi
05.2007 - 12.2008
  • Resolving customer complaints regarding routing & roaming etc
  • Health Check-up Of all NE’s
  • Generation of Daily Traffic and network performance reports, these reports include MOU, BHCA, CP Load, Signaling load, Paging success, ASR , IN Attempts etc

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

Rajasthan Vidyapeeth

Diploma - Electronics & Telecommunication

BSF IT
Bangalore

Skills

  • Solution Architecture, VoLTE , 5G Core , SDM
  • Technologies: Kubernetes, Helm ,CI/CD,Openstack,AWS
  • Protocols: SIP, Diameter, LDAP, Sigtran, SCCP, Camel & MAP
  • CI/CD
  • Product Knowledge: Nokia IMS Nodes & Nokia SDM , RedHat OCP , CBIS, Nokia CI/CD (NCD), NCS

Certification

Certifications

  • Solutions Architect Nokia VOX L4.
  • CKA certified.
  • Certified AWS Solution Architect associate.
  • Openshift for Telco Architect.

Trainings:

  • RedHat Openstack, RedHat OpenShift, Google Anthos Azure Devops 400.

Languages

Hindi
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2

Timeline

Solution Architect

Nokia Networks
09.2015 - Current

Network Specialist

Aricent Group, Nokia
10.2011 - 09.2015

Core Engineer

Huawei Telecommunication India P Ltd
02.2010 - 10.2011

NSS Core Engineer

Nokia Siemens Networks
12.2008 - 01.2010

Switch Engineer

Vodafone Essar Delhi
05.2007 - 12.2008

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Communication

Rajasthan Vidyapeeth

Diploma - Electronics & Telecommunication

BSF IT
Vikas Dharwal