Summary:
I am a seasoned Software/IT Professional with 8.8 years of experience completely into Telecom/ISP Billing and RA with hands-on on one of the next generation COTS products namely, Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM/OBRM/OCBRM) previously known as Portal Infranet/Pipeline/IntegRate all versions (6.0.3 through 7.4 and 7.5). Be it TMF or eTOM or NGOSS or SDLC or Analysis or Design or Development or Coding or Configuration or Testing or Implementation or Integration or Training with Oracle BRM I have mastered them all well over the years. My rich experience with OCBRM/OBRM adds great value to the company I work for and help them execute projects within strict deadlines successfully with no overheads at all. I possess extensive applied knowledge of C, Unix/Solaris/Linux, Oracle - SQL, MS-Office, Toad, Shell Scripting (C, Korn, & Bash), XML and MS-Visio. I am hands-on with Oracle BRM training as a Freelancer with all the modules in BRM 7.4, 7.3, 7.3.1, 7.0 product suite and Portal Infranet 6.2. I have successfully conducted and delivered N number of Oracle BRM Instructor Led Trainings (ILTs) and Live Virtual/Web Classes (LVCs/LWCs) using the Cisco’s powerful Webex tool.
N.P.: None (Immediately available)
Expertise: OCBRM/OBRM/Portal Infranet/Pipeline/Integrate (8.5 yrs):

• Installation experience with Oracle BRM 7.5.0 and 7.4 on RHEL 5 and higher.
• Pricing, Rating, and Discounting component creation.
• Hands-on with Pricing Center, Developer Center, Customer Center, UEL & REL, Payment Tool, Payment Center, Suspense Management Center, Revenue Assurance Center, SIM Administration Center, Number Administration Center, Business Configuration Center, Collection Configuration Center, Permissioning Center, and Brand Manager.
• Opcode creation, modification, & customization and policy file handling.
• Custom FM and DM development.
• Testing of custom codes.
• IScript and IRules creation, customization, and modification.
• Customization of Format description/Container description, Grammar files, and Mapping files.
• Configuration of Registry and other configuration files.
• Training experience with Oracle BRM’s Essentials, Business/Technical Essentials, Server Developer/API Developer, Pricing and Rating, Pipeline Developer, Batch Pricing and Rating, Billing & Finance, and Portal System Administration modules.

Work History:

Confidential

Oracle BRM Architect

Confidential

Lead Engineer

Confidential

Oracle BRM Consultant (SME)

Confidential

Advisory System Analyst

Confidential

Senior Consultant

Confidential

Business Analyst

Confidential

Portal Infranet Specialist

Confidential

Portal Infranet Rating Specialist

Confidential

Software Engineer

Confidential

Programmer

Confidential

Oracle BRM Consultant

Confidential

Freelancer

Experience Summary:
Total IT experience: 8.8 years
Regular Experience (63 months)
Freelance Experience (41 months)
Total Oracle BRM Experience: 8.5 years
Oracle BRM Training Experience: 4.3 years
Project Details:
January 2012 – January 2012: Confidential, (Client - Confidential,USA)
As an Oracle BRM specialist, I worked on RFP for CenturyLink for the Billing Transformation project.
November 2011 – January 2012: Confidential, (Client - Prodapt, India)
As an Oracle BRM Specialist, I was the brainchild behind the Oracle BRM Competency Center/Lab setup (the BRM Competency Center PoC work) at Prodapt India.
Responsibilities I held:

• Set up the Oracle BRM Competency Center/Lab for the Telecom/Communication, Media, and Entertainment (T/CME) practice at Prodapt.
• Installed and configured the RHEL 5.
• Installed and configured the Oracle 11g Release 1 Database on RHEL 5.
• Installed and configured the Oracle BRM 7.5.0 server on RHEL 5 with Oracle 11g R1 DB.
• Installed and configured the various Client tools such as Customer Center 7.5.0, Pricing Center 7.5.0, Developer Center 7.5.0, and so on.
• Performed sanity test on the new BRM setup.

July 2011 – November 2011: Confidential, (Client - Confidential,USA)
As an Oracle BRM Specialist, I worked on the Support tickets Fixes on a day-to-day basis.
Responsibilities I held:

• Did a walkthrough of the Megapath’s Oracle BRM 7.3 environment.
• Did a walkthrough of the Retail and Wholesale customers on Megapath.
• Resolved Support Tickets pertaining to Retail and Wholesale customers of Megapath for voice, data, and security services.
• Updated the Ticket Statuses in the Trouble Ticketing application called TeamTrack on a daily basis.
• Did a walkthrough of various applications of Megapath viz: Mercury, Moses, Eagle, Symphony, Registration, AHM, CPS, CUP and so on.

Note: - Coached and guided the Prodapt team on basic and advanced Oracle BRM concepts.

August 2010 – December 2010: Confidential,Client - Confidential,Riyadh, KSA)
As an Oracle BRM Consultant (SME), I led the Maveric test team and drove the Oracle BRM 7.4 upgrade System Integration Testing (SIT) project till execution at Mobily. Additionally, I imparted the Oracle BRM trainings to its internal staffs and new hires.
Responsibilities I held:

• Did test requirement gatherings with Mobily.
• Did walkthrough with Oracle’s OCBRM 7.4 upgrade team and Mobily’s QA, Operations, and Development team.
• Did GAP analysis on Oracle’s BRM 7.4 upgrade work.
• Wrote Maveric SIT test strategy and test plan.
• Created Oracle BRM Test Designs for the SIT.
• Created Oracle BRM Test Scenarios for the SIT.
• Created Oracle BRM Test Cases for the SIT.
• Created Oracle BRM Test Steps for the SIT.
• Uploaded the Test Cases to HP Quality Center (QC) 9.2.
• Did defect creation and resolution in QC.
• Coached and guided the Maveric SIT team for the Oracle BRM 7.4 upgrade testing.
• Mentored the Maveric Oracle BRM 7.4 upgrade test execution team for the Mobily project.

Nov 2008 - Jan 2009: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,Spain)
Confidential,engaged IBM to Implement the Reference Data (RDs) i.e. Change/New Request in their Oracle BRM setup as per the VFS requirements.
Responsibilities I held:

• Created/Modified XML files to create/modify/delete content such as WAP Premium, SMS Premium, and MMS Premium etc.
• Created input flists for custom opcodes such as VSVA_OP_SDP_GET_PRICE, VSVA_OP_SDP_CLEARANCE_ACCEPT, & VSVA_OP_SDP_SERVICE_DELIVERED and executed them using testnap to get the output flists.
• Created design specifications for the RD deployment.
• Created Pricing components for some of the RDs.
• Checked-in and Checked-out the codes, XMLs, SQL queries and Flists into PVCS.
• Created package for the RDs in CoManCHe (Vodafone’s in-house Configuration and Change Management tool).
• Deployed the RDs across environments (Dev., Test, Pre-prod., and Prod. Boxes).
• Created 3Ps (i.e. Plan of Promotion of Production) for the RDs and executed them to close the RDs.
• Unit tested the flists, SQLs, Opcodes, and the XMLs.

Jan 2008 – May 2008: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,France)
Confidential,to do a PoC on their standard service offerings using Oracle BRM 7.3. The primary objective was to demonstrate the Oracle BRM capability in rating and billing the GSM customers using the current SFR service offerings.
Responsibilities I held:

• Replicated the Oracle BRM environment on Solaris platform from existing OBRM setup.
• Wrote the High Level Design Document.
• Created and configured the Pricing components such as Price Models, Rate Plans, Products, Deals, and Plans.
• Created and configured the Discounting components such as Discount Master, Discount Trigger, Discount Rule, Discount Selector, Discount Selector Rule, and Discount Model.
• Modified the container description file, format description file, mapping file, and grammar file.
• Wrote custom and modified the existing iScripts.
• Created custom classes and resources.
• Configured and customized the Infranet configuration files such as pin_beid, pin_event_map_telco_gsm, pin_telco_tags_gsm, pin_telco_provisioning_gsm, and so on.
• Created the sample CDR (EDR), rated the EDR in Pipeline Rating Engine, and loaded them into Infranet database using IREL.
• Performed unit and integration testing on all SFR data and custom codes.
• Wrote test cases for all SFR scenarios such as Mobile to landline call, landline to mobile call, mobile to mobile calls, STD and ISD calls and so on.
• Coached local resources on BRM.

May 2007 - Jan 2008: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,Australia)
Confidential,to provide support to stabilize their Infranet billing platform. The primary objective was to investigate and resolve defects on the production application.
Responsibilities I held:

• Solved production related issues and bugs in the customizations of Portal Infranet.
• Worked on dockets involving various aspects of the customizations like billing, charging extract, LDAP, operational scripts, and music loader.
• Extended technical know-how and helped team-mates in solving dockets on topics like payments, billing etc.

Jan 2006 – Feb 2006: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,Kuwait)
MTC-Atheer asked Connectiva to develop RA PoC for them.
Responsibility I held:

• Prepared daily, weekly, monthly Data Collection Reports (DCRs).
• Created Business Rules and Transformation Technical Design documents.
• Created reconciliation docs.
• Created SQL scripts.

Nov 2005 – Jan 2006: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,Sri Lanka @ Confidential,Kolkata, India)
MTN Colombo asked Connectiva to develop RA PoC for them.
Responsibility I held:

• Created Business Rules and Transformation Technical Design documents.
• Created Raw, CN, NC tables using Oracle scripts.
• Created reconciliation docs.

Apr 2005 - Aug 2005: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Confidential,engaged OrbSoft as an SI to Portal to develop a Unified Billing Platform (UBP) that caters to their billing requirements for all the service offerings.
Responsibilities I held:

• Gathered requirements for different ISP services such as Dedicated Access over fixed Leased Line connection, Dial-up & Broadband connection, Domain hosting, Secure VPN, Network Box (the security genie for Internet), SoftPhones (video, voice and data blends), and IDC (server parking).
• Performed feasibility and GAP analysis on existing independent billing systems.
• Delivered high level and detailed technical design specifications.
• Developed Infranet Price Lists (IPLs) for all services.
• Coached local resources on Infranet functionalities and features.

May 2004 - Nov 2004: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,Japan @ Confidential,Philippines)
Vodafone Japan engaged Accenture Manila Delivery Center (MDC), Philippines to work as an SI to Portal to implement the Portal Infranet Billing System and Samiullah was part of their rating team to implement the Audit System, Discounting, and Split Billing within Portal Infranet and Pipeline.
Responsibilities I held:

• Gathered requirements for AUDIT system, Discounting, and Split Billing/Charge Sharing.
• Created all discounting components within Infranet (namely, discounts, discount models, charge share models and so on) using Infranet Pricing Center.
• Created and tested the custom iScripts & iRules for AUDIT, Split Billing, & Discounting systems.
• Identified and created the control points across the AUDIT system for RA investigation.
• Created the AUDIT aggregation scenarios.
• Configured the OOB PRE plug-ins (such as FCT_Aggregate, FCT_IScript, FCT_IRules, FCT_DiscountAnalysis, & FCT_Discount), custom Plug-ins, & registries.
• Created/modified/updated the description, mapping & grammar files.
• Modified the Portal Container Description files as per VFKK requirements.
• Reviewed other PRE TDDDs and custom opcodes.
• Set guidelines for testing of AUDIT, Split Billing & Charge Sharing Systems.
• Implemented the UEL for Aggregation data loadings.
• Developed IPLs for all services.
• Coached local resources on Infranet/Pipeline functionalities and features.

Sep 2003 - Feb 2004: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,Japan)
Confidential,Japan sponsored Portal IDC to develop a new feature called Revenue Assurance Manager on Portal Infranet Billing platform and implement it on all the Vodafone operating companies across the globe. VFJ being the first to do this.
Responsibilities I held:

• Gathered requirements for RA.
• Delivered the functional design specification for the global RA for VFJ.
• Bundled the VF Group RA into a new feature called RA Manager Release 2 as part of the Portal Infranet 6.5 FP3 (also has Pipeline 6.5 FP3).
• Created all of the custom Storable Classes (nearly 26) in VF Group RA.
• Created new Infranet OPCODEs & BPFs for VF Group RA.
• Modified some of the OOB business policy files as per VF Group RA dependencies & inter-operabilities.
• Created all UEL templates (nearly 26) for RA data loadings.
• Devised Load Config Utility for parsing and loading of config files in VF Group RA cycle.
• Coached new-hires (within team) on Infranet and PRE.
• Investigated on Infranet and Pipeline issues.
• Wrote custom iScripts.

Aug 2002 - Jan 2003: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,)
Confidential,I was trained and mentored by Amchi’s highly skilled Ex-Portal Infranet professionals on Portal Infranet 6.0.3 & 6.2. It included the server side learning and the operational know-how of the Client tools such as Customer Center, Developer Center, and Pricing Tool and command line utilities such as testnap and so on.

Contract Oracle BRM training experience with Confidential, (14 months):
May 2011 – May 2011: Client – Confidential,for Kat Technologies
Responsibilities:
Imparted ILT training on the following OCBRM/Oracle BRM modules:

• Billing and Revenue Management 7.0 Technical Essentials module.
• Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Pipeline Developer module.

January 2011 – February 2011: Client – Confidential,and Wipro Confidential,
Responsibilities:
Imparted LVC/LWC training to Confidential,on the following OCBRM/Oracle BRM module:

• Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Pipeline Developer module.

Imparted ILT training to Confidential,on the following OCBRM/Oracle BRM modules:

• Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Essentials module.
• Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Technical Essentials module.
• Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Server Developer module.
• Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Pipeline Developer module.
• Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Pricing and Rating module.
• Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Batch Pricing and Rating module.
• Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 System Administration module.
• Billing and Revenue Management 7.4 Billing and Finance module.

December 2009 – August 2010 and December 2010 – January 2011: Clients – Confidential,)
As a freelance BRM Trainer I imparted trainings to various MNCs (Oracle and IBM) and small scaled companies. Kat Technologies being one of them.
Responsibilities:

• Imparted classroom training on BRM 7.3/7.3.1/7.0 Business Essentials module.
• Imparted classroom training on BRM 7.3/7.3.1/7.0 Technical Essentials module.
• Imparted classroom training on BRM 7.3/7.3.1/7.0 Server Developer module.
• Imparted classroom training BRM 7.3/7.3.1/7.0 Pipeline Developer module.
• Imparted classroom training on BRM 7.3/7.3.1/7.0 Pricing and Rating module.
• Imparted classroom training on BRM 7.3/7.3.1/7.0 Batch Pricing and Rating module.
• Imparted classroom training on BRM 7.3/7.3.1/7.0 System Administration module.
• Imparted classroom training on BRM 7.3/7.3.1/7.0 Billing and Finance module.

Freelance training experience self (39 months):
February 2012 – March 2012: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,USA)
As an Oracle BRM Architect, I was instrumental in setting up the BRM server at the client location remotely.
Responsibilities I held:

• Set up the Oracle BRM 7.4 server on DEV box remotely.
• Configured the Oracle BRM 7.4 setup for DEV box.
• Configured the Oracle 11g Release 1 Database on RHEL 5.
• Installed the Oracle BRM 7.4 client tools.
• Performed sanity test on the new BRM setup.
• Created the run book for the Oracle BRM 7.4 on DEV box.

January 2012 – February 2012: Confidential, (Client – Confidential,India)
As an Oracle BRM Architect, I was instrumental in setting up the BRM server at iBizSoft India.
Responsibilities I held:

• Recommended H/W and S/W requirements for the BRM setup.
• Recommended the database requirement for the BRM setup.
• Installed Oracle BRM 7.5 server.
• Configured the Oracle BRM 7.5 server.
• Installed Oracle BRM 7.5 clients.
• Performed sanity test on the new Oracle BRM 7.5 setup.
• Trained iBizSoft’s internal employees on Oracle BRM and got trained on iBizSoft’s processes.

May 2011 – July 2011, May 2008 – November 2008, February 2006 – May 2007, August 2005 – November 2005, November 2004 – April 2005, February 2004 – May 2004:
As a freelance BRM/Portal Infranet Trainer I imparted trainings to and assisted working professionals on BRM 7.3 and Portal Infranet 6.2
January 2003 – September 2003:
As a freelance Portal Infranet Trainer I imparted trainings to and assisted students on Portal Infranet 6.2
Highest Degree:
Master in Computer Science and Applications (MCA)