SUMMARY:

Optical Network Engineer with more than 10 years of experience, in India’s largest telecom operator and OEMs, in Solution Designing, Lab Testing, Planning, Engineering, End to End Installation, and commissioning, Field Testing, Operational profiles on multi - vendor multi-technology networks in national and international projects.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

• Thorough knowledge of planning, design, equipment validation lab/PoC testing, Field trials and implementation of Telco’s high performance, highly reliable Backbone & Backhaul optical networks comprising of ROADM based ULH (L1 ASON), Long Haul (L1 ASON) and Metro 10G/40G/100G/200G (L0 ASON DWDM/ WSON), Flex Grid ROADM, Packet, OTN, SONETnetworks.
• Responded teh RFX/RFP/RFQ/RFI by accomplishing link engineering, traffic engineering, SoC, SoW, BoQ, BoM, Pricing & Negotiation for teh requirement of teh internal & external customers.
• Executed equipment validation testing, lab testing, field trail, Network Acceptance Testing starting from writing test plan till final rollout of teh network for Greenfield and Brownfield Network.
• Pioneered Technology/Product/Vendor selection & testing for nationwide optical networks.
• Planned traffic demand and released capacity augmentation plans quarterly.
• Consulting to IBM/NMSWORKS / Vendor team to integrate Multi-Vendor NMS to build Single NMS platform.
• Use case of SDN/NFV for Telecom Service Provider to lower down to Capex and Opex.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

MapInfo, Windows (XP, 7), MS Office, MS Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Telecom Solution Consultant

Confidential, Irving Texas

Responsibilities:

• Operation and Management of installed telecom network of teh group for better availability of network connectivity.
• Technology testing and demo trail before final procurement of teh network equipment.
• Inventory Management of teh group for better customer experience.

Transport Consultant

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Prepared ECI’s WDM/OTN/PACKET NETWORK/SONET network solutions for National Telecom Service Provider, BSNL and Power Grid of India.
• Executed “Proof of Concept” testing and engineering prototypes for factory acceptance testing (FAT) to existing & potential customers regarding ECI solution offering which include low footprint Optics, OTN based PTN & DWDM networks.
• Prepared and Implemented BoM, Solution Document, and Solution Handover to me&C team.
• Presented Product & Solution Presentation for Bid defense to teh Customers.

Telecom Solution Consultant Contract, Fort Worth, Texas

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of latest telecom technologies solution for better connectivity of teh store.
• Demo of teh various telecom Solution to meet teh business requirement.
• Inventory Management of teh group for better customer experience.

Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Successfully prepared, evaluated & selected vendors for backbone and metro 10G/100G network RFPs.
• Analyzed vendor offered solution to assess its alignment with business needs. Applied analytical reasoning processes to quickly analyze technical challenges e.g. future evolution issues, TCO, space/ power/infra.
• Handled commercial   negotiations  with vendors and finalized network KPI/SLA during contract finalization.
• Prepared test plans to evaluate products and selected methods/techniques/MOPs for Card / NE/ network level lab testing.
• Liaised cross-functional teams (NoC, Operational Planning, System Engineering, TAC, IT) during solution handover, project handover, lab-testing and field trials. Demonstrated technical leadership during such interactions to drive teh discussion for teh Airtel goals.
• Collected data from ADRS OSS subsystem, capacity monitoring and forecast planning & budget, incremental network capacity planning, prepared BoM, released network capacity expansion & geographical coverage plans to ensure connectivity and capacity of transport equipment for best-in-class service delivery. 
• Integrated all optical networks to ADRS OSS to collect physical & logical inventory.
• Finalized & tested network software/hardware upgrade plan to enable new services (100G) & new features.
• Organized vendor roadmap workshop and finalized evolution path using Next generation transport technologies to reduce Capex / Opex.
• Technology selection of $30 Million according to different type & scale of networks (OTN, L0 & L1 ASON, fiber saving exercises etc.) ensuring future proof investment for 20,0 00 miles 10 0G network.
• Changed teh design of Ciena’s, ALU’s & Huawei’s Hardware/Software to ensure their products and services meet Airtel’s requirements and standards.
• Influenced teh roadmap to meet Airtel’s requirement (Coherent-100G single Slot Board) for low- cost optimistic design.
• Network transformation for Airtel backbone from FOADM based network to ROADM based Mesh network for higher availability.

Solution/Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared Huawei’s WDM/OTN/PTN/SONET network solutions for Indian market & business opportunities for optical & packet services in LTE/3G/2G/Mobile, Career Ethernet and Access Network applications.
• Excelled solution formation techniques, including collecting customer requirements (customer meetings, Tender/RFP document) and comparing solution alternatives based on trade-offs in cost, availability, scalability and security.
• Responded RFx and prepared solution documents, SoC, SoW, assumption lists, and Priced BoMs.
• Prepared 100G/40G/10G DWDM link engineering, OTN, SONET (TDM), ASON (L1 & L0) network designs & traffic planning using state of teh art network planning & designing tools.
• Prepared teh lab testing plan & documented reports as per Customer validation team.
• Replicating teh field environments and network challenges in teh lab for root cause analysis and optimum solution.
• Helped to establish new technical teams, & ensured knowledge transfer through technology/product training for resource platform building, and competency building.
• Prepared Airtel 40G Expressway Phase-3 BoM in 1-day record time comprising 300NEs (12,000 miles’ network).
• Rated (4.7/5) best trainer by Airtel’s NoC & O&M team during solution training.
• Won prize in writing a case study “Metro-OTN Right Time to Boom” on Airtel RFP win.

Pre-Sale Solution Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Handled pre-sales activities (responding to Tenders/RFP), customer handling for north India accounts.
• Explained technical capabilities and business benefits of solutions to teh customer from engineering level to senior management. .
• Formulated strategy for teh customer network, competition analysis, and SWOT analysis of Product & Solution, equipment/ service pricing, price negotiation, rate contracts for Tier-1 customers.
• Developed and maintain a good relationship with key accounts in market e.g. Airtel/BSNL/Railtel.
• Cooperate with vendor’s product line managers to sort out tender clarifications/ customer queries.
• Collected current Information of local telecom market, analyzed customer demands, and updated senior management
• Consulted customers for Network expansions, Node conversions, ring splitting according teh customer traffic demands. Conducted project Handover meetings with Customer’s Installation & Maintenance team, product positioning for smooth integration with existing network. .
• Member of special task force to stop escalations to higher management and solve customer issues.
• Contacted third parties’ suppliers for various outsourced items (sending RFQ) and assure their respective compliances meet teh tender requirements.
• Bagged order of worth $20 Million, from Airtel account.
• Looked capacity expansion, growths of Airtel’s pan India FOADM based DWDM, ASON & legacy transmission network (of 22000 miles comprising 31 Alcatel-Lucent’s & 12 Tellabs rings).

Engineer

Confidential 

Responsibilities:

• Government Tender handling, proposing teh right product and further follow-up to bag teh order (Worked for securing $25 Million Orders).
• Installation, integration and commissioning of DWDM (2.5Gbps & 10Gbps) Equipment’s BWS-1600G series of HUAWEI networks for BSNL.
• Trained 20 highly experienced BSNL employees with DWDM technology & Huawei product features.

Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared, Evaluated & Contract closure of Airtel’s RFPs, 100G RFP for Ultra Long Haul National Backbone, 100G mesh layer-0 WSON network for metro networks & 10G Low- cost DWDM for fiber saving exercise.(project duration: 1.5 year)
• Liaised with Ciena, ALU, ECI, Huawei Product experts to finalize Lab test set ups & tested their optics 100G/40G/10G DWDM OTN, Transport SDN & related product portfolios.
• Finalized lab testing report for 100G/40G/10G/2.5G/ BIDI DWDM OTN, SDH, Ethernet and feature gap.
• Capacity Planning & Expansions of BoM verification for 41 SONET+DWDM Rings, 30,000 miles OTN ASON mesh Network covering Top 7 metro Cities, 8 metro networks having L0 WSON network, and international fiber Pop locations.
• Bangladesh Network Expansions & BoM verification, Price negation to freeze new rate contracts with vendors.
• 100G field Trail on ALU’s network using Align lambda from 1830PSS transported over 1626 platform.
• Implemented Low-cost DWDM to vacate leased fiber in 4000miles to avoid repeating lease cost to Airtel.
• Integrated ADRS OSS with NMS of following vendors: ECI, Nortel, Ciena, ALU & Huawei.

Solution/Product Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Key Architect for teh establishment of teh new dept. BSSC (India) & its processes.
• Played diversified and lead role for teh execution of below Bidding & Support projects.

Pre-Sale Solution Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Airtel SONET/ DWDM National & International Fiber Network planning & BoM.
• 40G Expressway RFP of Airtel Pan-India network.
• Railtel SONET-192, SONET-48 & DWDM, 2009 tenders involving design & bid management.
• Aircel LH & Metro DWDM solution & offer preparation.
• BSNL STM-64 tender specs influencing & solution engineering.

Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• 80x10G DWDM system field trail for 300 miles’ network comprising of
• Trained 20 highly experienced BSNL Employees with DWDM Technology & Huawei Product features.
• Worked on designing of teh Planning Tool (ConneXions) for planning of DWDM transmission system.