Nirav Vinod

Phone: (+1)818-510-1956   Email:  niravvinod@gmail.com

Personal Profile:

A multi skilled professional with an excellent track record of working in a technical as well as management field with complex and multi-vendor environment. Able to manage customer relationship and willing to take full responsibility to deliver project objectives.

Key Competencies and Management Skills:

·   3+ years of experience in Telecom Industry and experience as a Project Manager Intern.

·   Proactively led team to provide support on new project and build strong relationship with client.

·   Demonstrated ability to start the project from scratch and have end to end understanding of the process.

·   Proactively lead team, provide training and motivate new team members.

·   Experience of working in multi-vendor environments.

·   Conduct site surveys and draft detailed survey reports.

·   Conduct daily meetings with team members and create update reports.

·   Effectively communicate with senior management and clients to update them with the work progress and lesson learned.

·   Manage project timelines, manage risk and mitigate its impact on projects.

·   Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; Languages known- English, Hindi, Gujarati.

·   Able to troubleshoot equipment as needed.

·   Keep track of kit/equipment inventory used by our company.

Professional Experience:

Project Management Intern & RF Engineer, Mantra Telecom Inc., Irvine, CADec ’13 - Present

·   Primarily responsible for project planning, project coordination and customer management

·   Conduct project status meetings, create, update and modify spreadsheets used to track progress of the ongoing projects.

·   Monitor staff and team performance.

·   Visit sites, prepare customer questionnaire and checklists.

·   Conduct and draft survey reports; design and data processing reports.

·   Provide sufficient training and support to new team members.

·   Interact and communicate with the client to determine their wants and needs.

·   Keep update of kit/equipment inventory and software licenses and manage team expenses.

·   Monitor and control quality of the work delivered to the clients.

·   Help team members in troubleshooting technical difficulties on site.

·   Experience in RF optimization, drive Testing and In-Building walk testing.
 

RF Network Engineer, MobileNet Services Inc., Irvine, CAJune ’13 – Dec ’13

·   Worked as a market lead and managed a team of 12.

·   Managed client expectations by ensuring the delivery of the highest quality service.

·   Worked on UMTS / LTE data processing and optimization for ALU/AT&T.

·   Created test cases and performed various tests to troubleshoot the problems.

·   RF data optimization and drafted drive reports daily.

·   Managed daily travel and accommodation of all team members and assigned work.

·   Prepared work progress reports.

 

RF Drive Tester, Avion Systems Inc., Salt Lake City, UT June ’12 – June ’13

·   Worked as a drive tester for AT&T (ALU ctr) UMTS and LTE technology in Pacific North West States

·   Kept records of KPIs and updated the lead engineers.

·   Updated site tracker daily and created work report after completion of a site.

·   Created test cases and performed various tests to troubleshoot the problems.

·   Proactively participated in project meeting and shared my inputs on the work procedure and progress.

Technical Skills:

Office Tools	MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Project
RF Data Process / Analysis Packages	Actix, MapInfo
RF Design Tool	IBwave
RF Data Collection tools	Agilent JDSU, Nemo, Tems, DataPro

 

 

Academic Qualification:

MBA Project Management	United States University, Chula Vista, CA	Aug’ 14 – Current
M.S. Structural Engineering	Cal. State University, Northridge, CA	Dec’11
B.E. Civil Engineering	Gujarat University, India	Aug’09

 

References:

Available on request.