Venkat

 

A highly focused, dedicated, results oriented professional, with over 18+ years of experience in project management, Telecom & Fibre Optical Infrastructure Projects.

 

Experience Summary:

 

Project Management:

·         Demonstrated track record of accomplishments, including successful project launches

·         Strong knowledge of Program Management & Project Management practices

·         Strong practical knowledge of Microsoft Project

·         Strong practical knowledge and mastery of MS PowerPoint and MS Excel

·         Excellent organization and time management skills

·         Demonstrated exceptional influence skills, and able to influence

·         Individuals across all functional organizations and at all levels

·         Expert knowledge of Project Management Institute processes

·         Direct and oversee projects resources and critical program work streams including Product Management, Marketing, Sales and Legal.

·         Project Management Course at IIM, Indore, India & PMP - 35 PDUs

·         Hands on experience on AutoCAD, Spatial NET, Visio, MS Projects, MS Office

·         Communicate project status to the Director and project stakeholders through weekly and monthly status reports about the project, project health, metrics, status

·         Develop and manage executive level timelines / critical path milestones to support day-to-day executive management and executive level reviews

·         Rigorously maintain key program issues, clearly articulating impacts, next steps, and owners.

·         Develop and manage integrated project plan through collaboration with impacted teams

·         Track and manage program risks and issues

·         Escalate project issues that cannot be resolved

 

Domain Expertise:

 

Telecom               :              SDH, PDH, SONET, ATM, ROADM, Opti-Mux, Digital Cross-connect, PLCC, DWDM, CWDM, Core, Aggregation, Distribution Network, Copper Network, ADSL, HDSL, VDSL, Microwave communication

Fiber               :              FTTH, GPON, Underground, Aerial, ADSS, OPGW, Harsh Environment OFC, Tactical Graded OFC, HFC

IP-Networking              :              Metro Ethernet, Carrier Ethernet, LAN, WAN, MAN, Wifi, WiMax, L2/L3, Cisco Switches & Routers, VPN, VLAN, MPLS

Engineering               :              NLD, Intracity, Intercity, Technical Consultancy, Develop Network Architecture, OSP Design & Planning, Testing, Troubleshooting and Maintenance, Construction of UG and Aerial Stringing

CATV & HFC              :              Digital CATV HE Plan & Design, Sizing, Installation & Configuration of Dish Farm, Satellite Receivers, Encoders, QAM Modulators, Multiplexers, Streaming Servers, NMS, CAS, STBs, RF Combiners, Optical Transmitters, Nodes, EDFAs, Optical & RF Splitters 

IPTV              :              IPTV – Unicast & Multicast, Content Distribution, Streaming Servers, STBs, NMS, Content Management, VOD, Video Conference, Web TV

Software               :              AutoCAD, Arc GIS, Spatial Net, NE, MS Projects, MS Visio, Photoshop, Embedded XP, CE.NET, Embedded Linux

 

 

Major Telecom Clients / Global Experience:             

 

Worked with major telecom operators across the Globe, including

 

·         Australia              -              Service Streams (NBN Co,.) Australia

·         Mauritius              -              Mauritius Telecom, Central Electricity Board

·         Singapore              -              SINGTEL

·         Taiwan              -              Chunghwsa Telecom

·         Uganda              -              UTL, Tangerine, Infocom Ltd, Warid Telecom, Airtel Uganda

·         India                -              Reliance Jio Infotel, BSNL, MTNL, Indian Army, DRDL, RCI, PGCIL, APTRANSCO, CPDCL, BGR Energy

·      Extensively travelled over 30+ countries in NAM, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Far East and Africa, on short / long term assignments, thus developed global mind-set and working under multi-cultural environment

A regular visitor to the international fairs such as, NAB, ISC, AFCEA – USA, IBC-Amsterdam, CeBIT–Germany, Computex–Taiwan, Communication Asia–Singapore, GiTEX–Dubai, to get abreast with latest technologies, services & solutions

 

 

Certifications:

·         Certified Fibre to the Home Professional (CFHP)

·         Certified ITIL-V3

·         Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

 

Representative Project Experience:

 

Project # 1   Survey, Plan and Engineering of FTTH networks for NBN Co, Australia

 

Company              :              InfoTech-Enterprises India

Customer              :              Service Stream, Australia

Duration              :              March ‘12- Feb ‘13

Platforms              :              SpatialNET and AutoCAD

Team Size              :              30

 

Service Stream is Australia's leading provider of end to end solutions in the telecommunications and utilities sectors. Service Stream is a specialist in telecommunications infrastructure design, they build, installation and maintenance the networks. The objective of the project is to, Plan and Design the fibre optic network for FTTH designs, including Backhaul and New Estate Planning & Designing scope.

 

CoE Head, responsible for:

·      Create and execute project work plan and revise as appropriate to meet client’s changing needs and requirements in Green Field, Brown Field, Backhaul FTTH & Intracity Network

·      Regularly interact with the customer on project status updates and studying & understanding of the new requirements, technical updates and  clarifications on queries raised through Dash Board

·      Develop and maintain a collaborative working relationship with management  and the team

·      Support team for optimization of Desktop Survey, GNAF Validation, Plan & Engineering of TFAN, FDH, AJL, LJL, MPT locations by studying the field survey reports Fiber Optic Cable, Trench routing & Ducts

·      Monitoring the QMS including regular checking for QC and QA process and process improvement

·      Monitoring scope for Automation to increase productivity

·      Identify project resource needs and escalate deficiencies

·      Manage day-to-day operational aspects of a project and scope and ensure error free designs to the customer to meet the defined SLAs, Australian codes and standards

·      Review deliverables prepared by charter team before communicating to client

·      Support Pre-sales, Bidding & Sales teams in commercial closure

 

Key Accomplishments:

 

·         Met client delivery targets, in spite of sharp ramp up/down of resources and impulsive input data flow

·         Achieved delivery with 100% quality in Engineering Designs and delivered in time

 

Project # 2   Survey, Plan and Engineering for FTTH, 4G/LTE for Reliance, India

 

Company              :              InfoTech-Enterprises India

Customer              :              Reliance (Infotel Broadband Services Limited)

Duration              :              Jan ‘12- Feb ‘13

Platforms              :              INFI-Plan, AutoCAD

Team Size              :              50

 

Description:

Reliance Jio Infocom Ltd, a Reliance group company, won Pan India Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Spectrum to launch LTE / FTTH service, with a OFC rollout of 200,000 kms. The objective of the project was to engineer the Outside Plant (OSP) facilities for LET (4G) & FTTx networks.

 

CoE Head, responsible for Inter-city, Intra-city & FTTx networks:

·           Effectively apply Project Management methodology and enforce Charter standards and procedures for NLD, Intracity & FTTH Projects

·           Hold regular status meetings with project team and facilitate team and client meetings for project updates, queries resolutions and rulebase updates

·           Effectively communicate relevant project information to the Management and all stake holders through Weekly & Monthly review meetings, Governance and Steering committees

·           Resolves and/or escalates issues in a timely fashion and communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully

·           Manage team and functional area conflicts

·           Technical Consultancy & lead the Pilot Project / POC

·           Development of Templates, Rulebase, Processes, Methodologies for NLD, Intracity and Intercity projects

·           Support Field Survey teams in Coordination, ROW permits, Planning, Engineering Designs

·           Support Sales & Bidding teams on Techno-commercial issues and proposals

·           Day-to-day production monitoring, tracking, report, status up-dating, client communication

·           Guide, coach & mentor the engineering teams during the production

·           Prepare for efficiency reviews and quality assurance procedures.

·           Conduct project retrospectives, compile lessons learned, and integrate into processes and templates

 

Key Accomplishments:

·           Received Customer Feedback of 7/7 for 3 consecutive quarters from the customer

·           Completed 45,000kms of NLD OFC and 1500 OLTs for entire Mumbai city FTTH project

·           Developed Automation Tools for the Production

 

Project # 3   Construction of Fiber Optic Intracity & FTTH Network in Kampala

 

Company              :              KSCL, Uganda

Duration              :              Aug ‘09 - Aug ‘11

Platforms              :              GEPON, HFC, Digital CATV, Super-Wifi

Team Size              :              46

 

Description:

Kampala Siti Cable Ltd (KSCL) is a triple play service provider offering Telecom, ISP, and Digital CATV & Fiber Infrastructure Service Provider in Kampala, Uganda.  KSCL leases Dark Fibers / Capacity to other Telecom / ISP companies point to point and point to multi point fibre optic links using Active Ethernet / GEPON (FTTB) solution.

 

Project Director – Fibre Optic Infrastructure Projects, was responsible for:

·         Direct, manage and develop/mentor the operations team to ensure their managerial and operational skills support and facilitate an open, collaborative and high performance environment

·         Lead the team in successfully developing and implementing a talent strategy to meet current and future business needs of Fiber Optic Infrastructure, Digital CATV and FTTH-GEPON Infrastructure, ISP services

·         Designing, installation & commissioning of Brown-field Fiber Optic Infrastructure project supporting HFC, GEPON, Active Ethernet, ADSL, Voice & Data Services

·         Lead and further develop Employee Safety program, policies and procedures to ensure network operations safety needs are met, and proper safety protocols are followed by all applicable personnel

·         Market study for the techno-commercial feasibility for migrating existing analog cable TV system to digital cable television

·         Liaison and interaction with Government agencies and private parties for ROW & Licensing and Permits

·         Procurement, Construction & Commissioning of city wide Underground & Overhead Fiber Optic Cable, Optical Transmitter, Opti-Mux, SDH Equipment, OLTs, ONUs, Splitters, Termination Boxes, FDH, Splice Enclosures, Termination Boxes, Optical nodes, EDFAs,

·         Migration for Analog to Digital, Erection & Commissioning of Digital HE with 150 TV Channels capacity, CAS, Billing & CRM, STBs.

·         Develop and manage capital budgets and justifications; partner with Finance to develop budgets, track costs, and provide pre-estimates and post-estimates as requested

·         Capturing feedback on quality and performance issues and developing new opportunities for ongoing customer and employee feedback to support actionable plans to improve the customer experience

 

Key Accomplishments:

 

·         Rolled out 1st FTTx network in East Africa

·         Construction of over 300 kms of Fiber Optic Network for Intracity & FTTH

·         Rollout of Deep Fiber Architecture for HFC Network

·         Deployed processes & systems for Customer Service, 3 fold increase in Customer Satisfaction

 

Project # 5 Fiber Optic Infrastructures - JVC & IPTV Project

 

Customer              :              Goldstone Technologies Ltd, India

Duration              :              Jun ‘04 till Mar ‘08

Team Size              :              25

 

Description:

 

Goldstone Technologies Limited (GTL) is a leading IT services and ISO 9001:2008 and ISMS 27001:2005 certified company. GTL provides a broad spectrum of IT and related services and earned its mark as a global service provider, including IPTV. GTL through its sister company, Online Media Solutions Ltd, envisaged to start FTTH, ISP and digital cable TV services across the state of Andhra Pradesh.

 

Vice President – JVC & IPTV projects, responsible for:

·         Lead operations management team in proactively and consistently identifying and implementing enhanced processes in order to maintain efficiencies and ensure a productive and collaborative working relationship between Technical, Operations & Maintenance, Production and Engineering

·         Ensure efficient and effective technical and production operations activities through continuous process improvement

·         Serve as key contact with outside vendors to assure strategic and financial goals are achieved while maintaining positive relationships.

·         Identifying new sources of generating revenue and business opportunities.

·         Develop risk mitigation plans.

·         Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately

·         Ensure project legal commitments are understood by the project team.

·         Network Design, interaction with key partners of Joint Venture Company (JVC) - APTRANSCO, PGCIL on the fibre optic project deployment in the State of Andhra Pradesh, India.

·         Planning and design of 8,000 kms fibre optic network and associated equipment to deliver triple play services namely voice, video and data.

·         Develop Network Architecture supporting various technologies and protocols, such as FTTH / GEPON / SDH / SONET, EPON, HFC, DWDM, MPLS, CWDM, etc.

·         Fibre optic cable route and collocation layout design, site planning, facilities planning, selections and engineering.

·         Build and retain a world class OSP/ISP planning, design and engineering team of senior managers, supervisors, engineers and technicians with domain expertise spanning all domains and facilities planning and engineering.

·         Studying IPTV market on techno-marketing, assist in building business plan.

·           Integration and implementation of the project and services at clients’ premises, such as BSNL, MTNL, Chunghwa Telecom - Taiwan, and Singtel – Singapore, etc.

·           Procuring, installing, and commissioning the IPTV equipment.

 

Key Accomplishments:

·           Established NOC and integrated with POPs at Chunghwa Telecom–Taiwan,  SingTel-Singapore, BSNL & MTNL-India

·           Awarded IPTV Contract for BSNL, Andhra Pradesh

Projects # 6                 Fiber Optic Infrastructure - JVC & HFC Project

 

Customer              :              Online Media Solutions Limited, India and Mauritius

Duration              :              Mar ‘99 till May ‘04

Team Size              :              120

 

Description:

Online Media Solutions Ltd (OMSL) an ISP, partnered with APTRANSCO and Power Grid to launch 8000 kms of OFC network in Andhra Pradesh.  OMSL was also awarded license to start the 600 kms Fiber Infrastructure project in Mauritius

 

As the Assistant Vice President – Networks, he was responsible for:

·                Preparation of tender document, bidding for the JVC Project of 8,000 kms OFC across Andhra Pradesh in Joint Venture with APTRANSCO and POWER GRID

·                Designing, physical walk through survey and feasibility study of 600 kms of Fiber Optic Network in Mauritius for triple play services and school IT project

·                To deploy broadband Internet services using a combination of fibre optic backbone and ADSL and cable as last mile

 

Key Accomplishments:

·                Introduced Fiber Media Convertor in replacement of expensive SDH Equipment for networking requirements

·                Deployment of a Pilot Project of 50kms with fibre optic network supporting data, voice and video services

 

Project # 7   Thicknet & Extended Ethernet – Project Manager

 

Company              :              SR Power Systems, Hyderabad

Duration              :              Dec ‘93 to Mar ‘99

 

Description:

SR Power Systems is a IT Hardware & Networking solutions specialized company, working on turn-key projects including CAT5, Fiber and Copper solutions.

 

As the Senior Manager, he was responsible for:

·         Developed and implemented the low cost fibre optic based Internet access in Hyderabad, India using fibre media converters, Thicknet, and CAT5 cable.

 

Key Accomplishments:

·         First in South India, to offer Internet services using Thicknet & Extended Ethernet solution in 1998