IKSHIT PANT

34135 Tupelo St

Fremont, CA 94555

Summary –

• 20+ years of experience (including 8+ years in management) in various roles ranging from Sr.

Manager to Mentor, Project Manager, Engineering Lead and Software Engineer.

• Complete Software Life Cycle and Test Management experience

• Experience in Complex Solutions, Cloud Operations, DevOps, QA/Testing/Automation,

Agile/Waterfall Methodologies, System Architecture, Business Requirements,

Engineering/Project/Release Management, and Customer Support/Escalation.

• Well versed in handling multi million dollar budgets, managing vendor relationships and SLAs.

• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills to interact, influence and negotiate at all the

levels professionally.

• Proven track record of meeting/beating deadlines of simultaneous multiple complex projects

ensuring quality

• Expert in building/managing/retaining team of top-notch professionals across geographic

locations.

• Ability to swiftly adapt to changes in technology, environment and business requirements.

• Strong strategic, analytical and critical thinking skills.

• Technically strong on Solutions, Virtualization, Openstack, Cloud architecture, Wi-Fi, Mobility,

Network Management, Unix/Linux/IOS, Networking.

Education –

• Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from

Kumaon Engineering College, India

Experience –

1. CISCO Systems Inc. (March 2007 – Till Date)

E-mail: ikshitpant@yahoo.com

Phone:

408-373-2402

San Jose, CA

Working as Sr. Manager – Engineering. Responsible for large-scale complex end-to-end Solutions

(namely Wi-Fi, Small-Cell-Solutions) for Service Providers / Enterprises and handling Cisco’s Devops

strategy into the cloud based SaaS offering driven through inter cloud (Cisco OpenStack, AWS,

Rackspace) architecture covering Mobility iQ, WiFiaaS, RRM programs providing analytics in form of

User/Network/Business intelligence.

Job functions in this role include design & validation of the solution architecture, close collaboration across

multiple Business Units, interlock meetings, design discussions with CTO architects, standards

conformance, sales engineers’ feedback compilation, finalization of requirements with Product

Management, implementing devops strategies, orchestration, deployment, customer on-boarding & support.

Other responsibilities include mentoring and providing day to day technical guidance to the team members;

driving dependencies to closure with cross Business Units; budgeting; hiring, performance reviews; partner

OEMs, SLAs; interops; innovations; QA/testing; demos; exec briefings etc.

Successfully led/managed QA/Testing/Automation of key projects namely SBC (Session Border

Controller) using VoIP (H323, SIP, MGCP) running on Cisco GSR, 7600 & CRS gateways; Videoscape;

3GPP2 Home Agent; Bearer Manager using Advanced IMS on CRS; 3G & LTE: SGSN, GGSN, SGW,

PGW, MME, PCRF, eWAG, SaMOG running on 7600 and ASR5K platforms covering wide range of

networking protocols (TCP/IP, OSPF, IPSec, TLS, BGP, MPLS VPN) and 3GPP conformance.

Responsible for identifying and implementing processes, Test Planning (Product Requirements Document,

Test cases, Reviews, Lab/setups, resources etc.), execution, automation, bug scrub, fixes, release planning,

deployment, escalation, Interoperability testing with major vendors etc.

Managing/Leading team of 50+ professionals including Engineering Managers, Program Managers,

Technical Leads, Engineers; across various geographic locations responsible for

• Building complex solutions for Service Providers and Enterprises starting from scratch including but not

limited to inception based on feedback from field, standards conformance, architecture/design, validation,

deployment, customer support, improvements and evolution.

• Complete process handling e.g. Business/Solution Requirements, Architecture/Engineering documentation,

Concept/Executive Commit, Final Customer Shipment (FCS)/General Availability (GA), Trainings.

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Closely working with executive leadership in committing/positioning/delivering complex solution programs

and regular briefings on status, issues, progress etc.

• Devops and CICD (Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment) including orchestration with Ansible,

tail-f, OpenStack Heat, AWS cloud formation, Terraform, Stackstorm etc.

• Automation framework using Python, Shell scripts, monitoring (NewRelic, Nagios, Zabbix) and centralized

logging (Loggly, Logstash, CloudWatch).

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Inter cloud model with NFVs hosting and analytics using Netflow, SNMP, REST APIs and NoSQL databases

(Postgres, Cassandra, Druid, Elastic Search).

PaaS open source tools e.g. Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Apache Stratos, Cloudify, Terraform, Stackstorm,

AVI, NGINX etc.

• Best engineering practices for Agile software development of Business Intelligence Dashboard, which

includes daily standups, scrum meetings and weekly sprints. Technologies used are Jenkins build server. GIT

version control, Rally project management, JIRA bug scrub.

• Managing 24x7 NOC (Network Operations Center) for customer support using PagerDuty and ServiceNow.

Implemented professional concepts in developing resolutions to critical issues and proper reporting

mechanism.

• Define complete ecosystem of Solution Delivery by including various functions within the company e.g.

supply chain, legal, sales models, TAC (customer support), marketing and engineering.

• Leading team of QA professionals for Test Planning, Technical requirement reviews, building test

labs/setups, test execution, bug scrub, fixes, releases, deployment, support. Covering suite of testing

methodologies e.g. AT (Acceptance Test), DT (Dev Test), SIT (System Integration Test), Sanity, Regression,

Negative, Scale/Load/Performance testing.

• Bug/Defects scrub/verification, publishing regular test status reports to execs, test cycle management, process

making/enforcement right from DTHO (Dev Test Hand Off) till customer release.

• Driving complete automation using various tools, scripting languages (Bash, Tcl/Tk, Expect, Python) and

frameworks.

• Analyzing, procuring, implementing industry recognized tools e.g. Spirent, Ixia, Selenium, Blazemeter etc.

2. BayPackets Inc. (July 2001 – March 2007)

Fremont, CA

Worked as Sr. Manger - Engineering covering range of project suites on Agility NSP and SAS system.

These include Next Gen SCP, Voice VPN, Toll Free access, enhanced messaging solution using Unified

Communication and single point of control for event processing from circuit as well as packet based

networks under IMS architecture. Managed team of 25+ engineers and managers.

Primarily worked on Next Gen SCP, Radius/Diameter protocols, VoIP (SIP, MGCP, H323), SS7 (Sigtran,

MTP) and ISDN for the same provisioned data interoperating with STP (Tekelec) and switch 5ESS

(Lucent). Network Management System was based on SNMPv2 using industry recognized tools e.g.

Spirent, IXIA, INET, MGTS, SilkPerformer etc.

Responsibilities included managing team of Managers, Leads and Engineers covering System Test/QA

(Functional, Stress, IOT, Performance, Interop, Regression testing), Customer Support, test

networks/resources, clients’ coordination, test planning, regular bug scrubs, scheduling, automation,

budgeting, collaboration, demos, trainings etc.

Job profile included periodic exec reviews and great deal of collaboration across the board including

overseas team.

3. IPVERSE Inc. (May 2000 – May 2001)

Sunnyvale, CA

Worked as Technical Lead on Next Gen SoftSwitch, which provided enhanced services for carrier

networks. It provides the intelligence and merging together of complex multi-vendor circuit and packet

based networks, thus enabling the integration of DSL, Wireless, Wireline and IP network technologies.

Primarily worked on SS7, ISDN, VoIP (SIP, MGCP, H323) protocols, Cisco Gateways, call processing,

Network Management System, Unix/Linux, multiple 3rd party vendors.

Responsibilities included preparing test plans and test beds; writing, executing and automating test cases;

interfacing with Development and System Integration team; mentoring team members, conducting demos

to customers etc.

4. KOSHIKA TELECOM LTD. (July 1995 - May 2000)

N. Delhi, India

Worked as Sr. Engineer on the GSM project, which included Testing, IND (Initial Network Design),

Network Management and Planning on the GSM wireless communication network.

Primarily worked on Telecommunication Management System, SS7 signaling, GSM standards/interfaces,

Network design, configuration and various flavors of testing e.g. Acceptance, Stress, and Functional etc.

Was part of several training sessions from Alcatel and Nokia.