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B K Subramanya Prasad, PMP, ITSMPMI Certified PMP

EXIN Certified ITIL-V3-F

EXIN Certified ITSM

Cell: +91 98443 49270LL:+91 80 26728402

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PROFESSIONAL PROFILEEngineering Graduate and PMP & ITSM certified Dynamic Project Manager with 9 years of solid experience in Process based End-to-End Project Management & Testing/Quality Assurance in IT Industry and 7 years of substantial experience in GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, RF, 3G technologies with Telecom Service providers.

SKILL SET

Technical Skills Strong Telecom knowledge in GSM, CDMA, GPRS, UMTS, 3G, MMS, SMS, SMSC, MMSC,

OSS, BSS, Switches & Routers, VOIP and General Telecom Network Architecture. Protocols used –SIP, ISUP, MAC, Call Control, Communication protocols -

RS-232/485,TCP/IP, SS7. Having Hands on different Software Testing methodology like – System, negative, black

box, regression, functionality, Load, Automated, Manual, Handset, Performance, Interop (IOT/IOP), Stress, API & Backend Testing and implementing test automation frameworks,

Software Testing Tools, Simulators used – Win Runner, Silk Runner, Ethereal, MMSC, Presto, R&S, HP QTP, HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Functional Tester, SNMP, Rational Robo & Test Director.

Planning, Developing & Installing Telecom Networks, RF Optimisation, Operations & Maintenance of Network, and R&D

Excellent skill in Project Management Software – MS Project and other absolute knowledge in using all other MS Office applications that includes MS Visio & MS Access.

Operation System Used—Linux, UNIX Languages —C, PERL, TCL/TK Absolutely Conversant with different SDLC like Waterfall, Agile methods and QALC Efficiently Setting-up Full-Fledged Lab Facilities Defect tracking tools used—Clearquest DDTS, IBM DETS, Bigzilla

Project Management Skills Expertise in adhering to PMI practices & establishing ITIL practices in Identified &

appropriate Scenarios Managing effortlessly multiple on-site & off-shore projects with Persuasive Presentation &

Communication skills to multi-geographical Stake holders Strong quantitative analysis skills & Ascertaining potential areas by understanding client

needs & industry trends Proficient Project management skills with experience in PLC like developing, managing &

tracking Project Plans, Scope, Risk, Contingency Planning, Stakeholder management, conflict management, etc.,

Architecturing complete solution for delivering multiple projects successfully with required KPI metrics & SLA’s.

Spearheading & producing thriving results from hi-performing individuals. Human Resource – Planning, Acquiring & managing with a very low attrition. Excellent

Training & Mentoring across various Project Stages & Teams

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Advocating for Quality Standards like TL & ISO, SEI CMM and CMMi Capacity Management for Resource considering the financial targets. Adding value by leveraging Ideas & Best practices, Designing & Providing relevant Reporting

& Status Updates to the Project Stakeholder

Software Testing & Quality Assurance Skills

Conducting case & system study for project planning, scope, estimation and tracking. Define, prepare and review test strategies, test plan, estimates. Defining product/software release criteria & being a part of the core team to take a decisive

direction Test environment & lab set up, functional, integration, regression testing, acceptance

testing and verification & validation at various levels of product release from Dev to Production. Carrying out procedures for test cases and test scripts. Successfully implemented automation testing from manual testing for about 6000 cases. Defect analysis and Risk analysis Designing process charts and generating manuals for each of the process area. Define and implement preventive and corrective actions to improve quality of the releases Contribute in quality assurance program of organisation; metrics data collection, Analysis

and Report generation. Conducting process and configuration audits & reviews.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Spearheaded the Quality Assurance of the $3Mn R&D OSS Project - Roaming Measurement for worldwide Telecom Operators like Airtel, AT&T, Rogers, Tata, Reliance, Vodafone and Sprint

Directed & Delivered Multiple key test projects in various Product Life cycle stages of BSS products - simultaneously within stipulated time & budget for International Clients like – Juniper, OKI, Italtel, Veraz, Airtel, BSNL, Sprint, Nortel. Products are SSF, SNS, B2B, UATK, SIGCOMP, MDS, OCCS & RR.

Accelerated the UAT processes of by accomplishing influential interpersonal relationship with multiple internal teams of size 20-50 & multiple-geographic clients.

Trained 500+ individual employees on various topics like Testing Automation, Agile Testing Methods, Efficient Project Management Skills, First Time Manager’s Dilemma, etc.,

Interviewed 200+ College Students in various Campus Interviews & 100+ technically sound Engineers for various projects

Implemented successful on-site IOT for relevant projects within / before stipulated timelines. Designed & Implemented templates & documents for the handled projects to erase the

geographical differences to bring in status synchronization among every stake holders Obtaining all relevant approvals & liaisons for the commercial launches of the Telecom

Operator Consistently maintained a very low-attrition ratio in the handled team, across organizations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCESProject Manager(R&D Operating Manager)

Agilent Technologies February 2008 – October 20091.8 Years

Engineering Project Manager Aricent June 2000 – February 20087.8 Years

Deputy Manager Bharti Telnet Ltd.(Airtel) August 1998 – June 20001.10 Yrs

Deputy Manager Aircell Digilink India Ltd.--Essar Cellphone

January 1997 to July 19981.6 Yrs

Senior Engineer KOSHIKA Telecom Ltd. (USHA Group)

June 1996 to December 19960.6 Yrs

Senior Engineer SHYAM Telecom Ltd From December 1992 to June 19963.6 Yrs

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Project Manager(R&D Operating Manager)

Agilent Technologies February 2008 – October 20091.8 Years

Integral part of the ACPL (Analytics & Customer Experience Product Line) R & D division that handles solutions for the service providers. Efficiently navigated the strong & performing team size of 20 thru the various phases of the development & Testing of

$2Mn worth Network Tester product $3Mn worth Roaming Measurement System Customer Experience Manager

o Realizing the specific requirements of the clients of the above products, the development, test plans & strategy were crafted & integrated in the delivery process

o Hand-picked by the PMO to implement PMI practices, develop templates. The same was strictly followed in various geographies across products

o Every Process was cohesively created with the SDLC Stages with a rigorous SCRUM(Agile) methodology

o Efficient Meeting Schedules across borders for escalation needs & Project Status Updates were critically maintained.

o Organized regular technical Training on various process, methods, tools for development & testing for teams across products & projects

o Co-ordinated, collaborated and setup Quality standards across the projects.o Monitored the test service practice level activities by acting as a Domain Expert.o Establishing collaboration with globally distributed teamso Project Migration & transition to China with the established best practiceso Skillfully utilized the CAPEX for the team

Engineering Project Manager Aricent June 2000 – February 20087.8 Years

1. VOIP & TSP Products (June 2005 to Feb 2008)

Significantly involved with VoIP technology products facilitating transmission of voice,facsimile and video traffic over globally managed Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This reduces capital costs while providing higher scalability and easier management. And the clients were the world-wide spread multiple telecom giants.

Solely responsible for anchoring the QALC/STLC of the following VOIP products - SIP Server Framework (SSF), System Network Server (SNS), Back-to-Back (B2B)- SIP Session Manager, User Agent Tool Kit (UATK). Signaling Compression (SIGCOMP).

And the successfully delivered TSP Products were Mediation Deviation System (MDS), Online Charging Control Systems (OCCS), Revenue Re-conciliation

Directed 35 strong individuals of multiple levels & projects to conduct full-fledged E2E testing & Network Testing

Implemented product validation projects utilizing various testing methods & tools @ various stages, ensuring efficient, comprehensive feature / functionality, QA, and performance testing.

As a domain expert, Set directives, Planned, strategized & Monitored more than 10000+ test cases for the above products with 100% coverage of the requirements and reporting

Employed multi-vendor operational expertise to ensure efficient, accurate IOT that slashed the time, cost and complexity.

Managing CAPEX and OPEX Adhered to the leading standards TL9000, CMMI Level 5 & ISO 9001 in Test Management without

any NC’s.

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2. MMS Applications for multiple Motorola Handsets (June 2002 to May 2005)

Proudly involved in the MMS Application development & testing in the early years of 2002. Those days MMS being a revolution that facilitates mobile subscribers to send and receive messages containing a large array of media elements like text, images, audio, and video in all possible file formats.

Guided & involved in Developing & Testing with the 8 member team.o Established the means to integrate Handset Configurations & to deliver thru necessary settingso Executed content adaption checks on multiple national & international operator networkso Managed & scrutinized the compatible distribution Lists o Developed & tested 2500+ Test cases with 3GPP specifications. Also scrutinized the results to

create a more competitive test repository enabling the future stages of feature testing in fast pace.o Successfully accomplished the UAT. o Showcased on-Site testing & Represented the MMS Product team in the Chicago product launcho Single handedly executed Inter Operability Testing at Vodafone, Düsseldorf-Germany.

3. Personal Digital Cellular Packet Data (June 2000 to May 2002)

PDCPD is a packet data system, using the technologies of CDMA & GPRS, is an extension of the PDC (Voice) system towards the Packet Data transfer. Operated as a crucial resource to the project’s execution & was successfully delivered to the Japanese Client.

o Test Case Development for the various O&M threads like Device Configuration Management, Device Status Management, Fault Management, Performance Management.

o Gained Sufficient Hands-on Experience in coding by Developing Log collection and Purge modules.o Acquired Excellent Skills in Strategizing, Planning, Writing & Exectuing Test cases.o Initiated Log Analysis & actively participated in end-end reporting

Deputy Manager Bharti Airtel Ltd.,( Airtel) August 1998 – June 20001.10 Yrs

o Circle /Sites Handled : Worked closely with & Reported directly to the COO of the Bhopal and Jabalpur circles.

o Installed & Managed O & M functions of OFC, MSC, BTS, BSS for CDMA networko Wireless & Wired Network Planning, Optimization of Network and Traffic Analysis. o Site planning w.r.t both RF & Microwave / backhaul planning to meet business requirements of both

coverage & capacity for GSM & CDMA. Involved dedicatedly in Network development like..o Survey, selection RSU/BTS sites o Design and development of infrastructures of sites o Implementation of Copper Network and BTS siteso GIS implementation

o Critical resource in Reviewing and monitoring the performance as per defined SLAs o Successful Liaison with Municipal, Corporation, PWD, Regulatory bodies & related vendorso Remarkable experience in Spares and logistics managemento Alarm monitoring, daily Maintenance, fault handling, preventive Maintenanceo Optimal BSS network architecture to minimize BSC locations

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Deputy Manager Aircell Digilink India Ltd., January 1997 to July 19981.6 Yrs

o Intensively involved in BTS acquisition, civil, roll out, installation & commissioning of the GSM(BTS sites) network for the Circle Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi and Allahabad.

o Actively involved in the deployment of Microwave network to have the connectivity between two/multiple cities.

o RF optimization of the GSM network to by trading off the coverage and the cost o Preferred resource to be part of the planning in Cost control, budgeting and O&M teamo Creating & Analysis of daily reports and initiating corrective action.o Working knowledge passive equipment like Electrical and civil infrastructure

Customer focus & problem resolutionso Consistently ensured 100% uptime of the networko Monitored POI's and other Operators connectivityo Experienced in Siemens MSC, BSS and Microwave Equipments and its interfaceso Prepared & analyzed the Network report and hands-on experience in improving the key parameters

such as Congestion level, network utilization.o Multiple vendors handling experience for the deployment of equipmentso Getting acceptance of the system by TEC and T&D for the Commercial launch.

Senior Engineer KOSHIKA Telecom Ltd. (USHA Group)

June 1996 to December 19960.6 Yrs

o Part of the team, building up Cellular Networks in various circles o Acquired knowledge in Survey, selection, design and development of BTS sites o Achieved fundamental knowledge of Telecom GSM technology, IP Networks, Switches & Routers.o Efficiently operated on 24 X 7 Shifts

Senior Engineer SHYAM Telecom Ltd From December 1992 to June 19963.6 Yrs

The starting point of the career had the following experiences that formed the strong base of my current telecom industry exposure

Excellently accomplished Multi-Access Rural Radio Project. MARR – a radio telephony network that provided. telephone facility to the remote villages. Operating under VHF and UHF band of frequencies, this was very successful and low cost telephone service for location that does not have even the basic electric power. Being part of this project rendered experience in

Designing & Developing high complex circuits with the aide of OrCad Development of Radio Cards – Hi & Low Power Transmitters and Receivers for the system using

prototype cards Testing of the complete system for the stability of all technical parameters including environmental

conditions so as to release the final product for production Obtaining TEC approval for the system Documentation for acquiring ISO 9000

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EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Education Bachelor of Engineer in Electronics & Communication – Year 1991Pursuing MBA in Software Enterprises Management

Certifications PMI certified PMPEXIN certified ITIL V3 Foundation EXIN certified ITSMPursuing ITIL – V3 Expert

Awards Best Practices – VoIP & TSP ProductsOutstanding Performance – MMS ProjectAward of excellence – PDCPD Project

PERSONAL DETAILS

Contact Address 26/14, 7th Main, Dattatreyanagar, Hosakerahalli, Banashankari Stage 3, Bangalore-560085, INDIA

Date of Birth 28th Sept 1968 Gender MaleMarital Status Married Passport Number B5848869

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