Ankit Prasad

• Collaborated with cross functional/ cross organizations teams to lock down requirements for first ever non terrestrial network based services.
• Led study of 10 plus new features which are exclusive to Samsung premium smartphones and presented to NA operators leadership and technical teams.

• Led team of 5 engineers to develop, test and support launch of Mission Critical Push To Talk(MCPTT) application.
• Collaborated with cross client teams ( IOS,Android, 3rd party devices) to make unified MCPTT solution based on operator requirements.
• Led requirement discussions, feasibility analysis and delivered top operator desired device analytics/diagnostics features such as 5G metrics, WiFi Calling metrics, DNS traffic stats.
• Managed Samsung device features lab verifications and network trials in operator labs in collaboration with operators.
• Built Log Auto analyzer tool with team of 2 engineers for analyzing logs related to LTE, 5G and IMS/VoLTE.
• Led development and validation of Samsung Watch Remote SIM Provisioning( eSIM) and On Device Activation(ODSA) solution with team of 4 engineers.
• Collaborated with Tech PMs, Product Managers and R&D teams over various tools and in person meetings to plan out work scope for the team.
• Reduced Tier II operators onboarding time to less than 50% by preparing minimum device and network features list required to deploy new services.

• Led team of 5 engineers to accomplish lab certification and feature launches of 6 plus IMS services and features(VoLTE,ViLTE,Wifi Calling, Ut/XCAP, IP Messaging, Numbersync, E911 over IMS) for major west coast operators.
• Collaborated with TPMs to streamline engineer/resource allocation process for internal teams and was able to manage 14 plus tech trials with 8 engineers.
• Performed log analysis of 50% of total IMS failure logs from MNOs lab and improved developer productivity by 40%.

Wireless Connectivity features and handset optimization

• Achieved 10% faster lab test execution time by incorporating time cost saving strategies like Automation Sanity check, checking logs run time and pointing network issues.
• Executed wireless connectivity test scope( LTE, 3G, CDMA) on various mobile devices, tablets and PCs.
• Co-worked with 3rd party lab and received several email appreciation for detailed debugging and problem solving approach.

Motorola Mobility iDEN Handset System Verification

• Test Execution and test suite development for iDen phones.
• Improved test scope by 20% incorporating all escaped defects and features around them by doing timely post mortem analysis.