Dhaval Thaker

• Leading global organization to achieve process transformation and operational efficiency for Network Operations.

5G Radio and Transport network Technology onboarding with automation -

• Build automation solutions for deploying 5G spectrum for Field engineers for Cell Sites and Core networks.
• New process implementation resulting providing $25M savings year over year.
• Expense cost reduction of $10M+ with building exiting network migration to new technology.
• Complex configuration generation with 30+ Routers with hub and spoke topology.

Network Virtualization of Radio Access Network

• Led the deployment of one of the worlds largest network transformation from physical network to virtualized radio access network
• Software automation reduced the the network build time by 70%, software upgrade by 50%, resulting in savings of $12M year.
• Led the deployment of one of the worlds large network transformation from physical network to virtualized radio access network
• Software automation reduced the the network build time by 70%, software upgrade by 50%, resulting in savings of $12M year

Verizon Field Force Efficiency Improvement

• Developed the daily work-task planner for Verizon Wireless field engineer
• $4M expense reduction with data driven process analysis and field work planning.
• Built strong user engagement with cross functional teams defining task prioritization rules

Led a global team in designing, developing, and deploying single platform for Verizon Network Inventory management. Led the re-architecture and redesign of legacy inventory OSS’s,

Key Achievements:

► Reduced annual operational expense by $20M by driving end to end process re-architecture of network inventory procurement, build and deployment functions with automations and minimizing handoffs

► Drove consolidation of 6+ legacy applications and data stores to a single cloud-native, No-SQL technology platform, leading the largest strategic re-architecture for Verizon Network Inventory

► Improved system reliability engineering practices (SRE) by 30%, driving the applications to adopt a standard operating environment (SOE) and meet service level objectives.

► Managed and oversaw an eight-figure budget developing cost-savings solutions, driving automation & generating ideas at C-Suite levels.

Led building a green field platform to launch and manage one of largest scale network rollout in the world with $3B investment.

Created new network build and operation process implementations driving operating cost reduction 30% year over year, $15M annual savings.

Leveraging global software delivery teams to build a true cloud native web scale platform.