Insightful Technology Leader with 18 years of experience in Mobile Space. Dedicated to customer satisfaction with focused delivery of technical solutions. Proven leader in directing operations, maintenance, and support of complex systems. Develops creative business solutions, leveraging diverse methodologies and delivering engineering solutions for leading organizations. Highly adept in request for proposal development, technology needs assessments and staff training.
· Successfully delivered 25M+ multi-year projects with 15% - 18% yearly growth and 125+ direct employees.
· Highly specialized and demonstrated customer service with 100% satisfactory results, time management, and trend-tracking strengths.
· Ability to manage waterfall and agile projects equally well and experience with working in a hybrid environment.
· Led a team that achieved a 90% customer retention rate for a SaaS product, resulting in significant recurring revenue for the company.
· Increased network capacity by 20% by optimizing RF network design.
· Reduced RF equipment costs by 10% by negotiating better pricing with vendors.
· Successfully completed all RF engineering projects on time and within budget.
· Managed the process to assess gaps and develop action plans to address these gaps.
· Advanced user proficiency with computer software, such as MS Office, MS Project and/or Visio
· Innovative “out-of-box” thinker with a “can-do” attitude.
Seeking a full-time / contract position that offers professional growth utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management, and problem-solving skills
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Client(s): Dish | T-Mobile | Nokia | AT&T | GCI | C Spire | Multiple Enterprises
• Successfully delivered more than 25-million-dollar multiyear projects with 125+ direct reports.
• Provided solutions to generate significant business impact optimizing productivity with more than 8%.
• Implemented Agile methodologies across organization, resulting in 30% increase in productivity and 20% reduction in time-to-market.
• Hands-on experience with pre-sales/sales support, presentations, RFX, SOWs / LOEs and experience working with clients (“C” level) to understand/define problems and then architect solution to address their needs / issues.
• Responsible for tracking project status and managing project issues and risks including monitoring projects on ongoing basis, evaluating progress/quality, managing issue resolution.
• Developed robust project risk management plans to ensure timely delivery, testing and commissioning of all projects with no impact to business continuity.
• Partnered with stakeholders and project managers to augment existing strategies with creative, fresh solutions.
• Supported business with technical solutions aligning with operational and financial requirements.
• Worked with cross-functional team as matrix, including but not limited to contractors, recruiting, HR, Contracts, Solutions, Sales, and vendors to deliver critical projects.
• Worked with engineering and data teams on development of technical frameworks for business solutions.
• At times of urgent engineering support, below are some engineering activities –
• Hands-on design for AT&T design (RFDSs) using Autoforms during the market urgency.
• Hands-on network optimization for T-Mobile In-building using Ookla Tools.
• Hands-on Greenfield ORAN Network Optimization for Dish Network using XCAP.
• Designed and optimized the first 5G ORAN Cloud Native Network using Planet and XCAP
• Expert in utilizing Pre-Qual site on Plane, and planning for gNodeB, TAC, PCI, and PRACH.
• Developed and implemented RF design methodologies, network RF design criteria, link budgets, and traffic analysis, as needed for network design, resulting in the delivery of high-quality products and services.
• Correlated 5G Design Gold Standards with tool settings.
• Used tools such as consilience analytics, Nexsys One, and G suite during the project.
• Trained new engineers and educated the newly formed construction team about RF importance during construction.
Client(s): AT&T
• Successfully managed complex high-profile programs for AT&T, ensuring timely and high-quality deliverables with 10+ expert RF Engineers.
• Hands-on on E2E Design from Zoning to closeout.
• Successfully led completion of multiple agile projects of $7M – $12.5 M, achieving on-time completion rate of overall 98% and average customer satisfaction rate of 95%.
• Developed and implemented RF design methodologies and best practices, resulting in improved product delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Developed network RF design criteria, link budgets, and traffic analysis, as needed for network design, resulting in optimized network performance.
• Managed RAN network performance objectives and RF-related KPIs, resulting in improved product and service offerings on the AT&T 5G network.
• Managed daily workloads by organizing effective schedules and delegating tasks. Researched industry best practices in support of training development and program content.
Client(s): AT&T | Ericsson
• Provided program management expertise in lean Six Sigma strategies combined with Agile methods, practices, and execution to reduce defects in production by 50% within 9-month period.
• Managed team of 5 project managers, 17+ engineers, and delivered portfolio of 15 projects with total budget of $7M, achieving average cost savings of 15% through effective resource allocation and process improvements.
• Worked as a Point of Contact/Project Manager and 4G War Room SPOC
• Mentored team members and guided best practices for optimal project progress.
• Increased team productivity by 30% through implementing agile methodologies and adopting new project management tools and technologies.
• Verified site health, including RSSI, VSWR, and Alarms.
• Monitored activities and implemented corrective actions to achieve KPIs.
• Assisted in planning and implementation of projects.
Client(s): STC
• Architect a SaaS project of Network performance Monitoring for kingdom's national telecom service to monitor LTE network KPIs, resulting in 11% reduction in infrastructure costs and 45% increase in system availability.
• Designed and implemented two high-availability architecture for mission-critical applications, achieving 99% uptime while maintaining downtime of 0.05%.
• Communicated technical design details in conversation, documentation, and presentations.
• Maintained technical project ownership, including architecture, estimation, product planning, and user requirement creation.
• Collaborated with other architects in generating innovative ideas for SAP-based desktop applications.
• Met customer requirements, timelines, and quality standards using agile architecture principles to develop technical designs.
• Generate the KPIs from the raw counters in Business Objects using ALEX and layer three messages. Below are the KPIs but not limited to:
o Drop Call Rate (DCR)
o Call Setup Success Rate (CSSR)
o Downlink Latency
o DL/UL Volume and Throughput
o Handover Success Rate
o Paging Success Rate
o CSFB, Session Continuity
Barhanpurkar, K., Rajawat, A. S., Bedi, P., & Mohammed, O. (2020). Detection of Sleep Apnea & Cancer Mutual Symptoms Using Deep Learning Techniques. 2020 Fourth International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC), 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1109/i-smac49090.2020.9243488
Rajawat, A. S., Mohammed, O., & Bedi, P. (2020). FDLM: Fusion Deep Learning Model for Classifying Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Type 2 Diabetes. 2020 Fourth International Conference on I-SMAC (IoT in Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) (I-SMAC), 1(1). https://doi.org/10.1109/i-smac49090.2020.9243553
Rajawat, A. S., Mohammed, O., Ghosh, A., & Shaw, R. N. (2022). Renewable Energy System for Industrial Internet of Things Model Using fusion-AI. Applications of AI and IOT in Renewable Energy, 1(1), 107–128. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-91699-8.00006-1
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