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Prakash Volety

Frisco,Texas

Summary

Accomplished in system deployment and testing, with a proven track record at Verizon for orchestrating complex network solutions, including a landmark deployment of 10380 vDUs. Skilled in network architecture and software quality assurance, I excel in solution development and strategic planning. Recognized for exceptional leadership and technical prowess, achieving a fallout rate of less than 0.1%.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

PMTS Cloud

Verizon Wireless
11.2022 - Current
  • Currently working in Orchestration planning group
  • Worked on orchestration of Samsung VRAN and Ericsson 5GC Network elements like BSF, AMF, NEF and SMSF
  • Working on Ericsson VRAN automation architecture development for deployment and upgrades of CloudRangNB product
  • Successfully completed vendor automation for deployment of SLF, NRF, SCP and BSF in collaboration with Oracle automation engineering team
  • Worked with Nokia CHF team for automatic generation of deployment artifacts and health checks
  • Successfully completed PoCs for Canary deployments and NFVD automatic Openshift authentication
  • Recognized by Group Vice President in two quarters for successful completion of orchestration for 5GC NFs
  • Recognized by group Vice President for the contributions towards successful deployment of 10380 vDUs in one single night with a fall out rate of less than 0.1%

PMTS Network Design Engineer

Verizon
12.2018 - 11.2022
  • Working currently in HQ EPC Service & Technology Performance group with following responsibilities
  • Working knowledge in Open stack based cloud platforms and Kubernetes Experience in Cloud Architecture
  • Supported launch of 5G Home and 4G LTE home products in market and devised methods to monitor this product in network
  • Support the introduction and migration strategy of Option 3X to Option 2 in the Network
  • Interaction between the existing 4G Core carrying 5G traffic and new 5G Core with new equipment and interfaces
  • Support the 5G Performance Summit and initiatives around the Performance of the new core: Probing, Telemetry, tools, visualization
  • Support 5G FWA FCL solution
  • Support 5G-C design, RFP and trials
  • FOA trials for E/// MME
  • Very good understanding of LTE and 5G core elements
  • Worked on requirements and design/deployment of Ookla performance servers
  • Setup iperf servers across all 52 SAP sites for RAN performance teams' testing
  • Participate once a month in presenting on the National Data Performance Call
  • Share best practices across Network teams
  • Field visits and field operations reviews especially 5G Home service
  • Developed internal application servers for testing tcp optimization drive testing by relieving external vendor servers
  • This effort resulted in saved about $30K per month
  • Provide support for production launch and migration of customers to VCP Edge platform for vMPN, M2M/MTC, Consumer MME, SBC, PGW, SGW, EPC OSS, ePDG, DNS Cache and ENM platforms
  • Continue building VCP Core Cloud, adding locations for scale and critical services for application functionality
  • Experienced in IP communications LAN, routing and switching
  • Trained in RedHat Opeshift, Dockers and K8

Principal Engineer Devops

Verizon
12.2013 - 11.2018
  • Responsible for Level 3 production support and maintaining for in house developed Internet Service Platform VISP and CDI products
  • Worked on pro-active monitoring of VISP platforms in the network and developing preventative maintenance tasks
  • In Devops role to maintain and troubleshoot highly available private cloud environment (Beehive) across 3 geographical locations consisting of load balancer (NGINX & HAProxy), DNS, LDAP
  • Developing automation scripts and frame work built using Python and Bash for proactive maintenance of production platforms
  • 7 day on call after hours support to VISP and cloud platform
  • Participate and provide solutions in troubleshooting calls for network issues
  • This included providing a detailed RCA for failures
  • Working with cross functional product teams in QA, Engineering and Network operations
  • Hand-on experience with Python, Shell scripting, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, ELK
  • Worked on Geo-redundant VEMS (element management system) for VISP products deployed in Verizon network
  • This system is based on Redhat Linux and Cisco UCS
  • Proficient in working and interacting with customer services/deployment teams for product patch upgrades or live troubleshooting of field issues related to software
  • Working on TCP optimization of VISP platform
  • Hands on work on Verizon's Beehive cloud platform which is a multi tenant virtualized as well as containerized platform
  • Worked on Elastic logging and develop dashboards for Kibana

Principal Tech Support Engineer

Sonus Networks
02.2011 - 12.2013
  • Worked on Sonus Softswitch PSX and Session Border Controllers, Virtual SBCs, EMS
  • Providing Level 3 technical customer support and leading multiple small support projects
  • Successful demonstration of new product line like SBC and vSBC PoCs for Department of Defense, Juniper
  • Leading a team for beta trials of new product lines
  • Analysing and troubleshooting customer SIP call flows
  • Collecting call traces by performing packet captures for analysis
  • Analyzing and resolving customer network issues for alternate configuration settings and efficient network management
  • Leading member of skunk project involved in new SBC product trials with customers
  • Work with sales engineers and resident engineers to resolve various interworking issues and perform root cause analysis
  • Received 'High Achievement Award' for successfully bringing new product into customer networks and supporting them
  • Manage direct communication with major customers regarding product inquiries, resolutions and workarounds
  • A major contributor to the solution database that would help customers/TAC engineers or sales people to understand how product works and provisioning
  • Training internal TAC and international TAC group personnel on SBC 5x00 product
  • Provided channel partners training material to training department
  • Setup internal test bed for Sonus SBC interworking with Microsoft Lync for routing to public PSTN networks

SDET

Microsoft
11.2008 - 02.2011
  • Lead a group of three test engineers for Navic Message Router application performance project
  • Project planning, release cycle planning and task assignments and metrics reporting
  • Requirements analysis, ambiguity review, functional, integration test plan documentation
  • Writing test cases, test case reviews and lab test bed setup
  • Product quality assurance by executing various tests (feature, integration and performance testing)
  • Software quality testing for web based management console product
  • Setting up cron jobs to export DVR tuner table data to help automation team
  • Lead the testing of DVR measurements of Set Top Boxes and Admira Ad-Platform for TV networks
  • Involved in testing complex distributed systems for addressable advertising product
  • Feature testing of Message Router (Audience Measurement and Diagnostic Collection)
  • Documenting operational procedures and evaluated verification reports

Lead SQA Engineer

Acme Packet
11.2005 - 10.2008
  • Lead SQA engineer for Lawful Intercept CALEA/LI for the VoIP product with SPAF, DF and LEA in various environments including SIP NAT and SIP NAT bridge, Policy Based Realm on Acme SBC platforms using protocols like SS8, VERINT, ALIP, X123
  • Lead QA Engineer for the new development group to implement security features like IPSEC and IKE-IMS on Acme Session Border Controller platforms (SD2, SD3 and SD4)
  • Led successful implementation of all IPSEC and CALEA projects by interacting with various vendor groups
  • Created an automated test bed for end to end regression, integration testing resulting in cost savings towards the purchase of third party test tools or partner equipment
  • Worked on test automation framework for Linux based ‘Anvil’ development in TCL
  • Automated test script development and regression test suite harness
  • Developed test automation process guidelines for users to develop automated test scripts

Sr. SQA Engineer

Sonus Networks
09.2003 - 10.2005
  • Feature testing of GSX/PSX VoIP SIP solutions, CERT Testing of SIP product with Codenomicon Tool and CALEA, licensing
  • Led Automation testing team for Regression testing of PSX switches, class 5 VoIP Switch
  • SS7 and Class 4 feature testing of GSX switches
  • INET test script development for auto execution of test cases
  • Created new automation scripting guidelines for automation framework
  • Wrote test scripts in TCL for automation of regression tests for in-house platform
  • Simulation of customer networks in the lab environment to verify field reported bugs

Lucent Technologies
03.1998 - 09.2003
  • Responsible for testing of SS7 & ISDN protocols of open switching platforms of Excel and Layer 3 testing of Excel switches
  • Developed and executed test cases for inter working between SS7 ANSI/ITU to H323 and SIP with use of Agilent’s Advisor software (Network Sniffer) to debug VoIP problems for CSP with TNT platforms
  • Designed and developed automated Test beds for VoIP based products involving SIP and H.323
  • Creating demo setups for VON show and internal customers
  • Software development experience in Call Processing Layer
  • Team Lead for test automation framework for GSM product testing
  • Designed and formulated automation strategies for GSM features per client requirement for product life sustenance, while managing an offshore team in Chennai, India
  • Porting of WISE tool software to Solaris
  • Feature enhancement and support for Translator product line for 5ESS switch
  • This involved both 2B+D ISDN hardware and embedded software
  • Worked on development of telecom management system for 5ESS switch

Education

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications

Andhra University
Andhra Pradesh
06-1987

Skills

System deployment and Testing

Network Architect

Solution development

Software Quality Assurance

4G LTE

Openshift and Webscale

ATLAS

Marketplace

NFVD

Certification

  • AWS Developer Associate Develper
  • AWS Solitions Architect Associate
  • AWS SysOps Administrator Associate

Timeline

PMTS Cloud

Verizon Wireless
11.2022 - Current

PMTS Network Design Engineer

Verizon
12.2018 - 11.2022

Principal Engineer Devops

Verizon
12.2013 - 11.2018

Principal Tech Support Engineer

Sonus Networks
02.2011 - 12.2013

SDET

Microsoft
11.2008 - 02.2011

Lead SQA Engineer

Acme Packet
11.2005 - 10.2008

Sr. SQA Engineer

Sonus Networks
09.2003 - 10.2005

Lucent Technologies
03.1998 - 09.2003

Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications

Andhra University

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