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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Portfolio Management:• Support the Leadership and Stakeholders for their oversight of the portfolio• Maintain & report portfolio budget and expenditure and forecasts undertaking detailed analytics• Analyze data and trend reporting also establish new data gathering and analysis techniques• Lead and support Portfolio Management performance analysis, drawing insights• Conduct post-implementation project reviews to help inform continual improvement• Finance Management: Monthly Forecast Vs Actual analysis with granular breakdown on various categories and report discrepancies• Closely work with Finance team on cost recovery and capitalization target• Monitor the spend throughout the project life, includes tracking financials, risk assessment, keeping track of portfolio and project Budget, change requests, Purchase Orders, Resource leveling and forecasts.• Schedule Management: - Monitor and consolidate upcoming milestones discuss issues/ Issues if any change in milestone date.• Resource Management: -• Perform monthly resource levelling and conduct meetings for resource levelling and task prioritization.• Project management tool: - Rolled out and admin Project management tool - Planview.Key Achievements: -• Uplifted PMO capabilities by developing and implementing HSO IT-Project delivery framework, standardizing templates, creating ITPMO – projects - SharePoint for one spot repository.• Rolled out Planview for Status/R&I/ monitor schedule and dependencies.• Developed smart month dependent Finance Workbook and datasets for tracking, monitoring and analyzing Forecasts vs actuals, ETC, EAC, Budget & variance & cost recovery.• Created Power BI dashboard publishing Finance/status/milestones/Resource forecast/ for effective reporting and monitoring using OData & excel.• Invoicing & PO Process improvement resulting in timely payment of vendors• Improved new PM onboarding & training process & experience

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Portfolio Management: Closely working with SLT, Program & project managers Overseeing Deliverables end-to-end (Waterfall/Agile & Hybrid) IT-Project Lifecycle like Billing/Cyber Security, RPA,IOT, Data& Analytics, SCADA/Communications /Sentiment Analysis/Asset Management.• Managing Budget EAC, ETC & Forecasts Analysis , Financial reporting• Monitor the progress throughout the project, includes tracking financials, risk assessment, keeping track of Program and project Budget, Purchase Orders, Resource levelling and forecasts.• Monitor and consolidate upcoming milestones discuss issues/ Issues if any change in milestone date. prepare datasets and publish to Power BI. • Consolidate and Analyse project Risks and Issues and escalate as when required prepare datasets and publish in Power BI.• Work closely with procurement team maintaining resource and SW contracts and renewal dates & publish the data in Power BI.• Identify and solve process gaps adhering to PMO process.• Finance Management: Regular financial audits of Invoices, Time and Material Costs /discounts/ rate variations for all Capex Resources.• Manage & Maintain vendor contracts & Keep track of Open Purchase orders and values to prevent any breaches• Maintain project finance ledger for various funds transfers/ forecasts/ monthly spend and regularly analyse FinancialsKey achievements:-• Improved Accrual process for accurate project finance reporting using various methods includes Timesheet adherence, invoice reconciliation and journaling for accurate project Finance reporting.• Created and introduced various Power Platform based tools for various business process. e.g., Power Automate Web scraping for state vendors/OCR for invoice reconciliation. • Created a Power BI dashboards for 360 view of entire portfolio includes Budget/Actuals ITD/ Forecast/Resources/ Milestones/Risks & Issues for report display transparency and monitoring which improved Finance & Resource planning accuracy.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Project Management: Assisting project manager in Managing large scale project, overseeing delivery with local and overseas technical teams to deliver the project within time, budget and other constraints• Monitor project deliverables & milestones to be within approved project scope• Vendor Management: Verify project deliverables against contracts for partner companies• Team Management: Lead internal and external teams, overall Project tracking and reporting for vIPIC connect project(SGW cloud), Native Lifecycle MSC-S upgrades and solution implementation for Vodafone Australia• Manage engagement and effective communication with all internal and external stakeholders to achieve project milestones• Work Closely with Scheduler and VHA for CAB Approvals• Project Reporting: Prepare accurate reporting of projects progress, maintain risks and issues register escalate as when required• Risk & Issue Analysis: Managing multiple projects and coordinate with Solution Architect, project manager and technical teams for efficient delivery and identify any potential risk and prepare mitigation plan

Melbourne, Australia

Roles & responsibilities• Solution Architect & Team lead team for Integration, Regression and Functional testing of Ericsson products & Software Upgrade Roll out for Voice Core, MSC-S at Telstra PAN Australia 3G Telecom network.• Prepare and implement customized solution for Mobile Voice Core-Telstra• Work closely with Product Development Unit for software fault observed during software testing• Technical analysis of Business requirement and prepare tailored solution for Telstra AustraliaKey Achievements: - • Successful lifecycle upgrade PAN Country rollout of MSC-S R14B,16A,18A prepared network for 4G VoIP transit ready within strict schedule for Telstra Australia managing all risks and Issues and thus implemented within budget.

Noida Area, India

Roles & Responsibilities: • Engage with customer to gather technical requirements and transfer same to respective teams. • Study & Prepare custom High & Low-level design Solution for mobile network• Prepare Scope of work for proposals • Work closely with pre-sales team to support preparation of cost estimation• Implement custom solutions and remotely support teams on same.• Liaise and coordinate with various INTL` vendors and lead the cutover activities.• Led the planning and impact analysis with various vendors and Operator. Key Achievements: - • Implemented National MSC in Pool for MTN SUDAN got power award for same as a part of nation`s mobile network modernization project.

Noida Area, India

• Technical Team lead for Voice core-MGW SME handling Pan India Mobile network (Bharti)• Implement and study any new feature/node/technology in network and build competency among another team• Prepare High & Low-level design Solution for mobile network• Work closely with pre-sales team to support preparation of scope of project and effort estimation• Handle emergencies and Troubleshoot during outages and impacted services various Telecom operators• Track updates from R&D team, Product delivery team and get it implemented in network after studying impact analysis• Network Optimization: Speech Routing Network, Speech Routing modification, Signalling Routing Network (Signalling Routing modification), Configuration re-definitions• Deliver Trainings to teams to build competency• Deliver Department’s induction training Key Achievements: - • Successful Green field Mobile Network (Uninor) launch and postproduction support.• Successful India`s second commercial 3G launch in Jharkhand Circle (BSNL).• Successfully implemented and supported Geo-Redundancy Home Location Register for Bharti India and got ACE award for the same • FNI and successful software upgrade of MSC-S R14.1 for Vietnam and got ACE award for same• Implementation of first Gs interface for Bharti India• Implemented National MSC in Pool for MTN got power award for same

Bengaluru Area, India

• Configuration and Commissioning of ZTE BSC & TRC servers on Reliance Mobile Network• Perform User Acceptance test with Reliance (Telecom operator) for ZTE equipment’s• Prepare and implement scripts for Traffic Configuration• Troubleshoot any reported issue, work with R&D team for product improvement and bug fixing• Performed Network Optimization & Analysis of Daily Mobile Traffic Reports.• Manage Vendors and the milestone payments.Key Achievements: - • Launched GPRS-EDGE for Reliance Radio Network• Led Radio network swap from Mortola to ZTE for Reliance Radio Network within SLA

Bachelor'S Degree, Telecommunications Engineering

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