Alankar Chowdhury Email & Phone Number

Recently switch domains from Telecommunications to Banking, leveraging on my six sigma and managerial skills to lead a team of analysts to provide production support for counterparty static and reference data @ UBS Investment Bank.

Joined the NM Services team as a solution architect to define and drive the architecture for the solution realization using third party vendors (3PVs). My responsibilities include taking a lead in gathering the requirements, ensuring the architectural/functional integrity of the developed solution, reviewing integration & system test plans and developing a core set of reusable solution architectures and platforms to improve delivery cycle and profit margins.Key projects & achievements-… Show more Joined the NM Services team as a solution architect to define and drive the architecture for the solution realization using third party vendors (3PVs). My responsibilities include taking a lead in gathering the requirements, ensuring the architectural/functional integrity of the developed solution, reviewing integration & system test plans and developing a core set of reusable solution architectures and platforms to improve delivery cycle and profit margins.Key projects & achievements- In a short span of time, I picked up the Business & Operations support systems (BSS/OSS) domain and supported the delivery of Integrated BSS & OSS solution for WiMax service offered by Mena Telecom, Bahrain- Took ownership of the complete Self Care Portal solution to be delivered as part of BSS/OSS product for IPTV service offered by S2M group, Dubai. Show less

Software Industry Experience: - Working as a solution architect, managing third party vendors (3PVs) to deliver Business & Operational Support Systems (BSS/OSS) & Self Care Web Portal solutions that are used by telecomm service providersBusiness Process Improvement & Six Sigma Methodology Experience: - Certified and trained by Motorola as a Six Sigma Black Belt- Proactively mobilized and managed cross-functional teams to execute Six Sigma DMAIC and DMADV projects and… Show more Software Industry Experience: - Working as a solution architect, managing third party vendors (3PVs) to deliver Business & Operational Support Systems (BSS/OSS) & Self Care Web Portal solutions that are used by telecomm service providersBusiness Process Improvement & Six Sigma Methodology Experience: - Certified and trained by Motorola as a Six Sigma Black Belt- Proactively mobilized and managed cross-functional teams to execute Six Sigma DMAIC and DMADV projects and accomplished total savings of 1.2 million USD from software operations since 2005- Extensive hands-on knowledge of various six sigma tools like Cost-benefit analysis, FMEA, Process mapping, Causal analysis, MSA, Comparative analysis, control charts and other statistical packages used in Minitab. Show less

Joined CDMA Systems Engineering team as a software engineer and soon after promoted to a team lead and resource manager position in August 2003- Requirement Management Solution: Led a team to develop a multi-site RM Solution with counterparts located in US, Canada, Argentina & India. The solution simultaneously supported six releases of CDMA product- Network Availability and Reliability Reporting Tool (ARRT): Conceptualized ARRT to support the key strategy of proactive intervention to… Show more Joined CDMA Systems Engineering team as a software engineer and soon after promoted to a team lead and resource manager position in August 2003- Requirement Management Solution: Led a team to develop a multi-site RM Solution with counterparts located in US, Canada, Argentina & India. The solution simultaneously supported six releases of CDMA product- Network Availability and Reliability Reporting Tool (ARRT): Conceptualized ARRT to support the key strategy of proactive intervention to undesirable outage trends during CDMA product’s release rollout or on-line system. Led a team to develop a solution to track network availability and troubleshoot issues at customer sites like Verizon & Sprint- CDMA Equipment & Capacity Planning Application: Gained CDMA domain expertise from US counterparts to own the Capacity Planning application. Managed the Capacity planning project to help CDMA network product customers to plan for new equipments based on their call models & subscriber load. Show less