Shekar Chandra Email & Phone Number

Bangalore

Nairobi, Kenya

- Lead development, rollout of GSMA Award winning Mobile Commerce program (Airtel Money) and other commerce solutions across Airtel Africa Operations. -- Lead development, rollout of cloud program for Airtel Africa-- Lead development, rollout of various products -- Lead the strategic outsourcing of VAS O&M across the region-- Key player in the strategic outsourcing of ITTeam Achievements;Executed various products & services across the africa region which had contributed to the non voice revenue growth from 8% to almost 14% in the current financial year.

• Manage expansion of One Network, mCommerce, Roaming and its Value Added Service and Non Traditional Value Added Service as a company core competency. Participate in the requirements, development and project execution of all One Network, mCommerce, Roaming & VAS solutions.• Assist in developing the framework for the Non Traditional VAS solutions and drive the initiative into all the opcos. • To facilitate development, roll-out and ensure effective and efficient performance of VAS across all Operating companies of the Group.• To continuously facilitate and support enhancement of VAS service offering and efficient reconciliation/business processes through introduction of secured, easy to use, relevant, impactful and meaningful service across all Operating Companies of the Group• SIM Card Application management• To look at opportunities of centralising key VAS and Roaming Solutions.• To facilitate development, roll-out and ensure efficient performance of Mobile Commerce portfolio of services across all Operating companies of the Group.• Through effective development and management of end-user interfaces insure consistent and simple end-user experience across all operating companies of the Group• To ensure effective and efficient integration and performance of Mobile Commerce security platforms across multiple vendors and operations.• Continious improvement on various services and platform• Work with Product and Innovation team build innovative solutions • Vendor management Team Achivements-------------------------------• Rollout out One Network across Zain with the exception of Kuwait plus supported Mobinil and Palestine for the Technical rollout of One Network service which has aclaimed various International awards.• Rollout of award ZAP/mCommerce and its support Service in 13 countries out of which 6 countries are commercially live. • Continious enahncement of mVoucher and ZAP service features.

Rollout of some of the key innoviative and First in the world products in the Teclom in all the Celtel Operations;• Prepaid Roaming well known as One Network ( Celtel own Prepaid Roaming Solution to provide extensive services to the prepaid customer, solution provided by an Indian Company called Pyro Networks) One Network has aclaimed various international awards.• Mobile Topup ( An In-house developed product for voucher less distribution system.)• Me2U ( An In-house developed product to allow prepaid subscribers to transfer their airtime to another prepaid subscriber ).• SMSC expansion ( Involved in the Evaluation & Implementation of secondary smsc in all the Celtel operation to handle the SMS based VAS product )• Rollout of secondary USSD Gateway ( Evaluating the secondary USSD Gateway, to be implemented in all the Celtel operation.)Achievements--------------------• Developed an basic Interconnect and the Revenue Assurance System . Currently implemented most of the celtel operations and known as CDR Analaysis• Developed , implemented and project managed from Concept to Design Development of Mobile Topup and Me2U Solution, Currently running in all african operations.• Team Building, Building and Training of complete IT team in Uganda as one of the assignement when most of the guys left and moved to the competition.• Migration of IN from Siemens to Ericsson in Uganda• Support Core Network team in Migration of Siemens to Ericsson HLR

Billing Manager, Celtel Uganda Limited., (licensed to provide Cellular service in Ugnada ) Kampala, Uganda, currently known as the Airtel Uganda

IT & Y2K Project Co-ordinator -J.T. Mobiles Ltd., the licensed cellular operator for the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, India, currently known as Airtel Karnataka.