Dr. Shanti Bhushan Tripathi Email & Phone Number

B-941, Ithum Tower, Plot-A40, Sector 62, Noida, Up, India

-Bidding, Planning Procurement, Installation, operations of Campus Wifi Network across 13 Central Universities of India for 5 years- Running 24x7 Central NOC and Customer support to maintained agreed QoS- Preventive and corrective maintenance of Fibre Network, routers, Switches, LAN/WAN Infrastructure-Business Plan, IRR, NPV, Financial Planning, Cash flow management, Payback, TDS, GST etc.- Detailed budget planning, Capex/Opex Panning - Experience in the Fiber Optic deployment, troubleshooting and Fiber optic issues, strong understanding of utility distribution networks and project management.-Develop and managed a FTTH product offering.-Responsible for planning and execution of Wired / Wireless networking projects and other project related activity.-Reviewing of the Project Drawing, BoQ and planning work to be performed.-Planning and supervision for Laying HDPE pipe, OFC, copper cables and Installation of networking equipment.-Planning and implementation of splicing, testing of network based on Optical Fiber and UTP cables.-Design High level Outside Plant Design (OSP) – Right of Way (RoW),Choose from ducts, subducts, direct buried, aerial, and existing conduits and pipe options. Verify the feasibility of the same using GIS data and Site survey-Estimate expected Utilization rate (in case of commercial deployments) & No. of Active Customers per OLT port.- Ready accurate estimates of operational costs - digging, pulling, manual labor, product or material, etc.

Dubai

Managed following RFx:o RFQ_AML Data Integration_Plan_Sept_2021_Live-RFQo Netsuite Implementation-RFPo Integration & Implementation of SAGE 300-RFQo MTNGroup_VBCA-RFPo GIS Panel of Vendors for Security Assessments-RFPo L2 to L3 Network Transition-RFQo Partner Market Agreement-RFQo GNOC SOC-RFPo Internal Controls Program-RFPo Project Tournesol- Consultancy of Exploration of Network Sharing-RFQIT Applications:o Ecommerce-RFPo Identity Proofing & Affirmation-RFPIT Managed Services :o BPO service - call center-RFPGSSC Commercial:Working on Project SUN : Structural separation of fintech businesses from GSM business. Supporting in the assignment and amendment of agreements with 3rd parties.

Lagos, Nigeria

-Key Technical Manager to negotiate, procure, deploy and operations of eNodeB sites wholesale LTE network. -Working closely with tower colocation companies to lease colo sites in LTE-Advance, first LTE-A (30 MHz, two carriers beam farming) in West Africa.- Working closely with vendor to track manufacturing of LTE equipments- active & Passive, Datacenter- design & implementation, Site preparation, rollout & Operations Plan.- Accountable for planning, Design & Implementation of green filed LTE network including site acquisition, engineering design, site construction, civil work of site, tower construction, equipment installation, acceptance testing and Operations etc.- Accountable for planning, prioritizing and executing a project by working with Senior Mnagers, Account Managers, Operations Managers, Implementation managers, delivery organizations and external customers. This includes project procurement, integration, time, cost, scope, planning and initiation-Develops required project documentation identifying project goals and tasks and generating assignments consistent to meet objectives.Establishes change management procedures, including evaluation and communication for project duration-Quality documentation and automation of entire service project & operations portfolio to manage quality, time & cost

Abuja, Nigeria

From Feb-2014 to May2014, I worked as technology consultant to few companies to enhance my profile and also develop myself as Technology consultant and Entrepreneur :- 1- Zinternet Nigeria Limited & Swift Link Global Limited, Nigeria as CEO/CTOResponsible for: Commercialize POS/PTSP License, VAS License & Mobile Money License 2- Suburban Telecoms Limited in Receivership, Abuja, Nigeria as Group COOResponsible for: Receivership and management of Suburban International and Metro fibre network in Ghana, Togo, Benin Republic and Nigeria3- Emerging Markets Communications, Miami as VP, TechnologyResponsible for Nigeria Operations: Commercialization of NIGCOMSAT-1R, Nigeria Ka band Satellite, increase market recognition of EMC in Nigeria4- Airchord Televentures Tonga as COO/CTO Limited, LTE FDD Project5-Trussnet Nigeria Limited as CTO, QTM International, Dubai: end to end bid consultancy for NCC open access fibre infracos project for Lagos region

Experts/Level3 support: Implementation of Network Operation Centres, Network Availability, Root Cause Analysis and Troubleshooting, • Responsible for operation and Maintenance of all sites in Western Africa, most of sites are distributed across Nigeria.• To provide uninterrupted infra services to customers by ensuring optimum utilization of resources on 24*7 basis. It involves direction, development and controlling of field staff responsible for site operations.• Coordinate all Cluster incharge, Technician and vendor for ensuring no power issue and Manage Infra Uptime as per MSA and SLA guideline (99.99% as per MSA/KPI’s) at all cluster sites and Managing the P&F Cost with in Laid down limit.• Fault reduction & management, Power & Fuel, Site management from technical perspective, Energy management, owner issues clearance, Data management, Site cleans (Hygiene of site) etc.• Identify and execute the processes required to optimize in Energy cost, manage the site stability by taking corrective actions for failing sites, replacement of faulty equipments, replenishment of required infra equipments etc• Responsible for Operation & Maintenance of SMPS, PIU/PMU, DG,AC, Battery Bank, Transformer and all alarms & electrical wirings, Earthing,all other passive infra work.• Identifying high Diesel consumption sites and their remedy action, Rectification/Reduction in EB average bills, Minimizing EB faults, Facilitating in converting non EB sites to EB sites.• Responsible for Outage sign off, IP fees, tenancy, Power and Fuel (P&F) sing off from different operator and respective Vendor. • Carrying out the Preventive & breakdown maintenance (PM) and DG servicing schedules for improving overall reliability and safety of Utility of all infra Equipments as per standard process & AMC.• Review and analyses the repeat failure cases and take immediate corrective and preventive actions to avoid any repeat failure.

Fiji

-Mandated by company shareholders & executive management to, a) deploy & deliver a GSM network in Pacific, b) deliver an engineering organization capable of deploying and managing the network.-Directly reporting to regional CTO/CEO Pacific-Role similar to group CTO (Hub CTO), responsible 16 islands/countries -Successfully launch 2 commercial operations in Tonga and Vanuatu­Responsible for global frame agreement negotiations with Huawei­Key player for all vendors negotiations and business planning­Manage the department budget for equipment, installation, services and human resources.­Key player in negotiations of Huawei, Veraz, Redknee, Roamware, Roambroker, LinkIP, NEC, Intec, Sun etc.­Recognised at best CTO in Digicel Pacific – First call in 2 days time, core network completed in 15 days.­Best NOC 24/7/365 for all pacific countries

Congo

Single point of Contact for Projects and Operations of the green field network Warid Telecom, Congo, Brazzaville- Directly reporting to CTO and managing all network project and operations issues.- Liaising with Huawei and subcontractors on daily basis to update the project plan, action item register etc. - Key player in drafting, negotiating managed services contract.- Single point of contact for Facilities, Finance, IT and Commercials.- Drafting policies, procedure and control documents.- Preparing BEC notes for project related major changes.- Tracking site by site rollout progress.- Drafting and evaluating RFP for phase-2.- Negotiating with vendors for various tools and test equipments.- Recruiting and hiring staff for technical operations team.- Owner of managed services contract.- Handling all operational and project management issues.- Responsible for KPI and Quality control.- In charge of NOC for O&M management.

Head- RADIO NETWORK PLANNING & OPTIMISATION & Technical VAS Manager( RF Centre of Excellence, tigo,DRC)and Technical VAS Manager ( VAS Centre of Excellence, tigo,DRC)­ ­ - Responsible for setting up, maintaining and scaling infrastructure and services for VAS for Tigo,DRC.- Responsible for design, planning and optimisation of all VAS platforms for prepaid and post paid service (e.g. IN, SMS, GPRS/EDGE, MMSC, Voice Mail, RBT, FAF, Call Me Back, Call Completion Application, USSD, Location Based Services, OTA, SDP, Handset based applications, Content, Roaming VAS etc.) and to deliver the required availability level of all services.- Execute prompt provisioning of network capacity for all the VAS network element, features and protocol. - Developing technical roadmap for Tigo’s VAS for the short term and long term in coordination with VAS-Marketing.- Working with the Marketing team to develop new products on existing infrastructure and inducing new infrastructure and services to drive VAS revenues.- Driving new product induction in Tigo by Interfacing with tigo’s Global Product Development/Operations related to VAS in line with the business strategic objectives.- Implementing new products and price-plans on the IN platform in coordination with Marketing.- Implementing and improving self-service facilities on the VAS platforms.- Coordinating the efforts, inputs and outputs from many internal company departments, to ensure that the VAS infrastructure and operations are carried out appropriately.- Budgeting for infrastructure and tools required for VAS operators.- Participating in cross functional meetings with key stakeholders involved in the deployment of new and quality VAS.- Meeting with vendors on new market releases and technology upgrade path to ensure quick deployment of new and innovative products/services.- Liaison with suppliers and Vendors on Design and Implementation issues specific to the organization.

RF Planning & Optimization, Indoor Planning, Training and Delhi Metro Rail coverage

RF Planning & Optimisation, Skill Transfer to Locals. Successfully launched first GSM network in Afghanistan- Jalalabad, Kanduz etc.

Certified Trainer to provide GSM and CDMA training to all Motorola customers

D.Phil, Physics

I completed by B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from University of Allahabad. I was also part time lecturer in many degree colleges during my.

D.Phil., Doctor Of Philosophy In Science

Activities and Societies: Fellow at Harishchandra research institute- HRIB.Sc., M.Sc., D.Phil.