Harishankar Gupta is a Telecom and IT professional with sound technical and managerial skills. He has about 28 years of experience in Telecom Industry in areas like Enterprise Architecture, Planning, Delivery, OSS/BSS, 4G, Customer Onboarding, Mobile Payments, Cloud, MPLS, Broadband, Security and IP Networks. Currently he is responsible for solution and delivery of IT solutions in Order to Activation area of Telecom business. During his 8 years with IBM he has worked as Executive Architect, Industry Consultant , Lead Architect and Network Delivery Head for large Telco clients.As an ex Indian Telecom Services officer, he worked with Govt. operator in leadership positions for about 15 years in core telecom and Data Networks domain wherein he was instrumental in rollouts of multiple nationwide projects like National Internet Backbone (NIB Project 1, 2.1 ,2.2 and 3) and Inet.He has been a speaker at many forums like ICANN, APNIC, IPv6 Forum, IBM Telco Sharenets, TRAI amongst others. He also has been a guest faculty at Advanced Level Telecom Training Center, Ghaziabad wherein he organized workshops in the area of IP routing and Data Networking. Experience Summary• Solution & delivery for customer onboarding for various Telecom services• Solution & architecture for OSS/BSS for voice, video and data services over various access networks• OSS/BSS solution architecture for MPLS based multi service network, Broadband , Narrowband and ISP networks• Deep technical and domain knowledge in Mobile Payments and good knowledge in Cloud Computing area• Planning, architecture, design, implementation and operations of large Telecom networks (MPLS, Broadband, ISP, IT Network, Data Centers)• Well versed with various aspects of Network security including policies, processes and products• Preparation of RFPs/Tender documents, Bid evaluation and negotiations • Experience of working both in Technical and IT domain of Telecom Operator• Wide experience in International Bandwidth Management including procurement, commissioning, operations and peering for large bandwidths • Management of Traffic, Routing, IP Addressing and DNS for ISP services• Excellent knowledge of Telecom/ISP and Mobile Payments industry and regulatory environment• Strong technical, team and people management skills coupled with business and financial expertise• Experience of managing large teams with client, compliance and cost focus