Improve availability and operational excellence of the global network fleet hosted in AWS and data centers. Build, coach, mentor a globally distributed team of managers, engineers, and program managers. • Authored multiple network operational excellence and availability strategy and roadmaps to drive adoption of an "Automation First" approach, reducing customer impacting issues.• Developing networking products to serve low latency, high availability and bandwidth requirements.• Reducing cost to operations by optimizing usage of AWS networking products.• Improving network availability and reliability via SDWAN based product / solutions engineering, reducing technical debt and enhancing capacity engineering and planning processes.• Enhanced security compliance and reduced operational workload via automation campaigns based on consensus among teams on a standardized device remediation process.• Delivered availability improvement initiative, reducing single point of failure in the network. • Leading a globally distributed team, driving a culture of operational excellence and network ownership to achieve network availability and cost reduction goals.

• Ensured IoT product and technical alignment with customer requirements in collaboration with vendors and stakeholders and enhanced service delivery quality. • Introduced vendor diversity by delivering a Dynamic IMSI architecture, in support of multi-vendor environment.• Reduced latency and cost by launch of a 5G packet core service for IoT across six data centers via high-availability redundant integration and long-haul connectivity architecture.

• Delivered data center technology transformation by leading a multidisciplinary team. • Introduced pro-active health monitoring of network and mitigate / remediate via network automation across 15 private/public data centers hosting diverse services, such as IoT, mobility signaling, messaging, and 4G & 5G packet core services.

• Collaborated with customers and stakeholders to enhance service delivery and ensure alignment with customer requirements• Developed and delivered data center deployment and integration strategy across 6 locations for the launch of latency optimized IoT services in the NAM region.

Expand data centers footprint in China, India, Middle East, and US to onboard mobility operators offering IoT services to connected car or Industrial IoT customers. Integrated with new mobility operators to support various business revenue models.• Ensured Operational excellence by adopting networking and engineering best practices for data center and interconnect designs, and subsequent hardware lifecycle management and monitoring processes.• Drove engineering process improvements with cross-functional collaborative partnerships to integrate 60+ telcos / operators, 9000+ enterprises using 100M+ (SIMs) IoT devices.• Alleviated Telco / Operator onboarding time from 12 months to 3 months (75% reduction)• IoT customer onboarding time from 8 weeks to 4 weeks (50% reduction)• Refined the DevOps process to expedite the delivery of complete and fully tested product features by 20%.• Renegotiated better vendor support agreements, resulting in savings of ~$500K per year. Also reduced $650K per year by bundling ISP interconnect tiers for better pricing.• Introduced cloud hosting models with Google (GCP), AWS, Microsoft Azure, and IBM resulting in new integration options for customers hosted in cloud.

• Collaborated with Mobility SMEs to strategize local breakout and VoLTE Services for MVNO/IoT offerings. Boosted network availability by architecting resilient 330G interconnection architecture, successfully integrating signaling core, packet core, and IT BSS flows.• Introduced integration of a directly connected VoIP-based voicemail system with Telco voice network, resulting in $900K savings in processing fees and connectivity charges while elevating customer experience.• Achieved $17M OpEx reduction over 3 years and enhanced network reliability by orchestrating integration architecture of Telco with MVNO service provider, focusing on network, roaming, and BSS integration.

By delivering convincing business cases and strategic direction to Telco CFOs in Europe and APAC, I was able to secure $100 million in funding for initial 4G network deployments. As a Network Consultant for LTE, EPC, and IP-centric network implementations, I drove the creation of a $2 million+ consulting firm in APAC.

During this role, I formulated and implemented a wireless technology (RAN) agnostic MPLS network architecture. Acquired approval from executive leadership that resulted in a program budget of over $1B.• Saved $45M over the period of 3 years by optimizing network connectivity and interconnection. Handpicked by senior leadership to lead this effort nationally for my accomplishment of saving $9M (in a regional-level initiative/project).• Saved $9.2 Million annually by initiating carrier billing audits, carrier negotiations, and new solution development.• Introduced new technology solutions in support of 3G (UMTS) deployment, resulting in better budget planning and savings of $15M+ over 3 years.