Pritam Kerkar Email & Phone Number

Corvallis, Or, Us

As a CTO, I efficiently manage the expansion of our business growth and the exploration of new market opportunities. I design and implement both wired and wireless network solutions. My focus was on ensuring the optimization of our infrastructure assets to achieve our financial objectives. I also work to cultivate and promote a culture of inclusivity, quality, safety, and ethical compliance tailored to meet the needs of both our employees and customers.In addition, I perform budget and cost analysis for both operational expenditures (OPEX) and capital projects. To enhance efficiency, I design and deploy robust processes, tracking tools, workflow structures, and safety policies.Key Accomplishments:► Initiated comprehensive mission and vision framework for organization to enhance strategic direction and clarity.► Executed series of strategic management changes to optimize efficiency and cohesion of diverse departments.► Developed pricing models, determined lease rates, and negotiated IRU (Indefeasible Right of Use) agreements.► Led all aspects of strategic business plan development and organizational structure execution from start to finish.► Achieved comprehensive connectivity for rural and urban communities by cooperating with community and government networks, while diminishing digital divide.► Broadened client base through strategic business development, resulting in increase in program capacity, including the incorporation of a self-performing civil construction team.► Maintained strategic focus by adapting and evolving in response to emerging technology developments and industry trends.► Provided daily technical support to senior team members and consultants, including business intelligence domains, systems integration, virtualization, and data management.

Forsyth, Mt, Us

► As CTO, I have executive duties relating to technology selection/deployment, project management, and high-level coordination on the Corporate switching operations, transport, access, IT/IS and broadband ISP networks.✔ I have the integral leadership of strategic direction, development, operations and future growth of the network. ✔ I oversee planning for the development, operation, and evolution of the corporation’s transport, access, data and switching networks.✔ Overall development and management of the corporation in an efficient, effective manner.✔ Decisive planning, developing and recommendation delivery on department organization, staffing, employee development, budget, plant equipment and supplies, and long and short range work plans.✔ Vast experience in telecommunications and broadband networks engineering, design, installation, and project/operations management.✔ Collaborative efforts with senior management, supervisors, and employees of the Operations, Engineering, IT, and Plant Departments of companies to successfully implement short and long-term goals.✔ The leadership of the coordination of network investment oversight; this includes providing input, review, and approval of all major contracts for fiber construction, central office additions, transport and access electronics. ✔ Plant conditions are reviewed and recommendations are made on major plant improvements and system upgrades.✔ Vigilant awareness is maintained of the latest RUS, regulatory, industry and technological developments to assist in the planning of company changes that ensure technical/functional viability.✔ The important leadership of the company’s Cybersecurity initiative to implement safety measures to address the increasing vulnerability of company systems.✔ Successful Virtual machine cluster and SAN business case efforts were presented to Senior Leadership on corporate VM environments having the result of substantial savings in hardware and maintenance cost.

► Here at ACT, I served in a dual role as a Technical Lead and Network Engineer where I applied industry/technical expertise to guide technology development, networking system operations, and capacity optimization in alignment with the company vision and business objectives. ► I had leadership in the design, configuration, and management of the Company’s core and regional transport platforms that include technologies such as Carrier Ethernet, DWDM, SONET, Access, and others. This entailed the following:✔ System design engineering for the installation of new facilities and improvement of existing locations.✔ The architecture of 100Gsolutions leveraging various vendor equipment (POC) Proof of Concept and other existing DWDM networks which led to cost savings.✔ Definitive review, selection, and management of vendors for the transport network expansion and other key developments.✔ Vendor negotiation to obtain the best purchase price, delivery times, service and level of quality. ✔ Network engineering facilities, network inventory database, and documentation were successfully managed and maintained.✔ Answering (RFP) Response for Proposal and (RFI) Response for Information.✔ Scope of Work (SOW) determination, initiation, and method of procedures (MOP) for new projects/network activities.✔ Prepares material request forms (MRF) confirming the proper deployment of equipment for services. ✔ Liaises between the engineering department and affiliate carriers to ensure end-to-end network. connectivity. ✔ Manages workflow and service delivery including the implementation of standard operating procedures.✔ Maintains and supports traditionalT1, DSn, OCn circuits based services. ✔ Prepared business plans, budgets, forecasts and growth projections.

► At Next-G, I led the management, maintenance, upgrade, and replacement of existing telecommunications technology systems. ► Working with service partners, vendors and outsourcing providers in the support of the network infrastructure, I was responsible for the evaluation, design, integration, and testing of network solutions including all switches, routers, and applications such as SIP and H323. ► In this role, I applied my advanced problem-solving skills to debug, diagnose, and resolve circuit problems. ► Finally, I developed and implemented network infrastructure plans, oversaw field operations, and prepared/distributed daily activity reports and progress reports. This entailed the following activities and achievements:✔ Functional designs were developed and tested, including carrier rating and routing. ✔ Cost savings through traffic analysis was achieved, including detailed engineering and utilizing the suitable transit providers. ✔ Monitored data on the Telco Debit Card and managed Lucent Excel Switch.✔ Cisco and Juniper routers were installed, configured and administered. ✔ Detailed configuration and maintenance of T1, DS3, and SS7 networks that included performing end-to-end equipment testing.✔ Shell-script coding in Java, Unix, C and C++. ✔ Effective setup of IP-IVR (Interactive Voice Response) equipment/devices and interfaces.✔ Collaborative efforts with various Network Operations Centers (NOCs) and telecommunications providers to provide rapid response to outages and resolve network issues.

► In this role, I assisted graduate students with academic as well as technical questions. I had the following duties and achievements as well:✔ Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award was presented due to a strong demonstration of academic performance. ✔ Graded assignments, exams, and projects.✔ Hands-on with VoIP and telecom equipment, standards and technologies.✔ Experience in the documentation, presentations, and project layouts via Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.✔ Academic Projects presented to the class included WiMAX, Long Term Evolution, Wireless Mesh Network.

► As Technology Engineer, I was the leader network expertise to establish and provide strategic planning and network infrastructure to meet the needs of business and communications services

Commerce, Ca, Us

► As Developer Engineer, I headed up network services that provided network infrastructure designs that addressd business and services.

Masters, Telecommunication Management

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Diploma, Digital Electronics