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Houston, Tx, Us

Boulder, Colorado, Us

ITS mission is to ADVANCE innovation in communications technologies, INFORM spectrum and communications policy for the benefit of all stakeholders, and INVESTIGATE our Nation’s most pressing telecommunications challenges through research that employees are proud to deliver.Currently serving as Deputy Director (Acting) overseeing the daily functions of ITS. NTIA. The role comprise of working closely with senior leadership at Washington D.C. to provide leadership and strategic direction for the office of ITS. Oversee development of programs and initiatives, budgeting and financial management, staff management and development, Interagency coordination with other government agencies, stakeholders and external partners, Representational duties in various meetings, conferences and other forums both internally and externally, Crisis management and decision support and strategic planning and evaluation for the office as well as monitoring and evaluating progress towards those objectives.

Boulder, Colorado, Us

Englewood, Co, Us

Dish Network is building America’s first cloud-native 5G network to transform the way we live, work and play with unlimited possibilities. An Open RAN architecture which ought to change the way telecommunication landscape is in North American Continent (& beyond)!I am part of this future in making by contributing to build South West & Central Texas metro areas for Planning, Design, Optimization & Operational support in building a stand alone 5G network from ground up.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Worked in various roles as Sr. Manager with managing various teams for Systems Performance, Construction & Implementation, Real Estate, Program Management for In-building, DAS & Small cell for Carolinas/TN region @ Verizon Wireless.Accountable for setting and executing end to end strategy & plan for In-building and small cells with an annual budget of $30M+ on calendar year basis.My team design and deploy LTE, Advance LTE & 5G (UWB/ NR) solutions for various indoor and outdoor environment as well as special events in region.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Worked as Sr. Mgr Sys performance for Carolina/TN region managing both IN-Building and Regulatory teams. • Develop & implement strategy for yearly In-building /venue goals effectively utilizing multi million dollar budget on yearly basis.• Provide leadership, supervision and development for staff of Performance & Design Engineers for In-building solutions (enterprise, commercial buildings/large scale hospitality locations, venues, stadiums, race track etc) & ensure In-Building solutions are operating to Verizon performance standards.• Collaborate with other Network Groups (e.g., real estate, System Performance, Sales, Major account teams)• Develop individuals to be capable of optimizing the performance of all of VZWLTE networks.• Effectively manage vendors to provide design, construction review, and quality inspection for In-Building Solutions.• Working directly with customers, including national account customers, within their buildings and office complexes, while professionally representing Verizon.• Redesigning mature network areas to minimize capacity constraints and improve SINR while working with other areas of network to ensure performance fixes/initiatives are in place.• Partnering with System Performance to reduce LC, IA, DC, RRC setup failures, RRC Drops, Context Setup Failures, and Context Drops• Using internal tools to process regulatory compliance; Manage Regulatory team for whole region on holistic level• Develop Strategy & Optimizes the network using traditional and non-traditional means to address the Network topology and technology changes• Maintain a strong relationship with the Sales organization supporting them as necessary to establish and maintain confidence in Network superiority.• Work closely with Operations to quickly resolve network impacting issues.• Interface with regional network teams, territory teams, HQ teams, and equipment vendors for the purpose of operations support and root cause analysis

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Worked in leading role as Strategic planning manager for South Area, Verizon Wireless. Responsible for developing RF strategy for all regions within South Area.Manage with dedicated team of principal engineers which serve as technology liaison for SO Area and develop RF planning via analytic and research.The role consists of acting SME to all latest, developed and upcoming technologies and network solutions (large scale, enterprise, distributed architecture), create and share best practices among regions as well as providing SME expertise to 4G, LTE RAN architecture associated planning tools and develops network evolution and growth path.Oversee efforts and share with other regional/ planners/ engineering teams about recommendations on process improvements to be best in class. Participate in reuglar trails, FOA at both regional and national level. Recurrent interaction with regional, area and national level leaderships outlining future and upcoming technology features, implementation impact and regional level performance as well as prescriptions for short and long term network improvements.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Worked for AT&T San Diego, Las Vegas & Hawaii region for Indoor/ outdoor Distributed antenna systems, Small Cell, broadband communication and special event network deployment.• In charge of implementing wireless strategy and managing overall RAN Engineering of the wireless network; developing and implementing budgets, goals and objectives to ensure financial goals and service delivery expectations are met. • Creatively driving a unique balance of quality and industry standards, with focus on the development of high-performing teams, and providing leadership and strategic direction in the planning, design and implementation of the network.• Provided technology leadership and direction for the region’s access network including the infrastructure RAN, DAS, antenna systems, access technologies (such as WCDMA, LTE, and Advanced LTE), and RF technologies, Led technology evaluation, new product definition, systems design, and OEM RAN Vendor management (Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent)

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Worked as Antenna Services Group (ASG) principal RAN engineer leading overall design, planning, optimization and process management for Michigan/ Indiana region for DAS projects involving but not limited to New site build (NSB), DAS upgrade, LTE overlay, Rip n Replace, BDA / Repeater installation as well as custom solution for Enterprise customer.

Reston, Virginia, Us

I worked on AT&T/ Cingular network while being employed by General dynamics for 5+ years in several capacities. My role was broadly spreaded over design, planning, equipment engineering as well as overall Project & Account management of AT&T (GD as turf vendor). I was integral part of AT&T Wireless ZODIAC / CENNTENIAL project (nationwide markets) Integrating GSM & UMTS network (with Centennial legacy GSM & Alltel CDMA) growth & design project to improve coverage, capacity & quality. • Supervise services providing the technical support and resource to General Dynamic’s cross functional departments. Analyze, identify, and document detailed hard ware and software specifications for multi-vendor data, optical, power, and wireless base station equipment’s, based on equipment functionality, capacity and application of associated engineering rules and principals to ensure smooth equipment deployment and installations. Provide a complete flexible solution, tailored made, to our cross functional teams and to our external customers.• Design Implementation which supports site selection, BTS selection, Antenna and transmission line sweeps and microwave deployment,• Mange team of 4 RF Engineers for designing of Front End Engineering Design (FEED) packages for Equipment Engineering of GSM & UMTS 850/1900. Design and provide the DC voltage/Ampere calculation for the future equipment like MPCAs, Microwave. Equipment Deployment for complex growth sites, E911 (LMU) & CSU for new builds GSM. Identify the site equipment requirements for new build and site growth projects.• Issue Engineering Guidelines for sites with restriction (space/zoning/structural etc), Provide studies leading to the best alternative in making business decisions, Liaison to AT&T Corporate management teams regarding Project deployment and updates.• Data fills & demand validation of integrated sites for AT&T Proprietary CSS database system.

New York, New York, Us

Managed several Netware 4x, 5x and 6.5, Windows NT/ 2000/ 2003 servers. Administration of Hospital Wide Cisco- based Network, Consists of 1800+ Users in mixed environment. The core network is running on MLS 65xx Switches backed by Cisco 3750 at distribution level and 35xx at access level using Fiber optic/ Gigabit Link Connection. • Administration of VLANS in various network segment, manage inter VLAN-routing for these segments (6509 MLS-RP), Routing between remote nodes and Main hospital Using EIGRP, Trunking, Ether Channeling, PVST+/ MST Implementation, HSRP Redundancy, access list configurations for end router, remote connectivity with NY Presbyterian Hospital, Co-ordinate with other network management personals to provide seamless network connectivity.

Ms, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electronics Engineering