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Greater Bengaluru Area

Implementing CSG's Roaming suite of products for a Telecom Operator in Australia to replace their existing solution. The project is in final phase - UAT completed and very close to Production go-live. CSG's Roaming solution consists of IME (Mediation), ICT (Interconnect) and Roaming Manager products. The project work included customising mediation to interface with other systems, mapping and migrating rates, agreements and configuration from existing billing system to the new system, developing and delivering customised reports.

Bengaluru, Karnataka

May'20 - Dec'22: Project Manager-Infrastructure:Recently managed migration of one complex application to cloud. This application has got 30+ interfaces.Migration project took 7 months.Also managing Infrastructure team (DBAs, SysAdmins) supporting the complex application.Additionally, managing release preparation and PROD deployment work.Feb'18 - Apr'20: Project Manager-Cloud Migration:Worked as Technical PM (Cloud Migration) since Feb'18. Work has three areas: Analyzing application and preparing runbook/SoE, planning the cut-over event, running the cut-over event.Supported cloud migration of applications for ABN AMRO Bank and Lloyds Bank, UKFeb'14 to Jan'18: End-to-end Project Manager:Managed projects from inception to deployment. Purely client facing role interacting with client side PM and act as SPOC for IBM. Collected and prepared integrated schedule and tracked it against milestone dates and alert or escalate in case of delay. Identify risks early, plan mitigation and alert client and management. Request and manage monthly funding from client and monitor cost. Manage change requests and their impacts on costs and schedule. Deliver with good quality. Plan required levels of testing and engage teams early to identify defects and fix earlier in the lifecycle. Manage dependencies with other projects and across interfacing applications. Trace and report progress to managements and other stakeholders.

Bangalore

Worked as Business Analyst for clients AT&T and IKEA. Worked as Application Architect for Telefonica for one year. Nov`12-Jan’14: Business Analyst (Telecom Domain)Worked as Business Analyst for our US based client AT&TReviewing and understanding business requirements and preparing functional specifications and HLD. Explaining business and system requirements to Development and Testing teams and get their review commentsProviding support to the Development and testing teams during development and test phases.Nov`11-Oct`12: Business Analyst (Retail Domain)Worked as Business Analyst for our Sweden based client IKEA.Coordinated knowledge transition sessions with previous vendor during transition phase of the project.Planned and organized workshops with client business staff for gathering and reviewing business requirements.Documented the requirements and explained to Development and Testing teams.Performed BA validation of developed modules and provided feedback to the development team.Conducted demo of developed modules to client and collected comments and provided to development team.Nov’10-Oct’11: IT Architect (Telecom in billing domain)Worked as IT Architect for our UK based client Telefonica, UK. Gathered business requirement from client and developed high level solution document (Delta specification document).Rendered technical guidance to the development and testing teams till successful deployment.Prepared and presented high level solution to the architecture review board and acquired approvals.Interacting and liaising with performance architects to assess performance impact of the solution and to recommend performance test.Sep’06-Oct’10 Business Analyst (Telecom Domain)Worked as Business Analyst for our US based client AT&T.Worked directly with business representatives to understand the specific requirements that are driving the need for a solution to be designed.

Developer in Rating module of Precedent 2000 billing product.

Worked as a developer and team lead. Developed batch and online interfaces during transformation from main frame based billing platform to TBMS for Batelco, Bahrain.

Developed modules on IP Mediation and LDAP server integration with BSS product TBMS.

Software engineer to support and maintain Marketing Information system for the Marketing Division.

B.Tech, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering