Venugopal R. Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, KA, IN

Greater Bengaluru Area

• Delivered programs/projects ranging from Application Development (digital payment gateways), Digital Transformation (Collaboration platforms, cloud migrations), BOTS, AI (neurons), Cloud, Data Analytics, Email.
• Worked with multiple clients, $30M+ portfolio including Large & Complex projects.
• Learned and adapted quickly to new technology and software applications.
• 14 days to 2 days procurement cycle reduction; Delivered an AI project, part of the HCL-Client Patent partnership to one of a major CPG customer, by introducing neurons and removing manual interventions.
• 700 bps points improvement in gross margin by improving operational costs in Payment gateway customer engagement.
• Built teams to address engagement goals and objectives across multiple technologies, product portfolios with efficient ramp-up.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managed 3G End-to-End Feature test teams which are system wide and Baseline teams which include activities like Global Capacity, Node-B Capacity, Network & Product KPI, Functional baseline and Post-GA support.
• Major features were DB-DC, 3C HSDPA & DC-HSUPA (3.5G) with different variants of RRH/m-RRH/TRDUs
• Monitored resource allocation, budget development and personnel recruitment for 3G E2E System Test teams.
• As Global WCDMA TRL (Release Leader), Owned and delivered simultaneous releases (year-long) in collaboration with Feature primes, Program leaders and Functional Leaders, on-time.
• 60% Capex & Opex savings in year 2015 by platforms optimisation. This led to 30% savings of year over year savings in-terms of maintenance, tools licenses, etc.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed and maintained courteous and effective working relationships with multi-site leaders.
• Executed WDMA System test baseline activities & Labs transition to offshore from France/China/Canada by working with multi-site Supply chain teams. Completing the transition of 35+ complex labs to Bangalore and.

Bangalore

• Role of WCDMA RNC Competency Manager & Product Owner for RNC Feature Test teams and Baseline activities.
• Introduced Agile/Scrum methodology in feature testing teams.
• Executed insourcing & transition of complete RNC Test activities from partner.
• Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.
• Engaged and worked alongside cross-functional stakeholders to manage strategic initiatives.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Established LR Digital (SOC program), Product owner for scrum teams in developing new 3GOAM & GOAM (4G/3G/2G) involving both NFV & SOC concepts.
• Global Prime – Managing multi-site Node-B Functional baseline team – majorly in Bangalore, Nanjing & Lannion
• Part of key team in implementing Agile/Scrum in product development environment, implementing CI/CD and DevOps automation to have daily loads and Dashboards for monitoring.
• One-Click automation (Node-B) and integration with Jenkins as part of Agile methodology CI-CD introduction in 2010 within 8 months in the complex telecom product environment.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Product Owner (PO) of NodeB Automation Team.
• Planned MSCP (Managed Main Stream Control Process) team in Bangalore & Beijing working closely with 3G System Test leader.
• Prime for 3G NodeB Functional & Stability labs.
• $0.4M/year saving by planning cross platform execution in-terms of backhaul and h/w variants.
• Tool hardening challenge (2006): Cycle time reduction from 18 to 0.5-person month effort by improving first time pass rate from 35% to 98%. 40 times productivity improvement and reduction in noise as confidence in the.

Bengaluru Area, India

• 2G Soft Switch Product Development.

Bangalore, India

• 3G Soft-switch - NGN Soft Switch Product Development at Huawei Product Development facility. Involved in Core Network development and testing, mainly MSC. Interfaces/Nodes included HLR/VLR/GMSC/CAMEL interfaces.

Bangalore, India

Senior Management Programme [Smp], Strategic Action & Decision Making

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Instrumentation And Control Engineering

Madurai Kamaraj University, Engineering