Employer - Tata Consultancy Services, London British Telecommunications Plc, London Nov 2002-current Role Senior Project Manager Business Unit Telecom Networking Systems, OSS/BSS, Wholesale Access and 21 Century Networks Customer Profile BT is a UK wide communications solutions provider with a global reach in the business market. Its immediate priority is establishing its 21C Network. It also leads and influences industry on telecommunications standards and provision and creation of next generation products and services by engaging with leading OEMs, application service providers and thought leaders. Product Portfolio The company focuses on PSTN, Broadband and telecommunications solutions worldwide based on Next Gen products, 21C, TMN, OSS/BSS and many more. It also has the leading installations of Enterprise Application Integration deployments worldwide Deliverables Currently delivering mobility product wholesale solution based on 3GPP IMS to BT Retail customer and responsible for commercial, regulatory and delivery as lead project manager for BT Wholesale Skilled in delivering conceptualisation reports, business analysis reports and end to end business requirements. Also included management of requirement delivery and engagement with business for signoff and delivery into solution design. Currently working in 21C programme as senior project manager and engaged at programme level for Feasibility, Requirements, Delivery and Commercial work Responsible for conducting several ITTs, team selection for adjudication and vendor selection as well as managing integration of vendor supplied/ developed components and BT platforms. Responsible for initiating and delivery up to In-Life. Reporting to Mobility LOB Director. Skilled in stakeholder and risk management. Skilled in using GDPM methodology for management of large projects and stakeholder involvement and management. Responsibilities include engaging product managers and capturing as well as agreeing plan and requirements with them and their design teams. Responsible for product strategy and alignment with 21C. Handling two releases of 21C business analysis and requirements capture as well. Solution for Wholesale Access / Wholesale Line Rental Phase 2d. Managed conceptualisation to deployment of BT Wholesale Hub for Service Fulfilment Skilled in offshoring methodology, management and engagement Experienced in team leadership - have managed a team of 35 consultants Experienced both in programme delivery and technical business analysis Other Consulting Experience - indicative projects Tata Consultancy Services - Telecom Practice Role Market Researcher/Lead Business Analyst Business Unit OSS Laboratory Customer Profile The OSS Laboratory conducted market research and initated POCs or demos in partnership with vendors to develop pre-sales and go-to-market strategy. Deliverables To generate white papers To manage vendors - BEA Systems and Intel Corporation To agree POCs and go-to-market strategy with vendors To identify talent and conduct training To engage in pre-sales in relevant accounts Generated 3 M of business in BT Qwest Telecommunications Role Business Analyst Business Unit Interconnection Business Customer Profile Qwest is a leading service provider in the United States engaged in long-distance telephony Deliverables Basic deliverable was to provide analysis of solutions and conduct RIA and provide estimates of work for Change Request raised by FCC/US Government Guidance as to what solution may be used Represented 5 Grade 5 Managers and 70 team members to the Change Control Board Assessed market changes and advised on business strategy Worked at programme level to report on risks and issues Worked on the following Telecommunication Technologies 1. Access PSTN, ISDN, xDSL, ATM, Optical, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, 3GPP 2. Backbone PSTN, ISDN, SONET,WDM, GSM, 3G ATM, PDH, SDH, Narrow and Broadband Satellite Networks 3. Applications TMN, OSS/BSS, Radius, IP, Multimedia (H.323, MPEG, DTV, STB, iTV, DVB and IP) xDSL, LDAP, WAP, SMS, Business Applications on Telecom Networks like ISP/ASP, e-biz, e-services and m-commerce technologies, EAI, J2EE 4. Hardware Intel Pentiums, Intel80x86, HPUX, Sun E450, HP 9000, QNX 5. OS Unix, Sun Solaris, HPUX, HP Openview, Linux, Win NT, Win 9x, 2K, XP 6. Networking Technologies TCP/IP, SNMP, PPP, X.25, X.400, X.500 (Internet Directories), Frame Relay, ATM and DWDM, MPLS, Check Point, Multi vendor CTI Solutions, Network Security Technologies 7. Major Vendors Alcatel, Cisco, Nokia, 3COM, Ericsson, BEA Weblogic and ELink 8. Software C C++, J2EE, EAI, XML, WMLM Oracle PL/.SQL, UML (Borland Tools trained as well as Rational Rose) References can be supplied on demand