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B K Subramanya Prasad, PMP, ITSM

Cell: +91 98443 49270

LL:+91 80 26728402
bksprasad@yahoo.com

PMI Certified PMP

EXIN Certified ITIL-V3-F
EXIN Certified ITSM

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Engineering Graduate and PMP & ITSM certified Dynamic Project Manager with 9 years of solid experience
in Process based End-to-End Project Management & Testing/Quality Assurance in IT Industry and 7 years
of substantial experience in GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, RF, 3G technologies with Telecom Service providers.
SKILL SET
Technical Skills

Strong Telecom knowledge in GSM, CDMA, GPRS, UMTS, 3G, MMS, SMS, SMSC, MMSC,
OSS, BSS, Switches & Routers, VOIP and General Telecom Network Architecture.
Protocols used SIP, ISUP, MAC, Call Control, Communication protocols - RS232/485,TCP/IP, SS7.
Having Hands on different Software Testing methodology like System, negative, black
box, regression, functionality, Load, Automated, Manual, Handset, Performance, Interop (IOT/IOP),
Stress, API & Backend Testing and implementing test automation frameworks,
Software Testing Tools, Simulators used Win Runner, Silk Runner, Ethereal, MMSC,
Presto, R&S, HP QTP, HP Quality Center, IBM Rational Functional Tester, SNMP, Rational Robo & Test
Director.
Planning, Developing & Installing Telecom Networks, RF Optimisation, Operations &
Maintenance of Network, and R&D
Excellent skill in Project Management Software MS Project and other absolute
knowledge in using all other MS Office applications that includes MS Visio & MS Access.
Operation System UsedLinux, UNIX
Languages C, PERL, TCL/TK
Absolutely Conversant with different SDLC like Waterfall, Agile methods and QALC
Efficiently Setting-up Full-Fledged Lab Facilities
Defect tracking tools usedClearquest DDTS, IBM DETS, Bigzilla

Project Management Skills

Expertise in adhering to PMI practices & establishing ITIL practices in Identified &
appropriate Scenarios
Managing effortlessly multiple on-site & off-shore projects with Persuasive Presentation &
Communication skills to multi-geographical Stake holders
Strong quantitative analysis skills & Ascertaining potential areas by understanding client
needs & industry trends
Proficient Project management skills with experience in PLC like developing, managing &
tracking Project Plans, Scope, Risk, Contingency Planning, Stakeholder management, conflict
management, etc.,
Architecturing complete solution for delivering multiple projects successfully with required
KPI metrics & SLAs.
Spearheading & producing thriving results from hi-performing individuals.

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Human Resource Planning, Acquiring & managing with a very low attrition. Excellent
Training & Mentoring across various Project Stages & Teams
Advocating for Quality Standards like TL & ISO, SEI CMM and CMMi
Capacity Management for Resource considering the financial targets.
Adding value by leveraging Ideas & Best practices, Designing & Providing relevant Reporting
& Status Updates to the Project Stakeholder

Software Testing & Quality Assurance Skills

Conducting case & system study for project planning, scope, estimation and tracking.
Define, prepare and review test strategies, test plan, estimates.
Defining product/software release criteria & being a part of the core team to take a decisive
direction
Test environment & lab set up, functional, integration, regression testing, acceptance testing
and verification & validation at various levels of product release from Dev to Production.
Carrying out procedures for test cases and test scripts.
Successfully implemented automation testing from manual testing for about 6000 cases.
Defect analysis and Risk analysis
Designing process charts and generating manuals for each of the process area.
Define and implement preventive and corrective actions to improve quality of the releases
Contribute in quality assurance program of organisation; metrics data collection, Analysis
and Report generation.
Conducting process and configuration audits & reviews.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Spearheaded the Quality Assurance of the $3Mn R&D OSS Project - Roaming Measurement
for worldwide Telecom Operators like Airtel, AT&T, Rogers, Tata, Reliance, Vodafone and Sprint
Directed & Delivered Multiple key test projects in various Product Life cycle stages of BSS
products - simultaneously within stipulated time & budget for International Clients like Juniper,
OKI, Italtel, Veraz, Airtel, BSNL, Sprint, Nortel. Products are SSF, SNS, B2B, UATK, SIGCOMP,
MDS, OCCS & RR.
Accelerated the UAT processes of by accomplishing influential interpersonal relationship with
multiple internal teams of size 20-50 & multiple-geographic clients.
Trained 500+ individual employees on various topics like Testing Automation, Agile Testing
Methods, Efficient Project Management Skills, First Time Managers Dilemma, etc.,
Interviewed 200+ College Students in various Campus Interviews & 100+ technically sound
Engineers for various projects
Implemented successful on-site IOT for relevant projects within / before stipulated
timelines.
Designed & Implemented templates & documents for the handled projects to erase the
geographical differences to bring in status synchronization among every stake holders
Obtaining all relevant approvals & liaisons for the commercial launches of the Telecom
Operator
Consistently maintained a very low-attrition ratio in the handled team, across organizations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Project Manager(R&D
Operating Manager)
Engineering Project Manager

Agilent Technologies

Deputy Manager

Bharti Telnet Ltd.(Airtel)

Aricent

February 2008 October 2009

1.8 Years
June 2000 February 2008
7.8 Years
August 1998 June 2000

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Deputy Manager
Senior Engineer
Senior Engineer

Project Manager(R&D
Operating Manager)

Aircell Digilink India Ltd.--Essar

Cellphone
KOSHIKA Telecom Ltd. (USHA
Group)
SHYAM Telecom Ltd

Agilent Technologies

1.10 Yrs
January 1997 to July 1998
1.6 Yrs
June 1996 to December 1996
0.6 Yrs
From December 1992 to June 1996
3.6 Yrs
February 2008 October 2009
1.8 Years

Integral part of the ACPL (Analytics & Customer Experience Product Line) R & D division that handles
solutions for the service providers. Efficiently navigated the strong & performing team size of 20 thru the
various phases of the development & Testing of
$2Mn worth Network Tester product
$3Mn worth Roaming Measurement System
Customer Experience Manager
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Realizing the specific requirements of the clients of the above products, the development, test
plans & strategy were crafted & integrated in the delivery process
Hand-picked by the PMO to implement PMI practices, develop templates. The same was strictly
followed in various geographies across products
Every Process was cohesively created with the SDLC Stages with a rigorous SCRUM(Agile)
methodology
Efficient Meeting Schedules across borders for escalation needs & Project Status Updates were
critically maintained.
Organized regular technical Training on various process, methods, tools for development & testing
for teams across products & projects
Co-ordinated, collaborated and setup Quality standards across the projects.
Monitored the test service practice level activities by acting as a Domain Expert.
Establishing collaboration with globally distributed teams
Project Migration & transition to China with the established best practices
Skillfully utilized the CAPEX for the team

Engineering Project Manager

Aricent

June 2000 February 2008

7.8 Years

1. VOIP & TSP Products (June 2005 to Feb 2008)

Significantly involved with VoIP technology products facilitating transmission of voice,facsimile and video
traffic over globally managed Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This reduces capital costs while providing
higher scalability and easier management. And the clients were the world-wide spread multiple telecom
giants.
Solely responsible for anchoring the QALC/STLC of the following VOIP products - SIP Server
Framework (SSF), System Network Server (SNS), Back-to-Back (B2B)- SIP Session Manager, User
Agent Tool Kit (UATK). Signaling Compression (SIGCOMP).
And the successfully delivered TSP Products were Mediation Deviation System (MDS), Online
Charging Control Systems (OCCS), Revenue Re-conciliation

Directed 35 strong individuals of multiple levels & projects to conduct full-fledged E2E testing &
Network Testing

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Implemented product validation projects utilizing various testing methods & tools @ various stages,
ensuring efficient, comprehensive feature / functionality, QA, and performance testing.
As a domain expert, Set directives, Planned, strategized & Monitored more than 10000+ test cases
for the above products with 100% coverage of the requirements and reporting
Employed multi-vendor operational expertise to ensure efficient, accurate IOT that slashed the
time, cost and complexity.
Managing CAPEX and OPEX
Adhered to the leading standards TL9000, CMMI Level 5 & ISO 9001 in Test Management without
any NCs.

2. MMS Applications for multiple Motorola Handsets (June 2002 to May 2005)
Proudly involved in the MMS Application development & testing in the early years of 2002. Those days
MMS being a revolution that facilitates mobile subscribers to send and receive messages containing a large
array of media elements like text, images, audio, and video in all possible file formats.
Guided & involved in Developing & Testing with the 8 member team.
o Established the means to integrate Handset Configurations & to deliver thru necessary settings
o Executed content adaption checks on multiple national & international operator networks
o Managed & scrutinized the compatible distribution Lists
o Developed & tested 2500+ Test cases with 3GPP specifications. Also scrutinized the results to
create a more competitive test repository enabling the future stages of feature testing in fast pace.
o Successfully accomplished the UAT.
o Showcased on-Site testing & Represented the MMS Product team in the Chicago product launch
o Single handedly executed Inter Operability Testing at Vodafone, Dsseldorf-Germany.
3. Personal Digital Cellular Packet Data (June 2000 to May 2002)
PDCPD is a packet data system, using the technologies of CDMA & GPRS, is an extension of the PDC
(Voice) system towards the Packet Data transfer. Operated as a crucial resource to the projects
execution & was successfully delivered to the Japanese Client.
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Test Case Development for the various O&M threads like Device Configuration Management, Device
Status Management, Fault Management, Performance Management.
Gained Sufficient Hands-on Experience in coding by Developing Log collection and Purge modules.
Acquired Excellent Skills in Strategizing, Planning, Writing & Exectuing Test cases.
Initiated Log Analysis & actively participated in end-end reporting

Deputy Manager

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Bharti Airtel Ltd.,( Airtel)

August 1998 June 2000

1.10 Yrs

Circle /Sites Handled : Worked closely with & Reported directly to the COO of the Bhopal and
Jabalpur circles.
Installed & Managed O & M functions of OFC, MSC, BTS, BSS for CDMA network
Wireless & Wired Network Planning, Optimization of Network and Traffic Analysis.
Site planning w.r.t both RF & Microwave / backhaul planning to meet business requirements of both
coverage & capacity for GSM & CDMA. Involved dedicatedly in Network development like..
o Survey, selection RSU/BTS sites
o Design and development of infrastructures of sites
o Implementation of Copper Network and BTS sites

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o GIS implementation
Critical resource in Reviewing and monitoring the performance as per defined SLAs
Successful Liaison with Municipal, Corporation, PWD, Regulatory bodies & related vendors
Remarkable experience in Spares and logistics management
Alarm monitoring, daily Maintenance, fault handling, preventive Maintenance
Optimal BSS network architecture to minimize BSC locations

Deputy Manager

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January 1997 to July 1998

1.6 Yrs

Intensively involved in BTS acquisition, civil, roll out, installation & commissioning of the GSM(BTS
sites) network for the Circle Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi and Allahabad.
Actively involved in the deployment of Microwave network to have the connectivity between
two/multiple cities.
RF optimization of the GSM network to by trading off the coverage and the cost
Preferred resource to be part of the planning in Cost control, budgeting and O&M team
Creating & Analysis of daily reports and initiating corrective action.
Working knowledge passive equipment like Electrical and civil infrastructure
Customer focus & problem resolutions
Consistently ensured 100% uptime of the network
Monitored POI's and other Operators connectivity
Experienced in Siemens MSC, BSS and Microwave Equipments and its interfaces
Prepared & analyzed the Network report and hands-on experience in improving the key parameters
such as Congestion level, network utilization.
Multiple vendors handling experience for the deployment of equipments
Getting acceptance of the system by TEC and T&D for the Commercial launch.

Senior Engineer

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Aircell Digilink India Ltd.,

KOSHIKA Telecom Ltd. (USHA

Group)

June 1996 to December 1996

0.6 Yrs

Part of the team, building up Cellular Networks in various circles

Acquired knowledge in Survey, selection, design and development of BTS sites
Achieved fundamental knowledge of Telecom GSM technology, IP Networks, Switches & Routers.
Efficiently operated on 24 X 7 Shifts

Senior Engineer

SHYAM Telecom Ltd

From December 1992 to June

1996
3.6 Yrs

The starting point of the career had the following experiences that formed the strong base of my current
telecom industry exposure

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Excellently accomplished Multi-Access Rural Radio Project. MARR a radio telephony network that
provided. telephone facility to the remote villages. Operating under VHF and UHF band of frequencies,
this was very successful and low cost telephone service for location that does not have even the basic
electric power. Being part of this project rendered experience in

Designing & Developing high complex circuits with the aide of OrCad
Development of Radio Cards Hi & Low Power Transmitters and Receivers for the system using
prototype cards
Testing of the complete system for the stability of all technical parameters including environmental
conditions so as to release the final product for production
Obtaining TEC approval for the system
Documentation for acquiring ISO 9000

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

Education
Certifications

Awards

Bachelor of Engineer in Electronics & Communication Year 1991

Pursuing MBA in Software Enterprises Management
PMI certified PMP
EXIN certified ITIL V3 Foundation
EXIN certified ITSM
Pursuing ITIL V3 Expert
Best Practices VoIP & TSP Products
Outstanding Performance MMS Project
Award of excellence PDCPD Project
PERSONAL DETAILS

Contact Address
Date of Birth
Gender
Marital Status
Passport Number

26/14, 7th Main, Dattatreyanagar, Hosakerahalli, Banashankari Stage 3, Bangalore560085, INDIA

28th Sept 1968
Male
Married
B5848869

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