Jun 2016 – Mar 2024 · 7 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Spearheading World's fastest growing JioFiber FTTH business (Sales, Product/Services, Devices, Home connect & care, Network, Customer Care, Finance, HR, P&C, SCM, Digital Platforms and Automation, and overall P&L Commercials with all field functions) connecting 50Mn Homes in India by TRUE-Fiber and acquiring the significant market share of India Home broadband segment.
• Responsible for product management, devices, sales and pricing, commercial plans. Leading the teams of over 30,000 direct employee teams with 100K contractors workforce. We connect 20,000 Home connect every day and plan to touch 100,000 home connect/day post covid period.

Feb 2012 – Nov 2016 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Responsible for delivering the next generation LTE/LTE-A Pan India All IP networks including technology selection, RFPs, Vendor selection, network architecture, design, planning/engineering and network rollout with total network investment crossing $30 Billion dollars. The network is built as Data Centric network with VoLTE support. Responsible for Core Networks, Access Network and Backhaul network with complete infrastructure design.
• This is a green field LTE network from using 2300Mhz, 1800Mhz and 850Mhz spectrum with TDD+FDD carrier aggregation supported covering 90% of India Population using 250,000 Tower sites, 100,000 Indoor combo Small cell+WiFi, 10,000 Outdoor small cell serving High Speed Internet, VoLTE, Mobile TV and other Jio Apps. Network is serving 60,000 TB per day with 99.999% service uptime using dual homing and MESH networking.

Mar 2008 – Feb 2012 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

• Worked as Senior VP Network planning and engineering for end-to-end wireline networks in Bharti Airtel India, 4th largest mobile operator in world. Invested $2B capital in network transformation projects (40G/100G Expressway, IP Supercore, Metro core networks, Mobility centric backhaul, and deep fiberization) addressing 2G/3G/LTE SMB/Enterprise/Wholesale customers. Led all three business units (Mobile, Enterprise, Fixed line) network solutions.
• Defined global strategy for network expansion, process innovation to achieve global network standards. Spearheaded network outsourcing and network optimization activity bringing 31% Capex savings and 7% Opex savings.

Aug 1996 – Feb 2008 · 11 yrs 6 mos · San Jose, California, United States

• Deep expertise in Software and Network engineering for telecom equipment, product development and software development, CICD/DevOps in Core optics, IP networks, Broadband xDSL/FTTx networks targeted for Tier-1 operators in USA AT&T-Uverse, Verizon-FioS, Japan operators NTT/KDD. With increasing technical and managerial position managing global teams and responsible for customer final delivery.

Jul 1993 – Jul 1996 · 3 yrs

• Software development for building next generation SS7 based voice switching systems for Alcatel Lucent. Real-time operating system was simulated on IBM-UX platforms for voice signalling reducing overall cost and reducing outage downtime sutantially.

Feb 1991 – Jul 1993 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Write embedded system software for Tektronix test and measuring instruments ranging from Spectrum analyzers, Signal testers etc. Supported Indian customer base.