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Alok Gautam

CEO

Kigali City, Rwanda13 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Over 11 years of telecom experience.
  • Expert in project management and operations.
  • Led major telecom projects across multiple countries.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecom Operations Leader with extensive project management expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Service Delivery ManagementOperations ManagementProject ManagementRf Optimization

Other Skills

Business PlanningTeam BuildingOperations AdministrationQuality AssuranceBudgetingSales ManagementQuality ManagementLeadershipBusiness DevelopmentInvoicingManagementBudget ManagementTeam ManagementResource ManagementBilling Process

About

Over 11+years of telecom experience, Including 7 years in operation and Project Management, Budget planning, Resource deployment, Corporate Communication, Customer Relationship Management, project delivery and acceptance . Hands on experience in telecom field handling below customer in 3 major countries(Uganda and Rwanda). 1-Huawei ( Passive Manage services for MTN,3G/4G/5G new build and expansion rollout project, safe city project and Smart Education). 2-ZTE (MTN new build and expansion rollout ) 3-Nokia (New Build sites acceptance) 4-Lycamobile (LTE new build sites) 5-Airtel (New Sites and Expansion Rollouts project) 6-MTN (Network Manage services for entire Uganda) 7-smart education-Rwanda government project

Experience

13 yrs 3 mos
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Current Experience

Emerald telecom rwanda ltd

Country Head

Apr 2020Present · 6 yrs 2 mos · Kigali City, Rwanda · On-site

  • End to End Telecom operation and planning.
  • Lead all aspects of Strategic planning and network operations.and control operational overheads.
  • Negotiate and administer vendor contracts,create and manage high -performing departments.
  • Monitor project performance against contractual obligations of the job
  • sets turnover and gross profit targets.
  • Prepare quarterly and yearly budgets.
  • Ensure project completion in line with estimation and Job card.
  • Ensure 100% certification of work executed to ensure payment of Invoices.
  • prevent customer complaints from arising.
  • Develop technical,contractual and managerial competence of operation team(Skill,quality,safety,Client dealing aspects of project) by means of training.
  • Anticipate and reduce bottlenecks in operation management.
Service Delivery ManagementBusiness PlanningTeam BuildingOperations AdministrationQuality AssuranceBudgeting+5

Emerald telcominfra private limited (etel)

2 roles

Head of Operations

Promoted

Mar 2018Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Build-up and Maintain customer relationships, Project and budget management, Project delivery and execution planning, Resource Utilization Plan, Billing and Invoicing, Network Planning and optimization team plan and progress,CTO level performance report for improvement.
Service Delivery ManagementInvoicingManagementProject ManagementBudget ManagementBusiness Planning+9

RF project manager

Apr 2015Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Execution of project according to customer timeline and responsible for progress presentation to customer about running project in kick-off meetings.
  • Responsible for Pre and post KPI (UMTS and LTE) monitoring and acceptance for cell wise as well as cluster wise as well.
  • Responsible for the 2G KPI like SD drop, TCH drop, SD blocking, TCH blocking, HOSR for new sites and cluster where 1800 implemented for LTE..
  • Worked on M2000 for optimization, alarm monitoring and KPI analysis.
  • Responsible for billing and acceptance.
Billing ProcessInvoicingProject ManagementBudget ManagementRf optimizationBusiness Planning+2

Emerald telecominfra (uganda) limited

RF Optimization and Team lead

Sep 2014Apr 2015 · 7 mos · Uganda

  • Working on Huawei system for optimization of MTN-2G-3G project And Tangerine LTE for Kampala-Uganda.(sites are swapped to Huawei system) and MTN 3G and LTE New Sites rollout.
  • Responsible for the 2G KPI like SD drop, TCH drop, SD blocking, TCH blocking, HOSR, IHSR and DLQ.
  • Worked on M2000 for optimization, alarm monitoring and KPI analysis.
  • Worked on GENEX-NASTER-GSM for neighbour optimization and BCCH, BSIC planning.
  • Worked on GENEX-ASSISTANCE and PROBE for analysis on drive test log-files.
  • Taking care of 3G KPI like RRC (CS/PS) success rate, RAB (CS,CS-64,R99,HSDPA,HSUPA), RAB drop(CS,CS-64,R99,HSDPA,HSUPA) ,IRAT and throughput .
  • Reporting with the help of M2000 (I-manager) and PRS (I-manager) using various KPI templates.
  • Daily monitoring of top worst cells of all the BSC.
  • Regular monitoring of the KPI of swapped sites and New Site.
  • Presentation of KPI pre and post of the swap.
Rf optimizationTeam Building

Kala telecom uganda ltd, uganda, east africa

RF optimization

Jan 2014Sep 2014 · 8 mos · Uganda

  • Position Held-RF Optimization(MS project of MTN Uganda)
  • Worked as a RF optimizer with ZTE for MTN Uganda MS project .
  • Daily and Hourly KPI monitoring of all accessibility, retainability, mobility and integrity KPI.
  • Preparing the KPI trend for Soft handover, IRAT CS/PS, Inter RNC handover, cell & user throughput, HS payload, RRC CS/PS, RAB success rate and drop call rate for voice,HSDPA,HSUPA.
  • >Position Held-RF-coordinator
  • Worked with Kala Telecom Uganda Ltd, as a RF coordinator engaged in Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. on Swap project (Airtel, Uganda) of GSM/WCDMA.
  • In this project my responsibility comprises to Optimization and Manage team on field for 2G/3G.Attend critical customers and analyzation of logs to find out poor Coverage and Quality area, Dropped call reasons, Blocked call reasons and Prepare Action plan for improvement.
  • And also Analyzing KPI Reports on M2000 for taking care of SD and TCH Drop, SD and TCH Blocking, Handover Success Rate, Call Setup Success Rate
  • Drive test and optimization for Airtel and Warid on multiband (900 &1800)and triband(900,1800 & 2100)antennas with GENEX Probe Tools 3.6 to 3.14and TEMS 13.1 to 16.3.2 in pan Uganda for verifying RF Parameter like correct BCCH,BSIC,MAIO offset, MAIO-List, hopping ,HSN no., RxLevel, RxQual,etc and checking the intra–cell and inter-cell handover with each and every assigned neighbor.
  • Analyzing KPI Reports for taking care of SD and TCH Drop, SD and TCH Blocking, Handover Success Rate, Call Setup Success Rate.
  • Analyzing Network Performance through Traffic Reports on daily basis & Optimizing the Radio Network by implementing changes which needed.
  • Responsible for Physical Optimization for KPI improvement like Overshooting, HOSR improvement, SD and TCH blocking, SD and TCH dropping.
  • Analysis of Cluster Drive Test logs to find out the Poor Coverage and Quality area, Dropped call reasons, Blocked call reasons and Prepare Action plan for improvement.
Rf optimization

Idea cellular ltd

Senior RF Engineer

Mar 2013Jan 2014 · 10 mos · Delhi

  • SCFT and Optimisation of sites of Idea in NCR, Preformed Drive Test for the swapped sites for verifying RF parameters like correct BCCH, BSIC, MAIO Offset, MAIO-list, Hopping, HSN no., RxLev, RxQual, etc and checking the intra-cell and the inter-cell handovers with each and every assigned neighbour.
  • Co-ordinate with OMC-R Engineers for any problems related to RF like addition of missing neighbours and changing RF parameters, etc.
  • Co-ordinate with BSS Engineers for site related problems like swap found in feeder cables, etc.
  • Resolving Customer Complaints : Worked on field to resolve the customer complaints regarding the coverage, quality and data related issues.
  • Checking and Analysis of 3G UMTS network Tests like HSDPA (FTP), Latency Test.
  • Long Call in terms of Handover on basis log files analysis.
  • Analysis and report generation of drive test files using ACTIX Tool.
  • Responsible for the analysis and optimization of the network.
  • Find out the major problem area and coverage hole area and rectify them.
  • Neighbor Optimization in terms of Active set, Monitored set and Detected set.
  • Verification of Dump to check the parameters of HSDPA, HSUPA.
  • Handled the EMF survey project for IDEA Delhi NCR includes the EMF calculation sharing operator information and maintain the data required by the customer.
Rf optimization

Nokia networks

Network Engineer

Dec 2012Mar 2013 · 3 mos · Noida

  • I have gained experience in the mentioned activity
  • 1. Site creation as well as deletion.
  • 2. Site lock and unlock.
  • 3. IPM updating.
  • 4. DAC updating.
  • 5. And also short out the problem on call.

Education

North Maharashtra University

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — Electronics and Tele-communication

Jan 2009Jan 2013

BIHAR

HSC — science

Jan 2007Jan 2009

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