Balaji Ramadass, Asst Manager in Network

Balaji Ramadass

Asst Manager in Network

ALCATEL LUCENT LTD

Location
India - Bengaluru
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electrical & Electronics Engineer
Experience
11 years, 9 Months

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Total years of experience :11 years, 9 Months

Asst Manager in Network at ALCATEL LUCENT LTD
  • India - Bengaluru
  • April 2013 to November 2013

• Working as an Network Service Assurance & Service Delivery for both Wire-line and Wireless domains in Alcatel-Lucent Managed Service
• Highly self-motivated professional with immense experience of working in Transmission and Networking field. Extremely flexible and very quick to learn & adapt to new conditions.
• Excellent knowledge and hands on experience of SDH, MEN Switch, DLC, UBR, & Optical N/W.
• Have good experience in Project Management, Telecom Project Planning & Rollout (DLC & Transmission), Telecom Infrastructure Planning & Deployment with E2E.
• Organized, Result oriented and Self-motivated with excellent interpersonal skills, abilities to accept challenges to deliver results, ability to innovate and adapt to new situations.

Asst Manager in Network at Reliance Communication Ltd
  • India - Bengaluru
  • September 2007 to March 2013

• Responsible for ensuring SLA for all Network Faults and Customer Faults.
Strategic Planning & analysis:
• Proactive monitoring of Long Haul/backbone and Metro transmission network; providing level-1 support and escalation of the issues/faults to concerned teams, updating of related trouble tickets.
• Perform analysis and diagnosis on complex networking problems, identify issues and resolve faults within MTTR.
• Reporting planned/ unplanned outage, verifying the reasons.
• Supervise the hardware installation on customer sites according to standards in backbone environment.
• Installation/Commissioning/Maintenance of Power plants and Power Distribution Boards
• Installation, Commissioning and Integration of the SDH, DLC & MEN equipment and acceptance testing of OFC Network.
• Installation and Troubleshooting of Lease line, PRI, ISDN BRI, LL, & L3VPN, Data Circuit, EDP, Cisco, FTTP, FTTH, FTTV, FTTN, ONT, FTTB, MPLS Links, etc.
• Operation and Maintenance of SDH, DLC (V5 Signalling) & L2 Switch, MEN Equipment. Handle Escalated faults related to network and be a focal point to all related service queries.
• Provide support in a 24X7 technical assistance environment for hardware, software applications
• To ensure customers tickets are closed within the committed SLA. Manage the team of field engineers to resolve the critical, major and minor issues as per committed SLA of customer.
• Troubleshooting and fault resolution on network equipment like UTStar, Nortel, Huawei, Cisco etc.
• Track RMA related activities for Faulty materials / spares.
• Preventive maintenance of the systems and implementation and monitoring of software upgrade activities in the network.

Senior Network Engineer at Bharti Airtel Ltd
  • India
  • March 2002 to September 2007

Bharti Airtel Ltd, Bangalore
Designation: Senior Network Engineer
April 2005 - Sept 07
Job Profile:
• Verifying site layouts for the project and Site acquisition. Ensuring effective site management and discipline to ensure safe execution of the project. Supervising and coordinating all site erection activities, certification and acceptance testing
• Site and infrastructure planning and survey for RSU, DLC, SDCA etc.
• Plan and Manage Critical works as per schedule. Coordinate with virtual team across the globe.
• Installation & Configuration of SDH, DWDM (Nortel equipment) & DXC7070 Equipment (Siemens make) from STM1 to STM64.
• Installation, Commissioning and Acceptance Testing of more than 50 Ericsson Tower sites. SDH migration planning, network integration & optimization to minimize the downtime in the region
• POI (Point of Inter connect) with BSNL, Vodafone, Spice etc.
• Providing backbone optical N/W for Spice, Vodafone and Ericson for more Bandwidth.
• Upgradation of software and hardware as and when required
• Conduction Performance checks and periodic maintenance of whole network and troubleshooting RSU, DLC and Transmission and OFC Network.
• Operation and Maintenance of SDH Equipment. Co-ordination with customers for issues with respect to service outage and Change management activities. Acceptance Tests of the SDH equipment
• Coordination with Transmission Operations team and customer for media faults/testing from NOC perspective i.e. loop/BERT/OTDR fiber testing
• Active Participation in Pre-planned and Adhoc Restoration and Normalization of Network during major network breakdown.
• Maintain proper documentation, prepare handbooks and ensure new learning are documented and subsequently conduct training also.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical & Electronics Engineer
  • at CMJ University
  • January 2012

♦ Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronics Engineer in CMJ University through distance education

Bachelor's degree, Electrical & Electronics Engineer
  • at Kalinga University
  • January 2005

♦ Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineer from Kalinga University 2005.

Diploma, Electronics and Computer Hardware
  • at Jetking School of computers Bangalore
  • January 1999

♦ Diploma in Electronics and Computer Hardware in Jetking School of computers Bangalore 1999.

Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering
  • at CMJ UNIVERSITY
  • August 1997

♦ Diploma in Electrical (3 Yrs) AEG-NGEF 1997.Regular

Specialties & Skills

ACCEPTANCE TESTING
BACKBONE
DIAGNOSIS
MAINTENANCE
TESTING
USER ACCEPTANCE
Electrical & Telecommunication netwroking
Network Service assurance and Service Delivery

Languages

Hindi
Expert
English
Expert
Kannada
Expert
Tamil
Expert
Telugu
Expert

Training and Certifications

PROFESSIONAL (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2005
Valid Until:
August 2005