Umathanu S, AGM  -- Network Operations Head

Umathanu S

AGM -- Network Operations Head

Aircel LTD

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics & communication
Experience
30 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :30 years, 5 Months

AGM -- Network Operations Head at Aircel LTD
  • India
  • My current job since August 2010

Responsible for taking care of GSM, 3g, LTE, Network operations, Transmission Operations in Chennai
•To ensure the network availability and performance network in the circles and ensure to maintain 2G & 3G Network KPI’s.
•Responsible for implementing new features like MNP, ICR etc in the circles..
•Taking care of ICR Operations in Southern circles .
•Monitoring payments and penalties per terms of contracts terms with IP vendors . Co-ordination between corporate and circles for contract management, ensuring contractual deliverable & agreed KPIs, SLA’s are met and initiate for any deviations as per the requirements.
•Managing the Tekelac STP - MS Operations
•Inter working with other technical teams in corporate /region, regional IT, finance, commercial, RA & marketing teams at circle level for smooth operations in the circles
•Leading, mentoring & monitoring the performance of team members around more than 55 to ensure efficiency in process operations and meeting of individual & group targets
•Taken full Responsibility for restoration of BTS sites, Core location in Chennai during the flood in Dec 2015 and Vardha cyclone in Dec 2016

System support Manager at Nokia Siemens Networks
  • India
  • October 2009 to August 2010

Responsible for Operations & Maintenance of Nokia MSS / MGW , Traffic & Performance Management, Fault Management, Configuration Management .
•Set up the NOC Operations for Network Alarm Monitoring, Escalations and corrective actions based on the alarms .
•Set up the Project Plans for the overall network rollout of Core Network Elements and set up the team & recruited the Manpower as per the requirement .
•Interfaced with Customer for day to day operations as per contractual KPIs .
•Implemented and rolled out the new feature ICR concept in Videocon in Chennai & ROTN Network
•Dimensioning the Core Network for future services and Capacity requirements.
•Providing support to GNOC and the deliverables as per the agreed KPIs.
•Proactive measure for augmentation of capacities in core nodes and interface utilization (POIs/ Inter MSC, etc.)
•Ensure Switch Network Availability as per the contractual KPIs.
•Performance analysis of all core nodes & Schedule of preventive maintenance of all core nodes

Configuration Management at Reliance Communications Ltd
  • India
  • November 2002 to September 2009

During the Launch, Provided support & set up the 7 Switches of Lucent 5ESS CDMA 2000 MSCs in the CDMA environment and AXE 810 Gateway GMSC, One GSM MSC , 2 MGW, 4 BSC’s in Chennai & Tamilnadu . Expertise in the areas of deployment, implementation & integration of Mobile Core Network Elements .
•Responsible for Operations & Maintenance of both Alcatel -Lucent, Huwaei CDMA / GSM network consisting of 5 MSCs, 4 BSC’s & 3000 BTS in Chennai .
•Monitoring & taking corrective action of Network quality parameters .

Asst Manager at RPG Cellular Services Limited
  • India
  • April 2001 to November 2002

Planning, Engineering , Operation & Maintenance of Ericsson AXE-10 MSC/VLR/HLR.
•Played a major role in Migration & Co-ordination with Ericsson for the Installation & commissioning of New MSC / BSC in the Network without affecting the existing MSC/BTS downtime

Member at Telecom INDIA COMNET INTENATIONAL (PVT) LTD
  • India
  • October 2000 to April 2001

Responsible for regression testing of Wireless Call Processing, Wireless Supplementary services, Traffic Measurements, Billing, and GSM-INAP. Verification of interworking functionality between BSSAP and ISUP, BSSAP and R2MFC. Analyzing/Decoding of BSSAP, MAP and ISUP messages using protocol Analyzers/Lucent's Proprietary tools

DEPUTY MANAGER at BPL CELLULAR LIMITED
  • India
  • April 1998 to September 2000

Responsible for Switch Engineering, Traffic & Performance Management, Fault Management, Configuration Management, Maintenance of switching system, monitoring, up keeping of switching systems
•Actively involved in the TEC & A/T Evaluation team and close coordination with DOT / Private operators for various Point of Interconnect tests..
•Knowledge in call processing stages in SS7 signaling through Net hawk analyzer.
•Played a major role in activity (migration) completion.
•Coordinated & delivered presentations with the Customer Care Cell and Core Business Marketing Team in explaining them the technical feasibility about the System features/services available

Senior Engineer at DSS Mobile communication LTD
  • India
  • November 1997 to April 1998

Operations & Maintenance of ALCATEL EPABX
•Pager repair and programming

Senior Engineer at Pentafour Communications Ltd
  • India
  • April 1995 to October 1997

Completed the Installation & Commissioning of,
•A4300L system in DSS Mobile Communication Ltd., Chennai.
•A4300S system in Teleshopping Network, Chennai.
•A4300M system in SISCOL, Salem.
•A4300L system in

Graduate Engineer at HTL Limited
  • India
  • January 1994 to April 1995

Testing, Integration and Maintenance of Public Telephone Switching systems of C-Dot Electronic Telephone Exchanges starting from 500 lines to 5000 lines.
•Testing, Integration and Maintenance of C-Dot Input, Output Processor Chip level testing of various cards

Guide at Parsan Apartments
  • India
  • to

Implemented the feature of Automatic Call Distribution, Voice

Lead Auditor at TELOS MSC Sof
  • India
  • to

New Mumbai.
•ISO 9001:2000 version-

Technical Knowledge at APG
  • India
  • to

Knowledge on GSM, CDMA, SS7 Protocols , 3G etc,
•Nokia MSC DX 200 Switching Platform(GSM 900) & HLR .
•Lucent 5ess CDMA Switching Platform
•Ericsson’s AXE 810 Platform as Gateway MSC, MSS, MGW Experience
•Huwaei / Telos Soft MSC
•Ericsson’s AXE 10 Platform as Integrated Local & Transgate for Reliance NLD/ILD Backbone.
•Alcatel EPABX Switching System
•C-DOT Switching System(Lab testing experiences and in field trials)installation & commissioning

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics & communication
  • at Madurai Kamaraj University

A2, Ground floor, Chithirakudil , 10, Perumal coil 1st street

Master's degree, Electronics & communication
  • at Madurai Kamaraj University

A2, Ground floor, Chithirakudil , 10, Perumal coil 1st street

Specialties & Skills

Switch Configuration
Core Network
CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
FEATURES
MARKETING
NETWORKING
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
SWITCHES