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Rahul30
Nationality- Indian
Gender- Male
Xth- 67.7%
XIIth - 65%
Undergrad- B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering with 54.4%
TOEFL- Yet to take
GMAT- 750 ( Q-50, V-41, AWA-4.5, IR-5)
Work Exp :
1. Have worked for 9 years in Telecom Industry and am currently VAS Manager for Airtel India Operations. Have previously worked with Nokia, Mahindra Comviva. Also have worked in UK for 6 months.
- Have received awards for my work at Airtel and previous organisations
- I have done in house courses in Airtel for Leadership,Security as well as technology
Volunteer Experience :
1. Involved in education of economically deprived kids, conducting fundraisers with an NGO "SOCH"
2. During flood disaster in MP in 2016 I was part of the team that setup communications to emergency and disaster helplines for people affected by the natural calamity
3. Sarva Seva Sankalp Samiti – NGO from Burhanpur for Deaddiction centers, Vaccination Drives, Reforestation, Awareness
programs for Crimes against women.Participated in workshops near Indore and Burhanpur for Vaccination drives, Awareness Camps and planting of saplings for green drive.
4.Mentored students at GS Institute of Management for development of soft skills
Extra Curricular:
1. Head of student placement committee and President of club "Peregrination" in College
2. Designed college website for "Peregrination"
3.Paper Presentation on Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic at national level at Concours 2006 at KIT, Andhra Pradesh
4.Presented Paper on Mobile and Wireless Communication in Techvinox 2005.
5.Paper Presentation on MRI Scan Application of Fuzzy Logic in PIONEER 2K5 at College of Engineering ,Kolhapur
6.Second prize in "Wrocketry" organized at KIT Andhra Pradesh
7.Won HTML web page competition in School level competition
Please evaluate.
Hi Rahul,
You have a good profile. The GMAT at 750 is excellent and will be valued by Kelley.
Your have not given much details about your work experience, so you will have to tell me how has your career progress been? what impact have you made? Have you led teams?
You will be among the older applicants so addressing clear career goals, why they need an MBA and why is now the right time will be super important for a successful application.Kelley asks for an alternate career goal, should your first choice not materialize. For an older applicant, this question is all the more important, as the admissions would like to see flexibility in your career goals.
Also, you have mentioned that you are yet to take the TOEFL. If you meet this criterion, you will qualify for a waiver: applicants who have earned an undergraduate or post-graduate degree from an institution in which English was the language of instruction.
Bharti Airtel
As manager PAN India VAS operations, I am responsible for performing advanced
support and complex deployment activities with demonstrated technical leadership of
handling a team of more than 40 executives. Some of the key responsibilities that I
handle are:
Managing PAN India VAS Operations for Bharti Airtel Ltd across 23 circles and
more than 250 million subscribers in India
Driving revenue and optimizing operations and cost with consolidation of VAS
solutions
Formulating and implementing new revenue streams through integration of new
VAS
Helping organization overcome legacy system and introducing more efficient
architecture
Ensuring smooth and glitch free running for all VAS (hello tunes, IVR, etc.) and
Messaging Services
Supervising multi-vendor Network framework of more than 15 vendors (Comviva,
Nuance, Mavenir, Onmobile,One97 etc.)
Spearheading Design, integration and Launch of new marketable products by
collaborating with various business teams.
Negotiating contract renewals and AMCs with vendors
Single handedly leading the Implementation of new HUB SMS architecture
Major accomplishments
Running Operations at >95% Success Rate for all VAS (hello tunes, IVR, etc.)
and Messaging Services consistently
Launched 13 new products (eg. Maps on IVR, IBOD, USSD Store,) adding more
than INR 6 million in H1
Saved about INR 18 million year on year by negotiating contract renewals and
AMCs with vendors
Centralized the system by implementing new HUB SMS architecture, saving
annual operational cost of INR 12 million
Increased average monthly revenue by INR 0.3 million by leading expansion of
BMS to support ever growing business of Enterprise SMS
As a Manager, MP & CG circle, I led and managed Operations for IN, VAS and Core for
Bharti Airtel Ltd. Coordinated and collaborated with IN team from Huawei, VAS Team
from Comviva and Core team from Nokia to streamline the operations. Some of the key
responsibilities that I handled were:
Managed operations to achieve KPIs as per agreement of 99.99%.
Strategized the launch of IBOD and IEOCN to increase end user interaction
Carried IN Migration for 16 million customers from old IN Technology to new
Online Charging System
Introduced Pick Pack launch, allowing users to choose his pack out of 5 options
from a single voucher. ASR Improvement: ASR improvement from 43% to more
than 46% by network optimization
Improved MCA success rate from worst in PAN India at 80% to one of the best
95%
Managed Implementation of SIP IVR, which replaced existing network of 8
servers with just two redundant servers, saving annual opex in line of INR 0.8
million along with substantially reduced power and space
Managed migration of CRBT from Comviva to Onmobile Platform at 60% of the
original cost, resulting in INR0.13 million YOY saving
Major accomplishments:
Achieved no-outage failure record for more than a year’s time
Increased sales of small denomination packs to INR 0.06 million per month
Successfully led 4G Lawful Interception demo with TERMCELL (Dept of
Telecom), procuring license to launch 4G service in MP
Marked a 30% rise in sales of special tariff and data packs amounting to a growth
of INR 0.12 million in monthly revenue
Received Award for first leading migration of Legacy old HLR to New NT-
HLR/HSS for 4G support in 23 circles PAN India. Saved not only Opex of about
0.25 mil per year but also streamlined power and space
Recognized and awarded for planning and handling traffic surge without
additional Capex cost to company. Saved the company from projected cost of
INR 15 million for planned hardware and licenses
PSR Improvement: - Overall NBH PSR improvement from 91% to more than
97% and PSR of all (12) individual MSS > 95 %. This was highest ever PSR -
KPI of MP circle
Mahindra Comviva
Major responsibilities:
Led and managed a team of four engineers on 6 Months onsite project for Three
(Hutchison) at Reading, UK to take over VAS-IN- Messaging Operations handover
from Huawei
Managed NGIN, VAS, 3DS, Messaging and Product Services for 3UK
Devised a program so the team could learn the existing architecture and best
practices followed by the Huawei MS team.
Setup NOC and ensured end-to- end connectivity from Pune site over VPN to devices
in 3UK framework for offshore front office operations.
Helped increase Paging Success Rate of Gujarat and MP Airtel networks from 85%
to 90% by working on paging times and retry policies for SMS.
Ensured successful audits to procure ISO Certification for client (ISO 27001
Information Security)
Carried out vulnerability assessment of 153 Servers on different platforms (Windows,
Linux,Unix,Solaris,etc) and ensured the vulnerabilities are mitigated to ensure zero
network breaches.
Maintained Zero SLA breaches for all operations, thus ensuring zero monetary
penalties from clients
Ensured successful audits to procure ISO Certification for client (ISO 27001
Information Security)
Major Accomplishments
Ensured zero KPI degradation during the operations
Managed various VAS services (SMS, CRBT, MCA, etc.) for Bharti Airtel Ltd.,
Madhya Pradesh at Service availability of more than 99.99%.
Coordinated with various back office teams from Hutchinson (Three) to collate data
and draft more than 100 documents of HLDs, LLDs, Standard Operating procedures
and Job Aids for long term sustainable operations for new joiners
Spearheaded multiple product Roll Outs on rev share basis (such as VCC, MCA,
Reverse MCA, ASRBT, ACM) to help increase visibility amongst subscribers, leading
to monthly business of around INR 0.1 million per month
Managed disaster recovery within 4 hours by devising and implementing Business
Continuity Model during fire disaster in Mumbai, ensuring minimal impact on service
and revenue.
Nokia Siemens Network
Major responsibilities
Managed Operations & maintenance of the core network with (18 MSS,26 MGWs, ,4
SGSNs, 6 HLRs) for Bharti Airtel Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh Circle with a
subscriber base of around 80 lac, Maintained a network uptime of 100%
Helped improve SCR for Airtel MP from range of 88-90% to 97-98%
Major accomplishments
Independently carried roll out of 3G ICR for Airtel MP (where Airtel didn’t have 3G
Spectrum License) and successfully completed the project within timelines, providing
Airtel competitive advantage in 3G networks
Installed the NDS Solution, the first of its kind in India, which lowered HLR Utilization
and helped save capex in line of INR 30-40 million on Hardware and licensing
Denave India Ltd
Major responsibilities
Routine health check-up and monitoring of all VAS related trunks and SS7 links in all
network elements to keep service KPIs >90%
Handled Project of Roaming traffic distribution over two GMSCs for redundancy to
ensure network resilience
Supervised link load monitoring and addition for critical nodes like IN, SMSC and
INTERMSC to keep utilization under 70%
Provided troubleshooting and support to different Indian law agencies for call
monitoring and tracking criminals.
Managed enterprise account creation for different Customers and Agents in
Application SMSC for bulk messaging.
Supported Customer Service, Contact Center and TSG teams with technical issues
to ensure SR resolutions within SLA target of 4 hours.
Major Achievements
Reduced IN Protocol Errors and IN Time Outs in the network from Tens of Lacs to
Tens of Thousands increasing SCR from 81% to 88-89%