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Rahul Panwar

Mr.
Mumbai, Maharashtra
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Priya.virkar@gmail.com
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+91-9819925185
Industrious and enthusiastic management Program Management professional offering 5+ years of Telecom Industry experience. Proven to consistently meet productivity, business and customer service objectives. Skillfully work with all employees to enhance performance and improve day-to-day processes. Diplomatic in resolving internal and customer issues to maximize satisfaction.
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Work Experience

Tata Communications Limited

Manager – PMO Customer Service Operations
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Mar 2017 - Current

Tata Communications is a global company with its roots in the emerging markets. As a key enabler of information and communication technologies to global enterprises, Tata Communications has led from the front in ensuring a robust digital ecosystem that is equipped for the future – with the infrastructure that can cope with customers’ demands of intelligence, scalability and flex.

  • Customer Relationship management - post-sales customer interactions, issue escalation, resolution & closure and provide progress updates to customer
  • Help lead ongoing development of PMO for assimilation of best practices in project management across group levels, risk reduction and improve confidence in the overall design and delivery of projects and major change initiatives. Working for provisioning module optimization.
  • Establishment of process documents/trackers/checklists to ensure seamless project rollout
  • Track projects so as to maintain a real-time picture of status and priority, facilitating adaptability in the face of changing business priorities.
  • Track, manage, and communicate risks and issues with stakeholders and senior management with respect to the deliveries & dependencies.
  • Implement Development processes and ensure that service delivery team understands and follows processes and procedures. Also Implementing governance standards across the portfolio, including tracking, monitoring and updating the status of programmed deliverables
  • Coordinate with Product/IT Teams for Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Project (VAPT) for betterment on work flow management.
  • Assist Project Managers in the daily administration of projects.
  • Function as SPOC for all functional teams & technical teams to achieve effective solutions.
  • Assist in Development and maintenance of relationships with Business Unit leads and leadership teams to manage expectations of service, including work products, timing, and the value to be delivered for those projects and programs by arranging regular interlocks.
  • Monitoring areas of significant program risk in conjunction with the Leadership Team and manages PMO level and escalated project issues to resolution
  • Additional responsibilities include assisting the business head with defining and updating the project management processes, standards and governance, assisting Project Managers on large projects, contributing to Quality Reviews, and coordinating activities in support of quality objectives.
  • PMO, amongst other things, ensures project plans and project documentation are complete and up-to-date, provides regular project status updates, provides assistance to acquire necessary resources and skills, and contributing to the delivery of business systems to meet identified business requirements.

Vodafone India Limited, Mumbai

Deputy Manager - Network Operations
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Aug 2013 - Mar 2017

Vodafone, Mumbai is currently involved in an ambitious mobile coverage & service upgrade project. The entire project has severe ‘time constraint’ and needs to be executed on war-footing.

  • Handling the network acquisition for Mumbai with a team of 2 on roll team members & 4 off roll executives & acquisition agencies.
  • Ensuring timely acquisition to facilitate roll out as per plan.
  • Responsible for meeting the AOP numbers targets.
  • Responsible for Towers, IBS acquisitions & deployment for Mumbai circle.
  • Vendor management for acquisition and speedy deployment of sites.
  • Resolving society – builder issues and corporation related issues.
  • To resolve hold site cases, Owner related issues and thus helping the network team in maintaining the network parameters.
  • Competitive rent negotiation with site owners.
  • Ensuring document inward for EB and corporation NOC.
  • Co-ordination with legal team and ensuring proper documentation and agreement.
  • Responsible for sharing own built sites with other Opcos with minimum escalation in rentals.
  • Close co-ordination with the project team/vendors for timely deliver of sites.
  • Preparing & circulating the acquisition related MIS on daily basis.
  • Providing regular training and guidance to team and vendors.
  • Regular market visits with the RF planning team & Sales team to understand the network improvement areas & identifying the candidates for Cell towers as well as IBSs.
  • Develop market intelligence report and share with the management team and define strategy to meet the challenges.
  • Personally handling on field the acquisition of the critical sites including IBSs & Towers.
  • Commercial negotiations, draft agreements, sign offs & site acquisition
  • Statutory Compliances
  • Site search and candidate identification - structural stability, power availability etc.
  • Resource Planning & mobilization
  • Project Management and course correction
  • Preparation and Management of CAPEX & OPEX Budget Proposal for FY for business approval
  • Maintain coordination between all the stakeholders to meet project targets
  • Reconciliation of PR, PO & WBS element on quarterly basis

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL)

Deputy Manager (OSP - PMO)
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Nov 2012 - Aug 2013

RJIL, an RIL group company, is currently involved in rolling out 4G VOLTE services on Pan-India basis.

  • Project War Room Activities
  • Integrate & prioritize NLD Fiber Project, Intra-city Fiber Project, Infrastructure establishment activities (NOC, AG3, AG2, AG1, eNodeB etc.) with FTTH Rollout Project.
  • Project Management, tracking and course correction initiatives
  • Publication of DPRs, Hold/Delay Trackers, Machine utilization Reports, Weekly Dashboards and Apex Reports
  • Ownership of Change Management
  • Drive Weekly Project meetings and publish Action Register
  • Ownership of gap analysis and ‘Follow Thru’ activities
  • Ownership of centralized project document repository (REIMS/Share point)
  • Drive ‘Lessons Learnt’ Program

Education

Symbiosis Institute of distance Learning

PGDBA (Operations)

B. Tech. Electronics & Communication