MicPrashant Menezes

Strategic IT/Telecom Project Manager with excellent interpersonal skill who builds and maintains strong alliances while motivating teams and driving projects to successful completion. Ability to work in fast paced environments using cutting edge technology. Reputation as a resourceful team player working with integrity and professionalism, inspires co-operation and exceeds business expectations. Excellent RAN skills with different Telecom Technologies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager

• Established project plan, critical path dependencies, and resource requirements and identified project milestones to ensure timely delivery of projects. 
• Created communication plan to address various level of project stakeholders, steering committee members, project team, vendors an overall audience related to project. 
• Set up and maintained IT Infrastructure and Leading the Network, Data Migration and System & Security Team. 
• Communicated the objectives and status of projects to the relevant stakeholders during the life of the project, including project plans, status updates, RAID logs, change orders, significant issues and timelines.
• Overall team management, Project financial management, Risk management. 
• Anticipated issues and acted proactively to address potential issues
• Leading IT change management activities for project rollout. 

Project Manager 

• Built and maintained the implementation plan, risk management plan, communication plans and other core documents for implementation projects.
• Established project plan, critical path dependencies, and resource requirements and identified project milestones to ensure timely delivery of projects. 
• Created communication plan to address various level of project stakeholders, steering committee members, project team, vendors an overall audience related to project. 
• Actively managing project change activities, including creating and monitoring RFC’s(request for change), following through and verifying change deployment(s). 
• Worked with external contractors, suppliers, and key client staff to ensure the successful implementation of the Network elements.
• Overall team management, Project financial management, Risk management. 
• Anticipated issues and acted proactively to address potential issues. 
• Worked on cloud based Network integration automization & UAT 

Project Manager – GSM, 3G, 4G/LTE

• Built and maintained the implementation plan, risk management plan, communication plans and other core documents for implementation projects.
• Project Management for PoC for RAN (Radio Access Network), HNG, CWS, Femto & BHM
• Collaborated with Planning, Engineering, procurement & operation teams to schedule project deliverables.
• Resource allocation & movement on priority basis for multiple projects.
• Preparing Project Plan, aligning vendors, Follow up for Material, Follow up for WPC
• Done Lab set up for customer issue resolution test bed.
• Actively participated in software Release discussion.

Customer marketing Project Manager – 4G/LTE

• Performed successful testing of the LTE RAN Products & features.
• Worked on RAN KPI counter Document preparation with support from R&D.
• Tested the Product on field & in Lab, Worked on new release of RAN products & SON.
• Presented the new products/ features to customer
• Coordinated between Customer & R&D team for new feature development, resolving the bugs etc.
• Kept track record of all the tests performed & approval from customer.

Network Manager – 4G/LTE

• Led RAN Site Engineering team, RFI survey, eNode B deployment Across India
• Led the RAN - eNodeB Integration, troubleshooting & acceptance team at corporate
• Active participated in Various Document preparation like Installation Manual, Quality guideline & checklist, Integration Manual, ATP Manual, SOW, WBS, Tools Documents. Site inspection, Resource allocation
• Regular meeting with the Customer & other stake holders for Project progress., Atomization, support.

Apr 2010 - Jul 2012 | Senior BSS Manager at Loop Telecom, India

Jul 2007 - Jan 2010 | Project Manager at Huawei Technologies, India

Feb 2004 - May 2006 | CDMA In charge at Independent Telephone Network, India

Jan 2001 - Jan 2004 | CDMA Engineer at Reliance Communications, India

Professional Development

• Program & Project Management - Indian Institute of Technology
• IoT – Internet of Things Basics
• AWS Solution Architect – Associates – Amazon Web Services

• MS-office, MS-Project, Visio, Google suits

Education

• Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Telecommunication, Mumbai University, India.