Smitha Ganeshan

Procure Core Backhaul, Cable and IP Transit Services.

Red Comet is a WA State approved public online high school. Goal is to enhance the digital learning experience for students and work hand-in-hand with the students and the school to improve the school's graduation rate. • Led a diverse and global team of professionals comprising of curriculum developers, graphic designers and software programmers to create technical content and reengineer the entire course curriculum. • Supervised critical projects including customization of an Open Source Learning Management Platform which in turn led to $250k savings in annual cost for the company. Achieved the target of getting a fully customized learning platform ready to market in less than 6 months.

Principal member of Systems Engineering and Strategy organization. Responsible for network evolution, architecture, creating end-to-end network engineering and planning designs for wireless network equipment supporting 60M subscribers for an annual budget of $900M and defining capacity planning functional processes. • Key responsibilities included: - Generation and completion of National Capacity Plans, including organizing and chairing all review, input, design, implementation strategies and architecture meetings for all the Regional teams. • Producing traffic analysis and forecasting reports to the Executive Management teams for timely decisions on equipment purchase plans during network deployment roll-outs.

Technical lead and liasion to work with Systems Integration, Software Deployment and Product Line Management groups to monitor significant features of mobile data traffic. Responsible for: • Performing multiple bandwidth optimization, session continuity and system capacity analysis. • Extensively working on a computing research project on IP Mobility protocols in collaboration with University of Texas at Arlington.

Responsible for: Capacity analysis, Netwrok Design and Planning of optical products. Providing key input in the development of Optical Products courses. Producing SONET designs, network maps, equipment lists, fiber planning and connectivity diagrams for optimum network utilization.

Responsible for: • Planning and implementing the overall interconnect design of NSS network elements. • Providing end-to-end wireless network design and implementation plans based on customer requirements and engineering specifications. • Managing and maintaining Key Performance Indicators for efficient performance of the network elements.

Responsible for: • Programming key software modules using C++ and Perl to develop a company-wide inventory tracking system.

Responsible for: • Meeting sales targets for assigned territories of a large metropolitan area. • Reviewing content and design information for both small businesses and large commercial enterprises. • Managing customer growth and procuring new accounts.