B K S Prasad, PMP, Prince2, ITIL-F, CSM

o Trainer for PMP, Prince2, Customised Project Management, Risk Management, ITIL-F, Interpersonal skills Training o Customized course development for corporates o Content development for PMP, Prince2, ITIL certification courses o Preparation of Case Studies, Industry Examples in the Project Management area o Pre-sales discussion to win the agreement o Script development for e-learning o Addressing the questions in the community forum, writing blogs o. Conducted 10000+ trainings covering 90000+ delegates across the globe o. Contributor and Reviewer of The Standard for Project Management and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – 6th Edition—PMI o. Contributor and Reviewer of The Standard for Project Management and A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge – 7th Edition--PMI o. Contributor and Reviewer of Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide Second Edition--PMI o Contributors and Reviewers of The Standard for PROGRAM MANAGEMENT Fifth edition – PMI o Contributors and Reviewers of Risk Management in Portfolios, Programs, and Projects: A Practice Guide – First Edition -- PMI Please refer to my profile for further details

Highlights o Conducted PMP, ITIL-F and MS Project Training o Content development for PMP, RMP, PgMP certification courses o Preparation of Case Studies, Industry Examples in the Project Management area o Pre-sales discussion to win the agreement o Script development for e-learning o Customized course development for corporates o Addressing the questions in the community forum, writing blogs • 180+ workshops (150 PMP, 25 ITIL and 6 MS Project) Covering over 2800 delegates. This includes classroom and Virtual. • Overseas classroom-Bangkok and Mongolia. • Corporate trainings to ITC-Infotech, Andritz Hybrid Pvt. Ltd, Virtusa, Hays Business Solutions, Thomson Reuters, Pentair, EMC2(Multiple batches), Technicolor, Schneider Electric(Multiple batches), Novo Nordisk, First source, Neovia, Tata Advanced Materials Ltd, Accenture(Multiple batches), Jnet Technologies, Mercedes Benz, HSBC, MindTree, Happiest Minds(multiple batches), Orange Telecom, Subex, Vodafone(Multiple batches), ANZ, Price Water Cooper(pwc)(Multiple batches), Symantec, Hospira, Linde, HP(Multiple batches), HCL and Mongolia PMI chapter.

PMP, ITIL-F and MS Project Trainer. PMO consultant. • Setting up Project Management Office(PMO) • 80 workshops (52 PMP, 25 ITIL and 4 MS Project) Covering over 800 delegates. This includes classroom and Virtual. • Overseas classroom-Dubai, Hongkong. • Corporate trainings to L&T Infotech(Multiple batches), Roamware India Pvt. Ltd, Wipro Infotech (Multiple batches), Wipro Consulting Services, SAP Lab, Cross-Tab, SRM University, Capgemini , Unisys, Terex, Log-US, Biocon and Regal Beloit. • Involved in Pre-sales discussions to win the agreements

Project Head to role out VAS products for different operators. • Detailed planning, tracking and reporting. Setting up team for running VAS related projects like SMS and IVR. Accountable for development, delivery and operations of the products/portals & Implemented Testing function. Developed processes for free-flow Product delivery • Coordination with various functions like Engineering, Business group, Business partners and Clients. Responsible for risk management, expectation management.

Integral part of the ACPL (Analytics & Customer Experience Product Line) R & D division that handles solutions for the service providers. Efficiently navigated the strong & performing team size of 15 thru the various phases of the development & Testing of • $2Mn worth Network Tester product • $3Mn worth Roaming Measurement System • Customer Experience Manager o Realizing the specific requirements of the clients of the above products, the development, test plans & strategy were crafted & integrated in the delivery process o Hand-picked by the PMO to implement PMI practices, develop templates. The same was strictly followed in various geographies across products o Every Process was cohesively created with the SDLC Stages with a rigorous SCRUM(Agile) methodology o Efficient Meeting Schedules across borders for escalation needs & Project Status Updates were critically maintained. o Organized regular technical Training on various process, methods, tools for development & testing for teams across products & projects o Co-ordinated, collaborated and setup Quality standards across the projects. o Monitored the test service practice level activities by acting as a Domain Expert. o Establishing collaboration with globally distributed teams o Project Migration & transition to China with the established best practices o Skilfully utilized the CAPEX for the team

VOIP & TSP Products (June 2005 to Feb 2008) Significantly involved with VoIP technology products facilitating transmission of voice, facsimile and video traffic over globally managed Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This reduces capital costs while providing higher scalability and easier management. And the clients were the worldwide spread multiple telecom giants. o Solely responsible for anchoring the QALC/STLC of the following VOIP products - SIP Server Framework (SSF), System Network Server (SNS), Back-to-Back (B2B)- SIP Session Manager, User Agent Tool Kit (UATK). Signalling Compression (SIGCOMP). o And the successfully delivered TSP Products were Mediation Deviation System (MDS), Online Charging Control Systems (OCCS), Revenue Re-conciliation o Directed 35 strong individuals of multiple levels & projects to conduct full-fledged E2E testing & Network Testing o Implemented product validation projects utilizing various testing methods & tools @ various stages, ensuring efficient, comprehensive feature / functionality, QA, and performance testing. o As a domain expert, Set directives, Planned, strategized & Monitored more than 10000+ test cases for the above products with 100% coverage of the requirements and reporting o Employed multi-vendor operational expertise to ensure efficient, accurate IOT that slashed the time, cost and complexity. o Managing CAPEX and OPEX o Adhered to the leading standards TL9000, CMMI Level 5 & ISO 9001 in Test Management without any NC’s.

VOIP & TSP Products (June 2005 to Feb 2008) Significantly involved with VoIP technology products facilitating transmission of voice, facsimile and video traffic over globally managed Internet Protocol (IP) networks. This reduces capital costs while providing higher scalability and easier management. And the clients were the worldwide spread multiple telecom giants. o Solely responsible for anchoring the QALC/STLC of the following VOIP products - SIP Server Framework (SSF), System Network Server (SNS), Back-to-Back (B2B)- SIP Session Manager, User Agent Tool Kit (UATK). Signalling Compression (SIGCOMP). o And the successfully delivered TSP Products were Mediation Deviation System (MDS), Online Charging Control Systems (OCCS), Revenue Re-conciliation o Directed 35 strong individuals of multiple levels & projects to conduct full-fledged E2E testing & Network Testing o Implemented product validation projects utilizing various testing methods & tools @ various stages, ensuring efficient, comprehensive feature / functionality, QA, and performance testing. o As a domain expert, Set directives, Planned, strategized & Monitored more than 10000+ test cases for the above products with 100% coverage of the requirements and reporting o Employed multi-vendor operational expertise to ensure efficient, accurate IOT that slashed the time, cost and complexity. o Managing CAPEX and OPEX o Adhered to the leading standards TL9000, CMMI Level 5 & ISO 9001 in Test Management without any NC’s.

MMS Applications for multiple Motorola Handsets (June 2002 to May 2005) Proudly involved in the MMS Application development & testing in the early years of 2002. Those days MMS being a revolution that facilitates mobile subscribers to send and receive messages containing a large array of media elements like text, images, audio, and video in all possible file formats. Guided & involved in Developing & Testing with the 8 member team. o Established the means to integrate Handset Configurations & to deliver thru necessary settings o Executed content adaption checks on multiple national & international operator networks o Managed & scrutinized the compatible distribution Lists o Developed & tested 2500+ Test cases with 3GPP specifications. Also scrutinized the results to create a more competitive test repository enabling the future stages of feature testing in fast pace. o Successfully accomplished the UAT. o Showcased on-Site testing & Represented the MMS Product team in the Chicago product launch o Single handedly executed Inter Operability Testing at Vodafone, Düsseldorf-Germany. Personal Digital Cellular Packet Data (June 2000 to May 2002) PDCPD is a packet data system, using the technologies of CDMA & GPRS, is an extension of the PDC (Voice) system towards the Packet Data transfer. Operated as a crucial resource to the project’s execution & was successfully delivered to the Japanese Client. o Test Case Development for the various O&M threads like Device Configuration Management, Device Status Management, Fault Management, Performance Management. o Gained Sufficient Hands-on Experience in coding by Developing Log collection and Purge modules. o Acquired Excellent Skills in Strategizing, Planning, Writing & Executing Test cases. o Initiated Log Analysis & actively participated in end-end reporting

Network designing, RF optimization for basic and CDMA technology. o Circle /Sites Handled: Worked closely with & Reported directly to the COO of the Jabalpur circle. o Installed & Managed O & M functions of OFC, MSC, BTS, BSS for CDMA network o Wireless & Wired Network Planning, Optimization of Network and Traffic Analysis. o Site planning w.r.t both RF & Microwave / backhaul planning to meet business requirements of both coverage & capacity for GSM & CDMA. Involved dedicatedly in Network development like.. Survey, selection RSU/BTS sites Design and development of infrastructures of sites Implementation of Copper Network and BTS sites GIS implementation o Critical resource in Reviewing and monitoring the performance as per defined SLAs o Successful Liaison with Municipal, Corporation, PWD, Regulatory bodies & related vendors o Remarkable experience in Spares and logistics management o Alarm monitoring, daily Maintenance, fault handling, preventive Maintenance o Optimal BSS network architecture to minimize BSC locations

Network designing, RF optimization for basic and CDMA technology. o Circle /Sites Handled: Worked closely with & Reported directly to the COO of the Bhopal circle. o Installed & Managed O & M functions of OFC, MSC, BTS, BSS for CDMA network o Wireless & Wired Network Planning, Optimization of Network and Traffic Analysis. o Site planning w.r.t both RF & Microwave / backhaul planning to meet business requirements of both coverage & capacity for GSM & CDMA. Involved dedicatedly in Network development like.. Survey, selection RSU/BTS sites Design and development of infrastructures of sites Implementation of Copper Network and BTS sites GIS implementation o Critical resource in Reviewing and monitoring the performance as per defined SLAs o Successful Liaison with Municipal, Corporation, PWD, Regulatory bodies & related vendors o Remarkable experience in Spares and logistics management o Alarm monitoring, daily Maintenance, fault handling, preventive Maintenance o Optimal BSS network architecture to minimize BSC locations

Operations & Maintenance of Cellular network With High Availability and Network Optimisation. o Intensively involved in BTS acquisition, civil, roll out, installation & commissioning of the GSM(BTS sites) network for the Circle Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi and Allahabad. o Actively involved in the deployment of Microwave network to have the connectivity between two/multiple cities. o RF optimization of the GSM network to by trading off the coverage and the cost o Preferred resource to be part of the planning in Cost control, budgeting and O&M team o Creating & Analysis of daily reports and initiating corrective action. o Working knowledge passive equipment like Electrical and civil infrastructure Customer focus & problem resolutions o Consistently ensured 100% uptime of the network o Monitored POI's and other Operators connectivity o Experienced in Siemens MSC, BSS and Microwave Equipments and its interfaces o Prepared & analyzed the Network report and hands-on experience in improving the key parameters such as Congestion level, network utilization. o Multiple vendors handling experience for the deployment of equipments o Getting acceptance of the system by TEC and T&D for the Commercial launch.

Gained ground Experience in Operations & Maintenance of Cellular network With High Availability and Network Optimisation. o Intensively involved in BTS acquisition, civil, roll out, installation & commissioning of the GSM(BTS sites) network. o Actively involved in the deployment of Microwave network to have the connectivity between two/multiple cities.