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Rajnish Pandey

London

Summary

Results-driven Telecom and IT project management professional with over 19 years of experience delivering complex, strategic initiatives on time and within budget. Skilled at cultivating trusted partnerships across technology, operations, and business to achieve shared goals. Data-driven leader focused on strategic planning, operational excellence, and change management. Commercially astute with proven delivery experience in complex, multi-vendor networks. Currently overseeing deployment and maintenance of mission-critical GSM-Railway networks across the UK.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Project Manager

TCS
08.2017 - Current
  • Execute strategic programs through focused governance driving timely and budget-conscious delivery
  • Develop integrated plans, schedules, and resource models aligned to key business objectives, rapidly adaptable to new priorities
  • Prepare executive updates highlighting progress, metrics, risks, and challenges to facilitate data-driven decision making
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external partners to secure optimized resourcing for seamless program execution
  • Manage obsolescence through systematic transition planning mitigating risks and enabling smooth rollouts of new systems
  • Seamlessly manage complex programs leveraging dual capabilities in project leadership and hands-on engineering

Project Manager

TCS
03.2014 - 08.2017
  • Provided strategic leadership overseeing Telecom data center operations to drive operational excellence and ensure alignment with development and modernization roadmap
  • Led optimization initiatives that drove 15% OpEx reduction and 25% decrease in CapEx
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop proposals, deliver technical presentations, and drive successful business engagements to meet clients’ strategic objectives
  • Leveraged extensive experience with core systems and networks to provide guidance and support for technical teams during critical escalations and complex fault resolution

Project Lead

TCS
04.2011 - 03.2014
  • Elevated responsibilities to lead overall operations and maintenance of Telecom Data Center, ensuring alignment with business goals
  • Exceeded operational KPIs through proactive process improvements, strategic maintenance, and efficient resource utilization, budgeting, and coordination
  • Implemented new technologies and streamlined operations through migration of legacy systems
  • Collaborated with cross-functional leadership to develop strategic roadmap for operational evolution of Telecom Data Center
  • Oversaw end-to-end operations, support, maintenance, and stakeholder collaboration, ensuring seamless delivery of Telecom Data Center services.

Project Prime

TCS
09.2010 - 03.2011
  • Served as technical prime for migrating Mobile Switching Center from Ottawa to Mumbai, overcoming challenges of missing engineering data
  • Documented engineering details - connectivity, configurations, dependencies - critical for system restoration
  • Actively participated in planning, risk mitigation, preparation, integration, and testing, resulting in flawless execution with no service disruption upon go-live

Team Member

TCS
08.2008 - 08.2010
  • Rapidly developed hands-on expertise installing, integrating, upgrading core telecom systems including ATCA, packet migration
  • Troubleshoot and resolve critical system issues within SLAs
  • Contribute to product validation through refinement of test scenarios, implementation of user requirements into test cases, and active participation in testing for new releases Led migration initiatives to next-gen technologies
  • Improved system availability through process enhancements and preventive maintenance best practices.

Assistant Manager

NEC
05.2008 - 07.2008
  • As an Assistant Manager at NEC, responsibilities included: Liaising with the Wireless Planning & Coordination Wing (WPC) of the Government of India for the approval and certification of Transmission equipment
  • Conducting technical presentations for WPC executives, communicating and clarifying technical queries to secure necessary approvals
  • Supporting various operators on licensing and technical queries, which included demonstrating technical capabilities to both existing and potential clients.

Senior Engineer

HFCL
08.2004 - 05.2008
  • Commencing as a team member in Transmission team, my role involved: Performing site surveys, Frequency Planning, and Link Engineering for Microwave and optical networks
  • Address technical queries and coordinate planning, and deployment activities Overseeing installation, commissioning and acceptance testing of Microwave links
  • Transitioning to Tech Lead role in Core network, I was responsible for: Leading deployment, integration, and overall operation & maintenance of core mobile switching systems
  • Optimizing critical metrics, coordinating network acceptance, and ensuring successful mobile network acceptance by mobile operator (State Owned Enterprise)
  • Co-ordination with Billing, Planning dept., Customer Care, Activation and other departments for addressing diverse customer issues

Education

MSC - Data Analytics

London Metropolitan University
United Kingdom
10.2022

Executive MBA -

Post Graduate Executive Management Programme (PGEMP): SPJIMR
India
06.2013

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication

Amravati University
05.2004

Project Management Professional (PMP) - undefined

ITIL 2011 Foundation - undefined

Certified Scrum Master (SCM) - undefined

Skills

  • Analytical problem solving
  • Interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Technology integration
  • Leadership
  • Scrum Practitioner

Timeline

Project Manager

TCS
08.2017 - Current

Project Manager

TCS
03.2014 - 08.2017

Project Lead

TCS
04.2011 - 03.2014

Project Prime

TCS
09.2010 - 03.2011

Team Member

TCS
08.2008 - 08.2010

Assistant Manager

NEC
05.2008 - 07.2008

Senior Engineer

HFCL
08.2004 - 05.2008

MSC - Data Analytics

London Metropolitan University

Executive MBA -

Post Graduate Executive Management Programme (PGEMP): SPJIMR

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication

Amravati University

Project Management Professional (PMP) - undefined

ITIL 2011 Foundation - undefined

Certified Scrum Master (SCM) - undefined

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