Bhavani Sankar

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Responsible for Installation, Integration, Upgrade, Operation & Maintenance and Technical Support of Location Based Systems of Polaris Wireless deployed across various customer locations for the E911 service in the United States.

Polaris wireless provides high accuracy, software-based, location systems for accurately determining the location of mobile phones.

• Act as Technical Manager for the Managed Services customers like Union Wireless, Longlines, Choice Wireless, Einstein Wireless, C1 NorthEast Arizona, Commnet Wireless and Kaplan Telephone.
• Preparation and execution of MOPs for the software Upgrade and network configurations.
• Provide Support for various customer activities for ex: Cell sites rehome and BSC software upgrades etc.
• Provide status updates to customers and facilitate incidents progress to closure.
• Provide KPI reports to customers on regular basis and help to improve the call yield.
• Participate in various product review meetings conducted by Engineering and Systems team.
• Delivery of technical trainings to customers.

Provide post-installation technical support for MyCaller and Full Track systems deployed worldwide by LiveWire Mobile.

• Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 type problem resolution, by utilizing the necessary databases and phone support that will be in place to track and ensure SLA compliance and timely trouble resolution.
• Collaborate on editing and maintenance of all documentation related to the LWM systems.
• Ensuring that issues are properly identified in the field and working in the lab to duplicate problems when possible for resolution.
• Perform the necessary troubleshooting, replication, and resolution of issues to successfully comply with LWM's contractual obligations under established support agreements and maintain high customer satisfaction.
• Stay uptodate on all technical matters related to the LWM Mobile Applications products, and cooperate with LWM engineering and Technical Services teams worldwide.
• Onsite services at customer premises
• Delivery of technical training to customers and technology partners.
• Onsite technical support when requested
• Provide onsite support depending on the nature of the issue that needs to be resolved
• Provide status updates to customers, attend internal review meetings and facilitate incidents progress to closure.
• Act as Technical Account Manager for some of the Key accounts (Vodafone-Greece & Portugal, Hutch-Australia).

As a Solution Integrator, I was responsible for Installation and Commissioning, Integration, Customer Acceptance & Validation of Ericsson IN (Prepaid) system in India and Sri Lanka Market Unit.

I have been involved in complete prepaid system implementation at several customer locations in India and had complete understanding of the Prepiad System.

vI worked as Solution cum Delivery Architect and Onsite Team Lead for one of the prepaid project. For this project, I have given detailed solution for the implementation of existing Prepaid System’s Expansion and to Upgrade the software version of the system.

Various phases of my involvement in prepaid system implementation:

• Software Installation of SDP and SCP nodes and integration.
• Signaling links configuration between SDP and SCP and Call testing with different MSCs.
• Preparation of SDP Tariffs and tariff testing.
• Installation and integration of MINSAT (Prepaid Admin system), AIR (Account Refill) and VS (Voucher Management) with other Charging system nodes.
• Integration of Charging System with Mediation and Warehouse systems.
• Subscriber migration to the Ericsson system.
• Prepaid System Validation and Customer Acceptance.

Below are some of the Customer locations, where I have installed the Prepaid System.

• BSNL-South, Nortel Project at Coimbatore.
• Hutch, Maharashtra at Pune.
• IDEA, Rajasthan & Himachal Pradesh at Pune.
• Dishnet Wireless Ltd at Kolkata.
• Aircel, Chennai & RoTN.

I worked as a contractor to Comverse Network Systems for Tier-1 Support to Unified Messaging & SMSC at BSNL-South, Hyderabad.

• Operation and Maintenance of SMSC, Voice Mail & Unified Messaging System of COMVERSE.
• Involved and took lead part in Installation and Validation Testing of SMSC & Voice Mail (VMS).
• Configured Signaling links of Voicemail Expansion of NORTEL - BSNL, South project.
• Maintenance of E1 connectivity with remote MSC’s for SMSC and Voice mail.
• Maintenance of SMPP connectivity with several content providers.
• Alarm monitoring/Preventive maintenance.
• Regional language Loading and testing in Voicemail system.

Connectivity maintenance with other network elements like MSC/ISP/MMS/WAP/OTA/Mediation.

Worked as Research Associate at the R&D center of RBI (Reserve Bank of India).

Took lead part in Design & Implementation and maintained WLAN 802.11G and SIP phone networks for the organization.