Sakthivel Gurusamy
Summary
Experienced in communication network development with extensive expertise in designing various topologies and planning for both fibre and copper networks. Specializes in FTTX network planning, designing, and quality control, including FTTN, FTTC, FTTB, FTTP, and long-distance backbone Networks. Has played a pivotal role in supporting Inside Plant (ISP) and Outside Plant (OSP) initiatives and delivering large-scale enterprise-wide solutions for voice and data communication across multiple countries. As a Project Lead in Network Planning and Designing, accountable for overall design program, ensuring on-time delivery of all reporting/artifacts, accurate resource allocation, and improvement to design metrics. Manages planning & design input from the team to meet internal customer/stakeholder requirements using appropriate methodologies, tools, artifacts, and approaches. Provides leadership in the ongoing maturity of the Client Design practice while ensuring high engagement from team members to deliver on performance plans and stakeholder expectations. Ensures network records are updated following project completion and facilitates formal handover procedures for telecommunications equipment.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Network Planning and Design Lead
QC Comms
07.2020
- Technical support and, planning and design of the Fixed line fibre optic cable connecting data centres and long-distance Backbone networks
- Responsible for preparing novel/complex compliant detailed designs, including plans, drawings, estimates & quotes
- Conducting desktop surveys and assisting with site surveys to determine the requirements in accordance with the client's design standards
- Analyse research findings to inform design directions
- Analyse results of feasibility tests through regular project reviews
- Communicate research findings to help stakeholders make informed decision making
- Develop cohesive design plans, concepts and prototypes in collaboration with stakeholders
- Develop schedules, timeline and budgets for projects
- Evaluate new design ideas or concepts
- Initiate research activities based on project requirements
- Plan objectives and agendas for design workshops
- Present design recommendations, proposals and options to stakeholders
- Provide feedback to direct reports and team members
- Provide on-the-job training to direct reports and team members
- Review research reports before circulation to stakeholders
- Troubleshoot issues during project implementation
- Always maintain network integrity within the design
- Reviews construction plans for Design network integration feasibility as required by Project Managers.
FTTx Network Design specialist
NBN Co
11.2015 - 05.2020
- Technical support and, planning and design of the nbn network
- FTTx Project / second in charge of planned and build design team at Pennant hill nbn office, Sydney
- Reviewing FTTx designs received from PDSA/MIMA/DCMA Delivery partners and clarify the queries, technical support, providing training and co-ordinating with delivery partners and passing the feedback to internal and external stakeholders
- Accurately maintain Telstra DBORS and prepare cost effective solutions for complex rearrangements and cutovers
- Acted as a Team Leader whilst the POD Team Leader is on leave.
Senior Telecommunications Engineer
Cyient Ltd.
05.2013 - 10.2015
- Technical support and, planning and design of the nbn network
- FTTP Design network planning, analysing designs, clarifying design and address queries, provide design feedback to NBN, technical support for design and construction teams, conduct quality reviews on the final FTTP designs, update construction As-builts in PNI, update NBN defects in PNI
- Working in client location, project coordination with onsite and offshore teams
- Resolve the Technical Design Queries of the Network Planners and Designers and liaise with the Client in case solution not available as per the design rules.
Senior Telecommunications Engineer
Cyient Ltd.
10.2012 - 04.2013
- Technical support and, planning and design of the Euro fibre network
- FTTP Design network planning, analysing designs, clarifying design and address queries, provide design feedback to NBN, technical support for design and construction teams, conduct quality reviews on the final FTTx designs, update construction As-builts in PNI, update NBN defects in PNI
- End to End Project Delivery Owner
- Leading a team of Network Planners and Designers
- Ensure timely delivery of the error free Network Designs and related documentation as per the client requirement
- Provide the overall design guidance to the Network Planners and Designers according to the planning and design standards set by the client
- Escalation Point of Contact for the Onsite team
- Project Communication and Tracking
- Project Delivery Strategy and identifying the risks and implementing their mitigation strategies
- Resolve the Technical Design Queries of the Network Planners and Designers and liaise with the Client in case solution not available as per the design rules
- Coordinate with all stakeholder for Aerial Design Approval
- Overall accountability for the Design program; on time delivery of all reporting/artefacts, accurate resource allocation, improvement to Design metrics/reduced DSAT%
- Manage the quality, content and frequency of planning & design input from the team and ensure this meets requirements of internal customers/stakeholders
- Ensure the successful execution of Program by ensuring the appropriate methodology, tools, artefacts and approach is applied
- Provide leadership in on-going maturity of the Client Design practice
- Ensure team members are highly engaged, are able to deliver to performance plans and stakeholder expectations.
Senior Telecommunications Engineer
Cyient Ltd.
07.2012 - 09.2012
- Technical support and, planning and design of the Euro fibre network.
Senior Telecommunications Engineer
Cyient Ltd.
05.2010 - 06.2012
- Technical support, planning and design of the Euro fibre network
- FTTP Design network planning, analysing designs, clarifying design and address queries, provide design feedback to client, technical support for design and construction teams, conduct quality reviews on the final FTTx designs
- Planning and Finalize the Area POP locations and Area POP areas
- Planning the clusters and Node locations
- Building trench route and cable network from AP locations to Nodes and Homes
- Prepare detail design plans and EWOs
- Prepare the Bill of Materials/Bill of Quantity
- Prepare the single line diagrams (SLD) with building address and port details.
Telecommunications Field Engineer
Etisalat
08.2008 - 04.2010
- Installation of voice and data through GPON technology
- FTTN and FTTC/FTTB network field survey and network creation
- MDU side network creation
- Copper cabinet to customer premise copper pair validation
- ONT and ASDL modem installation
- Configuration of wired and wireless routers
- Demonstration of ADSL+2 technology various customers
- Support for deployment and OSP teams
- Configuration and implementation of complete network from fibre laying to end user connectivity for data and voice (VOIP), within SLA
- Coordination with various work groups and customer for service delivery
- Completing the acceptance testing for the OSP network within the timeline
- Fault rectification in copper network and restoration.
Telecommunications Operation and Maintenance Field Engineer
Bharti Airtel Ltd
06.2003 - 07.2008
- New installation and troubleshooting voice and data lines
- Service delivery of voice, ADSL broadband and data products
- Value added service activation and providing demo
- Jumpering and testing the of copper lines (EQN, MDF, DSL Port, Pillar, and DP)
- Resolution of customer complaints and meeting SLAs
- Fault identification of copper cables and joints, copper values testing in field
- Planning FTTN node location with existing copper network
- Implementation and maintaining of FTTN node, Copper Pillars, sub pillar and Distribution points
- Converting coppers pairs from the pillar to FTTN cabinet
- Operation and maintenance of the Remote Switching Unit, Exchange MDF, FTTN node, Pillar, and copper network
- Alarm monitoring and network surveillance (Remote Switching units)
- Coordinating with other teams (ISP, data, switch, planning and NLD teams) for fault resolution
- Coordinating with vendors and contractors
- Coordinating with government agencies for roadwork approvals and the commencement of laying/installation of copper and fibre cables
- Augmentation/Rollout of Fiber & Copper network to provide Telecom solution as per guidelines
- Regular updates from Backend /GIS departments for service activations
- Completing the acceptance testing for the OSP network within the allocated time frames
- Implementation and maintains of FTTN, copper pillars, sub pillar and DP
- Bandwidth management and Remote switching unit exchange operation and Maintenance.
Education
Master of Business Administration -
University of Madras
Chennai, INDIA05.2012
Bachelor Of Computer Applications -
University of Madras
Chennai, INDIA05.2003
Diploma In Computer Technology -
State board of Technical Education and Training
Chennai, Tamil Nadu10.1999
Skills
- IP Addressing
- Routing Protocols
- Network architecture design
- Wireless Technologies
Awards
- NBN Award, February - 2019, Recognition for outstanding contribution to NBN's business priority. Received from the NBN CEO (Stephen Rue)
- Quarterly Spark award winner
- Appreciation Award, July 2018, Appreciation for dedication and support with copper related Issues. Received from NSW/ACT Network Deployment General Manager, Greg Thornton
Timeline
Network Planning and Design Lead
QC Comms
07.2020
FTTx Network Design specialist
NBN Co
11.2015 - 05.2020
Senior Telecommunications Engineer
Cyient Ltd.
05.2013 - 10.2015
Senior Telecommunications Engineer
Cyient Ltd.
10.2012 - 04.2013
Senior Telecommunications Engineer
Cyient Ltd.
07.2012 - 09.2012
Senior Telecommunications Engineer
Cyient Ltd.
05.2010 - 06.2012
Telecommunications Field Engineer
Etisalat
08.2008 - 04.2010
Telecommunications Operation and Maintenance Field Engineer
Bharti Airtel Ltd
06.2003 - 07.2008
Master of Business Administration -
University of Madras
Bachelor Of Computer Applications -
University of Madras
Diploma In Computer Technology -
State board of Technical Education and Training
Similar Profiles
SARATH GUNDALASARATH GUNDALA
Project Engineer at QC CommsProject Engineer at QC Comms
Dennis Van HamDennis Van Ham
Field Supervisor Wireless & Fixed Line at QC CommsField Supervisor Wireless & Fixed Line at QC Comms
Anna ManluloAnna Manlulo
Ministerial Services Officer at Transport for NSW - People, Comms & WorkplacesMinisterial Services Officer at Transport for NSW - People, Comms & Workplaces
Prashant KumarPrashant Kumar
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - Adplatform
Avijit BhattacharyaAvijit Bhattacharya
Senior Network Engineer- Network Design and Planning at Vodafone Idea limitedSenior Network Engineer- Network Design and Planning at Vodafone Idea limited