Varun Sood

A dynamic telecommunication professional with over 12 years of experience in radio access network deployment (mainly integration) across different technologies like NR, LTE, WCDMA, GSM and outside fiber plant engineering. Skillful leader with ability to design the project flow end to end by using modern project management methods viz. Developing Business Cases, Requirement Specs and Resource planning, risk/quality managing using Agile principles and methodologies. MBA in marketing management and ITIL certified .Currently working as Enhanced-ESI product manager for Ericsson North America which is an automated integration tool supporting multi-baseband and router integrations and my role involves to provide new solutions requirements , managing adaption of the tool across various customer units and manage and budget inventory of the tool hardware ,working closely with instructors to build interactive courses and supporting field community , have worked as an implementation manager in past which involved forecasting integration volume for each quarter , preparing budgets ,hiring field resources, preparing integration schedules with scope of work and assigning field techs, responsible for close out package to be submitted to the customer after audit. Have experience in managing 50+ resources. Expertise in integrating enodeB/NR nodes, operation and maintenance/troubleshooting, OSS physical inventory systems, GIS/ESRI suite of software and fiber outside plant (OSP) engineering. Outside plant design areas of expertise includes design of FTTX Optical Passive Network /OSP/ISP, Backhaul/Fronthaul (C-RAN) Fiber Network System. Broad knowledge of application development in JAVA and Python, Oracle database management PL/SQL. Excellent organizational, time management, cost consciousness and communication skills.