PANKAJ SHARMA Scrum, PMP®, Prince2®(P)

Experience

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  RPG NITEL LTD

  Jul 2002 - Mar 2003

  Project Engineer

  Responsible for fiber back bone project rollout for OIL Inida limited and Power Grid Corporation.

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  Nutek India Ltd

  Apr 2003 - Aug 2005

  Project Engineer

  Installation Engineer and worked for various operator like TATA, Idea, Airtel

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  Vodafone

  Sept 2005 - Sept 2007

  Engineer-Operations

  Responsible for deployment and commissioning of Peeragarhi data center

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  Ericsson

  Sept 2007 - Aug 2017

  Project Manager

  Part of the India project team, responsible for delivering medium to complex projects within triple constraints and maintaining healthy UM margins. Delivered projects from greenfield, swap, FNI/PoC/FOA, etc. My responsibilities include:• Creating SOW with customers and building a time plan with deliverable actionable • Controlling and optimizing cost and budget within the projects.• Reviewing governance and providing data to ensure UM margins of the project. • Organizing stakeholder meetings for crossing major milestones and preparation for the next stage. Show less

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  Luxury Goods & Leisure

  Aug 2017 - Feb 2020

  Entrepreneur

  Created a business with the team responsible for generating footfall to an online portal, in the consumables segment along with other lifestyle segments. My responsibilities included:• Handling post sales queries to ensure customer satisfaction.• Maintaining regular cash flow.• Strategizing sales objectives QoQ

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  YPTT Myanmar Pvt Ltd

  Feb 2020 - Aug 2020

  Regional Manager

  ZTE sourced his operation to YPTT, and I was responsible for handling and managing Ooredoo infrastructure and data centers. My responsibilities included:• Maintaining Data centers within the west zone of Myanmar.• Bug fixing, gathering requirements, and designing new solutions with the technical team.• Developing reports and sign-off with customers.• Handled a team of 20 telecom professionals with clear communication and expectation matrix for daily deliverables

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  Ericsson

  Sept 2021 - now

  Part of the Etisalat project team, responsible for developing and commissioning new data centres including NFV/SDN/5GC Nodes through a well-defined project plan. My responsibilities include:• E2E responsible for Project management, planning, budgeting, costing, quality, billing, vendor management, carrier management, carrier negotiation taking care of contractual obligations for carriers, vendors for new/existing, roll-out project Analyzing and creating scope to build a deliverable project plan.• Interacting with the technical team to understand solutions and dependencies.• Negotiation with the ROD team to track and engage support for on-time deliveries of SW/HW• Controlling and managing stakeholder expectations to keep the scope on track.• Organizing governance meetings to track progress, dependencies, margins, and milestones.• Bringing value to the customer by using a customer-centric mindset to; predict prevent, isolate and correct by proposing improvements to support short and long-term profitable business that enables the customer's digital journey, brings speed and success, and reduces the overall cost of sales. Show less

  • Sr. Manager

    Dec 2023 - now

  • Project Manager

    Sept 2021 - Nov 2023