Anand Verma

Experience

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  Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.

  Sept 1997 - Mar 1999

  Executive Engineer

  worked for telecom and SCADA projects for country's electric grid control. the requirement is to have a reliable telecom network (this includes fibre and microwave) and SCADA application running on it.

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  BSNL

  Mar 1999 - Oct 2002

  ADET/ DE

  installation, operation and maintenace of telecom switching, routing and transmission network with associated facilities.This role was most demanding in terms of time as this involved:- installation: project management for timely installation of new telecom facilities from scratch, coordination with different function within the organisation (finance, civil, electrical, admin etc.), leading the installation team as a manager and as technical leader. - operation involves customer interface, fault repairing system management, addition/midification of subscriber for various services (telephone, internet, leased line, CDMA fixed wireless), interaction with higher and lower level nodes for seamless connectivity and also managing and leading the team.- maintenace includes troubleshooting any problem whether in equipment, outdoor (copper or fibre plant), connectivity with higher and lower level nodes, power plant, etc. End objective is to run show without breaks.- team management: for doing above activities, I had manged a team of 100+ people, spread across 3 revenue districts. Show less

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  Telecom Engineering Center, DoT, Govt of India

  Nov 2002 - Jun 2007

  Involve in design/ planning implementation and validation of IP network. Written specification for:• MPLS routers and CPE• Metro Area Network and metro Ethernet CPE• Content Delivery Network and Set Top box• NMS, OSS/ BSS• Data Centre Architecture and Enterprise Storage Infrastructure• ISP Traffic Legal Intercept and Monitoring System• DSLAM and DSL CPE, BRAS and NRAS; AAA, LDAP, etc.• Security devices: Firewall, IDS, IPSTesting for following• MPLS VPN network of BSNL• DSL based broadband network of BSNL• OSS/ BSS and Data Centre Architecture of BSNLOther activities• Design of BSNL’s Multiplay tender• Design and Evaluation of MTNL’s broadband tender• Design and Evaluation of MTNL’s Content Delivery Network tender• Design and Evaluation of BSNL’s SAN tender for CDR based billing• Study for IPv6, drafted the internal plan for the DoT for implementation of IPv6 in the country.• Study for NGN including IMS architecture, media gateway, signalling gateway, softswitch• Involved in formation of specification of WIMAX and broadband DLC network design for BSNL. Show less

  • Director

    Mar 2007 - Jun 2007

  • ADG

    Nov 2002 - Mar 2007
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  Juniper Networks

  Jul 2007 - Sept 2009

  Sr. system engineer

  • Worked as technical consultant for IP/MPLS and Metro/multiplay network to various service providers in India.• Represent Juniper in various forums as speaker.• Conducted partner and customer training on technology and products.• Conducted various PoC for Juniper routers and other devices.

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  Alcatel-Lucent

  Oct 2009 - May 2012

  • Primary responsibility: draw reference network architecture for Bharti – Airtel’s telemedia wireline network and keep it updated for next 5 year. The base of this will be all IP network for all services: traditional voice (PSTN similation), triple play, application based services, etc.• Associated responsibility: assist solution architects to create solution specific to a service. Ensure that same is align to reference architecture.• Interact with team (business analysts, service roadmap analysts, solution architects) and customer to create reference network and framework to deliver the services. Show less

  • Solution Architect Manager

    Jan 2012 - May 2012

  • Network Architect

    Oct 2009 - Dec 2011
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  Nokia

  Jul 2012 - now

  leading SP routing business and consulting engineering in India market. Regional PLM role for Routing, DC, SDN & IP-Optics joint solutions and consulting engineer for key accounts in APAC region. Regional product line manager (PLM) role for both routing and SDN (NSP) for India region. This also includes assignments outside India and CXO level engagements.Draw account / customer level strategies across operators and market segments including Routing, BNG, SDN (NSP), Nuage, deepfield. E2E solution lead for Nokia routing portfolio for India market across all segments.doubling for business development lead for north India service provider market. Technical consultant for big service providers for IP/ MPLS and transport solutions including backbone, mobile/ multiplay backhaul and MPBN.responsible for creating both technical and commercial aspect of solution, also a single point of contact for customer for all technical issues in both pre-sales and post sales.

  • CSP routing business development lead

    Dec 2021 - now

  • Regional Product Manager and consultant- APAC

    Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

  • Regional Product Manager - India

    Jul 2019 - Oct 2020

  • Director - Routing and SDN solutions

    Jul 2016 - Jun 2019

  • GM Business Development

    Jul 2012 - Jun 2016