Mandar Pandit

Experience

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  BPL Mobile

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2004

  Asst Manager

  BSS Operations, RF Planning OptimisationJoined as field engineer supporting Field activities like Microwave Alignments, Mobile Base station Antenna installation and alignments as per RF drive test feedback, handling site outages, Managing Cluster of cell sites from o&M perspective .Worked on shifts in NOC for Fault , Alarm , Performance and configurationRF Lead for Cluster responsible for Planning , optimisation of the cluster, BTS planning , Antenna Planning,KPI improvements ,Coverage improvements , Indoor coverage planning using repeaters/small cells or indoor cells. Show less

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  Motorola India Pvt Ltd

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2007

  Sr.Engineer

  RF Planning , Optimisation Responsible for Plan , Design ,Deployment of MTNL 2G network in Mumbai. Perform RF planning using netplan, site surveys and approvals from MTNL, Site acquisitions , BTS deployment , RF drive test and handover of sites . Setup of EMS, BSCs, XCDRs for MTNL 2G RAN ..

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  Tata Communications

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2010

  Sr.Manager

  Wimax Planning and optimization

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  Tata Teleservices Ltd

  Oct 2010 - Apr 2014

  Sr. Manager, RAN Corporate , Technology

  2G -3G Performance. Joined TTL Sr. Manager, Corporate RAN planning. Currently looking after Performance of RAN network. Evaluation of CEM product best fit to meet TTL current needs. Defining the CEM use cases.

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  Cisco Systems

  Apr 2014 - now

  Currently working as a TSA on Cisco Mobility Solutions ad responsible for the Pre -sales activities . Responsible for MME/ SPGW/CUPS/5G NSA/5G SA SW , Deployment of these on Openstack / Cloud native platform, Dimensioning/ Sizing of Computes and instances , Responsible for RFI /RFP, Feature requests , Bug fixes etc. Conducting POCs on Cisco's CUTO ( Cisco ultra traffic optimisation) solution ( on COTS as well as inline PGW SW entity) to optimise RAN and drive more capacity out of the enodeB without degrading QOE or requiring more spectrum to achieve . Patented AI/ML Algo put to use to derive these benefits.Performed Integration of cisco VNFM (ESC) with Nokia (MANO), updating the SOL001 and Sol003 package and successfully completed the integration and automation of VNF onboarding and LCM . Show less

  • Techincal Solutions Architect

    Nov 2020 - now

  • Consulting System Engineer

    May 2017 - Nov 2020

  • Systems Engineer Technical- Pre Sales

    Apr 2014 - Nov 2020
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  Cisco

  Apr 2014 - now

  Technical Solutions Architect