Abhijit Nambiar

Experience

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  Accenture

  Jul 2007 - Apr 2010

  OSS Consultant

  Worked across all stages of SDLC, Requirement gathering, coding, unit testing and deploying plugins for a OSS Netowork Inventory Management tool Telcordia Granite for prominent US based CSP. My roles and responsibilities included :• Extensively worked on OSS/BSS domain on Telcordia tools like Granite and Network Engineer.• Was responsible for supporting the project in various software development lifecycle stages right from requirements gathering to production.• Prepared extensive Functional and Technical design documents for the project.• Involved in doing RCA and fixing production defects including code and environment defects• Conceptualized & Implemented GTI, an automated template import tool for the Telcordia Granite database reducing the number of man hours in the project. Show less

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  Ernst & Young

  Apr 2011 - Jun 2011

  Consulting Intern

  Interned at the Business Risk Services dealing with Risk Analysis, Process Gap Analysis, Competition Bench-marking for prominent Indian telecom operator. My roles and responsibilities included :• Set areas of focus (processes, market) based on criticality of issues for the company.• To assess the end-to-end view of a carrier’s revenue stream and identify control points between each processes where leakage can occur.• Perform analysis by comparing with the company defined processes and benchmark against the competition.• To highlight the issues contributing to revenue leakages and customer dissatisfaction and suggest techniques to mitigate risk.• Undertake root cause analysis along with process owners and present the recommendations. Show less

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  Ericsson

  May 2012 - Dec 2017

  Lead Consultant

  In his stint with Ericsson Consulting he handles dual roles of a Business Enablement(BE) Manager and a Consultant who has worked across various telecom specific domains.BE Manager: As an BE manager, my role primarily is responsible for bringing in consulting business for Ericsson Global by developing relationships with the Regional Ericsson KAM's and help them mine for consulting engagements in their respective accounts and create a mind share through various engagement activities. I was responsible for drafting sales strategies/marketing plan for all the key accounts and deliver the annual OB and Revenue targets.Consultant: As a consultant my experience largely is spread around business/strategy consulting. I have done projects under domains like Business Case Development, Go to Market, Service Portfolio Design, Business Intelligence & Analytics, Risk Analysis, Process Assurance and Enterprise Mobility . Some of the key projects I have delivered were implementing some key OSS solutions like Ericsson Adaptive Inventory (Telcordia Granite and Network Engineer, IBM Maximo etc.:• Prominent Operator in Saudi Arabia: I was part of the program which implemented one of the first digital transformation journeys in Saudi Arabia which involved digitizing the operators billing platform. • Mid-Level Operator in USA: I was part of a governing team looking over a successful cloud transformation of their legacy service assurance suite into a third-party service assurance suite (IBM Maximo) hosted in the cloud. Show less

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  KPMG India

  Jan 2018 - Aug 2019

  Assistant Manager

  In my stint with KPMG India, I am serving as, Assistant Manager with the Strategy and Operations team in the management consulting practice working with telecom and technology clients. My role involves overseeing successful delivery of consulting projects, creating proposals and other pre-sales activities as part of the business development and lastly, building client relationships and managing them over the course of execution of a project. Some of the highlights of my work at KPMG is listed below, a detailed snapshot is available on request:▪ Product Conceptualization & GTM Support for a Blockchain based Communication Product: The project’s scope involved conceptualizing and supporting the implementation of a first of its kind blockchain based product for a major player in communication platform space. I was leading a team responsible for identifying and developing innovative revenue streams that leverages the salient features of blockchain as a technology and working closely with product stakeholders and market research team to develop disruptive pricing and charging models for each of these revenue streams.▪ Market Assessment and Business Plan Development for a Smart City Product: I was leading the delivery for a platform based smart city service provider in helping them understand the market and business opportunity of their latest offering by studying the possible markets they can venture into and what kind of revenue potential awaits them in these markets. ▪ Prominent Operator in Jordan: I was part of a team which helped a prominent operators Jordan to optimize and rationalize their product portfolio. ▪ Fiber infrastructure SPV in Ghana – Commercial due diligence: I have been part of a team whose mandate was to study the Ghana broadband market and validate every assumption the SPV had accounted for in terms of CAPEX, OPEX and service adoption. Show less

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  PwC India

  Aug 2019 - Aug 2021

  Management Consulting

  Worked across several middle eastern clients in setting up governance teams for asset management streams. Exposed to various tools and processes within asset management domain for both telecom and IT assets.

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  Rakuten Mobile, Inc.

  Aug 2021 - Oct 2022

  Business Process Engineering, CTIO Office

  As part of the BPE team within the CTIO office, I am responsible for setting up the process portfolio for the strategic projects being undertaken by RMI as part of diversification.

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  Rakuten Symphony

  Oct 2022 - now

  Lead - New Process Development

  Helmed as one of the most key projects in the Open-RAN space, I am helping build Europe's first large scale Open-RAN based network for 1und1 in Germany. My responsibility as a process development lead is to ensure we are equipping teams with the desired processes to ensure they are not only scalable but also achieving operational efficiencies. This experience has been an amazing learning experience as it has exposed me to the diverse ends of domains within a telecom industry. One day, I am dabbling in procurement and finance related processes, and the next, I am working on network rollout and operations related processes, making this experience largely rewarding and liberating. Show less