Vippin Basran

Experience

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  Ericsson

  Jul 2004 - Dec 2007

  Senior Engineer – BSS Engineer (Operations Support & Configuration) & Radio Network Consulting
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  IMIL

  Dec 2007 - Dec 2007

  RE Planning
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  Huawei

  Nov 2008 - Aug 2009

  Pre-Sales Suppor
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  Indus Towers pvt ltd

  Sept 2009 - Dec 2010

  Manager -TOC

  • Played a key role in the Tower Operating Centre team (part of operations) at the corporate office in Gurgaon• Handled a team of 20 engineers as Shift Manager overseeing analytical and technical projects• Prepared and represented the monthly performance of all North circles• Maintained SPOC for frequently falling sites wherein tracked all Indus sites frequently falling every month• Developed action plan from circles to improve UP time• Interfaced with provision team for correcting errors and uploading database• Maintained SLAs and maintained KPI laid down by Indus• Supervised technical issues faced by 16 circles across India daily• Performed training on designing and publishing analytical reports for the monthly performance of respective circles• Generated daily, weekly and monthly MIS and reports• Reviewed north circle performance with management and prepared action plan for next month Show less

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  Nokia

  Dec 2010 - now

  Solution Architect

  • Providing technical consultancy to respond to bids• Maintaining and leveraging direct interface with Nokia Product Line across all business lines such as 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G• Road-mapping key features and functionalities such as network slicing, O-RAN, cloud RAN, PWA, uRLLC, mMTC, 3GPP Rel 16 & 17, etc. by engaging with a product line• Analysing customer bid documents (RFx) to identify the Radio Access product and solutions requirement• Preparing SoC responses on FR1/ FR2, NSA/ SA deployment options in line with 3GPP release 15, Beamforming, DSS, RAN sharing, Slicing, RF sharing, MAA, Mobility, MIMO, MU-MIMO, IoT, etc.• Working on Open RAN (in alliance with O-RAN) for Fronthaul, O-DU, O-CU, O-CU-CP, P-CU-UP, Near-Real-Time RIC, Open Interface (F1, X2, Xn, E1, O1, A1, E2), etc.• Responding to technical and commercial radio bids for LTE, Public Safety, IoT, Private LTE, etc• Liaising with regional SSMs/ Customer Team for preparing bid responses• Preparing and publishing 3GPP SoC summary statements for LTE and 5G with product portfolio alignment with business lines• Handling up-selling of software sales of LTE and 5G features• Engaging with other BLs (Core/ Backhaul/ Transport, OSS, etc.) for facilitating and optimising the end-to-end solution of the bids• Creating technical description material on 5G NR/ Cloud/ LTE/ SRAN for customers• Planning competence development of the entire team, including cross, enabling, a new product allowing, and competence road mapping Show less