Umash Megalamane

Experience

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  Qualcomm

  Oct 2007 - now

  * Cellular System Technology Product Manager | Customer Technical relations • Driving strategic business collaborations and technical communications with carriers, Cellular Test Labs, Test Vendors, 3GPP Standards leads for the deployment of both green field 5G New Radio (NR) Standalone (SA) networks and brown field 5G NR Non-Standalone (NSA) networks• Front line defense for customer issues, interpretation & communication• Review of RFP from operators, defining and alignment of new features with operators, Infra vendors and OEM Partners• Facilitated deployment of first ORAN Macro NW & CBRS based Private NWs• Planning, Execution, Conclusion of IOT & field testing to meet Chipset Customer Sample milestones.• GCF, PTCRB Conformance Test plan review, streamlining test process, resolving complex issues, MBN support for chipset TA enablement.* Interoperability (IOT) test lead • Leading & Managing IOT activities and logistical coordination across teams in US, India & China• Defining test plan and feature requirements and aligning with internal and external teams, execution of IOT/IODT sessions with major infrastructure vendors • Bring up, executing test plans in conducted lab and field OTA, log analysis, L1, L2, L3 issue triage and fix validation• Led 5G & 4G technology R15, R16 & R17 advanced features - CA, VoNR, VoLTE, IMS, slicing, Positioning, URLLC, V2x, mMTC, MEC, QOS, eSIM, MEP• Collaborating with BU, PdM. Systems, Software, FW, Customer Engg teams for feature design, complex IOT, field & Carrier issues• Alignment with Qualcomm ORAN FSM infrastructure team on chipset roadmap * Field-testing • Planning field trials & Campaigns, deploying devices, collecting and analyzing field test data, and providing feedback for network optimization & improvement. Show less 4G LTE TDD & FDD Modem System lead | San Diego, CA Infra vendors {Ericsson, ZTE, Huawei, Nokia, Samsung, Datang} * Modem bring up, Authoring test cases, test execution in lab & field environment, log analysis, L1, L2, L3 & NAS issue triage and fix validation for: R9-R14 advanced 3GPP features – LTE {TDD, FDD} KPI, VoLTE, IMS, CA, mobility, Nb-IOT, MIMO, cDRX, CGI, MDT, TM8, TM9* CMCC, CT, CU feature trials, demos, feature commercialization & NW optimization support.* Coordination with infra vendors for IOT activities, execution, issue analysis and 3GPP spec clarifications. Show less

  • Sr.Staff Engg/ Mngr

    Nov 2016 - now

  • Staff Engg/Mngr

    Nov 2012 - Nov 2016

  • Sr Engg

    Oct 2007 - Nov 2012