Aqil Ahmed

Experience

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  BG Shirke Constn Tech Private Limited

  Mar 1995 - Jan 1996

  Junior Engineer

  Design and Construction management

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  Al-Shafar Group

  Oct 1996 - May 1998

  Project Engineer

  Project Engineer

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  Tata Tele Business Services

  Jul 1998 - May 2019

  Head - Wire-line Network Planning, Design, and Deployment to support 2G, 3G, 4G, WLN, and Enterprise Business requirementsM&A and IRU Strategy, Business owner for Planning Systems, PNI and LNI for Network Inventory to support Optical Fiber, Cu, MW, and Transmission Network. Optical Transport Network Planning and Deployment Optical Fiber Network Planning for Access and Backbone networksTransmission Network Capacity planning, Deployment, Integration and Provisioning Optical Network Planning and Implementation for Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (Now Tata Communications Limited) and leased capacity migration readiness, On Deputation from Tata Teleservices LtdProject Spans Amritsar to Srinagar to Kanyakumari and Jaisalmer to Margharita Access Optical fiber SDH system rings for PoIs, Concentrators, CDMA / Cell Sites/ Copper rollout, Major Sup: Lucent Technologies / L&TAs part of the TTL core team for fiber and Cu, the rollout was responsible for validation of fiber feeder routes and Cu plans to serve each of the street poles in the respective CSA and in-building connectivities to each of the floor wise distribution point planning (DP) to serve each of the consumers. CSA rollouts, Cell sites, Optical fiber & 15-18GC MW, Cu Connectivities from Concentrator to CP-DP via ODP X Connects, and in-building works Planning and Implementation of OFC infrastructure for Hyd city and backbone for Andhra Pradesh circle, Access Network for Vijayawada, Eluru and Guntur.

  • Sr.Principal

    Apr 2014 - May 2019

  • Deputy General Manager - Optical Fiber Networks

    Aug 2007 - Mar 2014

  • Senior Manager Technology Planning

    May 2004 - Jul 2007

  • Manager Long Distance Network

    Oct 2002 - Apr 2004

  • Assistant Manager - Technology Corporate

    Apr 2001 - Sept 2002

  • Senior Engineer

    Jul 1998 - Mar 2001
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  Tata Consultancy Services

  May 2019 - now

  Lead the "Community of Practice" as CoP for Agile Transformations and be-spoke Automations for Software Defined Networking Projects; Was responsible for the definitions of features into user stories and tasks and enable Scrum teams for improved quality of delivery to meet the Business owner requirements. Deliverables meeting Business requirements improved from 43% to >80% with positive interventions like WSJF SAFe, Feature Canvas etc., enabling better understanding by the scrum teams on the expected outcomes. Show less

  • Global Head - Network Plan & Design Engineering n WLN Ops Practice

    Dec 2023 - now

  • Global Head - Network Plan & Design Engineering Practice

    Jun 2020 - Jan 2024

  • Senior Consultant

    Aug 2019 - Jun 2020

  • Senior Consultant

    May 2019 - Aug 2019