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AMIT KULKARNI
Technical Product Management

mr.amitkulkarni@hotmail.com
+91-9004123668
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-kulkarni-a949564

Seeking assignments in Technical Product Management, Software Development and Go to Market

Strategy.
Experience Summary:
 Total 15 years, of experience in the Design, Development, Deployment and Management of
large and medium scale Information Technology Products, software projects and
Applications.
 Including 7 years of experience in Telecom OSS, NMS, EMS architecture, design and
management of Wireless application (CDMA 1xRTT and 1xEV-DO), Operations,
Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) systems.
 Including 5 years of active working experience in IT Infrastructure (Data Centre) monitoring
(ITOM & ITOA) architecture, design and management products. Have knowledge of Business
Service Management (BSM) tools.
 Currently working on SDN & NFV domain for MANO features development in a cloud &
DevOps environment.
 Recently worked on EMS for eNB, vCPE & vEPC.
 Worked on design and development of Internet Of things solution, “Connected Car”.
 Was involved in architecture, development of “TCS Event Manager”, for seamless collection,
processing & correlation of IT events, which support COTS, bespoke, open source,
application. The Product was capable handling 1034 events/ minute.
 Involved in Design & Architecture of TCS Event Manager in Multitenant application
deployment in cloud environment.
 Have Designed, conceptualized & developed, “Alert Management dashboard”, for real time
application monitoring & event correlation.
 Involved in design & architecture of “TCS Orchestrator” IT service orchestration product.
 Involved in design of SNMP/TCP IP based Adapters for Solarwinds NPM.
 Strong Leadership, Technical Team Management & Software Delivery Process experience.
 Was responsible for managing & productizing 4 products. Complete ownership from Ideation
phase to Customer Deployment of 2 products.
 Extensive experience building software on Open system platforms (as Tech lead) (UNIX /
Solaris & C, C++, Java, J2EE) in Telecom domain.
 Expertise in debugging the production application issues, managing & interacting with client
during the product launch, critical product upgrades, and business impact issues.
 2+ Years of experience as a Single Point of contact for client at on site location. (including
deputations to CDMA R&D Lab Location of Nortel Networks – Canada and China)
 Hands on scripting (PERL / BASH). Sound knowledge of UNIX system internals & file
systems. Exposure to technologies and integration technologies viz. REST, JSON, Apache
MQ, Apache Tomcat, SNMP, XML, node.js, ExtJS,
 Worked as a Product Manager / Technical Lead / Project Lead for last 7 years.

Career Profile
Dates Organization Designation
10/2016 – till present NetCracker Technology Ltd., Bengaluru Technical Manager
05/2015 – 09/2016 KPIT Technologies Limited. Pune Project Leader.

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05/2005 – 05/2015 TATA Consultancy Services Ltd., Pune, – 411033 Associate Consultant.
04/2004 – 04/2005 INTELLVISIONS Software Limited., Andheri Software Engineer.
(East),Mumbai – 400093
10/2002 - 08/2003 vCustomer Services (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd., Mathura Technical Support
Road, New Delhi – 110044 Engineer.
Qualifications
(In chronological order starting from the most recent)
Degree Year Percentage Institute Major
Post Graduate July - 65.4 % Department of Information
Master of Science in Information 2002 Information Technology, Technology
Technology North Maharashtra
(Full Time) University, Jalgaon.
Graduate June - 63.43 % P.O. Nahata College of Electronics
Bachelor of Science in 1999 Science. North &
Electronics Maharashtra University, Computers
Jalgaon.

Functional Skill Set

 Product Management. (Technology, Business)
 Project Management. (Software delivery, T&M, Fixed cost, Offshore - Onsite)
 Cross Functional Team Management & Co-ordination.( Engineering/Testing/Presales/Sales)
 SDLC Planning & Management. (All Phases)
 Presales functions (RFP, Product Demo, POC)

Technical Skill Set

Below is a list of languages, OS, software products, protocols, tools and methods that I have hands
on:

Domain Telecom: in depth understanding of NMS, EMS, FCAPS.

Performance Engineering: Application Performance Monitoring and
Application Performance Testing.
IT Operations Management: In depth understanding of IT Events
Correlation and Analysis. Business Service Management. Understands
CMDB, ITSM.
Languages, Database C, C++, Java, J2EE, knowledge of Shell and Perl scripts.
and Computing Oracle 11g/12g, MySQL, Objectivity,
Concepts Multi-threading, IPC, Sockets, Data Structures, OOAD and Design
Patterns.
Operating Systems UNIX, Sun Solaris 10, LINUX RedHat, Fedora, Microsoft Windows XP
Professional.
Protocols SNMP,QMIP, CMIP, CMISE, ACN/BCN protocol stack, STLA/B,
Network Management Standards (NMIS), International
Telecommunications Union (ITU-T) X.700 series of recommendations,
Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) FCAPS model.
TCP/IP UDP, SEDA Architecture.
Hardware SUN SPARC Series SOLARIS Workstation, Netra, Blade, CP3060.

Software Rational Clearcase (SCM), Amdocs Clarify (CRM), load build, Document
version control. Eclipse, Tortoise SVN, Oracle Performance Tuning tools.
Products/Tools
Proficient in using SCRUM & Agile methodology. JEERA & other similar

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BUG/TASK management tools. Apache Karaf, Oracle WebSphere.

Professional Memberships / Certifications

(In chronological order starting from the most recent)
Professional Society / Certification Member Since / Date Certified
Sales training for TCS Component Engineering Group September-2014 (10 Days)
team by Franklin Covey.
Adv. Diploma in Embedded System Design From September 04
Govt. Coll. Of Eng. - PUNE
CompTIA A+ Certification February – 2003
Web Centric Curriculum (WCC) from NIIT (PUNE) July – 2000

Additional Activities & Recognition

 Successfully Driven the Process Improvement initiative across TCS Tools Group.
 BCP (Business Continuity Plan) leader for OAM group in TCS-NORTEL R&D Technology
LAB.
 Excellent Faculty award in 2010 in TCS-Nortel.
 Recognized for the outstanding performance & contribution in delivery of CDMA - OAM
project in 2006 and 2008 at the Delivery Centre level.

Current Roles & Responsibilities [Oct-2016 – Till Present]

Role – Technical Manager (Netcracker Technologies): (May-2018 to till present)

Currently working on development of SDN/NFV MANO product. Leading one of the feature teams
responsible for delivery of the new features, and quality.

The Project involves technical delivery of the MANO features / enhancements to achieve the product
roadmap. Agile methodology is opted for development with a Less Scrum framework. The product
architecture is Micro services based in a DevOps environment. Product is built for Cloud native
support.

Technologies used: Cloud OpenStack, OpenShift, DevOps: based on GIT, Jenkins, Docker
Containers (Soring Boot).

Role – Technical Manager (Netcracker Technologies): (Oct-2016 to May-2018)

Worked on the “NFV EMS for eNB, vCPE & vEPC” Project. Client is NEC Corporation Japan.
The project involves technical delivery of the EMS to customer on the regular sprints. The NFV EMS
uses Netcracker TOMS & RTF framework to deliver the FCAPS capability for monitoring the NEC
GAIA eNB.

Areas of Responsibility:
 Work as a member of development team.
 Complete E2E responsibility of technical delivery to customer.
        Supervising group of software engineers i.e. Lead 2 to 6 development team members.

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        Lead design and development of NetCracker BSS/OSS program components and exten-

sions.
       Involvement in solution support projects.
       Estimating efforts and duration on development;
        Involvement in solution implementation projects.
        Interaction with Business Analysts, Quality Assurance and Customer Support teams.
        Provide expertise and best practices on technical aspects of product development and im-
plementation projects including performance.
       Introduce new development technologies, instruments and techniques.

Past Roles & Responsibilities [Feb 2011 – Sept-2016]

Role – Project Lead (KPIT Technologies) :
Worked on the “IoT based Connected Car” project.
This project delivers a platform for the vehicles to be connected in real time. Gathering the metrics &
diagnostics data over the network & transferring it to Server. Solution involves supporting multiple
vehicle tracking, analysing the data & predict the Driving Efficiency, Gas Mileage, and Traffic Patterns.

Project uses Spring XD for Ingestion, Hadoop for storage, Gemfire for in memory DB, HTML / CSS /
Java script for feeding Real time Dashboard.

Areas of Responsibility:

 Own the Product roadmap and drive its rollout.

 Guide team to ensure highest quality of product is delivered.
 Interface with customers for Demos & feedback.
 Heading a team of 5 software engineers. Experience ranging from 0 to 9 years.

Role: Product Manager (TATA Consultancy Ltd.):

Own the Product roadmap and drive its rollout. Own its positioning, and ensure best fitment
functionally and technically to enable “Go to Market” readiness.

Worked with “TCS Tools Group”, leading two products “TCS MasterCraft Event Manager” and “TCS
Discovery” initiative in the area of IT Operations Management tools and Event Consolidation &
Correlation domain.
The above mentioned Product uses following technology stack
Java, J2EE, Ext-JS, spring, AJAX, Tomcat Web Server, node.js, SEDA architecture, Apache Active
MQ, PostGreSQL, Esper (Complex Event Processing engine) , JSON.

Headed a team of 15-20 software engineers, with experience levels 0 – 6 years.

Areas of Responsibility

Product Review:
 Was responsible for managing the scope and preparing road map of the product.
 Reviewing and analysing Change Management Requests. Evaluating both customer and
product centric, changes (generic and non-generic features)
 Conducting technical feasibility for the proposed changes & deciding on the same.
 Over-all ownership (conception to release) of a Product Release/Version.

Development & Delivery:

 Guiding & Leading the product development team on design, development and testing
activities for customization as well as new development.

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 Work closely with Product Technical & Solution Architect for new releases, features &
enhancements.
 To ensure users & delivery teams are effectively trained in the product features and
processes that optimize the usage of the product.
 Developing training documentation (User manuals, reference guides, best- practices/lessons
learnt etc.)

Product Implementation & Support:

 Interacting with customer on implementation related issues and offering all assistance to
Implementation & ensure smooth roll out
 Collaborating with delivery managers in ensuring all functional requirements are addressed
during implementation.
 Frequently interfacing with support teams to identify key product issues and participate in
architecture reviews and code inspections.
 Assist in product third party software installation/upgrades and setup system parameters
 Helping developing project documentation (project plans, scope of work, RMR, BCP, etc.).

Pre-Sales Business:
 Understanding Market needs & Developing Market-based Product strategies.
 Understanding and coordinating client’s needs / enhancements, and consult with technical
team to provide solutions in adherence to delivery schedules.
 Convincing prospect/client of the value of the product by delivering product demos & sharing
Development Support best-practices/case studies.
 Providing technical product advice for RFI / RFP/Approach note.

Last Role/Responsibility [Nov 2007 – Jan 2011]

Domain/Technical Lead (CDMA OAM – 1xRTT, Framework, Tools, & Sub System Server):

 Provide technical leadership for the domain’s quality, maintainability, dependability, capacity
and performance. Own production code;
 Identify and pull in appropriate SMEs, Acting as the single point of contact for requests to
review project deliverables (Documents and code)
 Review Detail Design, High Level Design, Test Plans, and test cases for requirements
compliance and traceability.
 Approval of code after Code Review/inspection.
 Advise project management and release management team.
 Advice and mentor team members.
 Resolve technical disagreements.
 Be the prime contact for technical issues relating to my domain.
 Come up with the quick plans for any technical critical issues/CR's which are escalated.

Assignments
The details of the various assignments that I have handled are listed here, in chronological order.
In TCS, I have worked on a Product called BSSM essentially an NMS/EMS. The Base Station
Subsystem Manager (BSSM) is the administrative terminal for the NORTEL's CDMA network. It
allows the operator to configure the various CDMA network elements (A.K.A subsystems), to monitor
their performance, and to perform troubleshooting activities.
Added several features in yearly releases following is the summary of the features.

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Period Nov 2007 to Sept 2008. [ ON SITE to Ottawa, Canada]

Role Design/Development Co-ordinator / Technical lead:

 First and only point of contact for any technical issues with product at on-
site location.
 Was responsible for co-coordinating, all the technical activities between
on-site & offshore teams.
 Was responsible for giving the technical support to PT, PV, PD, VO,
Global Product Support teams.

Feature Integrated IP Backhaul (IPBH)

Period Mar 2007 to Oct 2007.

Description This feature introduces IP over Ethernet backhaul connectivity using integrated
components at the BTS and eBSC. The solution allows customers to migrate to
an Ethernet backhaul transport where Ethernet is cost competitive.
This feature development involves several teams across globe working for
different nodes. The work on BSSM Side Involved primarily providing the user
an interface solution for eBSC provisioning and changes to reconfigure eBSC
routing. Also the provision of the BTS is done from the BSSM.
Role Team Member – Code Submission Prime
I worked on the development/coding of this feature for release 16.0 of BSSM.
Activities involved covered the major phases of SDLC:
 Requirement study for OAM
 High Level Designing [HLD-Document]
 Detail Designing [DD-Document]
 Coding
 Design Testing Planning [DTP-Document]
 Design Testing.
Other Responsibilities:
 Code Inspections for other modules.
 Was solely responsible for presenting the Test Plan and getting it approved.

Solution Solaris-10, C++, Muti-threading, IPC,

Environment Objectivity Database
Tools Rational Clearcase, Nortel Networks proprietary tools for:
Design/development, load build, document version control, code inspection,
document review.

Period Dec 2006 to Feb 2007. [ ON SITE to CHINA ]

Role Design support engineer:

 Giving the technical support to Product Test team.
 Prime contact to the customer for any issues in the new features in the
product.
 Co-ordinating the testing activities between Design & PT team.

Feature Adaptive Antenna Beam Selection. Phase 2

Customer Nortel Networks (Sao Paulo, Brazil and Ottawa, Canada); OSS/EMS

Period Mar 2006 to Dec 2006.

Description AABS feature is created in response to demand for improved 1) spectral

efficiency and improved cost of ownership. 2) More subscribers’ p/carrier. 3)
Improved performance. Conceptually Three narrow beams per sector in a tri-
cellular configuration. AABS phase 2 replaces conventional 1xEVDO sector with

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a sector comprised of three narrow beams implemented by an AABS-specific

antenna module.

Role Team Member – Code Submission Prime

I worked on the development of this feature for release 15.0 of BSSM. Activities
involved covered the major gamut of SDLC:
 Requirement study for OAM
 High Level Designing [HLD-Document]
 Detail Designing [DD-Document]
 Coding
 Design Testing Planning [DTP-Document]
 Unified Verification Plan [UVP-Document]
 Design Testing.
Other Responsibilities:
 Mentoring the new joiners.
 Setting up Quality initiative tools, like Flexelint for BSSM code.

Solution Solaris-8, C++, Muti-threading, IPC,

Environment Objectivity Database
Tools Rational Clearcase, Nortel Networks proprietary tools for:
Design/development, load build, document version control, code inspection,
document review.

Feature BTS Auto Recovery.

Customer Nortel Networks (Sao Paulo, Brazil and Ottawa, Canada)

Period May 2005 to Feb 2006

Description This activity involves development of new functionality in the BSSM Project. In
present situation, the operator will not be notified that the BTS’s power is
restored and the BTS needs to be reinitialized. The operator must continuously
poll the BTS to see if the power is restored and then must manually reinitialize
the BTS. As a part of this feature, BTS would automatically initiate recovery.
Proper notification of the progress reinitializing the BTS would be provided to the
operator via new alarms.
Role Team Member
As a team member, I work on the development of a feature for releases 14.0.
Activities involved covered the major gamut of SDLC:

 Design Test Case Plan

 Design Testing, Integration Testing
 Product Test Support
 Solving CRs & critical issues.
Other Responsibilities:
 Conducted training on Basics of BSSM as well as BSSM Software Architecture.
 Also I handled BCP – Prime ship for BSSM.

Solution Solaris-8, C++,

Environment Objectivity Database
Tools Rational Clearcase, Nortel Networks proprietary tools for:
Design/development, load build, document version control, code inspection,
document review.

Organization INTELLVISIONS Software Limited.

Project OptiNAS (NAS Machine)

Customer Adani Port Limited, Gujarat

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Period Feb 2005 – Apr 2005

Description Successfully completed the Hot-Swap Module for OptiNAS. OptiNAS is an

upcoming Product which is basically a NAS (Network Attached Storage)
machine. OptiNAS uses the RAID technology for the fault tolerant backup
system. OptiNAS is targeted to the banking domain, which can be used for
scheduling &, managing backup from different servers. The system is running on
LINUX kernel 2.4.26 which is embedded on to 128MB DOM (DISK ON
MODULE) chip. Since System deploys 2 HDD for backup mirroring (RAID -1
Level).I was responsible for making the Hot-Swap drivers that will work with
OptiNAS in case of crash.
Role Interfacing and programming.

Solution C, Linux
Environment

Tools CLOOP, RAID

Organization INTELLVISIONS Software Limited.

Project I-Tris (I-Watch Monitoring System)

Customer ICICI bank Limited.

Period July 2004 – Jan 2005

Description Added the features for synchronizing time using NTP in this monitoring system,
which was essential to monitor the wide I-watch network deployed over 400
(targeted 800) ICICI ATM locations all over India. Client / Server model was
adopted having a MySql Database running on the server. The client module was
programmed in C to send its status to server.
Role Interfacing and programming.

Solution C, Linux, MySql

Environment/
Technologies

Organization INTELLVISIONS Software Limited.

Project I-Watch (ATM Surveillance System)

Customer ICICI Bank Limited

Period Apr 2004 – Jun 2004

Description This is an ATM Video surveillance appliance based on Linux. This appliance
can be used to keep track of unauthorized transactions at ATM’s and to
effectively prevent frauds. I-watch has been deployed at 400 ATM locations of
ICICI Bank, India and other banks like Punjab and Maharashtra. Second phase
of implementation with ICICI Bank. Was also instrumental in implementation of
the system countrywide, which required being onsite on the client’s request.
Role Interfacing and programming.

Solution C, Linux, MySql

Environment/
Technologies

Organization vCustomer Services (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd.

Project HP Desktop

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Customer Hewlett Packard. [Boise – Idaho, USA].

Period Oct 2002 – July 2003

Description Worked in a web-based environment for HP (Hewlett Packard) project

involving Home PCs troubleshooting via Voice.
Role Technical Support Engineer

Solution People Soft's VANTIVE and ICARE

Environment/
Technologies

Personal Details

Date of Birth 6th October 1978

Gender Male
Marital Status Married
Nationality Indian

Passport Details:
Name as on Relations Passport Date of Issue Expiry Date Place of Issue
passport hip Number
AMIT KULKARNI Self Z2710850 11-NOV-2013 10-NOV-2023 PUNE
VISA:
 I have US B1 business VISA valid till 2024.

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