Chakrapani Annam
Vice President - Client Solutions & Carrier Relations at NTT Global Networks - Managed Services | SDWAN | Digital Transformation | SASE
- Role
- Vice President - Client Solutions & Carrier Relations at NTT Global Networks
- Location
- Mumbai, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Chakrapani Annam
Versatile experience in managed services of global networks and telecom, encompassing facets of global access strategy & carrier relations, global solutions, pricing & offering, contract management, sales/presales, negotiations, business analytics, process & automation, service delivery & operations, procurement & supply chain management. • Strategist, analytical, high business acumen with deep technical knowledge, creative, empathetic and customer oriented • Relationships: Have traveled across the globe to build relationships with clients/carriers/vendors/partners/OEMs • Strong in underlay access management and carrier partnerships • Strong in solution, pricing, offering, strategies and product management experience of products of SDWAN, Cloud-based network & security services (NFV), MPLS, IPSEC/DMVPN, Cloud connectivity etc, • Lot of exposure in global managed services and transformation deals • Contract management both sides of client and vendor • Basic regulatory knowledge of countries like China, Russia, India, USA etc, • Cost savings - strategy, initiatives, plan, negotiate and execute • Network and backbone expansion – business plans, designs and execution • Execution capabilities of global complex integration projects • Hands on experience on many devices and technologies • Business Analytics & Automation: Got developed many new tools to help business; Lot of analytics for cost, pricing, inventory, P&L, win/loss etc, • Global team management: Experience in working with internationally distributed teams and in managing people of different skill sets, countries and cultures, both in a direct and matrix reporting structure
Experience
Vice President - Client Solutions & Carrier Relations
Sep 2003 — Present · Mumbai, IN
Currently leading Global access strategy & carrier relations, Global Solutions, Pricing & Offering One of the key members to make integration between Virtela and NTT successfulContributed in building different teams/functions starting from GOC, Delivery/PM, Engineering, Carrier relations and solution/offering
Education
University of Mumbai
Engineer's Degree
Institute Of Technology And Management
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
IBS Hyderabad
DBM
Skills
- Network & Cost Optimization
- Ip
- Service Delivery
- Itil
- Juniper
- System Integration
- Cloud Computing
- Broadband
- Contract Management
- Vendor Management
- Vpn
- Network Design
- Voip
- Security
- Solution Architecture
- Bid Management
- Process Improvement
- Automation
- Global Sourcing
- Channel Sales
- Telecommunications
- Global Management
- Team Management
- Wireless
- Unified Communications
- Wan
- Pre-Sales
- Data Center
- Solution Selling
- Product Management
- Carrier Relations & Partnerships
- Operations
- Strategy
- Pricing
- Managed Services
- Routing
- Mpls
- Project Management
- Cisco Technologies
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