Jay Parikh

About Jay Parikh

Telecommunications professional with 20+ years of experience in wireless and wireline telecom solutions architecture, sales engineering, and technical project management. Extensive tenure working with global service providers, equipment manufacturers, systems integrator, commercial & enterprise customers, and federal & state government agencies. Proficient in developing uses cases, requirements, and solution approaches to facilitate design, development, unit & interoperability testing, integration, and deployment of customer-facing services & applications and for operator technology evolution. Major clientele, employers, and vendors include Sprint Nextel, AT & T, Verizon, Cisco, Samsung, Nokia (Alcatel Lucent), Ericson, NSN, Mavenir, Juniper, Microsoft, IBM, Telefonica Brazil, Telecom Mexico, DHS, DoD, SSA, and USPS. Immense aptitude for learning & growing. Profound interpersonal, communications, technical documentation, presentation, organizational, and time management skills.SKILLS5G, LTE / LTE-A, IMT-2020, SD-WAN, Carrier Wi-Fi, Small / Femoto Cells, SON / OAM & P, Ethernet, Passive Optical Networking (PON), Cable, and DSL broadband access, OAM & P, Microwave, Ethernet over fiber, IP/MPLS routing & ATM switching, SIP Signaling, Cloud Computing, IMS, voice & video multimedia services, RCS, machine-to-machine (M2M) communication, Internet of Things (IoT), user & network security, QoS, SIPTO, VPN, OSS/BSS, API, mobile applications development, social media services, Location Based Services (LBS), Software Defined Networks (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), White Papers, Use Cases, Requirements, Manage time sensitive, high risk, and resource constrained projects, technology to core business alignment, manage technology evaluations, PoC studies, lab, field and user testing, RFIs, RFPs, CBA & ROI, Scope, Requirements, Timeline, Risk, and Resource management, Sys release, technology roadmap, vendor management, ITIL, SDLC, Agile / Scrum, Waterfall

Experience

1. Senior Project Manager

   Comcast

   Nov 2025 — Present

Education

• Cisco

  Telecom, Routing and Internetworking

  1995 — 1998

• George Mason University

  B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Telecommuncations

  1987 — 1991

• Project Management Institute

  Project Management Professional

  2011 — 2017

• Rosary High School

  High School, Mathematics, Science, Arts

  1972 — 1984

• Awards Solutions

  Wireless, CDMA, WiMAX

  2006 — 2007

• Fairfax High School

  High School, Mathematics, Science, Arts

  1984 — 1986

Skills

• Marathi
• 3g
• Systems Analysis
• Hindi
• Program Delivery Management
• Voip
• Ip
• Business Development
• Network Engineering
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Risk Management
• Integration
• Vendor Management
• Gujarati
• Sales Engineering
• Business Intelligence
• Quality Management
• Wireless
• Strategy
• Punjabi
• Scope Management
• Pmp
• Mobile Devices
• Computer Network Operations
• Business Analysis
• Time Management
• Urdu
• Systems Engineering
• Technical Analysis
• IT Service Management
• Technology Architecture
• Functional Analysis
• Music Education
• Telecommunications
• Product Development
• Wimax
• Testing
• Project Management
• Technology Management