Mrinal Agrawal

About Mrinal Agrawal

Brief:• Seasoned Telecommunication Professional with 14+ years of experience in areas of program management, solution design, implementation, and testing. • Currently working as Managing Application Consultant - Edge & Network Cloud leading solution design, implementation and testing for automation & orchestration of network cloud use cases(e.g. 4G/5G, SDWAN, Edge, cloud infrastructure (Red Hat Openshift Container Platform, KVM) etc) using Ansible, IBM’s MANO(Management and Network Orchestration), OSS/Assurance products. • Proven track record managing complex projects and stakeholder relationships with top-tier telecom players• 5+ years experience working on network Cloud use cases orchestration using MANO (IBM Cloud Pak For Network Automation (CP4NA), Ansible/AWX & cloud platform technologies.• 5 years Onsite experience in US driving multiple projects and product rollout for AT & T such as LTE (Long Term Evolution)/VoLTE (Voice over LTE) launch, VoLTE interoperability with Verizon, Wi-Fi Calling, etc.• 4 years’ experience with LTE/VoLTE solution design, implementation and testing in NFV(Network Function Virtualization)/SDN(Software Defined Network) Lab environment along with showcasing the solution demos in internal company events and industry level exhibitions.• Actively involved with contributing Articles/Blog posts relevant to Telco industry on Blogging site Medium & LinkedIn. Based on the contributions also recognized in “Thinkers360 Top 50 Global Thought leaders & Influencers on 5G” in 2021,2022,2023 and 2024.Key Skills:Cloud Platforms: Red Hat Openstack, KVM, Red Hat Openshift/KubernetesTechnologies: 3G,4G LTE, VoLTE (IMS/SIP), OSS/BSS, 5G, Edge, Network Function Virtualization(NFV), Cloud ComputingTools: Ansible, AWX (Ansible Tower), Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RH ACM), Cloud Pak For Network Automation(CP4NA), Red Hat Linux, Wireshark, Tektronix Geoprobe Iris View, Zoiper, SIPp, PlantUML, Python basics, MS Office

Experience

1. Managing Application Consultant

   IBM

   Jul 2022 — Present · Gurugram, IN

   Leading Solution Design, implementation and testing of Telco network cloud use cases as part of POCs, MVPs, RFI/RFPs & any other Telco customer requirements leveraging primarily IBM\'s Network Cloudification offering products - Cloud Pak for Network Automation (CP4NA)[MANO solution] & Cloud Pak For Watson AIOPS(CP4WatsonAIOPS)[Assurance product] on multi cloud platforms like Red Hat Openstack, Red Hat Openshift, Vanilla Kubernetes along with Ansible/AWX, scripting and CI-CD tools as relevant.Among the different roles more focussed on orchestration/automation and deployment of network cloud use cases using Cloud Pak For Network Automation product on cloud platformsRoles & Responsibility- Leading Solution design, implementation & testing requirements for Telco use cases related to Network Cloud/Virtualization/5G/Edge/SDWAN for POC/MVP/specific telco requirements on Openstack/Openshift/Kubernetes/KVM/public cloud platform (involving opensource products & partner vendor solutions)- Manually as well as automated using IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation (CP4NA) which leverages Ansible & cloud technologies for Network Services/Function Orchestration; DevOPS CICD tools- Installation/Configuration of IBM NFV Orchestrator CP4NA in demo/production environment- Setup of Kubernetes/Red Hat Openshift on Virtual Machines using Bare Metal deployment for Lab/POC environment- Setup of Red Hat Openshift on bare metals using RHACM and UPI for Lab/POC environment.Certifications:1. Red Hat Certified Specialist in Openshift Application Development

Education

• RV College Of Engineering

  BE, Electronics and Communication

  2005 — 2009

• University of Maryland

  MS, Telecommunication

  2009 — 2011

Skills

• Location Based Services
• Python
• Project Management
• Technical Support
• 3g
• Program Management
• Ims
• Test Management
• Umts
• Testing
• Regression Testing
• Telecommunication Services
• Access
• System Testing
• Project Coordination
• End User Support
• Ip Multimedia Subsystem
• Inventory Management
• Geoprobe
• Telecommunications
• Help Desk Support
• Project Planning
• Volte
• Customer Service
• Lte
• Wireless
• Device Testing
• Networking
• Resource Management
• Iris