Nayan Banka

About Nayan Banka

Strategic, Transactional and Transformational role in IT and Telecom in Enterprise, Carrier and OTT Business in the areas of Product Management, Network and Service Engineering, Operations and Project Management, Solution Designing, Presales, Partner and Service Management and Product Development.Executing Board approved strategic projects delivering value to customers. Data Technologies- Carrier Ethernet, WAN, OTN, MPLS, Cloud Enablement, NFV, SDN, ERP, ENNI, PBB-EVPN, PBB, SDH, DWDM, VLAN, 802.1 Q, Provider Bridging (Q in Q), 802.1ad, Link Aggregation, Ethernet OAM, Y.1731, Y.1564, SDWAN, Cloud, IOT, Security, SDWAN, Network Service Orchestration, 802.11ax, AI learner Rich hands-on experience in Product Management, Transport Network Planning, O&M, Project Management and Network Operations Centre-NOC, Business Solutions Consulting and Customer Service having extensively worked on large In-house and external customer and network projects. Involved in the design and implementation of large Carrier and Enterprise networks. Excellent qualities such as teamwork, leadership, negotiation, analysis, communication and collaboration. Strong skills in the areas of project management, people management, systems design, implementation, technical support, troubleshooting, training with constant focus on growing revenue profitably for the company, managing the SLA for customers and helping Sales and Product to win big bets.End to End Business process development, Network deployment and roll out of services according to plan and adhering to NPI process and PoPs built up. Proficient in working with all levels of business users to successfully extract, analyze and document business requirements and enable through Agile Scrum methodology for OSS and BSS.Work with geographically diverse teams, People Management, Partnership Management and Training. Achieved MEF 9 and MEF 14 certification for TCL. Became the first MEF CECP certified in India and among the first certified globally which validates the expertise, skills and knowledge of Carrier Ethernet technologies, standards, services and applications. Qualified MEF-SDCP SD-WAN Certified Professional among the first globally which validates the expertise, skills and knowledge of SD WAN systems, services and applications.

Experience

1. Deputy General Manager

   Tata Communications

   Nov 1999 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   Leading Portfolio, Program, and Project Management, Network and Service Engineering, New Service Introduction, Product development, Business Solutions Consulting, Service Design, Network Implementation and Customer Service Delivery and Assurance. Driving Product Management for Managed Wi-Fi & LAN and enabling Sales.Executing Board approved strategic projects delivering value to customers. Engineering and Product development for Global Dedicated Ethernet Service (EPL and EVPL), Ethernet Multipoint Services (ELAN, ETree, EVPLAN and EVPTree), Low Latency Service, Protected Port Service,SLA Option, Data Center Interconnect and Cloud Enablement (Izo), SDWAN, SDN Controller and MEF CECP and SDWAN certifications. WAN and LAN Management. Services planning and realization for VCIPLC, IPLC, NPLC, ATM, VoF, GDE, EoS services, mobility services. Enabling BSS and OSS systems from requirement to ready for Service stage. Launched NGE platform based on PBB delivering EPL, ETREE, ELAN and ESO services. Effective engagements from vendors such as Cisco, HPE, Ciena, Adva, Tejas, Accedian, Huawei, Nokia and Alcatel Lucent etc.Accomplished business growth with presales and solutioning requirements. Establishing ENNI and Partnerships with CSPs like AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google. Network Operations support from both backbone and customer perspective. Supporting HLD/LLD and ECD for Ethernet Backbone and customer service designs. Architecture recommendation – redundancies, sizing, failover, SLA including Network augmentation and new PoP builds.Work closely with the Transport, IP, Data Center and NOC teams to define, design and implement end-to-end solutions.Set up support for global business and processes during the formation of International business group. Led International customer service delivery and global network deployment. Worked on strategic and operational projects to drive them from MD & CEO’s office.

Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

  MDP, Management Development Programme

• Tata Management and Training Center, Pune

  Management Development Programme

• Indira Gandhi National Open University

  MBA

  1999 — 2002

• Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

  MDP, Management Development Programme

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  EEP, Executive Education Programme

• Tata Communications

  Management Development Programme

• Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University

  Master of Science, Electronics

  1994 — 1996

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• People Management
• Technology Solutions
• Carrier Ethernet
• Transmission
• Internet Protocol (Ip)
• Business Process
• Pre-Sales
• Rollout
• Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (Sdh)
• Service Delivery
• Technical Support
• Ip
• Vendor Management
• Mpls
• Network Design
• Managed Services
• Service Engineering
• Program Management
• Sdh
• Cloud Enablement
• Telecommunications
• Product Development
• New Initiatives
• Dwdm
• Contract Management
• Solution Design