Rahul Kankriya

About Rahul Kankriya

Enthusiastic Director of Program Management with a successful track record in leading complex technical projects across global organizations to achieve substantial cost savings and efficiency improvements. Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams, tracking project progress, and exceeding quality standards. Expert skills in program management, risk assessment, and strategic planning. A proactive problem-solver with a passion for driving impactful results aligned with organizational goals.• Experienced domain leader with a 17+ years of proven track record of leading successful development & program Management.• Skilled agile and delivery management with strong foundation in telecom Engineering & Management.• Recognized for expectational problem solving skills and awarded for outstanding performance multiple time.• Leadership and Team management skills with Strategic planning, manage C level executive.• Having Knowledge of Telecom Network, Cloud Data Centre management, Edge Cloud, Automation, FTTx, network rollout, International Roaming, Telecom Operations & Manage services.• Managed a cross-functional teams (product, engineering, rollout, support) toward the successful launch of mobile network.• My goal is to continue excelling in the Telecom & IT Industry.• My future goal is to showcase leadership and technical skills to deliver innovative, disruptive and challenging task in record time.• Working on Europe’s First O-RAN cloud native mobile operator rollout worth $2B+ value.• Part of 4 Green field Innovative & Disruptive mobile operator launch.• FTTx fiber rollout of 235K Km with top 20 cities in India to connect 23 million homes.• Increased Internation roaming footprint from 80% to 96% all Vodafone & partner market across the globe.• Hands on experience on Ericsson, Huawei OEM during initial career.

Experience

1. Director Cloud Oss

   Rakuten Symphony

   Feb 2025 — Present · Indore, IN

   Driving end-to-end program excellence with a sharp focus on agility, quality, and cross-functional team leadership- Expert in Scrum, Agile transformations, and scalable QA strategies that deliver business value at speed- Proven track record of steering complex programs across global teams — from vision to value, without compromise.

Education

• SYMBIOSIS INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

  Ex-MBA, Telecom Management

  2011 — 2013

• R. C. Patel Institute of Technology, Shirpur

  B.E, E&TC

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Internet Protocol (Ip)
• Gsm
• Lte
• Wireless Technologies
• Project Planning
• Roaming
• Vas
• High Performance Teams
• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• Wireless
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Mobile Communications
• Service Delivery
• Management
• Troubleshooting
• Media Gateways
• Project Management
• Ss7
• Networking
• Team Management
• Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (Umts)
• Testing
• 3g
• Gprs
• Sms
• Routing
• Switches
• Roaming Specialist
• Analysis Reports
• Telecommunications
• Vendor Management
• Mobile Devices
• 2g