Ramesh Venkat Prayaga

About Ramesh Venkat Prayaga

Highly Accomplished Wireless Telecommunications professional with experience & skill-set in diversified roles performing product planning, solutions marketing, sales support, business development, project/program management & engineering with twenty-one (21) years of global experience working top global Tier-1/Tier-2 Service Providers & Global OEMs• Product Planning & Solution Marketing Leader: Business & charter planning, strategic & business plans, market & product requirements (MRD & PRD), market analysis, product positioning & gap analysis, competitive analysis, pricing strategy, channel development & GTM strategies• Strategic Alliances and Business Development Professional: Joint products/solutions/services development, co-marketing/branding programs, sell-to-with-through & GTM launch activities with high-profile OEM like Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Alcatel-Lucent and HP. Launched 5 solutions with alliances partners and helped secure contracted revenues of over $100M• Experienced Project/Program Management Professional: Experienced Project/Program management professional with experience in project/program planning & execution, SOW, budget/business case planning & forecast, and cross-functional team management in customer product & solutions development & launch, planning, deployment and operations functions• Strong Sales Support & Solution Sales Experience: RFP/Bid/Service proposals, Statements of Work, BOQ/BOM, Pre-sales & Post-sales support and CXO customer presentations• Service Provider Network Design & Deployment Experience: Managed large Engineering & Project Management teams for design, deployment and managed support services for 2G/3G/4G LTE wireless networks Tier-1 / Tier-2 operators• People’s Management: Managed large product, technical and project management teams with accountability for goals, objectives, hiring/termination, budget and operational policies

Experience

1. Director Wireless Products

   Charter Communications

   Sep 2020 — Present

   Responsible for managing a team of product & program managers to deliver on market analysis, product development & launch acceleration for wireless products & solutions in 3 categories: Narrowband IoT, Broadband IoT/Private Wireless & Enterprise Mobility

Education

• George Mason University

  MS, Electrical & Computer Engineering

  1993 — 1995

• Andhra University

  BS, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

  1988 — 1992

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Gtm Strategies
• Program Management
• Wireless Technologies
• Product Management
• Vendor Management
• Mobile Devices
• Channel Marketing
• Pre-Sales
• Wireless Solutions
• Lte
• Wireless
• 4g
• Channel Management
• Product Marketing
• Enterprise Software
• Wireless Network Design
• Telecommunications
• Product Development
• Wimax
• Multi-Channel Marketing
• Strategic Alliances
• New Business Development
• Voip
• Channel Partners
• Wireless Networking
• Strategy