Shardul Mude

About Shardul Mude

KEY STRENGTHS• Strategic analysis of Businesses- determine potential possible sales opportunities• Crafting email campaigns to generate leads• Designing proposals for potential customers• Crafting RFI/RFP responses• Designing strategic marketing content• Experience in analyzing IMS/VOLTE network architecture and call flows• Ability to troubleshooting production network issues, zero in on root cause and recommend changes to fix the issues. • Experience with installation and commissioning of Linux based IMS nodes• Collaboration with Development, Systems Engineering and Operations teams for deployment of new product software releases• Excellent communication skills, with ability to manage successful relationships with clients• Analyzing key performance indicator metrics (KPI) on production IMS nodes and setting up thresholds for the metrics• System Integration of IMS nodes including SBC-Session Border controller, Telephony application server-TAS, MRFP-Media resource Function processor,• Used Wireshark to troubleshoot end-to-end IMS interworking issues on SIP/MEGACO/DIAMETER • Expertise on SIP protocol and troubleshooting. Experience on Ericsson IS platform.• Preparation of verification specifications for testing an IMS solution. • Testing the IMS solution deployed for Performance/Fault/Configurations Management,Remote upgrades and Backup and restore,EXPERTISE/SKILL SET Technologies: Kernel Virtual Machines (KVM), Open stack, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN), IMS, VOLTE, LTE, WCDMA, UMTS, EVDO, CDMA, 802.11(WiFi), Virtualization Software: Mysql, Linux, PROSCOUT-RF drive testing software, XCAL-X drive testing software, QXDMProtocols: TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, FTP, SFTP, SSH, SIP, TLS, IP Sec, MEGACO, DIAMETER, MSRP, BGPCertifications: CCNA, Ericsson-IMS certification, LPI-Linux Essentials1 Cloud Technologies: AWS, Microsoft-Azure, Google CloudTools-Wireshark, Tektronix-network analyzer, Putty, IRIS-network analyzer

Experience

1. Principle Solutions Consultant

   Persistent Systems

   Apr 2024 — Present · Pune, IN

   Technical/Market Research: Researched potential customer products for solution placement. Identified product lines and fitment areas to help potential customers based on our expertise and experience in current and past engagements. This helped us pitch our services & engineering capabilities to 4 potential Telecom OEM\'s. • Strategy Plan creation: Helped create strategic plans by gathering financial data, projects status, talent availability, key stakeholder mapping and potential growth areas. Plans created for customer in my vertical and for my BU sub-vertical too. Plans reviewed by internal stakeholders and also by BU head.• Spearheaded development of cost takeout proposals for customers in Middle East and North America. Led the proposal preparation by collaborating with delivery and finance teams, showcasing potential cost savings and delivery options. Incorporated stakeholder inputs and tweaked the proposal to increase chances of winning the bids.• Developed and delivered tailored sales generation scripts showcasing important services and product lines enhancing lead generation efforts and significantly improving lead conversion rates.•Created strategic material for an industry bench marking (RFI) that highlighted the Telco business unit\'s value proposition, key competencies, and success stories. Beating some of our bigger rivals, our Business unit was classified as an Enterprise Innovator in our segment.•Developed an information pitch for the Business unit - Communication, Media and Tech for an analyst RFI. Our unit got the highest customer service rating in the RFI.• Developed a proposal highlighting our IoT capabilities tailored to align with AWS requirements, for securing a potential integration/delivery business opportunity for a tier-1 telecom operator in the Middle East. Provided a comprehensive rate card for smooth resource deployment and budget planning to enhance our chances of winning the proposal.

Education

• Apeejay School

  High School

  1993 — 2000

• Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad

  PGPX, Business Administration and Management, General

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor Of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications

  2003 — 2007

• University of Maryland

  Masters, Telecommunications

  2009 — 2011

Skills

• Wimax
• Ethernet
• Ims
• H.248
• Ospf
• Eigrp
• Ss7
• Networking
• Shell Scripting
• Linux
• Rip
• Rtp
• Gsm
• Ip
• Network Engineering
• Sip
• Internet Protocol (Ip)
• Wireless Networking
• Routing Protocols
• Sbc
• Megaco
• Voip
• Unix
• Igrp
• Ccna
• Voice Over Ip (Voip)
• Tas
• Geoprobe
• Wireshark
• Switches