Vinay Kataria

About Vinay Kataria

Seasoned professional with more than 16 years experience in the global IT & ICT industry across Asia, Europe and North America, working in technology solutions delivery and leadership roles.Strong end-to-end delivery and leadership experience - 5G, Digital transformation, People Management, Career Progression Management, guiding Presales, business case planning, leading delivery teams for successful deliveries and supporting clients for deployment and post-delivery support.Strong focus on business growth and adding new offerings for evolving needs. Works closely with internal stakeholders, clients and \'centers of excellence\' to come up with most optimal solutions.Robust track record with proven ability to lead and manage large, cross-functional and multicultural teams in matrix organizations. An enthusiastic and self-motivating person, analytical and professional with excellent communications and people management skills. Able to liaise with stakeholders, vendors, development teams and business users to create solutions that bring about sustainable business growth and achieve organizational KPIs.Business and Technology specialties:• Solid knowledge and proven leadership of Softwareand Services delivery in Telecom industry• Business Management including P&L responsibility• Excellent leadership skills with proven success in building and motivating a high performance support delivery team• Well versed in Telecom Software & IT industry technologieswith special proficiency in the following:• 5G, Core Networks, Analytics, Assurance, Orchestration / Cloud MANO NFV and SDN / IOT /Operations Support System (OSS)/ Business SupportSystems (BSS)/ Security / Consulting & Systems Integration (SI)/ Agile Methodologies/ JIRA / Confluence / Automation / CICD pipeline, AI/MLKey focus areas- Cloud Operations- Network Operations- OSS BSS Architecture- Technical Infrastructure, scalability & performanceengineering- Service Management- Systems Integration- Operations Transformation- Digital Transformation- People management- 5G Leadership

Experience

1. Head - Oss Delivery (South East Asia, Oceanic and India)

   Ericsson

   Feb 2011 — Present · Gurgaon, IN

   An OSS Transition and Transformation Experienced and Expert executive, accustomed to working with teams and steering groups from technical to management level. Creative developer of plans and transformation initiatives with ability to understand requirements and translate them into delivery-focused actions. Highly experience in technical solutions delivery, digital transformation, automation projects, operations management and people management.Working in multi vendor and diverse environment in different roles – Support Head, Technical Manager, Solution Architect, Competence Manager, Team lead, Project Lead and as an Individual contributor. Extensive expertise and knowledge on various technologies and solutions – Ericsson (OSS), Orchestration, Analytics, Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, Symantec, Sybase, Dell EMC, Veritas, 5G, Core, BSS, Cloud Native, Dockers, Kubernetes, CKA, Containers, Cloud computing, AI/ML, Automation. Key focus areas - Agile methodologies, JIRA, project management, product management, Operations management, OSS/NMS support, people management, AI, ML, automation, digital transformation.Clients: Singtel, Airtel, Optus, TPG, Telstra, 2 Degrees, DTAC, TRUE, SMART, Chorus, Axiata, JIO, Vodafone, Sprint, AT & T, Telkomsel, Indosat, Celcom, Orange to name a few.

Education

• Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

  Master of Business Administration (MBA)

• DRONACHARYA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, Gurgaon

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech)