Vinod Bhatia

About Vinod Bhatia

Technology strategist and leader, with vast and reach extensive experience in telecom industry across Spectrum Management, Network Conceptualization, Planning, Engineering and Operations to drive business excellence.Has engineered nationwide cellular networks (both for greenfield and incumbent operators) across all operational mobile technologies - CDMA, GSM, EVDO, WCDMA, LTE A and 5G NR.Conceptualization of Network Design and Engineering Consultancy Services business targeting leading operators in Global markets capitalizing vast domain knowledge and latest technology innovations.Technology Innovator, with experience in establishing the state of art automated systems and platforms to improve productivity and decision support system during network design, acceptance, operation, and benchmarking process. Technology Transformation Expert, having led exceptionally large scale and intricate multi-technology network transformation projects including outsourcing strategies and transition management for Integrated Managed Service Contract across technology domains and network modernization.Business focused with proficiency and expertise in heading independent business unit (CXO) with an ability to understand disruptive trends, business economics, market dynamics, end user experience and drive thought leadership in wireline, wireless, technology or other domains of a large-scale network. Has successfully completed the 5G NR SA Network Design POC leveraging latest technology innovations and automation for one of the greenfield operators in USA competing against leading OEM and Network Design Services vendors. Also successfully completed multiple POCs covering technology solutions like 5G NR CA (mid band + low band), 5G FWA, CBRS, etc with leading Global Tier 1 operators.Lead the wireless group at Reliance Jio to create one of World’s largest hyper-dense multi band HetNet LTE network with massive numbers of eNodeB sites, small cells, in-building solutions and Wi-Fi Access Points, generating largest data volume in the world reaching more than 99% of population coverage in across India’s vast geography of 3.2 Mn sq km.

Experience

1. Senior Vice President Head Wireless Access

   Reliance Industries Limited

   Nov 2014 — Present · Mumbai, IN

   End to end delivery of RF network planning, engineering, integration, acceptance, network lunch readiness and operation support of 5G NR/LTE radio network to meet coverage, capacity, and user experience objective.Extensive trials of 5G Ready Massive MIMO solutions from leading OEM, exhaustive analysis, and recommendations on algorithm enhancements. Architecture and trials of futuristic applications such as NB IoT, xRAN, etc.Conceptualize and operationalize Network Design and Engineering Consultancy Services business-stream targeting leading players in Global markets.Radio Access Network Architecture Engineering, platform dimensioning & deployment, plug & play configuration of gNodeB/ eNodeB / small cells, Software & Firmware upgrades.Innovative Coverage & Capacity Enhancement Solutions, Traffic Forecasting and Capacity Dimensioning, Coverage Design for Landmass Inhabitations, Capacity Design for Mass Market requirements, Hyper Dense Network Design for CBD areas, Low-Cost Network Designs for Remote Rural areas,Conceptualize and establishing automated systems and platforms for end-to-end RF optimization and performance improvement process which includes data collection, data processing, root cause analysis and rule-based recommendations. Evolving the mechanisms of accurately geo locating the customers on near time basis and automatically capture the customer perceived coverage, RF quality, data speed as per their indoor usage to constantly improve user experience and proactively offload LTE network.

Education

• Jabalpur Engineering College

  BE, Electronics & Communications

  1980 — 1985