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Sundeep S Pandha

Brampton,Canada

Summary

Dynamic professional with extensive OSS/BSS expertise, adept at optimizing telecom billing operations and enhancing customer satisfaction. Proven track record in business intelligence reporting and incident management, leading teams to achieve 100% compliance with SLAs. Strong communicator and strategic thinker, driving successful project outcomes through effective collaboration and innovative solutions.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SPOC – Billing/Mediation Operations (BSS)

Setar Telecommunications
, Aruba
04.2022 - Current
  • Heading a team which is responsible for monitoring and maintenance of various telecom billing/rating & mediation operations.
  • RCA analysis, PIR review and defining MOPs/SOPs to deal with various network related issues.
  • End to End processing, testing & validation of rated/unrated CDRs.
  • Ensuring end to end closure of user Incidents/SRs within defined SLA.
  • Client and vendor management, regular touch base for smooth execution of telecom billing operations.
  • Collaborating with various stakeholders such as Finance, Sales, Mediation, and Information Technology for issue resolution.
  • Review of SLA of Ticket Closure to ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Presenting regular reports and dashboards to senior management.

Mediation/Billing Operations Lead (BSS)

Amdocs (Setar Telecom Project)
Mississauga, Canada
10.2021 - 03.2022
  • Leading team size of 20 resources while maintaining 100% Billing & Non-Billing CDRs.
  • Creating strategies, setting goals, objectives & deliverables for the project.
  • Risk assessment & mitigation strategies for EMA, HLR, IN and mediation.
  • Transforming bill presentment to reduce confusion & shock to customers.
  • Quarterly project reviews of deliverables and bottlenecks.
  • Coaching of the team on regular basis and reviewing their performance.
  • Writing business cases & presenting reports to senior management.
  • Responsible for meeting SLA deadlines adhering to the defined SOP.

Mentor & Co-Pilot Prime (Customer Support)

Rogers Communications Inc.
North York, Canada
07.2018 - 09.2021
  • Mentoring the new hires during co-piloting/prime projects to resolve customer issues, leading workshops & meetings (average class size of 30 to 40 new employees) to ensure the best customer service.
  • Testing and working as SMEs during new products and plans launches.
  • Troubleshooting all provisioning related incidents for core cable & mobile.
  • Coordinating with product development and business teams for any problems or changes in the system.
  • Post incidence review of the root cause analysis for high severity incidents and proposing SOP/guidelines to avoid recurrence in future.

Project Manager

Iota IT Solutions (SPS Pvt Ltd.)
, India
09.2016 - 05.2018
  • Reviewing and approving SOW/project plans, change management, programs & budgeting/cost (CAPEX & OPEX). (Project cost: 1.7M)
  • Planning & directing daily operations for SDLC, analyzing workflow, setting priorities & standards, meeting deadlines & contingency allocation.
  • Managing employee relations by recruiting new staff and evaluating performance/KPIs of existing analysts, programmers and operators.
  • Project Documentation, SOP and flowchart maintenance under new hire training program.
  • Single point of contact (SPOC) for all engagement between senior-level management from both service provider and client.

Head IT Ops/Project Manager (OSS/BSS)

IBM (Airtel Telecommunications Project)
, India
11.2006 - 08.2016
  • Leading the team of more than 50 resources and monitoring the smooth delivery of Operations, identifying operational bottlenecks and executing improvement solutions ensuring timely resolution of issues for seamless delivery across 4 telecom circles serving 24M customers.
  • Gathering and analyzing business requirements using Agile/Scrum methods, identifying systems, diagnosing obstacles, upgrading capacity, Provisioning/OM/CRM & delivering DWH/BI/MIS reports.
  • Designing strategies to detect various kind of telecommunications fraud, monthly review of rules and new kind of trends in the industries.
  • Coordinating with Finance, sales, marketing and RA and providing any ad-hoc or scheduled reports to eliminate any data discrepancy.
  • Clear communication of project goals, following proper escalation path, managing resources and tracking the project progress.
  • Performing internal audits for various processes and applications according to the client’s internal security policies.
  • Maintaining artefacts for readiness of external audits and providing various support for external audit teams.
  • Setting up processes for audit compliance like Quarterly ID validation, ticket resolution correctness, SLA breach reporting.
  • Monthly review of tickets and processes and presentation to CTO.
  • Promoting team work by acting as a liaison between cross-functional internal and external teams, including pre-sales, finance, SCM, and technical & development groups.
  • Acted as SPOC for B2B projects with big Clients like Bharti-PSEB, Bharti-Infosys, Bharti-TCS, Bharti-HFCL.
  • Overseeing the integration of Core and VAS Network Elements (MSC, GGSN, SGSN, SDP and SMSC Plus) in Kenan FX B&CCS.

Education

Masters - Computer Applications

Punjabi University
Patiala

Bachelors - Computer Applications

Punjabi University
Patiala

Skills

  • OSS and BSS expertise
  • Billing and rating systems
  • SaaS billing solutions
  • Telecom contracts and tariffs
  • Business intelligence reporting
  • Telecom architecture knowledge
  • Service provisioning and management
  • MS Office and GSuite proficiency
  • Telecommunications technologies
  • Operating systems expertise
  • Scripting and automation skills
  • Programming languages familiarity
  • Incident management tools
  • Database management skills

Certification

  • CCNA
  • ITIL
  • LINUX
  • PMP

Accomplishments

· CIO appreciation for successful reporting migration from oracle to snowflake.

· Rogers' Director's Challenge Recognition for April 2019 and October 2019 for hitting the maximum sales of VAS and achieving ‘Day of 300’ target.

· IBM Manager's Choice Award for leading the team and providing automated reports and hence reducing cost expenditures by 10%

· R&R Award by Airtel CEO for achieving Zero-Penalty status during CDR Availability Audit (100% availability of Ericsson/Comverse CDRs in DWH)

· R&R Award by Airtel CEO for smooth roll out of 4G & bill plan launch

· R&R Award by Airtel CEO for smooth IDOC launch for new activation

· Excellence Award by SPS management for leading the smooth installation of Automation/ERP Tool reducing cost by 33% & achieving 99.9% accuracy

Affiliations

· Backfill for managers at Rogers Technical Department during their absence – Team Coaching, Performance Management, Feedback and Handling Escalations (Team Size: around 25 employees)

· Identify, recommend and support the implementation of various programs using fact-based data analysis and clear business cases for the improvement of contact centre processes.

· Subject matter expert (SME) - EERO Mesh Network and Bill Plan expert (Sales, Installation & Troubleshooting) with rise of 80% from 60%

· Primed Proactive Outbound Calling – For customers facing issue related to EERO firmware upgrade (Team Size: 12-15, achieved CSAT: 95%)

· Contributed as a team member to the launch and testing of AI-powered chatbots

· Lead the implementation of Kibana and Grafana across various LOBs.

· Created organisation wise dashboard alerts through Superset.

· Launched 4G, tested end to end provisioning and launched 4G bill plans

· Launched IDOC, tested end to end new activation process of customer

· Lead the Kenan/Arbor-FX migration (Became the first circle to do so) with an eye on software development lifecycle (SDLC) transition, through API solutioning, Agile/Scrum training, s/w & h/w upgrade.

· Primed the project for migration of rated and non-rated CDRs from Ericsson to Comptel during mediation handover

· Executed UAT for Airtel postpaid launch in Sri Lanka and ensured proper bill plan discount for greater customer satisfaction.

· Implemented converged billing and primed the team for merging different billings to one for corporate clients.

· Lead the team in conducting business analysis to develop the business logic for analyzing VAS usage trends and forecasting market potential for various VAS and data-related products, which enhanced the client's Go-To-Market (GTM) strategy by 85%

· Launched AirtelMoney platform to encourage customer to avail the benefits of autopay which reduces the customer churn.

· Primed the team during FTA process implementation for identifying and deduping the duplicate customers for 100% accuracy of financial reports.

· Lead the project of eliminating data discrepancy to achieve 100% reporting accuracy and lowering customer churn.

· Lead the project for identifying operator wise usage/revenue, product effectiveness, fraud management and elimination of revenue leakage

· Initiated daily stand-up meetings, leading to improved problem solving and faster issue resolution.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT & VOLUNTEER WORK

  • Volunteer Member – Rotary International
    Supported community development, outreach programs, and youth mentorship initiatives through Rotary International events and fundraisers.
  • Actor & Volunteer – Punjabi Arts Association, Brampton
    Participated in multiple sold-out theatre productions; collaborated with a diverse team to promote cultural arts and local engagement.

Languages

English
Native/ Bilingual
Hindi
Native/ Bilingual
Punjabi
Native/ Bilingual

Timeline

SPOC – Billing/Mediation Operations (BSS)

Setar Telecommunications
04.2022 - Current

Mediation/Billing Operations Lead (BSS)

Amdocs (Setar Telecom Project)
10.2021 - 03.2022

Mentor & Co-Pilot Prime (Customer Support)

Rogers Communications Inc.
07.2018 - 09.2021

Project Manager

Iota IT Solutions (SPS Pvt Ltd.)
09.2016 - 05.2018

Head IT Ops/Project Manager (OSS/BSS)

IBM (Airtel Telecommunications Project)
11.2006 - 08.2016

Masters - Computer Applications

Punjabi University

Bachelors - Computer Applications

Punjabi University
Sundeep S Pandha