VINAY RAO

5 Cornelia CT,Roxbury Crossing boston MA -02120 .

contact: +1-617-922-2588 rao.v@neu.edu, vinay4uv@gmail.com

Objective:To obtain a challenging position wherein my 3years of Telecommunication Network & Systems testing experience will help strengthen the Quality process of the systems development life cycle. Professional Experience Sonus Networks: Associate QA Engineer Platform testing for Sonus Session border controller product. Westford MA Jan. 2011 -current

Tatara Systems Acton, MA Intern -Interoperability and systems testing May 2010-August 2010 Interoperability and systems testing of Tatara Convergence server for IS-826 based prepaid feature. Formulating test cases and Test case documentation from the Functional Specifications and 3GPP document Test tools development using expect &iTCL scripting. Starent Networks (N.k.a. Cisco systems) Tewksbury, MA CO-OP SQA (Network operations) July 2009-Dec.2009 Installed Configured , troubleshot and upgraded hardware, firmware and software of Starent ,Cisco, Dell and HP products Developed an Inventory management database and automated same with Perl. Manual regression testing of PDSN call parameters Tata Communications Ltd.(aka VSNL) MUMBAI, India Executive International Transmission team Sep 2007 Dec 2008 Worked as lead shift tech. support for International Transmission Maintenance N.O.C. in Mumbai Configured different types of Circuits & Services with different QOS parameters on Cisco and Juniper core devices Analyzed and resolved critical network and service issues on international transmission (TDM &DWDM) networks within the stipulated time to provide better SLA to the end users Project handled : remote management of CPE devices using in-band signaling channel Reliance Communications Ltd. MUMBAI, India Engineer-Network Engineering Feb 2006-Sep2007 Managed on field planning , implementations & maintenance of SDH /SONET TDM and Metro Ethernet based access networks Conducted User Acceptance tests (UAT) of SDH and metro DWDM devices. Tested and Implemented L3 VPN &L2 VPN ,L2VLL services on Metro Ethernet based services Project Handled: Backhaul Migration from 1 gigabit to 10 gigabit for CISCO Metro Ethernet networks, 154 BAN implementations for delivering jeopardized case services. Education NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY GPA:3.91/4.00 Boston, MA Master of Science in Telecommunication Systems Management December 2010 Concentration : Telecom Networking Related Courses: Data-Networking, Telecommunications System architecture, VOIP, Telecommunication Business Policy, Financial Management, Consulting Projects. UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI Mumbai, INDIA Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication May 2005 Don Bosco Institute Of Engineering Related Courses: Internet Communication Engineering, Computer Networks, Digital Signal Processing

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Technical Knowledge Technologies Databases Languages Operating Systems Networking Tools OSS tools : SDH, SONET, EO-SDH, Carrier Class Ethernet, VOIP, WIMAX, CDMA 2000(Mobile IP Core) , LMDS, Metro Ethernet , Layer 2&Layer3 VPN, IPTV. : MySQL basics, Microsoft Access : PERL basics, C basics, iTCL basics. : Windows XP/2003/98, UNIX & Linux (Debian &Red Hat kernel) : TCP/IP, UDP, NAT, IPSec, IPv6, Routing Protocols (RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF), Routers, Switches, VLANs, RTP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, SIP. :IXIA(IP tester),EDT135(Sdh-tester),ANT5, Wireshark, VOIP Analyzer, PRI tester, MS Office, MS Visio, Microsoft Project, Media Wiki : Viznet ,Clarity, Crammer 5 ,Remedy(docketing),Nagios

Interests Adventure sports like Kayaking, River rafting, Hiking, listening to soft music, Networking, Playing Soccer. Industrial Projects: In-building Solutions March 2006- April 2006 In-building RF planning for implementation for WLL repeaters (leaky wire concept). In-building Distribution May2006- August2006 Planning and implementation of In building distribution of copper and fiber for customer connectivity Academic Projects : Study Project on prepaid billing systems in 4G networks Sept 2010 to Dec 2010 Study of the existing PCC based charging architecture and suggested theoretical modification in the PCC architecture for dynamic services . Consultants @ Boston Globe: Jan 2010-Apr 2010 Consulted at Boston Globe for mobile app development . Conducted a market research and submitted a UI design based on market analysis. VoIP, Northeastern University Jan2010 April 2010 Configured and setup a lab environment wherein calls were made from one IP phone to another through the proxy server, inside as well as outside the network, used Ethereal/Wireshark to capture SIP signals for various call flows

Configured various IP phones like CISCO, SIPURA, ATA and soft phone like X-Lite
Data Networking January 2009- May2009 Be a Consultant Planned a Entire enterprise IP network as a part of a term project Notch Filter Sep. 2004- May 2005 Developed a Micro-strip based Notch filter as guard band between CDMA and GSM frequencies