Nottingham Trent University

Telecom/ICT Programme/Project Manager  -  Expert at Leading Large, Complex Network Infrastructure Transformation Projects on a Global Scale

Senior Project Manager, IT & Telecommunication

✅Core Delivery Team Leadership: Held a pivotal role within the Mobile Network Core Delivery Team, serving as the hub of expertise for strategic program and project delivery across Technology, supporting Mobile Network & Security, and Group functions.
✅Galaxy Transition and Transformation: Successfully managed the Galaxy Transition and Transformation Programme, orchestrating the seamless transition of customers from the existing BT Huawei network to BT's network, ensuring strict compliance with the UK government Telecom Act regulations and alignment with a 2025 deadline.
✅Efficient Decommissioning: Led the removal and decommissioning of more than 3,000 Huawei units, ensuring a smooth and cost-effective process.
✅End-to-End Project Oversight: Expertly guided the project through its various phases, including design, build, deployment, and handover, aligning all aspects with pre-planned strategies, objectives, and scorecards.
✅Rigorous Risk Management: Effectively managed program risks across workstreams, particularly those involving high-profile government and emergency services entities. Collaborated closely with cross-functional stakeholders from Central Ops, Partner, Operations, CTIO/TSO, and Finance.
✅Regulatory Compliance: Collaborated with UK OFCOM to gain valuable insights and ensure future regulatory compliance, safeguarding the project's adherence to evolving standards.
✅Efficient Core Network Transition: Successfully facilitated the transition to a mobile cloud core network, optimizing operational efficiency, reducing physical asset costs, and minimizing the carbon footprint.

Project Delivery Manager

• Building Profitable Property Investment Business: Successfully established and managed a 15-property portfolio
for property investment and resale. Pursued entrepreneurial goals by acquiring, refurbishing, and selling
properties for profit and long-term income security.
• Strategic Property Acquisition: Identified target properties with value-add opportunities in regeneration areas
through in-depth local area investment and economic analysis. Sourced properties from auctions at 30% below
market prices.
• Comprehensive Project Management: Designed and executed 15 home restorations, negotiating 10 property sales
with a 30% profit margin. Assembled and managed a team of builders, provided interior design scope, sourced
materials, and coordinated project timelines.
• Optimizing Investment Portfolio: Retained a 5-property portfolio to maximize recurring 15% yield investment
income after recovering the initial investment outlay.

Dynamic Investment Properties UK Ltd

Project Manager

Project Manager
•	Spearheaded 2 large-scale and complex customer programmes in parallel with 8 phased projects, from initial concept to closure for managed service support.  
•	Operated across entire programme lifecycle including pre-sales, SOWs, contract negotiations, project planning, resource planning, workflow and training across 40+ countries. 
•	Chaired C-Level project sponsor relations to provide status, risk and issues and mitigation options, ensuring 100% continuous project and programme delivery at each quality gate and milestone.
•	Selected and managed partners, suppliers and vendors and ensured delivery against SLA criteria.

Global Project Manager
Programme: European Union Global Network Security Transformation.
•	Delivered large-scale network security transformation (installation/migration of turnkey access points, implementation of TESTA-NG and associated infrastructure upgrade) for 4000+ sites across multiple EU organisations (including DIGIT, DG HOME, European Council, TAXUD and Europol).
•	Led resource planning and managed 30-person core team (10 onshore and 20 offshore).
•	Navigated challenging and complex national security regulations and attained clearances for NCR partners with EU security agencies in 100+ countries.
•	Embedded complex change management process, minimising escalations and generating additional revenue and additional services billings, and increased support contracts 15%.
•	Provided infrastructure that allowed EU to grow without voice and data network restrictions and generated 35% operating cost savings over 5 years.

Global Project Manager
Programme: European Union Global Network Security Transformation.
•	Oversaw large-scale LAN/WAN refresh project for E. ON, migrating from Cisco to Juniper and upgrading associated infrastructure.
•	Led 20-person on/offshore team to migrate 800+ sites.
•	Collaborated with HSSE regulators on workshops and training materials to gain 100% accreditation for E. ON sites.

NCR Corporation

Global Project Manager - Global International Telecom Projects

Global decommissioning of datacentre IT infrastructure.
•	Led global decommissioning of datacentre IT infrastructure across servers, storage, LAN, security, databases, middleware and other system components with 30-person project team.
•	Engaged with project sponsors to understand business requirements and played key role in project initiation including formulation of decommissioning management strategies for GDC datacentre.
•	Successfully delivered decommissioning within pre-agreed timelines.   reduced costs, carbon footprint and cut vendor service support contracts by 20%.
•	Led project delivery in accordance with PRINCE2 including project structures, controls and governance, change management, risk management and stakeholder communications.
•	Analysed internal processes and led process improvement to ensure delivery of decommissioning activities on time and to budget.

Vodafone

Project Manager - Decommissioning

Outsourcing transformation programme for migration from IBM to BT, following HBOS de-merger.
•	Led migration of converged network to BT to support data, voice and video services.
•	Managed migration of converged network carrying voice, data and video, supporting 70,000 Cisco VOIP phones, 2000 branches and 1900 multi-site implementations from IBM to BT.
•	Developed project management plan, identified and scheduled project activities.
•	Owned Risk & Impact Assessment for overall project.
•	Led stakeholder engagement, managed meetings, created and maintained project governance artefacts. 
•	Succeeded in delivering to plan that met project objectives defined in project scope statement.

Lloyds Banking Group

Project Consultant - Converged Network

Team managed for demand planning, allocating network resources and ensuring network health.
•	Led, executed and delivered multiple projects with teams of up to 50 people, prioritising network capacity expansion from implementation to migration across 150+ co-location datacentres.
•	Managed technical teams responsible for deployment, configuration and management of all network infrastructure roll-out at Vodafone co-location sites. 
•	Improved global operations, using project best practices, driving consistency across the regions and managing relationships with site level and partner engineering teams.
•	Delivered capacity to increase customer base, resulting in 20% profit uplift, improved customer retention, reduced service support and lower maintenance and operational costs.

Project Manager - Network Capacity

Coordinated 2,000-circuit WAN rollout project (100+ tele-exchanges nationwide) necessitated by local planning authority demand and network constraints. Addressed multi-circuit installation, Ethernet, DSL and VPN challenges - facilitated 15% growth.
§  Led vendor selection and relationship management and took overall ownership of contracts with external service providers BT, C&W, Thus, Kcom, Colt to boost reliable, and timely-driven services.
§  Managed business risk and built mitigation plans through collaboration with key stakeholders and suppliers.
§  Applied detailed knowledge of end-to-end telecom circuit delivery MDU’s, IP-VPN to implementation.
§  Established capacity and latency management of new and existing services to improve service to customers across the network. Coordinated data services provisioning for customers.
§  Strengthened Testing teams, ensuring capacity and latency results were accurately collated and presented to management to inform network capacity planning.
§  Delivered enhancements to eradicate capacity/latency issues and improve customer service.

Virgin Media

Skills: Managed Services · Risk Management · Team Leadership · Resource Allocation · Stakeholder Management · Vendor Management · PRINCE2 · Project Planning · Coaching

Capgemini Consulting

Project Manager -  Project Outsource

Engineered desktop and laptop upgrade for 200 staff across 10 locations.

Ernst & Young

Project Coordinator - Global Desktop Laptop Rollout Project

Skills: Capex · Managed Services · Risk Management · Telecommunications · Stakeholder Management · Vendor Management · Contract Negotiation · PRINCE2 · Project Planning

Rupesh Shah