Vivek Vaidyanathan

Project Manager (Lt Col), indian army

Management experience of over 13 years in the Indian Army. Presently holding the rank of Lt Col. As a Project Manager, have commissioned several Telecom and IT projects. Areas of expertise include CDMA networks, UHF and Optical fibre links, PBXs and OFC based Zonal Access Networks. On multiple occasions, have integrated diverse communication platforms like VSATs, DSL, UHF and Optical fibre links into a customized IT infrastructure solution addressing the specific needs of a particular requirement My Specialties: IT Infrastructure planning, improving technical thresholds to reduce the network down time. Drafting whitepapers, technical specifications, RFPs etc Conducted product evaluation of several vendors like CISCO, Nortel, TCS, ECIL, Tadiran (Israel), Bharat Electronics Ltd during the Price Negotiation and Acceptance Testing stages of the project. Telecom professional and IT Infrastructure Manager in the Indian Army. My job involves overseeing a Telecom backbone network and an IT infrastructure solution deployed over three states. This network supports a variety of services and involves diverse communication platforms like Satellite and Optical fibre links. The envisaged solution may consist of specific areas which need outsourcing, hence product evaluation is a big part of my job.