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KUMARAGURUPARAN
Telephone: 00966553440902 | E-mail: kumaranscv@yahoo.com
SUMMARY

• Profile: Male, 40, Married

• Nationality: Indian

• Current Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Current Position: OSP Telecom Manager Planning &

Design

• Company: Detecon Al Saudi Company Ltd.

• Preferred Locations: Middle East Countries and India

• Salary Expectation: Not Specified/Negotiable

CAREER OBJECTIVE

A qualified Engineer with over 14 years of progressive experience in

Telecommunication infrastructure having expertise in Planning, Survey,
and Designing for new as well existing telecom utilities.

Looking for an opportunity to work in OSP planning and design wherein

my expertise and experience in the field can prove rewarding towards
professional growth and development in a renowned organization
PROJECTS UNDERTAKEN

FTTH PROJECTS

Nov’10-Till Date Detecon Al Saudi Company Ltd., Saudi Arabia

Project Manager (Mobily, STC, SRO and MOD Projects)

Accomplishments

• Received several promotions with added responsibilities by starting

from the level of Project Engineer to the level of a Project Manager
within a short tenure.

• Planning and Survey, assistance to design the complete metro links for
expanding the Mobily network in Riyadh region.

• Comprehensive knowledge of OSP design, construction, and planning

techniques and methodologies

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• Planning of fundamental engineering telecom network survey and

forecasting such as detailed field study of survey area classifying them

into residential, commercial, industrial and institutional usage with
plotting and sketching of exact location of existing subscribers and
utility distribution points.

• Consultancy for the study, planning, design for As Built and new

recommendation of NEMO Project for client MOI approx. 3650km

existing network in the Kingdom.

• Consultancy for the study, planning, design for As Built and new

recommendation of SRO Project for client Saudi Railway Org. approx.

1200km existing network in the Kingdom.

• Consultancy for the study, planning, fixing issues to strengthen the

existing network, design for As Built and new and recommendation of

MODA Project for client Ministry of Defense approx. 5400km existing
network in the Kingdom.

• Professional & Technical Consultancy for FTTx/FTTM/FTTH project in

Access Network Planning & Design

• Planning and Preparation of Survey Guidelines to develop hand sketch

for the detailed observations

• Developing overall survey mapping in order to make fine tune-up,

considering several constrains such as future network expansion,

expected potential of customers and forecasting the development.

• Planning & Design for Civil and Fiber Infrastructure for ODN

development to cover the future demand.

• FTTH/GPON Network Planning, Cost estimation, Route Selection, fiber

Management and Fiber Link Power Budgeting for transmission.

• Planning for Conversion of Legacy Network to FTTH/GPON, selection of

areas, study the possibilities.

• Solution provisioning and planning to major corporate customers like

STC, Saudi Railways (SRO) and Ministry of Defense (MODA).

• Network Planning, Cost Estimation, Review of BOQ’s, Time

Management, Project Cost Control and KPI Follow-up’s.

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• Route Selection, OSP Planning, Fiber Management, Fiber Budget

Control and Planning for Material allocation to managed

subcontractors.

• Planning and initiation to the implementer for Co-ordination with

different Government authorities and other agencies for preparation

as well finalization of Right of Way (ROW).

• Planning and assistance to execute Provisional/Preliminary/Final/Walk-

Through/Acceptance Testing of the ready Links

• Holds the credit for the complete planning and design for Mobily FEP
and FTTH installation projects including all necessary test acceptances
as per Mobily construction standards.

• Responsible for planning and assisting to complete PAT preparation

and documentation for making the sites completely Ready for Service.

• Efficiently managed the role of a Project Manager with demonstrated

excellence in delivering project solutions on time and within budget.

• Implemented adequate systems, procedures and compliances for

achieving the desired service standards and goals.

• Planning and Designing of Metro Duct banks for Mobily and STC for key
accounts, FTTM and Junction networks

• Planning and Assist to survey of Construction of metro duct banks

along with FTTH GPON networks as per client construction standards.

• Creating templates for Quality inspection and acceptance tests for

the Ducts integration part after completion of works by contractors

• Mandrill test and acceptance for each span of the metro duct banks
and reports for further record.

• Actively involved in design, review of FTTH Cable Layout, Fiber

schematic FAT wise and Installation procedures for customers, and
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 efficiently reviewed the FTTH network by designing and planning on a
district/City wise basis.

• Solely responsible for GPON Planning, Survey, assist to design,

Managing teams for GIS Data update for FTTH,

• Managed teams proactively for FTTH network power optimizing, Link

budgeting, measurements with GPON OTDR’s, Fast Testers, and
Analyzer.

• Managing FTTH projects, distribute the jobs to the Integrators for the
survey and design of FTTH Kingdom wide. Check the all survey
according to the commercial and residential users.

• Review on the design/Schematic of Civil & Cable work as per the

requirement and consideration of site existing facilities.

• Planning and Managing all the issues related to BOQs/PRs/POs, RFS,

PACs & FACs with the C&P and Finance department of Mobily.

• Responsible for overseeing Budgeting, cash flow, negotiation of

contracts, outside plant construction, and commissioning according to
STC, Mobily and Saudi Railway specifications.

• Responsible for the integrity of the project database in order to ensure

proper follow-up of project documentation and review
correspondence before distribution.

• Strong Knowledge in PAT, OIL, FTR, PR, POs, Performa, Commercial

Invoices, Bank Guarantees (PB, APG, LG), Official declarations etc.

• Managing and leading Installation teams of GPON, Managing O & M

of Access network Broadband and IPTV installation and maintenance
team.

• UNIQUE & CHALLENGING PROJECTS

Detecon Al Saudi Company Ltd., Saudi Arabia

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 Project Manager (Mobily, Saudi Railway and Minstery Of Defense Projects)

• Accomplishments

• Plan and Forecast for future network expansion, upgrading &

enhancing the Junction and Access Network (Fixed Fiber Optic

Network)

• Planning & Survey of OSP & ISP for Mobile Sites Backhauling on GPON

with ring Protection.

• Preparing of Guidelines and Defining Processes for OSP Design, Survey

considering all kind of risks, cost control, evidence

documentation/collection according to meet the goals.

• Evaluation of client requirements, study the environment conditions,

planning and assisting the designers in order to produce more efficient

network designs.

• Planning to achieve the milestones based on the initiation, revise the

planning according to the outcome of initial plan without disturbing

the milestones.

• Discussions with Regional Design & Implementation Managers to

resolve the bottle necks and issues in the designs issued for
construction.

• Planning and advising implementation team for the preparation of

Project Purchase Requests (PR) and issuance of Purchase Orders (PO's)

for awarding projects to the selected contractors in order to manage
till rollout.

• Providing substantive guidance and direction to team of Design

Engineers in the development of design criteria and specifications.

• Review & Approval of Designs to issue for constructions, BOQ, Cost

estimation, Route Selection review, fiber Management and Fiber Link

Power Budgeting.

• Planning to manage the Project cost within the budget as per design

values with very less tolerance.

• Extensive knowledge of Fiber Optic Network environment, Optical

cable installation and terminology methods.

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• Responsible for developing cost effective fiber optic route plans by

coordinating with route construction engineering professionals

• Planning for huge number of teams responsible for FTTH cable trouble
shooting and maintenance, rectifying fault registered through WFM,
Managing staff of 75+ persons including Project engineers, Supervisors
and technicians.

• Planning to manage New FTTH customer installation tickets assigning

and receiving timely feedback for the assigned task prior to close the
ticket within SLA’s.

• Planning and study of OSP Network auditing for the implemented LDN
routes for STC approx. 3650km in 12 different sections/links. Activity
plan breakdown includes planning prior to start, revision of planning
during progressive period in order to improve the deliverables,
assessment of OSP networks status and health, Locating of buried UG
cables, recording of necessary info for the locating activities, locating
of buried 540 number of splice points, exposing of each cable ends to
make sure the right utility, test pits for detailed testing of FOC’s,
Analyzing of complete field details in comparison with existing data,
pointing out the variations as compared to as built documents,
discussion with client for approving suggestions to be implemented on
the existing networks to fix/resolve the existing issues.
Recommendations towards client to void future disaster situation,
implementation suggestions, achieving commitment in time, final
reporting and discussions with different stakeholders etc.

• Managing of OSP Network auditing for the implemented LDN routes for
Saudi Railway approx. 1200km in 2 different sections/links. Activity
breakdown includes planning prior to start, revision of planning during
progressive period in order to improve the deliverables, assessment of
OSP networks status and health, Locating of buried UG cables,
recording of necessary info for the locating activities, locating of
buried 185 number of splice points, exposing of each cable ends to
make sure the right utility, test pits for detailed testing of FOC’s,
Analyzing of complete field details in comparison with existing data,
pointing out the variations as compared to as built documents,
discussion with client for approving suggestions to be implemented on
the existing networks to fix/resolve the existing issues.
Recommendations towards client to void future disaster situation,
implementation suggestions, achieving commitment in time, final
reporting and discussions with different stakeholders etc.

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• Implementation of on call maintenance support for Saud Railway
existing network for the length of 1200km cable. Immediately after on
call arranging detailed network survey and analysis. Based on analysis
the repairing task will be initiated to restore the fault. Study and
initiating to produce FJS for any kind of complicated networks.

• Managing of OSP Network auditing for the implemented LDN routes for
Minstery of Defense approx. 5400km in 8 different sections/links. Activity
breakdown includes planning prior to start, revision of planning during
progressive period in order to improve the deliverables, assessment of
OSP networks status and health, Locating of buried UG cables,
recording of necessary info for the locating activities, locating of
buried 1176 number of buried splice points, exposing of cable ends to
make sure the right utility, test pits for detailed testing of FOC’s,
Analyzing of complete field details in comparison with existing data,
pointing out the variations as compared to as built documents,
discussion with client for approving suggestions to be implemented on
the existing networks to fix/resolve the existing issues.
Recommendations towards client to void future disaster situation,
implementation suggestions, achieving commitment in time, final
reporting and discussions with different stakeholders etc.

OSP PROJECTS

Detecon Al Saudi Company Ltd., Saudi Arabia

Project Manager (STC and Saudi Railway Projects)

Accomplishments

• Identify key Stakeholders & analysis standards and guide the

contractors/ teams to follow defined specifications as required.

• Expert to manage and review Survey, Fundamental

planning/Deployment in Planning, design, Installation, Supervision,
Coordination, group discussion and Cut- over projects for MSAN, RAN
and Fiber jobs etc.

• Ensure that all changes done in the OSP Projects as per process and
the documentation are as in accordance with the approved Standard
Procedure.

• Initiate and conduct all necessary coordination meetings internally or

with the OSP contractors and prepare the necessary action plans.
Coordinate to ensure timely service delivery to business based on
priority cases.

• Maintain & process data sheets, interpolate data bases, analyze and
audit the data transactions between the company and the
contractors on timely basis.

• Carry out Preventive Maintenance Routine plan, facility acceptance

and testing (Preliminary Acceptance Test).

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• Responsible for complete Network design (Passive) of Smart city
Network which includes OSP design for Residential (GPON),Traffic
Signals connectivity (through fiber), Community Portal, business users
etc.
• Validate all design related to the Operator passive infrastructure
including in building and OSP cabling monitoring of the design
implementation.

• Conducting the site acceptance and assure that the site match the
Quality parameters and in parallel the KPI has been designed for the
network.

• Witness & Approve all Service Acceptance Tests based on Final design
in coordination with the Operations and maintenance.

• Review the final detailed BOQ, containing breakdown per all passive,
hardware, support, maintenance and professional services. Review the
implementation roll-out plan and comment on any discrepancies,
Follow-up on key implementations milestones.

• Preparation of feasibility reports, technical and management

planning, costing proposals, technical surveys, Testing reports,
Execution/progress reports and project documentation.

Accountabilities

• Handle the tasks of providing support plan

• Assistance to the tasks of preparation of new drawings, detailed plans,

and submitting the change requests

• Handled responsibilities of ensuring that the designed and proposed

plan in line with engineering specifications

• Responsible for developing project staking data sheets by studying the

project requirement and parameters

• Hands on experience in Planning, Handling and Managing telecom

outside plant projects

• Skilled in communicating professionally with technical and

troubleshooting teams to enhance their skills to the optimized level.

• Possess strong leadership skills, Management, and Multi-tasking skills

• Complete all telecom administration documents associated with the

work.

• Preparation of complete map for cable locating activities,

construction control, network engineering and the contractor

requirements.
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• Determine and authorizes minor changes required to avoid

unexpected obstructions during Planning.

• Planning to keep Construction Control in track, all assumed road

blocks, expected deviations or additional big changes in the jobs.

• Planning with client maintenance department, request maintenance

down time to open and closing time frame to complete the cut-over.

• Ensure the all sub-contractors meets their obligation under the terms of

contract.

• Ensure that work operation meets with municipal approval cause least

disturbance to the public and the motorist.

• Conduct inspection of completed jobs and projects implemented and

completed by the contractor to meet the STC Standard and

Specifications.

• Planning and scheduling to Conduct inspections of completed jobs

and projects by the contractor for handling over and execute PAT
reports/templates and invoicing.

• Managing of execution of OSP Fiber Optic External Network Installation

& Maintenance works by spearheading the activities of fiber optic
Installation teams.

• Managing several subcontractors, monitoring their progress on weekly

basis, analyzing their week and backlogs to improve as it supposed to
be.

• Supervising fiber optic external network installation activities at field for

the better provisioning of fiber optic services.

• Handling faults and repairs related with fiber optic cable damages
and proactively restoring uninterrupted services.

• Coordinating with Planning, Data, Transmission and other functions for

handling the project requirements.

• Planning the fiber optic network for providing permanent restoration of

affected services.

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• Planning and executing Fiber Optic change over works and dealing
with scheduled outages.

• Preparing BOQ, Main WOs, and WO issues and providing work orders
to contractors with relevant drawings and relevant details.

• Carrying out periodic site inspections and quality evaluation of new

products and stock items.

• Preparing and maintaining all installation and maintenance activities

reports and documents.

• Organization trainings and orientation sessions for the new contractors

at the time of joining.

• Ensuring effective provisioning and restoration of fiber optic services by

implementing proper steps as and when required.

• Attending to the requirements of the customers by providing proactive

services and ensuring quick restoration services.

• Responsible for project planning and execution within the defined

budgets and schedules and optimally utilizing the resources.

• Addressing to the customer and contractor grievances and providing

proactive solutions.

• Supporting Installation and Maintenance teams to resolve field issues

faced by them.

• Controlling and supporting timely updating various data sheets for

work order completion, Fiber optic tail cable termination, Fiber routing
(allocation) etc.

KEY SKILLS

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• Project Time Management:

To develop a schedule that can be met, then controlling work to

ensure that this happen as per schedule.

• Project Scope Management:

To develop a scope statement that will define the boundaries of the

project, sub dividing the work into manageable components with
deliverables, verifying that scope planned has been achieved.

• Project Cost Management:

To manage and tracking cost of resources, including people,

equipments and materials to keep the project within the budget.

• Project Quality Management:

To ensure project quality assurance and quality control (so that quality
does not overlooked or sacrificed to meet the tight project deadline.

• Project Human Resource & Vendor Management:

To identify right people needed to do the job, defining their roles,

responsibilities, and reporting relationships, acquiring those people,
and then managing them as the project is executed.

• Project Reporting & Communication Management:

Planning, executing, and controlling the acquisition and dissemination

of all information relevant to the needs of all project stake holders.

• Project Risk Management:

Identifying, analyzing, and responding to project risk. It includes

maximizing the probability and consequences of positive events and
minimizing the probability and consequences of adverse events to
achieve project objective.

• Project Procurement Management:

Monitoring and tracking procurement of necessary goods / material

and services for the project.

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 • Project planning, monitoring, team tracking, resource allocation,
logistics, material management and technical support to ensure timely
and successful completion of Project. Daily reporting of the project
progress to the client.

• Actively participate in the Engineering and construction processes in

order to support the requirements of all telecommunication oriented
projects.

• Manage all the issues related to FTTH BOQs/PRs/POs, RFS, PACs & FACs
of all the Mobily regions (Central/East/west) with the C&P and Finance
department Mobily.

May’07-Oct’10 Saudi Delta Company Ltd., Saudi Arabia

QC Engineer for Aramco Project

Accomplishments-Aramco

• Blocking and zoning of the study area in order to create a systematic

registration of all existing properties, statistical projection wherein all

vacant lots should be analyzed for future property
movement/relocations.

• Conduct training for survey and planning for the new designers and

implementers to avoid/minimize the deviation.

• Provide detailed schedules and programs of proposed projects and

jobs for the whole year round schedules.

• Design primary and secondary networks, ensure that cable meets

transmission loop for network protection.

• Planning and assist to Design underground structures such as

Manholes, Hand holes, Cabinet bases and concrete encased conduits

based on terrains, client requirements, future expansion possibilities
etc.

• Facilitating and creating templates for material take-off, utilization and

bill of quantities for every jobs and projects.

• Planned, evaluated and implemented new policies, procedures and

workflow enhancements

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 • Planning and Identifying staff strengths and assist in their growth and

carrier development, developed a training program for all new hires,

Created and update training materials and ongoing training program
for all employees

• Responsibilities included: planning & design, cost estimation, meeting

timelines, record keeping, and weekly reporting. * Training new

associate engineers * Creating processes & procedures to streamline
workflow. *Managed average of 08 – 11 OSP construction projects
simultaneously. * 95% targeted revenue generating.

• Holds the credit for establishing the Khurasaniya OSP Backbone

Network (Fiber Optic Cable System from Khurasaniya DCO to Berri
DCO, Abuhadriyah DCO & Fadhili DCO) nearly 140 k.m.

• Spearheaded the activities of Installation of fiber cable, Conduit

System & Manholes in Khurasaniya Gas Plant producing facilities in
Khurasaniya.

• Implemented permanent communication facilities for 401 buildings

from DCO in Khurasaniya Gas Plant.

Accomplishments-Mobily

• To manage all the works related to ISP/OSP implementation from

consultant. All works result should be as per guide lines and
construction procedures performed as per quality.

• All Network and planning are as per requirements. Participate in

broadband Rollout, 2009, 2010 of Mobily networks.

• Set the priorities to implement these Rollouts and take minutes of

meeting, finalize with the Mobily management for the Implementation.

• Actively participate in the Engineering and construction processes

within different departments of Mobily in order to support the
requirements of the projects. Responsible for the integrity of the project
database in order to ensure proper follow-up with the contractors.

Jan-Apr’07 Saudi Delta Company Ltd., Saudi Arabia

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 Project Engineer for Aramco Project

Accomplishments

• Holds the credit for complete execution of OSP civil (Approx 79 km)
work for FTTH connectivity in Dhahran.

OSP-TELECOM PROJECTS

Sep-Dec’06 Saudi Delta Company Ltd., Saudi Arabia

QC Engineer for Aramco Project

Accomplishments

• Responsible for OSP Construction at Safaniyah & Tanajib OME buildings

i.e. world’s largest GOSP.

• Efficiently handled:

-Security Access Control System Replacement / Security Guard Houses

Data Connectivity at Saudi Strategic Program Abha.

- Abqaiq office building replacement (Meeting Hall) project.

Feb-Aug’06 Saudi Delta Company Ltd., Saudi Arabia

Project Engineer for Mobily and STC projects

Jul’05-Jan’06 Saudi Delta Company Ltd., Saudi Arabia

Project Engineer for Aramco Project

Feb-Jun’05 Saudi Delta Company Ltd., Saudi Arabia

Project Engineer/Site Engineer for Aramco Project

Sep’02-Jan’05 Saudi Delta Company Ltd., Saudi Arabia

Site Engineer for STC Project

WORK EXPERIENCE

Nov’10-Till Date Detecon Al Saudi Company Ltd., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Project Manager (Mobily, STC and Saudi Railway Projects)

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Sep’02-Oct’10 Saudi Delta Company Ltd., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

OSP Engineer (Mobily, Railway and Moda Projects)

Apr’99-Jun’02 Sun Network, Chennai, India

RF Engineer-CATV, MATV

EDUCATION

1996-1999 Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical and Electronics)

Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tamil Nadu, India

1993.1996 Diploma in Electronics and Communication

CERTIFICATION

• Certified by Saudi Aramco Training and Career Department in the

category of OFC Engineer. (Badge No: C - 8003603, Certificate No:
000556).

• Certified by Saudi Aramco Training and Career Department in the

category of Work Permit Receiver. (Badge No: C-8003603, Certificate
No: 39122).

• Certified by Saudi Aramco as QA/QC Engineer (OSP-Telecom) for

Saudi Aramco Projects, SAP Number is 70008913 Approved by PID/DH-
Aramco.

• Certified by Saudi Delta Company Ltd. in the category of Best OSP Site
Engineer for the year of 2006, Under Khurasaniya project executed by
ABB & Sumittomo Corporation for Saudi Aramco.

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 • PMP Training Certificate for 35 PDU’s on Project Management
Workshop (Using PMI Approach). Certificate Number KSPMPRYD-June-
016

LANGUAGES

English, Arabic, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu

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