1. ENKATESHA GOWDA, MS 2242 250TH PLACE SE
425-246-8867 ● VGOWDA@GMAIL.COM SAMMAMISH, WA
A prominent lead design engineer with over 18 years of diverse experience within the telecommunications industry, seeking
roleas a lead principal engineer/engineering manager to deliver strong methodical and leadership capabilities. Outstanding
technical expertiseas well as coordination and management of projects from startto finish. Skilled atleadingand mentoring
diverse work teams. Detail-oriented, strategic thinker; remains focused under pressure. Displays strong problem-solving
abilities and conveys meticulous work ethic. Maintains in depth knowledge of various telecom systems including mediation,
billing, SIM OTA, NFC, eSIM, and T-Mobile Systems (NSM, NAP, and SDG). Technically proficient in C++, C, Sun-Solaris, Linux,
AIX, HP-UX 11.0, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, TCP/IP, SNMP, SMPP, FTP, Soap XML, Korn Shell, C Shell, Java Scripts, AWK, Sed, SIM
OTA, NFC, and eUICC/eSIM. Additional areas of expertise include:
 Project Management
 Engineering
 Network PlatformDesign
 Highly organized
 Documentation Skills
 Training& Mentoring
 Product Cost Analysis
 Technical Leadership
 Process Improvement
 Problem-Solving
 Strategic Planning
 Time Management
 Complex Project Resolution
 Strong Communication Skills
 Vendor Management
 Automation
 Exemplary Presentation Skills
 Automation
Career Profile / Summary
 Successfully manages complex technical projects from inception phases through completion; coordinating tasks
with engineering teams as well as effectively supervising teams to manage and coordinate all aspects of project
development.
 Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to communicate and gather project requirements.
 Demonstrates outstanding leadership and superb project management skills including strategic thinking and
analysis for costs, timing, and functional deliverables.
 Ensures highly efficient procedures and outstanding quality actions are upheld throughout processes.
 Resourceful thinker, maximizes assets cross-functionally while supporting the organization’s overall goals and
objectives and upholding procedural methods and regulations.
 Educates and supports colleagues and clients within the scope of the project as a critical component in
accomplishing business goals.
 Provides outstanding communication skills,both written and verbal,among clients,staff, vendors, and management
teams.
 Mentors engineering teams to handle large scale enterprise projects and coaches to ensure best practices.
 Recognized for developing and implementing strategic process improvements to automate and improve
performance and time efficiency.
 Ensures outstanding vendor relations to enhance improved quality of deliverables.
Professional Experience
T-MOBILE – Lead DesignEngineer 2011- Present
Acts as lead engineer for SoftCard program jointly founded by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, troubleshoots 20 Million SIM
cards over the air to fix security vulnerability;in turn,reducing costs by millionsof dollars. Buildsvariousnetwork platforms
to supportover 60 Million subscribers' traffic in theT-Mobile network. Acts as lead expert to build future generation OTA
platformleveragingeSIM subscription manager Technology. Actively involved in rolling outApple eSIM solution to support
different subscriptions(AT&T, Sprint & T-Mobile) on singleeSIM.
 Manage SIM OTA to enable a network operator to introduce new SIM services and modify the contents of SIM cards
over the air.
 Build MH/SoftCard platform to support mobile wallet provisioning flow for traffic from SoftCard ecosystem.
 Responsible for building 1st phase of Network Services Manager (NSM) platform to support customer care and
technical care uses to troubleshoot customer issues related to network services.
 Technical Lead for Service Delivery Gateway platform which allows external partners network services Such as:
SMS, MMS, Location & 3rd Party Payments($10 Million Monthly transactions from Google, Microsoft & Others )
 Recognized for improving KPIs and statistics for all platforms.
 Lead $500,000 payment refunds from SDG to support FCC compliance for third party contents.
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 Redesign OTA platform to leverage VM cloud infrastructure and provide a highly available solution.
Professional Experience – Cont'd
AT&T USA – Lead Developer/Sr. Technical Architect/Sr.BusinessManager/ LeadSystemsEngineer 2006 - 2011
Responsiblefor managingthe design and configuration of various interfaces between downstream systems and switch
control.
 Used strong time management skills to meet crucial deadlines and design specifications.
 Developed real-time usage notifications from PCEF/PCRF for LTE usage.
 Designed and executed test plans, procedures, scripts for regression, new functionality, and systems i ntegration
testing based on design documentation.
 Managed multiple technical development projects from conception phase through completion stages.
 Coordinated and gathered functional requirements from network operations team and various vendors to
implement product solutions.
 Consistently promoted within the company for being a top performer and highly dependable.
Additional Professional Experience
T-MOBILE – Lead Design Engineer 2004 - 2006
VERIZON WIRELSS, USA – Lead Developer 2004
ALLTEL, USA – Sr. Systems Manager 2003
AT&T WIRELESS, USA – Lead Developer 2001 - 2003
LEXIS-NEXIS, USA– Software Developer 1999 - 2000
C-DAC, INDIA – Member Technical Staff 1997 - 1999
Key Accomplishments
 Created request for proposal and productrequirement document for vendor selection process for network address
book product – T-Mobile
 Integrated mediation system to downstream billing systems using IBM MQ Series Middleware – Verizon
 Created documents for design, testing, code review, and release notes – Verizon
 Performed systematic control of changes to the identified attributes for maintaining software integrity and
traceability – Alltel, USA
 Managed a mediation migration project to move CDR traffic from Convergys's Macro/Cell platform to Openet's
FusionWorks mediation solution and shutdown TDMA network – AT&T
 Designed and implemented multiple key modules by employing design patterns and C++ idioms – Lexis-Nexis
 Used C++ features including abstract classes, templates, function overloading and algorithms – Lexis-Nexis
 Implemented a socket-based client server model library for message passing using TCP/IP protocol on Sun Solaris
operating systems – C-DAC
 Optimized the MPI library using efficient algorithms for collective communication for a cluster of multiprocessor
architecture – C-DAC
Education
Master of Science, Computer Science and Engineering
Bachelor of Science, Computer Scienceand Engineering
Awards
Results Warrior, Director's Award in T-Mobile
Daily Grind, Director's Award in T-Mobile
SoftCard wallet, Outstanding Performance Award in T-Mobile
SoftCard Demo Video, TechByte Award in T-Mobile
Star Recognition Awards in T-Mobile
Peak Nomination Awards in T-Mobile