Ganesh Kanagasabapathy

TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRIES

Business Support:

• - Strategic Partnership Development
• - High-Stakes Stakeholder Liaison
• - Tender & Proposal Facilitation
• - Sensitive Negotiation Coordination
• - Arranging meetings with prospective clients

Project Management Responsibilities:

• - Manages to project priorities and perform risk management
• - Stakeholder communication and updates
• - Documenting process using various tools
• - Managing project resources
• - Identify and eliminate potential risk

Key Achievements:

- Orchestrated private consultations between project awarders and potential contractors, facilitating direct negotiation channels.
-Orchestrated the end-to-end tender submission and approval for the FM Transmitter & Antenna System for Telekom Malaysia, encompassing both commercial and technical components. This effort led to a shortlisted position for a RM 5 million project, which included structured training programs for knowledge transfer to Telekom Malaysia staff, collaboration with local and UK-based vendors, and coordination of factory visits.

Project Management Responsibilities:

• - Lead and direct project rollout and implementation & team in completing the project
• - Coordinate and schedule execution of the project
• - Review and evaluate execution of the project on a regular basis
• - Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues arising in a project
• - Develop project reports on a timely basis
• - Maintain, manage and document all project reports and statements
• - Coordinate Project materials
• Project Type
• - Microwave Solutions, FWA (Fixed Wireless Access) and Fiber Solutions
• - Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) solution setup, configuration and troubleshooting
• Scope
• - Cost management
• - Engineering rollout
• - Stakeholder liaison internal Maxis, vendor and Client
• - Local council and site acquisitions liaison
• - Civil structure (pole and ) solution
• - Managing HSSE training for Petronas (Maxis Operations and contractors)
• Maxis Achievement: 2020-2023
• - Successfully completing DIA installation of 89 sites of Maxis Bulk project for Petronas, AIMS, Shell (Civil, Microwave and DIA (Dedicated Internet Access
• - Customer liason to improve inbuilding coverage for Petronas plant MLNG Bintulu
• - Liasion and approval for stucture installation in Petronas Plants and offices
• - SMA (Sarawak Multimedia Authority) approval for Petronas DIA installation
• - Completion of survey, presentation and deployment of site during Covid-19, MCO and post MCO for (Maxis Enterprise Client)
• - Liason with local council, local authorities in West Malaysia and East Malaysia
• - Support pre-sales on additional support post installation during service outage for Petronas and after handover

Key Achievements:

- Orchestrated and delivered end-to-end Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) deployment within the Petronas process plant environment, including safety training arrangements, site access, and site acquisition. Led telecommunications infrastructure programs across operational industrial facilities, coordinating engineering teams, contractors, and regulatory stakeholders, and driving connectivity rollout initiatives across multiple sites securing the implementation of a RM 30 million project for Maxis.

Aligned engineering teams, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure seamless delivery continuity.
• Developed structured engineering survey frameworks, improving site assessment accuracy.
• Managed vendor ecosystems, including RF engineers and infrastructure contractors.
• Coordinated operational validation and acceptance testing.

Project Management Responsibilities:

• - Lead and direct project rollout and implementation & team in completing the project
• - Coordinate and schedule execution of the project
• - Review, assess and evaluate execution of the project on a regular basis
• - Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues arising in a project
• - Develop project reports on a timely basis
• - Maintain, manage and document all project reports and statements
• - Coordinate Project materials

Project Type:

• - Microwave Links Upgrade
• - New Microwave Links
• - Relocation/Decommission of Microwave Links
• - Link migration

NEC Achievement: 2015 – 2019:

• - Total 1189 links have been rollout and implemented
• - Maxis corporate Project delivery (Naza, Felda Prodate, Redtone)
• - Sucessfully negotiated with Maxis on nationwide link decommision project
• - Support pre-sales on additional support and provide lead on additional business that are co-related to exiting contract agreements. Example: Eastern region link migration and nationwide decommision project

Project Management Responsibilities:

• - Lead the planning and implementation of project
• - Define project tasks and resource requirements Providing a brief description on fiber layout and monitoring OSP
• - Develop full scale project plans
• - Provide training to contractors on MDU construction methodology, tools, the design drawing and installation
• - Assemble and coordinate project staff
• - Manage project budget , project resource allocation plan and schedule project timelines
• - Present reports defining project progress, problems and solutions
• - Evaluate and assess project results
• - Implement and manage project changes and interventions to achieve project outputs

Operation Responsibilities:

• - Supervise and monitor MDU (Multi-Dwelling Unit) & Single Dwelling Units (SDU) construction contractor and home install readiness (customer readiness)
• - Verify design and BOM developed by design team and establish the construction schedule
• - Training the contractors on MDU construction methodology, tools purchase and management
• - Management of material consumption through contractors, logistics team and revert to the reporting manage
• - Providing inputs to Customer Service, Sales and Site Acquisition team to improve the business operations
• - Conduct HUB configuration, optimization and preventive maintenance as team support

Project:

• - MDU Construction Puchong
• - MDU & SDU Construction in district of Damansara
• - MDU Construction Puchong
• - MDU and DU Construction Subang Jaya

Project Management Responsibilities:

• . End-to-end project management, including Project Planning, Budget Planning, Project Implementation
• - Conducting Walktest & RF Design
• - Implementation of In-building Coverage
• - Liaising with Building Management and Operator
• - Project Tendering, Quotation and BOQ compilation and submission within 1 to 2 weeks of survey
• - Managing Site Operation and Maintenance Coordination
• - Project completion on given KPI and SLA by client
• In-building Coverage & CME

Key Achievement:

Delivered in-building projects valued to RM 1.8 million

Invoiced approximately RM 3 million in civil, electrical and operation and maintenance during my tenure

• Engineering Responsibilities:
• - Plan and design reliable microwave network (PDH) which cater for all line of business and Partial of (SDH)
• - Conduct link design which includes microwave path profiling,, traffic routing design, field and, terrain studies, interference study, frequency planning and network capacity planning material assignment
• - Conduct short/midterm network planning which includes quality enhancement, network resiliency planning and project coordination and management
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