Alok Hom

Current

Manager- Solutions at Ericsson India

Past

Service Providers Initiative Solution Offering at Sasken Communication Technologies Limited
Telecom Officer -VAS Systems and Operations at BSNL
Design Engineer at Nomus Communications Limited

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Education

Indian School of Business
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

SRM Engineering College, Chennai
St.Alphonsa's Jr.College
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Public School

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Alok Hom’s Summary

A snapshot of some of the things that i do :
- Speak to me if you need a reference.
- Its all about Communications. It could be anything that connects happily from RFiD to philanthropy.
- Knowing my clients needs & challenges well and my proposal for Services consulting.
- Business Advisor to the team.

Alok Hom’s Specialties:

Mobile Entertainment & Content.
Environment Management & Interior Design as a passion.

Alok Hom’s Experience

Manager- Solutions

Ericsson India

(Public Company; ERIC; Telecommunications industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

Multimedia and SI Div:
Ericsson Service Delivery & Provisioning portfolio -Strategy.
Partner Relations Development - Advertisement Orchestrator & SDP.
**Team Operational Excellence - Tools, Process & Pricing.
**Unit Quality & Certified EMS 14001:2004 Auditor.
**Unit Competence - Trainings, Competence development.
Service Providers Initiative Solution Offering

Sasken Communication Technologies Limited

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

September 2007 — May 2008 (9 months)

Asst Manager- Customer Fetching - New Business Development - Innovative VAS Platforms, Content hits - testing & measurement Solutions, CMS for a Handset Major.
Telecom Officer -VAS Systems and Operations

BSNL

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2002 — September 2007 (5 years 9 months)

Worked on GSM Content Delivery Platforms Operations for 5.5 years.
● SmartTrust OTA Delivery Platform
- Consulting on Planning/Design/delivery- SIM Card-SAT-WIBlet, Innovative Menu Services, Content Campaigns, Service Area orientation / Zone - Pricing / Billing Strategies / Porting techniques / Self Service, Device Management, Channel/ATM TopUP, WAP/UDH, Mobile TV, Fleet Tracking, Business Intelligence, Consulting, etc.
● Lucent Connect VU provisioning and activation
● CSG BillDats Mediation, Rating / Billing.
● Telecom Horiontals and Operations, Inter-working experience.
Design Engineer

Nomus Communications Limited

(Partnership; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

May 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 9 months)

Worked on indegenious VoIP gateway 2001 Requirements plannng, RS-232 Datacom software development, Front end GUI configuration software development, Fax and file transfer utilities, Modems configuration software development.

Alok Hom’s Education

Indian School of Business

Exec Education , Professional Services , 2009 — 2009

Managing Professional Services
* taken by ISB Crew and Prof. Richard I. Kolsky, KSB.

- Learning about Focus, Empathy, Differentiation, Alignment, Practice, Relationship, Organisation.
- Learning by Key Cases, Analyzing them.
- The theme how to build a Prof Services Firm from scratch.
- One that you love to do, always.

Activities and Societies:

ISB Alumni
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Diploma , Management Consulting- Acquiring and Retaining Clients , 2008 — 2008

Expert in making a useful conversation fair enough to add references, ideas that leads to advisories and shape it to a top consulting lead...<--- You have got to know how i do it...

Activities and Societies:

Aquarium Management, Acoustics- study-improvise-discuss, Confectionery-Belgium,Swiss, local flavors, Credit Cards, Furniture, Clothing.
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

PGDBM , Marketing Management , 2004 — 2006

We liked each and every individual there in the campus who make our future footing so Strong and anchored including Arun Sarin, CEO of Voda, alumnus of IIT Kharagpur.

Activities and Societies:

Class Representative, Coordination incharge, Carefully Taught by Professors from IIMC, IIMA, ICFAI- Kolkata, Globsyn, IIT Kgp.,Project Incharge Prof. from MDI Gurgaon.
SRM Engineering College, Chennai

Bachelors of Engineering- Telecommunications Engineerign , Electronics and Communications Engineering , 1995 — 1999

The most college-ragged fresher of financial year 1995.
Frusty levels - Flunked at a paper and repeat exam paper leaked....

Email service at my college in those times took 24 hrs to be sent. vs. Instant messenger at 1/2 a sec. in AD 2008
Enjoyed Gozilla at Devi, Twister at Satyam, InDay4 at Woodlands & Titanic@AVM.
Ate at Saravanna Bhavan and shopped at Landmark, Spencers, Parrys, Alsa-mall.
A lot when we can toast at tea and addaFy.

Activities and Societies:

soldering / circuit making - few diodes/Caps/Resistors - EFY 80's-90's - Elector E.., Speaker box making, TT, Hostel Life and advisory, Tamil music freak, FM radio Active.
St.Alphonsa's Jr.College

Higher Secondary Intermediate Edu. , Physical Sciences-PCM, English, Sanskrit , 1993 — 1995

3 PM - used to come by BHEL bus.
Worked very hard for improvement exams.
stood 4th in college.

Activities and Societies:

5 AM Bus to Eamcet coaching- JVM Koti
8 AM-2.30 PM to College -Prayer, Maths-algebra/calculus-Sharma Sir, Physics-newton laws/Theory/prac-Kurien, Joshua for English, Sastry Sir for Sanskrit, Chemistry - Atoms/Theory/prac - ?, Heat Transfer-friday A/N classes. Principal - Emannuel.
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan Public School

Secondary Education , Physical Sciences , 1981 — 1993

Tabla classes - 2 yrs.
Football / Cricket -spin bowler / TT-relay and shots.
ART- Collage Making - won prize.
Electrical Gadgets - Soldering, Magnets, Theory, Quiz board, Motor.
Buying groceries/Kirana.
Seeking Tuition.
Cycling Mania.
Watching Mtv - U2-Lemon, 100 Countdown, UB40, GoWest, MJ, Aerosmith, Madonna.... all got switched off...exams...tried aligning TV antenna's, pilfered cableTV wires...hazy picture ... still kept the enthu powered On.
Kite Flying - Made manja, flew offseason, made paper kites, used air space judiciously.
I used to read TOI, Economic times in Class 9.
Watched Malgudi Days.
Used to make cinema projection in dark rooms. - Lens, Bulb...
Opened up the VCR, tape recorder, old gramaphone, practised still driving in the family's 1st car - Fiat ' 68 model.
Played Gulli- Danda. Tossed avg 10 times....
I need to reunite to recollect more..
Then came college......

Activities and Societies:

Pacman on HCL PC, Basic programming, 5.1/4 inch floppy, Y-o-Y consistent computer architecture
(CPU/Monitor/Keyboard/Mouse/Printer)
Holidays Trips on train - Cal, Nagpur, etc.
Enjoying Rainy Days - making mud houses, hunting dragonflies, cycling on potholes, diving in swimming pools, eating mirchi bhajji's, playing carroms & trade.
Traveling by rickshaw - a multilingual, packed mini society.

Additional Information

Alok Hom’s Interests:

Avid Kite Runner for 10 yrs+ since Std. 4.,Still enthusiastic to chase a Kite with Manja Dor after Affa, Had enjoyed marble playing,Gilly-danda & stocked campa-cola/coke/pepsi caps for Mickey/Goofy lables inside..(nostalgic gully play@hyderabad.catchup some times.), Tried playing snookers with markbles/chalk/TV antenna rods -those club sneak previews helped...,Got caught for stealing fish at a park pond.....,idea was to lay foundation 4 an aquarium 2 learn school science well-St.IV, Collage making - ideated and won, maths,physics,chemistry,movies,CD, college,library,hostel..., Books,LifeStyle,VC++ classes...visit places- see, meet and learn- Kalyani/New Market/Jyothi cinema/Calcutta Metro/ElginRd./ScienceCity/Tangra/South cal/Dum Dum/Wb interior/shillong..# -Hebbal/inner Ring rd/Forum-Kora/MG road/comm st./new airport/outer ring road../Mysore.#.Gurgawa/Dwarka/Rajouri G/ still to trek..., Audiophile,Food,Biking, -Business analytics and news reading, Philanthropy

Alok Hom’s Groups:

Ericsson Business Consulting and Multimedia Strategy, Ericsson Review, Gartner.com, Economic Times / Business Standard, Hbswk.org, mckinseyquarterly.com,Ovum,financial news papers, IIT Kgp TAA, FaceBook, http://indianartcollectors.ning.com/profile/AlokHom,http://consultingnetwork.co.in/members/alokhom, http://www.flickr.com/photos/alok_hom, mini Private Equity,Donate for Tiger Cause.