Ari Mark Sodhi

Current

• Director Network Management at Redline Communications

Past

• EMS/NMS Software Development Manager at Redline Communications
• S/W Architect at Pedestal Networks
• Principal S/W Architect at AON Networks

• Principal S/W Architect - NMS Platform at ObjectStream
• Member of Scientific Staff at Nortel Networks

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Ari Mark Sodhi’s Summary

Over 19 years in EMS/NMS development team management, and architecture experience focusing on mission-critical, easy to use, scalable and highly-available network management systems targeted for both wire line and wireless technologies.
End to end management solutions for WiMAX networks spanning CSN (AAA, DNS, DHCP, NMS, OSS), and ASN (ASN GW, BaseStations, CPE) components.

Ari Mark Sodhi’s Specialties:

Extensible Software Architectures,
Large scale distributed systems, (100s of k CPE)
Fault Tolerance, High availability,
NMS/EMS application servers supporting FCAPS and OAM&P.functions
ADSL, WiMax (802.16d/802.16e), MPLS
QoS, SLAs
TMF, IETF
CORBA, SNMP, TL1, SOAP/WSDL
UML, MOF, XML
C++, Java
OODBMS, RDBMS
Tomcat, JSF, Ajax, JSP
AAA Radius, DHCP, TR-069, OMA-DM DNS

Ari Mark Sodhi’s Experience

• Director Network Management

  Redline Communications

  (Public Company; RDL.to; Computer Networking industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Developing WiMAX and Broadnand Wireless Infrastructure management solution for carriers, verticals. Specialized in solving the large scale, high request rate issues inherent with distributed systems
  - JSF, JSPs, AJAX, HTML, CSS, Tomcat, JSON
  - CORBA, J2EE, JMX, SNMP (NIO transport), WSDL, SOAP, XML
  - MySQL, JDBC, Query Optimizations
  - FCAPS and OAM&P for Wireless networks
  - Automated Provisioning, service activation, TR-069, AAA
  - Performance; reporting, network centric Key Performance Indications (KPI)
  - Security; Users, Roles, ACLs
  - DHCP/Relay, Radius
  - CORBA and WebService North Bound Interface - TMF814/MTOSI MTNM supporting inventory, fault, provisioning and performance.
  - Fault Tolerance, redundancy, clustering, scalability, performance tuning (JVMs, MySQL, Solaris), performance monitoring
  - Dynamic Threading policies based on priorities, queue length and idle time.

• EMS/NMS Software Development Manager

  Redline Communications

  (Public Company; Computer Networking industry)

  October 2004 — November 2008 (4 years 2 months)

  Manager of EMS Development Team and Network Management Architect
  - Developing a WiMAX - 802.16 d & e management solution for carriers.
  - JSF, JSPs, AJAX, HTML, CSS, Tomcat, JSON
  - CORBA, J2EE, SNMP (NIO transport), WSDL, SOAP, XML
  - MySQL, JDBC, ORACLE
  - Network centric Key Performance Indications (KPI - RSSI, CINR, TX Power, PER, Utilisation),
  - Fault; alarm, alarm history, TCAs, Alarm Severity Assignment Profiles
  - Configuration; radio, networking, provisioning of WiMAX entities
  - Automated Provisioning and service activation
  - Performance; Reporting daily, monthly
  - Security; Users, Roles, ACLs, AAA
  - DHCP/Relay, Radius
  - OMA-DM, TR-069
  - CORBA North Bound Interface - TMF814/MTOSI MTNM supporting inventory, fault, and performance.
  - Fault Tolerance, redundency, clustering
  - EMS Application Server developed focusing on carrier requirements

• S/W Architect

  Pedestal Networks

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2002 — September 2004 (2 years 1 month)

  Architected and Developed Model Driven Architecture (MDA) EMS framework to accelerate the development of the Pedestal UBSView (tm) EMS.
  - Developed a versioning tolerant API emphasing minimal intrusive changes to handle device model changes.
  - Implement UBSView file and upgrade management features
  - Implement UBSView alarm sorting and state propagation features.
  - Implemented a TL1 to SNMP mediation framework as well as numerous TL1 messages.

• Principal S/W Architect

  AON Networks

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 7 months)

  - Architect of a CORBA based MPLS provisioning platform managing Juniper and Cisco equipment using optimization techniques to minimize network congestion and improve failure handling.
  - BEA Weblogic Enterprise, ObjectStore, XML
  - MPLS, LSPs, BGP, SNMP, IOS
  - Development in C++ and Java

• Principal S/W Architect - NMS Platform

  ObjectStream

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  February 1999 — January 2001 (2 years )

  -Hands on architect of scaleable CORBA based Network Management platform with:
  - UML design tools for development - reverse engineering of mibs and tl1 documents
  - SNMP and TL1 proxy capability
  -Worked closely with customers and ObjectStream senior management to develop solutions using ObjectStream's products.

• Member of Scientific Staff

  Nortel Networks

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

  May 1991 — January 1999 (7 years 9 months)

  -Hands on S/W Architect for Integerated Network Management (Preside) framework using CORBA
  -Hands on S/W Architect for a telecom oriented WorkFlow system using CORBA.

Additional Information

Ari Mark Sodhi’s Honors:

United States Patent 6115646 Dynamic and generic process automation system

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