Олександр

Curriculum Vitae

Oleksandr Kutikhin

Profile

15+ years of successful project management experience, leading large scale Telecom and IT projects around the globe. Self motivated and result-driven, working efficiently and effectively as a team player in a dynamic and challenging environment. Have technical background with good understanding of technology. PMI certified, Master’s Degree in Telecommunications

Bug handling/Project Manager, Ericsson/GlobalLogic (contract, remote)
Jan 2023- June 2025 Kyiv, Ukraine

Telecom SW development projects for major cellular operators
Leading SW bugs identification, classification based on impact and severity
BUG/CSR processes development and integration
Communication with Product Development Units/Release Managers/ tire2 support worldwide
Release candidates and drop backs handling
17 project teams coordination
Kanban/Scrum frameworks

KA Manufactory production plant
Owner
June 2013 – now

Currently on hold because of the war in Ukraine
Making aluminum, titanium and stainless steel molds and parts for Nestle/Festo
Anodizing plant (Type II and Type III) according to the MIL spec
Certified processes
Military and Civil customers

Experienced Customer Project Manager Ericsson 3G/4G Multi-Vendor Integration SoftBank (contract, on-site)
Oct 2012 - Jun 2013 Tokyo, Yokohama, Japan

Leading the team of 10
Project planning, implementation and reporting according to Ericsson internal processes
Scope, cost and risk control, budgeting, quality planning, Service Description adjustment
Customer Service Requests handling, KPIs maintenance
Ericsson Product Development Units coordination
Coordination with Ericsson main CS/PS/RAN projects
3G MVI interoperability Test Execution in Ericsson/Customer’s TestBed (first 3G in Ukraine)
Communication with other vendors (Japanese and Global)
Negotiation on Final Acceptance terms with the customer
FAC meetings handling
Covered areas:
Ericsson SGSN/MME Gn MVI with NEC SGSN
Iu-PC MVI with Hitachi and NEC
Ericsson CN-CS and NEC 3G Femto HSS

Project planning, implementation and reporting according to Ericsson internal processes
Scope, cost and risk control, budgeting, quality planning
Service Description adjustment
Customer Service Requests handling
KPIs maintenance Ericsson Product
Development Units coordination
Coordination with Ericsson main CS/PS/RAN projects
3G MVI interoperability
Test Execution in Ericsson/Customer’s TestBed
Communication with other vendors (Japanese and Global)

Project/Program Manager Raiffeisen Informatik Consulting GmbH (contract, on-site)
Mar 2011 to Mar 2012 Kyiv, Ukraine
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25 regions IT Centralization plan preparation
Leading team of technical IT experts
Migration Process establishment
Project, costs, resource planning
Regional Directorates/Offices migration to virtual environment
Communication with stakeholders
Reporting directly to CIO, CFO, CTO

Self-employed, SW design and UAV engineer
Apr 2009 - Feb 2015 Kyiv, Ukraine

Designed and built VTOL UAV with integrated payload and autopilot
Micropilot integration and adjustment
FLIR thermal payload design and integration
Altera/Xilinx FPGA programing with JTAG debugging
BGA and SMD soldering
Solidworks/Solidcam design and G-code preparation

Customer Project Manager (contract, on-site)
Ericsson, Azerfon/Nar Mobile Sep 2008 - Sep 2009 Baku, Azerbaijan

Project planning, reporting and realization according to PROPS/PMI
Leading team of 2 project managers and 9 in-office CN, GRAN/WRAN experts
Subcontractors and service providers management
Project planning, implementation and reporting according to PROPS/PMI
Scope, cost and risk control, budgeting, quality planning
Supply issues handling including “early starts” initiation and HW claims
Contract negotiations (RFQ handling, customer meetings)
Complete Delivery Package implementation, Provisional and Final sites acceptance, invoicing

Covered areas:
2G/3GS project planning during pre-sales
MSC-S R13.0, MGw, first node installation (FNI)/integration in multivendor network
BSC re-homing from NSN MSC, Ericsson MSC-S R13.0 and NSN
CS5.0 HLR integration, SW market corrections implementation
RNC P6 – first MU integration
2G/3G RBS/NodeB roll-out, 2 BSC start up + integration
RBS SWAP planning/execution
Annual CN, GRAN, WRAN SW upgrades planning and execution
Mini-Link High Capacity & Traffic Node, Emerson PSS installation/integration
2G RBS SWAP project (NSN to Ericsson)
Existing SDH network expansion
Mini Link SOM R8 SW Implementation

Reporting directly to CEO and COO

Ericsson Ukraine Customer Project Manager (permanent)
Apr 2004 - Oct 2008 Kyiv, Ukraine

Project planning with optimized resource deployment according to company processes
Define project objectives and milestones
Setting, executing and monitoring budgetary constraints, earned value reporting
Develop project plans and schedules
Responsible for generating project sales
Quality planning and control
Preparing Risk Analysis and performing Risk Management
Managing the customer relation and the customer's expectations
Work with internal/external functional units

Covered areas:
Implementation of CN: 1 HLR,15 MSC, 40 BSC
Implementation of TSC, SGSN, GGSN, MINI-LINK, DXX OMS, Emerson PSS
MSC-S/MGw/BSC/RNC/SGSN/GGSN deployments within the Scope of Kyivstar 3G‘TestBed’ project – first Ericsson 3G trial project in Ukraine
HLR, MSC, BSC, SGSN, GGSN, TSC nodes expansion
Annual CN, GRAN, WRAN SW upgrades planning and execution
Multivendor integration
MSC-in-pool Implementation
HSPA drive tests, UTRAN performance testing

Support Engineer (permanent)
Apr 2005 - Jun 2005 Kyiv, Ukraine

Main tasks:
Investigate, deliver remedy and produce solutions to CSRs reported by customers

2005 Winner of the Telecom Competition Program between the students of technical universities in MU EECA held by Ericsson

Main tasks: Investigate, deliver remedy and produce solutions to CSRs reported by customers April 2005 Winner of the Telecom Competition Program between the students of technical universities in Russia and Ukraine held by Ericsson

Service Engineer (part time)
SINT, Kyiv May 2002 - Aug 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine

Main tasks:
Diagnostics and repair of copy machines and printers
Soldering, fixing, re-filling and full scope of service

Student
National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' 1999-2004

Master’s Degree in Telecommunications

Student
Technical Lyceum NTUU 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute' Sep 1997- June1999

Hobbies: alpine skiing, wakeboarding, SW development, music (piano), RC helicopters
Adiitional Skills: C++/C#, Android application development, BGA/SMD soldering