About

Salma Konchar is an experienced Project Manager with over 21 years of expertise in leading diverse technology projects in the Wireless Telecom industry. She is PMP certified with a degree in Computer Science engineering and an expert in Agile Project Management Methodology with 15 years of management experience. Salma is a strategist with senior managerial experience and has a proven track record of planning and aligning business goals to technology solutions to drive efficiency and competitive advantage. Salma has extensive project management exposure on the mobile handset side for modules like Layer 1 to Layer 4. She has managed teams in multimode NAS, WCDMA & GSM L1, GSM Full stack (NAS AS Physical layer and testing). Salma has strong domain experience in design, development, systematization, and stabilization of multimode protocol stacks for GSM/GPRS/UMTS/LTE/TD mobile handsets primarily on the Non-Access stratum, Packet and Circuit switch data, AT commands, and Application interface. Salma is an excellent communicator and motivator with a blend of business, financial, people, and managerial skills to communicate effectively with both customers and teams. She is currently working as a Project Manager at Ericsson, where she handles project management for large complex GSM/GPRS/WCDMA mobile platforms from application layer to Physical layer and has handled team sizes from 15 to 40. Salma's job responsibilities include strategic planning, scope management, scheduling, risk management, stakeholder management, quality management, change management, and customer interactions. She is also a functional manager who manages resource budgeting, employee development, employee attrition, performance evaluation, employee engagement, developing good to great place to work ratings, and building high-performance teams. Salma has worked with teams in Sweden, Germany, China, and the US and is a strong practitioner of Agile Project Methodology (Scrum, Kanban) in addition to traditional project development principles. She has also implemented best practices and tools for Scrum and Kanban methods. Salma has previously worked at Freescale Semiconductors India Pvt Ltd as a Technical Manager and at CSR as a Technical Lead. She has a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Software Engineering from NMAMIT, Karnataka. Salma's tech stack includes Kubernetes, DevOps, Mobile, Infra, Product Manager, Test, and Senior Software Engineer. She has 25.71 years of relevant experience.