Ritesh Dass has joined as an Optical Subsea Product Line Manager at Nokia. Prior to Nokia, Ritesh worked at Vodafone as a Senior Submarine Systems Engineer in the United Kingdom. A few key roles Ritesh has undertaken at Vodafone include being the Technical Chairman for West Africa Cable System (WACS) Upgrade#2, technical member for SAT-3/WASC/SAFE (S3WS) Upgrade#5 Procurement Group and Lead Commissioning Engineer for Tasman Global Access (TGA) cable system. Ritesh is also a PRINCE2 certified project manager who has delivered subsea projects such as Pan-American Upgrade#2 and the ECFS DWDM Upgrade.
Ritesh holds a master’s degree (MEng) in Electronic Engineering from King’s College London and is a member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Ritesh has also contributed to the former two SubOptic conferences and written papers for SubOptic2013 and SubOptic2016.