SUMMARY:

• Network RF Planning & optimization Engineering professional with 9 years of experience in Telecommunication Domain with multiple vendors like Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Motorola etc. 5+ years of dedicated experience on LTE RF planning and optimization.
• VOLTE, Carrier Aggregation, IRAT Handover, Confidential Solution, SRVCC Handover, LTE Inter Frequency Load balancing Handover & IRAT Offload, LTE to IRAT Strategies.
• Widespread knowledge of telecom planning & Optimization and performance management tools including Business Object, Moshell, Citrix, LOGTOOL, PRS, NEPA, NEMO, Genex probe & Assistant, SMART, Confidential M2000, ATOLL, Asset, U - Net, Nastar, FMA, Tems investigation 14.0, Tems discovery 4.0, etc.
• An Effective Communicator with excellent Relationship Building & Interpersonal Skills, Strong Analytical, Problem Solving & Organizational Abilities. A keen planner, strategist & implementer with demonstrated abilities.
• LTE EUTRAN, HSPA, UMTS/GSM solution includes BSC6900, BSC6000, BTS3900L, and BTS3900, DBS3900 & BTS3900A installation, configuration, operation & maintenance.
• Strong knowledge of 3GPP protocols, especially LTE radio interface & protocols like S1 U, S1 MME, X2, NAS, RRC, E-RAB, RLC, MAC, and PDCP.
• CME Tool for 2G, 3G and LTE sites script making.
• Detail oriented with strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Superb communication skills with the ability to lead across organizational lines.
• Eager to listen, watch, learn and in corporate constructive advice.
• Great public speaking skills.
• Ability to develop processes and drive through results orientated business changes for cross functional international teams.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Access Quality supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Confidential Release L16B, Confidential FDD R15A Confidential ERAN 8.1 & 11.1
• Planning Network Strategies for different LTE FDD.
• Feature ranking and implementation for both vendors including advance LTE and VOLTE related features.
• KPI;s, Parameters and Formula mapping between vendors to ensure better benchmarking.
• Network capacity study to prioritize project rollout.
• Customer handling for performance and network improvement meetings.
• Network KPI improvements with parameter trials.
• Conducting Network audits including operator’s parameter & field benchmarking.
• Successfully conducted re-farming activity to add 5 MHZ in LTE layer.
• Training sessions as knowledge sharing to customer and local teams specially VOLTE and Carrier aggregation advancement.
• Responsible for improving & achieving contractual LTE FDD Network KPI’s such as Accessibility, Retainability, Mobility, service integrity, utilization & Availability.
• Capacity solutions for Max users & throughput for NW, Special Events like EID, Matches & Major Gatherings
• VOLTE Testing and troubleshooting for blocked and drop calls.
• Daily Routine Optimization work based on Rach, Power, Drop, Coverage, HO, PCI, Congestion, and Traffic and maintaining access KPI’s.
• Cluster Optimization of LTE initial phase sites via Statistical KPIs and DT KPIs
• Low throughput investigation (Control region congestion, MCS, RI rate, RB allocation, RLC retransmission) & troubleshooting.
• Performed analysis using business object and recommended Morphology based Parameter settings of Cell Reselection, Handover Margins, Handover Thresholds, and Radio Link Timeout etc.
• 3GPP R8-10 features testing/tuning.
• LTE/3G/2G layering techniques & strategies.
• Confidential techniques. Different trials including RIM feature, PS HO based Confidential to reduce call setup time.
• Worked on trial of VoLTE and the pre-requisite features implementation in coordination with SBS team.
• VoLTE related algorithms optimization (SRVCC, RoHC, TTI Bundling)
• Carrier Aggregation Trial performed up to 2 CC for TDD network and lead rollout in network.
• Inter frequency & IRAT handover and load balancing trial performed successfully and rollout.
• Supporting Apple Tests before & after IPhone 6 and 6 plus launch
• IRAT Mobility tuning and strategies.
• PDCCH CFI Mode trials and tuning as per requirement.
• PDSCH Type B Power Boost trial and PDCCH power Boost trial.
• F1 & F2 trial on alternate sites to utilize properly 2nd carrier to improve radio condition by reducing inter cell intra frequency interference.
• L2 Radio Link Timers tPollRetransmitDl, tPollRetransmitUl trial.
• MaxNoOfPagingRecords & nB (Paging Capacity) trial to improve paging discard rate & DL Throughput.
• TAC split plan based on paging utilization & paging discards
• Automatic cell capacity feature trial and successful rollout.
• Analysis of S1 Signalling Success Rate degradation through traces and resolution in coordination with Confidential Core.
• ERAB SR degradation analysis through traces (Security Mode failures due to radio procedure) and resolution in coordination with Back Office.
• MIMO % improvement working.
• Layer3 messages analysis for troubleshooting with LOGTOOL.
• Multi Target RRC Connection Reestablishment feature implementation.
• Uplink Coordinated Multi Point Reception Feature trial.
• Scan and dedicated mode Drive test analysis to find out quality, coverage, hardware or design issues and give recommendations for improving quality and KPIs.
• Parameter adjustments for Special events like Football matches, Eid & Hajj to avoid congestion.

Team Leader

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Link Budget, Capacity Planning, Coverage Planning, Frequency Planning, Cell ID Planning, PCI Planning, PRACH Planning, Reference Signal Planning, TAC Planning and Neighbor planning.
• Responsible for achieving and maintaining region KPI targets. The following Major KPI’s maintained
• Preparing, top worst cells on each TAC/Cluster for main KPIs: (RRC failure, ERAB failure, Service drops, HO failures etc) using Confidential iM2000
• Making analysis for worst cells and provide solution to improve KPI’s
• Use Confidential PRS tool to manage mobile network performance reports and analyze network performance.
• Schedule Quarterly Cluster drives to evaluate and optimize RF network coverage. Improved RSRP, RSRQ, SINR by physical optimizations
• Changed mobility parameters to better the handover and reselection and redirection (to UMTS). LTE >UMTS reselection and LTE UMTS redirection.
• Implemented ANR(Auto neighbor Relation) feature successfully.
• Confidential (CS Fall Back) successfully implemented in the network and tested MO and MT calls successfully. Confidential implemented with Blind redirection from 4G to 3G network by configuring BlindHoSwitch=TRUE & UtranCsfbSwitch=TRUE
• Many X2 abnormal interfaces monitored and deleted on periodic bases to improve HO success rate.
• Many sites RSRP coverage and throughputs were tested and benchmarked by changing the RS(reference signal) power of enodeB by balancing Pa, and Pb values
• Modified parameter SintraSearch to avoid frequent cell reselection procedure
• Address VIP/VVIP customer complaints and recommend solution.
• Analysis of IMSI Traces & Call History Records (CHR).
• Primarily responsible for all KPI TEST scenarios for the performance management of LTE Network. Test consisted of 3 point Data Uplink & Downlink, Ping Test, handovers checking, Attached & Detached.
• Identify the cross-feeder issues rectify it through the PCI.
• Increase the Cell-specific reference signals power tuning for RF Conditions improvement.
• Cluster & Area Optimization of LTE Sites - Defining Intar-cell neighbours & configuration of time to trigger for successful Handovers.
• Perform the Download and Upload throughput tests on each sector of the site and make sure to get maximum achievable DL & UL speeds at the best point of each cell with the best BLER, & SINR Parameter values.
• Responsible for checking the radio performance for the newly integrated LTE sites analyzing drive test logs & preparing SSV reports.
• Plotting the drive route using Genex Assistant to show the coverage with the RSRP, SINR, and PCI Downlink and Uplink data as per the requirements of the customer.

RF Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• RRC Success rate, RAB success rate, VP CDR, PS CDR, IRAT success rate.. And the ability to keep it in the KPI threshold.
• Ability to analyze the RNC trace messages of 3 VIP customers on daily basis
• Following up the most 5 degrader UEs on network level and Successfully fix it
• Worst Cell analysis of UMTS KPIs like RRC Drop Rate, RAB Setup Success Rate, RAB Drop Rate,
• Inter-System HO Success Rate etc
• Communicate with the customer for any complaint about some cells degradation, give analytical answers, with fast suggested solutions
• Creating daily report for the 13 KPIs trending to keep it under observation
• Tools: UNET. Nastar, M2000, RNC/NodeB LMT, Mapinfo, Confidential PRS
• Leading the Analysis for the field visit Data (RSCP-Ec/Io-Pilot Pollution)
• Analysis for Cell-Congestion /Power-CE-Iub-Code/ Using Nastar
• HSDPA service analysis, V.good analyzer for slowness, disconnection service, HHO
• Between different carriers, CE expansion, Carrier expansion and Code expansion
• Missing neighbor cells analyzing, and improving
• HSPA load balance trial to improve the subscriber experience of internet speed
• Trouble Tickets Handling and closing.

Confidential

Network Optimizer

Responsibilities:

• Drive Test Data Collection & Reporting
• Testing GSM/UMTS Radio Network using TEMS tools
• Perform Post processing for the data collected and prepare integration report for new sites.
• Analysis for network problems and preparing final cluster report.
• Drive testing for more than 200 Site functionality test (voice, video and HPDSA) using
• GENEX-Probe, TEMS
• Drive testing for more than 50 clusters and big clusters (RNCs Parts) with full Analysis using GENEX-Assistant
• Monitoring of Rxlevl, RxQual of Serving Cells in GSM.
• Monitoring of RSCP and Ec/No of serving cell in UMTS.
• Detection and troubleshooting for dropped calls, blocked calls, HO failures, pilot pollution, and coverage (RSCP)
• On-Air site parameter and feeder Swap verifications
• Initial network tuning and improving network performance using GENEX-Assistant
• Spectrum interference scanning using YBT250
• Performing initial optimization of the clusters for acceptance from operator
• Making Sites and Clusters Reports.
• Proposing the tilts and height s to redesign the sites in-order to remove the overshoots
• Examination of relevant antenna tilt values and recommendations for new tilts and azimuths
• Data fill for the new on air site and performing pre-optimization for the new sites