SUMMARY:

• Over 11 years+ of experience in wireless communication industry with Operations Management, Project Management Customer Service, Personnel Management, RF Systems Design, configuration management. Installation, Commissioning & Optimization, Budgeting, Proposals and RFP responses, vendors and wireless roadmap planning which include Product & strategy, Training/Development, Troubleshooting
• Managed and execute all financial, administrative, business development, partnerships and strategic initiatives of the organization for the long term growth of it Confidential both national and international levels. Perform DAS designs, compliance documentation and project management for enterprise Wi - Fi, WIPS, Public Safety and commercial cellular services for both 3G and 4G technologies, mainly in large venues including campus environments. These cellular DAS designs
• Include sectorization considerations and neutral host deployments. Customers include Confidential & Confidential, Confidential, Reliance, Confidential, and International among others

CORE COMPETENCIES:

GSM, Confidential and LTE RF Design/Optimization, In building RF Design/Optimization, Microwave Radios etc. Performed overall RF duties ranging from site functionality tests, cluster drives, site design to cluster optimization. Performed general optimization to improve performance numbers like drop call rate, access failure rate and block rate. Extensive Design and Optimization experience on Confidential and ALU equipment. Good understanding of LTE, Confidential, GSM, TDMA, CDMA, frequency planning, RF propagation and cellular system design concepts. Good knowledge and extensive use of tools like Actix Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer, Wizard, Confidential, iBwave, TEMS, MapInfo, Confidential, ALU WMS, ALU SAM, RMAP, Quantum, Signal Generator, Fault Management and familiar with Path loss.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• TEMS
• Netact
• MapInfo
• AGILENT
• Confidential
• IBWave
• MIPT
• Nemo
• SCHEMA (Frequency & Neighbor Planning Tool-Real Time Network Measurement Basis)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Principal/RAN Engineering lead /RF Engineering

Confidential, Washington

Responsibilities:

• Generated 3G & 4G capacity calculations per 3-years forecast for venues like Confidential and Confidential count
• Generated & presented prelim RF designs, Outdoor with Confidential like CPICH RSCP, Ec/Io, Scrambling Code, and Pilot as per specific format given by HQ.
• Generated & presented prelim DAS designs, indoor with iBWave like Cable Routing, Antenna, Capacity, EIRP and Link budget
• Created, Updated Confidential or Blue sheet with 1C, 2C, 3C, 4C & 5C like Carrier Cell ID,PSAP Name, Equipment information & addition with plumbing diagram
• Managed data in particular databases like Mobius, CASPR, CSSng, CTS, IWOS, UHS and Sitera
• Worked on In-Building Phase-1 and pahse-2, Getting approval from NASG & Confidential, Analysis DAS design from different vendors
• Performing feasibility tests for Confidential and LTE coverage Confidential customer premises including ATT stores, proposing the best coverage solution - BDA, Minicell and BTS, providing all the necessary design info, commissioning and testing the new in building sites.
• Troubleshooting in building sites based on customer complaints and Confidential statistics. Working closely with Performance Engineers and DAS vendors to resolve the problem in providing good coverage & retainability.
• Hands on experience creating design with OEMs like Corning Mobile Access, Commscope, Solid, TE among others
• Managing team of 5 RF Engineers which includes site audit, Carrier addition, integration of sites, commissioning and design

Sr. RF Design Engineer

Confidential, Washington

Responsibilities:

• Working on 2011 new sites build
• Performing all activities in new site design starting from creating Search Rings, Candidate Evaluation, assisting Site Acquisition personnel in scrubbing search rings, Site visits, performing Transmitter tests, creating Link Budgets, creating RF Design Sheets and Data Fill.
• Worked on the Confidential, project for initial LTE Design process. Created the template & site design diagram as per Confidential for all the sites. Consolidated legacy GSM, Confidential information with LTE’s new design information like Radiation center, antenna type, down tilt, antenna gains etc.
• Worked on the Confidential tool for running the predication plot for the planned sites and cross checking these for initial design verification for coverage, lat/long location, performing link budget & path loss modeling.
• Worked on Visio application for creating Plumbing diagram of LTE site and change diagram after getting feedback from C& E team as RXAIT, TWIN TMA, and RRH Confidential bottom or top.

RF Engineer

Confidential, Chicago

Responsibilities:

• Prepared cluster & market drive routes.
• Defined various scopes of Drive Test and optimization of Data, voice and video calls.
• Performed drive test activities on Agilent 14.0, and check the improvements made by evaluating the Confidential categories.
• Performed Pre Launch Optimization of various clusters, by analyzing HSDPA logs, and using Wind catcher.
• Inter-RAT neighbor relations optimization using statistical counters and drive-test data.
• Parameter/Neighbor audit & cluster optimization, swapped sector analysis & scrambling code consistency checks.
• Used Actix Spotlight for analyzing drive test data, recommending changes to meet Launch Confidential ’s.
• Performed coverage optimization & identified/ corrected pilot polluters & boomer cells.
• Analyzed call logs for drops, access failures, blocked calls, soft handover failures & event sequences.
• Responsible for post processing of drive test data to solve and correct customer trouble tickets.

RF Optimization Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Daily analysis of network performance and troubleshooting using Confidential.
• Monitored daily reports to analyze the radio network performance to verify the Radio Utilization, Drop Rate( Confidential /SDCCH), Blocking ( Confidential /SDCCH), Assignment failures, Poor HOSR, RASR, CSR, CSSR etc & took corrective steps to achieve the optimum Confidential ’s.
• New sites optimization & acceptance to customer.
• Achieved & maintained network Confidential ’s & NQI agreed with customer.
• Performed analysis of various network reports & parameters from OMC-R & GNSC to provide remedy for high drop rate & blocking (SDCCH & Confidential ).
• Analyzed log files of drive tests for coverage, quality problems and handover optimization and proposed BSC rehoming for better paging success rate & load sharing.
• Coordinated with drive test teams to suggest changes in antenna orientations/tilts and installation of indoor/outdoor repeater as per the requirement.
• Planned carrier (TRX/DTRU) addition/cabinet expansion plan (Macro or Micro)/coverage & capacity sites (New Town & Infill Sites).
• Frequency Planning, neighbor relations for Macro/Micro/IBS sites including site database (Configuration Database and Neighbor list).
• Worked on various tools like MapInfo, MIPT, SCHEMA, NETACT, TEMS, NEMO, MIPT2G.Path Loss etc.
• Estimated and analyzed the air interface performance metrics like coverage, link budget, UL/DL throughput, PER and other parameters.
• Analyzed weak coverage areas and resolving customer complaints by helping sales/customer support teams.

SR. RF Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for pre & post swap planning& optimization of RTL in Orissa circle including BSC dimensioning, capacity/load planning.
• Optimization of new sites using TEMS Investigator 7 & 8 to improve overall network quality.
• Reviewed daily Confidential reports, RF data change request provisioning - neighbor list, Confidential & Confidential frequency, BSS default parameters, BTS, power control and handover control parameters.
• Analyzed weak coverage areas and resolved customer complaints on time.
• Assisted RF planners in finding clean frequencies & reported critically interfered regions.
• Coordinated and assisted various market drive testing teams for normal and benchmark drive testing for Voice, data and implementation of various parameter changes.
• Performed post processing and analysis of drive test logs.
• Involved in defining standardization and automation of performance metrics available from different RAN vendors and closely monitoring the performance of all BSC’s.
• Developed RF Database audit tool for Confidential - Lucent Technologies GSM system
• Managed performance and optimization team

RF Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitored daily Confidential ’s performance report.
• Coordinated and assisted various market drive testing teams for normal and benchmark drive testing for Voice, data and implementation of various parameter changes.
• Performed GSM network optimization based on performance monitoring, customer complaints, drive test logs, coverage & capacity requirements.
• Performed RF surveys in close co-ordination with N HQ team, Site Acquisition team and Civil Construction team.
• Prepared Pre and Post Drive test reports with Confidential, Problem cause and recommended solutions.
• Responsible for Optimization and Handover of new sites.
• Maintained the Network performance as per customer requirement from RF Side & provided proposal & survey of Site in Order to maintain GOS & Coverage.
• Performed interference detection & rectification, sector swapping & frequency scanning.
• Performed coverage optimization: Level and Quality Optimization to ensure customer satisfaction and also handled interference issues by change of frequency, parameter of site & neighboring sites, antenna orientation.
• Performed site survey & verified the suitability of sites from the RF point of view.
• Managed team of 8 RF engineers for Drive test/ Acceptance testing

RF Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Prepared drive routes.
• Drive Test includes the analysis of RF parameters like cell sites RF coverage, Rx Level, Rx Quality, C/I, inter-cell and intra-cell handovers, HO failures, Dropped calls, etc.
• Responsible for RF Coverage Acceptance testing with government officials.
• Initial optimization of networks such as antenna system verifications for antenna types, tilts, azimuths, verification of jumpers & feeders.
• Drive test for EDGE \ GPRS optimization of the GSM networks. (Using TEMS Investigation V 8.0.3).
• Prepared Confidential reports based on Drive test.
• Optimized the n/w as a team member to cover Mechanical & Electrical Tilt, Reorientation of the Antennas wherever required for Solving the Coverage & Quality Problem, for minimizing the Interference (C/I, C/A), BER, FER in the Network etc.