CAREER SUMMARY:

Resourceful, results - oriented RF/LTE engineer with years+ of experiences, willing to work with teams and required to collaborate with individuals from business and development team. Extensive experience in Test, Design, Optimization and KPI & Traffic check.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills: Ericsson ENM, Nokia Netact, Samsung LSM,Airspan Netspan in upgrading for cell site & Minimacro Site

Applications/Tools: SpotFire,xRO,LSMR,MapInfo, Actix, TEMS Investigation, Comarco, Grayson, Agilent, Mentum Planet, Asset, MS Office. NEMO, ANOVA,T-BIRD,DATAPRO, Wireshark, JDSU & XCAL/XCAP,, Landslide , PILOT SCANNER, JDSU, Wireshark, eDat, ATOLL,IBWARE,QXDM, QPST, QCAT , QMICM, Street Atlast

Programming: DotNet, VB, VBA.java C, C++. S1-MME

ROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CHICAGO, IL

RF Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Capable of performing KPI / ATP data check for Traffic,Regression Testing and verification on field/Lab Setup, Release Upgrades
• Experienced in supporting LTE RAN equipment from Samsung,CDU 30,hardware products
• Capable of verifying Sites before and after Migration
• Experienced in Identifying required HW/ SW resources and equipment during Field/Lab Setup
• Capable of end to end testing in Field/lab and production network
• Capable of device level testing of Terrestrial (LTE) and Satellite devices
• Capable of testing in RF Chambers and with related Test Equipment
• Good documentation skills with report preparation, presentations, etc.
• RF Design experience designing and deploying cell sites in the US
• Strong RF design concepts including Model tuning, link budget, site placement / design, with deployment support and site turn up activities including reviewing / approving ATPs / Swaps

Confidential, Rockville, MD

LTE RF Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Tools experience: Capstan, Siterra, Sprint Vision
• CIQ creation & procurement, Understanding of RF parameters: PCI, PN, frequency planning
• Performing radio propagation modeling and prediction to determine cell site location, determining equipment and power configurations, forecasting channel capacity requirements, planning and optimizing system traffic and developing design standards to ensure system quality.
• Performs engineering functions related to interconnect equipment and facilities, signaling systems, switches and traffic. Experience working on Design tools like Atoll, MapInfo, Google Earth, Planet
• Familiar with Samsung / Nokia OEM and equipment config
• Familiar with processes to create RFDS / CIQ
• Building up design project/database with Atoll and Mantum Planet RF planning tool
• Test Engineering Responsibilities in Identification and Selection of Performance test cases.identification and design of Targeted regression test cases.
• Allocation of test cases to test engineers.Tracking of test execution on a daily basis, Test Execution Responsibilities
• End to End System performance testing of Vendors 1xEVDO RAN.EVDO RAN consists of BTS,MCCDO, IPBSCDO Cages (consisting of APC, SCA, TRA and TC), PDSN and Network Manager (Simulated as well as Real).
• Testing of 1xEDVO RAN is performed under different customer configurations.
• Verify 1xEVDO RAN behavior under loaded conditions. Call loads vary from 32 Erlang to 2000
• Erlang (Best Effort long duration call model). Call model includes scenarios such as Soft HO, Softer HO, Inter RNC HO (A13), Active and Dormant Handoff.
• Verify KPIs such as Call Success Rate, System Throughput, CPU Utilization and Memory Utilization of different Network Elements, adheres to performance requirements.
• Verify platform availability by running iterative failovers of different cards in the Network Elements and ensuring RAN is able to preserve existing calls and process new calls.
• Look out for spurious events such as Process Deaths, Unexpected Alarms and DSP reset during above test runs.
• Support Development teams to find out the root cause of product faults, Feature Test Lead for following new features.
• C24 New Feature - QosBasedAccessHashing, C25 New Feature DynamicDormancyTimer.
• Work involves, creation of test design, mentoring of test case creation and test execution tracking.
• Responsible for Initiating performance testing of 1xEVDO RAN in AT&T Labs starting Release 10.
• Responsible for handling transition of Test Equipment from Motorola, Arlington Heights, USA to Motorola AT&T Labs.
• Responsible for commissioning of 1x EVDO lab in AT&T Lab

Confidential, White Plains, NY

RF OPT Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing of Airspan / Samsung, Nokia & Ericsson Mini Micro for Sprint.
• Participation in rolling out of Carrier Aggregation for B26/B25 FDD CA, B25/B25/B26 3-Carrier FDD CA and performance benchmarking after that for upper management.
• Performance optimization based using ALU OSS and PNM for all major level one KPI’s.
• PCMD data analysis in order to troubleshoot higher voice drop call rates.
• Low data Throughput analysis in Planet by generating low data Throughput analysis with the help of switch PCMD data.
• Prepared all designs, documents and data sheets for final RFDS deliverables like analysis, validation and on-site modification of site data sheet for site deployment.
• Design, implementation and optimization of DAS and Small Cell Networks (SCNs).
• Experienced in In-Building planning procedures and process flow, traffic dimensioning and link budget for Active and Passive DAS.
• Post processing of X-CAL / TEMS Drive test logs on X-CAP / TEMS Discovery for the purpose RRC connection setup failures, bearer drops, L3 messaging analysis and evaluation, SINR / VOLTE optimization.
• Data processing and analysis with Tableau and Alteryx.
• Implementation of new features and tuning LTE radio network parameters like changing different parameter-1st on small cluster, then whole market.
• Analysis of neighbor relations and implementation of corrections. Keep monitoring the network & optimize neighbors.
• Neighbor optimization and design optimization to achieve desired Pilot coverage, Coverage Probability, Eb/No, etc by varying, azimuth, pilot power, tilt resources etc.
• Periodic interfacing with the customer for presenting KPI & NQI statistics & soliciting feedback.
• Preparation of reports for regulatory bodies in perspective of inspections & network performance.
• Experienced in cost effective CRAN, DAS, Front haul, Backhaulinventory selection for efficient design and rollout.
• Coordination with client, site acquisition firm and RF equipment vendors as required by the management.
• Microwave network planning, design and implementation for both DL/ UL Spectrums.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Associate Lab test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Post process and monitor performance statistics to identify performance anomalies in PSTN & PLMN
• Generate survey and design reports, including quotes.
• Operate Anritsu spectrum analyzer and various RF testing equipment
• Like Wireshark, JDSU, ANOVA Actix, Windcatcher,TEM, XCAL & Landslide , by analyzing QXDM data logs.
• Operating ATE Tester using DUT,UUT after fabrication(Resistors, IC,PCB-Printed circuit board…)
• Observing constantly varying signals like frequency, sound & vibration and converting them to voltages to be measured and displayed using Tools like, Tektronix CSA 8000,Anritsu,Agilent
• Doing PCB troubleshooting in BTP systems for repairs of complex systems
• Performing ETL to ensure both prototype & manufactured systems & their various sub-components are able to operate under all operating condition using Thermotron F-42

Confidential, Plano, TX

Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Studied RF design coverage maps and identify problem areas in terms of coverage, interference, or pilot pollution.skills in analyzing layer 3 messaging
• Execute tasks to optimize RF clusters in the customer network during the deployment phase.
• Determine test equipment needed and work with ALU RF Manager to order it from RF Toolkit group.
• Confirmed spectrum clearance, integration testing, power calibration, and call-through tests were carried out, and all entrance criteria are met before start of optimization.
• Troubleshooting problem areas and provide recommendations for system performance enhancements.
• Troubleshooting areas with poor RF performance. Request drive tests, analyze data, and recommend network changes as applicable.
• Support KPI monitoring before and after migration, identify issues, analyze and troubleshoot and escalate, as needed, for resolution.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Modem Test Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform first level of analysis of Field issues observed on Field
• Call, SMS, MMS, Data field Test for every release
• Reproducing and verifying issues reported by QA team, operator, end users, etc.
• Supporting HQ and SRIB development teams to collect logs and do first level analyses of issues observed in field.
• Lab visit for CDG2 / IOT testing and collecting the logs
• Data Throughput Testing
• S/W Download for Carriers
• Carrier specific test suite execution
• Process of collected Data with eDat xCal, Hands on experience with Ericsson and Alcatel LTE tools,DRTscanner, EX and MX scanners, UEs, TEMS, NEMO, JDSU and ANOVA tools.
• Determining the cause of equipment failure using various types of complex test equipment.
• Performed Idle-Active, Attach-Detach Testing.
• Performed IFHO, CSFB-MOC, CSFB-MTC and CSFB Simultaneous Data and Voice Calls tests for sites of different frequencies.

Confidential

Asst Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed Cisco 2501/3640 series Routers on Frame relay VPN, installed Nortel Telephony Systems
• Experience working in a Network Operations Center
• Experience working with ticketing systems (ie; Remedy preferred)
• Experience working with network monitoring tools (ie; NetCool or HP Openview preferred)
• Experience working with a variety of Operating Systems
• Implementation of T-1 Circuit between corporate headquarter and remote location
• Supported Remote Users Using RAS direct connection and Secure dial up