PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Energetic and highly motivated leader having + 25 years of experience in telecom field.
• 10+ years of experience in project management doing successful project planning & effective execution
• Managing diverse teams with good leadership and imparting meaningful coaching
• System Engineering, Design & Development, Installation & Commissioning of MW Radios
• Core technical strengths includes RF Planning & Optimization, Site Surveys, Drive Test Analysis, MW Design

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Manager

Responsibilities:

• Management of 50+ Drive Test teams for Nokia Project in NY/NJ/Philly/MOKS/MN/OH/RMR/PNW markets
• Doing Resource Management, Clients Approval & Billing to cater multiple projects and meeting last minute requests.
• Worked in Operations Group, did SAF Approvals for ALU/NOKIA, leading the Billings for other clients.
• Project Management for multiple projects, analyzed projects with P&L, lead the recruitment of resources for various markets, Interviewed candidates, did On Boarding, was POC for end client for any escalations.
• Overlooking of In - Building Walks (5 Walk Testers) for various venues such as Super Bowl in Florida (TMO & Sprint)
• Project Lead for Huawei-Telus/Rogers DT project in Canada, managing 14 teams in AB, BC, MB, SK & QC provinces
• Received Best Collaboration 2016 from Huawei
• Did Monthly Billing & ARs for Huawei Projects in Canada, always in time and was doing follow up as required.
• Fleet Management of company vehicles (+25) used in multiple states
• Monitored the performance of teams, managing their s.
• Equipment sourcing for multiple projects, doing negotiations, buying/leasing/renting with various vendors
• Team member for submitting client’s RFP/RFI, Submitted proposals to the clients to clinch new projects.
• Sprint Clusters Data Collection & Optimization, DT with XCAL and submitting reports used XCAP/WindCatcher
• Project lead for MW Installation & Commissioning Project in Boston for TMO
• Project Lead for VZW Manhattan Project, used dead reckoning
• Project Lead for TMO 700MHz Interference Hunting Project in NY market.
• This was done in 2 phases, P1 was driving and collecting data & P2 was collecting data on the cell site.
• TMO was able to install 700 MHz system due to these studies and thus increased customer satisfaction

Confidential

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed PTC 220 MHz System using Mentum Planet, Surveys for CalTrain rail system in Bay Area, California
• Project was done in 3 Phases and all were done successfully meeting tough requirements of the client
• Phase 1 was all Design Aspects, Base Station Design, Tunnel Coverage Design (used Mentum Planet)
• Completed CW testing using crane, Hi Rail & test equipment, Site Surveys, review of CDs
• Performed Interference Analysis for 220 MHz Spectrum Clearance and provided report with recommendations
• Phase 2 was construction & implementation, 10 base stations & 4 tunnel base stations were commissioned successfully
• Phase 3 was acceptance test, verification and optimization of the PTC 220MHz system
• Completed Wi-Fi design and sites survey

Confidential

Sr. RF Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in Optimizing CDMA & EV-DO Rev-A Network of Confidential in South Texas market & SI Wireless in TN market, using KPIs as provided by client.
• Generated detailed report for STX markets, using WindCatcher tool showing comparison of network pre and post cutover to Huawei system.
• Post processed and analyzed DT data using WindCatcher and provided site issues such as drops, low throughput, low DRC and provided recommendations to client for remedial actions such as downtilts, swapping issues, NL.
• Completed more than 100 SSVs, doing site walks, auditing site equipment, checking antenna azimuths/model & skew and finalizing sites for integrating with network.
• Managed 13 teams of Drive Testers providing technical and logistic support, used Agilent E6474A in STX market.
• Supervised DT teams, created drive routes for market drives, configured DT kits including Agilent Pilot Scanner.
• Did troubleshooting of customer complaint areas, analyzed DT report and provided recommendations to the client.
• Used Invex 3G tool for drive testing in TN Market, post processed with WindCatcher and provided recommendations.

Confidential

Sr. RF Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design & Evaluation of site (Macro/Micro) candidates meeting client’s requirements such as filling coverage gaps, capacity growth, temporary sites in LI market using ASSET. Provided MW solution to COW sites for T1s.
• Recommended new Search Rings/relocating Search Rings to fill-in coverage gap while analyzing prediction coverages of On Air sites, drive data and customer data. Did RF link budgets to optimize RF Performance of new 2G/3G site.
• Implemented new sites into Confidential ’s GSM/UMTS network with ASSET, updated in Insite tool.
• Used Ericsson’s TEMS tool for drive testing, evaluated sweeps & EDT, doing QA of the site, analyzed beta drive test with ACTIX and provided recommendations to client for any issues. Prepared closeout package for new sites.
• Conducted FAA, TOWAIR analysis, AM detuning, for GSM/UMTS sites.
• Generated RF affidavits, plots, graphics, and zoning material in support of applications for GSM and UMTS sites.
• Attended Zoning Hearing for new proposed sites and testifying.
• Participated in design visits, completed RF Datafill, tested cable runs, beta drive test, coordinated CW tests.
• Analyzed CW tests for new site decision or for providing support in zoning of the site.
• Evaluated Construction Drawings for GSM and UMTS sites, Zoning Drawings and Lease Drawings,
• Prepared Justification Packages for planned new future sites providing reasons/benefits of that site.
• Ensured all design and proposals meet or exceed all regulations for zoning, safety and RF performance.

Confidential

Sr. RF Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in Optimizing CDMA and EV-DO Rev A Network of Confidential in Chicago and Milwaukee markets, having 900+ sites, using KPIs as provided by client.
• Integrated and Optimized more than 400 sites, completed Single Site Verification (SSV), doing site auditing, presenting reports of individual sites to the client showing all KPIs as requested by client.
• Processed the DT data of pre and post analysis, provided recommendations to client for optimizations.
• Managed teams of Drive Testers providing technical and logistic help, used Agilent tool (E6474A) and DTI scanners.
• Post processed drive test data using Windcatcher and regularly provided updates of the health of network to client.
• Tested Inter BSC handovers, hard handovers, did quality testing of single sites, checked for sectors swappings, analyzed problematic sites and submitted reports to client with suggestions.
• Did troubleshooting of customer trouble ticket in specified area in timely manner.

Confidential

Sr. RF Engineer Ericsson

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for MW hops designing of 120+ in Licensed and Unlicensed bands for Confidential West Region and South Region using Pathloss and Aircom’s CONNECT tools
• Effectively Monitored of 80+ MW Installations & Commissioning and conducted more than 60 LOS surveys
• Coordinated MW of field Techs for Denver, Albuquerque, and Phoenix Markets
• Analyzed and Proposed selection of MW Radio equipment in licensed/unlicensed among various vendors
• Effectively managed MW Radios inventory of Phoenix, Denver, SLC & Albuquerque warehouses
• Regularly updated and maintained more than 100 MW hops MW Hops information on Granite and Insite
• Did troubleshooting of poor performing MW hops in timely manner

Confidential

RF Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in on EV-DO Optimization
• Conducted In-building site walk for Verizon wireless network in Georgia and Alabama.
• Installation & Commissioning of DOMs, configurations, running scripts, IP addressing for Verizon Network.
• Implemented inconsistencies based from evaluated parameters from the Optimization engineer during the integration of sites for cutover and swap, Provided integration summary report for sites cutover and swap to the client as well as logs of changes in the network.
• Did Model tuning for Alabama Market using ASSET, supervised the CW drive test team, provided drive routes.
• Coordinated with drive test teams during the integration process to change necessary parameters thus resolve service affecting problems, processed & analyzed drop call scenarios drive test logs.
• Generated alarm tracker for any hardware related issues and relay it to Field Operations for proper action and/or correction. Updated Cingular site database through CSS tool (Cingular Site System) database for sites in Central, Northeast and Southeast region
• Designed multiple NW scenarios with benchmarking to COX for their various markets using PlanetEV

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and planned cost effective multi service transmission network solution for audio, video and data transmission as required by “Qtel” for the Asian Games 2006, using MOVAZ’s DWDM Ray-ROADM.
• Provided turnkey consultant services for Intruder Detection & Assessment System (IDAS) using fiber optics and microwave technologies.
• Studied and analyzed network topologies, fiber optics technologies to be implemented for project providing convergent solution to Information Technology Services (ITS is a service organization of Public Works & Government Services Canada (PWGSC).

Confidential

Assistant Manager

Responsibilities:

• Led Installation, Commissioning, Integration, Optimization and acceptance-testing, of more than 200 cell sites consisting of MODCELL (Lucent, Confidential ), power plant, SDH/SONET ADMs (FIBCOM, ECI) and microwave radios as per site built-on-drawing.
• Conducted CDMA transmitter tests such as frequency accuracy, hard handoff, time waveform quality(rho), range of open loop/closed loop power control, access probe output power, maximum RF output power, radiated Tx spurious emissions, drive tests. Collected and post processed CW measurements in support of site candidate evaluation.
• Analyzed and conducted drive tests using Agilent tool and thereby reducing dropped calls by implementing recommended tilts, re-orientations, missing neighbors and different antennas.
• Successfully completed link engineering, budgeting for more than 300 MW links and of fiber optics.
• Designed and implemented MW Transmission N/W with many petal rings connected with the main fiber core ring using SDH technology having more than 400 cell sites with frequency interference less than 3 dB.
• Incorporated STM-1 (128 QAM) and PDH 34Mbps (8-PSK) digital microwave radios of DMC Stratex (ALTIUM, XP-4) and NEC (Pasolink+) in frequency bands 15Ghz and 18Ghz.
• Managed LOS surveys for radio links comprising 4 teams and regularly updated the transmission network. Carried systematic analysis of transmission network to mitigate interference below 3 dB.
• Conducted Acceptance Testing of ADMs (FOCUS AC-1, FOCUS AC-4, FOCUS LX and XDM-100) providing interfaces of 2mbps, 34mbps, 45 Mbps, ATM, STM-1, STM-4, STM-16, Ethernet and GbE.
• Planned, rolled out IP based data connectivity network for network management system of MW radios (RIP protocol for DMC Stratex radios) in multiple vendor scenario using peripherals such as switches, routers, hubs, FCD-IPD, FCD-E1 of RAD. ed several appreciations for meeting stiff timelines, budget cost and resource utilization

Confidential

RF Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Ericsson systems, project with AIRTEL for Delhi network comprising more than 700 cell sites and Nokia systems, project with ESCOTEL for providing cellular services in Haryana.
• Contributed effectively for nominal cell planning for RF Planning with Planning Tool i.e. ASSET (Aircom Enterprise Suite) and Frequency Planning using ILSA (Aircom Enterprise Suite).
• Carried out link budgeting, traffic, site planning, Neighbors cells, BSC border and LAC, Conducted Pre Swap Drive Test to produce a comparative benchmarking report in record time. Analyzed drive test files for Level, Quality, HO Success rate and call setup success rate.
• Conducted Post Swap Drive Test of Network and made improvement in predefined KPI’s and Analyzed Drop Calls and worst performing cells based on KPI’s of CSSR, Drop call rate, SDCCH access rate which drastically reduced dropped calls.
• Analyzed Conducted Drive Test using Agilent’s E7475 and Neptune to verify on air performance and analysis of drive test files using Neptune Integrated to optimize the overall performance of the network before commercial launch.
• Optimized using OMC reports to meet desired KPI’s, which include call setup success rate, drop call rate, Handover success rate etc and Carried out Handover analysis.
• Analyzed cells having SDCCH congestion, RACH rejections, high HO failure ratio, and high TCH drop call rate and suggested appropriate changes in configuration and BSS parameters for better performance.

Confidential

Principal Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Played an active and decisive role in designing and implementing Wide Area Paging Network project providing POCSAG, FLEX and ERMES paging covering 12 provinces in India with 10 million capacity and provided roaming facility using SNMP/TAP/ protocols.
• Commissioned more than 50 VHF/UHF radio links having 32 channels (TK-760/860 of M/s Kenwood) after LOS surveys, link budgeting and installations. Configured Installed and tested more than 100 paging sites for two sister concerns PPSL (joint venture with Telia, Sweden) and PMCL (joint venture with Beep-A-Call, Israel).
• Spearheaded Installations, testing and commissioning of more than 70 radio paging sites consisting of paging terminals (ZETRON 2200M, USA), EPABX with ACD facility (TADIRAN, Israel and Confidential, France), VHF paging transmitter (PPP, Holland) and paging antennas.
• Finalized UHF/VHF radios for Transfer-Of-Technology after analyzing multinationals such as Kenwood, Confidential, Siemens, and Marconi.
• Provided technical support to sales department for providing turnkey solutions to client, SECL, requiring voice and data connectivity among its 50 branches spread geographically in one province using VSAT, UHF/VHF radios and leased lines. Designed and developed various telephone models such as hands free phone, memory telephone, low cost telephones for Department of Telecommunications.
• Installed radio link for connecting 23 different offices of ONGC in remote areas using JUL-103 and JUL 223(M/s JRC, Japan) with PSTN connectivity. Developed new procedures and policies for the manufacturing of the telephones.
• Designed several test jigs for checking the functionality of the PCB.
• Installed more than 25 Multi Access Radio Telephone Systems (MARTS) in tough terrains with system reliability of 99.998% .