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RF Engineer

Location:
Florida
Posted:
August 19, 2014

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Juan Jos Garc a Villalona

Experienced Wireless Professional

Mobile: +1-849-***-****

E-mail: acfg9g@r.postjobfree.com

Telecommunications Engineer specialized in Mobile Communications with 7+

years of experience in Network Design, Rollout, Optimization, Quality

Assurance, Client Servicing, Leadership and Personnel/Project Management.

Proficient in UMTS and LTE technologies. Work experience with different

vendors (Huawei and Ericsson) and operators (France Telecom Orange

Dominicana, Wind Telecom and AT&T).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Position: Senior RF Planning and Optimization Engineer LTE/UMTS

Company: Huawei Technologies, Dominican Republic

Date: August 2012 - Actual

Summary: Optimization, design and troubleshooting of 200+ LTE eNodeB and

800+ UMTS NodeB networks. In charge of UMTS rollout and optimization, and

support in the LTE rollout and optimization.

Project experience & Main Responsibilities:

. LTE network planning, rollout and optimization. Cluster drive

tests, log files post processing, optimization and analysis.

. UMTS/LTE design including coverage and KPI analysis. New site

search area definition.

. Elaborated propagation prediction for coverage estimation and

verification.

. Actively involved in network planning and optimization. Assumed

responsibility for implementing RF work including PSC, PCI, LAC,

TAC & neighbor lists planning and initial tuning.

. Layer 3 analysis in DT and post processing tools for LTE

troubleshooting.

. Analysis of KPIs, investigation and improvement of network

quality problems.

. In charge of Post Launch UMTS optimization and troubleshooting

of the entire network of more than 800 sites. Including

parameter recommendations for improving KPIs and neighbor

analysis. Troubleshoot problem areas and provide recommendations

for system performance enhancements. RAN parameter consistency

check.

. Split sector project coordination and optimization. In charge of

delivering project reports and progress to the customer.

Optimization of antenna tilts and neighbor lists.

. Ensure all optimization work meets agreed-upon Key Performance

Indicator criteria by launch date scheduled with the customer.

. Capacity forecast and performance evaluation for network

expansion.

. Responsible of UMTS special projects in the RF department and

new features implementation testing.

. Concerts and special events and holidays monitoring and

troubleshooting.

. Experienced with Huawei RF tools for network optimization and

troubleshooting like OMSTAR, M2000, PRS and LMT, as well as

Huawei Genex Probe and Assistant. Atoll, Mapinfo and UNET for RF

Design.

Position: RF Services Engineer Experienced, Post Launch UMTS Optimization

Company: Ericsson (Global Service Center), Mexico

Date: September 2011 - March 2012

Summary: Post Launch optimization for UMTS 850/1900 MHz networks.

Project experience & Main Responsibilities:

. Optimization of new sites and new carriers integrated to the

existing UMTS network. Worked with 4 carrier networks.

. KPI monitoring and delivering recommendations in order to

improve them. Monitoring and Analysis of post launch critical

KPIs CS/PS Ret., CS/PS Acc., IRAT HO optimization, HSPA

throughput, NON-HS power utilization.

. Final parameter and configuration audit.

. Layer Management configuration of Intra, Inter and IRAT

neighbors between UMTS carriers and cells.

. Traffic balance between the different carriers of the UMTS cells

(directed retry, load sharing).

. In charge of maintaining KPIS after antenna change out turnkey

project in the Austin, Texas market. PRACH (overshooting), RSSI

and Traffic analysis. Communicating daily with customer and

contractors.

. Missing neighbor analysis and recommendations using WNCS.

. Hardware faults and alarms analysis.

. Experiencedwith Ericsson tools such as OSS, Business Object

Reports (BO) and Winfiol for RF troubleshooting commands.

Position: UMTS RF Planning and Optimization Engineer

Company: Huawei Technologies, Dominican Republic

Date: October 2009 - September 2011

Summary: Planning, Optimization and Troubleshooting of UMTS 900 MHz

network. RF Team Lead, responsible for the deployment of the network.

Project experience & Main Responsibilities:

. In charge of RF network planning, rollout and optimization.

Performing RF duties including network PSC planning, site

functionality tests (single site verification), cluster drives

(data collection) and system verification (RRC, NBAP and RANAP

layers and parameters). Optimize RF clusters in the customer

network during the deployment phase.

. KPI monitoring and improvement.

. (CS) voice, (CS-64) Video Call, PS-R99 and HSDPA & HSUPA

testing, troubleshooting and optimization.

. IRAT configuration and optimization parameters.

. Multi carrier solution configuration and optimization. Worked

with 4 UMTS carriers.

. DC-HSDPA (42 Mbps) and HSDPA+ (21 Mbps) testing and

configuration.

. In charge of delivering project reports and progress to the

customer.

. Drive test post processing and analysis. Deliver recommendations

in order to improve coverage and quality.

. Post Launch Optimization and Network Performance Improvement:

KPI monitoring (3 months after commercial launch), deliver

advice and recommendation to maintain the KPIS on the agreed

target (Accessibility, Retainability, Mobility & Service

Integrity).

. Experienced with Huawei RF tools for DT (Genex Probe), Post

Processing (Genex Assistant), Network Performance Monitoring

(PRS, NASTAR and M200), Network Planning (UNET, Atoll) and Node

B & RNC parameters configuration.

Position: Telecommunications Specialist Company:

Innova Technology, Dominican Republic

Date: January 2009 - June 2009

Summary: Telecommunications consultant for the Education Department.

Project experience & Main Responsibilities:

. Deliver end to end communication between all the schools in the

Dominican Republic.

. Support all the technical activities and designs in order to

complete project delivery.

. Planning the wireless interconnection and remote wireless access

through different technologies (Wimax and Satellite).

Position: Wimax RF Design Engineer Company:

Wind Telecom, Dominican Republic

Date: July 2007 - December 2007

Summary: Wimax 2.5 GHz network planning.

Project experience & Main Responsibilities:

. Work on the design of the Wimax Network.

. Planning and coverage analysis, microwave links design and

performing RF site surveys.

. In charge of site selection.

. Work with Atoll RF Planning Solution and Mapinfo.

Position: GSM BSS Junior Engineer Internship Company:

Orange Dominicana, Dominican Republic

Date: April 2007 - June 2007

Summary: Internship for BSS Engineer.

Project experience & Main Responsibilities:

. Configuration and integration of Ericsson GSM RBS into existing

GSM network.

. Work with Ericsson RBS OMT in order to load and check

configuration and expansion scripts.

TECHNICAL TRAINING

. Advanced UMTS Network Design and Optimization & LTE

Huawei - 2014 (Shenzhen, China)

. RAN13 UMTS Advanced Network Optimization Huawei -

2012 (Dominican Republic)

. LTE fundamentals Huawei - 2012

(Dominican Republic)

. 3G Network Optimization Ericsson -

2011 (Plano, Texas)

. UMTS Radio Network Optimization Huawei -

2010 (Mexico City, Mexico)

. Scalable IP Networks Alcatel

Lucent - 2009 (Dominican Republic)

. Certified Wireless Network Administrator (CWNA)

CWNP - 2008 (Madrid, Spain)

. Mobile Communications Seminar (UMTS) UPM

- 2008 (Madrid, Spain)

. Advanced Wireless Technologies

Instituto Novatech - 2008 (Madrid, Spain)

. Carrier VOIP Network Fault Management

Nortel - 2007 (Raleigh, North Carolina)

. Introduction to Carrier VOIP Nortel -

2007 (Raleigh, North Carolina)

ACADEMIC REFERENCES

. Master's Degree in Communications Systems and Networks

2008

Polytechnic University of Madrid - UPM

Faculty of Telecommunications

. Bachelor's Degree in Electronic and Communications Engineering

2003 - 2007

Technological Institute of Santo Domingo - INTEC

Faculty of Engineering

LANGUAGES

. English: written, lecture and conversation: 100%

. Spanish: written, lecture and conversation: 100%



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