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Location:
Mississauga, ON, Canada
Salary:
$150K
Posted:
August 01, 2016

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M. ABDUS SAMI, M.Eng., P.Eng., PMP

Senior Network Planner, Rogers Communications Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada Cell: 1-647-***-**** Email: acvyul@r.postjobfree.com

(CANADIAN CITIZEN - Authorized to work in USA on TN Status) CAREER OBJECTIVE

Seeking a technically challenging position in the fields of optical fiber and wireless communications focusing on project management, telecommunication network planning, design, commissioning/ testing, provisioning, optimization and network quality assurance. EDUCATION

Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, CANADA

License and Certifications:

Professional Engineer (P.Eng), Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), CANADA

Project Management Professional (PMP)

SKILLS

Project Management (Planning, Execution, Monitoring and Control and Project Closing).

Transmission Network Capacity Planning for GSM/Inukshuk/UMTS/LTE Cellular Networks.

Planning of 10GigE/GigE (Primary & Secondary) rings over DWDM/CWDM and native Ethernet rings over dark fibre for UMTS/LTE voice/data traffic (RAN Network).

SONET/SDH OC3/STM-1, OC12/STM-4, OC48/STM-16, OC192/STM-64 Uni-directional Path Switched Rings (UPSR)/Bi-directional Linear Switched Rings (BLSR) planning and design.

SONET/SDH & Mix Mode (Ethernet/TDM) Microwave Transmission Network Planning for GSM/UMTS/LTE Cellular RAN Network.

ATM, T1/DS1/E1, T3/E3, Network Management System SNC/SNMS, Optical Amplifiers, Optical Digital Cross Connects.

Knowledge of FTTx, xPON and MTSOs Network design, provisioning, operation and maintenance.

Telecom Databases including MetaSolv’s Telecom Business Solutions TBS, XNG (Granite), LERG, CSG, Active View Order Manager (AVOM).

Ordering and provisioning of 3rd party leased data circuits for HSPA/LTE access and backbone requirement.

Working knowledge of Cisco Switches, Routers and LAN/WAN Networking.

Customer presentations, Lab evaluation, Trade shows, Conference representation, Sales and Training support.

Prepared and presented network/system proposals to the customers. Provided technical support to Engineering and Operations on Network/Circuit Design, Capacity Management, Provisioning and Maintenance related issues.

Actively involved in Transport Networks CAPEX and OPEX optimization.

Self-motivated, confident, professional offering leadership qualities in team building, project tracking and completion.

MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point, MS Access, MetaSolv’s TBS, XNG and Visio Professional. 2/4

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

Fujitsu FW9500 DWDM

Turn Up and Test Seminar

(9500-T)

Ciena OME6500 & 6500CPL

DWDM ROADM

ALU 1830 PSS DWDM

Lucent WaveStar TDM 2.5G

(OC-48)/10G (OC-192) (2-

Fibre) Operation and

Maintenance (LW2661)

Lucent WaveStar Bandwidth

Manager, Operation and

Maintenance (TR3801)

Lucent WaveStar

SubNetwork Management

System User Training

(TR4510)

Lucent WaveStar

SubNetwork Management

System Administration

Training (TR4511)

Integrated Transport

Management-SubNetwork

Controller User Training

(TR3510)

Lucent 5ESS Switch

Architecture Seminar

(ES5001)

Cisco 15454 SONET/SDH

System

Introduction to xDSL/ATM

course (by Telecom Training

Services Ltd)

NORTEL MultiService

Switch (15K/7K) Operation

and Maintenance (3341X)

ICND (Interconnecting Cisco

Network Devices)

BCMSN (Building Cisco

Multilayer Switched

Networks)

Newbridge 3600 MainStreet

Bandwidth Manager, 4601A

Network Management

System

MetaSolv’s TBS (Telecom

Business Solutions) and

XNG (Granite) Telecom

Databases.

Ericsson MiniLink and

Ceragon mix mode MW

systems

Project Management Course

(Humber College, Toronto)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Senior Network Planner, Rogers Communications Inc., Toronto, ON, Canada (Jan. 2007 – Cont.)

Managed a team of (4) Network Planners to develop full scale project plans for ROGERS GSM/Inukshuk/HSPA/LTE Cell sites Optical Fibre & Microwave access/backbone transmission networks.

Tracked project deliverables, provided guidance and support to project teams to execute the project.

Issued transmission network planning specifications for ROGERS HSPA network upgrade from 3.6 Mbps to 7.2 Mbps and from 7.2 Mbps to 21 Mbps (HSPA+).

Issued transmission network planning specifications for ROGERS LTE network (Top 4, Top25 & Top 88 Markets).

Planned backbone OC48/OC192 SONET/SDH rings, 10GigE & GigE over DWDM/CWDM and native Ethernet rings over dark fibre to provide transmission for GSM/UMTS/LTE cell sites.

Planned Microwave transmission networks to feed GSM/Inukshuk/HSPA/LTE cell sites including OC3/STM-1, Eth(500Mbps), 16DE(500Mbps) XPIC NP/MHSB M/W hops. (TruePoint, MiniLink and Ceragon mix mode MW systems).

Ordering and provisioning of 3rd party leased data circuits for HSPA/LTE access and backbone requirement.

3/4

Actively involved in monitoring of network resources utilization and identification of network congestion points to re-route the L2/L3 network traffic in order to meet voice/data traffic quality standards.

Processed 3rd party Collocation requests for space and power at Roger’s cell sites.

Coordination between field technicians, Equipment engineering, M/W engineering, Civil engineering and PMO to install new fibre facilities, M/W hops, upgrade existing M/W hops and decommission old M/W hops to increase the network Capacity.

Prepared progress reports for higher management about the progress of long term fibre build and MW upgrade projects.

Actively involved in Transport Networks CAPEX and OPEX optimization.

Planed and facilitated cross-functional team meetings to ensure all project deliverables and critical dates are met.

Identified project risk and develop mitigation plans, escalated issues as required. Network Engineer IV, Cingular Wireless, St.Louis, MO, USA (May 2006 – Dec. 2006)

MTSOs O&M Network design, provisioning, operation and maintenance in MO/KS market.

ATM assignments (Nortel 15K/7K Passport Switch, Alcatel 7670 RSPs, ESEs) and provisioning of DS1/FRATM links between Siemens BSCs and Ericsson SGSN.

Migration of DS1/FRATM from Cingular Wireless Texas SGSN to Hazelwood (St.Louis) MTSO SGSN.

Design of DS1s, DS3s, OC3s, OC12 on ATM and Sonet Network in Granite and then activation of these circuits using CLI Manager.

Participated in Global Knowledge ICND and BCMSN training.

Assignments of IP/Subnetmask addresses for MO/KS O&M Network, creation of new VLANs according to the wireless network requirements.

GigE ports assignments and provisioning on 7609, 4510 Cisco Routers.

Knowledge of MTSO Equipments, GSM, UMTS (Node B, RNC, SGSN, UMG, Softswitch) Transport Provisioner (Consultant), COX Communications, VA, USA (Oct. 2005- Apr. 2006)

All designs of COX Communication's SONET/SDH backbone and access rings for Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake were imported into TBS.

Design of DS0s, DS1, DS3 (Channelized/Unchannelized), OC3/OC3c, OC12/OC12c circuits (Tellab, Fujitsu, Positron, Cisco, Nortel, Lucent Eqpt.) in TBS.

Entered POP equipment including ADMs, DACs, DSX-1, DSX-3, FPP panel information into the TBS database.

Participated in Telcordia Granite/XNG training.

All transport circuits designed in Visio and Excel Sheets entered in TBS were migrated into Granite/ XNG.

Designed new customer circuits in Granite/XNG.

Provisioning Engineer (Consultant), Verizon, Liberty Corner, N.J, USA (Nov. 2004 – Mar. 2005)

Actively involved in Verizon Wireless Access Optical Network Expansion Project.

Involved in study of the traffic characteristics and devising plans to expand the Verizon Wireless Network in USA.

Designed and provisioned PRIs, DS1, DS3 (Channelized/Unchannelized), OC3 using XNG, AVOM, LERG, CSG and related software tools.

4/4

Designed and provisioned E911 circuits for Verizon Wireless network.

Responsible for providing CFA, DACS, ADMs, DSX1, DSX3, FPP port assignments.

Issued requests to regional managers to install DS3 & OC3 Cards in SONET Nodes to provision new facilities.

Designed path and segment for Cell Site T1/E1 with respect to MSC/BSC mapping details.

Created equipment specifications in Xpercom/Granite.

Implementation of the designed circuits by working with NOC technicians.

Project management tasks for Verizon Wireless network expansion.

Coordination with Engineering, Operations, Field Services and Customers on circuit design and provisioning related issues.

University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada (Jan. 2004 - Oct. 2004)

Successfully completed PhD course work.

Extensive hands on experience of designing and studying performance/QoS issues like Packet Average Delay, Packet Loss, Bit-error rate, Network Through-put, Network Loss, RSSI, SIR, SNR etc., using scheduling schemes (PQ, WFQ, FIFO etc) for different network topologies including LAN, WAN, WLAN (802.11b) and WMAN (802.16) on OPNET Modeler 10.0.

Understanding of modulation schemes including QAM, QPSK, BPSK, FSK. Transport Provisioner /Circuit Designer, Group Telecom, Vancouver, Canada (Oct. 2000 - Feb. 2003)

Knowledge of network planning, optimization and customer circuits design process in a carrier environment.

Specialized trainings on Lucent & Cisco SONET Transport Equipment and Network Management Systems.

Designed Lucent, Cisco and Fijitsu based SONET Transport and Access Networks (OC3, OC12, OC48, and OC192 UPSR/BLSR Configurations).

Analyzed customer requests, issued circuit layout reports, provisioned and tested DS1, PRI, Channelized / Unchannelized DS3, OC3c, OC12c, OC48c circuits.

Extensive hands on experience of entering SONET Rings, STS-1 Facilities from DACs to 5ESS Switch, customer circuits including T1/DS1, Channelized/Unchannelized DS3, OC3c, OC12c, 10BaseT, 100BaseT circuits, POP equipment including ADMs, DACs, DSX-1, DSX-3, FPP panel information into the MetaSolv’s Telecom Business Solutions (TBS) Database.

Designed GT ATM over SONET backbone networks.

Issued equipment purchase orders to vendors. Preparation of corporate annual budget reports and dealt with all related financial matters.

Performed site visits, prepared and presented network proposals describing the system solution to the customers.

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