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WIRELESS FIELD ENGINEER

Solutions-oriented and analytical professional with history of excellence designing and building state-of-the-art broadband and wireless networks.

Excel at collaborating with interdisciplinary teams to assess, design, simulate, and test CDMA, PCS/GSM/LTE networks in both lab and field settings. Expertise in signals processing and data collection and analysis used for benchmarking and performance improvement. Skilled with reliability, quality, and availability mapping. Technical expertise includes…

Technologies: CDMA, WCDMA, PCS, GSM, UMTS, RF, MIMO, fiber, optical, routing protocols

Design & Production: RF, CDMA, RF site surveys, data collection, reporting & mapping, equipment costing, signal processing, performance monitoring, QoS LTE field and lab testing, backbone mapping, last mile installs

Tools: Invex 3G, MapInfo, Matlab, MS Office Suite

Database: Oracle, SQL Server 2005/2000

Languages: C, C++, VHDL, Perl, Assembly

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hoboken, NJ

M.S. in Electrical Engineering, 2008

GUJARAT UNIVERSITY, Gujarat, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication, 2005

EXPERIENCE HIGHLIGHTS

STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Hoboken, NJ

Ph.D. Candidate / Master’s Student, Electrical Engineering, 01/2009 – 05/2010

Via institution recognized for research leadership, developed advanced proficiencies in broadband and wireless system design, security, and capacity management. Earned strengths in estimation and detection theory, cross-layer design, and DSP for wireless. Honed understanding of multi-carrier communications spread spectrum and CDMA. Applied expertise to developing solutions for mobile communications providers, and conducting cutting edge research for next generation communications solutions in R&D setting.

Selected Projects:

Cross-Layer perspective of Random Access via Beamforming: Created adaptive beamforming solution for Smart antenna. Developed random access scheme to provide cross-layer perspective.

Hybrid Selection / Equal Gain Combining Scheme: Compared scheme combinations for hybrid selection used to improve performance of HS/EGC scheme under Maximal Ration Combining strategies. Conducted research over Correlated Nakagami m-fading channels.

Performance Analysis of Non-Parametric Detectors: Researched advantage of Mann-Whitney Detector over conventional detector. Analyzed signal detection performance results in presence of Gaussian Noise.

Calculating Interference in Weibull Distributed Channels: Compared Rayleigh and Weibull distributions with respect to interference in each.

NIELSON MOBILE, Lynchburg, VA

RF Analyst Intern, 03/2008 – 11/2008

As part of multidisciplinary product management team for provider of mobile industry performance measurements and benchmarking, developed voice and data service availability maps using MapInfo. Assessed major carrier reliability, quality, and availability; evaluated wireless quality using Invex 3G. Monitored production system performance to detect anomalies; identify potential causes of systemic irregularities.

Selected Contribution:

Provided RF network technical assessment prior to rollout ensuring optimal availability, reliability, and quality.

AIRTEL, Mumbai, India

Telecommunication Engineer, 01/2005 – 12/2005

Designed telecommunications solution for leading mobile network service provider across Asia and Africa. Gathered bandwidth and network requirements, conducted RF physical site surveys, and designed last mile solutions. Created total network equipment and resource cost estimates. Prepared recommendations for optical or wireless solutions and teamed with client, project manager, and technician staff to select solution. Installed fiber and optical network equipment. Supported internal groups with ancillary build projects and production support.

Selected Contributions:

Collaboratively developed backbone network in partnership with management team in addition to co-developing client database.

Served as subject matter expert and primary point of contact for Mumbai region for supporting other regions with network build, implementation, and integration.

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