Engineer Project

Nirmal P. Bhandari E-mail:

Mo-+1-469-***-**** ******.********@*****.***

Summary

A result oriented professional with industrial experience in LTE/3G/2G-

Network design, antennas, optimization. Vastly experienced in

Organizational Development and conduct numerous projects. I worked in yield

enhancement, tool qualification, Process integration and OEM product line

from concept to delivery through cross-functional team and have

demonstrated strengths in strategic planning and quality service using

effective communication skills and worked with culturally diverse people.

My interest for the position is due to my experience & knowledge in the

relevant field. As a versatile professional, I am prepared to make a long-

term commitment where dependability is valued and results are rewarded.

Core Competencies

. Process & Performance Analysis and Improvement

. Team Building and Mentoring

. Effective Communications Skills

. Cross-functional team player

. Competitive Analysis

Professional Experience

RF Engineer - TechMahindra, India

Jan 2011 - Present

Project: Spark KPN, Belgium

. Working on Spark KPN, Belgium Managed service project.

. I am involved in developing Manage services portal for project

activities like Performance analysis, Roll-out and operations and

analytics.

. MS Portal provides following functionality and visibility about the

network and operations

o Dash boards showing domain wise network KPI

o Region wise performance of KPIs

o Operational performance

. Involved in KPI formulation for different vendors

. Mobile Network Optimization, UMTS, LTE RF, RAN Networks process

. Knowledge of SQL queries.

. Knowledge of Analytics tools like SAS,etc

. Solutioning, RFP/RFI Response, SME & Technical Support to Sales &

Delivery, Project Management

. Domain consultant on Radio Network Design on UMTS/HSPA+,GSM and

CDMA networks

. KPI definition and Optimization such as Voice (12.2 AMR) CSSR,

Voice Call Drop Rate, Intersystem Handover, HOSR, Avg User Data

Throughput, etc

. Dimension and Optimize various mobile networks for vendors and

operators

. Presales Consultant and SME for all Network Services RFPs

Project: T-Mobile Modernization

. Worked on T-Mobile modernization project to add LTE AWS & UMTS PCS

while supporting existing UMTS AWS and GSM PCS capability for NSN

market and non NSN markets

. Perform RF network design, planning and optimization activities

. Responsible to resolve day-to-day issues and support regions to

deliver KPI of every LTE/UMTS/GSM cluster

. Implement LTE/UMTS/GSM optimization/acceptance plan, sponsor best

practices, assess and escalate system issues to RAN, Core, Data

design teams

. Perform link budget analysis, design criteria and traffic analysis

. Undertake network performance improvement (KPIs) and optimization

tasks

. Undertake BSS/RNC/Node B parameter modifications

. Analyze and recommend equipment and antenna co-location

requirements for different technologies

. Perform site build verification and acceptance

. Undertake network performance improvement (KPIs) and optimization

tasks

. Undertake BSS/RNC/Node B parameter modifications

. Site configuration analysis

. Pilot pollution analysis, parameter configuration, IRAT neighbor

analysis

. Exclusion / Exception area recommendation and verification

. Identify, resolve all coverage and RF design deficiencies

. Preparing Daily KPI report using TPIM tool (T-Mobile reporting

tool).

. Daily KPI report-all three reports are loaded in macro and which

gives KPI`s like TCH traffic, Network Access failure, SD and TCH

drops, Edge Payload, HO failure, TBF drops, etc.

. Daily analysis of Traffic, Accessibility, Retainaibilty and

Mobility

. Daily analysis of Zero traffic carrying cell like Downlink/Uplink

EDGE RLC Payload.

. Disabling and Enabling GENA using MML commands if sites are taking

Zero Traffic

. Doing Parameter audit and consistency check of 2G/3G cells for pre

and post swap with reference counters

. Daily check and escalation of radio electrical tilts of 3G sites if

there is any change in tilt wrt to RFDS plans.

. Daily monitoring of sites which are impacted due wrong RET setting

which may result into congestion in a site, low traffic site, high

drop.

. Drop call analysis is done using OSS stats and Drive test log

files.

. Drive test log files are analyzed in Actixone post processing tool.

CDMA/EVDO network optimization-Bell Canada

. CDMA 1x RF and CDMA EVDO Data Network design and performance

improvement.

. Drive Test Survey.

. CDMA 1x RF and CDMA EVDO Data Network performance analysis and

monitoring.

. Access Network PN planning.

. Based on the Ineffective Attempts, Lost Calls, Drop Calls, design

and execute voice access network improve and optimization.

. Based on the EVDO Throughput, FER, Session retainability, latency,

design and execute data access network improve and optimization.

. Support to Planning team to plan capacity as forecasted by operator

and Traffic trends

. Post Processing of drive test data using Actix & Map Info.

. Analyzing data on processing tools, clean up bad quality patches,

providing good coverage and Generating reports.

. Preparation & Prioritization of Neighbors in the Neighbor list.

. Attend and resolved various customer complaints.

. Various reports analysis-Call drop, MRx, MTx, EcIo, FER, PN, HO

reports.

. Pivotal at Coverage optimization by changing Antenna Tilt, Type,

Orientation & combination of some or all.

. Ensuring quality assurance & AT of all sites.

Sr. Performance Engineer-MKL Technologies

Jul 2010 - Jan 2011

Project:Clearwire,USA

. KPI Maintenance of Clearwire for WiMAX Network of USA

. Worked on network KPI of 3 vendors Huawei, Motorola and Samsung.

. Looking after Performance of all vendors for CDMA/EVDO and WiMAX

technology

. Daily Top 200 offenders and Top 200 movers performance reports

where made for all 3 vendors.

. Done daily reporting for all MVNO markets of Clearwire

. Extracting performance reports from servers using Sql queries

. Knowledge on Sql queries and MS Access

. Had an extensive hands-on and knowledge of several design tools

which include the OSS, network design, scripting, implementation,

troubleshooting, optimization and performance management.

Sr. Performance Engineer-Telecom Network Solution Apr 2010

- Jul 2010

Project:Uninor

. Responsibilities include end to end process formation for various

subtasks within RF planning umbrella.

. Management of associated subcontractors.

. To understand customer requirement and fulfill them in terms of

planning as per commitment with solution oriented process, high

quality and minimum resources.

. Responsibilities also include getting commercial sign off from

customer for work done against Radio Network Planning & Radio

Network Optimization activities.

. Nominal Planning and preparing Prediction Plots for Network

Implementation on ASSET6.1.

. CW Test for Western Maharashtra (Pune, Nasik, Goa Kolhapur etc).

. Model tuning for Western Maharashtra and validation of propagation

parameters.

. Network Planning & Implementation for TEC Town as per TRAI norms.

. Monthly signoff of Sites from customer.

. Preparing pre-launch optimization guidelines to be followed by

planning team during the roll out.

. Freeze the number of sites in new cities based on coverage area and

projected subscriber base.

. Maintaining the project master site database files, Updating EPM

milestones.

. Looking for Survey, Drive Test and Site Data Planning (IP

Planning).

. Setting the specific RF parameters for the site to be integrated:

BSCid, BCFid, BTSid, LAC, RAC, CI, BCCH frequency, TCH frequencies,

hopping parameters etc

. Mapping of Site to other Infra Vendors as per customer

requirement.

. Dealing with NSN & Uninor for all Planning related issues.

RF Engineer, Nokia Siemens Networks,India

Aug 2005 - March 2010

Project :Bharti Airtel,Maharashtra

. Daily Optimization activities to monitor Data & Voice KPIs,Daily,

Hourly, Busy Hour basis and rectifying/optimizing the issue of the

worst performing cells in the network w.r.t counters involved, to

maintain the KPIs for the BSCs to agreed threshold.

. Monitoring the pre-post KPIs of the BSC & rectifying any issue in

the BSC's sites after implementation of New Features

(E.g. SW/Parameter) in the BSC. Parameter audit for newly

integrated BSC and the respective sites.

. Purposing new sites, TRX addition, AMR-HR Reshuffling of RTSL from

Less Utilized Cells to different Highly Utilized Cells. and cabinet

expansion to 1800; to decongest the existing site.

. Managing parameters and physical optimization to control Handover

and Traffic Load

. Making CR (Change Request) in xml format with NOKIA NetAct Plan

Editor, to implement the change. Verifying BSC/BTS/TRX level

parameters changes by NetAct Plan Editor

. Running Optimiser (NetAct) for all BSC using KPI database of last

15 days and accordingly BCCH and TCH plan implementation done

. Improvement of KPIs of network for a group of BSCs in Pune city,

Nagpur Cluster, Solapur Cluster, Nashik Cluster consistency checks

& parameters tuning.

. Database Parameter Optimization - Optimum tuning of various

parameters for improving site KPI.

. Support to Planning team to plan capacity as forecasted by Bharti

and Traffic trends.

. Leading a team of drive-test engineers, knowledge imparting &

sharing with them.

. Handling high level costumer complains regarding coverage,

congestion, GPRS & EGPRS problems and providing appropriate

solutions and support TSG team.

. Drive test log file analysis using TEMS 8.2.

. Site Survey, support to find and identifying locations for Fill-in

sites.

. Planning for coverage and capacity sites.

. Additionally:--MAPINFO 8.0, Professional Software, Nokia Netact

Plan Editor, Understanding of BSS database parameters.

. Knowledge of BSS Router, esoflex report, Telnet, FTP protocols.

Achievements & Skills

. Meet All KPI of Solapur Cluster for Bharti-Maharashtra-March2010

Equipments/Tools

. Drive Testing tools: TEMS Investigation, NEMO, Swissqual

. Planning Tool: Knowledge of Atoll and Asset

. Analyzer: Actix Analyzer and Spotlight, Actixone, NQDI

. GIS tools: MAPINFO

Operating Systems

. WIN 2000/XP/Vista

Software & Languages

. VB-Macro

. MS-Office

. BI Tools like SAS, Microstrategy, TIBCO spotfire

. SQL Queries Neteeza

Education

. B.E.-Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Major: Telecom.

May-2005

. Training:

Certification: LTE RAN Signaling & Design from Award Solution

Inc.(July 11 to July 18 2012)

o Modules Covered - LTE Air Interface, QoS in LTE, KPI's in LTE,

Traffic and Bandwidth Management, Link Budget for LTE, Capacity

Planning in LTE, RF Configuration Parameters Design, Mobility and

Idle Mode, Handover, RF Operational Parameters Design, KPIs in

LTE Radio Network, Interoperability

VISA

USA H1B visa with stamping

References

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