Engineer Quality Assurance

MOHAMMED FARHAN

Contact No.: +91-783******* ( E-Mail: ****.********@*****.***

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In quest of professional enrichment opportunities in Techno-Commercial

positions with a reputed organization in telecom industry, where I can

utilise my technical and administrative skills and contribute significantly

towards achieving sustained organizational goals

Executive Pr cis

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< A competent professional with over 5 years of experience in RF

Engineering, Maintenance Operations, Testing as well as Planning,

Implementation and Optimization of CDMA 1x, EVDO, GSM network.

< Presently associated with Ericsson Global India Pvt Ltd for Sprint

Nextel USA.

< Gained extensive exposure while working on a variety of CDMA, EVDO,

and GSM projects.

< Experienced in monitoring daily status of network, dealing with

network inconsistencies, optimization, PN planning, neighbour planning

& drive test analysis.

< Resourceful at maintaining business relationship with clients and

customers to achieve quality product and service norms by resolving

their service related critical issues.

< Successful in building relations with upper level decision makers,

seizing control of critical problem areas and delivering on client

commitments.

Competencies Matrix

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Network Management:

> Responsible for traffic management.

> Maintenance & parameters measurements for local & remote terminal

sites.

> Initiating Neighbour list tuning and periodic RF database audit.

Operations:

> Overseeing troubleshooting & customer care support services at the

field level.

> Monitoring & optimising resource utilisation.

Quality Assurance:

> Periodic optimization on the basis of drive test data processing.

> Network traffic trend analysis to propose the new site within the live

network to maintain the quality of network.

Career Snapshot

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Since10'12: Ericsson Global India Pvt Ltd. Senior RF Optimisation Engineer-

Nortel (Sprint Nextel USA)

< Managing 1X Access Channel Occupancy (ACO) targets & Managing 1X

Paging Channel Occupancy (PCO) targets

< Integrating new EVDO (Turn up) / 1X carriers (Turn up/ Turn down)

< Improving EVDO site/sector throughput

< Improving EVDO multi-carrier performance

< Analyzing and Proposing Solutions (1X & EVDO)

< Analyzing Drive Data to Solve Problems

< Creating Pre-Post Reports

< Maintaining 1X and EVDO parameter compliance

< Optimizing 1x Neighbor lists

< Optimizing EVDO Neighbor lists

< Identifying and resolving 1X and EVDO PN conflicts

< Special Events Support

Jan'09 to Oct'12: Alcatel-Lucent Managed Solutions India Pvt. Ltd, RF

Engineer (Designation: Engineer) Lucknow.

< Analyzing the periodic BENCHMARKING drive test reports and suggests

optimization measures for the next Quarter.

< Monitoring overall network health & KPIs

< Strategizing solutions from network performance & customer complaints

perspective

< Network Audits

< Development of KPI improvement weekly targets

< Analysis/Validation of various performance reports

< Working on critical network issues with NHQ, TAC & Vendor

< Root cause analysis of all performance affecting critical/recurring

faults and recommend actions.

< Impact analysis of all recommended corrective actions

< Periodic risk assessment of network operations from quality

imperatives

< Ensuring close coordination of optimization activities with NPI team

in NHQ and Reliance teams

< Monitoring Network Complaints and their resolutions as per the SLA

< Preparation of reports for regulatory bodies for sharing QOS reports

from a network performance perspective.

< Escalating poor performing sites for hardware check to BSS.

< Conducting testing of new service during launch.

< Review of all improvement plans in Rogue Cell Tracker received from

the RF Performance SMEs for feasibility and impact and seeks necessary

NHQ approvals for implementations.

< Manage IMRB drive Test in the circle.

< Provide technical support to the circle RF team related to RF tools

and DT kits.

Deliverables pertaining to EVDO: -

< Responsible for Data Services (HSD,1X Data) in UPE RCOM.

< 200 HSD sites on Lucent System for Lucknow cluster

< Daily Analysis of HSD performance (KPI) e.g. RLP Forward Link Data

Rate per User, Forward Sector throughput, Average Slot Utilization &

Average DRC request.

< HSD Connection Setup Rate, Connection Blocking, DCR & SSSR.

< Identify Rogue Sector, Loaded Sector & Zero Download Sector of HSD

Site.

< HSD Call tracing & fault troubleshooting at different layers (AN, A10,

A11, A12etc layer).

< Make plan for Adding new E1 at highly RF & E1 utilized.

< Handoff analysis of EVDO to 1X data services.

< Maintaining the HSD KPIs within the preferred benchmark of Lucknow

< Studying of Busy Hour report & take necessary steps for blocking and

congestion issue 1x CDMA data services.

< Interference analysis & Interference Source detection

< HSD, 1x Data Customer complains diagnosis, troubleshooting &

forwarding to concern department if the problem is not from RF side.

< Report generation from RAW DT data & Validation.

< Data analysis of HSD benchmarking with TATA HSD.

Sep'07 to Dec'08: Infinite Tele Solutions Pvt. Ltd.( RF Engineer) Gurgaon

RF Network Optimization in CDMA Technology:-

< Drive test and Network Optimization.

< Collecting the drive test data to analyze the Ec/Io, Tx Power,

interference problem, PN pollution, handover analysis and calls drop

problem etc.

< Analyze Drive Test results by Post Processing..

< Prepare final presentation.

< Manage team and look arrangement of resource.

< Analysis of Daily performance parameters like Call set-up success

rate, Channel occupancy (paging & access), handoff failure, Drop

calls, and Radio utilization and find out problematic issues at site

and Sector level and correct them to enhance network performance.

< Optimized RF parameters related to Handoff, FCI (Neighbours relations)

with ECP.

< Diagnose problem related to Coverage, Interference - Pilot Pollution,

Missing Neighbour.

< PN Offsets optimization and removed PN ambiguity.

Technical Skill Set

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V Efficiently worked upon: -

o Drive Test Tools : TEMS (7.1, 9.1),

Agilent (9.3), NEMO (5.41), XCAL, PROBE and

NTAS.

o Post Processing Tools : Nemo Analyzer, Actix

Post Processing Tool, Assistant and NTAS

Analyzer

o Mapping Tools : MapInfo Professionals (7.5, 8,

8.5,10), Google Earth

o RF Tools : Elgeto Power Meter, Site

Master,Anritsu Spectrum Analyser

o LMT : Air-bridge LMT for Huawei

BSC 6680,MUSA 6600,GSM PARC BSC 6000

o Ericsson Tools : RFISS, SODA, Reveal, Flux,EMSGUI,

Secure CRT,CACP, RF Cock-Pit

Scholastics

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2008: B.Tech.in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Maharishi

Dayanand University, Rohtak (Haryana)

Professional Training Undertaken

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V Undergone EVDO Overview and Optimization training at DAKC, Mumbai from

19.6.10 to 24.6.10.

V Undergone EVDO Optimization and overview of UMTS & LTE training at

DAKC, Mumbai from 6.12.10 to 11.12.10

V Acquired ETCP Certification in Dec'12 (IP certification)

IT Forte

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V Proficient with: -

o Programming Languages : C and C++

o Operating Systems : Windows 98, 2000, XP, Vista

and DOS.

o Applications : MS Office (Excel, Word and Power

Point).

Personal Minutiae

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Date of Birth : 1st June 1984.

Address : Plot No: 473 Shakti Khand-

3,Indirapuram,Ghaziabad(U.P)

References : Will be furnished upon request.

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