Engineer System

Someet Lal

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H ighly motivated, result oriented professional with strong quantitative and sharp analytical skills

w ith over 5 years of experience in CDMA EV-DO technology.

CORE COMPETENC IES:

• Expertise in Airvana’s Macro EV-DO (Rev-0, Rev-A, eHRPD and Rev-B) RAN product.

• Extensive experience in trouble shooting handset E2E throughput, Call drop, Access

Failure and Handoff.

• Extensive experience in Live Air Verification regression and performance testing.

• Strong ability to interpret statistical trends using several analytical tools including Excel

• Proficient with VB, VBA and Excel Macros.

PROFESSIONAL PORF I L E:

Airvana I nc.

Senior System Performance Engineer Position: Fulltime

June’06-Present

System Engineering

• Airvana’s System Performance Prime for Macro EV-DO Release ( 6.0,70,8.0,8.1 and 8.2

eHRPD ) VO (Verification Office phase)

• Rewarded for an outstanding effort and excellence in resolving VzW, SPC and BMCI

network hot KPIs/KCIs (Failed Call, Drop Call, Dormant and Active handoff and EV-DO

C luster imbalance) issues.

• Significantly contributed in defining the KPIs for Airvana's EV-DO RAN products.

• Routinely gave technical talk about operator’s KPI/KCI performance to Software,

Sustaining and Technical Support teams.

• Significantly contributed in improving KPIs/KCIs of VzW, SPC, BMCI, US Cellular, and

Leap Comm. Network.

• Consistently engaged in in-depth KPI/KCI technical discussion with Software Design team.

• Extensively contributed in defining the guidelines and definition for data collection

templates for capturing the operational metric in the field.

• Regularly contributed to the System Performance team by developing techniques,

p rocedure and tools to analyze and measure EV-DO KPIs.

• Supported cross-functional groups in PLM, Software Design, Tech Services and QA .

• Consistently contributed to enhance in house Live Air Verification (LAV) testing procedure

and analyzing the test results.

• Designed minimum performance specification test plan for CSM 6800 Modem 1.4 driver.

• Recognized for identifying driver level defect and also for completing the execution profile

m uch before the deadline.

C ustomer I nterface

Someet Lal

Home: 978-***-**** e-mail: ******@*****.***

Cell (Day time): 978-***-****

• Served as System Engineering primary liaison for new operational metric for EV-DO

M acro product.

• Responded to customer’s in-depth technical questions on KPIs/KCIs performance and

operational metric behavior.

• Routinely gave presentations to the customer after resolving KPIs/KCIs issues during VO

phase.

Achievement

• Recognition for an outstanding effort and excellence in resolving EV-DO R6.0 VO

performance issue Aug’08

• Recognition for an outstanding effort and excellence in resolving Bell Mobility Canada

EV-DO System Performance issue Sept’08

• Recognition for an outstanding effort and excellence in resolving EV-DO R7.0 VO

performance issue Oct’08

• Recognition for an outstanding effort and excellence in resolving EV-DO R8.0 VO

performance issue Aug’09

• Recognition for demonstrating outstanding effort and excellence in resolving EV-DO R8.1

VO performance issue June’10

Airvana I nc,

I ntern, System Performance Engineering Position:

40hrs/week

4th J une’05-1st

M ay’06

• Conducted Live Air Verification testing for the Release SW 3.0,3.2 and 4.0

• E2E network configuration and Handset provisioning.

• Added new functionality to Airvana’s Performance tool in Visual Basic.

Reliance I nfocomm, Hyderabad, I ndia Position:

F ulltime

Network Engineer Wire line Div. Circle (NOC),

M ay’03-Aug’04

• Monitored switch POI faults and enterprise customer complaint.

• Created t icket for the complaint and work with field engineer to resolve i t.

• Coordinated with Central NOC to resolve interstate line fault

T EC H N ICAL SKI L LS:

D IAGNOST IC TOOL EXPER IENCE:

• CAIT (CDMA Air Interface Tester),QCAT

• QXDM(Qualcomm extensible diagnostic measurement tool)

Someet Lal

Home: 978-***-**** e-mail: ******@*****.***

Cell (Day time): 978-***-****

• QPST,MAXPLAN

• NEWTUN EVDO System Performance Diagnostic tool

• Wind Catcher DUT Diagnostic tool

• Wireshark, Ethereal ( TCP/GRE/PPP layer packet inspection)

HANDS ON EXPER IENCE

• Spectrum Analyzer

• Spirent TAS4500 ( Fading Simulator)

D IAGNOST IC TOOL DEVELOPED:

• OM/Log Parsing tool (VB)

• AT Diagnostic tool ( VB)

CO MP U TER SK I L LS:

Languages : C, C++ and MATLAB

Scripting Language : VB, VBA, perl

P LATFOR MS:

Operating System : W indows XP/2000/NT/9X, UN IX

E D UCAT IO N:

University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA

MS in E lectrical Engineering

Sept’04 - May’06

Concentration in Telecommunication: GPA 3.83/4.0

Birla I nstitute of Technology, Mesra, I ndia

Sept’98 - June’02

B E i n E lectronics and Communication E ngineering

Awarded first class with distinction: GPA 7.11/10

References

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