Engineer Professional Experience

Yaw Owusu-Agyei

505-***-****(M)

Email ***********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

Seeking an Engineering position in an organization where my expertise in Electrical Communications and Telecommunications would be needed.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

•More than fifteen years of professional experience in the Radio Frequency Industry

•Computer experience includes spreadsheets, programming in C/C++, Basic, Matlab

•Proves communication abilities, both oral and written

•Developed Interpersonal skills and motivate teams

•Ability to achieve immediate and long term goals and meet operational deadlines

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

ARC Partners, Inc Great Falls, VA

SNR. RF ENGINEER Feb 2014 to Present

Consultant – Sprint National RF Coverage and Planning, Reston, VA

•National RF coverage and planning for Sprint's voice CDMA and LTE data network. Provided support for $2,000,000 2.5GHz LTE Macro sites equipment and RF services spend.

•Responsible for reviewing 80% of search rings submitted from field engineers for LTE Mini/Macros Nationwide Design. Reviews included coverage design, trials with Softbank Japan team in addition to physical site design using Mentum Planet propagation tool.

•Responsible for 100% interference mitigation for Sprint’s 2500 MHz LTE sites near NexRAD and ASR radar systems.

•Responsible for analyzing power flux density (pdf) for LTE sites along USA borders with Canada and Mexico to meet international border interference requirements. Tasks also include analyzing sites within GSA areas.

GCB Services Mclean, VA

SNR. RF ENGINEER Feb 2012 to Dec 2013

Consultant – CDMA, EVDO, LTE Implementation and Optimization Ericsson, Dallas, TX

•Integration and Optimization of all new network elements into the existing macro network. Network elements included CDMA voice, EVDO and LTE data carriers, as well as new sites including DAS systems.

•Worked on creating scripts for BTS/RBS new site integrations using CACP and CPS and ability to troubleshoot script issues until resolution.

•Supported $1,200,000 Sprint Network Vision upgrades in DFW and East Texas Markets.

•Optimized performance and capacity by clusters for DFW and ETX newly Integrated Ericsson CDMA, EVDO and LTE network. Monitored and improved KPIs such as network access failure, dropped and blocked call rate on the voice network and data throughput. Network Optimization was achieved by using various Ericsson tools such as Cartoon Page, NEAT, Cockpit, Newtun, and MapInfo. Also analyzed system logs daily.

•RF Optimization included general parameter augmentation, nbr list adjusting, hard hand off border practices.

ARC Partners, Inc Great Falls, Virginia

RF Engineer Nov 2009 to Dec 2011

Consultant - iDEN Design and Implementation, Nextel Communications, Norcross, GA

•Worked on planning special drive routes for troubled spots in Atlanta market for data collection and analysis.

•Analyzed the data and investigated the layer three messages to determine the reasons for call drops. Performed site verification tests. Analyzed different interfaces and differences in artificial and real traffic load.

•Worked on iDen Sites integration testing. Testing of cell sites for inter cell and intra cell Handoffs.

•Performed optimization drives and recommended parameter changes to improve KPIs

Nexius Wireless Inc. Herndon, Virginia

SNR RF Engineer Sept 2006 to Oct 2009

Consultant - iDEN 900MHz Implementation and Optimization Sprint Nextel Communications, Mclean, VA

•RF POC for 900MHz Band iDEN Implementation and Optimization in the BAWA market. Task included overseeing implementing 900MHz channels and optimization based on statistical measurements and feedback from RF management.

•Optimized added 900MHz channels into the iDEN network due to rebanding. Work on improving the TDR for the BAWA network by making the necessary modifications to existing sites like, power changes, antenna changes, parameter changes, radiation center line reductions, etc.

•Tracked trends from reported RF failure and used the trends to predict future potential problem areas in the RF coverage footprint due to the replacing of 800MHz frequencies with 900MHz.

•Provide real time support to field technicians to resolve RF failures.

ARC Partners, Inc Great Falls, Virginia

SNR RF Engineer April 2005 to Sept 2006

Consultant - iDEN Design and Implementation, Nextel Communications, Norcross, GA

•RF ACP Project Manager for Atlanta and Alabama market. Task includes overseeing the optimization of the markets using ACP tool to recommend RC reductions, power and antenna changes.

•Responsible for radio system design of the iDEN network. Main duties include Designing Search Rings and analyzing submitted candidates. Site visits with the Site Acquisition team to finally approve candidates chosen by RF to verify if it will meet all the RF objectives. Prepare zoning packages where necessary for zoning meetings. Verified Construction and tower drawings and issued Final EBTS’s for approved candidates. Attended weekly deployment meetings and updated the RF portion of Celltrack and Siterra.

Consultant - iDEN Optimization, Design and Implementation, Nextel Communications, Greenville, SC

•Main duties include analyzing Drop Calls, Lost of Transmissions, Inter and Intra Cell handover failures, poor coverage areas, Handover origination Failures, Blocking, statistically and with drive test data. Parameter/Neighbor list scrubbing was done weekly to improve neighbor list and optimize various parameters. Used traffic data to analyze and improve capacity. Worked on Re-tuning the South Carolina Nextel Market.

Consultant - iDEN Design, Sprint Nextel Reconciliation, Nextel Communications, Charlotte, NC

•Responsible for the analysis of Sprint CDMA and Nextel iDEN cell sites for the Sprint Nextel merger in North Carolina. Tasks included evaluating existing and proposed Sprint and Nextel sites using coverage plots

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

•M.S. Electrical Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 2000

•B.S. Electrical Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 1997

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