Engineer Service

RAN Expert / Solution Architect TOGAF® *

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name : TCHEUMTCHOUA KAMDEM

Surname : Merleau King

Gender : Male

Date and place of birth : 29 March 1988 at BAFOUSSAM Nationality : Cameroonian

Marital status : Married (1 child)

E-Mail : **********@*****.***

Phone number : +237-*********

address : Bonamoussadi, Douala-Cameroun

Qualification : Senior Radio Planning and Optimization Engineer Over 8 years’ experience across valuable opCOs (Orange, MTN) with extensive experience in 2G/3G/4G/Wimax Radio access technology environment with strong knowledge in:

- Site/capacity Design and planning activities

- Optimization and RAT features usage for network improvement

- Indoor solution engineering

- Frequency planning and refarming U900/L1800

- Drivetest and post processing analysis

- Good Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent parameter knowledge for Optimization

- Managed service cross functionality and management

- CAPEX/OPEX preparation as per RAN access strategy

- KPI Performance and reporting

- Deep quality issues investigation using signaling traces and protocols

- Broadband project technical lead

- Software programming for regular task automation

- Enterprise/solution Architecture

Also familiar with access transmission planning technologies (PDH, SDH) as far as IP over Abis requirements are concerned.

Passionate about getting into challenging era of new technology development (LTE-A, 5G or greater foreign telecommunication markets, with the goal to contribute to their enhancement.

Education

- 2004 – 2009 : Master of Engineering at National Advance School of Engineering Yaoundé, Cameroon (mention Bien)

- 2004 : Baccalaureat C Mathematics and Physics (mention Bien) Trainings

- LTE Radio Network tuning and Optimization Problem Analysis Huawei, 2017

- LTE eRAN8.1 Performance Improving Features and Algorithms Huawei, 2017

- WCDMA Radio Network Features and Algorithms Huawei, 2017

- WCDMA Radio Network Tuning Huawei, 2017

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- WCDMA R99/HSPA/HSPA+ Radio Network Optimization Huawei, 2017

- Huawei LTE Training February 2016, Douala Cameroon Huawei, 2017

- WCDMA RAN Quality of Service, Ericsson 2017

- WCDMA Initial Tuning Ericsson, 2017

- LTE Advanced Radio Network features Ericsson, 2017

- LTE Performance Management and Optimization Ericsson, 2017

- 3G Training July 2015, Accra Ghana

- ISO9001 2015

- ASSET AIRCOM User training

- WIMAX Training October 2014, Douala Cameroon

WiMAX 16e Radio Network Design and Planning & Optimization

Wimax 16e WASN

WiMAX iManager M2000 Network Monitoring

- TEMS investigation 13.X and Discovery 10.X August 2014

- Defensive Driving

- Transversal Management

- WANDA and WANDA Survey December 2011, Douala Cameroon : Hotspot WIFI Radio design;

- OSIRIS and BDRef January 2011, Douala Cameroon KPI analysis and monitoring

- ATOLL 2.8 Radio Planning & Optimization Software October 2010 Douala, Cameroon

MICROWAVE

GSM

AFP GSM

CALIBRATION

- ALCATEL-LUCENT B10 SYSTEM Training August 2010, LANNION, France:

INTRODUCTION TO RADIO FINE TUNING /B10 ALCATEL-LUCENT

INTRODUCTION TO QUALITY OF SERVICE AND TRAFFIC LAOD

INTRODUCTION TO E-GPRS QOS AND TRAFFIC LOAD MONITORING

GPRS AND E-GPRS RADIO ALGORITHMS DESCRIPTION

MULTIBAND AND MULTILAYER GSM NETWORK RADIO OPTIMIZATION

EVOLIUM BSS TELECOMS EVOLUTION B9-B10

B10 OPTIMIZATION AND FREQUENCY PLANNING USING RMS

- WORK AT HEIGHT Training Course(NickCery) July 2010 Yaoundé, Cameroon Experience

Since August 2013: Senior Radio Planning and Optimization Engineer – Deputy Team Leader, MTN Cameroon

• CAPEX Paper and budget elaboration

• BOQ and quotation preparation and verification as per vendor feedback RAN Expert / Solution Architect TOGAF® 9

• 3G/LTE performance analysis (topworst cells, license usage report analysis

• Drive Test (Tems investigation 13.0, Tems discovery 10.x)

• Indoor solution design

• Sites design and survey

• RAN dimensioning and radio capacity issues resolution

• WIMAX 16e performance monitoring and optimization

• WIMAX 16e relocation and upgrade project management

• Frequency planning (refarming) using Mapinfo, Atoll

• ABIS performance monitoring after cutover from TDM Abis over IP

• Physical Optimization on TA-basis

• Automatic Weekly report on parameter changes for discrepancy check tracker.

• Managed service interoperability

• SSV validation

June 2013- August 2013: Network Optimization Project SOTEL– Ndjamena Chad

• Neighbor audit and re-planning

• Drive test analysis and recommendations

• Physical optimization

• Frequency planning

• KPI improvement

October 2009 – July 2013: RAN Planning and Optimization Engineer, Orange Cameroun

• Cell Planning and Surveys for Radio Network Design

• Optimization of cells parameters to guarantee a good Quality of Service

• Optimization of Paging Load through LAC design/redesign

• Provide Radio Solutions to decongest high trafic cells

• Provide good Radio and Field parameters to ensure a good integration of new deployed cells into the network

• Propagation Model tuning using Atoll

• Frequency planning

• Analysis of Radio Measurement so as to bring out and resolve points of bad Quality

Professional tools

• Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint

• Database tools: SQL Server, APACHE

• Programming: Perl, VBA Excel, PHP/HTLM/JAVAScript

• GIS : MAPINFO Piano, Google Earth

• OSS: U2000, CITRIX ALU/NSN/AMOS, MAPS, FACTS (MTN internal)

• Planning and Optimization tools :

o Planning tools

ATOLL/UNET (FORSK/HUAWEI),

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ASSET (AIRCOM)

WANDA (WIFI design, France Telecom),

Constellation (LAC/RAC Redesign, France Telecom), o Optimization tools

OSIRIS (France Telecom),

RNO, NPO (Alcatel-Lucent)

FACTS, MAPS (MTN Group)

U2000 (Huawei)

BDRef (France Telecom Parameter optimization tool) Distinctions

• Best employee of MTN Technical department in the month of October 2017, contribution in elaboration of more than 40% of the company budget with suitable solution design to address forecasted capacity issues

• Best employee of MTN technical department 2016 in category Efficiency

• Best employee of MTN technical department 2015 in category Innovation and active collaboration: production of a tool automatically detecting sector swaps remotely, without need of field checks

• Orange Cameroun Scholarship 2007/2008

• Orange Cameroun Scholarship: Best student at the 2004 Baccalaureat for the North West region.

Miscellaneous

• Article on analytic method to retrieve holdings in a financial system opened to payment transactions, loan and repayment (tontine) Domain : Financial mathematics

• Study and design of a GSM jammer, 2010

Languages

• French : Expert

• English : Professional

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