Engineer Customer

Shoaib Akram

Email ID- ********@*****.***

Mobile number: +964**********

WhatsApp Number: +964**********

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shoaib-akram-77505171

Permanent Address-481B AL Mustafa town Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan

Summery

6 years of Multinational Vendors and Multicultural experience (Huawei, ZTE)

Projects.

LTE RF Optimization Consultant at Huawei Iraq (LTE TDD) MS project (Aug 2016 to present).

LTE RF Optimization Consultant at Vodafone Turkey (4.5G FDD) Acceptance project (Feb 2016 to till April 2017) through LCC.

LTE&UTRAN RF Optimization Engineer at Huawei Dubai Etisalat moderization,3G migration,4G(FDD) rollout. (Aug 2014 to Jun 2016).

RF Optimization Engineer in Pakistan(ZTE)Telenor 2G&3G rollout. (March 2012 to July 2014) through Codit telecommunication.

WORK EXPERIENCE

LTE RF Optimization Consultant (LTE TDD)

Huawei Iraq MS project (Aug 2017 to present)

Responsibilities:

Daily worst cells analysis and recommendations.

Daily, weekly and monthly KPI report (RRC, E-RAB, Call Setup, inter/intra handover, PRB utilization per carrier, throughput).

Traffic Heat map for network traffic distribution to mark potential areas for the sales and coverage.

Handling Customer complaints.

Network audit to find the parametric inconsistency and fixed.

Network neighbor audit to find the missing neighbor relation or parametric inconsistency to improve mobility KPI.

Network Audit in term of capacity, like PRB utilization, PDCCH utilization, PRACH utilization, RRC and ERAB congestion and give recommendations.

Trials made for network tuning and to improve DL throughput.

Traffic balancing between the two carrier by using parametric optimization and MLB feature.

Add CA on new ON Air sites and monitoring the KPI for activation of CA.

Perform all RF Performance activities required to support the network build program (new cells, modifications, carrier adds, etc.).

Analysis of drive test on city and cluster level & recommendations to improve the network quality through physical & parametric optimization.

Find overshooting cells on TA based and control the overshooting with the other sites by physical changes (E.T and M.T) and adjusting the RS power.

Have been responsible for evaluating performance of new cell site turn-ups, optimization and KPI reporting to ensure company performance meets targeted expectations.

Conduct RF training for the customer.

Purpose new feature to customer for network improvement.

LTE RF Optimization Consultant (4.5G)

Vodafone Acceptance Project Turkey

From February 2016 to April 2017

Responsibilities:

LTE RF cluster optimization/Acceptance by bringing about significant improvement in OSS & DT KPIs.

Neighbor auditing to improve KPI’s.

Defining pre/post swap activities process (CF preparation and SSV review for final submission.

RRC establishment success/failure test.

Analysis of worst cells on daily basis in a specified area.

Mobility parameter threshold agreement with customer for Inter/Intra and I-RAT Handovers (A1,A2,A3,A4,B1,B2).

LTE RF Daily KPI review (RRC SR, E-RAB SR, Call Drop Rate, Inter/Intra eNB HO failure, I-RAT HO SR, CSFB SR).

Data collection for parameters RSRP, RSRQ, SINR, MIMO, Transmission schemes and modulations, RI, Data Throughputs.

Troubleshooting of CSFB, HO and other failures through layer 3 messages and eNB Traces using Probe.

SRVCC, CSFB understanding. HARQ statistics,DCI Statistics,DRB Statistics,MLB Statistics,RSSI Statistics,ICIC Monitoring,UL CoMP Monitoring,Application layer (S1,X2 Uu Interface ) Monitoring,Power headroom,BLER, RB Scheduling,IP Layer,GTPU,SCTP Trace plus transport performance Monitoring and analysis.

Perform LTE low throughput analysis based on field measurement,E2E Analysis and Transport Analysis.

Have been responsible for evaluating performance of new cell site turn-ups, optimization and KPI reporting to ensure company performance meets targeted expectations.

Targeting drop call, PCI collision, PRACH issue, HO failure & ping-pong handover issue

Works on customer complaints and trouble tickets by examining/interpreting performance metrics (i.e dropped calls, throughput rates) and data to determine what issues are most impactful.

Perform all RF Performance activities required to support the network build program (new cells, modifications, carrier adds, etc.).

SINR improvement for clusters of Istanbul, Turkey region via Physical changes TA based and Power changes. Changing of thresholds to resolve issue of delayed Handovers and Ping-Pong HO which caused degradation in the SINR.

Hard optimization: adjustment of azimuths tilts for dominance. Identifying and eliminating Pilot pollution.

Analysis of drive test on city and cluster level & recommendations to improve the network quality through physical & parameter modifications.

LTE & UTRAN RF Optimization Engineer,

Advacomm Huawei - Etisalat Modernization Project, U.A.E Aug 2014-2016 January

Responsibilities:

Cluster and Batch Level Customer Acceptance Reports of 2G/3G (2100+U 900) /4G (1800 &800&700&2100).

SSV Reports of IBS/Outdoor Sites for Customer Acceptance.

KPI,s Bench Mark report after Swap Completion for Customer Acceptance.

Doing Co-ordination As team lead managing the daily activities maintaining trackers of assigned activities (Swap+Expansion sites) and Responsible for handling customer complains.

Analyzing the log files received from drive test team and preparing DT report which includes detailed analysis of problems and issues of the area under the test. Root cause analysis of Access Failures, Blocked calls, Dropped calls and etc. are included in the analysis

LTE RF Daily KPI review (RRC SR, E-RAB SR, Call Drop Rate, Inter/Intra eNB HO failure, I-RAT HO SR, CSFB SR) Network parameters analysis and KPI evaluation IRAT, SC, RSCP, Ec/No, SIR, TX power of 3G.

Report activity for 2G, 3G and 4G parameters evaluation in order to improve RAN performances.

Network parameters analysis and KPI evaluation Intra LTE HO, SINR, RSRP, PCI, RBLER and BLER Histogram.

Low throughput troubleshooting in various scenarios ( TXN, Single Antenna Interference, PCI conflicts, etc).

SINR improvement through physical parameters of sites and PCI/PCI Mod 3 Clash identification and removal.

Experience of Performing CA (Carrier Aggregation) Testing for LTE (Addition of Multiple carriers 1800+800 to get Maximum throughput)

Huawei WCDMA/ UMTS, HSPA, HSPA+ Initial tuning, ensure optimal RF conditions on clusters after antenna swap, new cell or node integrated to the network.

GSM & UTRAN Optimization Engineer,

Codit Telecommunication ZTE Telenor Swap&rollout project,

March 2012-2014 July

Responsibilities:

Verifying 3G to 2G IRAT handover, 2G to 3G cell reselection and fall back test 4G to 3G .

Drive test analysis to improve 2G, 3G and 4G coverage and quality.

Drive test analysis to solve ping pong, pilot pollution and other problems.

2G, 3G and 4G KPI monitoring using sys log.

Site audit reports including Site configuration, Antenna Height, Azimuths and tilts.

Resolving the Handover issues, Sector swapping, cross feeder, Hoping issues, and Rx Quality, Overshooting and Overlapping issues.

Diagnosing RF related issues such as low CSSR, high TCH and SDCCH Blocking, Handover Failures.

Identification of faults and issues during the drive test e.g. sector swaps (complete & partial), BCCH clashes, Handover failures, Call drops, bad Quality and Rx level patches, missing neighbors, overshoots etc.

Recommend Hard and soft parameter changes to improve live network performance.

Direct co-ordination with OMC for adding missing neighbors, removing frequency clashes and other activities needed during Drive Test.

Create log files and then import these log files at Genex Assistant 3.5 and 3.6 for the purpose of Reporting.

Huawei KPI evaluation: Accessibility, Drop CS/HS, Retainability, Mobility, IRAT & Soft Handover, RRC Connection, RAB Establishment.

Network parameters analysis and KPI evaluation IRAT, SC, RSCP, Ec/No, SIR, TX power of 3G.

Drive Test data post-analysis and evaluation.

Report activity for 2G, 3G and 4G parameters evaluation in order to improve RAN performances.

Signal level and quality validation, verification.

HANDS ON TOOLS EXPERIENCE

M2000

Huawei PRS

FMA Tool

OMSTAR

Smart RNO

Actix

PI-web

Genex Assistant

Genex probe

Mapinfo

TEMS investigation

TEMS discovery

Microsoft office

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Marital status ; Single

Nationality ; Pakistan

Passport number ; DK1322191

Language ; English, Urdu, Punjabi

EDUCATION:

BSC Electronics Engineering, UCET Bahawalpur, Pakistan

REFERENCES:

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