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YASIK ALI SHEIK DAWOOD
Email Id : *****.**@*****.***
LinkedIn : www.linkedin.com/in/yasik
Skype : yasik4
Citizenship : Indian
Current Contact # : Chennai - India +91-701*******, +91-989*******
Professional Summary
9+ Years of RF Engineering experience in Onsite locations at 8 Countries of Mexico, Peru, Israel, Singapore, Kuwait, Dubai, Uganda-Africa & Pan India.
Strong knowledge in RF Design/Planning, Optimization, OSS and SON related to Macro, DAS, Small Cells New Deployment, Managed Services and Swap Projects in 2G, 3G, LTE, VoLTE and CDMA with HUAWEI, NOKIA-NSN, ERICSSON, ALCATEL and AIRSPAN.
Good exposure as a Team Lead and Managing Teams with 50+ Engineers as well handling High-level meetings for Technical approvals with Client and Reporting up to CTO level.
Completed most of the 5G 3GPP concepts and IOT trainings from Nokia Education center.
Experience Summary
Position : RF LTE NPO Specialist - Design Market Lead Virginia and Ohio Region (USA)
Company : Nokia Solutions and Networks - Global Delivery Center Chennai, India.
Project : Verizon fAlu to Nokia Airscale BBU swap Remote Delivery from India GDC.
Period : 28th August 2017 to till date
Position : RF Lead for LTE / VoLTE Small Cells and DAS Planning & Optimization
Company : Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited - Chennai, India
Vendor : Airspan Networks Inc. - Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Payroll : Distinctive Technologies Private Limited, Mumbai
Period : 14 October 2016 to 26th August 2017
Position : RAN NPO Engineer (Senior RF Consultant for Macro, DAS and SMC)
Company : Link Payroll Limited, London - United Kingdom
Vendor 1 : Nokia 3G LTE & VoLTE for Cellcom Israel
Vendor 2 : Huawei 3G VoTE in AT&T Mexico
Vendor 3 : Huawei 2G 3G LTE in Entel Peru
Period : 10 March 2015 to 5 September 2016.
Position : Senior RF Engineer (RF for Consultant Macro and DAS)
Company : Aptly International Limited, Uganda - Africa
Vendor : Ericsson & Nokia Swap to Huawei 2G & 3G for Airtel Uganda
Period : 9 January 2014 to 6 March 2015
Position : RF Engineer (RF Consultant for Macro and DAS)
Company : Hexamatics Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore
Vendor : Nokia 2G 3G LTE & VoLTE for StarHub Singapore
Period : 8 July 2013 to 7 January 2014
Company : Al Araab Global Group for Communications Systems W.L.L., Kuawit
Position : RF Engineer (RF Consultant for Macro and DAS)
Vendor 1 : Ericsson 2G 3G VoLTE & LTE Single RAN Swap for Wataniya Kuwait
Vendor 2 : Huawei 2G 3G & LTE for Etisalat Dubai
Period : 22 June 2012 to 5 July 2013
Position : RF Engineer
Company : Sasken Network Engineering LTD, Bangalore, India
Vendor : Multi-Vendor Optimization in India & Nokia for USA Remote
Period : 18 October 2010 to 19 June 2012
Position : RF Engineer Trainee
Company : Prithvi Information Solution LTD, Hyderabad, India
Vendor : Multi-Vendor & Alcatel CDMA Optimization in India
Period : 27 April 2009 to 15 October 2010
Familiar with tools
Mapinfo Professional, IBwave, Actix, Atoll, Planet, Quantum-GIS, Mcom, XCAP, XCAL, NetAct Reporting Suite, Nemo Analyzer, Nemo Outdoor, WPS, Agilent, U2000, M2000, PRS, LMT, FMA, Genex Naster, Genex Assistant & Genex Probe, TEMS Discovery, TEMS Investigation, MRR, WMRR, WNCS, AMOS, MOSHELL, ITK, Wind catcher, Tapas, Business Object, GEPH, Wireshark, Netspan,
Project Synopsis
Position : RF Lead for LTE / VoLTE Small Cells and DAS Planning & Optimization
Company : Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited - Chennai, India
Vendor : Airspan Networks Inc. - Boca Raton, Florida, United States
Job Description
Responsible for Small Cells and DAS designs using engineering software tools such as iBWave, Planet and ATOLL.
Responsible to analyze and validate RF coverage prediction plots, running Monte Carlo capacity simulation, and perform propagation model tuning.
Understanding of LTE radio design, parameters, antenna selection and other hardware.
In Depth knowledge of Atoll ACP with optimization and KPI generation and analysis with mitigations plan to meet thresholds
DAS Verification and optimization to optimize UL RSSI and balance DL/UL power by tuning DAS system gains and attenuation.
Network performance improvement (KPIs) and Optimization tasks utilizing translation parameters, Layer 3 messaging with RF tools.
Compiling comprehensive Pre/Post LTE Evaluation Cluster Drives and supporting customer in making hard & soft parameters changing.
Diagnose all RF related issues such as interference, call drops, handover failure, poor coverage, hardware faults and alarms.
Supervising Drive test teams in Cluster Drive Tests using JDSU Investigation & Post processing the collected data using Actix and Wind catcher as per customer requirements
Developed Airspan network architecture for small cells and devised PAN India small cells rollout strategy that efficiently co-exists and co-ordinate with the macro cell RF network and results in best-in-class cellular coverage and boost system capacity.
SON features testing - MLB, MRO, SRVCC, ROHC, Auto PCI, ANR and On-Air testing of LTE golden parameters.
Responsible to handle iBwave Unity Enterprise, an in-building wireless management platform tool.
Evaluation of tools & testing and Circle-wise dimensioning of tools for operation requirements.
Dimensioning of post processing ActixOne and Xcap tool for SCFT and cluster optimization.
4G TD LTE Pilot Field Trail testing for parameters like throughput, SINR, RSRP, RSRQ etc. With Agilent E7464A, Accuver X-Cal drive test tool.
VoLTE testing and benchmarking of LTE with 3G, 2G for data.
Single Cell Functionality Test as well as Cluster optimization for Pilot project
In-Building Solutions (IBS) Strategy and Planning for PAN India, Initial IBS planning and design on iBwave Tool (Indoor Link Budget, CW testing, System diagram, BOM, floors plan with antenna locations) etc.
Preparing drive routes using MAPINFO and Co-ordination with Drive Test team for preliminary tests conducted on each site and/or cluster.
Position : RAN NPO Engineer (Senior RF Consultant for Macro, DAS and SMC)
Company : Link Payroll Limited, London - United Kingdom
Vendor 2 : Huawei 3G VoTE in AT&T Mexico
Vendor 3 : Huawei 2G 3G LTE in Entel Peru
Job Description
Pre-design planning for creating (Survey report, BOM, Signal strength & throughput Maps etc) for surveyed projects.
Small Cells Strategy and Planning for In-building & Hotspots, Information (RFI) document for LTE-Wi-Fi integrated small cells. Included exhaustive list of technical requirements for the small cells in the RFI.
Model tuning and CW testing for different scenario like small, medium & big premises.
Study and Evaluation of Ray Trace model used by iBwave design.Creation of library files and database management on iBwave design
Coverage & Capacity analysis (using Monte Carlo simulation) planning on iBwave design.
UE throughput testing (FTP, UDP, and iperf), Logging and analyzing of other UE parameters like RSRP, RSSI, RSRQ, and SINR.
Ensuring KPIs to be met RSRP, RSRP statistics, DL/UL throughput, Latency, PS Drops (Retainability), LTE Accessibility, LTE Integrity, LTE Mobility, (Handover tuning) etc.
Outdoor vs. indoor LTE coverage aspects of Macro Sites eNodeB inside the buildings.
Familiar M2000 and PRS tools, KPI & statistics monitoring, Parameter Optimization for live VoLTE / LTE FDD & TDD network.
Analyze LTE KPIs RACH SSR, RRC CSSR, E-RAB CSSR, E-RAB Drop Rate, Intra eNodeB/Inter eNodeB Handover Success Rate.
Analyze Low Throughput, Data Call Drop, Data Call Setup failure and handover, latency, scheduler, & signalling message, pilot pollution, overshooting & uplink interference in LTE drive test with Genex Assistant tool.
Responsible for the Post Launch Initial Radio Tuning Optimization of newly integrated sites of 3G/4G and changes height/tilt/azimuth for coverage and quality improvement.
Monthly targets to achieve multiple Radio Network KPI on network and cell level (KPI includes RRC, ERAB, DCR, QCI targets, MIMO Utilization, MCS Rates, Initial/Periodic Ranging correction rates, FER, Throughputs)
New VoLTE and LTE feature trials and deployment for network performance enhancement (Completed trials include SRVCC, MRO, ICIC, CSFB, InterRAT Reselection, Special Subframe Modifications, SA Configuration, Timer (T300, T310, T311) modifications, DRX, ANR (Fast and Event based), UL Power Control, DL-SCH, Pilot Power modifications) and Mobility Load Balancing (MLB).
Routine Parameter and GSM Neighbor Audits with Genex Naster tool to maintain the network performance
Network Level Congestion analysis based upon RB Utilization, Number of Users, Traffic Volume, MCS Distribution and Spectral Efficiency.
Identifying hardware issues on sites that are degrading the network KPIs and customer perception.
Discussion with Drive Test tools, EMF tester, Spectrum Analyzer, RF Post processing tools vendors to understand their product details.
Preparing LTE cluster reports and recommendations for final acceptance.
Position : RAN NPO Engineer (Senior RF Consultant for Macro, DAS and SMC)
Company : Link Payroll Limited, London - United Kingdom
Vendor 1 : Nokia 3G LTE & VoLTE for Cellcom Israel
Job Description
As a Team Lead and Managing Teams with 30+ Engineers as well handling High level meetings for Technical approvals with Client and Reporting to CTO.
Improving & Maintaining KPI's for 900 new Roll out sites.
Worst cell analysis & optimization recommendation for LTE FDD and TDD
Part of SON validation Team to explaining Optimization Ideas to implement in live network.
Responsible to analysis the Throughput and Data Call Drop, Data Call Setup failure and other KPIs in LTE logs with NEMO Outdoor tool.
Analysis on Drops in VoLTE, HO Throughput & other KPIs in NOKIA OSS (MML session, Xterm Server, CM Editor, CM Operation Manager, Beast, Network Data warehouse (NDW) for RNC/KPI Report.
Post Processing the measurement log files and Analysis the poor RSRP, SINR/CINR and find the Handover failure due to missing LTE and WCDMA Neighbors in NEMO Analyzer and ACTIX tool.
Preparing Thematic Plots in Mapinfo Professional for customer presentations.
Parameter audit & change recommendation according to requirement & baseline.
Recommendation for feature activation with proper justification
Weekly & Monthly report preparation to show existing Network performance & recommendation.
Position : Senior RF Engineer (RF for Consultant Macro and DAS)
Vendor : Ericsson & NOKIA Swap to Huawei 2G & 3G for Airtel Uganda
Job Description
Responsible to analysis the Throughput and Data Call Drop, Data Call Setup failure and other KPIs in WCDMA & LTE with Genex Assistant, Tems Discovery & Actix tools.
Monitor & suggest the changes required in the parameter to improve the Various KPI’s in Accessibility & Retainablity with Huawei M2000, Business Object & NOKIA OSS tools.
Primary verification of drive Test in GSM & taking necessary corrective measures, like neighbor list addition and interference analysis with Genex Naster tool.
Analyzes and optimization in RRC connection setup failure & RRC call drop.
Analyze the Pre and Post KPI comparison reports and improve performance by KPI optimization for WCDMA and GSM to meet the target KPI’s.
Worst cell analysis & optimization recommendation, Suggesting and Planning TRX addition and Deletion in GSM.
3rd carrier addition recommendation, monitoring & report preparation.
Capacity analysis for WCDMA Network &Traffic balancing between F1, F2 & F3.
Analysis to get boomer, exclusion & worst cell in RNC.
Analyzing hourly, daily and weekly WCDMA KPI trend to improve Accessibility, Retain ability of CS & PS, RRC Success Rate, RAB Success Rate, Throughput, Handover, IFHO and IRAT.
Responsible for new built site optimization and passing 7 day kpi criteria for site acceptance.
Position : RF Engineer (RF Consultant for Macro and DAS)
Company : Hexamatics Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore
Job Description
Responsible to analysis the Throughput and Data Call Drop, Data Call Setup failure and other KPIs in LTE logs with NEMO Outdoor tool.
Capacity analysis for LTE FDD and TDD Network.
VoLTE feature trials and deployment in live network and performance monitoring.
Analysis of Handover, SRVCC failure, Low Throughput & other KPIs in VoLTE.
Preparing VoLTE network trend and cluster reports and recommendations for final acceptance.
Analysis on Drops, CSFB, HO Throughput & other KPIs in NOKIA OSS (MML session, CM Editor, CM Operation Manager, Beast, Network Data warehouse (NDW) for RNC/KPI Report.
Post Processing the measurement log files and Analysis the poor RSRP, SINR/CINR and find the Handover failure due to missing LTE and WCDMA Neighbors in NEMO Analyzer and ACTIX tool.
Worst cell analysis & optimization recommendation including carrier aggregation of LTE TDD for High traffic area.
Recommendation for feature activation with proper justification
Weekly & Monthly report preparation to show existing Network performance and recommendation.
Position : Senior RF Planning & KPI Optimization (RF Consultant for Macro and DAS)
Vendor : Ericsson 2G 3G & LTE Single RAN Swap for Wataniya Kuwait
Job Description
Network Optimization for GSM, WCDMA & LTE Network.
Drive test Log file analysis & Network Optimization.
Overall Cluster performance analysis based on UE Traces analysis to find out the root cause of the various RF issues like poor Accessibility, poor Retainability.
Improving & Maintaining KPI's as per defined by customer.
Responsible for Post launch KPI analysis (accessibility, retain ability & mobility) also Recommendation for improving worst performing cells.
Part of requirement gathering session with client.
Optimization of WCDMA Air Interface for voice call, video call, data and analyzing parameter like RSCP, Ec/Io, BLER, Txpwr, Rxpwr, SIR, CQI.
Analyzing daily and weekly basis 3G KPI trend for parameters Accessibility, Retain ability of CS & PS, RRC Success Rate, RAB Success Rate, Throughput, Handover, IFHO and IRAT.
Analyze Soft/Softer Handover, IFHO, IRAT and various Events
Responsible for Pre-Launch activities Site Shake down (SSD), Single Site Verification (SSV), Cluster Drive Analysis. Recommendations for improving drive KPI like Accessibility, Retain ability, Time on LTE. Perform Events Analysis. Basic Drive logs checks like Verification of Azimuth, Swap feeder, Radiating sectors, PCI, SINR, RSRP, Handovers using TEMS Discovery & TEMS Investigation.
Position : RF Planning and Optimization (RF Consultant for Macro and DAS)
Vendor : Huawei & Ericsson 2G 3G & LTE for Etisalat Dubai UAE
Job Description
Responsible to analysis the Throughput and Data Call Drop, Data Call Setup failure and other KPIs in LTE logs with Genex Assistant and Tems Discovery tool.
Analysis the poor RSRP, RSRQ and find the Handover failure due to missing LTE and WCDMA Neighbors.
Analyze the KPI reports and improve performance by KPI optimization for WCDMA in Huawei M2000 and Business Object tools.
Specifying the optimization recommendations and making the network to meet the target KPI’s.
Optimizing cell sites by investigating capacity and coverage problem, Interference Analysis, Dropped calls, Missing Neighbors, Coverage Holes, Non-Working sites or sectors.
Recommendations making as Defining missing RF parameters, Proposing antenna azimuth, tilt, Channel, Adjusting handover etc
Primary verification of drive Test data and taking necessary corrective measures, like neighbor list addition and interference analysis.
Position : RF Optimization Engineer
Vendor : Multi-Vendor Optimization in India & NOKIA for USA Remote
Job Description
Part of USRD (US Remote delivery) Optimization Project AT&T
Overall Network Optimization for GSM, CDMA & WCDMA Network.
Improving & Maintaining KPI's as per defined by AT&T.
Recommendations for Coverage & Capacity Problems.
Remote Optimization and performance monitoring for Site 4th carrier modification, Site Rehoming, complex harvesting & CBCCH to MBCCH conversion.
Analysis of various Voice and Data KPI like TCH accessibility, Retain ability, UL/DL Quality, TCH call request, Traffic etc.
Based on network performance report suggesting & make Parameter changes in the site using NOKIA OSS ver 4.2 & 5.2 by MML Commands & CM Editor to improve performance.
Check for all Frequencies are on planed TRX as in Data fill or not
Neighbor Creation & deletion for the site to improve HOSR
Suggesting TRX Addition & Deletion for site to improve the overall performance
Alarm monitoring & Escalating any Hardware issue
Preparing weekly and quarterly network audit report
Suggesting TRX Addition & Deletion for site to improve the overall performance
Position : RF Drive & Optimization Engineer
Vendor : Multi-Vendor & Alcatel CDMA Optimization in India
Job Description
Responsible to optimize the cluster for good coverage.
Responsible for Analysis of Call Drop, Call Setup failure, Interference in network and Handover Analysis in Alcatel RNO A956, tools.
Alarm monitoring & escalating any hardware issues and Troubleshooting.
Monitoring and suggesting the changes required in the parameter to improve the
Various KPI’s: Accessibility, Retainablity in Alcatel OSS A955 tool.
PN planning and Optimization to reduce Pilot pollution.
Responsible for Change in Electrical and Mechanical Tilt, Azimuth for Cluster site.
Post processing the XCAL log files with XCAP tool.
Proposing recommendation to customer if the Swap cluster is not passing the target KPI.
Post processing of the log files for required parameters defined by the customer.
Planning of routes to utilizes the time and resources.
Specifying the optimization recommendations and making the network to meet the target KPI’s. Performance Monitoring & Optimization.
Educational Qualification
Completed Diploma in INFORMTION TECHNOLOGY with 67.25 % in 2009 at Sri Sowdambika polytechnic college, Affiliated by Government of Tamil Nadu Directorate of Technical Education.
Completed Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) with 59.56 % in 2014 through distance education in Madurai Kamaraj University.
Completed SSLC in SBK Higher Secondary School with 55% in the year of 2006, Affiliated by Government of Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary Education.
Achievements:
SPOT AWARD : Spot Award for Best performance in RF Department in
Sasken Network Engineering LTD.
SQUASH PLAYER : BRONZ medal winner in State level squash match.
SCIENCE EXHIBITION : FIRST prize in District level for making Air Conditioner.
ENGLISH ELOCUTION : SECOND prize for English Speech in Inter College Competition.
Training Course:
Mobile Phone Software Service during college period (Parttime work)
Hardware and Networking Training in DOTE (Government certificate).
ASP. NET Courses in DOTE (Government certificate).
V B. NET Courses in DOTE (Government certificate).
English accent & Call Center Training Course in MF Technology (Private certificate)
Personal Profile
Given Name : Yasik Ali
Last Name : Sheik Dawood
Marital Status : Married
Languages Known : English, Hindi and Tamil.
Nationality : Indian
Passport Number : H8606714
Permanent Address : No. 306, Palash Block, Sabari serenity Apartment, Siruseri main road, Chennai, Pin Code – 603103, TamilNadu, India.
Received Spot Award from Sasken Network Engineering LTD for the Best performance and successful completion of Huawei-3G Projects.
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