Engineer Manager

Radio Planning and Optimization Engineer

Melody Lovedale Mwhengwere

Flat 45 Erand Court, Midrand, Johannesburg

Email: ***************@*****.***, Mobile: +276********/+277******** D.O.B: 21-06-90

Summary

An Electronic Engineer with hands on experience in wireless network RF Planning & Optimization in GERAN, UTRAN & E-UTRAN system & KPI performance monitoring, Drive test analysis, Drive Test, RF Survey and troubleshooting RF issues in 2G, 3G and LTE Network . Work Experience

Familiar vendor equipments: Huawei, ZTE & NSN FLEXI Tools : Web LMT, M2000, U2000, Google Earth,Wireshark,Putty,TEMS Investigation 16.1.2, TEMS Pocket, GENEX Probe 3.16,Atoll Planner, Actix Analyzer,TEMS Discovery Device 10.0.7,MapInfo 8.5, GENEX Assistant 3.16,OMSTAR,FMA,GENEX Omstar,Genex Nastar,UNET,Filezilla,Microsoft (Excel, PowerPoint, Access) January 2018 to Current

Company: ZTE South Africa

Position: LTE RNO Engineer

Project: 2018 CellC FSA3 Project

Responsibilities:

Performing PCI,PRACH and neighbour planning

Parameter tuning for the new clusters.

Undertaking key network performance improvement indicators (KPIs) and optimization tasks.

Daily KPIs & optimization report for the clusters

Identifying, resolving all coverage and RF design deficiencies. 2014 to 2017

Company: Huawei Technologies Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd

Position: RF Planning and Optimization Engineer

Project: Netone MBB Project & LTE-TDD CEC Liquid Zambia Responsibilities:

2G Optimization

Frequency planning for both hopping and non-hopping: BCCH and BSIC planning, TCH and MAIO planning, base band and synthesizer frequency hopping.

Drive tests of GSM Air interface for New Site and Site swapping.

Field optimization with respect to antenna orientation & tilt change, handover check.

Analysis of daily radio statistics and effecting parameter changes for corrective maintenance.

Use results for performing Radio Network Tuning

Perform traffic balance and prioritization for sub cells for CS and PS traffic. 3G Optimization

Doing in depth Event Analysis and proposing recommendations to improve the RF conditions.

Recommend new coverage sites to Planning Section if there any coverage holes or black spots with in the intended coverage area.

Addressing problem areas to improve RSCP and Ec/Io of the network.

Troubleshoot 3G drop and setup fail and handover failures, recommend and action changes to improve the KPI’s.

LTE Optimization

PCI planning, Neighbour planning for Netone MBB Project (Class A) and CEC Liquid Zambia.

Troubleshooting CSFB from E-UTRAN to UTRAN issues and re-selection parameters problems.

Checking and rectify PCI swap, coverage and handover related issue.

LTE network launch and cluster optimization, planning of RF parameter, making field level changes, troubleshooting handover problem, tuning parameters.

Carry out basic parameter checks such as RSRP, SINR, and Throughput during the Test. 2012- 2013

Company: Telecel Zimbabwe Pvt Ltd

Position: Student Engineer

Responsibilities

Knowledge in Parameter optimization, radio features and performance monitoring.

Conducting drive tests in line with network performance issues.

Determining and preparing RF database parameter settings (handover, power control, etc.).

Re-adjusting site physical configurations parameters (Azimuth, tilt and/or location)

Detecting cross feeder connection from drive test data.

KPI Optimization & Worst Cell Analysis.

Generation of Coverage predictions.

Preparing initial neighbour lists and optimizing neighbour list Educational Qualification

2009-2014: Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Engineering -NQF Level 8 Oth

Other

Drivers license

Member of IITPSA

Achievements

Huawei Future Star 2016 Award

Huawei Future Star 2017 Award

REFERENCES

1. Name: Augustine Madongonda

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

Position: Technical Manager Telecel Zimbabwe

Mobile: +263-***-***-***

2. Name: Simbarashe Zvarimwa

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

Position: RF Team Leader Huawei

Mobile: +263-***-***-***

3. Name: Wu Guangzhen

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

Position: ZTE Radio Optimisation Manager(KZN)

Mobile: +277********

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