Sachin Singh
Mobile: +1-317-***-**** Current Location:
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
E-Mail: *************@*******.***
Website: http://sachin-singh.com/
- LTE/GERAN/UTRAN, CDMA - Planning/Optimization - Pre
Sales/Project Management
Professional Synopsis
V A technocrat with 14 years of International and cross-functional
experience in the areas of Tri Band LTE Optimization, Techno-Commercial
Operations, GERAN/UTRAN Network Solutions and I&C of Telecom/IT systems,
including Greenfield projects, managing Service Delivery and Project
team, Customer Support, Presales in the Telecom/IT sector.
V Significant experience in working with customers and technical teams for
delivering solutions/services and after sales support to ensure customer
satisfaction and leading a Project- end to end.
V Lead two large size first commercial LTE roll out projects in India,
having 23+ members in my team.
V Proficient in developing presentations and proposals to the customers.
V Delivered technology validation, Planning and Optimization projects of
LTE, GERAN, UTRAN, Data Communications and Project Management.
V Excellent hands on experience on Project Management
V Excellent delivery on Pre Sales & Program Management
Knowledge Purview
> Multiple Wireless Technologies viz LTE (Includes Planning & Tri band LTE
optimization), GERAN,UTRAN, CDMA, IP .
> Network Architecture along with Capacity & Configuration planning,
Traffic Engineering and Optimum Traffic Routing Plan and Optimization of
LTE, UTRAN, GERAN and CDMA.
> Project Management
> Presales
Areas of Expertise
Technical Projects ; Operations, Service Delivery, Service Assurance,
Program / Project Implementation
- Leading regional team of operations engineers/ Service Delivery and
Service Assurance engineers and ensuring responsive service to the
customers.
- Project planning, scoping, estimation, tracking and execution
within deadlines.
- Defining processes, documentation, best practices for Service
Delivery, Service Assurance and Project Implementation.
Technical Delivery:
- Tri Band LTE Network Planning/Optimization for the customer across
different geographies for trials and deployment.
- Designing N/W Architecture along with Capacity & Configuration
Planning, Traffic Engineering and Optimum Traffic Routing Plan of
LTE, 2G/3G networks including integration & commissioning.
- Post-sales technical support to the customers on LTE/2G/3G.
- Conducting technology evaluation & validation and Acceptance of
projects.
- Proficient in responding RFI, RFQ, RFP, preparing and delivering
technical presentation & demonstration to customers and preparing
system proposals for wireless networks.
Functional: Presales & Sales Support
- Developing techno-commercial proposals and network design documents
for the customers in response to regular requirements, RFPs,
Tenders .
- Giving presentations on products, capabilities, solutions and
product demonstrations.
- Working in close co-ordination with multiple sales teams through
various phases of sales lifecycle from prospecting to closure.
- Maintaining professional relations with customers throughout the
cycle.
Employment Details
Jan'15 - Current Nexius Solutions - (Working for "Sprint")
Indianapolis, USA
Senior RF Engineer- RF IV
Currently Working on LTE Triband Optimization project for Indianapolis
market.
Responsible for LTE Tri-Band Optimization
Responsible for maintaining KPI's on Site/Cluster/Market Level
Cluster level analysis.
Pre drives, drive route preparation, Drive data post processing in
Windcatcher, Layer 3 messaging, KPI trending using Tableau.
Provide recommendation to sprint based on drive data on improving the drop
call rate on LTE using physical and parameter changes on the sites.
Post drive analysis and executive level presentations showing improvement
in the cluster performance.
Golden parameter compliance audit for 3G and 4G.
Tools: Windcatcher, Samsung BSM, LSMR, Tableau, Samsung Cockpit, Reveal,
Falcon.
Mar'10- Jan'15 Nokia Siemens Networks National
Team-Gurgaon
Growth Path
Apr'11 to Jan'15 LTE RF Lead/Manager - LTE Optimization, Trials and
Competence development
Jan'11 to Apr'11 Manager Planning for IDEA 3G rollout .
July'10 to Dec '10 NPO Manager for Tata DoCoMo account
Mar'10 to July'10 RF Lead for 2G/3G National NPO Team
Role:
> Working for different TDD/FDD LTE Trials for Optimization, Deployments
and KPIs finalization.
> Responsible for trial, PoC, technology & system validation.
> Supervising a team, activities pertaining to
o Technical support for Bharti TD- LTE broadband wireless access
network.
o Co-ordination with R&D; interface between global development and
Regional sales & support.
> Designing the solution architecture for LTE based Broadband Networks;
> Planning/Optimization & Dimensioning for LTE networks.
> RFP & Pre Sales Support: Working in close co-ordination with multiple
sales teams through various phases of sales lifecycle from prospecting to
closure, preparing customer presentations etc.
Highlights
> Lead the commercial rollout for Bharti TD LTE Mumbai for 1400 sites in
phase-I.
> Remote support for Sprint TD LTE project of U.S. This activity includes
RF Design of TD-LTE network (2.5 GHz Band) for approx 7000 sites. S/w
Version TD LTE RL45 -This is planned as Overlay over existing FD-LTE
network (E
> Remote Support for Optus Australia Fdd/Tdd LTE Project. This activity
includes RF Design for approx. 700 sites initially, Parameter Consistency
check, KPI monitoring in OSS and preparing SSO Reports etc.
> Headed and managed a team involved in Designing and Planning of Bharti TD-
LTE Deployent
> Major Task includes Field and KPI finalization with customer
> Planning discussion, parameters plan, LTE network deployment planning
> Pre-Launch Optimization and SCFT for TD-LTE Network.
> Network testing, Audit with Qualcomm for Network Quality & Feature
testing e.g. CSFB, 4*2 MIMO, IRC..
> Critical & Complex test cases are performed showing almost 100%
success rate
> Team includes 4 Planning, 6 Optimization and 24 SCFT Engineers
> Worked on Site for Optimization and validation/acceptance of LTE Trial in
Bangkok, Thailand for AIS.
> Remote Support for FDD/TDD LTE trial, EuskalTel, Spain
> RF Lead for LTE TD-Trial_Aircel (Maxis) Hyderabad, India.
> RF Lead for Bharti LTE trial in Chandigarh, India.
> Validating different LTE DT tools for Optimization and deployments.
o JDSU, Gladiator, NEMO, Xcal, Xcap, TEMS, AEROFLEX - TM500.
May 2009- Mar 2010 Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd.(MTS)
Manager - RF Planning and Optimization
Role:
> Planning and Roll Out of first phase of network with 550+ sites.
> Responsible for Optimization and KPIO maintenance of all on air sites.
> Responsible for all Department of Telecommunication related issues like
TEC testing, compliance etc.
> Responsible for all POI, regulatory related issues.
> Responsible for working closely with ZTE and sharing vendors to meet all
technical/regulatory requirement on time.
> Responsible for all RF Network activities, testing new services, QoS, NMS
migrations.
Oct2008- May2009 Idea Cellular Ltd. (A.B.T.L)
Manager_RF_NWS
> Network Performance and Quality
* Analyze traffic of cells, plan and implement capacity extension in
time before congestion.
* Diagnose all RF related problems such as interference, Drop call, HO
failure, missing neighbors, etc..
* Generation of Coverage predictions, removing Interference,
suggestions to improve the coverage by antenna re orientation,
Downtilt/Uptilt or by using High gain antennas.
* Responsible for maintaining the Network KPI i.e.RF Parameters
including Traffic analysis to maintain network efficiency and
stability.
* Responsible for Freq planning performance, translation audit for
optimal settings on the BTS parameters.
Aug-2008- Nov-2008 Aircom International (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Senior Consultant/Project Manager Project:
Indus
Wireless Network Design
* Capacity Sites, Infill Sites, Highway and Railway Coverage
Planning.
* Interacting with customer regarding Site planning
* Leading a time of 9 Consultants, located at different customer
location.
May-2008- Aug-2008 Infosys Technologies Ltd.
Consultant_CMEX(Project Manager) Project: British Telecom(
Solution Designing)
Was part of a business vertical that caters to important assignments in the
communication, media and entertainment areas for clients across the globe.
Worked under the British Telecom Global Services that is one of the LOB of
British Telecom in which I needed to manage the planning portion for GVPN
N/w of BT that is MPLS and VPN networking.
Handled British Telecom 2months project on ONE VOICE SOLUTION based in
U.K.(London)
May 2007 - May-2008 Bharti Airtel Ltd
N/W Planning & Quality Asst. Manager
> Wireless Network Design, Highway and Railway Coverage Planning.
> Coverage Prediction in accordance with the Marketing Inputs with the
help of GIS tool, Capacity Sites planning for off-loading of highly
loaded sites
> Preparing and maintaining the Capex and Opex for each quarter of
the respective financial year.
> Responsible for working with the company vendor i.e. Ericsson for
the Network related issues.
> Got the ISO 27001 Lead Implementor Certification from BSI, U.K.
Dec- 2006 -May-2007 BPL Mobile (Mumbai)
Asst. Manager N/W Planning & Quality
> Responsible for monitoring Network Planning and Optimization .
> Responsible for planning of new site with the help of Radio Plan's
planning tool of ACP(Automatic Cell Planning-WINES-3.6), Repeater or
Micro Cell according to the clutter area, market inputs or client's
need.
> In-building solutions EXPERT
Dec 2005- Dec 2006 Tata Teleservices Pvt. Ltd.
Senior Engineer, Network Planning and Optimization Engineer
> Responsible for diagnosing RF related problems such as interference,
Drop call, HO failure, missing neighbors, etc..
> Responsible for generation of Coverage predictions, removing Pilot
pollution, suggestions to improve the coverage by antenna re
orientation, Downtilt/Uptilt or by using better gain antennas by
using Agilent E6473
June-2001-December 2005 Reliance Infocomm Limited
Worked as an outsourced employee in the company Balaji from June 2001 to
July 2005 for Reliance. Then joined Reliance Infocomm IN July 2005 on
rolls.
R.F. Engineer
> Monitoring Drive test results for network health with the help of
Agilent and Map Info Software. Drive data analysis for IMRB and TEC
Testing.
> Planning of Frequency Shift Repeaters & Optical Repeaters for remote
areas and for the less populated areas, also commissioning,
optimization & troubleshooting of the Repeaters with the help of their
respective software & other methods.
Awards and Recognition
1. Certificate of appreciation along with trophy from Bharti Airtel for
successfully leading Bharti TD LTE Pune commercial rollout.
2. "Spot Award" was given to me by Nokia as a recognition of my
contribution which was beneficial to the team with an impact on
Business priorities on LTE.
3. "Excellence Award" was given to me by IDEA for getting clearance for
Service Area Testing from Department of Telecommunication for IDEA,
Bihar.
4. "Best Team Award" was given to me by Airtel for displaying
collaborative relationship and achieving business success.
Professional Trainings and Certifications
. LTE Solution Certification Test - LTE - Associate Level (Nokia).
. LTE End to End System- for RL20 (Nokia system).
. Certified training from ZTE University, China over ZXC10-BSSB
OVERVIEW.
. GSM System Architecture, GSM RF Planning and Optimization, Overview of
CDMA from ITI (Institute of Telephone Industries), Lucknow, India.
. Certified 15 days training on Agilent-E64743A from Agilent
Technologies (Now JDSU).
. 2G RAN Planning
. IP Assessment Program
. Diploma in Project Management
. Fundamentals of Project Management
. Diploma in Six Sigma
. Ethical Business Training
. An introduction to Quality Management
. BS ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Information Security Management System Awareness
and implementation Course
. Service Excellence
. Anti-corruption compliance Training
. Course 100: Achieving Superior Service affiliated from UP your Service
College.
. Certificate in Computer Programming in Basic
Personal Profile:
Name : Sachin Singh
Father's Name : Mr. R.K. Singh
Languages Known : English, Hindi
Date of Birth : 11-10-1980
Passport no : H8298628 (valid till 07/Dec/2018)
H1B Status : Yes, Valid till Jan'2018