Engineer Project

KIRAN PILLI

Plano, TX ***** *********@*****.*** Cell # 469-***-****

SUMMARY:

Seasoned professional with 16+ years of national and international experience in the mobile telecom industry. Extensive experience in Transport/Transmission (Microwave Backhaul & Optical Fiber) in Network Planning & Design, optimization, Implementation and Operations for GSM (2G), UMTS (3G), WiMax & LTE (4G) Small Cell and Wi-Fi networks.

Specialties:

Cell Site/BTS Services

Microwave Backhaul Engineering Services

Optical Fiber Access & Backbone Network Services

Technical Training

Project Management

Team Management

Mobile Technologies:

2G/3G/4G WiMax/LTE, Wi-Fi, Small Cell, RAN, Mobile Transport, SDH/SONET, NMS, NOC, Granite/Xng, NRM, Clearvision, Business Intelligence, Telecom / Data Analytics.

Area of Expertise:

IP Backhaul Microwave:

Planning & Designing, Implementation and Operations - Licensed and Un-Licensed Radios.

Licensed Radios:

Minilink TN, LH & PT – Ericsson, DragonWave, Ceragon, E-Band & BridgeWave, Flexi Hopper – Nokia, Alcatel MDR 8000 & 4000, P-COM – Lucent, NEC, NERA, Harris.

Unlicensed Radios:

Motorola PTP-600, Redline, Exalt, Proxim Lynx SC, Adtran Tracer.

Circuit Provisioning:

Experience in Granite 6.3/XNG (T-Mobile Inc), Clearvision (Clearwire Inc), NRM (Sprint).

Equipment Building, Circuit segments, circuit paths, Mapping.

Provisioning – Leased Bandwidth Facilities:

Experience in Bandwidth Planning and forecasting - DS1, DS3, OC3.

Optical Fiber Backbone & Access Projects:

SDH/SONET (OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, OC-192)

Planning, Designing, optimizing, Implementation, Testing and Operations.

Built Optical fiber backbone route around 6,000 Kilometers and 110 ADM Backbone nodes.

Built NMS and Network Operation Center (NOC).

Generated SOW’s, MOP’s, BOM’s.

Working Knowledge of optical add/drop multiplexer (OADM) systems, and reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM) systems.

Copper Plant:

F2 Conditioning – Lightspeed Project.

Testing:

Tested Trans & Receive Power, Bit Error Ratio, Jitter, Dynamic Range, Tandem Testing, Mapping & De-mapping, Fiber Link test etc.

Surveys:

Done numerous site surveys like Line of Sight (LOS), Redline, As-Built, Space & Power, Surveys for Structure Analysis & Load Analysis.

Professional Career:

Subject Matter Expert - Microwave Backhaul Mar 2015 to Sep 2015

& Fiber Solutions

Nexius Inc, Allen, TX, USA

Roles and Responsibilities:

Provide Technical Sales support, complex Network roll-out, Services Delivery excellence and Customer Network Support.

Life-cycle and associated business processes; initiation (pre-sales support), through planning, execution for network rollout and integration, and closing with successful handover to customers.

Understanding customer’s business needs and drives and translating that into network solution offering that adds value to customer.

Subject Matter Expert - Microwave Backhaul Feb 2011 to Feb 2015

Ericsson Inc, Plano, TX, USA

End Clients: Sprint (Network Vision), metroPCS (4G LTE), LA-RICS (LTE)

Roles and Responsibilities:

Primary responsibility for all aspects of backhaul design for LTE-based public-safety broadband network for Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communication System Authority (LA-RICS), Los Angeles Market through Motorola Solutions Inc.

Created strategies to effectively design and methodology of microwave backhaul network.

Lead Responsibilities in MW Backhaul Engineering Group - 14 Markets/12 States in US and 4,500+ LTE sites for metroPCS LTE project.

Developed design guidelines.

Delivered customer facing presentations for network design solutions.

Presented all new network design solutions to customer senior management “CTO, VP and Directors”.

Managed and trained a team of 34 design and support engineers to improve their efficiency and meet design guidelines.

Developed microwave designs, using licensed frequencies, which support the deployment of next generation 4G wireless broadband network by utilizing software propagation/planning tool PathLoss 5.0, along with defined design standards and link budgets, to create high quality microwave designs for Sprint Network Vision Project.

Reviewed and redlined ZD drawings for zoning and leasing process.

FCC/ PCN for microwave path licensing.

Built a strong design architecture that maximizes performance, link availability, and provides redundancy/diversity while also meeting budgetary objectives.

Worked closely with market project managers and monitored progress and quality of path surveys.

Effectively managed design projects and any issues that arise to insure that they meet aggressive deployment timelines

Senior Microwave Engineer Feb 2009 to Dec 2010

Clearwire Inc, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Project: WiMax (4G) Project.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Designing licensed microwave packet radio for transport and access rings for CLEARWIRE WiMax 4G network for Philadelphia, Trenton and Wilmington Markets.

Optimizing performance, link budget availability, and route diversity and redundancy for licensed 11, 18, 23, and 80 GHz band frequencies using Pathloss 4.0 program.

Designing different microwave topology using Pathloss 4.0 program.

Participate in the search ring process for RF and microwave radio optimization.

Used vendor selected licensed DragonWave Horizon Duo and E-Band Packet Radio for Transport/Access rings. Motorola PTP 600, Redline Communications for spread spectrum technology.

Reviewing Line-of-Sight survey report from Nexius, WNG contractors.

Reviewing and redlining ZD drawings for zoning and leasing process.

FCC/ PCN for microwave path licensing.

Equipment Building, Circuit segments, circuit paths, Mapping in Clearvision.

Regional Microwave Engineer Jun 2008 to Dec 2008

T-Mobile Inc, Bothell, WA, USA.

Project: UMTS (3G) Transport Planning, Design & Circuit Provisioning.

Senior Microwave Engineer Oct 2007 to Apr 2008

Ericsson Inc, Plano, TX, USA

End Client: Sprint. Project: WiMax (4G) Project.

Design Engineer Jun 2007 to Oct 2007

AT&T Inc, San Jose, CA, USA.

Project: Lightspeed (FTTH)

Site Auditor Apr 2007 to Jun 2007

Ericsson Inc, Pleasanton, CA.

Project: GSM Sites Expansion with UMTS

Senior Engineer – Transmission Planning & Projects Mar 2004 to Mar 2007 Hutchison Essar South Limited, Hyderabad, India. (Now Vodafone, India)

Project: Fiber Optic Planning & Projects and Microwave Planning & Design

Project Consultant Jul 2003 to Mar 2004 United Engineers, Hyderabad, India.

Project: GSM Projects

Telecom Engineer Nov 2001 to Jun 2003

Seder Telecom, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Client: LM. Ericsson, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for GSME4, GSME5 Projects.

Project #1 Operation and Maintenance of RBS2202/200 and Minilink C/E, P-COM, Harris access networks.

Project #2 Cell On Wheel - COW Special Events

Engineer – Transmission Jun 2000 to Nov 2001

Bharti Telesonic Limited (BTSOL), Hyderabad, India.

Project: Optical Fiber Backbone Network in Andhra Pradesh State.

Site Engineer Jan 1998 to Jun 2000

S.V Constructions, Hyderabad, India.

Tools Used:

Pathloss 4.0 & 5.0 TEMS Link Planner 6.5.2 TEMS Cell Planner

DeLorme Topo USA 6.0 MapInfo Professional 12.5 Visio Professional

Clearvision – database tool NRM(Sprint) Granite 6.3

Xpercom Siterra Google Earth Pro

Nokia Flexi hopper Manager Ericsson OMT Software Site Master

Digital Transmission Analyzer BER Tester: ANT-20 Splicing Machine

OTDR Tester Frequency Counter Variable Attenuator

MS Excel Google Earth Pro Laser Rangefinder

Garmin e-Trex with WAAS enabled Hand-Held Compass

Training:

Fundamentals of DragonWave Horizon Duo DragonWave, Philadelphia,USA

FiberAir RFU-C Maintenance Ceragon, Philadelphia, USA

ARES (AT&T plant records system) AT&T Inc, California, USA

Minilink access network HESL, Hyderabad, India

Installation and Commissioning of Flexi hopper HESL, Hyderabad, India

Installation and Commissioning of MW Radio HESL, Hyderabad, India

SDH/SONET Agilent Technologies, Gwalior, India

STM-64/16/4/1 ECI, Mumbai, India

OTDR Agilent Technologies, Gwalior, India

Splicing Machine Agilent Technologies, Gwalior, India

GSM system survey AIRTEL, Hyderabad, India

RBS Maintenance (RBS 2202, 2206) HESL, Hyderabad, India

Education:

Graduation Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communications Engineering

University Osmania University, Hyderabad, India – (1991-1995)

Degree received in June 1995.

Post-Graduation Master of Business Administration in Marketing

University Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, India – (1995 – 1997)

Degree received in August 1997.

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