Telecom

DEEPAK SHARMA

Etisalat, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Contact: +971-**-*******, +971-**-******* Email: ************.*****@*****.***, ******.******@*******.***

Offering 11 years of Pioneering Achievement in Telecommunication and Delivering Optimal Results and Business Value in High-growth Environments

(MBA in Telecom Management/ B.E. Computer Science)

Career Précis

Competent, diligent and result-oriented professional with 10+ years of experience in the areas of Telecommunication Projects & Operation and maintenance domain.

Thorough experience in end-to-end project management right from identifying business opportunities, seeking financial sanctions for the projects; reviewing the technical and commercial aspects of the project; tendering, contract administration, preparing proposals, budgeting, and implementing cost reduction processes and reporting while ensuring quality benchmarks of the projects.

Proven expertise technically in Radio Access Networks like GSM (2G), UMTS (3G), WCDMA, LTE, VoLTE, Fixed LTE, Wi-MAX, VoIP and SRAN in multivendor (Huawei, Alcatel, Nokia and Ericsson) environment.

Proven expertise technically in MW Radio Transmission, Fiber Optics Transmission, VSAT, FTTM, FTTH, GPON, ONT & OLT.

Proven expertise executing Telecom Operation & Maintenance involving daily activities like CM & PM, Site Acquisition/Permitting and Implementation including Acceptance Test.

Adequate understanding of the Industrial Standards and Health & Safety Norms (HSE Guidelines) while commissioning projects; adhere to Statutory Requirements while commissioning the projects

Experience in optimal utilization of manpower and available resources to ensure successful execution of the projects within the approved budget; a complete manager with excellent communications skills with demonstrated capabilities in team building & training professionals with different skill sets from various disciplines for executing new projects.

Key Skills

Management Skills: -

Responsible for Project Planning & Control of Telecom Project.

Developing project baselines; monitoring and controlling projects with respect to Cost, Resource Deployment and Time over-runs.

Managing & leading Operation & Maintenance of More than 5500 (2G, 3G, LTE, Fixed LTE, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max sites including the front haul & back Haul) sites.

Formulating operating budgets, Petty cash and cash flow management.

Coordination with site management and resolving various issues of project implementation, Site inspection, coordination with sub-contractors, suppliers and transporters, checking material consumption and reporting to higher authorities.

Anchoring on-site construction activities to ensure completion of project within the time & cost parameters and effective resource utilization to maximize the output.

Responsible for coordination with client for various statutory approvals.

Responsible for Delivery of Projects including Client Engagement, Project Management and Quality Control of deliverables.

Responsible for Project Planning, Scheduling and Monitoring (Physical & Financial).

Responsible for Operations Management & Key accounts management and day-by-day Corrective and Preventive Maintenance activities for mobile network.

Technical Skills:-

Proven expertise technically troubleshooting of 2G/3G/LTE/Fixed LTE/ SRAN/ Wi-Max/Wi-Fi faults in multi vendors like Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, Alcatel Lucent to manage the Mobile network.

Responsible for Installation and commissioning and maintenance of Huawei, Ericsson and ALU SRAN equipment’s.

Trouble shooting of Backhaul & front haul links & network elements like ONT, OLT and Fiber splitters and Microwave Transmission.

Installation & commissioning of Radio links/Optical Fibers/FTTM/GPON.

Healthy experience on BSC, RNC, SRC & Core Network.

Expertise to handle the DAS/IBS projects and Maintenance.

Proven expertise technically in networking, LAN, WAN & IP Routing like Packet & circuit switching, SDN, NFV.

Reach knowledge of Cloud Computing and Networking Protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, MAC, RLC, PDCP and RRC.

Reach knowledge of RF Networking techniques like MIMO, Modulation & De-Modulation, Paging, call setup.

Ericsson/Huawei/NSN/Alcatel BSC,TCSM and RNC and Ericsson/Huawei/NSN/Alcatel BTS and NodeB & eNodeB

Nokia Flexi Multi Radio 10 base station, FSMC, FSME, System Module, RF Module.

Ericsson’s 2000, 6000 series DUL, DUW and DUG for UMTS and LTE.

Alcatel 9100 and 9400 series and eCCM, bCCM for LTE and SRAN.

Huawei 3000 series and WBBP, LBBP, UBRI, WMPT, UMPT, NMPT, RRU’s etc.

BSC,RNC & SRC Software & Hardware up gradation.

Nokia Flexi, HiCap, LowCap BSC Installation & Commissioning.

Huawei UMTS 3G NodeB BTS 3000 series & Huawei RTN Family.

Nokia Siemens MIDI, Metro, Ultra, Flexi BTS & Nokia FPH, FPR.

Various PDH Microwave equipment’s from Nokia (FPH, FPR, Hybrid) & Ericsson (MMU/SMU, Optical (MMU/SMU, AXX, DXX).

Ericsson RBSC

Interfaces, Ater, POI, Abis, Iub’s, Air Interfaces, E1, T1, Ethernet, FE, GE.

Optical Fiber and MW Transmission (SDH + PDH + UBR Links, Fiber Mux, Modems).

Packet over Ethernet, VOIP, HSPA, HSPA+, GPRS and EDGE & Data & Voice call over TCP/IP.

Hands-on experience on Nokia Optical Transmission nodes, Huawei S3318 series LAN switches, Cisco 2400, 2500, 3000 series routers and Juniper Networks Datacom products.

Strong presentation and analytical skills.

Familiar with ITU, IEC, EIA/TIA, SHELL DEP, IEEE Standards.

Rich experience of/in:

oVarious SDH / PDH Microwave equipment’s like NEC (Pesolink+, PesolinkNeo, Pasolink, iPaso Radio link), Intracom, Axxcelera & Huawei.

oSDH equipment’s like ECI (uSDM, XDM-50, XDM-100, XDM-500, XDM-1000), Huawei metro 1000, Alcatel & Huawei GPON ONT, DSL data modems.

oConfiguring the new ECI equipment’s (BG20, BG30, BG40, uSDM, XDM100, XDM500, and XDM1000).

Professional Abridgement

Etisalat (Emirates Telecommunication), Abu Dhabi Since Nov’13

Team Leader-Telecom

Assuming a bunch of responsibilities like:

oManaging & leading zone Team for Operation & Maintenance of More than 5500 (2G, 3G, LTE, Wimax & Radio Transmission) sites in UAE.

oInstallation & commissioning of IBS/DAS including Fiber Nodes & distributed antennas.

oSuccessfully migration of 5500 sites on SRAN Including IBS/DAS & Backhaul.

oCoordination with customer to get approval to install the DAS.

oTimely submission of all IBS / DAS layout to maintenance team.

oNokia Flexi Multi Radio 10 base station, FSMC, FSME, System Module, RF Module.

oEricsson’s 2000, 6000 series DUL, DUW and DUG for UMTS and LTE.

oAlcatel 9100 and 9400 series and eCCM, bCCM for LTE and SRAN.

oHuawei 3000 series and WBBP, LBBP, UBRI, WMPT, UMPT, NMPT, RRU’s etc.

oSubmitting RCA reports (Outages) timely to the management as per need

oJotting down all daily team movements for corrective maintenance & preventive maintenance

oEfficient Resources management, people management, Fault Management, Stock Management for ETISALAT

oAdroitly handling the vendor management & coordinating with all other sections.

oProviding support to project team for implementation of single RAN (SRAN).

oProven expertise technically troubleshooting of 2G/3G/LTE/Fixed LTE/ SRAN/ Wi-Max/Wi-Fi faults in multi vendors like Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, Alcatel Lucent to manage the Mobile network.

oResponsible for Installation and commissioning and maintenance of Huawei, Ericsson and ALU SRAN equipment’s.

oTrouble shooting of Backhaul & front haul links & network elements like ONT, OLT and Fiber splitters and Microwave Transmission.

oInstallation & commissioning of Radio links/Optical Fibers/FTTM/GPON.

oFocusing on maintaining SLA for network availability & reliability by issuing corrective action and improvement plans to maintain SLA for.

oAiming at maintaining network availability as 99.99 % by keeping the sites up as per desired standards.

Playing a key role in:

oComplete O&M of Huawei/ Ericsson/Alcatel BTS and NodeB, eNodeB,

oIntegrating & commissioning 2G BTS, UMTS NodeB & LTE eNodeB, Wimax Base Station & Radio Links.

oTrouble shooting as tier 2 support for various BTS equipment’s like GSM BTS 2G(Ericsson 2101, 2302, 2308, 2109, 2309, 2202, 2206, 2216), Huawei 3800, 3900 Series, LTE BTS 4G(Ericsson 6201,6601), microwave radio equipment’s (Ericsson, NEC, Intracom, Axxcelera), Wi-Max, SDH equipment’s like Huawei metro 1000, Huawei GPON ONT, DSL data modems to team members.

oCommissioning & trouble shooting of SRAN backhaul & BTS.

oRestoration & Trouble shooting as tier 2 support for alarms for LTE, PCS & GSM, Node-B/ENodeB TX/HW using RBS Element Manager and MOSHELL

oTroubleshooting Node –B Sync, and performing Loop Check for TX/IP from Node B to RNC.

oPerforming RET configuration via CCU (Interim build solution), script verification for Argus, Kathrein, Andrew and Hexport Antenna

oTrouble shooting as tier 2 support for of VSWR, RSSI issues, Return Loss and PIM test & Short test for elliptical waveguide, coaxial cable

oCreating Script & Configuration file and Loading to NodeB & eNodeB (O&M, Site equipment, Specific Iub, Load LKF and External Alarm System) via EMAS and Moshell, LMT, Web LMT, Element Manager, PIM Tester.

oUpgrading License key and software onsite execution for WCMDA and LTE Nodes

oHands On working knowledge how to do eNodeB/NodeB/ 2G BTS Rehoming/ Reparenting on field

oPerforming DUL, DUS, DUW, DUG Board Hardware & Software Replacement and health check as well as RRUS (RRUS 11, RRUS A2) Replacement and Addition

oImproving the quality of the Network by conducting corrective maintenance in cell sites with coordination of RF planning & optimization teams.

Nokia Siemens Networks Pvt Ltd, Jaipur Jan’08-Nov’13

Project and O&M Engineer

Substantially managed:

oInstallation, Integration and commissioning of new Nokia Flexi BSC & Acceptance Test (AT).

oIntegration and commissioning & troubleshooting of UMTS 3G NodeB, Huawai (3812E, 3900).

oInstallation, Integration and commissioning & Maintenance of new GSM sites & Acceptance test(AT).

oOperation & maintenance of GSM network operations, this includes BSC, BTS, and Microwave hops (SDH & PDH).

oResponsible to minimize downtime (BTS, POI, MW,SDH,PDH, and Lease line) & keep network uptime very high.

oResponsible for Generation & analyzing Corrective & Preventive maintenance reports of the N/W.

oFault Restoration / TT handling / Alarm handling

o Configuration Management (Retune of Access Network)

o Work Order (WO) and Change Request (CR) handling

o Incident Management (& Post incident reviews) & MI (Major Incident) handling

o 2nd level troubleshooting (R14. RU15, RG30, RU40, L50)

o Features and functions handling and technical Impact Analysis.

o Backup and Restore Administration.

o 2nd level Routine/Preventive Maintenance (Health Check)

o Software update and Upgrades and Roll Out

oBTS Rehoming, BSC migration, LAC split activities

oAccount and Access Administration (Security Incident Investigation).

o Network Performance Monitoring, Performance analysis, dig down the problem and provide solution (CSSR, Call Drop, TCH assignment success rate, TCH drop, SD drop, HO success rate, TCH/SDCCH Congestion/Blocking etc.)

o KPI analysis and set improvement plan to reach the target.

o BSC capacity expansion/reduction on regular basis

o BSC Re-homing/ Site Re-homing/Migration, BSC, RNC and eNode, node B, BTS integration

o Proficient in using OSS tools like NetAct, M2000, CM, PM,CME etc

oProficient in developing OPS script for various status and make report and to make work smoother

Actively interacted with circle/ utility vendor for early resolution of new equipment’s integration & pending equipment failures.

Followed up with material team for resolving the material related issues in the circle.

Ericsson India Pvt Ltd (External), Jaisalmer April’07-Dec’07

Field Maintenance Engineer

Successfully maintained data of E1, A-TER (BSC TO BSC), and Leased Line & POI connection with operator’s details.

Actively handled re-homing (one BSC to other BSC) of BTS sites as per Planning.

Focused on the supervision and maintenance of ERICSSON RBSC as well as BTS Installation and commissioning of 2202, 2204, 2206, 2308((IBS), 2111, 2964, 2204v2Ericsson BTS.

Adroitly handed Cabinet expansion from 2+2+2 to 4+4+4, 4+4+4 to 6+6+6 configurations for Ericsson and Nokia BTS.

Played a key role in complete Field maintenance, complete Installation and Commissioning of BTS, MMU, SMU, OPT TRU, OPT MMU, DXX and AXX Connectivity through Micro Wave and OFC. Troubleshooting BTS, Power plant, Micro Wave, MMU, SMU, OPT TRU, OPT MMU, DXX and AXX.

Shri Khandal Construction Pvt Ltd, Jaipur July’05-March’07

Project Engineer

Played a substantial role in integrating new BTS sites for BSNL; handling ECI (100,1000,2000) Equipment’s as well as performing Acceptance Test of SDH, E1, O&M of SDH

Credentials of integrating & Commissioning of 100 BTS site within One month.

Installation & commissioning more then 3000 Telecom sites for BSNL.

Responsible for acceptance testing of sites

Handover the Telecom sites to the service providers after clearance of all snags.

Responsible for quality testing for the sites.

Projects Handled

1. Single RAN (ETISALAT):

Successfully installed & Commission and migration of 4000 sites on Single RAN including back-haul & Front haul.

2. Installation & commissioning of IBS & DAS (ETISALAT):

Successfully Installation & commissioning of IBS & DAS. Responsible for handling the project team of 76 employees & Hardware request, To obtain the Installation plan from planning team & solve the dispute cases between O&M and Project, Also responsible for timely completion of installation & testing of site. Responsible to provide accurate DAS diagrams to O&M team.

3.Installation, Redeployment & commissioning of BSC’s for Vodafone:

Successfully Installation, Redeployment & commissioning of 18 Nokia BSC’s (Low Cap, High Cap, Flexi) within the 3 Months. Responsible for handling the team of 24 employees & vendor teams for PO (Purchase Order) alignment, BSC Hardware request & Dispatch from Warehouse, Installation & commissioning of BSC, BSC Configuration data collection for all concern team, BCSU Addition & Deletion, BSC Expansion, Voice & Data call & Diagnostic testing & Acceptance testing of BSC. Responsible for Hardware & Software Up gradation of BSC.

4.VoIP/ Abis over IP for Vodafone:

Successfully migration of 150 2G site on IP terminology. Responsible to Handling of 83 employees & vendor teams for make ready the Nokia non IP BSC as IP BSC by installing the ETP Cards in BSC & interconnection with ESB & MCMU. Responsible for Hardware & Software Up gradation of BSC & BTS. Responsible for backhaul transmission readiness & collection of IP plan form planning team, making of MOP & providing second line support to field Engineers.

5.Installation & Commissioning of BTS, Transmission Links for BSNL:

Successfully installed & Commission more than 6000 BTS sites (Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei, and Alcatel) & transmission Link (NEC, Intracom, Axxcelera, Ericsson Mini-Link, Nokia- FIU, RRI, FPR, FPH, Huawei RTN etc) and VSAT link locally & remotely.

Trainings Attended

1 Day training of Next generation network at ETISALAT Abu Dhabi.

1 day training of GPON at ETISALAT.

1 day PIM Testing training & ANRITSHU PIM tester training at ETISALAT.

Three days official OHS training in Nokia Siemens networks Pvt.Ltd.

Six days (21-26th June ‘2008) training of Microwave (NEC & CERAGON) practical & theoretical at Dakc, Navi Mumbai.

Two days ( 14-15 th April’2009 ) training of ECI (EMS & NMS), hardware knowledge of XDM (50, 100, 1000, 2000) & BG 40 by ECI at OKHLA PHASE -3, DELHI.

Six days official CCNA training in Nokia Siemens Networks Pvt.Ltd.

45 Days Extensive Summer Training in the interest of C DOT DSS Exchange.

Personal Dossier

Date of Birth: 15th Jan 1982; Languages Known: English, Hindi; Present Address: Abu Dhabi, UAE, Valid UAE Driving License, Passport No: K7329757; Visa Status / Work Permit: 3 Years residential visa company sponsorship; Skype ID: deepaksharma.nokia

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