Faisal Farid

Mobile No: 703-***-****

E-Mail: acxg2j@r.postjobfree.com

Profile:

A competent professional with more than 5 years of experience in Telecommunication industry. Ability to cut through complex issues and learn quickly to resolve challenging problems. Extensive RF experience across all major wireless technologies including UMTS, CDMA, EVDO, VOLTE, LTE, LTE-A.

EDUCATION

BS Electrical Engineering (EEE)

George Mason University, Fairfax Virginia USA

STATUS: U.S Citizen

Professional Summary:

Post optimization of 800/1900 MHz, deployment and optimization of 2.5 GHz.

Test different softwares such as WindCatcher, XCAP, MapInfo, and Alteryx results with previous versions to find any anomalies and create tickets to get them resolved before shifting to a new version.

Troubleshoot sites every week for top offenders list, create tickets for sites having chronic issues and accelerate these sites to the client. Keep track of these sites and monitor KPIs once the hardware issues are fixed.

Create objects in NPO (Network Planning and Optimization) for each cluster and monitor KPI’s for each cluster assigned. Plan and execute tasks to optimize assigned RF clusters in the customer network during the deployment phase. Recommend parameter changes to improve traffic balancing.

Analyze Drive data to diagnose coverage and interference issue, recommend tilt/azimuth changes and neighbor addition using Windcatcher, XCAP, XCAL, JDSU, Alteryx, MapInfo, Mentum Planet, and Google Earth.

Recommend to manage traffic balancing between bands 25, 26 and 41. Set parameters to push more traffic to Band 41(2500 MHz) by using 26 (800 MHz) as coverage layer.

Monitor Traffic and performance trend on AGOOP, and Flux, Coordinate with national team to implement enhanced performance parameters to local market.

Minimize call drop rate on sites by fixing issues such as Tx/Rx propagation delay, high FER and pilot pollution.

Studied and Analysis of the KPI reports. Spotted the areas with different type of handovers (Inter and Intra Handovers).

Run market neighbor list audit to check if all the neighbors are defined before making any decision to optimize the area.

Find sites with high eCSFB and CSFB failure rate and check if neighbors are added to avoid such failures.

Write/create macros using excel which helps speed up the task and ease the work load.

Excellent skills in Microsoft Office (Excel, MS Access, PowerPoint).

Good knowledge of GIS, Mapping systems such as Google earth, Microsoft Street and tips, MapInfo Professional and Street Atlas.

Able to work flexible hours, ability to work under pressure, good interpersonal skills.

Good computer and communication skills and a great team player.

Excellent team player highly self-motivated professional with strong ability to learn new things quickly.

Relevant Experience

RF Engineer Mar 2013 - Nov 2016

TeleWorld Solutions,

Chantilly Virginia

List of projects which I have worked on

1.First Net RFP Design Proposal,

2.Cox Wifi Design,

3.Small Cells (Mini Macro) Design,

4.Das Audit & Design

5.T-Mobile North-east Benchmarking Program,

6.CBP (Comparative Benchmark project),

7.4G Network Validation,

8.CA-Carrier Aggregation (RAN Validation),

9.Sprint Optimization top12 BM,

10.Sprint 4G Drive BM,

11.Verizon Volte Optimization,

First Net Design

Nationwide design of the public safety LTE network for First Net RFP.

Use Mentum Planet software intensively to design First Net 700MHz design for Nationwide markets.

Very strict timelines

Extensive Data including county maps, population density maps, tribal areas, state designated areas of interest, Federal areas of interest.

Designed public safety LTE network for Markets such as Seattle, Spokane, Cleveland, Portland, American Samoa, Alaska etc which includes:

1.Project creation,

2.Site Selection based on Coverage and CINR goals, (Automatic Cell Planning tool - feature of Planet).

3.Optimization of the tilts and azimuths

4.Layer analysis including RSRP, CINR, Data rate, throughput and MCS (Modulation) for both DL and UL.

5.Statistics.

Responsible for planning and designing existing Band 14 (700MHz) sites, meeting different criteria such as coverage solution, capacity enhancement, and quality improvement using Mentum Planet.

Organizing and Packaging the output files into specified formats for delivery.

Cox Wifi

Use Mentum Planet software intensively to design Cox Wifi design for San Diego, California market.

Design Antenna for 800MHz, 1900MHz, and 2.5GHz on Mentum Planet to give proper propagation of an AP antennas in the area.

Responsible for planning and designing new APs, meeting different criteria such as coverage solution, capacity enhancement, and quality improvement using Mentum Planet.

Provide reason for each AP placement, considering guidelines provided by the client.

Analyze RSRP, RSRQ, and SINR based on prediction before making the decision to place the AP in the area.

Survey the design and check if each location provided is suitable to cover the area efficiently.

Provide and verify the plant installation of each location.

Based on the survey, provide final input of each AP and submit the design to the client for verification and installation.

Small Cell (Mini Macro)

Use Mentum Planet software intensively to design Small Cell design for Northern Jersey, Idaho, Central Iowa, and Milwaukee markets.

Design Antennas for 800MHz, 1900MHz, and 2.5GHz.

Run antenna prediction on Mentum Planet to give a over-all coverage of Small Cell (Mini Macro) in the area.

Analyze antennas coverage on Mentum Planet and Google earth to decide which Cell to approve or reject following acceptance criteria provided by the client, in order to minimize as many AGOOP issues and improve the coverage in the area such as Urban, Rural, Dense Urban, etc.

DAS Audit and Design

Designing indoor Distributed Antenna System for different operators and vendor companies using iBwave software.

Site benchmarking test, creating the Quality of Service (QoS) reports or Quality verification report.

Indoor/Outdoor Testing with TEMS Investigation v14.x.x/TEMS Pocket v13.x.x(AT&T/ Verizon/T-Mobile), Praxsym CW & X-CAL for outdoor only

Post Processing for 3G/4G on TEMS discovery Professional v4.x.x, XCAP-X v4.104.x and Wind Catcher Plus v3.0.2.x.

CW and walk data analysis for indoor DAS/ outdoor DAS design.

Performed site audit and replicated designs in iBwave for various venues.

Responsible for complete outdoor Wireless Access point designing from defining area of interest to planning. Design Wi-Fi AP’s for NY, CT, NJ states for cablevision project.

Familiar with ALU 9363/9364 Metro cell products.

Detailed analysis report for small cell venues, including bench mark, site survey, potential antenna and small cells location and iBwave design.

T-Mobile North-East Benchmarking Program

Provide high level statistics for FTP, HTTP, and ping data from Data device and Voice call stat's for MO device.

Provide highlights of T-Mobile analysis, and strengths where it has further scope of improvement in terms of coverage and network performance.

Processed and analyzed drive test data for 10 markets across the North East region.

Performed in-depth engineering for LTE coverage for major carriers across the nation.

Performed detail VoLTE call analysis.

Use SQL in order to query Windcatcher and Mapinfo to obtain single output from various tables in the database.

Sprint Competitive Benchmarking Program

Study Root metrics data along with drive data to identify Sprints network key deficiencies in a market, aiming to improve Sprint's Root Metrics scores in terms of Reliability and Speed for Voice and Data.

Thoroughly analyzed the data collected from all over the United States for Sprint.

Identified network issues and provided optimum solutions to resolve them.

In-depth analysis of each market is performed including overshooting sector sites, Throughput analysis, CA Availability and Utilization analysis.

Troubleshoot the causes of various fails and drops and crafted solutions for optimizing the network.

Performed a carrier aggregation analysis to compare Sprint's performance with all other major carriers.

Studied the LTE parameters in-depth from Layer 3 for all carriers and suggested parameter changes (SIB1 to SIB8) for Sprint's network.

Conducted thorough analysis on A-event parameters for Inter and Intra Frequency Handovers.

4G Network Validation, CA (Ran Validation), Sprint Optimization Top12 BM, Sprint 4G Drive BM, and Verizon Volte Optimization

Validate Root Matrics Data with four major carriers data i.e. AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon.

Validating drive by analyzing certain KPI’s using exports from WindCatcher and XCAP.

Validated Sprint eCSFB and CSFB network validation for various Sprint markets.

Perform deep dive Layer 3 analysis of the detailed signalling messages to evaluate call failures, reconnection failures, call drops, unsuccessful handover attempts for both LTE and 3G using WindCatcher and report observations via executive summaries, present recommendations and problem solvers to the clients RAN engineers.

Monitor and provide solutions to field engineer regarding any issues on setup while collecting the data on XCAL (Data collecting tool).

Preparing a report on the offending sites or sectors and provide recommendation.

This involves prioritizing the LTE multiband and tri-band markets, preparing network validation and device validation test scenarios and supervising the field test teams in executing them.

Monitor, process and analyze the incoming drive test data and observe week on week improvements to focus on KPI’s like throughputs, handover, latency, time on band, voice call performance etc.

Monitor Traffic and performance trend on AGOOP, Flux, Coordinate with national team to implement enhanced performance parameters to local market.

Perform optimization for Volte market. Analysis RRC Drops and Failures and provided recommendation, such as changing parameter settings, Data fill and Antenna Tilts/azimuth changes using Planet, WindCatcher, and data provided by the vendor (Verizon), to minimize the issues occurring in the market.

Create Alteryx workspace to minimize heavy work load.

Decreased the overall time spent on generating Microsoft excel reports by writing multiple macros that led to a 80%-90% decrease in time spent for weekly deliverables, thereby ensuring before time delivery to client.

Subject matter expert in RF Optimizations Methods using tunable parameters, antenna configuration, and through knowledge of various test equipment.

Co-ordinated with multiple RF engineers and played a pivotal role in making and presenting the final recommendations for client’s network optimization.

RF Engineer Aug 2011 - Mar 2013

Global Wireless Solutions,

Dulles, Virginia

Using MapInfo to plot maps, verify areas having quality issues and suggest solutions to

resolve such issues. Performed RNC drive test for voice and data to check for IRAT, Access failures, and handovers as per the RF engineer requirement.

Part of AT&T E911 National project where I had to check sector coverage for both UTDOA and AGPS technologies and make sure that KPI are met.

Post-processed data using TEMS Discovery and MapInfo extensively to analyze daily QA to verify irregularities with the collected data.

Perform data processing for various carriers and technology including GSM, WCDMA, CDMA, WIMAX and LTE.

Worked on international projects like Guatemala (Tigo,Claro and Movistar) and Canada (Bell, Mobility and Rogers) where I had to check the coverage for these carriers and report it to the client.

Site Estimation and placement of sites on Map Info for AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon (CDMA/LTE), Metro PCS, Clear, Cricket and US cellular.

Identification of site locations based on that particular market analysis (bands naming convention, market PN plan and offset), RF parameters including RSSI, Timing Advance, Sector Orientation LAC, ARFCN, PSC and PNC using MapInfo.

Analysis of layer 3 for CDMA site locations.

Preparation and submission of reports to AT&T which includes number of sites, percentage of each band used in each technology and BCCH channels used in the market during the test drive.

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