Arpit Singh Kalra
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Melbourne, FL 32901 ************@*****.***
PERFORMANCE PROFILE
Solution oriented and analytical electrical engineer with experience in the fields of RF Engineering and system Administrator. Adept at readily gathering and translating complex requirements into viable solutions. Technical areas of interest are Post processing of RF Data, RF data collection, server administration, power system generation, operation and control, Renewable Energy systems, planning and operation, electricity markets, optimization and linear systems. EDUCATION
Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida GPA 3.80 Master of Science, Electrical Engineering May 2016 Coursework: Digital Communication, Digital Signal Processing, Linear Systems, Speech processing, Radio frequency propagation, Communication Theory, Satellite Communications, Intro to probabilistic methods,Power Generation Operation and Control, Principles of Renewable Energy.
Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab (India)
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering July 2012 SKILLS
Tools and softwares: Dragon Dual Band Transmitter, Yellow Frog Power Meter, PCTEL SeeHawk, MapInfo, Gladiator G Station, AIX, Windows NT/XP/Vista/7/8, Windows Server 2003/2008, HP-Unix, RHEL 5,IBM Tivoli, SSH, Telnet, X-Manager, Putty, Win SCP, MSTSC, IBM P –Series servers, IBM 3582 Total Storage, MATLAB, IBM Toad for DB2, IBM Cognos, MySQL, Lotus Notes 8.5, Cisco Packet tracer, Wireshark, Spectrum Analyzer, Oscilloscope. VMware, SAM, x Telecom: GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, LTE, NFC
EXPERIENCE
RF Post Processing Engineer/RF Test Engineer, PCTEL RF Solutions
• Analyzed cellular data using post processing tools (PCTEL SeeHawk, MapInfo) July 2016 - Present
• Generating KPI Reports using Gladiator G Station.
• oDAS CW Testing using Dragon Dual Band Transmitter and Omni Directional Antenna
• Assisted engineers in post processing analysis on the collected drive test cellular data
• Supported RF Engineers during data collection in the field and remotely
• Knowledge of KPI parameters in post processing data reports
• Network testing on LTE,WCDMA technology by using See hawk and PCTEL Seagull MXflex scanner
• Troubleshooting during the drives includes connection /network issues
• Measure coverage, capacity and quality of service of At&t network in market
• RF Drive testing by using PCTEL Seehawk
• Creating sites in MapInfo
Special Collections Assistant, Evans Library, Florida Institute of Technology August 2015 -May 2016
• Organized archival collection of Edwin A. Link’s special collection in Evan’s Library.
• Uploaded archived material to the University Library’s website using Archive Space and Omeka. System Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai September 2012-December 2014
• Provided Server Maintenance on Linux, AIX, and Windows Servers which also involved installation of IBM Tivoli Application
• Prepared Service Level Agreement reports of all the Data Centre servers of Allahabad bank and presented them to client.
• Configured the backups for Domino, Oracle, MS SQL, DB2 databases and file level backups through IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
• Monitored all Servers of Datacenter through IBM Tivoli Monitoring
• Worked with network team to facilitate network report through IBM Tivoli Netcool/Omnibus
• Ensured uptime of servers is always in accordance with the service level agreement reports and presented the same to the client for UAT
Electrical Engineer Intern, Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited, New Delhi Jan 2012-May 2012
• Worked towards reducing AT&C losses in substation in the Mangolpuri area in New Delhi
• Determined and eliminated the major cause of losses in transmission of power Eureka Electrosoft solutions private limited July 2010
• Acquired hands-on experience with wiring and programming of PLC and Drives for complex industrial automation processes
Electrical Engineer Intern, Punjab State Power Corporation 220 KV Substation May 2010-June 2010
• Obtained training experience as an engineer and observed the real time functioning of the power system
• Monitored the operation of protection schemes used in the substation and the functioning of 220/66 KV transformers, SF6 circuit breakers, Buchholz relay and other components installed ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Floating Perovskite Solar Cells
• Simulation Project on Installation of Perovskite solar panels on Lake Tarquin in Florida using SAM Spring 2016 Smart Grid Implementation in India-Challenges and solutions Fall 2015
• Researched on challenges of implementing Smart Grid in India
• Provided solutions to implement smart grid in India at rural and urban level Voiced Unvoiced Discriminator Summer 2015
• Demonstrated algorithm for Voiced and Unvoiced speech discriminator
• Compiled the algorithm for removing silence in a speech JPEG Image Compression, Spring 2015
• Performed JPEG Image Compression using discrete cosine transform HONORS
• Recognition from Bharat Vikas Parishad
• IBM Certified Associate-Tivoli Storage Manager V6.2 Co-curricular Activities
• National Cadet Corps (NCC)
• IEEE Young Professionals Society Member
• Music and Dramatic Society