Mike Tran

Cell:214-***-****

ad1b5w@r.postjobfree.com

Location: Garland, TX 75044

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-tran-2a2ba56a/

Objective: 5G Nokia Cloud RAN (Regular and ORAN / VRAN Expertise)/CORE Field Deployment, Integration & E2E Call Testing Engineer. (3G/4G-LTE/5G NSA&SA and WIFI. ATP MOP writer. NOKIA Enterprise Campus Edge Products). 16 years Telecom experience

Work History

NOKIA, Coppell, TX (07/2022 – 02/2023): 5G Nokia Cloud RAN (Regular and ORAN / VRAN expertise) & CORE Deployment, Integration Call Testing E2E Engineer, Contractor

. Nokia RAN (4G-LTE 5G SNA/SA, gNB/eNB) Engineer & IMS CFX-5000 (CMRepo & CSCF) and Nokia CMM-CMU/Nokia GW 7705&7205/NWP. Cloud CORE & RAN (Regular and ORAN / VRAN Experience) Integration & Testing. Validation Call Testing & Call Analysis 3G/4G-LTE/5G NSA&SA and Wi-Fi E2E.ATP MOP writer. Enterprise Campus Edge Products. 14 years 5G experience and NOKIA AI

NOKIA Projects:

Field Deployment, integration, and E2E Call Testing. (RLC/RRC/NGAP/NAS/HTTP2/GPP2/etc.)

Hardware: BTS/Radio, Nokia 7705/7205/ and CORE CMM/CMU/etc.

SCF files install & edit and Upgrade. Wireshark PCAP file, Syslog/and Domain Analysis & Troubleshooting.

1.CACI 4GLTE-5G NA & NSA eNB/gNB RAN Government project

Field Deployment, integration, and E2E Call Testing. (RLC/RRC/NGAP/NAS/HTTP2/GPP2/etc.)

Hardware: BTS/Radio, Nokia 7705/7205/ and CORE CMM/CMU/etc.

2.BAH 5G SNA 5G SA RAN project

3.G3 5G SA RAN project (Government 5G RAN project)

4.C-Band Testing

5.Nokia NSP (Network Services Platform) and NSP applications (NFM-Analytics, etc.).

6.JHU (Hawaii & Maryland) 4GLTE-5G SNA 5G SA RAN project

RAN Call testing for BTS 3-4 & 5-6 sites. Create RAN ATP (3-4 & 5-6)

Testing for 2G/3G/4G-LTE & 5G NSA

Access stratum protocols (MAC, RRC, RLC, and PDCP) 4G/5G (NSA/SA) Emil/pcap files Call Flow. Working with all Nokia RAN/WebEM/SCF file/policemen/etc. files BBU HW & SW installation & update. Layer 2/Layer 3 IP protocols

Ability to Install, Commission and Integrate Nokia 4G/5G HW Equipment.

Set up and maintain automation test lines.

Tool: ADB Tool/Iperf/Emil (layer 3)

Customer Microwave Deployment

Phone Testing on Google Pixel 5, Asus, Nokia XR-20, 1+ (plus), Samsung 22, Android & Apple Products (iPhone, Watch, Mac). Android phone route.

Integration between 5G (SA and NSA) CORE & RAN. CBRS, Dual SIM, eSIM burning and configure SIM & eSIM for Call Testing.

ORAN / VRAN / Cloud RAN Experience in Deployment, Installation and E2E Call Testing

NOKIA 5G OSS (Operation Support System)

CNF (Containerized Network Function), Nokia NSP (Network Services Platform) and NSP applications (NFM-Analytics, etc.) Support Lab: 5G SA Network System and vRAN/ORAN architecture (3GPP Rel 15 & 16) with Dell HW and Cisco Gateways. Kubernetes, Dockers, Containers, etc. for SW installation. CU/DU

. Build NOKIA 5G CNF system for customer training. (Included MOP, DOC, etc.

. NOKIA EPC products: PCRF, Packet Core, EPC, Cloud, SMF, UPF, PCF, Containers, Kubernetes, 5G, 4Gs

NOKIA, Coppell, TX (07/2019 – 04/2021) Lab & Field Site 5G RAN SA & 5G Core (include CU/DU/5G Core) E2E Engineer, Contractor

Hardware Installation/Racking/Cabling

* (RMS Dell PowerEdge R740 & R750/Cisco Nexus 3172 and NCS540X/Ethernet/SFP/etc.) Deployment

Software Installation (Build Up the T-Mobile E2E CNF E2E Call Testing

Mavenir CNF Containerized Network Function, MWP, KVM, pf9/Virtual Machine VM and Calico (Bios, RAID, OS Centos 7, CaaS/PaaS/Portworx/Kubernetes/Docker/MTCIL/CMS and O-RAN, RU and VCU/VDU and 5G Core)

* CI/CD System Testing and E2E 5G/4G LTE Call Testing

* Familiar with Mavenir & Nokia CIQ 6 servers/4 Server. IPv4/IPv6/Gateway Remote/etc.

* DevOps

Documentation (MOP writing by MS Word)

Verizon MTCE Lab (Westlake Lab & Southlake) Resident Engineer: E2E 5G/4G LTE Cloud Professional Support & Integration and Call Testing) Verizon MTCE (Westlake) Lab Resident Engineer, support installing & Troubleshooting Call CFX-5000 (CSCF), HSS, SDM, NetAct, One-NDS, DRA, enhancing the CSCF system. LTE/5G Test Call (2G/3G/4G LTE, WIFI, ePC Core, NTAS, MME (Nokia CMM/WMM platform E2E 5G/4G Test Call in Cell Room for Regression and New Feature test cases, 911, International, RCS Messaging, SMS/MMS, Voicemail, and LI, etc. Python, shell/Bash/Ksh for configuration/scripting. DEVOPS/DELOPS & CI/CD.

Nokia Cloud Field CSCF Deployment Engineer & Integration/E2E Core & EPC (NRF/AMF/SMF/SDM&AUSF/PCF/UDM/AUSF/etc.) & RAN Cyber Security Testing: 5G enterprise security architectures based on 5G 3GPP, defined the Test Cases for T-Mobile 5G Core & RAN SECURITY by Call Flow or Spirent Landslide implementation. Cloud Native (CN) based 5G (PCF, NRF, SCP, IWF, UDR, NSSF, SEPP, SLF, BSF, evolved Packet Data Gateway (ePDG) and Trusted Wi-Fi Gateway (TWAG) etc.). Ericsson/Cisco/ or Nokia 5G servers. Automation Testing using Python & Bash Shell programming or Spirent Landslide Test Cases implementation. Cisco/Nokia/etc. 5G Server. RAN Virtualization & OAMP/OSS Engineering 5G security testing.

E2E 5G/4G LTE Testing Nokia Cloud Project: Filed Deployment & Integration Engineer for CFX-5000 Cloud. (CMRepo & CSCF V19.02) VNF instantiation on CBIS, CBAM, OpenStack. DNS/NTP & ENUM/LI (Lawful Intercept), integrate with other NEs in 5G core: NTAS, CFX-5000, NetAct, HSS/HLR, One-NDS, MRF, DRA, CSD as well and IMS access products including 7750MG, SBC, PGW), SAEGW, CMG, and CMM in the network system. ATP and Call Testing RCS Messaging, SMS/MMS, Voicemail. LTE/5G Test Call (2G/3G/4G LTE ePC Core, MME (Nokia CMM/WMM platforms)/and 5G Core (SMF, UPF, and AMF). Install, and support an NMS/EMS system. Telco cloud (e.g. ETSI MANO, OpenStack, SDN, Open-O, ONAP,SRIOV,OVS, DPDK). vHSS, SDL, UDM (experience on Nokia products) and Open stack for VNF management. 5G/4G Test Call in Cell Room for Regression and troubleshoot, diagnose and repair highly complex mobility 5G packet core technologies

SAMSUNG, Plano, 1000 Klein (03/2018 to 07/2019) RAN Engineer, Contractor (WorldLink Staffing)

Project CDU 30 eNodeB/gNB PLD. Migrate 3G/4G sites to 5G eNB/gNB.

Commissioning sites to FDD/TDD Cell Layout as Site Designed.

Troubleshooting FCAP backhaul/fronthaul RAN & Core of 4G/5G network.

NOKIA (07/2017-03/2019) 5G MIMO/AirScale SW & HW Install & Update Engineer (Contractor for SAC, Inc) & Technical Specialist eNodeB & gNB Site Deployment Engineer (2018)

• Perform hardware Install, Software Upgrade and configuration for the Nokia 4G gNodeB to 5G gNB RAN. The 5G-MIMO BBU Hardware 9712 & SW Installation, Integration and troubleshooting for about 27 Houston template RAN sites.

• Integrate with NetAct & Troubleshooting Alarms. LTE/5G Test Call (2G/3G/4G LTE, WIFI, ePC Core, MME (Nokia CMM/WMM platforms) and 5G. Install, and support a NMS/EMS system

• NOKIA 5G MIMO/AirScale SW & HW Install & Update Certificate (2017). Safety certifications: First AID/CPR/OSHA Certifications, RF Awareness

Nokia, USA (07/2007 – 06/2017 Employee) Field Deployment & Integration Engineer for 4G-LTE/WIFI Engineer

A.Field Deployment & Integration Engineer Verizon WebGW Project, 4G LTE/WIFI (2012-2017)

• Nokia IMS/4G Virtual Machine/4G LTE & VoLTE (CFX-5000, I/S-CSCF) MANO/SDN/NFV architecture (3GPP)/Nokia 5G CFX-5000 (CMRepo & CSCF) installation & Integration on HP & Dell or Data Center Frame HW and Container technologies). ATP MOP (Customer Acceptance Test Plan) writing, NetAct integration. Field Install Support and Call Testing

• LTE/5G Test Call (2G/3G/4G LTE, WIFI, ePC Core, MME (Nokia CMM/WMM platforms)/and 5GvSBC: v SBC R17.5/R3.1.3 Field Installation w/CBAM, MOP/SOW developing, and (vSBC/vMRF/UMC/etc.) Integration. Signaling & Media CSAR packages Yang Tool creation vSBC ATP Testing MOP/SOWs developing & Call Testing WebGW/ISC-5450_7510 GW SW Upgrade-Field Installation & Push Notification and VMM-HI Firmware Upgrade (Verizon)

Project Leader.

Project Leader (2017) for Verizon in WebGW/ISC-5450_7510 GW & Push Notification and VMM-HI Firmware Upgrade for:

• ISC5450 SW Upgrade (MOP writing) for Westlake Lab & Verizon FOA sites

• Apple & Google Push Notification w/MOP/SOW Writing.

Project Leader (2016) for Verizon in WebGW/ISC-5450_7510 GW & VM Redesign and VMM-HI Firmware Upgrade

B.Field Deployment & Integration Engineer AT&T UVP (4G LTE/WIFI) Project (2007-2011)

• SDM Field Install and integrate - Nokia UDM SDL (new HSS), HSS for AT&T vUSP Region5, included Oakland-Sherman Oaks Production site. Nokia University Certificate SDM (UDM for 5G)

• ISC5450 SW Upgrade for all 3 Verizon FOA sites & Westlake Lab, included SW MOP writing (in HPc7000 for FOA and ATCA2 for Waltham 2). VM Redesign for all 3 Verizon FOA sites & Westlake Lab & MOPs. 7510 SW Upgrade for all 12 Verizon FOA and VMM-HW MOP.. Project was successfully with honor certification 2 times form Nokia manager and VIP

• Wind-Canada (Irving Lab): vSBC & vCOM and Integration (Test Call) Support.

ISBC (RMS). Architecture and MOP development for Nokia iSBC on RMS-G9 (Naperville, IL Lab). Nokia Cloud Band Training and applied in vSBC for CBAM/heat instantiation. E2E Call Testing in NJ NOKIA Bell Labs

• WebGW/ISC-5450_7510 GW Field Support Engineer (Verizon & Sprint PCS)

. LTE/5G Test Call (2G/3G/4G LTE, WIFI, ePC Core, MME (Nokia CMM/WMM platforms)/and 5G

Successfully in WebGW/5450 ISC-7510 GW Field Installation & SW Upgrade with FI Worksheet for all Southlake/Colorado/and Sacramento. ATP & MOP for WebGW/5450 ISC-7510 GW all FOA sites (12 MOPs). FSGUI and COM provisioning

• WebGW/ISC-5450_7510 GW Field Support Engineer (Sprint PCS. Successfully in WebGW/5450 ISC-7510 GW SW Upgrade for 2 FOA sites

• MRF Field Verification / SW Installation & Upgrade. USP/PCM Field Support Engineer (AT&T)

Successfully (100%) in Perform Field Installation & SW Upgrade PCM for all USP AT&T Lab (Naperville, IL) and 5 Regions (10 sites, included Chicago-Cleveland/Kansas City-San Antonio/ Nashville-Atlanta/ Oakland-Sherman Oaks). All sites are 100% correct, was confirmed and celebrated by AT&T.PCM Field Installation & SW Upgrade (BoA). Install and Upgrade PCM/ MOP writing for BoA lab. NC for SW Installation & Upgrade used to deploy for the BoA production sites. Get Training MRF & CTS

• Nokia University CloudBand Architecture & Network Technical Certificates

• IMS Integration Bootcamp (IMS System Network Integration) 08/2009

Computer courses: Nokia Cloudband 5G API & WebRTC /Nokia CloudBand, Virtual Machine, IMS, VoLTE/LTE/Wireless/IPTV/DSL/MRF Bell Lab Certificate

• Four (4) Project Manager (PM) Certificates with 2 and 12 PDUs (Professional Developments Units) from ALU PM Institute (08/2012)

• Completed Project Manager (PM) Certificates with 2 and 12 PDUs (Professional Developments Units) from ALU PM Institute

• Completed IMS Integration Bootcamp (IMS System Network Integration) 08/2009

• CVoIP/UVP-IMS and IPTV Deployment & Network Configuration MOP Writing. CVoIP/UVP-IMS Network Element Certificates (SCG, LCP, CTS, ISC, 1360 COM, IeCCF, and etc. LTE/4G Test Call (2G/3G/4G LTE, WIFI, ePC Core, MME (Nokia CMM/WMM)/and 4G

Project Lightspeed Contribution Award (AT&T and Alcatel-Lucent)

Certificate: 7750SR Services Implementation. Alcatel Router 7750SR, Juniper IGS2000 Firewall

IPTV NR9.0 & NR7.2A/NR 7.0/NR3.2 and 3. NR9.0: Mission SHO & SHO

• All VHO site MOPs: Fresno & all the new build sites (about 20 sites, e.g., Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Louisville, Orlando, Nashville, Champaign, Lansing, Madison, Monterey, Odessa – Midland, Birmingham, Greenville-Spartan-Asheville, Jackson MS, Knoxville, Memphis, Mobile, Orlando, Raleigh-Durham, Springfield, Topeka, etc.). 7750SR12 VHO of IES, VPLS, OSPF, VRRP, MPLS, RSVP, etc.

Rockwell Collins, Inc. Cedar Rapid, IA (01-05/2007) Defense Missile SW Engineer

• Improve and Testing ACK-NACK Protocol C++ Software for project TTNT phases 3 -TTNTMsgSvr (Advanced Technology Center). Tool: Linux (scons, boots Library), C & C++, layer 2-3-4 protocol & routing, TCP/IP networking testing, IP (MPLS, BGP, OSPF, and ISIS), ATM payload structure, authentication improvements, security management, OOP & OODesign Pattern, Container (List & Vector), ClearCase, and ML Design. Rational DOORS and Rational Rose for Project Life cycle & Automation.

• Simulation ML Design ACK/NACK primitive module.

Software System Service, Inc. (01-12/2006) Field Deployment/Call Testing SW Engineer

IMS 2G/3G/UMTS Field Support for Nortel

• Nortel NNTAS (Richardson, TX) 9/06- 12/06. Pre-check MOP writing on R4 MSC, MGW, and USP for Nortel & Cingular GSM and UMTS site before going to service (Midway 6, Margate3 FL, Puerto Rico3). Technical Support site in-service for MSC (XaCore, Translation, VLR, HLR), MGW (TDM, SS7, ATM, ALL2 & ALL5, and TCP/IP troubleshooting), USP (SS7, Signaling), and troubleshooting integration of Nortel system and Ericsson RNC of UMTS site Technical troubleshooting test cases and MOP on SS7, ATM (ATM Interface, AAL2 and AAL5), T1 & T3, control protocol H.248, and other protocols

Siemens, Boca Raton, Florida (6/2005 -12/2005) 3G/UMTS Engineer

Install and Test Siemens’s GSM (GSM 850 & PCS 1900) for: GSM/GPRS & UMTS/LTE & VoLTE –RF:

• Perform testing Codecs (EMR, EFR, AMR for FR&HR, and DTX), Ciphering, Queuing, Direct Retry, Power Control, Base Band Hopping, Synthesizer Hopping, IMSI trace. Circuit Services (CS) and Packet Services (PS) Hand Over Intra/Inter BSC on Standard, Concentric, and Extended Cell (BTS). HSCSD data call, TTY, and NACC Algorithm. GPRS & UMTS (one or 2 way-phase access, PDP Context Activation, Flow Control, Vertical/Horizontal Allocation, EGDE (mcs 1-9). Local Number Portability (LNP), CAMEL, SS, CALEA Wiretap, and WPS.

Collin County Community College District (CCCCD Plano) 2/2005 – 6/2005 Part-Time

• Computer Lab Supervisor (Night part time job): Network administration, installing, support, and maintenance network system, computers, devices, and network system in Computer Lab of CCCCD (@ Allen High School, TX). Installing network software and hardware on various computer platforms, Windows XP, Macintosh, Linux, and Office XP/Mac. Network configuration and maintenance.

Nortel Networks, Inc. (06/2003 – 06/2004) SW Engineer CDMA Testing & Development:

• Testing CDMA (CR/CPDS): Using Cygwin to build an all buidme_cpds, and then using ClearCase, VxWorks - Tornado, TCL, Multi, Sniff++, and UNIX for simulation testing on Passport 15000. Test cases development on C & C++, scripting, and procedures.. Test cases development for CDMA (P-MSC Packet Mobile Switching Center and MSC) and procedures:. System flows and Architecture on MTX (P-MSC Packet Mobile Switching Center and MSC- Call Processing,

HB Communication Group, Inc. (10/2000 to 5/2003 Employee) SW Engineer Software Development and Firmware System Engineering:

X ADSL – (C++, C, VxWorks, Rational Rose UML, Power PC 8260):

• Using Rational Rose UML modeling to develop Bootrom and OS – VxWorks. Flash and boot up on all cards (WindRiver Motorola Power PC 8260) of multiplexor product of XIPN. Board Support Package (BSP est82660, hsiSBC8260, and wrSBC8260) for VxWorks programming with C, C++, Power PC 8260. Vxworks development with Drivers, FLASH, RAM, ROM, BIOS, TrueFFS, DosFS, DHCP & BootP, Technical Support Engineering VxWorks Programming (Tornado) for HBCG, Inc. team projects and ADSL project of Xalted Network, Inc. Hardware & Software Testing and Debug software on EST-SBC PowerPC 860 or 8260 (VxWorks Programming). Research and Report articles for Windriver (TrueFFS)/ Alarm Event Management Subsystem (ADSL).

• Nokia University Training: Nokia CNF Containerized Network Function, Kubernetes, Dockers, RAN eNB/gNB BTS Hardware & Deployment. CloudBand/IMS Boot Camp/HSS/HLR, Call Integration/vSBC-dSBC/WebGW (ISC-BGC 7510), SDM/HSS-HLR/vMRF/UMC/MGC/CTS/PCM/IPTV, 7750SR Router Network Configuration/etc.

Software Development, Network System Testing Engineering, and MOP writing:

Scripting. Perl, Tcl, Sniff++, VxWorks (Tornado), Rational Rose UML, DSP, and MatLab. Systems: Unix, Linux Red Hat, Cygwin, JSon, XML, Yang Tool, Sun Solaris, Virtualization)

Java (J2SE): TCP-UDP/IP client server exchange message by interface (jBuilder v.9). Automated Information System - Teller machine (application)

• Awards

• 2 times Honor Certificates for Verizon Project Leadership from manager and VIP. (2016)

• 4 Project Manager (PM) Certificates with 2 and 12 PDUs (Professional Developments Units) from ALU PM Institute (08/2012). IMS Integration Bootcamp (IMS System Network Integration) 08/2009. CloudBand/SDM certificate/and etc.

• Outstanding Senior Design Team Award of CSE Dept. of UTA 2000. AT&T and ALU Project Lightspeed 100,000th Live Customer Award.

Education

• The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Arlington, TX B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE); Graduated: 5/2000

• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (ME); Graduated: 12/1979 (Phutho Institute of Technology, Vietnam)

• Outstanding Senior Design Team Award of CSE Dept. of UTA. Outstanding. National Award of Vietnam Government on ampoule printing & drying processing machine.

• The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Dallas, TX Telecom Engineer (as Second degree); Digital Signal Processing (DSP/Labview)

• Brookhaven College (Farmer Branch, TX) - Computer Science; 9/1994 – 12/1997

• Collin County Community College: UNIX Administrator System I & II and AutoCAD 2002 – 2004 and Advanced Java Programming for Telecom Network (Tool Jbuilder)

Personal

• US citizen. Working hard for the success. Travel 100%. Telecom Security Clearance Background check & IPL (from 2009-06/2023 to present)

• Volunteer of Presbyterian Hospital of Plano from 12/2003 (150 hours). UTA Alumni Association Member from 5/2000.

Associate Member of Sheriffs’ Association of Texas from 1/2000

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