Project Manager

RITHIK R. KONIKKARA

**** ******** **. *** #**** Dallas TX–75206, Tel: 718-***-****

Email: ********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking an opportunity for full time position to get practical experience in the field of Wireless Communications and serve the firm through my academic knowledge and skills.

ACADEMICS:

• Master of Science in Telecommunications May 2011

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX GPA: 3.60/4.00

• Bachelor in Electronics Engineering Aug 2008

University of Mumbai, India GPA: 1st Class

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Wireless: GSM, GPRS, CDMA, UMTS, LTE

• Networking: OSI, TCP/IP, ATM, UDP, LAN, WAN, IPV4, IPV6, VoIP

• CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate (Certification exam March 2011)

• Protocols: RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF

• Languages: C, C++, AMPL, MATLAB

• Tools: MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point), Wireshark, Adobe Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver

• OS: Windows XP, VISTA, Windows 7, MAC 10.2

RELEVANT COURSE WORK:

• Optimization in Wireless Networks (Optimization in the design and operation of wireless networks including cellular networks like GSM and wireless LAN)

• Wireless Cellular and Personal Communications (3G Technologies, Network Architecture, IMS)

• Advanced topics in Wireless Communications (MSC, MGW, HLR, SGSN, BSC, BTS, RNC, Node B, eNode B, MME, SGW, Flexi BTS)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Web Support Assistant - Cox School of Business, SMU

Developing, updating web pages and providing customer support via helpdesk and ticketing system on ‘Liferay, an open source portal’ for maintaining the websites.

Dec 2009 - Present

• Web Manager – Dawson Service Center, SMU

Designed and maintained centre’s web pages and used Famis: A management tool for corrective and preventive maintenance and for creating, tracking Work Orders.

May 2010 – Aug 2010

ACADEMIC PROJECTS / TERMPAPERS / PRESENTATIONS:

• Lab project on SIP (Session Initiation Protocol): The LAB consisted of capturing SIP Packets communicated between LAB Equipment Setup, by using a packet sniffing tool called “Ethereal Packet Sniffer”. These intercepted packets were then analyzed to know initiation and teardown of a session. Also analyzed the protocols used for communication process e.g. RTP

• LTE interworking with CDMA2000 network: The technical paper describes voice and data along with the handoff mechanisms interworking between the two networks.

• 3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution): The technical paper describes standardization work by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) to define a new high-speed radio access method for mobile communications systems.

• Project on FTP implementation: The project deals with implementation of FTP in a LAN and the measurement and analysis of various performance parameters that are affected during file transfer.

• Project on implementation of Harmonic Analyzer: Using MSP 430F148, which consists of DSP and Microcontroller, Data can be plotted using XM grace software to see the spectrum of harmonics present in utility, during the final year of my Undergraduate studies.

• Presentation on the characteristics and functions of Secure Real Time Transport Protocol and ZRTP.

REFERENCES: Available on Request

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