RF Optimization & Planning Enginner With Exp 5 Years

CURRICULUM VITAE

Nitesh Khare

H No.** Data colony

Airport Road

Bhopal (M.P.), PIN-462030

India

Mobile: +91-958*******

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Passport No. H2016211

Professional Summary

A competent professional with 5 Years of experience.

Presently designated as LTE RF planning & Optimization in Ericsson Global India Ltd

Capacity Planning and Optimization for new & existing sites in the network.

Expert in GSM, CDMA & EVDO & LTE KPI maintenance & Planning. LTE RF Planning & Design.

Daily check KPI report (SSSR,, SARR,HOSR, & DL & UL Throughput)

RF Link Budgets Designing, Geo-data (maps, land-use, design polygons, etc

Expert in AFP, ANR, generating prediction Plot & Nominal planning with tools.

Expert in writing MS Excel Macros (VBA) to make the process less time consuming & smooth.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Company Name: Ericsson Global India Pvt. Ltd.

Duration - May 2010 to till date

Designation - LTE RF Planning & Optimization Engineer

Roles Held -

UTRAN Optimization:

Neighbors planning, PRACH Planning, X2 planning for ANR, PCI planning. Checking Frequency Scheduling and ICIC parameters and the influence of power boosting over RS signals.

Checking and analyzing AMS (Active MIMO switching) triggered by SINR Threshold improving coverage and capacity.

Analyzing traces and Drive Test of the first LTE call, checking MIMO behavior, throughput, SINR, Uplink power over PUSCH.

Drive improvements to the network using configuration changes.

Parametric Optimization to improve KPIs like SSSR, SARR, HOSR, & DL & UL Throughput.

Site selection and reselection parameter tuning.

Verifying the RSRP, RSSI, RS CINR, Interference ration, throughput reports after Drive test.

Identifying problem areas like poor coverage, high interference.

Drive Test Data Analyses & LTE Network Optimisation

RF Paramétrer Management and Optimisation

UTRAN Planning:

RF Link Budgets Designing

Analyzing planning parameters such as AFP, ANP, PCI, with Atoll Planning tool.

Interpreting the design criteria and running prediction based models using planning tools, working to a site nominal plan

To propose change in site design to meet customers requirement

Tracking area design

MIMO designing & implementation

CDMA\EVDO Capacity Planning Sprint USA:

To generate action plans for the betterment in the network action plans, and Responsible for the RF related changes to be implemented in the network

Planning for Voice & EVDO carrier augmentation based on the analysis.

Planning for Voice & EVDO T1 Addition based on the RF requirements.

PN & Carrier Channel planning for all Lucent Markets in USA.

Coordinating with the USA POCs to resolve the issues.

Advise respective teams for Optimization before any Capacity augmentation to reduce the overall cost.

Planning for capacity augment for Special events in USA.

Weekly Conference with Sprint POCs to fix the issues.

Proficient in Sprint tools like FACTS, RFISS, SODA, RFSM TRENDER, FLUX etc.

Responsible for Coverage and Capacity Planning for 50 thousands of sites.

Company Name: RELIANCE COMMUNICATION/ALCATEL-LUCENT MANAGE SOLUTION LTD

Duration July 2007 to Jan-2010

Designation Assistant manager (RF optimizer)

Roles Held -

Regularly monitoring and optimizing the KPI factors of the network such as (CSSR, RF blocking, DCR, HOSR, HFR, Utilization.) with the help of parametric & physical optimization.

Performing Drive Test using Agilent E6474A, TEMS 7.0 Fully Loaded, Partially Loaded Kits also presenting the TUV & Quarterly Drive Test Report for Reliance GSM & CDMA Network.

Identifying network performance issues, interference, missing neighbors while driving and proposing improvements.

Analysis of Drive test log files using “ACTIX 4.2 Tool” and troubleshooting of the problems related to coverage, call drops, quality.

Practical experience in coverage and capacity planning, neighbor planning, frequency planning, PN planning, LAC planning and interference analysis like PN pollution to achieve optimal system performance.

Parameter & physical optimization recommendation.

Pre & post optimization of new cell sites.

Making the reports on basis of collected data and to provide feedback to the manager.

Monitoring traffic and performance trends of BTS/repeaters in his cluster

Analysis of network by study of log files and to determine the causes of interference, poor quality, poor level, external interference, handover failure and congestion.

Traffic Balancing & identifying rough cells, sleeping sectors & take corrective actions.

Coverage & capacity Management – Identification

Customer complaints support & investigation.

IBS installation feasibility analysis for in-building coverage improvement.

Escalating poor performing sites for hardware check to BSS team.

Giving training to BTS 0&M engineers on system, processes, and procedures for implementing physical optimization requirements, site verification & Drive test data collection.

Taking Follow up from HUAWEI to fix the issues & Sign off the RF ATs.

Tools Used: -

Planning Tool: Atoll, Planet

Drive Testing Tool: Agilent Nitro E6474 A, TEMS Investigation,

Database Tool: Microsoft Access, MS Excel & Visual Basic

Other Tools: TTI Telecom, I - Manager (M2000 Server), Agilent site analyzer, VSWR meter (Anritsu & Bird) Power meter (Agilent) & Handheld GPS.

Educational Qualification-

Bachelors Degree in Electronics & Telecommunication with first division.

Engineering Diploma in Electronics & Telecommunication with first division.

Training Programs Attended:

5 days GSM & CDMA Basics, Training provided by Reliance Communication.

RF Optimization and planning & performance Engineering provided by Reliance.

Capacity planning training provided by Ericsson USA.

LTE RF Overview provided by Ericsson

LTE Functionality provided by Ericsson

LTE L11 Initial Tuning provided by Ericsson

LTE Design provided by Ericsson

WCDMA Overview provided by Ericsson

WCDMA provided by Ericsson

Software Skills-

Expert in VBA programming for Microsoft excel.

Operating system - Windows 98, 2000, Windows-XP, VISTA

Software Packages - MS Office (MS Word, Excel, Power Point) & Open office

Basic knowledge in computer hardware

Achievements, Developments & Strengths -

Achieved “ACE” award in ERICSSON Global

Achieved “Power” award in ERICSSON Global

Achieved Performance of the month award in feb-2011.

Developed a UNIX script to fetch the dump from lucent switch.

Developed Carrier & T1 analysis tool in VBA.

Developed Market order filler in VBA.

Proactive attitude towards work.

Openness towards learning new things.

Self-dependability with ability to lead team of person.

Ability to work hard in adverse circumstances to meet the target without loosing patience.

Personal Details:

Father’s name Mr. Girish Khare

Date of birth 17th Jan 1987

Permanent address H. No. 72 Data Colony Airport Road

Bhopal (M.P.) Pin-462030

Linguistic Proficiency Hindi, English

Marital Status Single

Contact No. +91-958*******

I hereby declare that all the statement made in this are true, complete & correct to the best of my knowledge & belief.

Date-17-Feb-2012

Place- Noida India (Nitesh Khare)

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