RF Egnineer

AMEY SAWANT

*** ******* ***, #*** ******** NJ-***29

Phone: 201-***-**** Email: *****@****.***

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

• Over two years of experience in telecommunication industry.

• Proven track record delivering on-time, in-budget high quality projects successfully.

• Lead and manage large teams from customer requirements to product release and solutions engineering.

• Extensive experience in project management and testing.

• Proven ability to research, acquire and merge technologies to expand market share and revenue.

• Delivered wireless solutions in 3G carrier networks.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and leadership experience.

OPERATING SYSTEMS: Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/7.

NETWORKING PROTOCOLS: TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, VPN, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, TELNET.

SIMULATORS: Opnet, Packet Tracer.

WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES: 802.11x, GSM, IS-95, LTE, CDMA 2000, EDGE, UMTS, OFDMA.

HARDWARE: Access Point: Ruckus Wireless ZF & Wavion.

Radio: Micro Wave Ubiquity Power Station & Nano Bridge Radio.

Switches: MROTEK Mogralite & Real Time Systems port.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA: (May 2011- May 2012)

Teaching Assistant

• Responsible for grading and assisting professor in his course & various academic activities.

JM Technical Services, Kearny, NJ, USA: (June 2011- Dec 2011)

Desktop Support Technician

• Provided internal customer support for various divisions of the company.

• Installed, configure and troubleshoot computer hardware, operating systems, network configurations and software.

• Assisted with the installation, configuration and ongoing usability of desktop computers.

• Supported 175 end users in many aspects of the hardware and software environment.

• Installed hardware, applications, maintained LAN / WAN / Wireless networks, support remote access users, develop documentation, the IT team.

• Prepared and presented report to management on organization’s security and virus protection audit.

Gemini Communication Pvt, Mumbai, India: (Oct 2009- June 2010)

RF Engineer

• Planned & optimized wireless networks for TIKONA Wi-Bro Company

• Analyzed and Monitored Pilot Pollution, Network Congestion and KPI testing.

• Planned Site configuration analysis, Neighbor Analysis, Pilot pollution analysis.

• Identification of site installation issue, overshooting cells, coverage holes, areas of poor pilot dominance.

• Monitored site database including Site ID, Cell ID and etc.

• Analyzed dead zones locations to identify issues for comprehensive understanding of progress of RF optimization.

• Prepared routes for site and carrier integrations, and system drives.

• Performed drive tests, for new site integrations, carrier additions, and other optimization routes as required.

• Executed WiMAX/WiFi RF testing on the over the air test bed(s), outdoor PICO cells.

• Analyzed technology implementation characteristics of the RAN,

• Communicated real time network and device issues to development teams.

• Performed network maintenance by coordinating and overseeing antenna changes, troubleshooting site outages, performing ATP after site/network upgrades, design and build new environments.

• Responsible for defining and capturing quality metrics and implementing process during Field testing to improve overall performance of the organization.

• Familiar with QXDM and AirMagnet tools

Reliance Communications Pvt, Mumbai, India (May 2009- Nov 2009)

Technical Support Representative

• Responsible to situations where first-line product support has failed to isolate or fix problems in malfunctioning equipment or software.

• Diagnosed, troubleshoot, repaired and debugs complex issue over the phone, email or on site.

• Responsible for tracking/reporting of major technical and business issues that have been identified.

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India. (May 2007- Mar 2009)

Intern

• Created and defined Quality Control parameters for welding used in the Metal Industry.

• Performed other duties as assigned.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

• Presentation on “Cloud computing” and “Light Radio” by sharing research analysis on pros and cons by comparing to the existing LTE wireless networks.

• Implementation of Speech Synthesis using Matlab to produce an intelligible, if not exactly human sounding, but to mimic the human speech production process.

• Implementation of Image Coding using Matlab to convert an image to its digital form by generating random sequence and filtered sequence.

• Implementation Signal Detection using Matlab to sample the received waveform in time and store the samples in memory.

• Presentation on “H.323 std. media gateway control protocol.” by sharing the information about communication sessions and various applications on any packet network.

• Modeling, Configuration, Performance analysis of the customized network using Opnet modeler to simulate a typical office network topology in a small internetwork.

• Routing Indices in Peer to Peer Systems: The main concern was to describe and analyze designing incentives to discourage free-loading to establish a realistic simulation platform.

• Mobile RFID of Wireless Mesh Network for Intelligent Safety Care System: The main concern was to provide assistance for the intelligent safety care of school students in the real world through the message exchanged by using GSM (or 3G) RFID of respective phone to Internet Data Center (IDC) for server.

• Presentation on Solar Vehicle: The main concern was to share research analysis on pros and cons by comparing to the existing cars.

EDUCATION

MS in Electrical Engineering (May 2012)

New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark NJ. GPA: 3.55

BS in Electronics and Telecommunication (June 2008)

University of Mumbai, Maharashtra India. GPA: 3.1

HONORS

• Secured 1st prize in Intercollegiate Level 1 Robo race.

• Secured 1st position in NJIT cricket tournament.

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