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Personal Particulars

Name: Mustajaab Mahmood Dar

Current Address: Reading, UK

Current Contact Number: +44-(0-778*******

+44-(0-740*******

Qualification: B.Sc (Electrical Engineering)

University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

E-mail: *********.***@*******.***

Languages: English, Deutsche

Experience

I have 8+ years of technical experience in total working on 2G/3G/HSPA+/iHSPA networks. Areas of expertise are as following:

UTRAN/LTE System Design & Testing.

LTE end to end trial analysis and functionality testing using system logs.

UTRAN Performance (3rd line support/ Back Office) -RNC/WBTS

Radio Network Coverage/Capacity planning

IP IuB Design, IOT testing & end to end Ethernet Design.

3GPP: Rel 99, Rel 5, Rel 6.0, Rel 7.0, Rel 8.0

IHSPA Rel 1.0/2.0.

Nokia RAS 6.0, RU10 AND RU20.

P6/P7/W10/W11 design for Ericsson.

The project management experience includes the following responsibilities:

UTRAN engineering budget planning and management based on fiscal year.

Project cost management in consideration with available technical alternatives.

Vendor-swap management.

NAV analysis for different mutually exclusive technical projects that co-exist in time.

Candidate for CFA and have capital budgeting experience for telecom companies.

Hands on Expertise

• UTRAN design and testing (HSPA+/iHSPA/3G/2G).

• LTE trial evaluation for the customers and providing technical reports.

• Feature Design and testing.

• UTRAN parameter design/tuning in line with vendor specific new upgrades/features.

• RNC platform design/analysis (ATM +IP) as well as RNC upgrade design.

• Pre/Post launch Radio design/analysis for IHSPA/HSPA+/LTE Networks

• Femto Cell/ In-Building Solutions design & Optimization (2G/3G/HSDPA+).

• RAN Performance/ Optimization for 3G/HSDPA+ network (Nokia + Ericsson)

• RAN 3rd line support/Optimization for IHSPA network (Nokia)

• RAN Swap for multiple Vendors (Nokia/Ericsson/Huawei/NEC)

• Design/ Capacity planning of Coverage/capacity solutions for Mega Events/ Shopping Malls/Stock Exchanges/ Airports

• Design and Optimization for Micro (street level) & Macro sites.

(2G/3G/HSDPA+).

• Preparing RFP responses for initial and subsequent phases (2G/UTRAN).

Vendors

• Nokia

• Ericsson

• Huawei

• Consistel

Career Summary

Sep 2010 Present IHSPA testing and Design (Hutchison 3 UK & ROI)

• Design technical Lead for IHSPA network (ROI).

• RNC platform design/analysis (ATM +IP) as well as RNC upgrade design.

• LTE trial evaluation for the customers and providing technical reports

• Design/Testing of RU10/RU20 features (R99 SITES + IHSPA Release 2.0 Adaptors).

• Network parameter design/tuning for the relevant vendor features and proposed/existing configurations.

• Supervision and technical analysis of planned field trials (FOA).

Aug 2009 Aug 2010 MBNL Project (Ericsson MS for T-Mobile & Hutchison 3)

• RAN performance management for RNC/WBTS (UK & ROI).

• Ownership of network faults, HW/SW Upgrades & RAN Features on RNC/WBTS network wide.

• Root Cause Analysis & resolving network issues as per agreed SLA with the customer (WBTS/RNC nodes).

• Commissioning WBTS (Flexi/ Optima/ Ultra Cabinets).

• Resolution of network faults on UTRAN ensuring network. availability/performance KPI’s and SLA’s are as per requirement.

Nov 2005 July 2009 Warid Pakistan & Africa (2G/3G)

• Design & Optimization for Macro sites (Warid Pak & Africa Projects).

• Design & Optimization of In-Building sites including Airports/Hotels/Stock Exchanges (Warid Pak Project).

• Nominal Cell Planning, Traffic planning, Link Budgeting & coverage predictions for Warid Network (Pak & Africa Projects).

• Warid Outdoor Micro Project: Design and optimize street level outdoor micro site layer to provide additional capacity for congested clusters in main cities (Warid Pak Project).

• Technical evaluation of vendors for 2G and 3G network.

• In-Building project: site survey, design, project management, troubleshooting and acceptance. The network solutions included passive coaxial cable network, repeaters, fiber optic network and hybrid network including coaxial cable and fiber optics.

• C/I, power control, Neighbors audit, frequency planning, handover definitions, planning for normal & EDGE enabled sites based on requirements.

• Monitoring and analysis of cell traffic, BSC statistics and reports to maintain the network QOS benchmark.

• Evaluating the effectiveness of the network by performing regular drive tests & its post analysis, remedial measures which include optimization of sites and BSC parameters.

• Repeater plan, Implementation & feasibility study.

• Marketing coverage requirement analysis and proper required solutions using installation of 2G/3G Repeaters

• Analysis of the site, frequency, interference & handover analysis, power control of the cell, etc.

• Project Management of the existing project of Warid

Dec 2004 November 2009 Huawei Test Lab

• Designing and Testing (2G/3G) RAN Features for Huawei.

• Designing and assisting implementation of the Test cases for operator specific network configurations.

• Generating Technical Notes for the customers/operators (Huwai RAN deployments).

Telecommunication Software’s:

RAN Performance

• NetACT (Nokia & NEC)

• Blarney (T-Mobile)

• Metrica (Nokia)

• Plan Editor (Nokia)

• Netstats (Nokia)

• Velocent

• InfoView (Hutchison)

• Traffica (Nokia)

• Nemesis

• NPS

• Cramer (Transmission)

RAN Design & Optimization

• Asset

• Enterprise

• Optimizer

• TEMS Light

• IBWave

• TEMS Investigation (V7.0 & 7.1)

• TEMS Cell Planner Universal (V 6.2.1 & V 6.2.2)

• NEMO Tool for Outdoor Measurement (TOM V2.3)

• NEMO Femto Cell (NIB V2.0)

• NEMO Test Transmitter Manager (V2.0)

• Wireless Valley (Femto Cell Prediction Tool)

• RF-vu (Femto Cell design software)

• Wireless Valley (Femto Cell Prediction Tool)

• RF-vu (Femto Cell design software)

• Business Objects

Trainings Attended

• TEMS Cell Planner - Conducted by Ericsson

• LTE Radio Planning and Capacity Dimensioning by NSN

• RF Planning Principles - Conducted by LCC

• Radio Network Features & Tuning by Ericsson

• WCDMA Optimization by Ericsson

• HSDPA and IHSPA by Nokia.

• Advance Planning & Optimization – Conducted by LCC

• CONNECTOR ATTACHMENT – Conducted by Andrew

• BTS Installation, Testing & Commissioning – Conducted by Huawei.

• Traffica by Nokia.

• Femto Cell Workshop and Training seminar – Conducted by Consistel

• Sales Workshop – Conducted by Marconi

• RF Planning Principles by Etisalat.

Accomplishments

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• Design and optimize the outdoor micro layer to provide additional capacity layer in the existing macro site network (2G/3G/HSDPA).

• Achieved Drop call rate set for Warid Telecom Pak & Uganda 2G/3G Network.

• Established design criteria for Femto Cell Design Proposals.

• Established Provisional Acceptance Test Procedure for Distributed Antennae System.

• Established Final Acceptance Test Procedure for Distributed Antennae System.

• Designed Distributed Antennae System for all Airports & Stock Exchanges in major cities of Pakistan.

• Cellular planning for the Central region (PAK) and main cities (Uganda).

• Spear heading the network quality task force in solving the congestion and radio channels capacity issues.

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