Engineer Project

RAHUL ARORA

Ph: 617-***-**** ** St. Alphonsus Street Apt. 501 Boston MA-02120 **********.****@*****.***

WORK EXPERIENCE

RF Engineer, Design and Optimization Mar. 2010 – Present

Telecom Technology Services Inc. for T-Mobile, New England Project, Norton, MA

• Member of RF team responsible for design and optimization of new GSM/UMTS sites.

• Design/site walk and Aircom Asset prediction to determine best location for the site among various candidates.

• Review sweeps, consistency check and add/scrub neighbors. Drive test analysis using Actix Analyzer, Mapinfo and OptPCS.

• Represent RF team zoning and planning board hearing to build new sites at various towns.

• Prepared Site Justification Package (SJP), RF Analysis, Antenna Verification (AVF), Data Transcript (DT), RFDS, CIQ, E911 sheet

• Responsible to review and validate construction drawings, plumbing diagrams of RF antenna systems including antennas, TMA, cables, GPS receivers etc

• Performed indoor walk test for in-building solutions. Assisted Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) for outdoor micro projects.

• Monitor and Review site KPI (call drop, total traffic) on hourly basis using T-PIM tool for on-air sites 24hrs, 48hrs and 7-days.

• Optimize cluster & provide recommendations with tilt changes, azimuths & parameters based on WNCS, WMRR & Wi-NOT.

• Prepared new site packages for managers and market lead.

• Worked on special projects on EIT / POPS analysis with power increase and coverage predictions / 2nd carrier additions.

• Held team meetings to meet deadlines given by client and took initiative in hiring 5 drive testers for HSPA+ project.

• Updated new site tracker based on feedback by different functional groups on their activities and co-ordinate between the team for 3rd quarter’ 2010.

Nortel System Engineer, Performance and Optimization Group, Intern Aug. 2008 – Dec. 2008

Airvana Inc., Chelmsford, MA

• Executed Live Air Verification 1xEVDO tests for A16, A13, ISSHO, Session/Connection setup, Forward/Reverse link throughput

• Installed and implemented QXDM for the evaluation and analysis of AT logs.

• Reproduced field scenarios and setup test beds to determine real system behavior by performing drive test on a live network for A13, A16 and ISSHO.

• Measured and characterized system performance metrics like session/connection setup, call setup and handoff success rate.

• Configured and analyzed Radio Network Controller (RNC) & Data Only Module (DOM) according to test plan configurations.

• Worked with DPA FFA, MFPA FFA, EMFPA FFA, Sierra Wireless and Novatel Wireless access terminals extensively.

• Prepared reports, analyzed performance and system behavior of field data using EMS parcer tool.

• Reviewed results with team engineers to improve the overall performance of wireless network element using KPI.

Associate RF Engineer July 2006 - May 2007

Metrotelworks India Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, India

• Performing GSM/UMTS RF drive testing using TEMS Investigation. Write command sequence scripts for TEMS.

• Responsible for leading all teams and solving issue with TEMS software. Export log file and analyze report generated.

SKILLS

RF Tools: Actix Analyzer, Asset, Homer, Insite, WiNOT, T-PIM, 2G/3G Ericsson OSS, XCAL, QXDM, CAIT, OptPCS, Mapinfo, TEMS, iBwave demo

Other tools: Wireshark, EMS Parcer, Windcatcher, Microsoft: Access, Visio, Project, SharePoint

Wireless and Networking Technologies: GSM, CDMA, UMTS (3G), LTE, WiMAX (4G), 1xEV-DO, Femtocell, Router, Switches, LAN, MPLS, RIP, TCP/IP, SIP, VoIP

EDUCATION

Northeastern University, Boston, MA Sept. 2007 - Aug. 2009

Masters Degree in Telecommunication System Management

Related Courses: WiMAX, Voice over IP- SIP, Data Networking –TCP/IP, Consulting Project in Telecommunication for Verizon, Engineering Project Management, Negotiations. Case study on Nokia Siemens Network (NSN)

Activities: International Student Leader 2007-08, V.P. of Northeastern Graduate Engineering Bridges 2008-09.

Mumbai University, Mumbai, India Jul. 2002 - Jun. 2006

Bachelors Degree in Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering Related Courses: Wireless Communications (Mobile), Digital Communications, RF Engineering, Optical Fiber Communication, Satellite Communications, Internet Communications

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