Engineer Technician

Abhishek Sanaka

Sr. RF Engineer

Email: ********@*****.*** Phone: 573-***-****

Education:

M.S. Electrical Engineering: Missouri University of S & T (MS&T), Rolla, MO, USA

Sep 2009, GPA – 3.5/4.0

B.S. Electronics & Communications: Padmasri Dr. B. V. Raju Institute of Technology, INDIA

July 2006, GPA – 74/100

Professional Experience:

Senior UMTS/HSPA Design & Optimization Engineer - T-Mobile (Texas – Houston, Austin)

Kineticom (April 2011 – January 2012)

• In charge of the optimization of HSPA+ dual carrier sites in the Houston market.

• Part of team responsible for design and integration of New Site Builds in Austin-SA market.

• Manage, co-ordinate and support activities of the RF optimization team, communicate team milestones and deliverables to project management and implement plans to accomplish the milestones as required.

• Creation and presentation of KPI and optimization evolution reports to internal and external customers, in cell, cluster and RNC level.

• Design site Build forms, Update Asset and Insite, Prepare Parameter audit and Neighbor lists and complete all the other design procedures for the launch of new sites.

• Creation and presentation of DTs post-processing reports depicting the actual status of the air interface in the evaluated area, to internal and external customers.

• Development of in-house tools (excel, access) to speed up analysis of performance data and DT log files (i.e., scripts, macros, etc.).

Senior RF Engineer – Alcatel-Lucent (Chicago, IL)

Engineering Networks International Inc., (May ’10 – April ‘11)

• Perform Analysis, RF Optimization and enhancement on UMTS, CDMA and GSM Networks for AT&T in Michigan and Minneapolis Markets

• Analysis of drive data using Actix Spotlight for identifying network related issues for PS and CS accessibility, Hand off analysis (SHO, IFHO and IRAT) & HSDPA and HSUPA throughput analysis

• Responsibilities include preparing site lists, neighbor list preparation/verification, Coordination with Drive test and network Engineers, Support to on-site Engineers in the event of Trouble shooting

• Responsible for maintaining KPIs and improving the performance through troubleshooting in a region with multi systems and vendors

• Extensive use of MapInfo & MS Excel

Performance RF Engineer – AT&T (Alcatel-Lucent, King of Prussia, PA)

Quadgen Wireless Solutions, King of Prussia, PA, (June ‘09 – Apr ’10)

• Perform RF Optimization on UMTS and CDMA Networks for AT&T and T-mobile

• Highly experienced and specialized in Analyzing data using Actix to improve network performance, ensured that the KPI targets were achieved before the Launch

• UMTS Pre Launch Network Optimization and optimizing CDMA and EVDO voice parameters

• Responsibilities include submitting deliverables on time, coordinating with Lead Engineer as well as On site engineers, support to drive test teams and field engineers to troubleshoot various issues, neighbor list preparation/verification

RF Drive Test Technician & Data Analyst,

3S Network Inc., (May '08 - April '09)

• Monitor system performance daily, checking for cell outages, and high drops & blocks

• Create drive test maps for autonomous and field collection for antenna optimization activities

• Investigate onsite with test equipment and Cell Technician to resolve network issues

• Determine impact of cells by evaluating coverage plots, terrain, statistics, and analysis results

• Worked on Agilent E6474A Wireless Network Optimization, TEMS Investigation Tool and Local Device Assembly Test (LDAT)

Graduate Research Assistant,

Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., MS&T, Jan ‘07 – Aug ‘08

• Developed an GUI algorithm to extract features to differentiate mines from false alarms

• Developed Matlab to perform Minefield detection and False Alarm feature extraction on airborne images

• Handling the SQL server database for the patch chips generated from the images

• Developed C++ source code to create and maintain the database records using simple structures and pointers

Technical Skills:

• RF Key Skills: Actix Analyzer, Mapinfo, Asset, TEMS Investigation, Agilent E6474A, Excel

• Strong knowledge of UMTS/LTE Air Interface/Physical layer concepts

• Programming Languages: Matlab, C, C++, Embedded C

• MIPS assembly language, Programming for 8086, Object Oriented Methodologies

• HDL: VHDL, Verilog, Multisim

• Operating Systems: MS DOS, Windows 98/XP

• Additional Skills: Radio Plan, NS2, FPGA, SQL, TCP/IP

Relevant Courses:

• Wireless Communications

• Advanced Digital Signal Processing

• Embedded Processor System Design

• Digital Communications

• Wireless Adhoc and Sensor Networks

• Statistical Decision Theory

Publications, Honors, and Activities:

• Sanaka, A., Vulli, S., Agarwal, S., “Spectral and Spatial Analysis of False Alarms in Background Data”, conference paper accepted for SPIE 2009

• Achieved an award in Mathematics conducted by the “Educational Testing Centre”, “The University of New South Wales” in the year 1996

• Secured 96 Percentile in the All India Common Admission Test (CAT) for management held in the year 2006

• Served as the President of the India Association thereby organized many events in the year 2008.

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