Engineer Project

NASIR SHAH

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Innovative & Creative Network Professional with about 15 years of experience in the Telecom/IT industry, with the last 8 years specifically with wireless carriers in the US

• Thorough understanding of the GSM, GPRS, UMTS & LTE architecture, with design, optimization & implementation experience with leading mobile carriers in the US

• Worked on a wide range of Network Projects like UTRAN, Ethernet, Core Network, MSN support/integration, DACs Integration, BSC re-homes/RIPs, collapsing MTSO’s, etc

• Proficient in Designing, Provisioning, Optimizing and Testing of TDM, Frame Relay and ATM circuits (T1’s, IuB/IuCs/IuR, OC3/OC48 etc.) & services for wireless carriers

• Sound understanding of how the overall wireless business solution is positioned, deployed and supported & recommend technical solutions for business & management problems

• An MSEE from Boston University, with an expertise in multiple platforms, tools and operating systems, to consistently able to find the right technical tools/personnel to get the job done correctly and cost-effectively

• In addition, excellent communication, managerial, analytical, problem solving and Project Management skills. Ability to communicate well with both technical & non-technical people

CORE SKILLS

• Alcatel 7670, 5620, ALU 7750, 7705, Cisco 65xx • UNIX/SOLARIS/C++, ORACLE

• 5500 TITAN, Metro watch, Alcatel 1631, 1671, TL1 • GPRS, WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUPA

• Granite/XNG, Granite Works, IWOS, CTS, Remedy

• SONET, STS-1, OC3, UPSR, BLSR, DWDM • MS PowerPoint, Excel, MS Project

• TCP/IP, IP, VLANS, STP, HSRP

EXPERIENCE

ATT MOBILITY

Network Planning & Support-UTRAN - Pleasanton, CA USA 4/2009…2/2012

• Worked on the 3G UTRAN ETTCs project in migrating TDM & ATM circuits to Ethernet. Extensively worked on EDP’s/CTS/IWOS/Granite & Granite Works.

UMTS Management & Planning Engineer

• AT&T’s Western Region faced severe competition and needed to improve forecasting ATM/MSN (ALU & Tellabs) equipment needs. Created innovative prediction model, enabling more accurate estimations of quarterly market demands. This enabled more cost-effective CAPEX planning as well as greater customer stakeholder satisfaction.

• Implemented and accounted for a granite audit for all equipment & circuits with the help of field technicians for the Alltel sites acquired in the Mountain West Region.

T-MOBILE

Senior Network Engineer – Lead (contract) Concord, CA USA 3/2006…4/2009

• Lead Engineer for the RIP transmission/transport team ensuring all designs, scripts/tests are in place before the BSC RIP to the Alcatel Media Gateway. Employed automation to slash projected downtime. Minimized overall impact on customer

• Worked as a team lead on the UMTS project – Proposed & streamlined testing process for 3500 UMTS circuits for Phase-1, quickly completing the $8M project.

• Led a team to replace Alcatel legacy transport with Tellabs 5500. Devised methodology and wrote a MOP on how to wrap the Titan equipment into the network (saving downtime) & unwrap by reordering transport from the LEC to the Titan

Network Planning & Support

• T-Mobile’s buy-out of AT&T’s CA/NV network offered huge buyout if the operations were optimized. The project was to collapse 43 MTSO locations to 24 to reduce OPEX

• Prepared/executed a Plan & Scope of Work for the Collapse project, improving the collapsing site timeframe by 3 months, thus saving $150 Thousand on each location. Prepared & implementing a methodology in moving traffic out of the collapsing location in an orderly manner for the equipment to be decommissioned.

• Helped BSC Rehome & transport team to find existing transport(bandwidth) thus optimizing & reducing CAPEX instead of ordering more transport for re-homes

• Worked on introducing new technologies & equipment at anchor locations to accommodate collapsing sites with vendors like Alcatel, Tellabs, and Ericsson.

ATT/CINGULAR WIRELESS

Network Design/Provisioning Engineer – Team Lead Pleasanton, CA 8/03 – 3/06

• E911 compliance had to be established to complete the $2.5B deal of selling the CA/NV network to T-Mobile. Changed DSO grooming process from transport to the switch/BSC, in addition to preparing a test plan to quickly achieve compliance thus saving significant OPEX.

• Worked on the redesign of the packet core network & tested in bringing up the Gb links to the SGSN.

Comm-Soft Inc.

Network Support Manager Edison, NJ 10/02 – 5/03

• Supervised a team to implemented vendor equipment like Cisco 3500/7x00 switches/routers, Alcatel 3600/3645/7470 switches, etc. into customer network.

Telcordia Technologies/formerly Bellcore Telecom Piscataway, NJ 5/00 – 8/02

Network/Systems Engineer – Lead Engineer (Contract)

• Responsible for producing the Scope of Work & requirement documents for the installation of network products & solutions for business customers like Time Warner.

• Performed detailed Lab tests (Failover, Stability & Performance as per Bell core standards) & proposed optimum configurations for the Soft-Switch.

• Worked on testing STP, HSRP & other IP protocols on Cisco Catalyst 65xx switches.

• Author of the TOE(Technical Operating Environment)/MOP document for the product

Pakistan Telecom Company Ltd.

Program Manager (MIS department) 3/94 – 4/00

• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple related projects directed toward building a corporate network & Projects -MIS.

• The PMIS project involved leading a team of vendors to design & implement a client/server(Oracle) based solution to monitor project activity & report status to corporate managers. Ensure continuous alignment of Scope with Business Objectives

• Successfully implemented the access of centralized billing for the PBX & other exchanges over the corporate network to have weekly reports available for managers

• Supervised & implemented the corporate WAN for the company with a team of Network Engineers & Technicians. This included structured cabling in the corporate campus (consisting of 250 offices) to form a LAN, connected through leased lines over a geographic area to remote offices to form a WAN. Managed IP addresses.

Senior Network Engineer (Public Data Network)

• General Responsibilities were to manage, administer & maintain the IT systems of the Public Data Network and Internet services in a 24x7 environment.

• Network Administration included running both the ISP, managing IPs, and the data network Center in a 24x7 environment, that involved the maintenance, troubleshooting, and tuning of enterprise networking equipment such as Cisco routers, ALU DACs, PPP leased lines, ISDN services, CSU/DSU's etc.

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering Boston University, Boston, MA USA

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering NWFP UET Pakistan

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