Software/RF Engineer

AMRUTA KULKARNI 703-***-****

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EDUCATION

University of Maryland, College Park Aug ‘08- May ‘10

Master of Science in Engineering Telecommunications CGPA: 3.63/4.0

Cummins College of Engineering, University of Pune, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication Oct ‘00 – Jun ‘04

EXPERIENCE

Global Wireless Solutions Oct ’10 -Present

Software Engineer

• Involved in migration of VB code to VB.NET for the existing benchmarking tools which generate the benchmarking reports.

• Developed a macro for summarizing the equipment faults for the SwissQual Equipment used for collecting drive test data.

• Providing support as and when required for the existing tools.

University of Maryland, College Park Aug ‘08-May ‘10

RF Engineer

• Drive Tested for T-Mobile network in College Park & Washington DC area using Proscout.

• Analyzed the collected data & sent suggestions to T-Mobile to improve their network.

• Analyzed the Network performance based on following parameters: Received Signal Strength, Hand Over, Bit Error Rate, Frequency Planning (Co-Channel, Adjacent Channel Interference Issues).

• Deployed 20 Base stations in the Washington DC area & provided full cellular coverage using Maxplan.

• Interference Analysis- Checked for Co-Channel & Adjacent Channel Interferences using Poseidon.

KPIT Cummins Infosystems Limited (India) SEI-CMMI Level 5 May ‘05-June ‘08

Software Engineer (Tools and Embedded)

• Developed high performance MISRA-C complaint code for an embedded system on client-proprietary Power-PC based hardware running RTOS QNX-Neutrino.

• Implementation of stringent change control mechanisms as a part of CMMI-Level process compliance.

• Involvement with testers for designing unit and integration test-cases for all of my modules.

• Involvement with testers for development of automated test-scripts for system configuration and load-testing.

• Worked on the stability aspect of the embedded system. This included code optimizations, memory analysis, process analysis and CPU time analysis.

• Implemented the C++ code for the system modules.

• I was involved in developing the embedded server pages for the web interface of the project which required the knowledge of HTML, CSS, and XML.

PROJECTS

University of Maryland, College Park Aug ‘08-May ‘10

Femto Cells

• Prepared a technical paper on Femto cells, problems involved in deployment, handoffs.

• Studied network architecture of Femto cells, applications and its use cases.

ZigBee

• Analysis of the Zigbee network architecture and its comparison with Bluetooth and 802.11 standard.

• Technical presentation on the Zigbee MAC layer along with its applications.

SKILLS

Internet technologies: TCP/IP, VPN, OSPF, RIP, BGP, EIGRP, STP, switching, scheduling

Wireless technologies: 802.11, GSM, CDMA, EVDO, UMTS (WCDMA), EDGE, GPRS, HSPA, GPS, E911

Technical tools: MATLAB, Proscout, MAXPlan, Poseidon, Anritsu Equipment, MapInfo

Programming languages: C, C++, VB, VB.NET, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ESP (Embedded Server Pages.).

Databases: Sqlite (Embedded Database), Oracle 9i, SQL

Operating systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista

Packages: IBM Rational Tool chain, LoadRunner, VSS, MS Office, MS Visio, Adobe Dreamweaver.

RELEVANT COURSEWORK

Network Programming, Telecommunication Networks, Advanced Wireless Communications Networks (IS-95, CDMA2000, GPRS, EDGE), PCS/AWS Implementation/ RF Engineering, Mobile Communication Systems, Cell Site Components

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