Kiran K Parimi

kirankparimi@yahoo.com

214-620-3369(mobile); 214-774-2728(home)

Frisco, TX 75035

Vision & Mission:

Energetic and Qualified Professional looking for his next stepping stone in the pursuit

of Career Advancement in the field of Wireless & Network Engineering.

Skill Set:

  · 6+ years of wireless/ network industry experience

  · 10 years of solid technical background in Wireless.

  · Network Consulting Integration, Design, Deployment & Optimization Services.

  · LTE, WCDMA (UMTS), CDMA/EVDO, HETNET, IBS/ DAS, VOIP/IMS &

Cloud Expertise.

  · RF Design, Field, Analysis, Performance & Optimization Expertise.

  · Layer2 and layer3 Network design and Management.

  · RF technologies: LTE, UMTS(WCDMA), HSPA+, CDMA, 1xRTT, EVDO

  · RF Tools: Ericsson OSS/BSS, SecureCRT (AMOS CLI), X-CAL, X-CAP, TEMS,

Agilent, CAIT, LDAT, Invex 3G, OPTis, Coyote Collector, DataProDM, QPST,

windcatcher, Element Manager, i-planner, QXDM, TPMong, Nortel RF Optimizer

13.1,Wireshark,Flowfox.

  · Mapping Tools: Delorme Street Atlas, MS Streets and Trips, MapInfo, Gawk

  · Languages: XML, VBA, C, C++, VC++, Perl, CGI, JavaScript, PHP, HTML/CSS

  · Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, Windows

  · Protocol Suite: HTTP, TCP/IP, UDP, ARP, SCTP, RTP, AODV, OLSR, SNMP, TORA,

Ethernet/Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet networks; VLAN, VTP, STP, LAN,

TCP/IP, 802.11, MGCP, H.323, CCP,SIP,SS7,ATM/MPLS,RADIUS,DIAMETER.

  · Hardware : RBS 3xxx, RNC,RBS6000, RBS 610X, RBS 620X,RBS 6302, RBS

660X, RUS0X;RRUS 0x,11; AIRX1,MME,SGSN,GGSN,BSC,

BTS,DOM,MME,HSS, PGW,SGW,PCRF,IMS, Cisco routers (7600, 7200,

3600,2800, 2600, 2500, 1800, 1700 series), and Cisco Catalyst switches (650X,

4000, 3550, 2900 series); CatOS, Cisco IOS 11.x, 12.x

  · Networking: Ethernet/Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet networks; VLAN, VTP, STP,

LAN, TCP/IP, 802.11, MGCP, H.323, SCCP, SCTP, SIP, SS7.

  · Excellent Customer Interaction

  · Excellent Consultative Skills

  · Excellent Risk Management Skills.

  · Responsibility for Actions

  · Exceptional Decision Making

  · Excellent Negotiating Skills

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Education:

Ericsson Certified LTE/UMTS Engineering Leader.

  · LTE Air Interface, Protocols and Procedures – Ericsson Certified

  · LTE Functionality and Configuration – Ericsson Certified

  · LTE Performance and Optimization – Ericsson Certified

  · LTE MME Operations and Configuration – Ericsson Certified

Ericsson Certified in IP Networking Technology – IP_EC102

Ericsson Trained Lean & Six Sigma Yellow Belt

PMI (PMP/AGILE) – (Currently Pursuing)

Master of Science, Telecommunications – (MSTE) GPA 3.5

University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), Texas, USA. Dec, 2008.

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communications – (BE-ECE) GPA 3.8

Andhra University, INDIA. April, 2005.

Work Experience:

  ·

Ericsson Prime Consultant/Architect (End-to-End LTE solution)

Ericsson Inc, Plano (OCEUS Networks- Former: Ericsson Federal)

(Jan’13-Current)

  Ø Responsible for Ericsson Products at OCEUS.

  Ø Provide Technical Consultation services regarding Road Maps of Future Ericsson

Network Products, Solutions and Services.

  Ø Act as a liaison between Ericsson’s Account Heads and OCEUS’s VP/CEOs.

  Ø Provide Technical Consultation for customizing Ericsson Products to work with

OCEUS Environment.

  Ø Main interface to R&D/Product Development team, Customer Services,

Configuration Management with respect to Ericsson Products and Services.

  Ø Define, Identify and Contribute to the process improvement.

  Ø Tools processes and hands on testing in Lab before deploying Ericsson Feature in

OCEUS network.

  Ø Creation and Review of all technical MOPs and User guides with proven Lab test

cases published.

  Ø Educate and Convince OCEUS R&D department of the need to procure

Ericsson’s Product Enhancements Releases with hands-on LAB test cases.

  Ø RCA/TR review and investigation.

  Ø Product/Process Improvements for Ericsson E2E services with OCEUS Core

Elements.

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Achievements:

- Recognized as Employee of the month by my Manager for “August – 2013”

for my “Customer Satisfaction”, “Responsive –Speed/Quality”.

“Performance” and “Customer Support” during my Ericsson Solution

Architect/Consultant services at OCEUS.

- Ericsson Registered Add on Sales # 203733 accounting for $3000 in

additional sales per EnodeB sold in the form of additional features bought

from Ericsson to address the Performance enhancements suggested.

- Ericsson Registered Add on Sales # 210532 accounting in the amount of an

Ericsson DOT Radio system product price multiplied by the number of units

sold as a suggested solution to address small cell solution in Tactical

Environment for customers like NAVAIR etc.

  · Post Launch National Lead / Subject Matter Expert(SME) - LTE

Ericsson Inc, Plano

AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, USCC - Network Deployment Services

(Jan’12-Dec’12)

Team Size handled (# of engineers): 82

  Ø Responsible for Post-Launch Support.

  Ø Main POC (point of contact) for troubleshooting and technical issues in the

nation.

  Ø Estimate Costs/Resources and help Sales/Customer unit in Purchase Orders.

  Ø National MOP’s review, revision, and creation

  Ø Main interface to NDS Management, NDS Market Lead/ GSC Lead, RF National

lead, NIC National lead and PM.

  Ø Define and identify best practices and contribute to the process improvement.

  Ø Point of contact for emergency escalation before Manager.

  Ø Coordinate the daily activities within the NDS group.

  Ø Post Integration Checklist report

  Ø Structured Knowledge Transfer Sessions

  Ø Engineer Assessment

  Ø Review and creation of all technical guidelines

  Ø Tools processes and testing

  Ø RCA review and investigation.

  Ø Process Improvements.

  Ø Ericoll Administrator.

Achievements:

- Recognized for the NDS SMART solution Innovation, Solution pitch to ATT

Customer Unit for $145,000 budget approval for tool development,

System/Module level Solution Architecture of NDS SMART, Nation-Wide

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deployment of the tool which helped Ericsson save a verified $800,000 per

year after automation brought by NDS SMART in Daily RF/UTRAN Market

reporting.

- Recognized as Employee of the month in NDS Group for “September –

2012” for my “Innovation”, “Cost Reduction”, “Role Model”, “Responsive –

Speed/Quality”. “Performance” and “Support”.

- Recognized for Innovation Idea, design, development, and deployment of the

NDS POSTAC tool as a process improvement which saved 200 man hours

per month.

  · Market Lead (Network Deployment Services/LTE)

Ericsson Inc, Plano

AT&T – Chicago Wave1A, Wave1B

(Nov’11-Jan’12)

USCC – IOWA Wave1

(Sep’11- Nov’11)

Team Size handled (# of engineers): 4

  Ø Interface for NDS / NIC and RF team (Main Point of contact)

  Ø Pre-launch, Market Launch.

  Ø Responsible for helping coordinate market activities to the NDS engineers and

any market related issue.

  Ø Generate daily activity report for assigned market.

  Ø Troubleshoot problem sites / clusters issues.

  Ø RF Tuning Support with market RF Engineers.

  Ø Escalate issues to the appropriate teams.

  Ø First line technical support of the market

  Ø Interact with NDS Leads and NDS Manager regarding market activities and load,

as well as any other market requirement.

  Ø Executing NDS activities (audits, Network changes), following the MOPs and

ensuring the Quality of Deliverables.

  Ø Responsible for flawless task executions.

  Ø Keep integrity of the customer network and keeping log files handy all the time.

  Ø Responsible to ensure the correct and intended status of the network elements

while and after performing any activity.

  Ø Help with NDS tool testing.

  · Project LEADER (Network Deployment Services/UMTS)

Ericsson Inc, Plano

AT&T- National OCNS PIMS project

(June’11 – Sep’11)

Team Size handled (# of engineers): 6

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  Ø Led a team of 6 engineers to deal with 9000 AT&T worst offending Sites due to

Passive Intermodulation Issue.

  Ø Constant interaction with the Project Manager/Customer Sale Director/RF

analysis Team during SOW and MOP development phase.

  Ø Regular customer meetings to get the RSSI tolerance levels per market across the

nation.

  Ø Developed an easy work flow on a modular basis for the engineers working on the

project

  Ø Co-ordination of the daily activity amongst the team and Ericsson CCB clash

checking.

  Ø Point of Contact for any immediate Escalations before the Project Manager.

  Ø Worked in conjunction with RF post analysis team in standardization of KPI

presentation through Graphics from the Ericsson Business objects to the customer

  Ø Observed Process Gaps and reported to Engagement Practices as Lessons Learnt.

  · Market LEAD (Network Deployment Services/UMTS-LTE)

Ericsson Inc, Plano

AT&T – Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan Markets

(Oct’10 – Feb’11)

AT&T – Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia-West Virginia, Washington

(Feb-’11-June’11)

Team Size handled (# of engineers): 5

  Ø Integration, Testing and Launch of the UMTS network.

  Ø Alarm and KPI monitoring of pre Launch Sites.

  Ø Scripting for LOCK/UNLOCK of sites.

  Ø Implementing scripts for artificial traffic on sites for KPI measurements.

  Ø T1 and ima link troubleshooting.

  Ø Layer 2 (aal2 paths and aal5 paths) troubleshooting

  Ø Provide RF drive support.

  Ø Create MOPs for daily activities, RF drive GO-NO GO, Market Launch,

parameter implementing, AUDIT (RBS, RNC and RNDCIQ) implementation.

  Ø RBS,RNC and RNDCIQ Audit implementation

  Ø Site RESTARTS and preparing for LAUNCH.

  Ø POST Launch KPI monitoring.

  Ø POST Launch KPI degradation investigation.

  Ø Perform RSSI branch Traces and UEH exception Traces to pin point the issue of

degradation.

  Ø Troubleshoot PS and CS accessibility and retainability issues.

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  · Network Integration Engineer (CDMA/EVDO/UMTS)

Nortel-Ericsson (Source Mantra Inc)

(March’10- Oct’10)

  Ø Integration, Testing and Turn-up of the customer’s CDMA/EvDO/UMTS network

  Ø Load, configure and troubleshoot advanced configuration provided by customer

  Ø Troubleshoot and support to field engineers as required

  Ø Provide I&C support for Core and CM upgrade.

  Ø Provide I&C support for new Carrier add, Radio upgrade,eDCG upgrade and

DOM ATP

Testing

  Ø Audit the installation equipment and insure proper cabling and connections, as

required

  Ø Follow detailed customer provided integration procedures

  Ø Successfully provision Software Applications and Platform Configurations

  Ø Oversee network connections to Layer 2 & 3 switches and routers

  Ø Perform Network Testing which include internal audits and security

considerations

  Ø Moving Iu-B links from legacy to IP based systems

  Ø Participate in customer reviews, conference calls and sign-off/acceptance

  Ø Download CDMA site calibration data to local System Engineering team

  Ø Integrate site with Carrier Operations and confirm site firmware and data loads

and perform patch work as needed.

  Ø Execute BSM, CLI and Passport scripts for Carrier Add, DOM add, EMS node

add and revA activation, MFRM (radio) upgrades, new eDCG installs.

  Ø Provide support for BSC cutovers and RNC Rehomes.

  Ø Provide a daily activity report via e-mail to a supplied distribution list

  Ø Provide a daily ping report and DOM audit (EMS inventory reports) via e-mail to

a supplied distribution list

  Ø Support all troubleshooting as required to complete integration activities

  Ø Address any alarms popping up due to the activity before signing off with the

customer and escalate up the tree to proper Technical support (GTAC etc) by

ticketing the issue.

  Ø Follow Rollback procedures if needed and normalize to pre-integration activity.

  · Network Engineer (CDMA/EVDO)

Nortel Networks (Skolix LLC)

(Jan’10- Feb ’10)

  Ø Network integration support

  Ø Installation and commissioning support

  Ø RF field and drive support

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  Ø Present Market summary to customer from integration perspective.

  Ø Troubleshoot and Analyze BTS specific KPIs such as RSSI, Ec/Io, TX power,

current drawings.

  Ø Rehoming (RNC to RNC; BSC to BSC) Script support.

  Ø BTS,DOM and RNC software upgrades

  Ø RNC integration support

  · Associate RF Engineer (CDMA/EVDO)

Nortel Networks (Glow Networks)

(Dec’08-Jan’10)

  Ø Analyze performance standards. Develop detailed recommendations for changes

& process improvements.

  Ø Create uniform performance processes and procedures. This includes monitoring

Lucent MSC and RNC KPIs to identify problems where degradation appears

  Ø Develops standardized network engineering methods and procedures, evaluates

highly complex network engineering activities.

  Ø Provide the Trend analysis, operational report analysis, and guide the

performance engineer in implementing the re-engineering activities like network

element upgrades, additions and growth as required.

  Ø Worked closely with all engineering and operations as well as Alcatel/Lucent

vendor teams to proactively assess and/or prevent network issues.

  Ø Gained basic expertise on Lucent RNC 5200, and have technical

background on Lucent RNC 9370 Lucent Node B and bringing up new

Node B into the network, and aware of the procedure of performing IuB

add, Node B Rehomes monitoring (sector level and weekly basis) and

adding second carrier adds, creating scripts to perform the small tasks such

as neighbor list changes or address CO-PN issues etc manually or through

the use of the GUI. Ability to troubleshoot issues until resolution.

  · RF Field coordinator/Team lead (CDMA/EVDO)

Nortel Networks (Glow Networks)

Team Size handled (# of engineers): 10

(Jan’08 – Nov’08)

  Ø Review and Analyze Network Performance versus Service Level Agreement

based on the KPIs.

  Ø Quoting Statement of work, resource management, prioritize solutions for

optimum effectiveness and provide deliverables for the market.

  Ø Periodic Face to Face interaction with the Customer in market.

  Ø Link-budgets, system dimensioning for coverage and capacity including traffic

analysis, evaluating system design and dimensioning, frequency planning and

interference analysis, network optimization, performance acceptance.

  Ø The project involved pre and post BSC wide testing of all technologies (IS 95

Voice, 1xRTT Voice and Data and 1x EVDO AT).

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BSC wide Call- P for each technology on carrier assigned to verify normal

functioning of site after the sites were upgraded to NBSS 14 Load. Verified

parameters like Rx power, EcIo, Soft and Softer Handoff, Data throughput under

good RF conditions.

  Ø Entry level Database Scripting (2 training Sessions) for Rehomes/Migration for

Lucent 5200 RNCs.

  · Asst.RF Analysis Engineer (CDMA/EVDO/UMTS)

Ericsson Inc MobileComm Professionals Inc

(May’07 - Aug ’07)

  Ø Dealt with the system performance of 2000 sites in various markets in

TX,OK,AR,MO,KS

  Ø RF analysis and optimization for dropped calls, blocked calls, access failures etc.

  Ø Depending on the RF coverage chart generated for i-planner made

recommendations for neighbor list changes, antenna parameter adjustments like

width/tilt/power to result an improvement in overall network statistics.

  Ø Also provided RF engineering services consisting of but not limited to data

collection, drive team coordination, analysis, entire market baseline drive

collection, individual site verification/ E911 testing, Optimization, Inter vendor

hard handoff, Frequency hand down testing and 1X RTT Data throughput testing.

Relevant Course work:

  · Advanced Computer Networks

  · Personal Communications Systems

  · Operating Systems

  · Algorithmic Aspects/Telecom Networks

  · Engineering Packets Switching Networks

  · Performance of Computer systems and Networks

  · Radiofrequency: Sensing and Identification

  · Telecommunications Network Management

  · Digital Communications

References: Available upon request.

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