Nasir Hussain   

 

Managerial:

·            14 years’ experience in Telecoms Projects Worldwide based in different technologies & vendors.

·            Extensive experience in Customer interaction with customers like Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile USA, Vodacom South Africa, Bite Latvia/Lithuania, Etisalat Misr, Vivacell South Sudan, Mobilink, Ufone & Zong Pakistan.

·            Extensive vendor experience with NSN 2G/3G/4G, Huawei 2G and 3G, Motorola 2G, Ericsson 2G, ALU 2G/4G.

·            Extensive experience in Managing Design & Optimization Teams, monitoring and analyzing KPIs, Interacting with Customer for KPI acceptance issues and their resolution.

·            Demonstrated capability in planning & executing Projects in tight schedules in various Regions Internationally.

·            Monitoring projects with respect to budgeted cost, demand forecasts, time over-runs to ensure timely execution of projects.

·            Experience in team building, hiring, mentoring and motivating Teams for departmental progress.

·            Successfully Handled Multi-vendor services / subcontracting management and strategic partner management of vendors.

·            Actively worked in many pre-tender (RFI, RFQ), bidding & tender works for UMTS/WCDMA/LTE pilot trial proposal.

·            Academically qualified with Masters of Engineering in communications systems.

Technical:

·            Successfully achieved Site & Cluster Level Network Acceptance from T-Mobile for Modernization Project.

·            Previously worked as 2G/3G/4G/VoLTE Regional Lead/Senior Optimization Consultant in projects in US, UAE, South Africa, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Central Africa, Egypt & Pakistan with NSN, Ericsson, ALU, Huawei & ZTE.

·            Successfully achieved the Regional KPI targets for VOLTE for Houston market.

·            Successfully achieved best ratings for Pretoria Region (Vodacom SA) in International Vodafone Benchmark.

·            Successfully planned & executed Network Integration of Standard Chartered & ANZ Grindlays Bank on National Level.

·            Successfully Planned & Presented & got approval Network Design &Plan for New Operator in Saudi Arabia.

·            Experience with various Network Design, Optimization & DT analysis tools.

·            Professionally trained in NSN, Huawei, Motorola, ALU, Ericsson, Cisco GSM / UMTS/LTE systems.

·                        Permanent Resident of US since 2014

 

 

 

¨       Masters of Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Delaware                     December 2004

Area of Concentration

Communication and Networks.

 

¨       Bachelor of Engineering from NED University of Engineering & Technology Karachi     December 2000

Majoring in

Electrical Engineering.

 

 

Verizon Wireless USA          June 2016 till Date

Design & Optimization Consultant 4G/3G/2G

Greater Houston Market

·   Project targets include Improvement of SINR, CQI improvement on Market level.

·   DL/UL Thurput optimization based on Drivetest from XCAL & JDSU.

·   Super Bowl preparation for High Traffic in Houston Metro Area. Improvement of Low SINR hotspot on Band4 & Band 13 in urban area.

·   Network Design verification based on ATOLL.

·   New site post launch optimization of all 3 carriers (Band 4, Band 13and Band 2).

·   PCI & RSI plan validation on market level.

·   Responsible for network performance and optimization, link budget analysis, system dimensioning for coverage and capacity and interference analysis.

 

T-Mobile VoLTE GetWell Project              March 2015 to March 2016

VoLTE Optimization Consultant

Greater Houston Market

·   Project targets includes Improvement of VoLTE DCR better then 2G/3G, RACH Success rate improvement,

CQI improvement on Market level. Identify high traffic and hotspot locations for Small Cell coverage, sector split and sector addition.

·   Responsible for network performance and optimization, link budget analysis, system dimensioning for coverage and capacity and interference analysis.

·   Perform RF network optimization activities, Perform link budget analysis, design criteria and traffic analysis.

·   Perform surveys in dense urban locations for Small cells potential locations.

·   LTE Small Cell planning & strategy for Houston Market hot spots.

·   Undertaking network performance improvement (KPIs) and optimization tasks.

·   Undertaking RAN parameter audits, suggest and fine tune parameters Implement new S/W features(CA, LMS,MAX Ues) for overall network improvement.

·   DAS/Venue Optimization/performance monitoring for Reliant Stadium/Houston Live Stock & Rodeo.

·   Consult on SRVCC & IRAT implementation Review counter and system KPI report.

·   Consult on change request, introduce/modify best practice.

·   Analyze Call flow, Layer 3 messages, drive test data.

·   Worst Cell Analysis to improve Network level KPIs for 4G/3G & GSM.

·   Interfrequency nbr audits. Idle modes inter technology nbr audits.Txn power to configuration consistency check.

·   Intra LTE layer management and traffic prioritization.

·   Network Design &Performance analysis based on True call.

·   Site level audits for HW & Software consistency with in the network.

·   Successfully completed Bandwidth Expansion for Houston market.

·   Successfully completed Holiday preparation for increased users due T-Mobile Binge On offer.

 

T-Mobile NSD Project  May 2014 till Jan 2015

Senior Design Consultant 4G/3G

Chicago Milwaukie Market

·   UMTS 1900 & LTE RF Design/Strategy for Chicago & Milwaukie market sites at T-Mobile USA.

·   LTE/UMTS design & Pre-Launch Optimization of new build & UMTS over lay sites for T-Mobile LTE Market.

·   Search Ring creation for new site builds in Chicago & Milwaukie Market.

·   Candidate selection from submitted candidate’s basis of location, height and antenna clearance.

·   Coverage& design verification with Asset for New Site Build in Chicago Downtown & Suburbs.

·   Site configuration confirmation based on site types and equipment space.

·   Traffic offloading analysis for new Capacity sites.

·   Site development design verification for New site builds.

·   Traffic Analysis with Schema Ultima Mentor for Hotspot locations.

·   CIQ creation for new site builds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NSN T-Mobile Modernization Project                                                                                         July 2012 till May 2014

Senior RF Optimization Consultant 4G/3G/2G                                                                                                             

Based in Houston to support T-Mobile Houston market as Market Lead.

 

Du Dubai                                                                                                                                           March 2012 till June

Senior RF Optimization Consultant 3G/2G                                                                                                             

Direct Consultant with Operator to Supervise Manage Services Contract of NSN. RAN11 solution upgrading to RAN12 (DC HSDPA) & RAN 13.

 

Huawei Vodacom Project South Africa                                                                   Jan 2011 till March 2012

Regional Team lead RF Optimization 3G/2G                                                                                                             

Based in Pretoria to providing support to Vodacom on Swap, Maintenance, Performance Improvement parts of Project. RAN11 solution upgrading to RAN12 (DC HSDPA) & RAN 13 with major deliverables as follows:

Management Role:

·   Managing Team of more than 12 Engineers for Network Performance Improvement.

·   Managing reporting team performance and work load for timely Project delivery.

·   Designing, Organizing & Monitoring work streams for NPI Project.

·   Mentoring Engineers with Optimization techniques and best practices in Network Performance Improvement.

·   Presenting Regional Customer in HL Meeting with Head Quarter for Network Quality.

·   Successfully achieved the desired Performance for Vodafone Benchmark (an in house Network quality audit done by Vodafone on all its subsidiaries worldwide).

Technical Role:

·   Monitoring major KPIs for Swap clusters and reporting it to customer for acceptance.

·   Monitor and analyze KPI Network statistics on daily basis.

·   Achieve and maintain the radio network performance as per the contracted KPIs.

·   PS/HSDPA/HSPA+ performance improvement (Accessibility, Retainabilty and throughput).

·   Perform troubleshoot for problematic cells and perform traces to resolve the issue.

·   Perform RNP & RNO activities such as: radio optimization, statistical handling and analysis, radio recording function, RAN parameter adjustment, RAN features optimization, field measurements.

 

Huawei GSRC (Global Support Resource Centre) Malaysia                                    May till November 2010

RF Planning & Optimization Consultant 2G/3G/4G                                                                                                             

As Consultant for Huawei provided RNO support in Latvia BITE swap project from Ericsson to Huawei with Single RAN solution.

 

Aircom International                                            Dec 2009 till May 2010

RF Optimization Consultant Mobilink GSM                                                                                                           

 

Huawei Egypt             March till Nov 2009

Planning & Optimization Consultant

Teamlead for Upper Egypt Network of Etisalat.

 

Vivacell South Sudan                        Nov 2008 till Feb 2009

Planning & Optimization Manager for VivaCell.

 

 

Aircom International              Feb till October 2008

Senior Optimization Consultant

Regional Team Lead for South & Central RegionsUfone GSM Network.

 

Motorola MTC Project                                                                                                         Nov 2006 till Feb 2008                              

RF Planning Consultant

Regional Lead for Motorola Madina Region.

 

Aircom International          Feb till November 2006

RF Consultant Paktel GSM(Currently Zong) Central Region

Team Lead for Radio Access Network Department

 

Motorola Pakistan               Jan 2005 to Jan 2006

System Engineer

Optimization Engineer based in Karachi for Mobilink GSM Network south region.

 

Electrical & Computer Engineering Department – University of Delaware                Feb 2002 till Dec 2004

Network Administration Associate

Research Associate

Research Assistant at the Electronic-Media Lab of Electrical Engineering Department, University of Delaware under Prof. Charles Boncelet.

 

Standard Chartered Grindlays Bank                                               March 2000 to Jan 2002

Project Engineer for Integration Project of Standard Chartered and ANZ Grindlays Banks Network.

·   Project management, design and monitoring of new network with 21 remote sites connected through different wired and wireless media, such as RF communication, Fiber optics, Frame relay and Satellite links.

Building Scalable Cisco Networks (BSCN) Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Certified Wireless Network Associate (CWNA)                Microsoft Certified Professional. (MCP).

Java Certification Course from N.E.D University                                Base Station Systems Operational Theory (BSS11)

Base Station System Operation & Maintenance (BSS12)                                         LTE Radio Network Planning

LTE Radio Network Optimization  PMP Certification

CAD/Mapping, Graphics and Mathematics S/W (Mat Lab).

System: Windows, UNIX, NT, Linux

Programming: Visual Basic, Visual C, Assembly, Map Basic.

Cell Planning: iBwave,Atoll, Asset, Netplan Map Info & Mat Lab.

Equipment: Spectrum Analyzer, BER Tester, Site Master. Etc

Optimization: TrueCall, TPIM, ActixOne, Ultima Mentor, MARS, Optima, Business Objects, TEMS Investigation 4.1, 5.0, 8.0, 9.0,1,14 and Route Analysis and Deskcat 5.4, Actix, NEMO, NASTAR, M2000, PRS, SONAR, Quantica,XCAL,WindCatcher.

Tableau,Microsoft Office (MS Project,MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, & MS Power Point) & Microsoft Windows,Linux

·   New feature trials proposal/recommendation and benchmark.

·   Network Acceptance report for NPI Project.

·   LTE feature Explanation & Optimization tutorial for RF Engineers.

·   Trial & Tested impact of Coverage based handover disabling on Interfrequency HHOs.

·   Multi RAB Optimizations.

·   Multi Radio link Optimization.

·   UL PS Power Control in 2G.

·   Trail & Testing of 2G to 3G handover enabling and impact on Network.

·   Network Quality Report presented to Customer on Weekly basis.

·   Trial and Test for Limiting RACH request after certain TA.

·   KPI Mapping for 2G/3G between Huawei & Ericsson.

·   Presentation of data collection methodology in Huawei system for customer understanding.

·   Training Mobilink Optimization team on handover algorithm in Alcatel.

·   Training on Micro Handovers in Motorola for Mobilink RNO team.

·   Major Roads & Highway Optimization for Mobilink in Karachi city.

·   Presentation of Handover split analysis focusing on improvement of Better cell handovers as compared to Emergency Handovers.

·   Strategy of implementation of SFH in GSM Networks.

·   Presentation of Network Plan of Vivacell to Vivacell Management.

·   Presentation of Optimization & Planning activities on behalf of Huawei to Ufone Management.

·   Presentation of features and KPI measurements to Mobilink on behalf of Huawei.

·   Presentation of Swap plan and Parameter mapping between Huawei and Motorola for Mobilink swap project.

·   Presentation of whole Network Plan to Zain (formerly MTC) on behalf of Motorola.

·   Database creation for tracking planned sites.

·   Redesigning of Network based on Asset predictions.

·   Frequency Assignment for the removal adjacent and co channel interference.

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