SYED MOHAMMED AHSAN

 

 

 12024 Lakeside Dr, Overland Park, Kansas 66213 (APT#1326) ·ahsan_hasnain88@yahoo.com·

001-814-384-3679·Skype:ahs888888

CAREER OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a challenging position in a high quality engineering environment where my resourceful experience and academic skills will add value to organizational operations.

 

ACADEMIC PROFILE:

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering      GPA 3.54                                                                            December 2013

Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania

COURSES DONE: Modern Control Theory, Embedded C Programming, Advance Control Technologies, Advance instrument and measurement, Digital signal processing, Introduction to Communication System, Electronic system design and integration, Engineering project Management, Digital Signal Processing system design and integration using Lab view, Advanced Engineering Analysis.

 

Bachelors in Electronic and Communication Engineering

Osmania University, Hyderabad, AP, India
 

RELATED EXPERIENCE
LTE RF Design EngineerDecember 2014-Present

LCC-TechMahindra (Sprint Turnkey Project)

Overland Park, Kansas

·            Deployment on Sprint project for South West Florida, Orlando, Tampa, Rochester and North Wisconsin Markets. Etc.

·            Designing and planning of Sprint Network using Mentum Planet Tool and several Macro’s.

·            Adding, removing sites in area of interest and Non Area of Interest. Working on all three bands of Sprint 800, 1900 and 2500.

·            Bluetooth & WIFI prediction analysis.

·            Prediction analysis and run for new site groups of LTE 800, 1900 and 2500 Bands.

·            Checking the antenna files and assigning new antennas to sites.

·            Optimizing the Sites by adding or removing the proposed sites and or changing electrical tilts, height of antenna, azimuth of antenna etc.  Based on Coverage holes and downlink average throughput.

·            Assigning the propagation models as per requirements by each site morphology. Checking the planet settings for subscriber, network and environmental settings and setting all of them as per OEM’s such as Ericson, Samsung and ALU requirements.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Merge and Max procedure was performed to merge the Downlink Avg. data rate of all 800, 1900 and 2500 bands for 2014,15,16,17 years.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Universal propagation Model (5m, 10m and 30m clutter) was used for assigning to new and existing sites falling under each categories.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Creating and running analysis and pulling stats for Pico cells, Lamp post, Mini-macro and macro sites.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         In some scenarios contiguous carrier aggregation was performed where as in others it was noncontiguous CA.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Quality checking the Planet Setting as per Sprint provided Planet Project Settings. Creating the sites which aren’t in site list comparing site list provided by Sprint with the exported Planet project site list.

·            SQL query used to calculate the distance of roads, etc in map info tool.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Running Distance calculator to check if there’s any sites with in less than 100 meter proximity or if there are any co located sites.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Optimizing Sites through Mentum Planet by electrical tilt parameters, Azimuthal angle and propagation models. Based on coverage holes, throughput, bad CINR. Performing LTE FDD/TDD analysis and by using the layers doing Carriers aggregation calculations, Stamping layers 10m over 30m, CA aggregation, MergeMax, Stats Pull using area and traffic map GRC files and hence using the export from these to prepare CDF reports for different bands and timeline by using Macro’s. Comparing the CDF curves and percentiles for Downlink average for different scenarios from baseline to new plan. Use of tabular Editor was done for getting site specific or group info exports as well.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Creating traffic Maps by using data from Client and putting the Traffic Maps and GeoData into the Project so as to run coverage and throughput prediction Analysis.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Calculating Spectral Efficiency for all bands and comparing it with different Tier markets.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Setting the Antenna Gain and penetration etc losses for antennas.

·            Interacting and communicating with LTE RF Engineers to figure out the issues with the project, market etc.

 

LTE RF EngineerMay 2014-November 2015

Tele World Solutions (Sprint Turnkey Project)

Washington, DC

·            Deployment on Sprint Nextel project and Verizon Wireless Project for Boston, Massachusetts, Charlotte, North Carolina Metro Area, Baton Rouge, Mobile, Pensacola, Florida Etc. 

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Created Volte acceptance Report through Windcatcher Custom Reports and analyzed RTP, SIP Metrics.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Checking the Link configurations used and propagation Models and setting it as per requirements.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Mentum planet’s GIS tool was used for creating the drive routes for the drive testers and data collectors.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         The use of Windcatcher was very frequent for the post processing of data collected by the RF Drive test Engineers. 

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         By using Sector Analysis Tool changing the colors and size of the sectors depending on TAC, RSI and PCI.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Creating Sector Wedges and analyzing the Drive data for Call Drops, RRC Setup Failure’s and Handover Failures etc.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Root Cause Analysis was done on certain parts of the drive.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Used Excel, Power Point for working on the charts and graphs which was created by using the export from the Data Table from Windcatcher and XCAP. MDB and Model were created by using the DRM-Accuver Log Files collected by the Data Collectors. SQL Query was used to get the Excel Exports out of the Microsoft Database files from Windcatcher.  

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Created Baseline Reports using Mentum Planet by creating Thematic Maps for RSRP, CINR, RSRQ, RTT, EVDO Dominant Ec, EcIo, SINR etc. Have some knowledge about Parameter Audit.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Interacted directly with customer and continuously coordinated with team members and team leads.

·                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         Interacted with the site technician to verify the components present on each cell site.

·            Managing data collection team and help them with troubleshooting with issues.

·            Taking care of the Inventory for all the drive Test Equipment required by the Drive Tester.

 

 

 

 

LTE RF Engineer

February 2014-April 2014

T Mobile

                                                                                                                                                                                 Chicago, Illinois

·                       Deployment on T-Mobile Chicago project.

·                       Performed handover tests, long call DL/UL throughput tests, and short call test for ping tests.

·                       Emergency 911 call testing for all the new sites before market launch.

·                       Used TEMS investigation tool for drive test and Data collection to figure out and record the problem area.

·               Checked the coverage by doing walk testing in downtown and busy areas to ensure and report the downlink and uplink throughput and coverage.

·           Analyzed and measured the LTE Parameters including RSRP, RSSI, RSRQ, and SINR.

 

LTE RF Engineer

August 2013-Sept 2013

Huawei Technologies USA

                                                                                                                                                Denver, Colorado/Columbus, Ohio

·                       Deployment on Clearwire eNB's for multi market (LA, Denver (Colorado), Cincinnati (Ohio) and Columbus (Ohio).

·                       Performed handover tests, long call DL/UL throughput tests, and short call test for ping tests.

·                       Conducted CW and CCW tests for both short call and long call tests.

·                       Analyzed and measured the LTE Parameters including RSRP, RSSI, RSRQ, SINR and CQI measurement.

·                       Collected both scanner and UE data (RSCP and RSSI) for all the detected cells.

·               Generated reports by using GENEX Assistant and used templates having the charts and formulas required for presenting in the Reports.

·                       Used Excel exports to put in the MapInfo and then created Thematics Maps

·                       Used Google Maps and Microsoft Streets and Trips tools for the navigation as per drive route.

·                       Deployment on Clearwire eNB's for multi market (LA, Denver (Colorado), Cincinnati (Ohio) and Columbus (Ohio) 

·                       Done data processing after the data was collected by performing intra cluster and intercluster drives.

·                       Coordinating data collection team and help them with troubleshooting with issues

·               Analyzed the Handover and looked for the Sector Swaps by checking the collected data with respect to the SiteSectors.

·                       Used Genex Probe for Testing and Genex Assistant for the Generation of reports for optimization.

·                       Performed both RF long call and Short call testing.
 

RF Field EngineerMay 2013 – July 2013

Verveba Telecom-(NSN)Chicago, Illinois/Saint Louis, Missouri USA

·                       Performed UMTS and LTE drive testing using TEMS (14.5, 14.6).

·                       Deployment on T-Mobile-(Nokia Siemens Network) for multi market Chicago (IL) and Saint Louis (MO)

·                       Participated in training for RF Testing in Dallas, Texas; worked on Samsung project and NSN/T-Mobile.

·                       Conducted E911 call tests and mobility and cluster drives; worked on pre/post migration cluster drives.

·               Ensured no swapped sectors by CW/CCW testing; ensured neighbor sites were up using IRAT and reselection testing.

·                       Verified LTE call success rate, drop rate, and speed test through CSFB testing.

·                       Experienced in using Microsoft Streets and Trips for the navigation of d

·                       Responsible for solving all the issues with TEMS software and post processing of the data.

·                       Reported and discussed the issues in the field with the RF engineering team.

·                       Processed the data after drive testing/collecting data from ENodeB’s.

 

Associate RF EngineerJuly 2010 – August 2011

STC-KSAJeddah, Saudi Arabia

•       Worked on STC (Saudi Telecom Company) for the Jeddah/Makkah Optimization Project.

•       Performed UMTS and LTE drive testing using TEMS.

•       Deployment on STC Network for Jeddah/Makkah Project.

•       Mobility Test, Single Site Verification (SSV) Test and saving LOGS by TEMS Investigation Tool.

•       And performed cluster drives around all Major roads and secondary roads and run the scripts by using TEMs Investigation Tools.

•       Verified LTE call success rate, drop rate, and speed test through CSFB testing.

              USA.

•       Post processed the data after drive testing by using TEMS Investigation Tool. Making Reports by using the Exports.

•       Performed UMTS and LTE drive testing using TEMS.

•       Looked for swapped sectors by physically going at the Sector and checking if the PCI is matching the azimuth it supposed to be at.

•       Reported and discussed the issues in the field with the RF engineering team.

•       Performed IRAT for checking if there is Handover of Technology.

 

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY:

Language:C, Embedded C Programming

Hardware Languages:Micro controller Programming

Computer Architecture:8085, X86 Micro-processors    

Networking:MCITP (Microsoft Certified IT Professional), LINUX (Red Hat Enterprise),   .                             Exchange Server, CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Admin. training)

                                                       Linux server

Operating Systems:MS DOS, Windows 98, XP, Linux (Red hat enterprise)

Tools:MATLAB, OrCAD, MPLAB, LABVIEW.

Designing Tools:Adobe Photoshop, Coral Draw,

Microsoft Office Tool:                 MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS Word, MS Exchange Server, MS Visio.

 

STATUS:

Eligible to work in USA

Resident Permit of KSA

Holding drivers’ licenses of KSA and USA.