ARIF U CHOWDHURY, e-mail: arifchy_ctg@hotmail.com

 

ARIF U CHOWDHURY
1439 Burke Ave NE Apt B

Grand Rapids, MI 49505

arifchy_ctg@hotmail.com

7344698965

VISA status: Green card

 

Career objective: To obtain a position as an engineer in any industry that emphasizes growth, creativity, and analytical thinking.
 

Professional Skills:

• Skilled at LTE, UMTS/WCDMA, GSM, CDMA, EVDO and WIMAX technology.

• Skilled at ALU, Ericsson, Motorola cellular system.

• Skilled at various design and planning tools like Map-info, ASSET - Aircom, TEMS Cell Planner

• Skilled at E/// OSS, Winfiol, ALU Switch, True Call etc

• TEMS Investigation, TEMS Route Analysis, Actix Analyzer, Actix     Spotlight, XCAL-X

• Extensive knowledge in programming languages C, Visual Basic, Matlab5.0, Perl

• Substantial understanding of MAPTECH Terrain Navigator, Microsoft Streets & Trips Packages.

• Broad experience with Electronics workbench, MS Office Packages.

• Sound understanding of LTE, UMTS/WCDMA, CDMA, EVDO and GSM Architecture.

• Mapping program: Map-source, MS streets and trips.

• Software Applications: Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Access

Professional Experiences:

 

MetroPCS (michigan)                                       April, 2012-Till Date

Associate RF Engineer

Network Performance and Optimization Engineer of the CDMA, LTE, EVDO Network

-Monitor daily performance of the assigned clusters and take necessary steps in order to maintain the KPI

-Works on new cell sites, making sure site is properly integrated into network and optimized for peak performance.

- Taking part in various projects like Carrier Upgrade/Downgrade, Bandwidth Expansion, Core Migration etc

- Attending customer complaints and resolve those in a timely manner

 

Avion Systems Inc.                                                                         Nov, 2011-Feb, 2012

Drive tester

Customer: AT&T (Charlotte, NC)     

4G LTE, UMTS Project

-Drive testing of the new integrated cell sites

-Attending customer complain to resolve coverage and low data throughput issues

-assisting RF engineers identifying coverage holes and low data throughput.                                                                                                           

                                        

Telnet Inc.                                                                                                                                                        Sept, 2011- Nov, 2011

Drive tester

Customer: Metropcs (Detroit, MI)     

4G LTE, EVDO Project

-Drive testing of the new integrated cell sites

-Attending customer complain to resolve coverage and low data throughput issues

-assisting RF engineers identifying coverage holes and low data throughput.                                                                                                           

 

Sublime Wireless Inc.                                                                                                                                   April, 2011- Sept, 2011

 

Associate RF engineer

Customer: T-Mobile (Detroit, MI)                                                                                                                 

3G HSPA deployment project (6 months contract)

-Monitoring and reviewing GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS network Key Performance Indicators (KPI).

-Diagnosing Base Transceiver Station (BTS) hardware, interference, data throughput, coverage   and transmission path   performance issues and developing action plan for resolution.

-Providing engineering support to Sales / Customers by responding to customer and employee complaints.

-Providing input to management on tactical issues. Evaluates capacity requirements of radio network and works with other departments to meet growth needs.

-Performing Drive test and generate performance report of the network

-Analysis of TEMS logs in ACTIX and MapInfo, detailed analysis of layer 3 messaging, Call drops, and access   failures.

 

 

Ericsson                                                                                                                                                             Nov, 2010-Mar, 2011

RF Engineer (NPI team)

Customer: Airtel (Bangladesh)                                                                                                       

EGSM project (5 months contract)

 

-Network monitoring & optimization based on daily/weekly/monthly KPI report generation using a network performance optimization tool.

-Preparing CDD, neighbor plan, frequency planning etc.

-New Site recommendation, Find out the coverage holes from the drive test results and produce proposal for the site with required configuration.

-Cell and data parameters, signaling and traffic link utilization, processing capacities for optimization of network coverage, capacity and maintenance of pre-defined Cluster and Network based KPI’s.

-Supervising the Drive test team and generate performance report of the network

-Analyzing TEMS logs in ACTIX and MapInfo, detailed analysis of layer 3 messaging, Call drops, and access failures.

 

Telnet Inc.                                                                                                                                                             Jul, 2010- Oct, 2010

Customer: Clear wire (Seattle, WA)

RF Engineer

4G WIMAX project (4 months contract)

 

-RF Optimization of main network KPI's through analysis of network performance data, drive test data/equipment and    RF Planning tools.

-WiMAX parameter optimization and analysis of impact, auditing current parameters against Golden Set values, create MOPs and commissioning request to support RF optimization.

-Managing customer tickets and analyzing customer performance issues ranging from RF coverage or interference issues, Speed Issues, Network configuration and fault management.

-Providing RF support to sales organization on coverage Inquiries, new Site Development

-Providing general RF support to operations in troubleshooting hardware and software related issues.

-Performing drive test using X-cal

 

Motorola Inc.                                           Jun, 2006-Feb, 2008

Jr. RF Engineer,

Customer: Warid telecom (Bangladesh)

GSM deployment project (2 yrs contract)

 

-Physical Site Survey and indentified the sites for all morphologies (i.e. Dense urban, urban, suburban, rural and highway)

-Post processing of drive test data, submission of coverage verification report including recommendations on all the candidate sites.

-Performed optimization drive tests using TEMS. Conducting timeslot test, handover test, call termination test, MRR (Measurement Results Recording) test.

-Equipment calibration and setup, RF signal measurement and data analysis

-Post processed of data using ACTIX

 

Education:

 

B.Sc in Electrical & Electronic Engineering                                                           

Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh               

Graduation date: March, 2006                                  

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