Varun Vashisht

Wireless Solutions Professional

Areas of Expertise

• Wireless Network Evolution

• Networking models TCP/IP and OSI

• OFDM/VoIP/CA/Wireless Spectrum/MIMO

• Ethernet/802.11/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth

• Network planning, deployment, & optimization

• In-building DAS, small cells, & Macro systems

• Project and Vendor management

• Strategic pre and post technical sales

• Conceptualize, design, & automation of processes

• Technical trust based client relationship

• Cloud computing/Internet of Things/

Mobility/Web UI design

• Hadoop architecture

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ericsson Inc

Role: Senior RF Engineer

April 2011 - Present

Plano, TX

• Evaluated big chunks of data using multiple statistical tools to identify acute customer issues, enhance

network performance by over 30%, and successfully develop strategic sales proposals

• Acted as a single point of technical contact (SPOC) and subject matter expert (SME) for technical queries and

interfaced between external and internal customer

• Followed up on dynamic developments in the project, proactively avoided issues/escalations, converted

customer problems into successful sales pitch and ensured quality deliverables

• Took initiative to learn new technical tools and processes throughout the projects lifecycle for automating

the repetitive tasks, and later slashed 20% cost by incorporating & training backend engineers year over year

• Tested and iterated new sales/technical ideas along with 3GPP parameter trials proactively, & disseminated

best practices nation wide, including NFV and Open Stack IaaS

• Developed optimum and improved guidelines for multi-carrier LTE tuning & optimization processes for AT&T

• Trained engineers and vendors from multiple locations (US, India, Mexico) on tuning and optimization of live

customer wireless networks

• Tripled RF margin and doubled overall project margin for 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 beyond internal target

• Recognized as top performer in technical add-on sales program for 2014 (Q1) in the US

Technical Skills

• LTE/VoLTE 3GPP expertise including RAN and

core/IMS

• NFV/Open Stack IaaS/Cloud RAN/MPLS & SDN

• L2/L3 analysis using GIS mapping

• Actionable intelligence based on wireless big

data analysis

• Scripting languages including Python and Perl

• Data analysis and presentation

• HTML web design

• Linux/Windows/Mac/iOS/Android systems

• MS office suite including expertise in Excel

Address: 916 Ryan Road,

Oklahoma City, OK 73160

Phone: (972) 322 7960

Email: varunvashisht@live.com

I am a committed, reliable, and professional wireless engineer with demonstrated leadership and customer

skills. I have provided deep insights and actionable intelligence via quantitative reasoning and RF big data

analysis. I have a rich experience in wireless evolution technologies, technical pre- and post-sales, people,

project and vendor management. I am a result-oriented and highly focused team player, who is looking to

expand my skills as a technical subject matter expert in wireless networks, cloud computing, big data and IoT

technologies including the sales and project management domain.

• RF tools including Atoll, real time performance

tools, network audit & optimization tools

Varun Vashisht

Wireless Solutions Professional

Lighthouse A One Limited (Volunteer)

Role: Website Developer

Glow Networks

Role: RF Engineer

Address: 916 Ryan Road,

Oklahoma City, OK 73160

Phone: (972) 322 7960

May 2015 - Present

• Planned, designed, implemented, and tested various website structures and navigation layout

• Test & maintain website (www.lighthouse.menu) for the Lighthouse chain of restaurants in Canada

• Assessed with multiple browsers and operating systems to ensure seamless interoperability

May 2010 - April 2011

Richardson, TX

• Trialed and benchmarked first ever LTE site in the nation for AT&T

• Successfully completed FFA project with peak user throughput of 60Mbps in the field

• Coordinated, performed, iterated and analyzed test cases with S/W and performance teams

• Worked on multiple vendors OSS for network audits and optimization

Graduate Independent Research (Volunteer)

Project: Precision Location Matching of UE in LTE Systems

• Precision Location Matching of UE in LTE networks using RF pattern matching techniques

• Used E-IPDL and simultaneously studied and analyzed the techniques being used in LTE systems and their

benefits over its predecessors. Simulation was done in MATLAB.

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)

Degree: Master of Science in Electrical Engineering

• Major: Telecommunications

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University

Degree: Bachelor of Technology

• Major: Electronics & Communications

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Wireless Mesh Network with Ethernet Bridge Controller

• Built hardware for a wireless mesh network controller

• Successfully bridged it to an 802.3/Ethernet 10BASE-T network with a HTTP interface

• Developed a real-time operating system, device driver, protocol stacks, and application layer s/w for a

controller and device nodes in ISM-band wireless network

Jan 2008 - May 2008

UTA

Aug 2007 - Dec 2009

Arlington, TX

Aug 2003 - May 2007

New Delhi, India

Apr 2010 - Nov 2010

Email: varunvashisht@live.com

Cooperative Real-time Operating System

• Wrote a C code for the 18F4520 controller

• Implemented priority task scheduling in the basic code provided, which was based on round robin algorithm

Jan 2008 - Mar 2008

UTA