Syed Shoaib Masud

16229 Eagle Flight Circle, Woodbridge, VA-22191

Phone: 214 803 1451 E-Mail: syedshoaibmasood@yahoo.com

Summary

Experienced mobile-core/software architect with 9 years of experience primarily in design, protocol

stacks, programming, verification and mobile solutions consulting.

MS (EE) in wireless data communications with major in systems design and coding, TCP/IP protocol suite

including QoS, congestion management and queuing strategies.

SME on topics related to packet core (CDMA, 2G/3G/4G-LTE), SON, Wifi, Wifi offload, IMS, VoLTE, VoWifi,

analytics (core and Wifi), clients and client software, policy, RAN optimization and analytics, ANDSF, SDN,

elastic cloud etc.

Hands on experience with 3G/4G traffic modeling, mathematical modeling of SGSN router boards, and

performance analysis of wireless mesh networks.

3GPP GSM, UMTS, HSPA and LTE standards. Good understanding and familiarity with 3GPP2 CDMA 1x, Rev

A and eHRPD standards.

Experience

NetScout Systems (Pre-sales Consultant, North-east)

Sept 2013 – present

Pre-sales role covering customers in the NE region. Responsibilities not only include selling existing NetScout

products, but also positioning new products in the Wifi/VoLTE/LTE-EPC/Big-Data/etc. monitoring and

performance space.

Cisco Systems (Mobile-core Consultant, MITG)

Feb 2011 – Sept 2013

Work as a pre-sales consultant for Tier-2/3 operators all over the US, helping operators grow and invest in

the “next big thing”, technology forecasting and providing technical leadership all the way through

deployment. Also served as a SME for VoIP, SIP, Diameter, IP-Multimedia Subsystem(IMS) network, 3GPP

LTE/EPS, VOLTE, RCS and entities i.e. Call Session Control Function(P/S/I-CSCF), HSS, IBCF, BGCF, MRFC,

MRFP etc. Some of my work included:

- Help write RFI’s covering topics around the Intucell (SON) acquisition viz. cell outage detection &

compensation, ANR, automatic load balancing etc.

- Worked closely with PLM on RAN aware traffic management, RAN aware wifi offload

management etc.

- Help architect small cell deployment scenarios using femotocells, pico/metrocells,

metro/microcells, metro/micro/wifi, metro/wifi etc.

- Upgrade and expansion of existing CDMA network based on demographics and traffic profiles,

revenue of additional USD 35M (metroPCS)

- Scoping of a new LTE network by leveraging existing CDMA investment, which included S-PGW,

MME, DPI, header enrichment, video optimization, tethering, Gx/Gy design (based on Amdocs

PCRF), DPI, etc., a proposal worth USD 48M (MetroPCS)

- Conducting multiple lab tests related to LTE, policy (Amdocs PCRF+DRAs), DPI, performance, multivendor

environments etc. (MetroPCS)

- Help pre-architect an MME solution, and conduct lab trials in an effort to displace Huawei, ALU

and Ericsson (Cricket)

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Technical architect on multiple RFPs/RFIs

- DPI and Gx/Gy performance issues (multiple operators)

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Technical proposal for a Satellite based eHRPD – voice(IMS with a combined P-CSCF+PGW) and

data network, possible revenue USD 2-20M. Also worked closely with the Small Cell BU for a

possible opportunity to build customized hardware for LTE band 17

Lead multiple RFPs for SP-Wifi, Wifi offload, HS2.0, LIPA, SIPTO etc. opportunities involving multiple

ASR5ks/1k/9k, policy, DPI etc, expected revenue USD 50M

Managed 45 customers nationwide and not only helped them with their day-to-day requirements, but

also assisted them in moving towards their desired access technologies. Provided coverage for a large

variety of customers with all different sorts of access viz. GSM, CDMA, UMTS, LTE, Wifi, IMS/VoLTE

Ericsson (Solutions Architect)

Jun 2008 – Feb 2011

Designed solutions, worked closely with sales and BD, conducted mathematical modeling and wrote

classification and verification use cases, helped forecast the growth, IPv6 protocol stack testing, routing

and QoS, mobile packet backbone design and dimensioning, network performance audits and

performance improvements for Ericsson’s 3G/4G products and solutions.

-> List of achievements while at Ericsson

- Mathematical modeling for SGSN router boards using C and Matlab

- SQO tool development in C for T-Mobile

- MPBN modeling and design for Lumen technologies

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TCP/IP performance tuning for GCI Alaska

- DNS overhaul for Rogers Wireless, Canada

- SGSN audit for ATT

- GboIP modeling and design for ATT

- Roaming design for Syniverse

- SS7->SIGTRAN design for ATT

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TCP/IP performance tuning for ATT (mostly BSSAP and SNDCP on Gb interface)

- Wrote the first LTE design specs for ATT

- MPBN design for Thunderbay, Canada

- MPBN design for Union telecom

- Multiple IPv6 protocol stack activities for ATT etc.

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Wichita State University

Jul 2006 – May 2008

Worked for Cisco labs and T3 on Windows related software issues and regression testing.

Mobilink Pakistan

Jan 2006

IN and VAS engineer

Alcatel Pakistan

BSS commissioning engineer

Education

MS (EE) Wichita State University, Kansas

BE (Computer Systems) NEDUET, Karachi, Pakistan

Dec 2004

July 2008

Jan 2005

Academic Achievements:

Implemented AODV in C for 10 nodes

Worked on 802.11 hand-off timer issue as a thesis project on Cisco Aeronet controllers

Implemented fast CRC-16, BCH, Reed Solomon encoders/decoders in MATLAB

Signal constellation plots, digital modulation techniques, wireless channel fading in MATLAB

Convergence times of routing protocols

Throughput analysis of TCP/FTP and UDP/CBR as a function packet delay for connection-less/connectionoriented

wired and wireless networks in NS2. The code was modified to accommodate 150 mobile nodes

Implemented effective erasure codes in C

Etc.

Interests

National level debater

Multiple “best debater” awards

Swimming, weight lifting and golf

Guitar player

References: Available upon request

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