Nasir Hussain   

 

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

·   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.

·   Extensive experience in Customer interaction with customers like 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.

·   Successfully achieved Site & Cluster Level Network Acceptance from T-Mobile for NSN and being the first market in NSN to get PO approval for 2G/3G/LTE Modernization Project.

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

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

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

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

·   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.

·   Experience with Design tools Asset, Atoll, Netplan.

·   Experience with using Network Optimization Tools such as NSN tools NETACT, OSS, CM Editor, CM Operation, BTS Manager, Motorola IOS, Huawei CHR and Schema Ultima Mentor,TPIM & True Call.

·   Experience with DT analysis tools Actix,Nemo, TEMS & GENEX Probe

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

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

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

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

·   Academically qualified with Masters of Engineering in communications systems.

 

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

Area of Concentration

Communication and Networks.

Thesis: Statistical Analysis of Baroreceptors for creating a channel model of neuron.

 The goal was to achieve a relationship between stimulus and response and create a formulation for prediction of a spike train (response) by looking its corresponding blood pressure pulse (stimulus). Dependence of spike in any time space (bin) to its preceding spikes or spikes was also investigated.

 

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

Majoring in

Electrical Engineering.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

T-Mobile VoLTE GetWell Project                   March 2015 till Date

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.

·   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.

·   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.

·   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.

·   Design verification of selected candidates with Asset.

·   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. Responsibilities include

·   Designing, Organizing & Monitoring work streams for Site/Cluster Acceptance.

·   Management &coordination of local & remote teams of engineer supporting the Houston market.

·   Presenting Regional Customer in Regional Meetings with Site/Clusters for Acceptance for 2G/3G/LTE.

·   Successfully achieved Site & Cluster Level Acceptance with Houston as the First Market Nationally to get PO approval from T-Mobile.

·   Lead RF design and optimization activities for a LTE/UMTS/GSM network using enterprise post-processing and KPI reporting application for cluster/market acceptance.

·   Auditing 2G/3G/LTE parameters on Network level.

·   Neighbor auditing for 2G/3G/LTE.

·   Training Engineers present locally & remotely.

·   Responsible to resolve day-to-day issues and support regions to deliver KPI of every LTE/UMTS/GSM clusters.

·   Implement LTE/UMTS/GSM optimization/acceptance plan, best practices, assess and escalate system issues to RAN, Core, Data design teams

·   Design verification & Testing of LTE Network.

·   Drive test verification of newly rollout LTE Network.

·   Counter & KPI validation of OSS for LTE.

·   Drive Test Post Processing, Analysis & Recommendations.

 

 

 

 

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 with major deliverables as follows:

·   Monitoring major KPIs for Network Quality Improvement.

·   Insuring that NSN is following Standard operating procedures for Network Performance Improvement.

·   Insuring NSN is achieving and maintaining the radio network performance as per the contracted KPIs.

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

·   Addressing Customer Complaints for Network issues.

·   3G capacity monitoring. Considering CE/Code/Power/IuB both CS/PS congestion and adjust their LDR/DCCC/IRAT parameter etc to reduce it.

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 the major deliverables were as follows:

·   Working closely with Project Team on issues related to UMTS/2G Network Planning, Rollout and Optimization.

·   Assisting Huawei Project team in establishing systems and processes to monitor Client activities that may impact on the progress and implementation of project.

·   Proposing & assisting Huawei Project team in setting up systems and processes to monitor Huawei’s own activities.

·   Preparing of Daily/Weekly KPI report for swap clusters and comparing with Pre swap values for UMTS/2G.

·   Participation in kick-off meetings with customer for the assigned project.

·   Daily 3G KPI Performance Monitoring statistics such as RRC / RAB success rate, Drop Call Rate, Soft HO, IRAT HO HSDPA, PS stats of the all new & swap 3G sites.

·   Analysis of low throughput and RAB establishment issues for HSPA from KPI and DT analysis.

·   Assist & supervise outsourced tasks and personal.

Aircom International                                 Dec 2009 till May 2010

RF Optimization Consultant                                                                                                              

As Principle Optimization Consultant for Mobilink GSM the major deliverables were as follows:

·   Training the Optimization department composed of 15 Engineers.

·   Optimization of Network having more than 2000 sites with multivendor environment based on ALU, Motorola & Huawei.

·   Network Audit based on worst handover success rate and recommendation to improve them.

·   Outdoor Micro layer Optimization for traffic and quality.

·   Network level Worst cell Analysis and recommendation to improve the KPIs.

·   New feature trial and testing to monitor their impact on KPI and Customer perception.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Huawei Egypt          March till Nov 2009

Planning & Optimization Consultant

Teamlead for Upper Egypt Network of Etisalat.

·   Client Interaction on behalf of Huawei with Etisalat.

·   Traffic balancing for Over & Under laid cells with Half & Full rate feature.

·   Drive test analysis and recommendations for different cities based on TEMS 9.0.

·   Report Generation for Path Balance, Expansion & Interference issues in Huawei region of Etisalat.

Vivacell South Sudan                   Nov 2008 till Feb 2009

Planning & Optimization Consultant

Planning & Optimization Manager for VivaCell.

·   Planning & Optimization Consultant based in Juba South Sudan for Viva Cell GSM Network.

·   Managing Planning & Optimization Department.

·   Team Building and hiring new Engineers for various RF roles.

·   Client interaction on behalf of Vivacell with Ericsson.

·   Auditing Network Design and recommending improvements.

·   Creating Frequency plan (BBH & SFH) for Dual Bcch Network.

·   Implementing procedures for change management for the Network to be followed by all departments.

·   Pre & Post Launch Optimization of Vivacell Network.

·   Enabling, testing and benchmarking the impact of features provided by Ericsson on Network level.

·   Following up with O & M for issue resolution on site TI e.g. Sector Swap, feeder swap etc.

·   Investigating the cells with Poor CSSR, HSR and DCR.

·   Drive test analysis and recommendations for different cities based on TEMS 9.0.

Aircom International   Feb till October 2008

Senior Optimization Consultant

Regional Team Lead for South & Central Regions.

·   Planning & Optimization Consultant based in Lahore & Karachi for Ufone GSM Network.

·   KPI Optimization &Worst Cell Analysis.

·   Managing RF Engineers group for timely Project delivery.

·   Interviewing Fresh & Experienced RF Engineers for RF roles in Huawei Pakistan.

·   Managing workload and holidays for hired Engineers.

·   Micro layer design, Planning & Implementation in the dense urban areas of Mega Cities.

·   Site surveys for Micro locations in dense urban areas.

·   Coverage and Capacity analysis for Micro layer.

·   Customer interaction on behalf of Huawei. Customer Complains Analysis and resolution.

·   Site Audit and recommendations, CSSR improvement analysis and recommendations.

·   Neighbor auditing for cell on Inter MSC borders as well as on Inter BSC borders.

·   Frequency planning of Mega cities with the help of Asset.

·   Investigating the cells with Poor CSSR, HSR and DCR.

·   Drive test analysis for different cities based on Nemo, TEMS & GENEX Probe.

Motorola MTC Project                                                                                                         Nov 2006 till Feb 2008                              

RF Planning Consultant

Regional Lead for Motorola Madina Region.

·   Successfully created & presented UMTS and 2G Nominal Plans for new Operator in Saudi Arabia.

·   Presentation of Plan with all details according to the committed KPIs with approval from Customer.

·   Providing coverage plots and per clutter data for coverage per city.

·   Rollout management for Madina Region. Leading the team of RF Planners for Phase0 Rollout.

·   UMTS & 2G planning for new sites in major cities of Saudi Arabia.

·   Setting up Asset Planning tool for Nominal Plan predications.

·   Identifying and visiting potential area for Micro solution for UMTS & 2G.

·   Network Design of major Cities and Highways in Madina and Sharq Raegion.

·   Hiring experienced RF Engineers for various roles in Project.

·   Mentoring RF Engineers for Project deliverables.

·   Technical Site surveys for selected candidates.

·   Tracking and managing Subcontractors in coordination of Civil.

·   Tracking for approved sites for ongoing process from SAR to On air.

 

 

 

Aircom International          Feb till November 2006

RF Consultant

Team Lead for Radio Access Network Department

·   Management of resources for Surveys and Drive test.

·   Coordination with Marketing for potential areas of teledensity.

·   Planning & Optimization Consultant based in Lahore for Paktel GSM Network Central Region.

·   Planning of network role out using predication models from Asset.

·   Managing Database of Planned sites for tracking progress on each site.

·   Location area Borders Planning on region basis.

·   Identification of coverage holes in existing plan for new sites.

·   Post Analysis of new on air sites for any parameter or neighbor definition issues.

·   Network Level KPI monitoring on Network, BSC and Cell Level with Optima.

·   Interviewing & mentoring fresh engineers for various roles in RF Engineering.

Motorola Pakistan               Jan 2005 to Jan 2006

System Engineer

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

·   Network Level KPI Monitoring on Network, BSC and Cell Level.

·   Data Analysis with MARS.

·   Daily Alarm Monitoring for Site Outages, Investigation and Recommendations.

·   Hardware and Interference issue identification and recommendations.

·   Call Setup TCH and SDCCH  Blocking Monitoring for improvement of whole network

·   Frequency plan and proposed change frequency for interference.

·   Assign frequency plans for GSM 900/1800 (micro-macro), antenna height/type, tilting and bearing of antenna

·   Introduce standardization on RF & acceptance for Drive Test, KPI calculation based on DT, Benchmarking with DT, analyzing DT log file result with Map Info and post processing with Deskcat.

·   Physical (tilt, direction, height, antenna type, frequency, TRX no, power budgets, etc) and parameter change (hand over, threshold, hysteresis, power control, timing advance) of network with data based on Statistic reading, regular drive test, action requested from subscriber complaint, marketing or regular Drive test.

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

Network Administration Associate

·   Implementation of Radius authentication for Wireless Network.

·   Network design based on VISIO software.

·   Network Management and Maintenance of Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.

·   Troubleshooting different clients with Operating systems like: Windows9x, NT, 2000 & XP and Sun Solaris.

Research Associate

Research Assistant at the Electronic-Media Lab of Electrical Engineering Department, University of Delaware under Prof. Charles Boncelet. Responsibilities include research in following areas

·   Biomedical Signal Processing.

·   Data acquisition and analysis

·   Administration of Linux based Beowulf Cluster.

 

 

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.

·   Implementation of OSPF for routing between bank head office and branch offices.

·   Optimization of network performance using layer2 standards in switching environment.

·   Connectivity of ATMs (auto teller machines) network system with another bank network over X.25 and TCP/IP. Project was named as MNET.

·   Installation, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Sparrow and Hawk based on HP/NCR UNIX Machines for     ATM Network.

·   Installation monitoring and troubleshooting of sparrow and hawk systems for auto teller machines over tcp /ip.

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: Atoll, Asset, Netplan Map Info & Mat Lab.

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

Optimization: TPIM, ActixOne, Ultima Mentor, MARS, Optima, Business Objects, TEMS Investigation 4.1, 5.0, 8.0, 9.0,11 and Route Analysis and Deskcat 5.4, Actix, NEMO, NASTAR, M2000, PRS, SONAR, Quantica.

Microsoft Office (MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word, & MS Power Point) & Microsoft Windows.

·   Network Acceptance report for NPI Project.

·   New feature trials proposal/recommendation and benchmark.

·   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

·   Frequency Plan representation with MapInfo.

·   Intercell handover Optimization between different vendors equipment.

·   GSM frequency planning in Microsoft Excel.

·   Theoretical knowledge of IS95, CDMA and cdma2000.

·   Matlab Simulations for Physical Layer of Wireless Communication System.

·   Socket Programming with TCP and UDP in C-Language. Project based on implementing TCP client and Server for ATM transaction.

·   Behavior of 802.11, 802.15 and other wireless LAN standards in micro-cellular environment.

·   Implementation of Radius server for authentication and security of Wireless Clients in an Enterprise Network

 

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