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Herve A. Didier
3640 Vista Drive
Macungie, PA 18062
Tel: 919-593-6930
www.linkedin.com/in/herveadou/
Email: adouherve5@gmail.com
QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY
Over 8 Years’ experience in
network planning and design in the wireless industry. Able to maintain a
high degree of proficiency for performance with technologies such as CMS,
GSM/GPRS/EDGE, IDEN, CDMA, WCDMA/UMTS, LMDS/MMDS, AND ATM.
Two years management experience
as the RF team lead for various projects.
HARDWARE: Nokia 2G & 3G
Base station; Nortel BTS s 4000, 8000, and 12000, zNokia DX200BSC; Nokia
Switch; Nokia NMS/X, TOM Drive test equipment; Ericson TEMS;
Grayson (GSM); Nortel (Reunion)
Base station and switching infrastructure (LMDS,and MMDS); Agilent E74xx
series (CDMA); HP 8275 Network Analyser; HP Viper ; Garmin 12-channel GPS;
Antennas:Allgon , Dapa, Decibel, Hughes.
SOFTWARE: Win 98 – 2000, and
XP; WIN-NT 3.5; 4.0; MS OFFICE (INCLUDING VISUAL BASIC & MACROS);
MapInfo 7.0; TEMP:Investigation
6.0, Skypad, DeskCat, TOM/SAM, OptPCS, Actix, Agilent E74xx series, NMS/X,
Cormaco for drive test and post-processing (GSM/GPRS and CDMA);
Planning tools: TOTEM, Planet,
Odyssey, Metrica, Five-Nines, Path-Calc, Arc-View, win-plan, db Planner,
LCC Cellumate; UNIX, Oracle, Visio 2000
• Experience working with RAN
technologies: LTE, UMTS & WiMax.
• Worked on AT&T 3G UMTS
& LTE Pre Launch Performance Evaluation & Optimization.
• Complete understanding of
call flow, protocol stack & layer 3 messaging for 3G & 4G
Technologies.
• Understanding of RF Design,
RF propagation & coverage analysis.
• Knowledge of OFDM, MIMO, LBA
[Link Budget Analysis], & H-ARQ
PROFESSIONALS
EXPERIENCES
November 2011 to Present:
Intel Corporation, Allentown, PA.
System Verification Engineer
System verification of platforms and modem
devices testing for future market releases. Work with various groups to
align and debug hardware/software/network issues.
KPI (Key Performance Indicator), ADAPT and
Regression Testing. Travel internationally to support customers (South
America countries).
- Work closely with engineering to isolate and
debug issues within the XMM platform base.
- A Technical protocol stack expert. Helped
develop back office analysis of issues found during testing.
- Travel frequently both internationally and
nationwide to test mobile networks and modems devices to report issues at
those locations.
February 2011 to October 2011: Verizon Wireless
Prelaunch Optimization 4G
LTE
Wisconsin, Chicago and Boston area.
Experience working with RAN technologies: LTE,
UMTS & WiMax.
Worked on Verizon 3G UMTS & LTE Pre Launch
Performance Evaluation & Optimization.
Complete understanding of call flow, protocol
stack & layer 3 messaging for 3G & 4G Technologies.
Understanding of RF Design, RF propagation
& coverage analysis.
Knowledge of OFDM, MIMO, LBA [Link Budget
Analysis], & H-ARQ
Worked on Turnkey optimization Projects .
Analyzing UMTS & HSPA networks using Actix
Analyzer Classic and Spotlight.
Validating the test data collected by analyzing
the Access failures and Drops (Technology and Application) using Layer 3
messaging.
Optimizing RF conditions by checking missing
neighbor relations, swapped sectors, Pilot Pollution analysis, Coverage
Analysis and recommending Antenna tilts.
Monitoring Alarms, Recommending handover
threshold parameters, IRAT/IFHO Failure troubleshooting.
Creating optimized Neighbor list, Engineering
Work Orders, Assigning Cell Classification & Neighbor relation
priority.
Recommended antenna tilt changes to optimize
the coverage & overcome interference.
October 2010 to February 2011: CLEARWIRE
RF Engineer, SAN FRANCISCO Market
Performed Acceptance Test Protocol (ATP) to
integrate newly built BTS into Networking. It involved measuring site KPIs
and testing softer handovers using Witt tool.
Collected scanner data to map the coverage of
the cluster.
Used various call scenarios (FTP, HTTP sessions
and Ping tests) to record various network KPIs using XCAL-X.
Identified various issues like TDD
interference, fault optical fibers, faulty TMA and frequency planning
glitches.
Used Windcatcher to process the drive test data
and analyzed events like handover failure & drop call, linking them to
bad coverage, terrain issues, interference, and network glitches.
Used Xstream (Clearw're Tool) to compare
cluster KPI's with Market Benchmark
April 2010 to September 2010: CLEARWIRE RF
Engineer, NASHVILLE TN Market
Checking upload and download speed throughput
test
Worked on WITT 9.1 and XCAL to evaluate
coverage and Cluster drive
Used Witt Map Generator to create site and
DAPSAT to connect to site
In order to check the main and diversity branch
RSSI.
Recommended antenna tilt changes to optimize
the coverage & overcome interference.
Creating optimized Neighbor list, Engineering
Work Orders, Assigning Cell Classification & Neighbor relation priority
October 2009 to Mars 2010: CLEARWIRE RF
Engineer RALEIGH NC, Market
Performed Acceptance Test Protocol (ATP) to
integrate newly built BTS into Networking. It involved measuring site KPIs
and testing softer handovers using Witt tool.
Collected scanner data to map the coverage of
the cluster.
Used various call scenarios (FTP, HTTP sessions
and Ping tests) to record various network KPIs using XCAL-X.
Identified various issues like TDD
interference, fault optical fibers, faulty TMA and frequency planning
glitches.
Used Windcatcher to process the drive test data
and analyzed events like handover failure & drop call, linking them to
bad coverage, terrain issues, interference, and network glitches.
Used Xstream (Clearw're Tool) to compare
cluster KPI's with Market Benchmark.
Checking upload and download speed throughput
test
Worked on WITT 9.1 and XCAL to evaluate
coverage and Cluster drive.
January 2009 to June 2009: LUCENT-ALCATEL RF
DRIVE TESTER CW Toronto CA.
Mars 2007 to December 2009: NIELSEN MOBILE,
Field operation Technician
(Canada) and
USA
drives test, Monitor, troubleshoots and manage
daily operations.
August 2006 to January 2007: AVION SYSTEMS RF
Engineer, Roswell, GA
EVDO project for Motorola. The project is for
the Alltel network across the southwest and the south. My duties include
SCFT, Cluster Driving and data processing. I am using Invex3G for my
collection tool. I also used a Kyrocera air card as my antenna for data.
Also I’m using Street Atlas with GPS for Navigation and actix for analysis.
- Many cell sites around the country
- Match the PN with the sector site
- Make sure that for a particular sector,
correspond a correct PN
- Resolve conflicting PN on different cell
sites.
- Shutting down different sector one by one to
have a better reading of a particular sector when conflict occurs.
- Bounce the cell site to have a better
throughput on download and upload data.
- Make sure that the throughput is higher than
2000 kbs for the two spans site on download and 150 kbs for the upload.
- Keep the speed fast enough to download the
files to around (60-75) seconds on download and a little higher on upload.
Process the data using actix for analysis
January 2006 to July 2006: T-Mobile communications,
RF Engineer, Dallas, TX
Allocating drive test personnel and evaluating
their overall job performance.
Drive testing the network to investigate
problem areas, perform antenna, LNA, and coax line sweeps.
Drive testing the network, making parameter changes,
power scaling, and antenna downtilt.
Utilize SAM software to evaluate and direct the
optimization efforts for cell sites as needed for sites that became
available after the market had launched.
Utilize TEMS software to evaluate and direct
the optimization efforts for cell sites as needed for sites that became
available after the market had launched.
Retuned cell sites and optimization for the GSM
digital network.
Managed and led a group of engineer on an
optimization project that launched over 150 sites in Tampa and Orlando.
Datafill for BSC/BTS and commissioning
Frequency and neighbor list planning
Design and issue search rings to site
acquisition
Responsible for frequency retune of the network
(including over 900 sites), performed every quarter, team lead.
Optimization team lead
Coordinate drive tests and post-processing
among personnel
Mentor associate engineers on best practices
for designing and optimizing the network, and evaluate their performance.
Support and work with the RF engineering team
Gather and organize data for leadership’s daily
meetings
Data collection of system performance with TEMS
INVESTIGATION, TEMS SkyPad, and NEMO handy, and post processing using TEMS
6.0+ or OptPCS
Use INSITE & ASSET databases for accuracy
assessment, site updates, and site adds
Participate in sites visits, site walks, ring
design, and shake downs
Use VBA in exceeds to create and update various
reports.
Jul. 2004 to Dec. 2005: Global Wireless
Solution, Associate RF Engineer Chantilly, VA
Post-processing the data and creating basic
plots for RxQual, RxLev, and Scan etc. Depending on the engineer’s wishes.
Worked on UMTS optimization based project for
Data Collection using Ericsson TEMS 6.0.3
Did Throughput testing for the Data. Used Cute
FTP to upload (PUT) data.
Did RF Optimization for a new network
consisting of 242 sites.
Drive testing included network and cluster
performance drive, RF Shake Down test and Baseline.
Was in charge of drive test team coordination
(4 teams to cover the city of San Francisco and neighboring cities,
including Seattle and Portland).
Trained 3 new interns for this market.
Was responsible for cluster drives, trouble
shooting and equipment calibration for drive testing.
Monitored dropped calls, blocked calls, origination
failures, handoff features, verifying intracell handoff clockwise.
Log-file analysis and frequency scanning using
TEMS investigation.
Made drive routes using MapInfo for baseline
and shakedown.
Jan. 2002 to Jun. 2004: BELL CANADA, Drive test
technician, Montreal, CA
Cluster drive, troubleshooting equipment
calibration for drive testing.
Collects and analyze relevant data including
data need to comply with any
Regulatory requirements.
Traveling all around the Montreal areas to test
major wireless company network
A solution on how to improve their network to
be better competitive.
And propose Using Ericson TEMS Bench marker
that offer a total solution approach to network
Performance and optimization (RF optimization
software).
Performing the software deployment, testing and
maintaining the software system.
Testing mobile phone in-vehicle to provide a
total snapshot of each carrier’s voice and data network performance, and
the effect handoffs and reselections
TRAINING:
• Nortel BSC & BTS provisioning for
signaling and traffic dimensioning 10/03
• Nortel BSS parameters 12/05
• Nortel training for / GPRS/EDGE/ 12/05
• Nokia Network Services Training for CDMA
Technology and Methodology 8/01
• Nokia Certification training for 3G WCDMA for
UMTS 08/01
• Nokia Network Services Training for GSM/GPRS
Technology and Methodology 08/01
• Telligent, Installation and commissioning
course (PMP) for Nortel and Hughes 10/00
• Aerial Communications, BSSSIG course for
Nokia 5/98
EDUCATION
• 1996-BACHELOR IN COMPUTER INFORMATION:
UNIVERSITY OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
• 1999-ORACLE DATABASE TRAINING AND PROGRAMMING
• COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER (VIRGINIA
ALEXANDRIA)
• 2001- TRAINING IN ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING
• CUMBERLAND COLLEGE TORONTO (CANADA).
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