Getinet Lemma

Temecula, CA Email: getinetlemma@gmail.com Cell (703) 856-4127

         LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/glemma/en

 

Objective: A staff engineer position in an aggressive technical organization that values innovative solutions to further the success of product integration, test and/or deployment delivery with quality and in timely manner.

 

Summary:

Decisive, action oriented and results-focused professional with technical/functional lead experience in 3G/4G wireless technologies. Very strong industry experience and technology background performing Integration, Test, Deployment and customer support.

 

 

·   Strong experience of interface standard i.e. LTE, HSPA, eHRPD, EvDO and Wi-Fi

·   Strong experience of data protocol stack i.e. L1, PPP, MAC, RLC, RRC, UDP, TCP/IP, IPv6, MIPv4

·   Strong experience of IP telephone i.e. SIP, VoLTE & IMS

·   Knowledge and experience on commercial test simulators, test systems/tools i.e. Anritsu, Agilent, R&S, QXDM, QCAT, APEX, Jtag, ASIA, BOA, PANDA, SLIMCAT, iWF for wireless telephony product verification

·   Handset test experience with UMTS/CDMA operators with commercial OEM handset and QCOM’s FF handset.

·   Strong skill in KPI and Performance Optimization of interface standards i.e. LTE, HSPA, EvDO and eHRPD

·   Exposure and usage of Automation/Programing Language C, Perl and Shell.

·   Develop/Execute test strategies and test plan, troubleshooting/analyzing problems, optimizing system performance, executing IOT with product commercialization.

·   Highly proficient in working with multi-discipline team (Systems Engineering, Software Development and Product Test) and handling/coordinating cross-functional teams including virtual teams in Latin America, India, Korea and China.

·   Worked with cross-functional team to collect estimates and developed end-to-end product schedule and risk analysis

·   Responsible for defining/creating/maintaining Test Execution Metrics. Presented weekly project level summary and quality metrics to exec/upper management

·   Experience in leading all stages of system test - Proposal Writing (Cost Estimation, CAPEX/OPEX), Effort estimates, Test Strategy Analysis, Requirement Analysis, System design & End-to-End System Integration, Field Issue analysis and reporting, schedule Planning, Effort estimation, Recruitment/Hiring, People Leadership.

·   Expert in leading Test lab and Data Center, design/implement services, support process and systems.

·   Proven track record of successfully delivering all Project Deliverables with good quality, on-time and meeting Customer's Satisfaction. 

 

 

Qualcomm Inc. San Diego, CA August 2006 - Present

Staff Engineering/Manager Customer Engineering Deployment LeadMarch 2010 – Present

 

·   Lead VoIP product deployment in Chile market over HSPA interface.

·   As part of Chile deployment activity, lead test strategy planning/execution, performed RAN/PCN/HS IOT, NRT, FOA, NOT, CSV, P&L activities at various stages of the deployments phase in customer and lab environments. Also worked with OEMs during integration/testing phase on all issues and tracked CRs and verified fixes.

·   Organized log analysis, prepared reporting with optimization recommendation to customer.

·   Supervised contractors in field-testing activities from initial product to nationwide launch.

·   Performed deployment activities of VoIP product over LTE, eHRPD, and 1xEvDO interfaces for multiple chipsets (8960, 8974, 8926) for Sprint commercial launch using Android/Brew platform.

·   Performed deployment activities of VoIP product over HSPA interfaces for multiple chipsets (8626, 8230, 8610, 8612) in Mexico, Peru & Brazil. NII launched on Android, Brew and BlackBerry platform.

·   Performed Android JB & KitKat platform validation activity for VoIP products on 8926 & 8x12.

·   Managed and lead Customer Engineering test strategies suite i.e. QSI/IOT plans (NRT, FOA, NOT, CSV & RAN/PCN/HS IOT,P&L). Performed gap analysis as part of enhancement for product improvement.

·   Worked with engineering leads to resolve various AMSS issues towards resolution through scrum, weekly sync up meetings.

 

Qualcomm Inc. San Diego, CA

Staff Engineering/Manager Dev/Test Labs & services LeadMarch 2008 – October 2010

§ Manage and Lead Development & Testing Labs and Services team

§ Oversee day-to-day activity of Development/Test Labs and Datacenters.

§ Work with Systems/Development/Test and CE leads and discusses long and short-term project roadmaps.

§ Work with Corporate IT on data center planning, i.e. lab expansion, Cooling/Power, hardware EOL replacement, resources and Tier1&2 support.

§ Work with the lab administration team and set priorities, Provide technical guidance to support VoIP products.

§ Develop scripts/tools and processes to streamline day-to-day activity.

§ Debug customer issues in lab and/or field environment; analyze handset and server logs using tools QXDM, QCAT, R&S, Wireshark, network impairment i.e. Packet Storm, IP Wave.

§ Created a team to focus on automation suite i.e. monitoring network/resource health, automate Panda/BOA RAN and iWF systems for maximized uptime and increase RAN system capacity using various 3^rd Party tools allowing us to minimized downtime and increased productivity throughout the organization.

 

Qualcomm Inc. San Diego, CA

Sr. Engineer, Systems Test and Integration August 2006 – March 2008

 

§ Perform system level integration on VoIP handset and SIP Linux based servers over EvDo1x Air interface.

§ Used QXDM/QCAT to collect/analyze AT/UE logs to debug and identify call processing and RAN optimization issues i.e. QoS, DoS.

§ Performed FW/SW/HW upgrade on wireless modem platforms for VoIP handsets and servers.

§ Performed test automation using scripting i.e. Perl & XML via STAF/STAX.

§ Used test equipment i.e. R&S, CMU 2000 to reproduce field issues in controlled environment. Work with development and System verticals on bug fixes.

§ Responsible for Test Plan Development, product test case execution and reporting.

§ Work with BOAAPPS Support team on RAN optimization, configurations parameters.

§ Debugged VoIP call issues at various layer i.e. L1, SIP, MIPv4 and transmission networks.

§ Held weekly cadence for client/server SW releases. Discussed project integration plan, provided update to test verticals and prepared final reports on software readiness.

 

Sprint Nextel Inc. Sterling, VAAugust 2003 – August 2006

Sr. Network EngineerJuly      2005 – August 2006

 

§ Designed Data Center lab infrastructure to support various product and applications testing

§ Support Designing and implementing MPLS Core network to integrate both sprint & Nextel labs.

§ Put together a Data infrastructure to support VoIP product trial/demo to various locations throughout the world i.e. US, India.

§ Planned, designed and configured Cisco platforms i.e. Cisco 6500 router/switches, high end Pix 535 Firewalls, maintained T1 lines for Voice traffic for iDEN and CDMA BTSs.

§ Performed frequency planning for lab CDMA and iDEN RAN base stations. Managed RF calibration on CDMA/iDEB BTSs.

§ Develop and execute MOP to validate Networks and applications products with vendors. Execute ATP (acceptance test plans) and updated test depot with test result.

§ Design and integrate products/applications for high-level executive demos.

§ Lead a technical team to CTIA and various demo in FY 2004 and 2005 showing various Cutting edge VoIP PTT solutions demonstrating sub second latency for call setup.

 

Nextel Inc. Sterling, VA

Technology Engineer IIIAugust 2003 – July 2005

 

§ Performed VoIP product deployment in lab environment which includes, scripted installation of RHEL OS on VoIP Server, Applied QPK/QDK application on BREW MP i.e. MSM6800/6801 handsets using KPST, QPST. Performed product testing on Handset and Server products. Used Wireshark, QXDM and Spirant to debug and/or verify product logs, performed analysis, file CR and record test in test depot.

§ Setup and configure Cisco Layer2/3/PDSN switches, AAA/RADIUS, DNS & NTP servers.

§ Upgrade firmware and configure Kyocera/Qualcomm prototype handsets AKA FFA for ATP.

§ Perform ATP on 4G Flarion OFDM radio routers including device and performance testing.

§ Performed device testing and performance testing of Flarion radio router.

§ Troubleshoot network environment with LAN analyzer or sniffer to monitor network traffic/data flow and analyzing captured network packet to resolve the problem.

§ Perform VoIP product integration with various RAN and PDSN for multi-vendor testing.

§ Used Packet Storm network traffic generator for performance testing and analysis.

 

Lucent Technologies Naperville, ILJuly 1999 – October 2002

Software Test EngineerJuly 1999 – October 2002

 

§ Performed SS7 protocol i.e. ISUP (ISDN User Part) / TUP (Telephony User part) and MFC (Multifrequency Compelled) signaling features ahead of schedule, delivered the product to Customer Technical Support team.

§ Defined Test Environment Requirement using FSD (Feature Specification Document).

§ Assisted in writing FSD (Feature Specification Systems documents) to the System Engineering organizations.

§ Plan and develop requirement test plan document. Organize/Execute review and update test management status with test result.

§ Performed a root cause analysis on customer network outages and created report for later review and mitigation plan.

§ Performed benign testing on Software for deprecated features to prevent bugs before release.

§ Performed product testing on communication, transmission and signaling on 5ESS and ECP switch complex.

§ Designed and created a subset of test for performance and quality assurance.

§ Prepared and presented presentations/training materials of all assigned projects and activities to the internal teams.

 

 

Education:

 

§ DeVry Institute of Technologies, Chicago, IL BSEE (June 1999)

§ DePaul University, Chicago, IL MS Computer Engineering & Network Management (July 2015)