Vignesh Raja Swaminathan

621 Parker street Boston, MA – 02120 | (480) 249-0016| vigneshrajas@gmail.com

AVAILABLE: From May 2015

Northeastern University, Boston, MA                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               Candidate for Master of Science in Telecommunications System Management                                                       May 2015

Related Courses: Data Networking, Telecommunication Architecture (SS7, PSTN),

   Systems Administration (Linux), IP Telephony

 

Anna University, Chennai, India                                                                                                                    

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication                      May 2009 Related Courses: Mobile Communication, Wireless Networks, Computer Networks

 

 

 

Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, R&D center, USA           May2014-Aug.2014

Wireless Packet Core Engineer

·                 Worked on the deployment of an open stack environment to build a virtual network of servers

·                  Deployed Virtual Machines for Evolved Packet Core (EPC) network elements such as MME, SGSN,SGW,PGW

·                  Tested the function of (LTE)Enterprise network using different applications in Software define networking(SDN)

 

Nokia Networks, Chennai, India                                                                    Oct. 2009 – Jul.2013

Software Change & Fault Management Engineer

·                  Performed Software release upgrades for 3G & 4G (LTE) network elements like Flexi NS Mobility Management Entity (MME), and Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) in ATCA with 3GPP specifications

·                  Performed Health checks, troubleshooting of alarms on MME, monitored KPI’s and generated reports

·                  Provided Tier-1 (T-Mobile) technical support to all demanding problems and technical queries related to MME

·                  Handled technical care cases, outages related to GSM Core switching Network (3G & 2G) and coordinated with onsite engineers, resolved issues and maintained SLA

·                  Troubleshot, analyzed, escalated alarms and prevented fault propagation in MSS, MGW, and HLR especially in Nokia DX200 and IPA2800 systems.

·                  Performed acceptance testing, call testing for the new nodes and generated reports for test cases based on technical requirement and 3GPP Release 4 specifications

·                  Analyzed 2G call failures, traced call routes and resolved call failure issues based on clearcodes

·                  Executed preventive maintenance like Routine System backup and weekly back up on Optical disc for NOKIA (MGW, MSS & HLR), ATCA MSS & SIEMENS (MSC& HLR) switches

 

Technologies:GSM, UMTS (RNC, SGSN, GGSN), LTE (MME, SGW, PGW),

Languages:C, Shell Scripting, Python (Basics)

Tools:Citrix receiver, Cisco Packet tracer, Wireshark, tcpdump

Protocols:SS7, SIP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLAN, FTP, ARP, STP

OS:UNIX, Linux, Cisco IOS, Windows

Virtualization:VMware workstation, Open Stack

 

Shell & Perl Scripting – Northeastern University                Feb. 2014   

·                  Developed Perl script for modifying DNS resource records

·                  Created bash script for finding history of  modified files in the Linux file system

·                  Designed a bash script for creating hidden folder for temporary storage and retrieval of files

 

Network element configuration using Linux servers – Northeastern UniversityNov. 2013

·                  Configured a DNS Server, DHCP Server, Firewall, Backup and Web Server on Ubuntu Machines

·                  Integrated all these network components through Switch to design a client-server network

·                  Tested the functionality of each component and performed troubleshooting on all issues

References will be furnished upon request