Experience Summary:
A highly motivated, team-oriented, and target-driven engineering professional with a passion to learn. More than 5 years of dedicated technical experience in the IT and Telecom industries
Key Strengths:
Cloud computing (computer networks and security, system administration, virtualization, cloud operations)
Datawarehouse and Business Intelligence
Radio Frequency Optimization
Responsibilities and achievements:
Provide technical support to clients.
Configuration, troubleshooting, & operation of SymCloud\'s cloud based IP-PABX unified communications platform \"symuc.net\" that also includes Android & iOS apps. Reporting bugs/issues to development team, and getting them fixed. Helped the development team in fixing numerous bugs in order to improve the platform.
Setup, maintenance and troubleshooting of computer network (Cisco switches, Juniper SRX240 firewalls, Linux based OS-level firewalls, VOIP Gateway, and Dell PowerEdge R910 servers) with full redundancy. Was instrumental in improving network latency by 10% by removing bottlenecks.
Creation, configuration, and troubleshooting of Windows and Linux virtual machines using VMware ESX-i/vSphere.
Configuration and troubleshooting of various Linux and Windows virtualized servers like
DNS, Jumphost, Mail server, FreeNAS server, Cpanel & WHM, Docker (including implementation of Docker containers), unified communications servers, OTRS ticketing system, DNS only, Web Application Firewall (Pfsense), Antivirus software, and VPN.
Give technical demos to companies interested in products offered by SymCloud. Gave demos to SCO, PTCL, Ufone, Nayatel, and Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB).
Maintain a record of private and public IP tables, physical infrastructure, rack layout and wiring, logical and physical network diagrams.
Setting up and using IT infrastructure monitoring tool PRTG to monitor hardware and operating systems resources.
Monitoring system integrity, protection levels, and security-related events.
Building and testing multiple OpenStack projects including Nova, Neutron.
Worked on Telenor NPM project. Technologies worked on 2G, 3G and 4G
Major responsibilities included performing the following:
• Cluster owner of Islamabad-Rawalpindi region
• Responsible for achieving targets of major KPI’s of 2G, 3G and 4G-limited scope (fine tuning of soft and hard parameters to achieve KPIs targets)
• Resolution of customer complaints (high profile, sales & distribution and employees)
• Resolution of operational issues by sending worst cases to field ops. team for rectification
Worked on Telenor NPM project. Technologies worked on: 2G, 3G and 4G
Major responsibilities included performing the following:
• Cluster owner of Islamabad-Rawalpindi region
• Responsible for achieving targets of major KPI’s of 2G, 3G and 4G-limited scope (fine tuning of soft and hard parameters to achieve KPIs targets)
• Worst cells optimization
• VIP users (CEO, CTO etc.) call drops analysis using ZTE NetMax tool and getting them resolved
• Resolution of customer complaints (high profile, sales & distribution and employees)
• Co-ordination with post processing teams in analysis of drive test data collected to identify and solve call drops, handover issues, and bad quality patches
• Troubleshooting and resolution of issues like pilot pollution, overshooting, major roads optimization, LTE850 and LTE1800, and U850 upgradation initial KPIs’ escalations and follow-up, etc.
• Neighbor audit, parameter inconsistency audits and discrepancy audits
Technologies worked on: 2G and 3G-limited scope
Major responsibilities included performing the following:
• Cluster owner
• Responsible for achieving targets of major KPI’s (fine tuning of soft and hard parameters to achieve KPIs targets)
• Worst cells optimization
• Resolution of operational issues by sending worst cases to field ops. team for rectification
• Co-ordination with post processing teams in analysis of drive test data collected to identify and solve call drops, handover issues, and bad quality patches
• Troubleshooting and resolution of issues like pilot pollution, overshooting, etc.
• Neighbor audit, parameter inconsistency audits and discrepancy audits on zone level.
Wireless Open Access Research Platform (WARP) is related to research and development of next generation wireless networks.
Major responsibilities included performing the following:
• Study the WARP Platform (hardware/ software)
• Measure the existing range of two WARP boards and to analyze results of network performance between them
• Extending the range of WARP boards using amplifiers and filters
Major responsibilities include performing the following:
• Commissioning of Nokia Flexi EDGE BTS sites
• Alarm troubleshooting of Nokia Flexi EDGE BTS sites
• Alarm creation and adjustment of Nokia Flexi EDGE BTS sites
• Inventory management of Nokia Flexi EDGE BTS sites of Central region
Major responsibilities included performing the following:
• Performance analysis of the radio network using different Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) (CSSR/DCR/HOSR, TCH Availability/blocking) & TRAU failures of ex-Siemens and ex-Nokia (swap sites) on daily basis and take appropriate actions
• Analysis of worst cells on daily basis and escalating them to concerned team for resolution
• Second line maintenance of Siemens BTS, Nokia Ultra Site 2G BTS and Flexi EDGE BTS sites
• Single point of contact for NOC for BTS quality alarms
• Troubleshooting of no voice/data cells on daily basis and escalating them to field teams
• BTS Performance KPI’s degradation (customer complaints)
• Providing support to field persons during swap activity of sites from ex-Siemens to ex-Nokia
• Troubleshooting and Alarm rectification of faulty links
• Entertain trouble tickets from customer regarding site issues