Nationality:      Pakistan

DOB:                15^th Aug 1983

Visa status:       Work permit (United Arab Emirates)

Year

Institution and Qualification

Grading

2002-06

B.S. Electrical Engg (final year specialization in electronics & telecommunication) from

Universityof Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan.

Avg. scoring -  76.07 %

A Grade

1999-01

Foundation of Sciences (Pre-Engineering)

GovernmentCollege, Lahore.

(820 / 1100) -  74.54 %

A Grade

1997-99

Matriculation (Sciences)

G.B.H.S, Tufail Road, Lahore.

(707 / 850)   -  83.18 %

A+ Grade

Feb 09 – till now

Company      :      Thuraya Satellite Telecommunication company, Dubai, UAE.
Designation  :      NOC Engineer (Thuraya-NOC/GSOMC/AOC/SOC)

• Supervises Gateway Station (GS)'s O&M team in daily operations ensuring that operational and preventive maintenance procedures are correctly followed. Monitors, controls & configures Advanced Operations Centre (AOC), Satellite Operations Centre (SOC) and Gateway Station part of the System to ensure uninterrupted services (voice/packet) to Thuraya subscribers.

• Problem recovery for all available circuits in all gateways following procedures provided.

• Analyzing the statistics of satellite resources usage, airtime usage records (AURs) and major alarms.

• Configuring the changes requested by optimization/engineering teams in required databases at NOC, GS-OMC & P-OMC server systems i.e. changing configuration at L-Band's frequency slots (FSs) assigned to a beam, configuring a beam's bcch & other CChs at carrier level of a FS, configuring TOD plans for all beams over a year covering all major occasions; after analyzing each beam's resources' utilization, traffic volume, success rate, block calls, drop calls & average idle TSs aggregations.

• Running OTA on online databases for analysis from time to time as per the network resources update requirements & also as per the call blockage collected data for all beams in the network. Thereby updating the online DB in case of a minor change or copying it with a new name & making major changes to it followed by putting the new DB online at the lowest traffic instant of the day.

• Supports investigating and fixing system problems using provided needed data, GS/AOC testing on the Reference Test bed (RTB) and in field (e.g. new services) testing, as required.

• Preparing WAs in coordination with the vendor support, as per the operational requirements needed for solving problems, fault recovery & vantage cases traces.

• Supports in the installation and commissioning of newly introduced subsystems.

• Coordinates with other depts. i.e. NSS, INVAS, System Engg, Product & Development regarding outages/requests at their ends & Customer care regarding packet (IP/DSL/Gmprs terminals) issues.

• Supports the product & development teams in providing/analyzing the needed input data used for   improving the traffic & performance aggregations of the products & applications respectively. 

• Participates in preparation of monthly system reports such as KPI monthly report for management.

Sep 06 – Jan 09

Company      :      Mobilink Pakistan (An Orascom Telecom company)                   
Designation  :      NOC Engineer (Mobilink-NOC/OMCR)

During my 2-1/2 year stay at OMC-R, I came across logical handling of the performance & configuration of radio part of a GSM network. I was mainly in the NOC-EAN/Deployment configuration teams (Motorola + Alcatel) where my major responsibilities included:

• Level-2 support to field engineers related to logical configuration of sites & BSCs, often resolving a problem by re-configuring some parameters or the whole logical database of a site/BSC at OMCR.

• Creation & linkage of a BSC to the OMC-R Server/Agent by configuring X25/IP addresses at Type-2 router’s TSs & their linkage to Type-1(omc-r) router's TSs, making NUCs(Nail up connections) via uncompressed CICs-TSs (if via ATM) between intra/inter MSCs.

• Performed major OMCR night activities i.e. Cutover & Migration of BSCs, RXCDR swapping, re-parenting of sites, E1-abis shifting, Optimization related WOs, LAC/CI change of cells/BSCs, CIC testing/No Audio of aters, Edge implementation at cell & BSC levels, GPRS shifting of Alcatel BSC, GB parameters & RAC change (activity related to GPRS shifting of a BSC), Motorola NEs’ software up gradations, AMR project, logical del/creation of cells & add/del of int/ext neis to omcr-cells, etc.

• Managing Alcatel's OMCR administrative issues in Sun Solaris i.e. handling of accounts & no. of users/server or agent, scripts making, admin & root-level configurations, etc.

• Worked on Mobilink’s newly employed automated alarm reporting & escalating system TEMIP, designed by Hewlett-Packard mainly for creating a vendor independent monitoring/escalating platform in a multivendor NMC.

• WOs implementation related to different depts. i.e. RF optimization (i.e. radio link related parameters' modify/change at cell/BSC levels, freqs/neis change). Deployment (i.e. sites/BSC equipages, CO downloads for new & live NEs, Sites’ RF expansions, Sites’ splitting, alarms equipages for sites & BSCs, daising-chaining a live direct site & reversely). BSS planning (ater/signalling links add/del. at BSC & RXCDR ends, nailing at RXCDR end & HR/FR enabling on radios). QoS for monitoring & analyzing the counters/indicators(KPIs) of the Alcatel/Motorola BSS system related to performance of the network i.e. zero calls, zero terminating calls, DCR, CSSR, HSR, etc.

• Configuration & troubleshooting of Alcatel/Motorola GPRS facility at BSC-ater, MFS-Gpu card/PCU, Frame Relay-DLCI, ATM-VCI/VPI & SGSN-NSVC levels.

• Preparation of daily/monthly system reports such as KPI monthly report for management.

• Worked in NOC-QoS; a newly created sub-section in our NOC. The notion behind its creation was   to monitor, analyze & act on the affected KPIs well before their escalation by Optimization/BSS planning & other depts. Developed WAs/SOPs with other team members during the preliminary stages of this newly inducted sub-section as i did receive prior foreign training on this relevance.

Feb 4 -10, 2007

Course Title  :     Alcatel GSM: Introduction to QoS &Traffic Load Monitoring
Location        :     Alcatel MENA Regional Head Office, SMART Village, Cairo, Egypt.

• Studied which & how to monitor & analyze the important counters/indicators i.e. KPIs of the BSS system at the air interface level for ensuring network’s good health.

• Studied various causes of failures in the call setup procedures due to i.e. congestion at RACH, SDCCH or TCH allocation phases & causes of HO failures.

• Calculating & Optimizing the Erlang traffic load per cell. Computation of call mix of a cell in order to define the capacity of the network. Cell dimensioning + Re-dimensioning (how many TRXs to be put in that cell) from call mix data.

Jan - Aug, 2006

Company      :      Mobilink Pakistan (An Orascom Telecom company)                   
Designation  :      BSS/TRX Trainee Engineer (Mobilink-RAN)

• Worked at Motorola’s BSS part, know its BSS level architecture, its connectivity with the NSS part     & network’s intra/inter cities connectivity via optic fiber & Lucent's voice compression unit-ATM (ingresses & egresses), which was in use before the massive deployment of affordable Huwaei ofjan.                                                                         

• Troubleshooting & maintenance of Motorola’s BSS equipment i.e. BTS (DRIs & related RTFs), BSC/RXCDR (E1-GDP, MSI, Gproc, Gclk cards & their related RSL/ E1, MTL/SS7, XBL & OML/X25 logical links), software troubleshooting of Motorola’s PCU(packet control unit-GPRS handling equipment co-located with the BSC).

• Troubleshooting & maintenance of terrestrial M/W links i.e. PDH, SDH & SDH-rings and of makes i.e. NEC, Alcatel & Altium.

Comput-ing

• Fundamentals of Computer networking.

• HTTP, SMTP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, UDP, TCP/IP.

• Routing in the internet & routing algorithms.

• Computer architecture & machine language.

• MS-office course from Aptech intl. Educ. institute, Lahore.

• Programming in Assembly language.

• Verilog Hardware Description Language(VHDL)

• Data structures and algorithms design in Java.

• Fundamentals of VOIP.

Languag-es

• Fluent in English (read/write/verbal)

• Urdu/Hindi/Punjabi (native languages)

• Arabic/Persian (read/write/verbal –beginner's level)

Driving

• Holds valid computerized UAE’s driving license (Right hand drive).

• Holds valid computerized Pakistan’s driving license (Left hand drive).

Presenta-tions

• GSM (in 3^rd year)

• CDMA (in 4^th year)

• RISC based microprocessor in VHDL (in 4^th year)

• Guided Missiles & NVDs (in 2^nd year)

Research &

Projects

• My final year project was MATLAB Simulation of WLL System based on CDMA.

• In 8^th semester, implemented aRISC based microprocessor in VHDL.

• In 5^th semester, implemented a project of designing AM Receiver and FM transmitter.

• In 4^th semester, implemented a project of designing Infrared detector.

• Associate engineer Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC).

• In April 2006, Visited Saudi Arabia.

• In Feb 2007, Visited Egypt.

• In Aug 2008, Visited Dubai.

• In Nov 2008, Visited UAE.

• In March 2011, Visited UK, Germany & France.

Personal references can be furnished on demand.