Muhammad Ashfaq Khan, Transmission Technician

Muhammad Ashfaq Khan

Transmission Technician

Medina Al Munawar

Location
Saudi Arabia
Education
High school or equivalent, Telecommunication Technology
Experience
13 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 5 Months

Transmission Technician at Medina Al Munawar
  • August 2014 to March 2018

Operation & Maintenance department (MST-STC Project) in South region of KSA.


My Major Assignments include:
•Working in DETASAD as a FTTH Team Leader responsible to complete the 3 HBU installations per day given by the Planning team.
•Responsible to configure the STC ONT Device (G-240W-B) for Optical fiber & STC ADSL VDSL Triple Ply Device (HG658V2) for Copper Connection.
•Responsible to maintain the Inventory of Devices (Modems, Range Extenders, Jawwy TV etc.) & Consumable items on daily Basis.
•Responsible for each day completion report
•Responsible to maintain the vehicle log sheet & submit to admin at the end of the month.

STC-MST Project:
•Worked in DETECON AL SAUDIA K.S.A as SDH Core Transmission Operations Technician for the Optical back bone and Access networks comprising of NSN HiT7300 (HiT7060/
HiT7035/HiT7030), Huawei OSN/BWS (OSN1500/ OSN2500/ OSN3500/ DWDM7500/ DWDM8800/ DWDM9500 BWS1600G) series and IP/MPLS CISCO Routers and switches (ME-3400/ 3750/ 2960) series, in 2G and 3G based Network along with O&M of G.655/ G.652 Optical fiber cable system. Expertise in Huawei NMS Manager T2000/ T2100 & NSN TNMS and Oscilloquartz Synchronization solution (OSA series)


•Attending the Trouble tickets from the NOC (Network Operations Center) and making sure that they are resolved in time as per SLAs (Service-Level Agreement) Making sure that all the work being done is within the SOW (Statement of Work) as provided by the higher management any scope creeps have to be escalated immediately.

•Responsible for the Operation & Maintenance (Preventive/Corrective/Planned maintenance) and stability of the site equipment such as ALU, Huawei, NSN and Oscilloquartz.

•Good Knowledge & Hands-on experience of RTTS.

•Good Knowledge & hands-on experience in PDH, SDH & DWDM

•Hands-on experience in using different test equipment (OTDR, Optical Power Meter, ARGUS 152 Multi meter, VFL, IP analyzer, BERT, SDH & Ethernet analyzers.

•Hands-on experience on how to login different transmission Nodes such as
HIT7300/HiT7070/HiT7060/HiT7035/HiT7030, Huawei OSN1500, 2500, 3500.7500, 8800 & OSN9500 Alcatel Lucent Lambda Unite, AMU, ADM/16 AM1 plus ISM using craft terminal SW and web based applications.
•Hands on experience with the synchronization equipment OSA5585B, OSA5548C, OSA5581C, OSA5240 & OSA4531 (SSU & PRC)
•Good knowledge and hands-on experience with Cisco (ME3400, 7609-S, 7606, 2960
•Hands on experience in troubleshooting, fault handling and familiar using tools like Crone punch tool, wrapping tool, RJ crimping tool and loop cards.
•Provide support for SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) and DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) equipment’s do the testing using SDH/DWDM test equipment.

•Performing of Planned Activities & Planned Outages (EMDT, ETCN) under Work Orders.

at Multinet Pakistan (Pvt) Limited
  • Pakistan
  • March 2011 to August 2014

in Arc Fusion Splicing of Fiber Optic Cable (12f, 24f & 48f
•96f) using Fujikura 50S, 60S & 70S
•Fault Rectification during the Fiber Cut Within SLA.
Hand-on experience in using test tools such as OTDR (optical time domain reflectometer) of EXFO Company FTB-400, FTB-300, FTB-200 and FTB-100. Optical Power Meter, Source Meter, and VFL.
•Installation of wall mounted 24Fibers ODF.
•Documentation and Presentation of Report Analysis • OTDR Testing and Trace analysis.

Transmission Technician • at Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) Limited
  • Pakistan
  • December 2007 to October 2010

Department: Operation & Maintenance. Job Responsibilities:

•Commissioning of the work order given by the planning team.
•Commissioning & testing of New Traffic Addition Circuits for Inter-MSC, BSC & Interconnects.
•Reprinting of Abis Sites & Rehoming of aters.
•Operation and maintenance of Siemens HIT7070, Nokia FIU19 DWDM OSN7500, 3500, Siemens & NEC MW Links.
•HIT7070 (Siemens) FIU19 (Nokia) Commissioning & Maintenance.
•ODF cleaning up to specified standards.
•ABIS Traffic trouble shooting for Ultra BTS and Metro BTS of Nokia.
•PAT of Upgraded & New Installed Siemens & NEC MW Links.
•Proper Labeling & Routing of optical fiber patch cards & 2mb cables.
•Performing the Operation & Maintenance of PDH & SDH systems.
•DDF Labeling & cleaning up to specified standards.
•Taking Network NE’s Data Backups & Software Upgrades
•Perform Preventive & Corrective Maintenance of transmission core entities HIT7070, OSN3500, OSN7500 Nokia FIU19, and Siemens, NEC MW Links.
•Allocating Media for new BTS sites, Performing Patching and testing of newly allocated Media for BTS Sites
•Up-gradation of Operational Hops from 16 E1 to 48 E1 and from PDH to STM-1.
•Commissioning, Configuration and Maintenance of PDH & SDH MW Hops.
•After Patching on DDF TX RX testing with LED & hard loop testing with loping card.
•Upgrade & Installation of New Version Software for Siemens SDH HIT7070, HIT7035 & HIT7060.
•Close the Work Order of Abis/Ater Expansion & Shifting Given by the Planning Team.
•Weakly Upload the VCDB (Data Base Management) of Siemens HIT7070 SDH Multiplexer.
•Internal & External 2MHZ Synchronization Clock Connectivity from Siemens HIT7070 to Nokia BSC.
•Proper labeling & routing of optical fiber patch cards.
•Trouble Shooting of network outages & providing solutions.
•Offering PAT (Preliminary acceptance test) and FAT (final acceptance test) to customer. Have experience of Using Net Act.
•Coordination with PTCL for acquiring of media and co locations and also patching and testing of Leased media (Fiber or DRS) being used for Abis, Ater and DIU.
•Media clearance from BSC to BTS including ET patching in BSC according to plan, hard loop testing, soft loop testing, Cross connection on HIT7070 and BTS sites, capacity enhancement between different linked sites as per requirement.
•Fan filter cleaning of Huawei OSN 3500, 7500 & Siemens SDH HIT7070.
•Installation of electrical STM1 to optical STM1 converter device.

Transmission technician • at Huawei Technologies Pakistan (PVT) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • June 2006 to December 2007

Department: Operation & Maintenance Job Responsibilities:
•Patching of 2mb level connectivity from SDH Multiplexer’s DDF to the other Systems Such as TRAU, NEC DDF & BSC ET DDF.
•Making Connectivity of 155mb, 622mb, STM 16 & STM64 level by using Fiber patch cards from OSN (optical Switching Network) HIT7070 (Siemens) to the other telecom system.
•Then checking the fiber attenuation (dB loss) & received power with the help of optical power meter, OTDR (Optical time domain reflector meter) & final testing.
•Troubleshooting of Siemens links by checking RSL (Receive Signal Level) value on the terminal & IDU & ODU Performance.
•Perform Preventive & Corrective Maintenance of HIT7070, OSN3500, OSN7500 and NEC MW Links.
•Patch the lease line media & SCO (special Communication Organization) Connectivity in PTCL.
•Locally Login with (Siemens) radio System SRA4 for ODU & IDU alarms checking.
•External Alarms Connectivity from Siemens HIT7070 to Rectifier.
•Performed the Installation of GPS Oscilloquartz & Antenna.
•Performed the Installation of Siemens & NEC IDU & ODU.
•Obtained adequate knowledge of Generating Path profiles and TSSR.


Measuring Instruments Acterna ANT-10G, STM-64 Transmission Analyzer
Acterna ANT-20
BERT (Bit Error Rate Tester) (JDSU) PA-20/25 (PCM Analyzer)
OTDR (Optical Time Domain Reflector meter) (JDSU & EXFO)
Optical Fiber Power Meter (JDSU & EXFO)
VFL (Visible Fault Locater)
Optic Spectrum Analyzer
Trainings:

•Basic Concepts of Optical Fiber Transmission Network. Fault troubleshooting of SDH circuits
•Fiber Optics cable testing with OTDR & Optical Power Meter, Alarm & Performance Monitoring of SDH Systems on NMS & LCT.
•Tower Safety Training.
•Using Safety fall Arrest System

Education

High school or equivalent, Telecommunication Technology
  • at Eastern institute of technical skills
  • May 2022
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunication Technology
  • at Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Gujranwal
  • January 2004