Fahim Anwar Dar, Transmission Engineer

Fahim Anwar Dar

Transmission Engineer

Ericsson KSA

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, BS, Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication)
Experience
16 years, 8 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 8 Months

Transmission Engineer at Ericsson KSA
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2009

• Working in Ericsson Transmission NOC for Mobily MNS project of Ericsson as a Transmission Engineer
• Monitor and troubleshoot All the Alarms and Faults occurring in the live network
• SBL Upgrades of all the Nodes of the Network to the Latest Release recommended by Ericsson
• Timely Escalation of Faults to the NFO Engineer and Provide him with technical assistance necessary to minimize the Outage Time
• Working on TN R4 with Native and Hybrid Configurations using FE/GB Links.
• Hands on experience on Hybrid Ethernet over PDH Configuration via Ethernet bridging on ETU and NPU.
• Hands on experience on Native Ethernet Configurations using MMU2D. VLAN configuration and LAN/WAN Assignments for TN.
• Fault Handling and troubshooting for Marconi OMS Nodes 16XX and 14XX Series.
• Generating All Reports for the OMS, TN, HICAP’s
• MDRS 155EC and 155S LH and SH, Troubleshooting, ODU, IDU Fault Handling
• Fault Handling and troubleshooting for AXX Metro 9XXX Nodes.
• New Link RFI Analysis to Observe the Performance of the Link and Observation for 24 Hours. Accept or Reject the new network elements based on Ericsson and customer standard
• Taking the Backups and CC Reports of all the TN’s of the Network
• Activation of ATPC at Various Links affected due to fading Problem
• Working Closely with the 2G & 3G Team to troubleshoot for the 3G E1’s with End to End Testing from all the MW Hops with Loop testing and Error Checking on the Links and E1 Level both
• Daily Reports Update and Preparation of the Daily and monthly Reports for the Customer
• SW Upgrades and Switching for the HICAP Links with the Latest Service Advice of Ericsson
• Working in coordination with the ELS to resolve critical problems faced on the Live network to ensure network stability

Transmission Engineer at Hauwei
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • July 2008 to January 2009

• Worked for the Huawei (Mobily) MNS project of Motorola Transmission (Ericsson)
• Hands on experience on SOM R8 (Service on Microwave) and Pasolink Management System PNMS
• Worked on Ericsson Minilink Point to point Hicap and Minlink Traffic Node
• Conducting BSC Rehoming Activities and making the Routing Plan for it.
• Monitoring of Equipments like NEC Pasolink Plus, Pasolink V4, Pasolink NEO
• Upgrading the PM Cards for the system and network in PNMS for the sites
• Performance monitoring for the links on hourly and 24 Hour bases
• Upgrading the Configuration of PNMS and Adding the new links
• Following up with the Field Teams and help them to troubleshoot the fault
• Loop Testing with the BSS team to trace the Faults
• Monitoring the MDT’s for all the Microwave links including cut over's, link upgrades and New Link Installations
• Sending the daily, Weekly and monthly Reports with monthly presentations for the monthly activities and outages in the Network
• Preparing of Hub Site List and Microwave HOP Detail sheets
• Checking of the Preventive maintenance Reports for the Transmission links and matching the Parameters with the Link Design
• Creation of Trouble Tickets through Net force MOS 7100 & MOS 5100.

Surveillence Engineer at Ericsson KSA
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • April 2008 to July 2008

Worked as a Surveillence Engineer for Ericsson Managed Services Project of Electromechanical

Network Field Engineer at T-Tech
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • September 2007 to March 2008

• DCN Plan implementation and troubleshooting for the Ericsson Minilink point to point HICAP and TN in STC Network
• SBL upgrades for Traffic Nodes and HICAP’s Locally from the sites using BFTP.
• Troubleshooting for the MW link failures and restoring the Links with Fault trace and rectification.
• Replacement of all the faulty modules i.e. NPU, MMU2, 2B, 2C, SMU, RAU, LTU 155 e/o & LTU 16X2 if required to rectify the MW Link Failures.
• Creating Traffic Routings for Traffic Node.
• Conducting MDT’s for Cutover, Link Upgrades, AMM Change 2P, 6P, 20P, SBL Upgrades.
• New PDH and HICAP Installations and Configurations as per the given Link Design.
• Replacement of Faulty TRU’s & DXU for Ericsson RBS Cabinets.
• Troubleshooting for RBS 2202, 2206, 2216, 2308 (900&1800), IDB creations and definition of all External Alarms
• Antenna Sweep Test for Feeder cables LDF 4 LDF 5 and LDF 7 using Site Master.
• Making Connections for Cables in BATB for External Alarms

Education

Bachelor's degree, BS, Electrical Engineering (Telecommunication)
  • at COMSATS Institute of Information and Technology, Islamabad
  • August 2007

Specialties & Skills

Transmission
Troubleshooting
Microwave
Testing
Installations