Intergrated Exchange Delivery Engineer
British Telecom
Total years of experience :9 years, 10 Months
Worked in a 24/7 service obsessed team that helps BT deliver its promises by ensuring great service end to end by owning the performance and reliability of BT exchanges.
Responsible for the execution of tasks for the Operation, Maintenance and Build of BT’s core network and infrastructure which includes Switch, Transmission, Build, Power and Radio work streams.
Diagnose and fault find on the numerous switches that operate on a local, regional and international level.
Responsible for troubleshooting and maintenance of BT Switch Network i.e. System X
Working experience on Ericsson (AXE 10) System Y.
Able to find the fault in concentrator and processor of AXE 10 and repair them by using Ericsson O & M.
Experience in dealing with complex faults, routines or card changes, to providing customer circuits within a telephone exchange by running cables in-between two digital distribution points.
Worked on and maintain IP networks, diagnosing and fixing faults on the IP routers that send data to a given destination.
Troubleshooting of customer equipment including transmission, mobile networks, datacomms, switching PSTN/ADSL.
Testing, Commissioning and providing first line support to PDH/SDH, Alcatel Lucent 7750 and Huawei optical networks.
Testing and troubleshooting of CAT5 structured cabling and fiber optic cabling.
Assisting with the pre-configuration and installation of telecoms equipment in accordance with design documentation.
Provision/Repair of communication services/ network to end users on behalf of communication Providers (CP's) meeting contractual obligations in a professional and cost effective manner and working to Openreach Network Quality Standards.
•Provide 1st / 2nd line support to BT and other CP's regarding Provision and Repair Tasks, escalating tasks to field engineers for further investigations.
•Working on ISDN/ PBX/ ADSL/ SMPF/ MPF and Wireless Networks weather its provisioning or Repair.
•Trouble shoot and resolving faults on PSTN, ISDN2, PBX, SMPF/ MPF lines.
•Working on CSS and Microsoft Exchange.
•Worked on Number Portability Management issues and escalating the activities to resolve.
•Understand the networks of BT Openreach and follow the Network Records for Ducting and Plant.
•Ensure that all work is carried out in compliance with BT and Openreach safety requirements.
•Maintain high quality of workmanship standards whilst being as efficient and cost effective as possible.
•Ensure all work is carried out to the satisfaction of end user / CP. Check their requirements before starting, testing and demonstrating on completion.
•Able to prioritize and re-prioritize work at short notice also managing of complex customer migrations.
•Coordination between delivery teams to proactively schedule orders.
•Supporting the delivery and completion of the department's quality assurance targets.
•Carry out the day-to-day circuit provisioning requirements for all Network Provisioning.
•To ensure that customer circuits routing over the transmission network are installed and tested in accordance with customer delivery dates.
•Perform against agreed KPI and help to provide root cause analysis to assist in improving overall performance.
•To make sure accurate records and information are maintained. Also help provide network resource forecast to best support ongoing customer demands.
•Work on Telephone cabinets, to provide new connection, provide fiber ports, and to check the correct bandwidth.
•Installation of Fiber Modem and Wireless Routers in Customer premises, also provide basic set up in PC's and Laptops.
•To maximize performance and business delivery in live with team objectives and individual contribution.
•Work as directed and use INFORMe system as the single point of access to all process, quality, safety and compliance information, along with knowledge required to carry out daily tasks.
•To escalate difficulties that cannot be readily overcome or are likely to jeopardize the delivery of service commitments for the day.
Working in UBS Datacenter to swap the existing machines to hp. Primed and then build them using Stage net Software.
•Provide superior customer service through effective communication, responsive follow-through, and advocacy for client issues within internal departments.
•Responsible for the Asset Management records, upgrades, repairs and support to desktops and laptops.
•Providing technical support to Monitors, Mobile Phones, PDA's, Office Phones, Printers and Peripherals etc
•Troubleshooting the bugs and escalate them if needed. Testing and replicating.
•Installation of all the applications and operating systems, including Microsoft and Mac.
•Deploying the machines, cabling and hardware installations.
•Management of applications using tactical manager.
•Also providing first line support to the engineers in Datacenter.
•Technical reporting, daily report and making the schedule for everyday are the part of my duty.
•Liaise with internal departments for new project requirements and keep Account Managers informed of the issues.
•Liaise with customers and suppliers on a daily basis.
•Order hardware on behalf of the sales team, ensuring all parties are working to the same deadline chasing suppliers and updating customers.
•Ensure projects are properly documented and customers are informed of progress, with any issues highlighted.
•Deal with potential customer complaints and lead corrective/preventive actions.
•Produce regular and ad hoc reports as required.
Provide superior customer service through effective communication, responsive follow-through, and advocacy for client issues within internal departments.
•Provide on-site and remote implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Hardware.
•Collaborate extensively with peers, Quality Control, and Product Development in problem resolution while actively contributing to a growing knowledge network to improve the effectiveness of the team.
•Troubleshoot complex software applications utilizing diagnostic skills related to software and hardware setup, database management, data analysis, and operating system configuration.
•Worked on telecom cables, design and pulling to the right place.
•Store Information about users, assign security policies and deploy software by using Active Directory.
•Assess customer related trends and report potential areas of risk or reward to Technical Support Management.
•Provide detail report about each project using Microsoft Office 2007 and presented directly to Assistant Manager.
•Equipment Testing and prepared a report of their performances.
•Carry out the day-to-day circuit provisioning requirements for all Network Provisioning.
•To ensure that customer circuits routing over the transmission network are installed and tested in accordance with customer delivery dates.
•Perform against agreed KPI and help to provide root cause analysis to assist in improving overall performance.
•To make sure accurate records and information are maintained. Also help provide network resource forecast to best support ongoing customer demands.
Worked on different vendors like Nortel, Siemens, Ericsson and Huawei.
•Carried out MapInfo 7.8 for field surveying and initial designing to meet new Customer Requirements
•Troubleshoot the faults and resolved customer compliant regarding their Network Management through Transmission and Frequency Planning by using SDH and DWDM hierarchy.
•Responsible for Swapping Rectification, integrated Drive test, Network Optimization, Network Benchmarking, evaluating field measurement, supervising network performance
•Carried out Edge & GPRS Drive test and examined log files.
•Performed RAN network Engineer responsibilities to ensure that network availability is always at a maximum and that all service interruptions are kept to a minimum.
•Other responsibilities are producing reports on capacity, network performance and monitoring performance.
•Systemized radio quality, handovers and frequency retuning by proper coordinating and arranging of all the resources
•Carried surveys for microwave transmission locations by locating LOS between planned sites
•Recommended network performance improvement, interference analysis, neighbor list optimization, antenna azimuth changes, etc
•Measured the area and LOS options for microwave antenna using Pathloss 4.0
•Used the Power world software's for simulation and online diagrams.
•Installation and Troubleshooting of Radio Equipments, Routers, CPE and Wireless Devices.
Projects Undertaken
•Used Nokia Handset and Garmin GPS for locating frequency ranges of different sectors and cell boundaries
For measuring approximate size, shape and orientation of each sector by viewing information on the net monitor
•Designed an optical network to connect two large cities by using Optism simulation over single mode fiber
•Prepared optical power budget for the whole system by taking attenuation and dispersion into the account
•Provided detailed description of the equipment
•Designed a 3G network to provide coverage within the ring-road boundary of Oxford using Asset 3G Software by the use of mobile networks and network planning, 3G systems and technologies, radio propagation issues and the use of professional network planning tools
•Designed location of node B's, sectorization and power distributions
•Justified the path loss parameters
•Discussed Noise rise limit, Orthogonality factor, Pilot power and Max power, Antenna EIRP
Digital Mobile Communication, Network Principles, Multiservices Networks, High Speed Mobile Communication
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