Principal Consultant (EPC 5G Telco Cloud Design Lead)
Prodapt Consulting
Total years of experience :14 years, 4 Months
POSITION HELD: Principal Consultant (PS Core, IOT, Volte, 5G, AWS)
EMPLOYER| Prodapt, Netherlands.\[Sep 2020-Present\]
Current Assignment: KPN
Working as Evolved Packet Core Design Lead in DevOps environment for current Huawei Packet Core along with the design and implementation of the new Cloud Core network (Ericsson Cloud Core PCC, PCG, SAPC, AAT, SGSN-MME, CCPC, Policy Studio).
- DevOps:
Telco infra & 3GPP Design, test automation, O&M.
- IoT services and solutions:
requirements, roadmap, expectation management, Design (HLD/LLD) & implementation.
- Innovation:
New features and Solution Development, Migration to cloud, security enhancements.
Projects:
• 3G Sunset/Volte Roaming implementation.
• Emergency 112 sos service implementation.
• Migration from Legacy to Cloud Core.
• Online/Offline charging design for PS Core.
• Sy based Policy Studio service design.
• IOT service design and implementation (Pangea, Tesla etc.)
• ISAE3000 compliant security hardening design & implementation.
• Migration of performance management from vendor specific platform to Grafana.
• Health check Automation through Ansible.
• O&M of Legacy & Cloud Core
• Patch Upgrades and Capacity expansion.
• Network Optimization.
T-Mobile Manage Services \[April 2019-September 2020\]
Worked as part of PS Core Blue bird team for T-Mobile Manage Services by Huawei.
Responsible to ensure stability and high performance of the PS Core network through maintenance operations, Project implementation and Supporting Engineering team with design and optimization.
Project design and implementation:
• Mobile PS Core Network design for 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G Multi-Vendor PS Core Network.
• 5G NSA Packet Core Design and deployment with Option 3x.
• DPI design and testing to launch and manage Data promotions/ packages to meet Commercial and Revenue Assurance requirements.
• Evolution of the PS core network to cloud native standalone 5G architecture.
Operations and Optimization:
• Configuration management /change management for EPC.
• Manage Corporate/M2M and services for enterprise customers.
• Support GNOC for major network issues and customers complaints.
• Integration of new products, services, packages/promotions.
• KPI benchmarking and trends analysis.
Project Design & Implementation Lead \[Nov 2016-Mar 2019\]
Worked as Lead Designer for various EPC and NFV cloud based vPCRF projects as a part of Huawei Project delivery team for Cloud Core PCRF, EPC and ePDG.
Responsibilities:
• Translating customer requirement into technical design.
• HLD/LLD preparation.
• Solution Design, implementation, and Acceptance testing (ATP) with customer.
• Supporting vPCRF and EPC Maintenance team with services rollout, Customer complaints and KPI degradation troubleshooting.
• Providing trainings to the Managed services team to upgrade their skill level.
• Interface between TMNL Planning and solutions team for new requirements.
• FusionSphere, MANO, FusionManager, vOSMU and UPCC Expansion and upgrades.
Projects:
• 5G NSA Demo.
• EPDG Integration and commissioning.
• MME/S-PGW capacity expansion and version upgrades.
• vPCRF migration project including Design, Solution implementation and providing trainings to the customer.
• vU2000, MANO and vOSMU version upgrades.
POSITION HELD: CS/PS Core Network Implementation Lead
EMPLOYER|Huawei, Oman.\[July 2015-Nov 2016\]
Represented Huawei Project delivery Team as lead for Ooredoo virtualized PCRF project including Solution Design, implementation & acceptance.
Responsibilities:
• Customer facing and managing End to End Delivery i-e Requirement- Design- implementation- Acceptance.
• Translating customer requirement into technical design.
• Solution Design HLD/LLD/Service & Policies.
• Sy interface implementation with Ericsson OCS and IOT testing.
• Solution implementation.
• Thorough testing of services and identifying problematic scenarios.
• Innovation and problem solving in coordination with GTAC and R&D.
• Supporting NOC PS Core with services rollout and complex customer complaints.
• Interface between PCRF Planning and solutions team for new requirements.
Ooredoo PCRF Virtualization Mega Project:
• Phase 1
• Solution design and delivery presentations & documentation for customer management.
• 100+ services were migrated to Huawei vPCRF, making it the central Policy controller for all data services.
• UPCC Version upgrade from C10 to C30.
• Phase 2
• Service flow and charging design modification for existing services.
• New services launch (shared bundle, roaming protection etc.).
• Subscriber base migration from old services to new services.
• Phase 3
• service flow and charging design updated to facilitate end user.
• Default services redesign.
• Sy interface implementation with Ericsson OCS and IOT testing.
• Integrating new entities into the existing network.
• Modification of signaling and traffic routing and DB definitions as per plan.
• Working together with BSS team on BSC swap project which includes
o Addition of new BSCs (IP/TDM).
o Re-parenting activities.
o BSC migrations.
• Provide Level-2 support to NOC surveillance and Regional NSS teams for issue resolution.
• Creating incident and outage reports as required by Customer and Management.
• Diagnose technical problem using logical analysis techniques for troubleshooting of faults and alarms appearing in different nodes.
• Communicate with other departmental teams for Work Order execution and Trouble Ticket resolution.
• Handle Service Desk Trouble tickets and resolve dial ability issues.
• Monitoring alarms and KPIs and taking preventive and corrective measures to ensure network stability and service quality.
• Liaise with other mobile and PSTN operators for definition and shifting of live interconnects and SMS traffic.
• Consult vendors for queries and working with them to devise solutions.
• Provide feedback and coordinate with Core Network Planning & Optimization teams.
• Share technical information and provide competence transfer.
designated as a Core Networks Engineer and worked as a part of Mobilink CN team at Huawei Technologies, Pakistan.
Responsibilities:
• Coordinating with customer for performing activities and project implementation.
• Routine checks and maintenance of the network.
• Analysis, troubleshooting and solution implementation for issues.
• License update.
• Providing and troubleshooting scripts.
• Analyzing traces and Link issue resolution.
• Applying patches to eliminate known bugs and performing upgrades.
• Performance measurement and network management support during special occasions such as eid/Christmas etc.
• Provide support to local and regional teams during activities.
I have worked on several projects including
MOBILINK SCTP Multihoming Project:
Multihoming was done to add reliability and redundancy so as to make the communication efficient. Been a part of Mobilink’s MSCs SCTP multihoming and interconnection between HUAWEI and NSN MSCs.
Huawei R4 GMSC Project:
• Installation and configuration of MSOFTX3000 ATCA (V200R008) Soft Switch and UMG8900V200R009C00 (media gateway)..
• Database preparation and loading.
• Installation of iManager M2000.
Pascom Upgradation Project:
Customer: NLC
• Installation and commissioning of Huawei miniUMG 8900 (media gateway).
MOBILINK Traffic Mix Upgrade Project:
Designation: Team Lead (South Region)
RESPONSIBILTIES:
Managerial:
• Planning of the project.
• Managing the Team and assigning tasks.
• Conducting Trainings.
Technical:
• Design and layout of the project.
• hardware expansion of media gateways and software configuration.
• UMG8900 call handling capacity expansion.
MOBILINK AoIP Upgrade Project:
• UMG8900 capacity expansion for IP based calls.
• Performing Patch upgrades for UMG8900 (V200R008C03).
• Performing Version upgrades for MSoftx3000 and UMG 8900.
PTCL C5 Project:
• Expansion of Huawei CSOFTX3000 (soft switch).
• Addition of new frames.
• Increasing call handling capacity.
• 3 days training of MSOFTX3000 ATCA platform (25th july2011 to 27th july 2011). • 1 week training of hardware and software of UMG 8900 V200R007C03. • 1 day training for MSOFTX3000 ATCA based (V200R008C03) and UMG8900 (V200R009C00).
January 2010-march 2010, NDC, Islamabad worked as Internee (R&D) at National Development Complex, worked on Signal Processing based Projects. Internee, Jul. 2007 – Sep. 2007, PTCL, Islamabad, Responsibilities: studied the working of UMG 8900 at F-5/1 transmission hall Islamabad. Internee, Jul. 2008 – Sep. 2008, NDC, Islamabad, Responsibilities: Worked on a project titled Password Protected Door lock.
