Muhammad kalim Raza

Leading 5G IBS design and responsible for end-to-end 5G solution.
• Fully Responsible for IBS plan, design, and evaluation.
• Preparing the Scope and CAPEX in coordination with planning department.
• Responsible for Technical Evaluation of RFP and BoQs for IBS and Wi Fi,
supporting commercial evaluation as well.
• Designing indoor sites using iBwave software.
• Design modification to have optimum and economical design for indoor
sites.
• Evaluating the TCO (Total cost of ownership) analysis for new sites and new
technology addition on existing sites.
• Review and modify the design for New IBS sites.
• Review and modify the IBS design for LTE and 5G collocation on existing IBS
sites.
• Interface with other operators to share the DAS system with different
operators.
• Interface with vendor for smooth integration of New IBS sites.
• Analyzing the Walk test for IBS sites and troubleshooting.
• Maintaining the documentation and technical details for all IBS sites.
• Selecting the IBS congested sites to identify the potential hot spots for Wi Fi
Access points.
• Evaluating the RF Design for Wi Fi sites.
• Review and approve the BoQ for IBS and Wi Fi sites.
• Fully responsible for indoor small cells for vendors Ericsson and Huawei
• Supervising the trial for indoor small cells and innovative solutions.
• Coordination with STC R&D department to evaluate new products.
• Benchmark of different products after technical and commercial evaluation.
• Supervising trial for open RAN solution and coordinating with other
stakeholders for open RAN technical solution.

Fully responsible for RF design for IBS and Macro sites.
• Fully Responsible for planning and designing new Macro sites for coverage
and capacity enhancement.
• Propagation Model tuning in Atoll
• Analyzing Customer complaints from Optimization and providing the optimal
solutions.
• Sites Expansion design as per the congestion and traffic demands.
• Design the LTE collocation plan on existing 2G and 3G sites.
• Fully Responsible for IBS plan, design, and evaluation.
• Analyzing New Features offered by Vendors.
• Designing necessary hardware changes on sites as required including
Antenna Height adjustments.
• Supervised the BTS swap from old equipment to new one for all STC network.
• Running the predictions on planning tool to select the optimum design for
new planned sites.
• Interface for Site Acquisition department to select the best possible locations
from Rf point of view
• Managing the documents for site data record.
• Coordination with implementation department for checking the progress of
new planned sites installation.
• Analyzing New Innovative Solutions like Small Cells and proposing their
possible use cases.
• Provide technical support to implementation department for smooth
handover of the sites

Planning & Optimization Engineer for Huawei’s LTE/WIMAX project for Mobily in KSA.
• Nominal planning and candidate validation.
• Equipment dimensioning as per traffic demand, performing site surveys and
coordinating survey teams.
• Spectrum Re-farming for Sharing WiMAX Spectrum with LTE.
• Data fills and integrations, Frequency Planning, SC & PCI planning.
• Overall Team Leader of Field Optimization & Planning of newly launched
technologies.
• Monitoring KPIs of the sites and submitting Cluster Acceptance reports to
customer for acceptance.
• Cluster Drive analysis of Routes of the city to check the coverage of LTE &
Wimax sites.
• Checking functionality of LTE sites like handovers, throughput, and ping test.
• Analyzing Drive test and Walk tests for customer complaints.
• Handle issues like handover failures and low throughput and proposing
possible solutions.

• Site surveys, TSSRs for existing and new sites.
• Data fills and integrations support, parameter mapping for swap sites.
• Drive Test for newly launched sites.
• SSV (Single Site verification) of newly launched sites.
• Cluster Drive of Routes of the city to check the coverage of the sites.
• Checking functionality of sites like handovers, throughput test and ping test.
• Performing Drive test and Walk tests for customer complaints.
• Analyzing log files and report issues.
• Analyzing problematic areas, proposing possible solutions and retesting again to check the results.
• IBS planning & design on IBwave, following E2E integration for IBS sites.

in Projects and planning department of LCC KSA. Job
responsibilities included
• Post processing log files of newly launched 3G sites in UMTS900 band.
• Post processing log files of 2nd carrier expansion on 3G sites.
• Monitor the normal behavior of the network and point out any abnormality
like call drop or handover failure and proposing the solution.
• Monitoring the KPIs of 3G sites and resolving any issue that degrades the KPIs.
• Perform the pre swap and post swap analysis of 3G sites being swapped.
• Prepare and submit the SSV (single site verification) report of swapped site
for customer approval.
• Prepare and submit the Cluster reports of swapped sites for customer
approval.
• Perform DT and Walk Tests for customer complaints and post process the
data.
• Perform pre swap and post swap Walk Tests for IBS sites being swapped.
• Prepare and submit the SSV (single site verification) report of swapped IBS
sites for customer approval.
• Routine Cluster DT of 3G and 2G sites.
• DT for benchmarking reports.
• Supervising the Audit of 3G and 2G sites.

in Core Planning GERAN Etisalat Pakistan
• Responsible for monitoring KPIs for all core Nodes of Ufone Network.
• Preparing the MSC CPU utilization reports, pointing out over-loaded nodes
and proposing the solution.
• Monitoring the license utilization of VLRs and planning necessary traffic
offload plans to balance the network MSCs.
• Performing ATP for New launched core nodes including MSCs and HLRs.
• Monitoring HLR utilization and planning necessary expansions where required.
• Monitoring KPIs for SGSN and GGSN nodes and analyzing packet traffic.
• Point of contact for other operators to handle gateway traffic issues.
• Analyzing new products introduced by Vendors and proposing optimum
solutions.
• Monitoring C7 signaling traffic and pointing out over-utilized links.
• Responsible for short code definitions in core nodes.
• Analyzing the traffic on LDI trunks and planning necessary expansions where
required.
• Traffic increase forecast on special events and proposing necessary
expansions.
• Interaction with Marketing for analyzing the impact of newly launched call
and data packages.
• Supervising any software upgrade activities on core nodes and performing
ATP for verification
• Interaction with billing department to define the rates for special packages
and short codes.