Radio Frequency Engineer
Hayat Communications
Total years of experience :15 years, 2 Months
•Working on the rollout of Zain Kuwait 5G Network.
•Working on the Service Delivery Contract within the Huawei Managed Service team for Zain Kuwait LTE/UMTS/GSM Networks.
•Preparing and generating all technologies RF Audit reports (including Nbrs audit, parameters audit and configurations audit).
•Reporting on the daily worst cells in my region for all technologies.
•Preparing benchmarking reports after Major network changes and upgrades.
•Optimizing based on the Network Monthly Drive Test.
•Monitoring special events and responding to On Call duties and degradations raised by NOC team.
•Worked on the LTE2100 expansion acceptance project.
•LTE Optimization using ACP (Automated Cell Planning) tool.
•Supporting the CPEs installation process (from radio side) on the WTTX network (Zain Beam Solution).
•Worked on the reframing of the 2100MHz band and expansion of LTE 2100.
•Worked on the Ooredoo Kuwait Swap (Ericsson to Huawei equipment) Project, mainly on LTE technology, troubleshooting and fixing KPIs issues, reviewing and optimizing for SSVs and Cluster acceptance reports till final acceptance stage.
•Worked as LTE frontline engineer during the Ooredoo swap project, aligning tasks and communicating with HQ support in China, following up and pushing till issues resolution; and on the other side giving updates and presenting solutions to customer.
•Worked on the Zain Kuwait Managed Service Project within the GSM/LTE team.
•Ownership of daily and weekly performance of 2G/4G worst cells and reports in my region.
•Preparation for the 2G and LTE networks in case of special events to increase capacity and monitoring KPIs during the event.
•Worked on the LTE 800 rollout and Swap project, including preparing neighbors script, monitoring KPIs after swap, reviewing SFT reports and preparing cluster acceptance reports.
•Preparing 2G/4G Benchmarking reports after regional network changes and upgrades.
•Supporting customer complaints team to resolve radio issues in my area and recommending solutions.
•Preparing new sites RF data and Neighbor definitions for new sites in my area.
•Preparing monthly 2G and 4G drive reports to be submitted to the customer.
•Responsible during the on call duty shift (night shifts and after hours) in supporting NOC and customer in any related 2G/LTE RF issues for the whole network.
•Working on the KPIs enhancement for my region (i.e. Load balancing using MLB feature).
•Contributing to the testing and confirmation of jamming system using a barred cell.
•Investigated a solution to provide special users higher priority in congestion situation with a GBR (familiar with QCI, ARP and GBR).
•Proposing LTE features for trials and KPIs enhancement (i.e. the Optimized DL CQI Adjustment).
•Contributing to the benchmarking of a 6 sectors solution trial.
•High expertise in 2G/3G coverage design using computer modeling tools.
•Led the selection of sites location, mast heights, antenna types, azimuth and tilts, and BTS/Node B transceiver configuration for my region.
•Responsible for the Frequency Planning, Scrambling codes assignments and neighbors addition to new sites.
•Managed to communicate at all levels and within the project team (including Site acquisition, town planner, project manager, design engineer (Civil) and transmission engineer) throughout the rollout of my area.
•Responsible for reviewing planning and construction drawings and as built documents received from the contracting company.
•High skills in network performance monitoring.
•Managed special Events Node B, RNC, BTS and BSC parameters tuning.
•Ownership of customer complaints troubleshooting and resolution.
•Analysis of drive test data and optimization of tilts and neighbors.
•Capacity flattening skills with considering different resources and counters, like: Channel Elements (CEs), RTWP, SF, BW... Etc.
•High skills in interference chasing and follow up.
•Strong expertise in mobile network data collection.
•Managed the preparation of cluster drive routes using Mapinfo software.
•Led the shakedown drives, integration check sheets and reporting any issues (cross feeders...etc).
•Directed benchmarking drive tests and walk tests.
•Responsible for preparing reports and recommendations based on post processed data.
•High skills in conducting Radio Frequency site audits including checking of various RAN related parameters on operational sites.
•Led a lecture on the Viable Systems Model to a 300 level management class at Victoria University of Wellington.
•Responsibilities included lecturing and preparation of examples, exercises, videos and power point presentation.
•Answering any questions from students and making the class as interactive as possible.
•Telecom New Zealand XT Network Project (the rollout of a new UMTS network while maintaining existing CDMA network).
•Responsible for preparing cluster definition and acceptance reports.
•High skills in calculating the expected speech and data service areas and identifying the required neighbours list for any site.
•Leading a team responsible for business acceptance drive tests and ready for service mobility tests (voice and data), and processing drive test data.
•Expertise in performing stationary and indoor testing, voice and data.
•Directed test troubleshooting in the field or remotely by supporting the drive test teams to solve issues and problems, exactly like a test equipments support lead.
•Responsibility on preparing procedures and documents for drive test configurations and data transfer.
•Communicating with NOC during or before the drive tests to check or change the sites status.
•Led the configuration and organization of drive test equipments, this included dealing with different suppliers and supply chain management team to process quotations, purchase orders and invoices.
•Communicating with deployment engineers and surveillance team to follow up with any faults, tickets and work permits on sites.
•360° Kuwait shopping mall project
•Developing knowledge of conduits installation and reading electrical systems drawings.
•Understanding electric specifications and matching systems and materials, and then the supervision of installation.
•Understanding the general procedure of work at Kharafi National.
•Preparing checklists for the work to be done and dealing with suppliers under the supervision of the project engineer.
•Achieved a complete and comprehensive final report describing the work done and the experience through the training period. (A certificate of completion which recognised my ability to quickly assimilate and apply information has been awarded).