Saifuldeen Al-Bassam

Work Experience

Total years of experience :7 years, 10 Months

RF Planning and Optimization pricipal Engineer at Asiacell telecommunication company (Mobile network operator-GSM-)

Iraq
September 2005 to April 2012

I finished the following training courses during my work in Asiacell Telecom. :
• Aircom International company training for 36 days and includes:
- GSM Cell Planning Principles.
- GSM Applied Radio Planning.
- GSM Pre Launch Optimization.
- GSM Network Post Launch Optimization.
- ASSET Tool Training.
- ILSA Tool Training.
- Ranopt Tool Training.
- Enterprise Admin Training.
- On Job Training / Practice.

• Radio network parameters course.
• Huawei BSS specialized course (22 days) and I got 94%.
• GSM fundamentals (13 days) and I got 83.7%.
• And many ON JOB TAINNINGS.

RF Planning experience:
•Coverage sites planning for the area that contains gaps or week coverage.
•Capacity sites planning in the areas that suffers from congestion.
•Link budget calculations.
•Dual band configuration and planning.
•Congestion calculations.
•SDCCH dimensioning.
•Antennas' planning according to the antenna's power, polarization, half power beam width (horizontal and vertical).
•Network capacity, TRX expansion and reduction calculations.
•LAC planning for the BSCs.
•Frequencies and neighbors planning.
•Frequency hopping planning (SFH or BB).
•MA List and MAIO planning.
•Initial parameters planning.
•Sites' survey and investigation.
•SAR evaluation.

RF Optimization experience:
•TRXs utilization calculations.
•KPI daily report preparing.
•Traffic statistics monitoring and analysis.
•Parameters' tuning to reduce over-threshold statistics data like (Handover, call setup, ERL, call drop, congestion, blocking, paging success rate, signal power and quality…. ).
•Drive test using the TEMS kit and the results analysis (overshooting, quality, neighbors, and site's data configuration).
•GPRS radio optimization.
•Preparing Macro in excel software for the KPI calculations.

RF Software's' experience:
• Optima, Asset Enterprise, ILSA, RUNOPT, MAPINFO, TEMS, and Huawei BSS softwares (M2000 software…). Google earth KML files programming.

IT Specialist in networking, hardware and software at RTI International

Iraq
July 2004 to September 2005

I got a good experience in:

• VSAT equipments, configuration of Routers (Cisco, D-Link, Linksys….), switches, access points, print servers.
• Experience with 802.11 wireless networking.
• Connecting LANs and Internet equipments.
• Network Troubleshooting.
• Help desk.
• Internet firewalls with the different types.
• Good knowledge in Internet protocols with their details:TCP, UDP, IPV4, IPV6 with (AH, ESP, IPSEC), ND, HTTP 1.0/HTTP 1.1, DNS, Telnet, FTP, SNMPv1 v2 v3, L2TP, DHCP, BGP-4, OSPF, RIP, IEEE 802.11, syslog, Netbios, MIPv6, HMIPv6, Many of Cisco protocols.
• Good knowledge in Internet viruses and worms work.
Microsoft Visual C++, C/C++, Assembly language, JavaScript, VBScript, HTML, Matlab.

Education

Master's degree, Computer engineering/network security

at University of Basra/College of Engineering /Computer Engineering department
May 2005

I got grade (V. Good 83.85%):- • I got grade (V. Good) in the first Semester (The highest grade among my fellows in that semester). • I got grade (Good) in the second Semester (The highest grade among my fellows in that semester). • I got grade (Excellent) in the Thesis. • The thesis was about "Design and Implementation of an Internet Firewall".