Abdul-Semiu Amao, VSAT / SDH / PDH Support Engineer

Abdul-Semiu Amao

VSAT / SDH / PDH Support Engineer

ALCATEL-LUCENT

Location
Nigeria
Education
Bachelor's degree, ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONICS Engineering
Experience
20 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 0 Months

VSAT / SDH / PDH Support Engineer at ALCATEL-LUCENT
  • Nigeria
  • My current job since August 2007

Technical Support to the Field Engineers (on SDH, PDH and VSAT Installation and Maintenance)
Technical Support to the Customer (on Network related issue)
On site training of the Engineers
On Site Training of the Customers

Operations Manager at HYPERIA INTERNET BACKBONE
  • Nigeria
  • April 2007 to August 2007

- Training of Field Engineers on VSAT Installation
- Training of Field Engineers on VSAT Maintenance
- Supporting the Field Engineers at Site on Fault Resolution
- Management of Field Engineers
- Inspection of VSAT Installation
- Coordination of Daily activities of the Engineers
- Supervision of the New Gilat Project in Nigeria:
VoIP and Data traffic over Ku-band Gilat Network, using various sizes of antenna (0.75m to 3.0m Ku-band).

Field Operations Engineer at GS TELECOM Nigeia
  • Nigeria
  • April 2005 to March 2007

- Conducting VSAT & Microwave Site Survey
- Installation and Maintenance of Microwave link involving:
STM1 SDH (Altium Stratex and Eclipse), RAN 64, SAF Radio modem, Mini Erricson Radio etc.
- Link Budget calculation using Sat Master Pro and Self Developed Software (Using VB .Net)
- Configuration and maintenance of Network Switches (Alcatel 3600, ATM 7670, 3612) and Frame Relay Access Device Alcatel 3609
- Installation and Maintenance of SCPC satellite link involving:
On Shore/off shore installation & Fault troubleshooting on C-band Unlimited Azimuth Antenna with Antenna and Pedestal Control Unit.
- Commissioning of both C and Ku-band carrier on all sizes of ESA.
- Installation/configuration of RFT Equipments - Codan Transceivers, Anacom transceiver, HNS Transceiver etc. And Satellite modems like Paradise Modems, Comstream Modems, Comtech modems etc.
- Installation and Maintenance of iDirect VSAT link using TDMA uplink and SCPC downlink
- Configuration and maintenance of Network Equipments like:
CISCO Routers and Switches
- Management of the Tools & Equipments.

Trainee Engineer at Societe de Telecommunication Aeronautiq (SITA)
  • Nigeria
  • September 2002 to July 2003

Wide Area Network Connections (Via Microwave Link), including:
Frame Relay (V.35) Connections,
X.25 Direct Access Connection,
X.28
Dial-up/Direct Connection,
SDLC/SNA connection
SITA type A Connection

• Configuration of the Network Equipments including:

Radio MODEM \[RAN 128/25 and RAN 65/25\]
DPN 100 (Network Access Module),
X.25-user Interface System(XIS) Unit,
Lease line/ Dial-up MODEM \[Motorola Codex (326x series)\],
Base band MODEM \[Paradyne 79xx Series\]
Router (CISCO 2600 series), Ticket Printer \[IER 457 & 557\]

Education

Bachelor's degree, ELECTRICAL/ELECTRONICS Engineering
  • at University Of Ado-Ekiti
  • August 2004
Diploma, Computer Science
  • at Federal Polytechnics Offa
  • August 1998
Diploma, Computer Science
  • at Federal Polytechnics Offa
  • August 1998
High school or equivalent, Science
  • at Christ African Grammar School
  • October 1995
High school or equivalent, Science
  • at Christ African Grammar School
  • October 1994

Specialties & Skills

Network Operations
RF Engineering
Radio Network Planning
Decision Making Skills
Team Management
Satellite Communication Engineering
Terrestrial Microwave Engineering
System Design/ Engineerin Design
C++ Programming
Visual Basic .Net programming
HTML Coding
MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint Outlook, etc)

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Beginner

Memberships

CISCO
  • CCNA/CCNP
  • February 2006
Society of Petroleum Engineer
  • Member
  • January 2005
Society of Exploration Geophysicist
  • Member
  • January 2004