Waqas Ghazi, Base Station Controller ( BSC ) SLM Engineer

Waqas Ghazi

Base Station Controller ( BSC ) SLM Engineer

ZTE Corporation

Location
Pakistan - Karachi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computers , Telecommunication , Networking
Experience
16 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 6 Months

Base Station Controller ( BSC ) SLM Engineer at ZTE Corporation
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since April 2012

Brief Career Overview:
1-Six years of expertise in GSM cellular mobile telephony in Implementation & Network Operations of BSS (BTS & BSC) & Transmission equipments, Installation and commissioning of BSS & Transmission equipments including Siemens cBSC/eBSC and TRAU 960.
2- Have an extensive knowledge in alarm handling, escalation, troubleshooting, and fault restoration of BSS & Transmission elements.
3- Completed Successful Network RollOuts of Telenor Pakistan including USF-MPK Project.

BSS Team Lead South Region at Huawei Technologies
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • November 2011 to March 2012

Roles Responsibilities:
1-Corrective / Preventive Maintenance of Network Operations.
2-Day-to-day operation and maintenance activities of BSS & Transmission network elements.
3-BSS Fault monitoring and taking timely corrective action with minimum down time.
4-Breakdown maintenance of BSS & Transmission equipments (BTS/MW/SDH/others).
5-Working and give support 24x7 hours.
6-Strong Coordination with Operators and subcontractors.
7-Monitoring Network KPIs and Timely Taking Corrective / Preventive Actions.
8- Investigating Major Outages HUB / MHUB and Furnish RCA (Root Cause Analysis) Report.

TI Team Lead at IKAN Engineering Solution
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • November 2007 to November 2011

Roles Responsibilities:
1- BSS Fault monitoring and taking timely corrective action with minimum down time.
2- Implemented BTS software loading, creation, integration and expansion.
3- Alarm and fault monitoring of NOKIA & SIEMENS cell sites.
4- Projects (Network Rollout) New BTS/ MW and Site implementation.
5- Breakdown maintenance of BSS & Transmission equipments (BTS/MW/S/PDH/others).
6- Day-to-day operation and maintenance activities of BSS network elements.
7- To carry out Network modification from time to time like TRX additions, Up gradation etc
8- Working and give support 24x7 hours.
9- New Cell Sites integration, Integration or re-deployment of the VIP COW (Cell on Wheel).
10-Sweep tests (VSWR) testing Use of site analyzer, (BIRD).
11- Trouble shooting (BSS and E1), PAT (Preliminary acceptance test) & FAT (Final Acceptance Test) of BSS.
12- Transmission problems.
13- Involving in Optimization of the network by Tilts and Orientation between the sectors and antennas.
14-Transferring E1’s from BSC/MSC to new Cell Sites, Working Experience of Siemens HITs, STLP, LMT BR9 & BR8, NCT, LCT.
15- Co-operation with Operators and subcontractors.
16- Technical Site Survey of BTS cell sites and supervise the Teams.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computers , Telecommunication , Networking
  • at Bahria University
  • September 2007

Specialties & Skills

Transmission
BTS & Microwave Commissioning ( NSN & ZTE )
BSC SLM
Corrective Maintainance

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Memberships

Pakistan Engineering Council
  • Registered Member
  • August 2011