Muhammad Adam Imam

Current Address: Airport Road Near Nissan Showroom Madinah Saudi Arabia. 00966592474562 Permanant Address: 1206/B Mumtazabad Colony Multan Pakistan. Mobile: 00966592474562 Email: engr.adam@gmail.com

PROFILE
Proficient in KPI analysis, parameters fine tuning, pre and post drive test analysis. I am a fast learner with ability to work under pressure to achieve the desired commitments.

ACADEMICS
Bachelors in Computer Systems Engineering 2002 to 2006 JOB EXPERIENCE

APRIL 2012-CONTINUE RF OPTIMIZATION CONSULTANT MOTOROLA TO NSN SWAP MOBILY MADINAH SAUDI ARABIA.
Regular Optimization Activities
Daily KPIs monitoring (CSSR, DCR ,HOSR etc) and troubleshooting of the worst cells. Includes parameters adjustment, retuning, new trials, and consistency checks. Responsible for reducing congestion and drops, improving the Handover, Location Update, CSSR in the designated area, issuing capacity requests whenever needed. Making XML from plan edit for implementation in BSC. Escalation of Faulty Hardware to improve KPIs. Making daily report of Alarms from NetAct . Making of BSC report for final acceptance after complete swap. IASR improvement by RACH, AGCH and SLO and MAXRetrans Parameters TCH Blocking improvement by Accesslevel min, CRO, PT, PBGTHO and BTSLOADTHS parameters. DCR Improvement by Accessmin, TRXpriority shifting, HO Optimization and Frequency cleaning. SDR improvement by SDCCH Shifting, BSTXPWRMAX, RxAccessmin, T200 and Frequency Tuning. Parameter consistency check on weekly basis for the area assigned for sustained performance. Routine neighbor audit of BSCs, analysis of per neighbor stats in cells having poor handover performance and to change handover margins. Handover Success improvement on cell level by changing Pbgt (Power Budget parameter) Adjustments of idle mode boundaries by tweaking ACCMIN, C1, C2. Adjustments of dedicated boundaries by tuning HYSTSEP. HR/FR Parameters setting for reduced TCH Blocking improving CSSR RX Acceslevel setting for traffic shifting. Recommendations for newly on-aired sites based on DT performed at the time of commissioning and analysis of Statistical data.

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OCT 2011-APRIL2012 ZTE TEAM LEAD CENTRAL3 REGION NPO PROJECT CHINA MOBILE PAKISTAN.
Heading Team of 7 Engineers NPO project in Central3 region of Pakistan.

Regular Optimization Activities

Daily KPIs monitoring (CSSR, DCR ,HOSR etc) and troubleshooting of the worst cells. Cutomer Complaints handling on daily basis and coordination with customer for improving KPIs. Includes parameters adjustment, retuning, new trials, and consistency checks. Making of SMT(senior management ) reports on weekly and monthly basis. Responsible for reducing congestion and drops, improving the Handover, Location Update, CSSR in the designated area, issuing capacity requests whenever needed. Parameter consistency check on weekly basis for the area assigned for sustained performance. Routine neighbor audit of BSCs, analysis of per neighbor stats in cells having poor handover performance and to change handover margins. Handover Success improvement on cell level by changing Pbgt (Power Budget parameter) Adjustments of idle mode boundaries by tweaking ACCMIN, C1, C2. Making MAIO plans for new sites. Frequency and Neighbour Planning for new sites. Adjustments of dedicated boundaries by tuning HYSTSEP. SDCCH dimensiong for reduced SDCCH congestion. HR/FR Parameters setting for reduced TCH Blocking improving CSSR RX Acceslevel setting for traffic shifting. Interference on band 4 and band 5 reduction by Frequency tuning. Coordinating with BSS Teams to resolve Issues, such as Handover Failures, Frequency Interference, and Low Power TRXs. Analysis of routine Drive Test of area assigned or issue-based DT using TEMS investigation(Data collection and route analysis) and prepare DT analysis report with recommendations for dropped calls, bad quality/coverage areas, no-dominance, handover failure issues etc. to improve the performance of the designated area. Weekly Optimization report compilation and comments on the worst performing cells in the assigned BSCs Optimized the tilt plan of major Roads in order to contain the cells from overshooting. Performed the Frequency Retuning of numerous cells in order to reduce the Bad Quality Drops. Escalation of Alarms and Faulty Hardware of Swapped sites to FOPs teams for rectification and keeping track of issues raised.

Special Projects

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JOB EXPERIENCE AUGUST 2011 OCT 2011 RF OPTIMIZATION CONSULTANT (MOTOROLA TO NSN) VODACOM SRAN SWAP SOUTH AFRICA.
I have completed my assignment as RF Optimization Consultant Motorola to NSN Vodacom SRAN Swap Project in South Africa . I leaded the Optimization area for swap sites on daily basis includes BSC KPIs Optimization according to customer agreed SLA and getting acceptance of Swapped clusters .

Main responsibilities and tasks accomplished are:

Regular RF Planning and Optimization Activities

Responsible for the optimization of Vodacom Motorola to NSN Swap sites in KwaZulu-Natal Region of South Africa. Reporting of BSC KPIs to higher Management on weekly and monthly basis with pre and post swap comparison. Daily KPIs monitoring (CSSR, DCR ,HOSR, etc) of Swapped sites and troubleshooting of the worst cells. Responsible for the pre-post SWAP KPIs analysis from Motorola to Nokia, and acceptance of the SWAPPED clusters, which are covering the whole Kwazulu-Natal Region of South Africa. Escalation of Alarms and Faulty Hardware of Swapped sites to FOPs teams for rectification and keeping track of issues raised. Preparation of Job Order for creation of sites in OMC. SDCCH dimensiong for reduced SDCCH congestion. HR/FR Parameters(FRL/FRU) setting for reduced TCH Blocking improving CSSR. TRX Expansions to reduce the TCH Blocking . Faulty TRX escalation to FOPs team to improve DCR and SDCCH drops improving overall KPIs . RX Acceslevel , NBLO and HO parameters setting setting for traffic shifting. BSTxPwrMax parameter setting to reduce far away TA traffic reducing SD drops and DCR and improving CSSR. Handover Success improvement on cell level by changing Pbgt (Power Budget parameter) and RX level and Quality values. Traffic optimization for neighbor cells when new sites come on air. Sets KPI definition/threshold/formulae for reporting purposes. Generates Reports from different set of tools specifically for backup to ensure Quality monitoring. Implement different Radio Network Parameters to improve the performance of the radio network. Different parameter settings have been trialed to shift traffic to 1800 band on appropriate level. Coordinating with BSS Teams to resolve Issues, such as Handover Failures, Frequency Interference, and Low Power TRXs. Neighbour Planning and neighbour audit. Frequency and Neighbour Planning for new sites. Adjustments of dedicated boundaries by tuning HYSTSEP. Making daily reports for benchmarking of parameters modification.

NSN SPECIFIC Activities:

NSN Dump processing by using Plan Edit tool for extracting parameters and required info. Using SONAR for extracting multi vendor stats including NSN, Huawei , Motorola . Using NetAct to Extract Counter level stats and KPIs reports .

MUHAMMAD ADAM IMAM Making specific reports in NETACT used for swapped sites reporting. TOP level user interface usage for alarms generation and parameter and live time site monitoring. CM editor usage in NETACT. Reporting suite for extracting reports. NetAct Content Browser for making specific reports.

RF Optimization based on Drive Testing

Initiating the drive test of swapped cluster and analysis of logfiles to rectify the Blocking and Drop Call isuues and generationg report for acceptance. Analyzing drive tests of cities and submit their reports with appropriate recommendations to resolve the identified problems. Carrying out Routine and Issue Based Drive Tests using TEMS Investigation to identify areas having coverage, quality & connectivity issues. Carrying out Bi-weekly audit to find BSC, Cell and Adjacencies parameter discrepancies and Generate WOs to remove such discrepancies.

Network Audits

MARCH 2010 JULY 2011 TELENOR PAKISTAN (NOKIA SEIMENS NETWOKS) AS RF PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION ENGINEER
Main responsibilities and tasks accomplished are:

Regular RF Planning and Optimization Activities

Responsible for the optimization of BSCs in Central region, daily stats monitoring, purposing the changes for meeting the desired KPIs. Daily KPIs monitoring (CSSR, DCR ,HOSR, etc) and troubleshooting of the worst cells. Coverage , Quality and Capacity sites planning. Coverage prediction using Asset 3g. Making MAIO plans for new sites. Frequency and Neighbour Planning for new sites. Pre Launch Sites Optimization and getting acceptance of Pre Launch sites according to given criteria. Adjustments of dedicated boundaries by tuning HYSTSEP. SDCCH dimensiong for reduced SDCCH congestion. HR/FR Parameters setting for reduced TCH Blocking improving CSSR RX Acceslevel , NBLO setting for traffic shifting. Handover Success improvement on cell level by changing Pbgt (Power Budget parameter) and RX level and Quality values. Traffic optimization for neighbor cells when new sites come on air. Sets KPI definition/threshold/formulae for reporting purposes. Generates Reports from different set of tools specifically for backup to ensure Quality monitoring. Implement different Radio Network Parameters to improve the performance of the radio network. Redesigning of cells sites azimuth, HBA & tilting to overcome overshooting and to cater the weak coverage spots after integration of Phase IV. Different parameter settings have been trialed to shift traffic to 1800 band on appropriate level.

MUHAMMAD ADAM IMAM Analyzing KPIs and Stats, and recommending changes and making Soft-launch and Pre-launch reports Neighbour Planning and neighbour audit.

RF Optimization based on Drive Testing

Providing recommendation of Antenna Tilt, Orientation, Height, Frequency change based on analysis of Drive Test. Analyzing Global drive tests of cities and submit their reports with appropriate recommendations to resolve the identified problems. Carrying out Routine and Issue Based Drive Tests using TEMS Investigation to identify areas having coverage, quality & connectivity issues.

Network Audits
Carrying out Bi-weekly audit to find BSC, Cell and Adjacencies parameter discrepancies and Generate WOs to remove such discrepancies.

Special Projects
Trial performed to optimize power control window so as to make sure good RxLev/Rxqual Samples while ensuring minimum interference. Restricted overshooting cells coverage areas through parametric adjustment. Retuned parameters to Push traffic from outer GSM to inner DCS zone in order to Optimize DCS utilization. Extremely Remote Sites DCR and CSSR Optimization Project GSM and DCS Layer Utilization Project HR/FR Utilization improvement Project for better user perception. Expansions of basis of TCH call setup blocking.

JUNE 08 TILL MARCH 2010 CHINA MOBILE PAKISTAN CENTRAL REGION (ZTE) RF PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION ENGINEER
Main Responsibilities and Tasks accomplished were:

Regular Optimization Activities

Daily KPIs monitoring (CSSR, DCR ,HOSR etc) and troubleshooting of the worst cells. Includes parameters adjustment, retuning, new trials, and consistency checks. Making of SMT(senior management ) reports on weekly and monthly basis. Responsible for reducing congestion and drops, improving the Handover, Location Update, CSSR in the designated area, issuing capacity requests whenever needed. Parameter consistency check on weekly basis for the area assigned for sustained performance. Routine neighbor audit of BSCs, analysis of per neighbor stats in cells having poor handover performance and to change handover margins. Handover Success improvement on cell level by changing Pbgt (Power Budget parameter) Adjustments of idle mode boundaries by tweaking ACCMIN, C1, C2. Making MAIO plans for new sites.

MUHAMMAD ADAM IMAM Frequency and Neighbour Planning for new sites. Adjustments of dedicated boundaries by tuning HYSTSEP. SDCCH dimensiong for reduced SDCCH congestion. HR/FR Parameters setting for reduced TCH Blocking improving CSSR RX Acceslevel setting for traffic shifting. Interference on band 4 and band 5 reduction by Frequency tuning. Recommendations for newly on-aired sites based on DT performed at the time of commissioning and analysis of Statistical data. Analysis of routine Drive Test of area assigned or issue-based DT using TEMS investigation(Data collection and route analysis) and prepare DT analysis report with recommendations for dropped calls, bad quality/coverage areas, no-dominance, handover failure issues etc. to improve the performance of the designated area. Weekly Optimization report compilation and comments on the worst performing cells in the assigned BSCs Interference Scanning & Frequency Scanning using Spectrum analyzer . Optimized the tilt plan of major Roads in order to contain the cells from overshooting. Performed the Bench-Mark Drive test and make the Comprehensive report for cities and Highways. Performed the Frequency Retuning of numerous cells in order to reduce the Bad Quality Drops. T20 city optimization Project to improve the KPIs of top cities according to agreed SLA. HR/FR utilization project to shift more traffic on FR. TRX removal project of Low utilization cells to save the capex and improve the Utilization.

Special Projects

JUNE 07 TILL JUNE 2008 (SHANGHAI TELECOM CMPAK PROJECT ) RF OPTIMIZATION ENGINEER
Main Responsibilities and Tasks accomplished were:

Regular Optimization Activities

Daily KPIs monitoring (CSSR, DCR ,HOSR etc) and troubleshooting of the worst cells. Optimization Includes parameters adjustment, retuning, new trials, and consistency checks Weekly and Monthly Optimization report. EDGE Implementation and verification through Drive test. Performed cities drive tests using TEMS 8.0 and give recommendations based on Drive test Cluster optimization which involved rectification of overshooting cells and low coverage cells as well by suggesting the Antenna Tilt modification or change in Azimuth. Training of fresh Engineers Swap detection,Interference check, Faulty equipment detection. Performance and statistical reports generation on daily, weekly and monthly basis for troubleshooting and improving the network quality. Performing the drivetest of cities and rural areas on customer complaints and routine benchmarking.

TRAININGS
NSN BSS Dimensioning Training(Duration:3 Days) Nokia Seimens Networks, Pakistan

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FINAL YEAR PROJECT

GSM Network Design and Simulation.

TECHNICAL TOOLS
Tools:
1. TEMS Investigation 8.1.1 3. Optima 5. MAP INFO 8.0 7. Auto Cad 9. Plan Edit 11. Actix 13. Minos(ZTE) 2. 4. 6. 8. 10. 12. 14. Asset 6.1 Net Act GOOGLE EARTH Ericsson MCOM SONAR OMCR ZTE IBSC ZTE

Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows (98, 2000, xp)

REFERENCE
Will be furnished on request