Syed Ahsan Ali

Syed Ahsan Ali Systems Performance Engineer email:-Contact: - Visa Status: US Citizen Employer:Apex Systems Job Title:Performance Engineer Date:Aug 29, 2022 to Jan, 15, 2023 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Entered and managed large amounts of data in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets Created Excel Charts to show Performance by the help of different metrics Verified the accuracy of existing data and identified and corrected errors Created reports and generated insights from the data entered and managed Maintained confidentiality of sensitive information Employer:Verizon Wireless Job Title:System Engineer Date:May 20, 2019 to Aug, 01, 2022 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Sourced documents are gathered, organized, and prepared for data entry into the appropriate system database. Examines data for issues, missing pages, or missing information, and resolves discrepancies using normal procedures or returning incomplete papers to the team leader for resolution. Enters both alphabetical and numerical data from source documents into the appropriate system database. Always adheres to data-programmed security policies and guidelines. Secures information on a daily basis by performing database backups. Performs other varies clerical duties such as sorting, filing, emailing and proofreading as required. Maintains the privacy of all financial and personal information at all times. Increased the speed and efficiency of data processing by using 10-key skills. Implemented new processes to streamline analysis and storage of data. Captured data from document images and entered it into a database with typing speed around 75 words per minute. Extract data from various sources and manage it in an organize computer-based system. Precise consumer demographics information data entry and access in all relevant electronic data system. Execute and ensure on-time delivery of all necessary consumer assessment packets. Actively cultivates strong working relationship with the colleagues and manager increasing work productivity. Trained and mentored new employees on proper protocols, work standards and in updating client information. Fulfilled all general duties such as preparing, checking, verifying, and processing client's data and information. Perform other duties as assigned. Automation Initiative: Successfully completed PYTHON DATA AUTOMATION MENTORING PROGRAM by Award Solutions. Develop a program in Python which generates Important KPIs and Parameters simultaneously on a specific site on cell level. This program will be helpful for the upcoming SNAP project. Also has Certification in Java and developed programs in Java before joining Verizon. Employer:Samsung Electronics Job Title:Senior Engineer Date:September 1, 2018 to May, 09, 2019 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Responsible for Technical writing, New feature analysis of new Samsung Products Detail analysis of the features & testing, documentations and data entry of these results in form of Graphs, Pivot Charts, Bar Charts, Pivot tables through MS Excel and MS Access Take keynotes of the discussions and analysis and put it into PDFs and tabular data. Maintain different Metrics in Power BI and maintaining Dashboards which contains metrics charts and graphs. Employer:Nokia Job Title:Senior Engineer Date:October 1, 2017 to August 1, 2018 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Maintaining, documenting all the status of Texas Market for more than 6,000 cell sites swapping former Alcatel to Nokia Use Power BI, Tableau to show project status with Graphs and Tabular data Maintaining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and make summary to show which KPIs are meeting criteria. Employer:Sprint Job Title:Engineer III Date:March 1, 2017 to September 1, 2017 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Lead Engineer for maintaining of Tabular data and charts for all the cell sites near NRG Stadium, Houston Used cells sites KPIs and advance Excel highlighted worst performing cells in NRG stadium with recommendations to improve Highlight higher management about project progress, bottlenecks and improvement through MS Power Point, Power BI, Tableau Charts and tabular data Employer:Verizon Wireless Job Title:Senior RF Engineer Date:September 1, 2016 till February 1, 2017 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Responsible for Super Bowl Network deployment for Verizon wireless Responsible for Technical writing, New feature analysis of new cell sites Detail analysis of the features & testing, documentations and data entry of these results in form of Graphs, Pivot Charts, Bar Charts, Pivot tables through MS Excel and MS Access Take keynotes of the discussions and analysis and put it into PDFs and tabular data. Maintain different Metrics in Power BI and maintaining Dashboards which contains metrics charts and graphs. Employer:T-Mobile USA Job Title:LTE RF Optimization Engineer Date:October 1, 2015 till August 1, 2016 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Lead Engineer for LTE/VoLTE Optimization, Capacity Analysis and System Dimensioning for T-Mobile Multi-Layer LTE 2100/700/1900 band network for almost 500 sites of Houston SW area. Monitoring of KPIs (LTE/VoLTE, 3G UMTS/WCDMA & 2G GSM technologies), Troubleshooting of HW issues, Sector Swap and worst KPI cells, optimization of degraded cells, Root Cause analysis by using tools like MapInfo, Google Earth and Actix, T-PIM, NETACT (Nokia OSS Reporting Suite), TrueCall, Microsoft Excel etc. Performed site configuration audit w.r.t RFDS, which include feeder/TMA connections, Power parameters according to configuration, RET values, Antenna Azimuth etc. Parameter audit for LTE/UMTS/GSM sites, creation of plans in XML/CSV and run it CM Operations Manager in Nokia NETACT. Performed trial KPI evaluation that include 4x4 MIMO and 256 QAM in DL. Worked with T-Mobile multiple teams for Traffic/Capacity planning by adding LTE 1900 layer, Sector Addition that have high PRB Utilization, RRC Connected Users by sharing traffic in Idle & Connected Mode. Employer:Nokia Job Title:RF Optimization Engineer Date:July 1, 2013 till February 1, 2015 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Lead T-Mobile Modernization project by adding new 1000 Nokia sites to improve Coverage, Quality and Capacity. Performed KPI Analysis of LTE/VoLTE, 3G UMTS & 2G GSM Technologies that include KPIs monitoring, Troubleshooting of degraded KPIs, Sector Swap etc. and create Dashboards for PRE and Post KPIs performance. Performance evaluation of LTE (2100 and 700 MHz) Clusters / Sites KPIs related to Accessibility, Retainability & Mobility. Coverage improvement and rectification of worst quality patches in Disney World parks and interstate highways. Performed BSC dump discrepancies, parameter correction, tuning & consistency checks related to LTE, 3G UMTS & 2G. Performed DT analysis of clusters, highlighted bad quality patches, troubleshooting of call drops and handover failures and take corrective actions like neighbor addition, parameter changes, and tilt changes to improve KPIs. Employer:Ericsson Job Title:RF Optimization Consultant Date:March 1, 2013 till June 1, 2013 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Performance evaluation of Modernization of MCI Network (Ericsson RBS type 6000 & NSN BTS Flexi EDGE) to make it compatible with for LTE services which include monitoring of KPIs, troubleshooting of HW issues and worst KPI cells, optimization of degraded cells, KPI improvement such as CDR, SDR, CSSR, SDCCH Establishment Rate, PS Interruption Rate, TBF Establishment Rate, PS UL/DL Throughput etc. Participated in training for LTE network architecture, LTE Network planning and optimization and dealt with practical examples of LTE performance through its KPIs. Performed all RNO (Performance KPI assessment and reporting) activities including monitoring of daily KPIs of 260 Ericsson sites of Tehran region, identified /recommended solutions for KPI degradation. Cell level and BSC-wide optimization using various RNO tools and soft/hard changes to make recommendations for network performance improvement (NPI) and Manage Services KPIs. Recommendation and execution of change requests to maintain KPIs based on Network's Accessibility, Retain ability, Service Integrity. Examined traffic trends & recommend Half rate activation/TRX addition & deletion as required Parameter Optimization which includes fine tuning of parameters especially CHAP and LOL to improve TCH assignment and TCH drop rate. Identified areas and frequencies being affected by external interference and recommending frequency changes to avoid interference as much as possible Performed PS (EDGE/GPRS) data activation, parameter changes to increase UL/DL Throughput and reduce TBF Drop Rate. Daily Monitoring of Internal and External Alarms and raising Trouble Tickets to NO (Network Operations) in case of KPI degradation Planned and supervised Site Acceptance and Cluster Acceptance activities including report generation and then recommendations changes according to issues raised by the customer Employer:Nokia Siemens Networks Job Title:Rf Optimization Consultant Date:November 1, 2011 till March 1, 2013 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Performed all RNO (Performance KPI assessment and reporting) activities including monitoring of daily KPIs of 150 (Ericsson RBS type 6000 & NSN BTS Flexi EDGE) sites of Tehran region, identified /recommended solutions for KPI degradation Recommendation and execution of change requests to maintain KPIs based on Network's Accessibility, Retain ability, Service Integrity. Examined traffic trends & recommend Half rate activation/TRX addition & deletion as required Parameter Optimization which includes fine tuning of parameters especially CHAP and LOL to improve TCH assignment and TCH drop rate. Identified areas and frequencies being affected by external interference and recommending frequency changes to avoid interference as much as possible Implemented Interference Rejection Combining (IRC) feature on urban area cells for improving performance on the uplink in radio environment limited by interference Daily Monitoring of Internal and External Alarms and raising Trouble Tickets to MO (Managed Operations) in case of KPI degradation Planned and supervised Site Acceptance and Cluster Acceptance activities including report generation and then recommendations changes according to issues raised by the customer Recommend capacity related Parameter Changes to reduce SD/TCH congestion, cell load sharing (CLD), parameter fine tunings for Dynamic Half Rate Activation (DHA) thresholds etc. Also Capacity Management of sites by calculating traffic and TRX utilization and addition and deletion of TRXs. Recommend coverage/quality related Parameter Changes like Transmit Coherent Combining (TCC), Power Control thresholds, AMR thresholds etc Audit BSC Neighbor Plan and periodic review of Frequency Plan (BCCH, BSIC, MAIO etc) Investigation and optimization of Bad Quality/Coverage patches, Handover Failures due to missing neighbors, Call Drops issues, Overshooting cells by using Actix Post Processing Tools. Employer:Nokia Siemens Networks Job Title:RF Optimization Consultant Date:December 1, 2010 till November 1, 2011 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Worked as RF Optimization Consultant for Airtel Malawi Project that includes Optimization of Existing NSN Sites (Flexi MR, Flexi EDGE) having GSM/GPRS/EDGE technologies. KPI analysis and troubleshooting of issues to achieve KPI improvement. Optimization activities (on NSN 1000 sites) include daily monitoring of OSS KPIs (DCR, CSSR, HOSR, TCH / SDCCH Blocking, TCH Availability, & HOSR) using Busy Hour/Daily Stats from Nokia NETACT. Highlighted degraded KPIs, daily monitoring/rectification of alarms on Cells & suggest recommendations to resolve problems. Prepared Cluster Level Reports with suggestions for improvement of Worst Cells, Coverage improvement & interference reduction. Performed Parameters Tuning include Capacity parameters, CIO, Power Control parameters through Netact OSS for almost 200 sites. 2G-3G UMTS Handover testing (IRATHO) and creation of NBRs in both systems for Inter System HO Employer:Nokia Siemens Networks Job Title:Rf Optimization Consultant Date:March 1, 2010 till August 1, 2010 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Responsible for Daily Monitoring of KPIs (DCR,CSSR, HOSR, TCH / SDCCH Blocking, TCH Availability, GPRS/EDGE throughput) using Busy Hour/Daily Total KPIs for approx. 1500 sites. Parameters Tuning which includes Power changes, Full to Half rate traffic distribution, conversion of Baseband to Synthesize Frequency Hopping, MAL changing, MAIO, BSIC, HSN, target BTS parameter changing Performed optimization to reduce overshooting, bad RxLev/RxQual patches, Drop Calls, Interference and SD/TCH Blocking through investigation of bad quality and coverage patches, New Features Implementation like Concentric Cell (Common BCCH), AMR Coding Schemes, Adaptive Power Control and Frequency scheme change. level KPIs. Employer:Telenor Pakistan Pvt Job Title:Rf Specialist Date:February 1, 2005 till March 1, 2010 Responsibilities and Key Accomplishments: Lead Engineer for Network Design Activities like Coverage plots of specific areas, Traffic calculations, sites calculations according to project requirements. Managed rollout of 1500 sites. Created Predictions & Coverage Plots using ASSET showing good and bad coverage & percentage of area & population covered. Performed Model Tuning for 900/1800 site by using Dense Urban, Urban & Rural Remote models, also adjusted transmitter settings for 900/1800 frequencies, Drive Testing to see dying effect of respective signals, analysis of data in ASSET, tuning of K1, K2 etc. values to reduce standard deviation, mean error. Prepared Master / Nominal Plan for complete phase containing sites complete information (configuration, Azimuths, BTS type, feeder info etc.) for Siemens BTS Types (Siemens 240XL). Performed Network Dimensioning / Traffic dimensioning of existing network by Planning of new BSCs and BTS sites after monitoring stats of existing network.Prepared Presentations related to Overall network Coverage, Traffic, Utilization, Future Growth of Traffic & Related Planning. Planned & designed GSM Network in extremely remote (Rural areas) of Pakistan to provide coverage & internet services under the supervision of USFCo (Universal Service Fund) (www.usf.org.pk) and prepared Financial Budgeting. Performed Technical Site Surveys urban, sub-urban, densely urban areas to plan the new BTS sites with towers solutions and recommending tower height, antenna type, antenna direction and antenna tilts etc for Coverage & Capacity sites. Prepared Link Budgets for GSM sites to calculate Coverage Area and QoS requirement of network Frequency Retuning of 800 Cells of Karachi city with the help of automatic frequency planning tool ILSA English MS Word MS Excel MS Office Suite MS Outlook 10-Key Experience Confidentiality Data Entry Attention to detail High accuracy Time management Communication skills Troubleshooting Critical Thinking CRM Software: HubSpot, Zoho NED University of Engineering & Technology (Electrical Engineering)