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Nashville, Tennessee, United States

• Hired and led a team of RF Engineers and Contractors in building out North America's first virtualized, standalone 5G wireless network from scratch.• Responsible for managing team of RF Engineers in efforts to the Plan , Design and Optimize cloud based standalone 5G network for the States of Tennessee and Kentucky• Work cross-functionally between multiple departments including Site Acquisition, Zoning, Construction, Transport and Program Management – to develop, build and optimize Dish Wireless network.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Launched 5G in Los Angeles working closely with Nokia and other local and regional teams• Conducted site walks, evaluated and finalized best candidate meeting site objective• Confirmed site configurations based on space and RF constraints• Created the preliminary and Final RF Data Sheet (RFDS) and CIQ’s for 3G, 4G LTE and 5G technologies on 2500/1900/800 bands• Used ACP to optimize the azimuth and tilt of the MIMO Antenna in Antelope Valley market that helped to improve Sprint ranking in Root Metrics drive from 4th to 1st in voice/text and call quality & from 4th to 3rd in in data speeds in 1st half of 2018• Performed optimization and acceptance of 5G sites to meet KPI targets of latency and throughput• Improved Sprint Los Angeles Market LTE/VoLTE, 3G 1x voice and EVDO network meeting quarterly targets for both 4G and 3G networks• Conducted monitoring and optimization of CFR, CDR, UL/DL throughput and tonnage KPIs dashboard on sectors, cells and carrier level to balance traffic among different frequency bands (2500/1900/800) and carriers that improved SINR to mitigate capacity issues and improved data throughputs• Measured pre and post KPI’s for LTE sites after Massive MIMO deployment as part of site acceptance process with Nokia• Conducted 5G Massive mMIMO network trails with Nokia

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Managed a team of RF Engineers and contractors for RF Design and Optimization in LA North market• Managed outsourced vendors for RF Design/New Site Build to turn up 600 new cell sites ensuring the build of quality sites as per company RF design guidelines to meet business objectives• Coordinated with Site Development teams and external GCs (Site acquisition, construction, zoning and project managers) ensuring all RF tasks are completed as per agreed timelines and remove any road blocks impacting site integration process• Put together 3 and 5 years plans: issuing search rings, approving final candidates, submitting site justifications and running pre and post propagations showing year over year coverage improvement to present senior leadership and sales channels• Hired full time employees and contractors and performed quarterly performance reviews and bonus planning for FTEs• Put together and managed RF Engineering department annual financial budget for the market• Coordinated with West Region and National RF teams to discuss regional/national level initiatives, design guidelines, processes, new technical features/parameters and implemented in the market as appropriate• Launched UMTS network with 800 sites in 3 different phases by managing a team of 30 RF Engineers, SMEs, drive testers and field technicians ahead of the scheduled timelines• Led team of RF Engineers to carve PCS spectrum to deploy UMTS on 1900 band launching 750 UMTS sites within 3 months after spectrum carving• Launched HSPA+ network market by deploying 2nd carrier/dual carrier and fiber to 700 sites• Led Metro PCS site integration into T-Mobile network after T-Mobile successful acquisition of Metro PCS revising site design per T-Mobile network configurations and guidelines• Managed a team of engineers and vendors to successfully deploy in-building DAS at Staples Center Los Angeles• Led and supported several GSM/UMTS/LTE frequency retunes

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Achieved RF department network performance KPI targets. Reduced dropped calls and congestion in the assigned area of responsibility by 50%• Conducted site walks, attended design review meetings and reviewed construction and zoning drawings• Used Planet EV to run new site propagation• Turned up new sites with initial parameter settings • Led and carried out several trials and projects to test new network features and document processes to improve network quality such as EDGE trial on Ericsson RBS 2202/2102 cabinets and removing underutilized radios

Greater San Diego Area

Responsible for providing second line technical support for Ericsson cdmaOne and CDMA2000 BSS products and system level support to Ericsson customers worldwide.• Received Manager’s Award by developing a systems test lab to replicate, resolve and deliver root cause analysis of customer incidents, software verification and software release control• Recognized by the senior management for the assignment in delivering the 3G BSC Node Integration & Verification completed ahead of schedule resulting in commercial delivery of equipment• Acted as a primary point of contact in the second line support for Panama and Colombia projects from deployment to the commercial launch of the network resolving various network problems that resulted in a smooth commercial launch and stable network

West Point, Georgia, United States

Responsible for providing second line support to the NOC and markets in southeast USA and assisted them in resolution of faults and network performance issues.

Karachi, Pakistan

Responsible for RF Design, Optimization and Operations & Maintenance of network in Southern part of the country. Supervised and trained the engineering staff for the installation, commissioning, testing and O&M of Ericsson Radio and Microwave equipment. Led a team of Engineers to launch cell phone service in largest province of the country and doubled the capacity of Network in city of Karachi.

Master’S Degree, Business Administration

Bachelor Of Engineering, Electrical