Permanent Address:Flat No 2, General Wahabi, Building #5, Ibrahim Al kartabi Street, Hai ul Wazarat, Riyadh KSA :+96612916937/+966532732278ssta_me@hotmail.comSYED SOHAIB TAHIR

OBJECTIVETo build a long-term career as an RF Engineer with opportunities for career and personal growth, and to use my skills in the best possible way for achieving the companys goals.ACADEMIC CREDENTIALSYEARDEGREE INSTITUTION GPA/PERCENTAGE

2010 B.E NED University of Engineering & Technology 93 %(In Final Year) (Telecom Engg.) 3rd position in second year and 5th in third year

2006 HSSC Federal boardPakistan International School Riyadh, KSA A-1 Grade (Pre-Eng) Overall position in Riyadh

2004SSC Federal boardPakistan International School Riyadh, KSA A Grade (Science)

WORK EXPERIENCERF Engineer at Rize Consultancy. Zain-Huawei Managed Services Project from (Dec 2011 to present.)Presently working as part of Huawei NPM Team at Zain KSA as 3G RF Performance and Optimization Engineer.My Major responsibilities include: Daily post activity performance Benchmarking and measures to improve the Major contractual Radio KPIs in order to meet the SLAs such as CSSR, DCR Voice/R-99, HSPA accessibility and retain ability, IRAT HO, Cell SHO, Voice AMR traffic, R99 and HSPA traffic and Network availability, to ensure that the Overall Network Quality and Performance is improving. Finding worst cells and locating congested (CE/IUB/Power/Code) clusters/cells in the Network/RNCs. And then taking actions such as Neighbor, Parameter and Network Audit, escalations, providing suggestions to the customer so as to improve their degraded KPIs and Performance. Also providing Daily traffic trend/forecasting analysis Reports, Daily NW/RNC/Cluster/cell Level 3G/HSPA RAN performance and performance improvement Reports to Zain. 3G Radio Traffic Analysis including AMR, R99 and HSPA traffic of all the Huawei-Zain Network and to ensure that the Network traffic is increasing and Customer is not dropping off any revenue due to Radio Network Degradations. Also involved in new feature, formulae and parametric trials to improve User perception, experience and Network Quality.RF Engineer at LCC International Inc (January 2011-to August 2012). AT&T, USA 2G/3G/4G post processing and optimization project:2G & 3G Post Processing and reporting for AT&T USA using Actix Analyzer and MapInfo. Analyzing and Bench Marking GSM & UMTS parameters (RxLev, RxQual, EcIo, EcNo, RSCP, RSSI, RxLev Scanner, RSCP Scanner, Mean UL/DL Throughput, Active and Monitored sets).Generation of Voice & Data Benchmarking Reports for Telcos in USA (AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile). Producing comparative analysis charts, tables and map plots for Accessibility, Retainability and Reliability along with other network KPIs and metrics for both Voice and Data.

Telenor (Norway)-Huawei Brain RAN 3G/4G (LTE) swap project:Pre & Post Swap DT Reports for Cluster Acceptance for Telenor Norway Brain RAN Project using TEMS Investigation 11. The project aims to swap existing sites in Norway by Huawei Single RAN solution for easy evolution to LTE. Frequently used tools like Actix & MapInfo. T-Mobile USA National T1 Disconnect Project:Also at present working remotely as a part of LCC USA transport networks offshore team from 15th May 2011 on T-Mobile USA National T1 Disconnect Project of Abis and IUB interfaces for up gradation to HSPA and LTE Ethernet transport Network, Ensuring the disconnection of Cell site circuits assigned to me, Using Verizon and AT&T carrier gateway and Access tools and services. Also expert in Network Database management, T-Mobile Granite 6.3 Certified Engineer.Started my Career with LCC from drive testing on Ufone-Huawei and Telenor Pakistan-NSN North region GSM Networks and PTCL-ZTE CDMA network, for the purpose of optimization. Got exposure to Huawei BTS 3900, BSC 6900 with RAN performance parameters and counters, and RF parameters like Rx Levels, Rx Qual, MAIO/HSN, Neighbor Audit and Parameter Audit.Took trainings on Network Planning including Site planning, Frequency planning and Capacity planning.Understanding and extensive knowledge on LTE Radio Network Parameters, key Radio technologies, LTE radio design principles, LTE RF optimization and LTE field trials, as acquired through several trainings.

RF Trainee Engineer at Huawei Pakistan with RNP/O team of Augere (Qubee) WiMax Project, from July to December 2010. Understanding of OFDMA ,MIMO and WiMax technology, Huawei DBS3900 BTS and RRUs, performed cluster level and site level Drive Testing of WiMax Sites, Worked on Planning and Optimization tools such as Map info, Xcal, Xcap and Atoll for RSSI and CINR analyses and physical Optimization.

NOC Internee at Mobily Huawei Transmission (NOC) in Riyadh KSA from June to July 2010. Hands on experience on SDH and Huawei Fiber Transmission Network OSN 1500/3500/7500 and ADMs, also got familiar with T-2000 interface for monitoring and configuring the transmission Network Nodes within the Kingdom.

Lab Internee at United Mobile Pakistan in December- January 2009-2010, Gaining hands on experience of their laboratories. Studied Mobile Phone Architecture of Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Hands on experience in Level 1 to 3 Maintenance.

Engineering Internee at PTCL from June to July 2009, Visited PCM, ITMC SEA MEWE 3 &4 terminals, Internet and Telephone Exchange. Studied E1s and T1s, Digital Switching, Multiplexing of E1s, SDH, Copper and Optical Transmission, Cabling and Network Architecture.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS Designed and implemented Voice and data networks using Zigbee in 2.4 GHz band, as Final Year Project. The designing Included Hardware and PCB designing, Implementation also required Embedded C programming of Hardware Modules. The project imparted deep understanding of dynamics associated with 2.4 GHz RF band, structuring of Zigbee protocol stack and Adhoc Networking essentials Assisted Mr. Mohammad Ali Baig lecturer at NED University on the research project Audio Signal Analyzer & Conditioner Using Mat lab. Generated simulations and codes for GUI and Signal Processing and Filtering.

TOOLS Proficient in use of Map Info, XCAP, XCAL,TEMS, Actix, ATOLL, M2000 and MOS5200

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Good communication and management skills. Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office, including Excel, Access, Power point, Word. Experience in working on Multisim, MATLAB, Embedded C Keil Complier.

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITES Member of marketing team of the NEDUETs Telecommunication Departments magazine CommuniCat. Member of the Event Management team responsible for organizing the Digital Innovation Competition and Exhibition (DICE) 2008 at NED University and Sentec Quiz. Conducted a session Telecom Engineering as a Career at NED University.

PERSONAL INFORMATIONFathers Name: Syed Tahir Ali Date of Birth: October 9th, 1987Nationality:PakistaniNIC No:42101-0930667-7Iqama No:2109270930References: Available on request