CURRICULUM VITAE

Ehtesham Ali Khan

Mobile no.:+966506933804
Email: ehteshamkhan85@gmail.com

Career objective:

Intend to carve out a niche for myself in the telecom industry and build a career with leading
corporate of hi-tech environment with committed & dedicated people, which will help me to
explore myself fully and realize my potential. Willing to work as a key player in challenging
& creative environment.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
 Transmission Engineer responsible for the coordination, management and execution of
proactive and reactive maintenance activities that require a higher level of support that the
one offered by the 1st Level Operations. The incumbent will ensure that the services provided
to customers are continuously available and performing to Service Level Agreement (SLA)
performance levels in in (Network operation center)
 Telecom Professional with engineering expertise in 4G/3G/2G with experience on multi-vendor
equipment’s i.e. Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei RAN, SDH muxes, microwaves.
 Familiar with various aspects of business ranging from telecom system integration,
commissioning, project rollout, network expansion, operation and maintenance, customer
relationship, managed services and HSW (health and safety)
 I have 10 years’ rich experience working in telecommunication sector. (Mainly in MW, Wimal-
LTE, 3G (From RNC & Node side) & 2G GSM, CDMA System Integration, Proficient in
installation, commissioning and integration of Ericsson, Nokia & Huawei BTS, Huawei Wimax-
LTE, 2G BSS & 3G RAN). I have been actively involved in Survey, Installation,
Commissioning(BTS&MW), CWO (For E1 & IPRAN) Testing& troubleshooting from BSC or RNC
end till site, Script Loading for Node, Integration, telecom Equipment Monitoring,
Transmission(E1, ATM & IP), maintenance and operational issues.
 I have a Telecom engineering background with good analytical skills .
 Deep understanding of technologies such as 2G GSM, 3G RAN, WIFI, UMTS, LTE, FTTH, MPLS.
 Proven ability in performing corrective maintenance, alarm handling, fault rectification and
upgrades to increase the performance and productivity
 Excellent analytical & interpersonal skills and easily develops good rapport with both
colleagues and clients
 Ensured operational efficiency by developing safe working practices and quality processes
 Ensured effective vendor management for optimal vendor performance as per the SLAs and
strengthen the vendor relationship at the circle level to ensure smooth functioning
 Capable of providing high levels of technical and telecommunications engineering support
 Ability to guide and provide the technical support with respect to telecom services.

Total Work Experience: 10 Years

I have worked newly infrastructure of NOC . (Network Operation Center)

 Vendor – Huawei
 Operator –STC
WORK EXPERIENCE
 Company: LCC (KSA)
 Position : Transmission Fault Management Engineer (Huawei)
 Duration : From May 2017 to Till dated
 Projects : Huawei/STC Managed Service Project

My Key responsibilities include:

 Microwave link communications system
 24/7 Tier 2 Support for Operation and Maintenance of Kingdom wide STC
 Familiar with all NOC activities including supervision, Fault handling and troubleshooting,
Configuration and WO execution, performance monitoring and supporting to L2/L3.
 Networks (MW/GSM/RAN and LTE).
 Transmission engineering knowledge.
 Transmission Network daily Alarm monitoring & Corrective action for clearing alarms
 Alarm Troubleshooting & Corrective action for TX/ Microwave Network
 Knowledge of telecom network.
 Technologies used: Optical fiber, SDH / DWDM / TDM, Cisco, FTTH,DF technology.
 Have a good command of microwave principles, service configuration, trouble shooting.
 Detail Troubleshooting of Huawei RTN MW 300,900,600 series and ATN 905/910 .
 Monitored and analyzed system component MW 900 and 300 series.
 Fault Management takes end-to-end responsibility for corrective maintenance of
Network problems.
 Monitored network performance and uptime and responded quickly to incidents.
 Microwave network O&M Monitoring, Maintenance, Configuration and troubleshooting
MW equipment RTN900 using Web LCT, M2000 and U2000 software
 Ensure all problem tickets are being managed within KPI.
 Maintenance and troubleshooting of different microwave transmission system.
 Transmission Fault management.
 Transmission configuration management.
 Rectifying the Transmission related issue.
 Providing expertise for the installation of microwave links As per Link Budget (LB).
 Have a good command of microwave network solutions and related network solutions.
 Good trouble shooting skills for GSM sites over Back haul (DWDM, Cisco, GPON, DF, and
CWO).
 Creating IEEE 802D, IEEE 802Q bridge based E-LAN services for 4G/3G/2G on U2000.
 Have good knowledge of product defects and limitations, have a command of method
and measures of locating complex faults of various microwave data services, and be able
to effectively provide solutions for complex data service faults (packet loss, QoS, ERPS
switchover, and MPLS).
 Verifying 2G, 3G, 4G V-LAN ids doing ping test from E-2-E.
 Troubleshooting XPIC link 2+0,1+0,2+2 HSB,1+SD,2+SD
 Back end support to field staff Connectivity and IP design to configure in Microwave and
VLAN, IP address in e Node B and LTE sites in OMCR.
  WORK EXPERIENCE
 Company: MEATECH (KSA)
 Position Wireless FO engineer/Transmission Fault Management Engineer
(Huawei)
 Duration : From April 2012 to Till May 2017
 Projects :Huawei/STC Managed Service Project
My Key responsibilities include:
 Microwave link communications system (video, audio, or data between two locations)
 Communications between satellites and base stations
 Backbone carriers for cellular systems.
 24/7 Tier 2 Support for Operation and Maintenance of Kingdom wide STC
 Networks (MW/GSM/RAN and LTE).
 Works on prolonged outages, customer support and Network Fault management.
 Troubleshooting of any Transmission Faults and Customer complaints within the time limits
defined by SLAs.
 Planning and implementation of alternative route for traffic rerouting in case of transmission
problems.
 Ensure KPI index for faults and performance of the Transmission Network.
 Troubleshoot the transmission problems and determine the problem’s causes.
 Coordinate on 24x7 basis with other relevant departments for any blocking
Surveillance of network faults for GSM NOC.
 Fault diagnosis & rectification
 Analyze, Correlate, Categorize and prioritize the faults.
 Escalation of the Issues to the concern departments and management level.
 Analysis and comparison of response and restoration time of Trouble Tickets as per SLA.
 Microwave Swap, commissioning and configuration of Huawei Microwave Optix RTN
310/980/950A/380 & ATN905/910.
 SD, XPIC configuration, creates ELAN services & conduct Traffic shifting, media tracing,
visibility & MDT activities to ensure the connectivity of Node-B & eNode.
 Optimization of MW links to encounter the Bandwidth utilization in real time.
 Having the ability to troubleshoot in real time to reducing network downtime.
 Traffic shaping and aggregation on high capacity MW links to come across packet loss
issue in erratic state of network.
 Coordination and Escalation with (Cisco, TNOC, GPON and Field Teams) in terms of
Trouble Tickets recommendation and restoration of sites.
 Classification of sites correlated to Backhauling (CWO, PAN, DWDM, DF) by means of
MNOC sites acceptance and outage restoration.
 Ethernet and E1 Configuration on RTN MW links for the integration of Huawei
/NSN/ALU/ZTE sites.
 DCN configuration for the visibility of Microwave links.
 Optimization of MW links to encounter the Bandwidth utilization in real time.
 Alarms monitoring of Preventive and corrective Maintenance of MW Links (XPIC, SDH,
PDH, Space Diversity).
 Troubleshooting support to Field Maintenance Engineers.
 Link Budgeting.
 Frequency planning.
 Worked on 13 GHz, 18 GHz, and 23 GHz Microwave Frequencies.
  Interference Analysis.
 Quality and Availability
 Use UTRAFFIC TO EXTRACT PERFORMANC OF MW LINKS

WORK EXPERIENCE
 Company : IGTL Solutions (Saudi Arabia) LLC
 Position : BSS Engineer(Telecommunication)
 Duration : From April 2009 to Till Feb 2012
 Projects : 3G3/3G4 (Third generation of wireless mobile telecommunications
technology Phase 3 & 4 Project for (Operator STC/Vendor Ericsson)

Responsibilities & Nature of Job:

 3G Network operations and maintenance which includes Active and Infrastructure
elements
 UMTS ,UTRA-FDD / W-CDMA ,UTRA-TDD LCR / TD-SCDMA,UTRA-TDD HCR / TD-
CDMA,HSPA ,HSDPA,HSUPA,HSPA+ ,DC-HSDPA.
 Applications of 3G (Global Positioning System (GPS), Location-based services, Mobile
TV, Telemedicine, Video Conferencing, Video on demand.
 GSM Fundamental in Ericsson.
 GSM 900/1800/2100 bands.
 Operation Ericsson-IRAN- WCDMA RAN P Configuration Ericsson-IRAN
 Analyzed the transcoder resources and inter-conversions of full rate, half rate devices etc
 Maintained the KPI of sites consistently and ensured maximum uptime for all the sites in
the zone
 Software up gradation of BTS.
 Bss operational actions including change management, configuration, fault locating and
improving network quality
 Trouble shooted Ericsson BTS 2202,2204,2206 and Mini link microwave before replacing
the hardware
 Ericsson RBS/NODEB commissioning
 Script loading and ETET done for Node B sites as part of 3G integration
 Creating IDB for 2g rbs.
 Carried BTS configuration, Expansions/Reductions as per the work order from the
operator
 Regular Preventive Maintenance of BTS site. Installation and commissioning of SIEMENS
BSS network elements
 Nokia BTS Commissioning and Installation (UMTS/EDGE).
 Site Integration.
 3G Nokia integration and network supervision using Net act.
 BTS: installation and commissioning the base transceiver stations (BS240L, XL, XS and
BS82).
 Network integration.
 Upgrading the Node B and Flexi BTS Remote Antenna Units.
 Software/Hardware Upgrades/Expansions on Node B's via Net act and Local connection.

 Cabinet expansion (indoor,

outdoor) of sites.
  Cabinet expansion (indoor,
outdoor) of sites.
 Cabinet expansion (indoor,
outdoor) of sites.
 Cabinet expansion (indoor,
outdoor) of sites.
 Cabinet expansion (indoor,
outdoor) of sites.
 Cabinet expansion (indoor,
outdoor) of sites.
 Cabinet expansion (indoor,
outdoor) of sites.
 Cabinet expansion (indoor,
outdoor) of sites.
 abinet expansion (indoor,
outdoor) of sites.
 Sweep Testing making VSWR and DTF test to analyze the cable. (ANRITSU, BIRD).

Working Experience on BSS Tools & Terminals:

 BMC REMEDY
 WEB LCT & LMT (Huawei).
  iManagerM2000,U2000.
 Pathloss / Mapinfo.

Professional Training

 I attended different Trainings regarding Transmission RTN310/ATN910/905

Personal Details:
 Date of Birth : 14/11/1984
 Nationality : Indian
 Sex : Male
 Marital Status : married
 Location : Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)