Telecom Design Engineer II @ • Working with OEM to understand the requirements, features and new fixes on a latest NPO and SAM releases relevant to Sprint network vision.
• Create a roadmap, architecture, system requirement document, feature requirement document, design requirement document, High level design document and Low level design document for Sprint network vision program on NPO and SAM.
• Work with Sprint internal team to provide a budget for new features, hardware, software, capacity on NPO and SAM.
• Develop and execute a test plan and work with testing team for regression and features testing in lab and FIT/Production. Reviewing the release notes for NRT and FIT for new loads and features testing.
• Working on highly complex production issues with EMS on NPO and SAM and provide a solution for critical issues.
• Working with different teams to come up with dependencies of NPO and SAM with SON, FDD, TDD, and small cells.
• Working with OEM to prioritize the ARs and provide solutions and monitor day-to-day activities on NPO & SAM. From December 2013 to Present (2 years 1 month) Telecom Design Engineer II @ • Drive new IP-based features and technologies (Voice over LTE) into mobile devices. Includes substantial interaction with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) as well as network equipment vendors and internal network teams.
• Perform as a cross functional liaison with network and compliance teams.
• Radio Network Planning and design of VoLTE network to meet stringent launch criteria
• Provide requirements for enodeB and MME from VoLTE RAN perspective
• Conducting the meeting with vendors and discussing the issues related to VoLTE capacity
• Work on band management, traffic management, MME counters, capacity with different vendors
• Provide the SRVCC requirements and design call flow
• Execute test plans in the labs.
• Proactively look for opportunities to improve and update test processes.
• Analyze log files and provide feedback and recommendations.
• Work on simulation tool such as Aeroflex and Spirent to make VoLTE simulated test call
• Device log collection, post processing, report generation, call flow analysis using standard industry tools such as QXDM, XCAL, XCAP, Wireshark etc.
• Develop test plans related to IMS/VoLTE/RCS/Messaging/Emergency Alerts, update existing test plans.
• Support other test teams with device setup and troubleshooting of data collection tools including hardware and software. From June 2013 to December 2013 (7 months) Telecom Design Engineer II @ • Researches, designs, plans, develops and/or evaluates new, advanced network technologies by translating requirements or strategic business objectives into final product design for projects that are highly complex.
• Work typically includes in-depth assessment of the networked application needs, providing network modeling and simulation testing, consulting to further clarify needs, and engineering high-speed technology network transports to deliver application functionality.
• Uses professional concepts, and applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.
• Works on problems of complex scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.
• work on highly complex projects doing design, planning, developing, and evaluating new advanced network technologies.
• Supporting the end-to-end design, development, testing, and deployment of Carrier Grade Wi-Fi and related interworking across wireless access technologies such as CDMA, LTE, and Wi-Fi.
• Translate requirements or strategic business objectives into the final product design for a project. From February 2013 to December 2013 (11 months) Washington D.C. Metro AreaNetwork Service/Support @ • Ethernet to the Cell migrations for Ericsson Node B equipment in the 3G Network.
• Create/prepare work orders and scripts to be executed in Node B, RNC, MSN, and SIADs-
• Working on Cisco SIAD collector circuit rebalance
• Provisioning Ericsson RNC, NodeB and Cisco SIAD router and MSNs
• Create and document methods and procedures, work within larger project teams, and create and test configuration scripts prior to implementation.
• Cisco SIAD IP rehome: Ericsson IuB over IP nodeB rehome from a source MTSO_A to a target MTSO_B.
• Activate IP QoS on an Ericsson 3G RNC and all associated IP interfaces.
• Working on Ericsson 3G RBS OAM IP change ATM backhaul. Updating IPAtmLinks and EthernetLink IP addresses in an Ericsson 3G RBS From October 2011 to February 2013 (1 year 5 months) RNC Integration Engineer @ • Integrating Alcatel Lucent’s RNC & Router Integration, Testing and Turn-up of Wireless Network Equipment which involves loading the software; configuring database, provision the routing and connection to the PDSN, Aggregation Router, and OA&M network, and testing the new DO RNCs.
• Auditing the installation of the equipment for proper cabling and connections
• Integrating Cisco or ALU 7750 Layer 2 & 3 routers and switches in North American CDMA Service Providers Mobile Switching Centers
• Installing & Integrating SUN Microsystems Servers / Blades and working with the Solaris Operating System
• Develop Method of Procedure for the integration of EVDO ATCA and UNC frame for a specific market configuration. Develop Method of Procedure for cell swings from R1SR to ATCA RNC frames specific to the market needs and cell swings inter/intra RNCs.
• Integrating RNC/ATCA frames for various customers such as Verizon, Sprint, Metropcs, Cellular South, Shentel, Cricket etc
• Responsible for resolving a wide range of EVDO faults including simple documentation questions, support for software upgrade, configuration management, hardware fault isolation, software code analysis, performance metric, and call processing related issues.
• Troubleshoot IP networks and physical connections From December 2010 to October 2011 (11 months) Greater Chicago AreaInternship @ Training on Perl, Perl CGI/DBI, Unix, KornShell, Oraclae 10G. From September 2010 to December 2010 (4 months)
Master of Science, Electrical Engineer @ Stevens Institute of Technology From 2008 to 2010 Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering @ Charotar institute of technology From 2004 to 2008 Neel Saraiya is skilled in: GSM, WCDMA, RF, LTE, Telecommunications, CDMA, Wireless, TCP/IP, UMTS, 3G, IP, Wireless Networking, WiFi, Switches, Routers