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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