Accomplished Wireless Technology consultant with a track record of collaborating with clients and business partners to achieve increasing system performance and technological growth

• Professional with over 8 years of experience in Wireless Engineering, Technical Project Management and Consulting
• Solid understanding of wireless technologies CDMA, EVDO, UMTS and LTE
• Supported several In-building DAS design and optimization of the macro network
• Expertise in RF Engineering including RF propagation, RF design & troubleshoot, Antennas, Link budget Call flows and FCC regulations
• Developed network performance reports and maintained KPIs within the design requirements
• Actively interfaced with Construction, Site acquisition teams, Operations, OEMs
• Strong experience managing cross-functional highly technical project teams
• Directly involved in the execution and management oflarge scale wireless network rollouts
• Managed overall program schedule by developing and tracking project objectives, resource loading, and timeline
• Provided single point of contact for project-oriented activities and communications to internal and external stakeholders
• Developed status reports and communicated key project milestones. Adjusted project plans to reflect project delays due to equipment or resource constraints
• Excellent leadership, negotiation skills, strong customer orientation, presentation skills
• Proficient with MS Word, Excel, Project, Powerpoint& Visio

KEY POSITIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia Oct ‘10- May ‘12
Consultant /RF Macro Support to Venue
Worked with In-building DAS solutions field teams to support design, deployment and optimization of the in-building coverage.

• Prepared and validatedsite survey documentation and standardized customer reports for the Telus Canada project
• Identified and implemented specific changes required to the Macro Equipment like Neighbor list changes
• Analyzed In-Building Walk test data and made recommendations to improve the performance of macro and venue networks
• Responsible for providing daily reports on software update status. Managed and resolved customer post launch software update issues

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia Jan ‘10 – Oct ‘10
Consultant /Project Manager
Responsible for establishing the scope and goals of the IP Multimedia System (IMS) infrastructure project. Interfaced with Product development and strategy team to align the business objectives. Responsible for translating business requirements into specific systems, applications or process designs for very large complex IT solutions and integration architecture.

• Established and maintained the Cox requirements, new feature request, maintenance release, and 3rd party integration process
• Reviewed and interpreted technical documents to write test strategies and test cases with pass/fail criteria
• Managed Change Requests for the bugs and QA inspection in the test planning, test case creation, test execution phases

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia 2007 –2009
Consultant
Alltel Merger Project: Managed merger integration efforts for the Verizon-Alltel cellular market in South Georgia markets.

• Project managed the design for a CDMA-EVDO RF network, utilizing the best mix of existing VZW and ALLTEL locations Captured milestones and dependencies, produce status reports and maintained issue log to ensure successful completion of design and deployment schedule
• Ensured performance of the network is maintained at the levels prior to the merger activities
• Performed traffic engineering to ensure adequate voice and data traffic after network integration in completed
• Responsible for the development, completion and reporting of project milestones, primary escalation point to resolve issues and provide the proper level of status reporting to key stakeholders

LTE design project:Managed and delivered LTE design for 300 sites in Atlanta initial phase by planning coverage levels based on the LTE link budget and re-design of the antennas on the existing sites

• Worked with engineering team to develop LTE launch goals and objectives.
• Developed& tracked major milestones for design and deployment of LTE and produced executive status reports
• Tracked and reported on the status of Regulatory requirements, RFDS, Colo-applications and other market projects
• Developed network plots to display the LTE coverage overlays by different launch phases and tracked each phase progress, issues separately.

In-building Projects:Managed and coordinated In-building projects including interface with vendors –ADC /LGC, Mobile Access

• Provided RF Macro (Optimization and Design) support to In-building engineers for design, optimization, network performance and capacity improvements to in-building systems - Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS)
• Identified and implemented specific changes required to the Macro equipment (Neighbor Lists, Power Settings, etc.)
• Monitor the performance of the network during special events and determined and implemented changes to improve the immediate performance.

3G Project: Designedactivities included GeoPlan tool analysis, search ring issuance, candidate approvals, antenna selection, regulatory deliverables, design worksheets & collocation applications

• Conducted analysis of the switch statistics and drive data to justify potential sites
• Identified causes of RF Interference and troubleshoot interference problems
• Forecasted covered pops and optimized the design with analysis tool of GeoPlan to meet site objectives
• Maintained GeoPlan database up to date, developed coverage plots for the Engineers and executive reporting

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia 2005 – 2006
Project Manager
Performed a role of a project managerto plan, test and execute delivery of UMTS (3G) sites to Cingular. Managed expansion of the UMTS network and upgrade on-air GSM sites to collocate UMTS equipment for Cingular

Confidential, Baltimore, Maryland 2005 
System Performance Engineer
Responsible for the system performance and optimization of the cellular network

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia 2003-2004
Consultant

• Relationship management with existing clients of Avion and supported management activities including contract bid Screened candidates for recruitment to meet client needs

Confidential, Richardson, Texas2000-2001
Design Consultant

• Responsible for design and optimization of 140+ sites for Horizon PCS in Northern Indiana Worked with customer in acceptance and handoff procedures. Successfully completed Acceptance test with the client
• Major contribution to network design phase included site visits/surveys, Site evaluation /selection, PlaNET modeling analysis, and Regulatory support

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering