Saad Aslam Khan

Current

Radio Network Performance/Optimization Engineer at LCC International Inc.

Past

WiMAX RF Design/Optimization Engineer at Motorola Networks - PAKISTAN
Radio Network Optimization Engineer at Motorola Networks - BAHRAIN
WiMAX RF Planning Engineer at Motorola Networks - PAKISTAN

Services Engineer - 1 N & TC at Ericsson Pakistan
Intern RF Planning Division at Warid Telecom
Intelligent Networks – Value Added Services Division at Warid Telecom

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Education

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
Keynesian Institute of Management & Sciences, Lahore
Aitchison College, Lahore

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Saad Aslam Khan’s Summary

• Almost 3 years Multi-Vendor experience in Telecommunications Industry

- Motorola
- Ericsson

• Multiple technologies experience

- GSM
- WiMAX

• Extensive experience as WiMAX RF Design and Optimization Engineer for Worlds largest commercial deployment for Fixed WiMAX

• Main responsibilities include Radio Network Planning including initial Coverage and Capacity Analysis on the basis of Coverage Prediction Tool, Pre-launch Site Optimization and Re-design of Network KPIs.

• Provided WiMAX Radio Network consultancy and Pre-Sales services including detailed responses for RFPs for local projects like Wateen Telecom, PMCL Worldcall Broadband and Wi-Tribe, Pakistan and International project Mena Telecom, BAHRAIN

• Extensive experience of preparing Radio Network Optimization Scope of Work documents highlighting Performance Services Motorola offers to its customers including proper resource utilization and timelines for Bench Marking and other critical activities pertaining to Network Performance.

• Considerable experience of working at Ericsson Pakistan as GSM Services Engineer on a project for Warid Telecom where my responsibilities included

• Initial Radio parameter planning and tuning of newly integrated sites, drive testing using TEMS Investigation

• Detailed Transmission Network Design using TEMS Link Planner

• Products: MotoWi4 WiMAX WAP 400 (DAP), WAP 800 (SAAP), MotoWi4 CAP-C

• Tools:
- ICS Telecom ATDI WiMAX Planning Tool
- Moto Carrier Grade EMS, Ericsson TEMS Investigation 7.1 Data Collection & Route Analysis
- MapInfo 9.0, MS Excel Advanced Engineering usage
- WiFTA (Motorola)
- Maxzilla (Motorola)
- Couei XCAL-X and XCAP-X
- Agilent E6474A

• Trainings:
- Motorola MAX300 - WiMAX Radio Link, Performance and - Parameters
- MAX-201e, Carrier Access Point Controller Installation, Commissioning and Bootstrapping
- Ericsson Cell Planning Principles II

Saad Aslam Khan’s Specialties:

• Ability to perform all stages of RF design, including: search ring process, optimal site selection, link budget analysis, RF sweep evaluation, interference mitigation, and spectrum management

• Detailed Radio Network Planning and Optimization

• Work effectively with multiple teams, including: project managers, network development partners, pre -sales and accounts, commissioning and field teams, in order to build an optimal next generation network

Saad Aslam Khan’s Experience

Radio Network Performance/Optimization Engineer

LCC International Inc.

(Public Company; LCCI; Telecommunications industry)

December 2009 — Present (2 months)
WiMAX RF Design/Optimization Engineer

Motorola Networks - PAKISTAN

(Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

November 2008 — December 2009 (1 year 2 months)

• Learned key basics of WiMAX Radio Network Design and Optimization services provided by Motorola to Wateen Telecom

• Monitoring critical Network Performance Indicators such as UL/DL Utilization, Dropped Packet Rate, Total AP Sector Usage, DL/UL data and control channel utilization, Total AP Sector Throughput, Initial Ranging Failures, etc using Maxzilla (Motorola Internal Network monitoring tool)

• RF Performance Weekly and Monthly Reports mentioning Key Performance Indicators, Highly Utilized cells, Average MCS, etc at Network and Cell Level using Maxzilla

• Re-design of Site Level and Network Level Parameters for Physical Layer and recommendations for change of these parameters for performance improvement

• Configuration of Network Elements using PEMS (Used for Network Element Monitoring and Configuration)

• Experience of Independent Drive Testing using Motorola CPE-i 600 and CPE-i 750 in camped and decamped modes and experience in dealing with the issue of feeder cable swapping

• Performed Idle Mode Drive Testing using Couei XCAL-X and WiFTA (Motorola Internal tool) collecting DL RSSI and DL CINR Logs and used Couei XCAP-X and MANTA (Motorola Internal tool) for post processing of Drive Test logs

• Experience of DL and UL Throughput testing using Jperf and Iperf involving different UDP packet sizes for data transfer

• Issue based Drive Tests with CPE-i 600 (Customer Premise Equipment) to solve Customer problems such as decamping, Interference, LOS issues, etc.

••Current Assignment••
Currently part of a team developing in house WiMAX Air-Interface Traffic Calculation Tool which will focus on intelligent subscriber traffic estimation for fixed WiMAX along with generation of traffic trend reports
Radio Network Optimization Engineer

Motorola Networks - BAHRAIN

(Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

September 2008 — November 2008 (3 months)

••Radio Network Optimization••

•Worked in Bahrain as an International Motorola consultant from Pakistan providing RF services to Local Motorola RF Optimization team based in Bahrain.

•Performed New Site Integration Drive Test using Couei XCAL-X and created Site Report with the help of Couei’s post processing tool XCAP-X.

•Conducted WiMAX Indoor building solution surveys based on results obtained from Indoor walk testing.

•Extensive Drive Testing and post analysis based on data collected from field testing using Motorola CPE-i 750.

•Participated in making the Final Optimization Report shared with the customer including results showing improvement in End user throughput after re-design of physical and soft parameters.

•Attending to user issue related to Radio Interface performance.
WiMAX RF Planning Engineer

Motorola Networks - PAKISTAN

(Public Company; MOT; Telecommunications industry)

February 2008 — September 2008 (8 months)

• Learned key basics of WiMAX Radio Network Design services provided by Motorola to Wateen Telecom

• Planning WiMAX Network for Motorola WAP 4XX Series Access Points (DAP - Diversity Access Point) based on IEEE 802.16e 2005 (More than 950 Sites planned till date) to meet Coverage and Capacity requirements

• Generating final Cell Design for a new planned site including Cell parameters such as Frequency, Preamble, Cell ID and BSID plan, etc

• Perform Network Design and Capacity calculations based on cartographic considerations, propagation modeling, antenna design, modulation schemes and link budgeting using CAPCALC 3.8 (A Motorola Internal tool used to calculate WiMAX System Capacity) and 802.16e Link Estimation Tool v6.1- (A Motorola Internal tool used to estimate WiMAX AP Cell coverage Radius)

• Detailed Coverage Analysis on ICS Telecom (ATDI) for analyzing RF Plots such as Coverage, Interference, Modulation, Best Server distribution, Coverage based Pass/Fail; Interference based Pass/Fail; Composite Coverage Area Reliability etc

• Customization of the Prediction Tool (ATDI’s ICS Telecom) and Model Tuning based on field test data

• Pre Launch Site Optimization and its Neighbor Auditing including Tilt and Azimuth implementation based on Google Earth, Coverage Plots and maintenance of Motorola Radio Network Database, after the planned site is integrated

• Conducting Technical Site Surveys, Area Profiling and Clutter Verification
Services Engineer - 1 N & TC

Ericsson Pakistan

(Public Company; ERIC; Telecommunications industry)

March 2007 — February 2008 (1 year )

••Radio Network Design/Optimization••

• Experience of Independent Drive and Walk Testing using TEMS Investigation 7.1 Data Collection and Route Analysis in Idle, Dedicated, Scan modes and experience in dealing with the issue of feeder cable swapping

• Making of Data Transcript file defining Cell Design Data for a new planned site which includes parameters such as BCCH plan along with the Tilt and Azimuth Planning before and after initial site Integration based on live Cell statistical data and Site surroundings according to Google Earth Coverage and coverage plots.

• Drive Test and Walk Test Report making for Integration, Issue based, coverage based and Re-homing Tests including observations and recommendations such as Antenna Height reduction, Tilt alteration, Azimuth alteration, etc

• Site and its Neighbor Auditing including Tilt and Azimuth implementation and maintenance of Ericsson Radio Network Database, after the planned site is integrated, depending on Handover Success/Failure stats.

••Transmission Network Design••

• Detailed design of the Transmission Network using Ericsson Mini Link Traffic Node, Ericsson Mini Link High Capacity, MDRS/EC, MDRS/S, Nera Inter Link, Nera City Link, etc

• Extensive Link Planning up till the STM-N Level with Mini Link Traffic Node and Mini Link High Capacity using TEMS Link Planner 6.4.2 with various carrier frequencies, e.g. 18GHz, 38GHz, etc

• Quality Report (Link Budget) generation on TEMS Link Planner 6.4.2 keeping in view the required important link design parameters such as Output Power limitations, Transceiver attenuation, Received Signal Level, Effective Fade Margin, First Fresnel zone clearance and Threshold degradation on a Transmission Link

• Maintenance of important documents such as Scope of Work, MUX plan, RBLT assignments (BSC Termination Points), Network Diagram in Microsoft Visio and MapInfo Professional 8.0 for the new and existing sites in the Network
Intern RF Planning Division

Warid Telecom

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

July 2005 — August 2005 (2 months)

• Learned Radio Frequency planning preliminaries during the expansion of Phase 2 for Warid Telecom

• Probable candidate approval, making of Technical Site Survey report and Site Search Order for the nominal Plan provided by Ericsson and Huawei during Phase 2 expansion of Warid Telecom based on Received Signal Level Plots using topographic tools such as TEMS Cell Planner Universal and MapInfo Professional 7.5
Intelligent Networks – Value Added Services Division

Warid Telecom

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

June 2005 — July 2005 (2 months)

• Understood the importance of Value Added Services in a GSM network and gained practical experience in planning and implementation of new Value Added Service provided by Ericsson in the expansion of the GSM Network

• Got hand on experience in activation of call barring service for international, outgoing/incoming calls.

Saad Aslam Khan’s Education

University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

B.Sc Honours , Electrical Engineering , 2003 — 2007
Keynesian Institute of Management & Sciences, Lahore

GCE A - Levels , Pre - Engineering ( Further Mathematics, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry ) , 2000 — 2002
Aitchison College, Lahore

GCE O - Levels , 1990 — 2000

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Saad Aslam Khan’s Interests:

Mountaineering, Trekking, Cricket, Tennis, Travel, Gourmet cooking, Professional networking, World Geography

Saad Aslam Khan’s Groups:

Private Mountaineering and Trekking Association

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