Arslan Aslam
Mississauga,ON
Summary
Demonstrable 10+ years professional experience with multi-Vendors in telecom sector E2E services Including Management, Implementation, Delivery, Optimization, Device/Lab Testing ,Performance, Back office/BSC/RNC/NOC Support and RAN/BTS/MW Services. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and result oriented understanding Innovative, self-motivated with strong leadership abilities. Work independently and ensure smooth efficient supervision operations. I have handled crisis situations in a calm and capable manner. Have flair to learn more and work in any kind of environment.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Specialist
Rogers Communication
Toronto, Canada
03.2022 - Current
- Lead planning and execution of projects for installation, testing and commissioning of 5G, LTE/NR, GSM and Carrier Add upgrades of Rogers in the Central Greater Toronto Area (GTA) using Ericsson Equipment and Architecture
- Manage local and global employees and supervise multi-discipline contractors assuring planning and execution of all project deliverables on schedule meeting project scope, specifications, and quality requirements
- Kept inventory status through Oracle, inform the relevant department of shortages, and request to order material
- Created Request for PO based on contractor’s quote and ensured compliance to internal standards and processes
- Tracked POs and performed Online Receive through Oracle of project deliverables, and invoicing
- Used various internal Change Management Tools to authorize work and inform subcontractors and relevant departments at Rogers of the tasks being carried out on live sites
- Reviewed and tracked deficiencies and ensured the corrections are being made according to Rogers’ standards
- Created and managed RMA processes for return of faulty equipment to suppliers
- Conducted regular meetings with contractors, vendors and other stakeholders to develop work schedules and achieve milestones and project deliverables
- Conducted and attended DT meetings with FOPS (Field Operations) and developed action plans to close DTs and communicated plans to subcontractors
- Currently acting as a consultant to the Project Manager of Operation and Project Management Software in development
- Working closely with the 3rd party application developers and software developers to pass on and evaluate user requirements.
Technical Project Coordinator
StarTech Networks Inc.
Toronto, Canada
01.2021 - 02.2022
- Organizes, plans, and monitors multiple activities spanning end to end project delivery, people, and resources management
- Establishes a cooperative team environment within company & Client
- Develops input to departmental, business unit, and enterprise direction and strategy
- Maintains detailed project records and communication artifacts with Ericson & Rogers
- Identifies and focuses project teams to achieve or exceed realistic milestones and objectives
- Responsible for people Management, including goal setting and providing performance feedback
- Proactively manage telecom projects and related issues on account or assignment
- Create and utilize Metrics for Daily Project measurement with Project Manager
- Co-ordinate all project work packages (Telecom) with responsible department Communication plans would be developed throughout the year for each project during the planning phase
- Provided Technical support to teams on complication of Implementation & troubleshooting
- Provided Implementation/Integration guide & training to new add on teams
- Followed up with Client for the activity prospective such as HW/Material & solution scenarios
- Proposal for field verification & aligning criteria for acceptance with customer
- Manage & arrange Repair and Return activity for faulty units
- Implementation of detailed Work orders and MR ordering through DSV or supply chain up
- Identifies new business opportunities along with partnering with business development group to sell expanded services within market.
Technical Support Specialist
SM Consulting
Toronto, Canada
10.2019 - 12.2020
- Working on the OLG/Atria/Blink/ Legacy Audit/Migration Projects for Rogers Communications
- Tracking all the Existing Circuits for the above-mentioned Companies that were acquired by Rogers
- Arranging training and given guideline to new technicians in the testing of equipment
- Site’s capacity expansion and cutover from old design to new design
- OLG terminal Provisioning and activation for the new sites Such as Bell DSL/EOC/LTE
- Commissioning and configuration of the sites using various Tolls Such as EWP/SGI/HPNA/Service Portal/OSSRIS
- OLG Terminal migration from Cisco old router to new C1117-4PWA
- Checking and investigate site validation such as LTE RSSI-RSRP-SNR- RAT
- Participating in leftover and pending sites in weekly internal meetings
- Deciding and finalizing way forward for the leftover sites with Rogers/OLG Management
- Track project performance against schedule and SLA, provide monthly exception reports
- Collaborate with project stakeholders from other engineering disciplines and Regulatory groups (ex
- Technology Development, Planning, PMO, Operations and NOC, etc.)
- Working and creating new and moderation 5G uplift sites via Special net
- IOW&POW for upcoming 5G rollout sites
- Pre engineering for footprint and new sites 4G/5G sites
- Experienced working with core network signaling SIP and all with LTE equipment’s
- Migrating Legacy Network sites to the New 9K-PROD Network of new 1100 Series Cisco routers and AP’s in MPLS Network using multiple tools.
Wireless Equipment Specialist
Huawei Technologies
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
09.2016 - 08.2019
- Manage the centralized equipment engineering function, responsible for the layout design, specification, and capital project creation and requisitioning of network and adjunct growth cell equipment
- Responsible for calculating, defining, and procuring all cell site related hardware/equipment
- New cell site build process and network expansion projects as required by the local market
- Maintaining equipment specification, space planning, HVAC calculations, DC & AC power calculations
- Ordering, forecasting, and ensuring equipment is available to meet the projects deadlines
- Responsible for ensuring all cell site records are updated, including but not limited to Granite, Siterra, AutoCAD, special net Etc
- Manages outside vendors to ensure orders are placed and received in a timely manner to meet project timelines and that pricing is favorable to the corporation
- Interface with major outside vendors to address equipment requirements, resolve equipment design disputes, and resolve invoicing and other payment issues
- Work with market-based Implementation Managers/Engineers to insure consistent application of standards
- Management of the Network requisitioning process for all network BTS equipment to ensure the prompt and efficient purchasing and delivery of network hardware and services that provide required capacity and improved performance for the wireless networks
- Resolve delivery and invoice discrepancies with suppliers
- Support equipment engineering requirements for BTS - performing detailed site and component engineering, space planning and capital budget forecasting
- Work with other regional staff engineers and market-based Implementation Managers/Engineers to provide space and power planning.
Wireless Integration Engineer
Huawei Technologies
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
01.2014 - 08.2016
- Managed the activities of the field & integration Engineers for commissioning, integration & troubleshooting of radio GSM, UMTS & LTE sites as well Microwave products
- Leading the contractors for deployment of new sites and bands
- Implementation of detailed Work orders and MR ordering through DSV or supply chain up
- Plan and execute the site survey before the project Kick off to estimate the material and implementation time
- Managed the project activities outside contractors and internal processes through construction and integration
- Support and given the guideline to Rigger and technicians to resolve the transmission issues within the SLA
- Coordination and Joint visits with optimizations team related call drops and TRXs low power issues on BTS
- Installation and planning of different type of microwave Antenna with different radio frequencies
- Configuring of new sites, script management and troubleshooting of different NEs via CME and U200/M2000
- Software Upgrades, optimize and maintenance of BSC/RNC and BTS/NodeB HWs
- BSC and TC Sub rack configuration and commissioning, Load Balancing of BM and TC Sub racks
- 24/7 on-call to provide the emergency technical support services to NOC & operations teams
- Sites KPIs monitoring after rehoming/cutover activates, Classify the fault into Critical, Major, Minor alarms
- Generate GUL daily reports for Network KPI’s, Cells/TRX availability, Network Outage Report
- RTWP/RSSI/VSWR troubleshooting and proper analysis with HW test in order to find the rout cause
- Proposal for field verification & aligning criteria for acceptance with customer
- Analyzed critical transmission design changes and emergency fixes before their implementation in the network
- Provide seamless escalation, timely updates and clear communication to internal groups and Executives
- BSC6900/6910 commissioning and Integration in GO/GU mode, IPCLK3000 commissioning and integration
- Call testing on BSC6910 using BTS3900E(2G) & BTS3902E (3G)
- Re homing of BTS node from one BSC/RNC to other BSC/RNC as per final design
- Plan, priorities and organize project related workload in conjunction with IM & TL
- Work with the engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure each release meets high quality
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot issues during integration, test, and verification phases
- Handled independent checking of design, signaling review of concept design, testing and commissioning of various track circuits
- Ensured that desired engineering standards are implemented with regard to proposed design and that they comply with all safety norms for successful project implementation
- Good grasp on data compression, channel capacity, rate distortion m and network information theory
- Hands on experience in working lab & core equipment
- Exceptional leadership, analytic and problem solving skills.
BSS & MW Engineer
Nokia Siemens
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
09.2011 - 12.2014
- Installation and troubleshooting of Nokia Ultra/Metro/Flexi Edge 2G/3G BTS Sites
- Installation and troubleshooting of Nokia Flexi Hopper, Flexi Hybrid and FIU 19
- Commissioning & troubleshoot of Nokia Flexi hopper (M/W) SDH/PDH links
- Cross connections and grooming FIU 19.FXC RRI, FIFA and FTFA
- Installation of indoors and outdoor microwave equipment according to Band
- Installation of NEC/NSN Microwave/Huawei RTNs (Pass link) equipment
- Monitor performance of transmission NEs in the network
- Maintaining the daily alarm analysis report on NSN/NEC Microwaves in Operation & maintenance
- Support and given the guideline to Rigger and technicians to resolve the transmission issues within the SLA
- Prepared the PMR Reports on daily and monthly basis in order to enhance MS performance
- Coordination and Joint visits with optimizations team related cross feeder and TRXs low power from BTS end
- Handle to solve the sites visibility problems with Help of NOC Team
- Installation and planning of different type microwave Antenna with different radio frequencies
- Handle to find out the fault and troubleshoot PDH link, SDH, link, STM1
- Site Migrations, Cutovers, Service Orders, Work orders to be completed in-time
- 24/7 on-call to provide the emergency technical support services to NOC & operations teams
- Analyze and rectify the TCH degradation and availability issue on network
- VSWR Testing and Troubleshooting Using Anritsu Site Master, Bird Site Analyzer
- Fault handling related to IBS sites, transmission compression equipment, microwaves
- Hot swap Nokia Metro to Nokia Flexi in Medina city KSA
- Implementation of Q1/BTS External alarms Monitoring & Fault Finding
- Troubleshooting and commissioning Flexi Multi Radio BTS GUL Sites
- Maintenance of Sharing BTS site GSM 900 with U900, G1800 with LTE 1800 FDD
- IP/Vlan configuration to the BTS and Transmission Units
- Perform acceptance, operation and maintenance of Node B’s and related field network elements such microwave radios, battery cabinets, all cabling and connectors
- Perform all required Preventative Maintenance routines and periodic test procedures
- Manage & arrange Repair and Return activity for faulty units.
Education
Skills
- Develop and evolve the test plans pertaining to the handset client applications
- Working knowledge of CMU500/CMU200, Anritsu Network Simulator, and Audio Simulator
- Huawei U2000, M2000, CME
- NOC/BSC, RNC/BTS/MW
- GSM/3GPP/UTRAN WCDMA, UMTS/ LTE FDD, TDD, LTE A LTE 900, LTE2100/LTE700 and RF sharing
- Technical Tier 1 & Tier 2 planning, implementation, field operations support
- Development, Testing, installation, Commissioning, Integration, service activations
- Optical fiber splicing and testing
- Supervision of GSM/UMTS/LTE/5G/NR installation
- Design, ordering, receiving, budget, and implementation
- Implementation/ Roll out, Operations & maintenance /Managed services
- Service assurance (fault, event, trouble ticket, Performance, network monitoring, investigation, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, SLA
- Managed Equipment & data inventory Task
- Networking/ TCP-IP, HTTP, UDP, SMTP, POP3)
- Putty/SSH-Telnet Client/DAS-CMD Characterization/validation of the wireless Platform
- Familiar with 5G core elements (AMF, UPF, SMF,NR
- Knowledge of wireless standards bodies (eg, CDG, OMA, 3GPP, 3GPP2)
- Knowledge of QXDM, HiDS, Shannon, Wireshark
- Excellent understanding of current wireless technologies 2G/3G/ 4G/ 5G, including but not limited to, IMS, LTE/NS VoLTE, VoWiFi, SMS-IP, Core, SUAT, GEO, TTY, ROAM
Trainings and achievements
- Certified Network security Engineer (Palo alto Networks)
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA)
- Rogers/Ericson LTE/NR/5G Uplift Implementation / Cisco Transport Migration Project
- Rogers OLG New sites /Migration Project
- Rogers Legacy Rollout/Migration Project
- Rogers 5G UPLIFT IWO & PWO Project
- Rogers OLG Project architecture input to the Architecture Risk Management process
- Rogers Atria-Blink audit inventory/Migration Project for Cisco
- Huawei 5G SA/NSA E2E, KSA
- Nokia MR LTE (FDD, TDD) KSA, Nokia MR UTRAN (O&M) KSA
- Managed and delivered O&M Project for Mobily/STC sites of Nokia/ Huawei, KSA
- Managed and delivered STC USF5 Project Central Region as (PM), KSA
- Huawei UMTS 3rd 4th carrier Refarming, KSA
- Huawei L2100 Implementation and integration KSA
- Huawei L900,700 implementation and Integration, KSA
- Huawei Network operation safety outstanding individual, KSA
- Huawei Certificate of appreciation for contribution USF5 Project, KSA
Timeline
Project Specialist
Rogers Communication
03.2022 - Current
Technical Project Coordinator
StarTech Networks Inc.
01.2021 - 02.2022
Technical Support Specialist
SM Consulting
10.2019 - 12.2020
Wireless Equipment Specialist
Huawei Technologies
09.2016 - 08.2019
Wireless Integration Engineer
Huawei Technologies
01.2014 - 08.2016
BSS & MW Engineer
Nokia Siemens
09.2011 - 12.2014
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