Rehan Rana
Toronto,ON
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Project Manager
Nokia Canada
05.2022 - Current
- Working as Technical Project Manager and Care Technical Manager for TELUS and Rogers Canada
- Main products deployed as TPM are Airscale LTE, 5G NSA, 5G SA, ASIR, Femto, DCAP, UTF and cloud solutions
- Manage Product Lifecycle including Software Upgrades, patch upgrade and security vulnerability fixes
- Lead NPI project for new features and products introduced including lab tests and FOA upgrades
- Closely work with CDM, PM, Product Management team, NPO Manager and other key stakeholders for smooth project delivery
- Handle complaints, technical queries, Care cases and other queries from customer
- Manage RAN Software testing, trial and large scale network wide deployment
- Support Sales team to review solution and services offers
- Prepared detailed Services delivery plan for multiple projects and closely follow up project team for timely execution
- Handled all technical issues and served as primary point of escalation for customer and all internal team members
- Trained project team members, while influencing them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work
- Closely monitored and took trainings for emerging technology within wireless and cloud radio technologies
Senior RAN Engineer
Nokia Canada
10.2021 - 05.2022
- Handled customer for different feature testing and issues seen on AirScale, ASIR, DCAP, UTF products
- Performed Installation, Integration, SW upgrade & Acceptance for Nokia DCAP and UTF Products
- Performed RAN features activation and tested with customer and analyzed results
- Integration, Commissioning and Upgrades of LTE/NR Airscale and ASiR solutions
- Follow up with care team for RAN, ASiR, DCAP, UTF issues and provide needed logs
Senior RAN Engineer
Samsung Electronics
08.2020 - 10.2021
- Lead RAN team for Samsung LTE and 5G solutions delivery in lab and production
- Lead team to test first LTE, NSA and SA call in customer lab and toy cell
- Completed ATP testing for LTE/5G NSA/5G SA in customer lab to validate new Hardware,Software and new features
- Worked on 5G CU DU split solution for 5G NSA and SA
- Conducted lab testing and field trails, test case development, include environment setup, configuration, test execution to verify LTE/5G NSA/5SA features
- Coordinated actions and investigation of technical Issues between local team and R&D product line support teams
Regional Technical Director
Huawei Technologies
06.2015 - 12.2019
- Guided, coached and lead project teams, delegating tasks and evaluating performance and progression of project pace
- Managed multi million dollar projects delivery for customer involving 1600+ sites
- Managed complex projects involving RAN modernization, RNC, NE40 routers delivery
- Prepare HLD, LLD with customer for new eNodeBs, RNCs and routers/switches
- Assessed expected technical challenges and developed proactive solutions
- Managed implementation of new Wireless technological improvements resulting in increased efficiency
- Took part in pre-sales for multiple projects to evaluate technical solutions, services cost estimation, risks and high level desgin
- Lead integration of trial 5G gNodeB and successfully tested all scenarios according to guidelines from R&D teams
- Developed suggestions for technical process improvements to optimize resources
- Worked on Huawei support system "iCare" to open tickets with GTAC/R&D for critical issues and followed up to resolve within short time to avoid end user impact
- Daily coordination with Optimization teams to discuss performance issues and resolved low throughput, RRC failures,TNL drops,sleeping cells etc
- Closely followed up with Optimization and customer teams to meet KPIs acceptance criteria and get sites acceptance from customer managed services team
- Acted as single point of contact with customer to address all technical queries and resolved any issue raised by them within agreed SLA with high customer satisfaction and received customer appreciations
- Planned rollout activities according to PIP and followed up with customer technical team to get MDTs approvals
- Prepared SOP, training materials and gave training to RAN Integration Engineers, subcontractors for new solutions and scenarios
- Honored with customer appreciation letters, Huawei Future Star awards for 2016 & 2019, won 2nd position in country level Technical competition
RAN Support Engineer
Huawei Technologies
01.2012 - 06.2015
- Prepared NodeB, eNodeB scripts and integrated 450+ UMTS, LTE nodes
- Performed BSC, RNC, GBTS, NodeB, eNodeB Software Pre-Upgrade Health checks and then network level Software upgrades
- Executed RNC/BSC expansions and rehoming activities
- Integration of new BSC/RNC in GSM only, UMTS only and GSM+UMTS modes
- Supported on site field engineer to do local commissioning, hardware installation and replacement and based on requirement visited sites for support
- QoS Implementation as set by customer and communicate with Transmission team for E2E QoS implementation
- Worked in shifts depending on network cut over activities
- Achieved "Excellent New Staff" award for 2012
IBS Implementation Manager
Nokia Siemens Networks
01.2011 - 12.2011
- Managed delivery of IBS sites in my region that involved active and passive DAS
- Handle end to end from site survey till handover to customer
- Resolved all technical issues, KPI degradations, VSWR issues
- Performed on field PAT with customer and ensure site acceptance without snags in first attempt
TI Engineer
Nokia Siemens Networks
02.2008 - 01.2011
- Supervised subcontractor teams during installation of 2G and 3G BTS and MW links on site
- Commissioned Cisco Switches for Native IP 3G BTS
- Commissioned and configured Nokia Flexi and Multi Radio BTS on sites
- Commissioned and configured Nokia Flexi Hopper MW links with FIU19
- Performed on site TRX expansion on live sites during MDTs
- Followed up with Drive Test team to clear low power, sector swap issues
- Performed on site VSWR test using Anrritsu Site Master and resolved high VSWR issues
- Performed on field Pre PAT and attended PAT with customer and ensure site acceptance without snags in first attempt
Education
NCSS Deploy Technical Management
Nokia
11-2024
NCSS TM
Nokia
11-2023
PMP
PMI
04.2023
Quality Specialist Yellow Belt
Nokia
01-2023
Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications Engineering
National University of Computer & Emerging Science
12.2007
Summary of qualifications
- Over 17 years of experience dealing with projects across Asia, Middle East and North America for Wireless and Data Communication Product Delivery Services
- More than 6 years of experience working as Technical Project Manager on complex expansion, modernization, swap and care projects
- Vast experience in technical project execution of 2G,3G,4G,5G, Femto cells, Micro cells and Data Communication projects
- PMP, NCSS Technical Management Certified
Training
Understanding ORAN, Remote, 2023
Nokia
Basics of Routing and Switching
Huawei
Project Management Training,2019
Knowledge Square Training,Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
5G RAN Training, 2018
Huawei R&D Center,Shanghai, China
Project Management Resource Pool Training, 2017
Huawei Training Center,Dubai, UAE
LTE RAN Training, 2012
Huawei Middle East Region Training Center,Bahrain
Timeline
Technical Project Manager
Nokia Canada
05.2022 - Current
Senior RAN Engineer
Nokia Canada
10.2021 - 05.2022
Senior RAN Engineer
Samsung Electronics
08.2020 - 10.2021
Regional Technical Director
Huawei Technologies
06.2015 - 12.2019
RAN Support Engineer
Huawei Technologies
01.2012 - 06.2015
IBS Implementation Manager
Nokia Siemens Networks
01.2011 - 12.2011
TI Engineer
Nokia Siemens Networks
02.2008 - 01.2011
NCSS Deploy Technical Management
Nokia
NCSS TM
Nokia
PMP
PMI
Quality Specialist Yellow Belt
Nokia
Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications Engineering
National University of Computer & Emerging Science
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