RESUME

Asthamathi Santosh Kumar

Mail-santosh.asthmathi@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-6281069274
Over-all Experience: 10.1 years

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

With 10.1 years of Telecom experience in Radio Frequency (RF) Planning, Deployment &
Optimization domain and proficient in GSM /UMTS/LTE/5GNR and ORAN technologies.
Highly motivated and proven track record of achievement and understanding RF systems with
areas of expertise include Cellular Network Deployment, Optimization, RF Survey, Drive test,
Frequency Planning, Statistics analysis & solution finding aiming to reach the network KPI.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• RF Optimization of 5G,4G & 2G,3G Networks.

• Network performance analysis Tools- M2000, U2000, PRS, ENIQBO, WINFIOL, NetAct,
Tableau, Metrical
• Post processing tools GENEX PROBES Analyzer, TEMS.
• Drive Test Tools-TEMS & AZENQUES Outdoor
• MapInfo professional, MIPT, MCOM, QGIS3
• Global Mapper, Google Earth
• EEA TOOL (Ericsson expert Analysis)
• BMC Remedy
• ATOLL TOOL
• Domain Knowledge: UMTS, LTE, 5GNR and ORAN technologies
• Other Tools: NETACT, Ericson ENM, Putty, Quantum, RMAP, Pilot tool, Assure Now, BMC
remedy, Tableau Dashboards, Metrical, Wireshark
Job Profile

• Expert in RF Technology, Planning, Deployment, troubleshooting and optimizing of NR-5G 4G

LTE/VOLTE of ERICSSON, HUAWEI, NOKIA radio.

• Expert Understanding of Concepts for RF technologies, RAN, Coverage, KPIs planning,

deployment, Troubleshooting and optimization on Technologies such as 4G/5G and ORAN.

• Expert Understanding of 4G,5G and ORAN architectures interfaces and their call flows.

• Good knowledge with LTE, 5G NR, and ORAN concepts and preferably Radio protocols.

• Familiar with LTE/5G NR protocol stacks (SDAP/RRC/RLC/MAC & PHY) and network layers
(Logical/Transport & physical layers)

• Experienced and Efficient in Customer Handling, Project/Work Management, Team

Coordination, and on-time delivery to the customer.

• Experienced in 4G & 5G Cluster Drive testing. Have good understanding of LTE/5G/VoLTE

architecture & Call flow.

• Manage/drive multiple customer related problems by deep analysis on customer.

Projects Worked: S-KPIs (SOC-EE)
Role : Team lead-Technical Authority Expert in Ericsson

 Doing first level analysis sending recommendation to UK team

 Monitoring 5G NR and 4G KPIs of multi technologies using (LTE) taking
corrective actions to resolve any degradation in KPIs.
 Co relation S-KPI and RAN KPI finding issue and sending to different team for
investigations.
 Will work on Service based -KPI and LTE KPIs of all technologies to improve the
customer experience.
 Co-ordinating with the market team for taking approvals to implement necessary
corrections in the network.
 Crowdsource Analyzing EE networks with Umlaut Raw Data Samples.
 Dead cell analysis
 Packet loss issue investigations regarding S-KPI issues
 Site LD of poor performing sites
 Major Responsible for Network Level & Cluster level Optimization to Improve KPI
 After Post launch of LTE meet the aggregate KPI for 10 days with Justification.
 Working on customer S-KPI analyzing and troubleshooting
 Analyzing the Customer centric service KPIs like Speech quality issues, Soft drop,
Grabbling, Packet loss issues, Throughput issues and providing the solutions to them
 Coordinating among the Hardy internal teams to discuss the resolve the issues
 Monitoring and analysis of Subscriber experience on 4G/5G technologies by extracting the
user experience KPIs and data from the EE CNE tool
 Tracking the tickets raised on the subscriber impact area and provide root cause analysis
and provide recommendations.
 Troubleshooting technical issue and coordinate with other engineer teams to resolve issues.
 Working for POC implementing in RF related activities working for same to execute.
 Implementing SON features for improve the network experience.
 Experience in Femto cells which we adding neighbors activations and monitoring KPI and
optimizations.

Projects Worked: 4G LTE /2G/3G-

Orange Spain Role : Assistant manager

for Tata communication

Tata communications as RF engineer in Chennai for Orange Spain network

Main Key responsibilities: -
 Daily Monitoring of 2G,3G,4G KPIs maintaining cluster
 Preparing KPI Quality factory cluster reports as per customer requirements.
 Daily KPI analysis for new sites and implementing parameter for improve the KPIS
 Responsible for the maintaining the KPI’s and representing to the customer KPI’s
improvement
 And preparing the justifications for not meeting KPI thresholds as per SLA
 LTE site’s KPI monitoring & Hourly stats report generating for Accessibility,
Retainability, Mobility, Integrity
 Daily Monitoring of 2G,3G,4G KPIs (DCR, RRC Success rate PS and CS, ERAB
Success rate PS and CS, IRAT PS and CS, Traffic PS and CS) by the help of Busy
Hour/Daily Total Stats
 Preparing 3g neighbor scripts for new sites KPI
 Daily KPI i analysis for new sites and implementing parameter for improve the KPI
 IRAT analysis for worst cells
 Responsible for the maintaining the KPI’s and representing to the customer KPI’s
improvement- 2G-DCR SDCONG, TCHCONG, SDBLOCK, SDDROP, TBFDROP
 Monitoring High rejections cells in 3G -DL CODE CONGESTION, POWER
CONGESTION, DL CONGESTION, ULCONGESTION
 Implementing the neighbors’ scripts for 3g and 2g, LTE for new site. And monitoring the
KPI
 LTE site’s KPI monitoring & Hourly stats report generating for Accessibility,
Retainability,

Role: RF Optimization Engineer in Huawei technology

 Currently working in HUAWEI Technologies as RF engineer in bang lore

GSC Main Key responsibilities: -
 Daily Monitoring of 2G,3G,4G KPIs (DCR, RRC Success rate PS and CS, ERAB
Success rate PS and CS, IRAT PS and CS, Traffic PS and CS) by the help of Busy
Hour/Daily Total Stats
 Preparing 3g neighbor scripts for new sites KPI
 Daily KPI i analysis for new sites and implementing parameter for improve the KPI
 IRAT analysis for worst cells
 Responsible for the maintaining the KPI’s and representing to the customer KPI’s
improvement-2G-DCR SDCONG, TCHCONG, SDBLOCK, SDDROP, TBFDROP
 Monitoring High rejections cells in 3G -DL CODE CONGESTION, POWER
CONGESTION, DL CONGESTION, ULCONGESTION
 Planning trx addition for high utilization cells.
 Implementing the neighbors’ scripts for 3g and 2g, LTE for new site. And
monitoring the KPI
 LTE site’s KPI monitoring & Hourly stats report generating for Accessibility,
Retainability,
 Mobility
 To analyze the issue with help of log file to find the various issues like pilot
pollution, HOSR, CSSR, DCR, CQI, DATA Throughput, Overshooting,
Missing neighbors.
  Experience in 4g new site planning and optimization

NPI- Ericsson Chennai -Airtel

 Daily Monitoring of 2G,3G,4G KPIs (DCR, RRC Success rate PS and CS, ERAB
Success rate PS and CS, IRAT PS and CS, Traffic PS and CS) by the help of Busy
Hour/Daily Total Stats
 Handling customer complaints for all 2g ,3g LTE
 Monitoring BCR DCR for 2g and 3g identifying worst cells changing parameters in
WINFIOL
 Monitoring High rejections cells in DL CODECONGESTION,
POWERCONGESTION, DL CONGESTION, ULCONGESTION doing soft
changes in WINFIOL
 Daily preparing MRR report in 2g and identifying worst cells sending the worst
cells to field for optimizations.
 LTE site’s KPI monitoring & Hourly stats report generating for Accessibility,
Retainability, Mobility

 Responsible for and Cluster Pre & Post Testing and Optimization. Handling
customer complaints issue rectification and final recommendation. Handling
issues Like weak (Coverage, Throughput), (CSFB, IRAT redirection) failure and Ping
delay.
 Performed DT logs analysis.
 Identify issues like (Coverage Holes, no dominant server, Cross Coverage, and PCI
(Collision and Pollution), Handover Problem Analysis and perform parameter
optimization. Generated SSV & Cluster Optimization Reports.
 During Cluster/SSV Monitoring different KPIs (CSSR, CDR, HOSR, and TCH Traffic
etc) including: RRC Connection Failure Rate, RRC Drop Rate, PDSCH Average
Throughput and intra Frequency HO Success Rate,
 For Low Throughput Analyzing Modulation Schemes like 16QAM,
64QAM, QPSK for downloading and QPSK/16 QAM for Uploading and
Transmission Schemes from Logs
 Providing on support to the DT Engineers.
 Provide Exceptions and give suggestions to improve the results. Verify CSFB,
PCIs, DL & UL throughput latency.

 Also Analyze LTE Drop Call analysis, Network Attach failure analysis, PCI collision
analysis, HO failure analysis, Worst cell analysis
 Drive test reports have been prepared using GENEX Assistant, and MapInfo
 Worked as a RNO in Tata tele service:

• KPI Analysis and Improving Networking performance.

• Post processing of drive data & Analysis of cluster drives and providing solutions.
• Responsible for BSC’s allocated and generating reports Pre & Post
critical situations
• Monitoring of RAN KPI such as RRC Access failure rate, Drop rate & Intra,
IRAT HO Failures.
• Attend Customer Complaints
• Responsible for the maintaining the KPI’s and representing to the
customer Chennai) KPI’s improvement, DCR, SDCONG,
TCHCONG, SDBLOCKING, SDDROP, TBF DROP,
DLTHROUGHPUT
At Network level and cell level
• Preparation of CRF (change Request Form) for TRX Add/Del, TS
Change, NBR Add/Del, BCCH Freq Change etc.
• Making Power Point Presentation of SSV, Cluster Drive &Bench marking.
• Data analysis of KPI report for any sudden change in the network.
• Data Collection Cluster
• Co-Ordinator for dt teams.
• Generate report for the team

Worked as Rf drive test in Telcom network solutions -Airtel:

• Analysis of drive logs using post processing tools like TEMS and Map info etc.
• Communication and interaction with customer for Network related
complaints and for new and capacity site planning.
• Study of customer complaints and provide solutions.
• Proficiency in 2G& 3G,4G RF OPTIMIZATION, taking decisions to
optimize network according to congestion & real situation.
• Preparation of CRF (change Request Form) for TRX Add/Del, TS
Change, NBR Add/Del, BCCH Freq Change etc..
• Making Power Point Presentation of SSV, Cluster Drive &Bench marking.
• Data analysis of KPI report for any sudden change in the network.
• Data Collection Cluster drives, Comparative drive to Identity
• status of Site Coverage Area

Area of interest:
 O-RAN/Open RAN/RAN/V-RAN ,5G-NR, LTE/VoLTE Testing, Deployment
Troubleshooting & Optimization.
Educational Background:
B.E., (Electronics & Communication Engineering.) from Avantha saint Engineering and
technology with Percentage 60% affiliated to jntu Kakinada (2008–2012)
• College: Gayathri college (AP)
• S.S.C: In state board with Percentage 89%.

Regards
Santosh kumar A