Address: Giza, Cairo, Egypt

Walaa Mohamed Salem Tel: +201200523805 (Egypt Mobile)

Email:Walaa.salem988@gmail.com
Senior 2G/3G/LTE/VOLTE RNO Engineer Birth: 18th September 1988

OBJECTIVE

To pull through any challenges to improve the performance and create a new achievement, improving my skills, sharing my
RF experiences. Iam willing to work as a key player in challenging and creative environment.

WORK EXPERIENCE (Dec 2011 - Now)

 2G/LTE RNO and solution testing Engineer at Project Vodafone, Egypt at

HuaweiTechnologies Co (Dec 2018- Now)

Huawei Vodafone LTE Excellent project & North Coast MS project & Cloud Air & TDD

 North Coast MS Project

- Power Study for Conversion sites from 5,10 to be 20MBw and checking if needed to close TRXs at 2G or shift
TRXs between ports
- Creating a tool to match Mobility Parameters Idle and connected together
- Checking Main KPIs, solving Degraded Sites and worst Cells and keeping it under monitoring
- Checking Traces S1, X2, UU and CHR. catching issues of single UES and blocking its FGI causing FDDTDD HO
fails
- Auditing for TAC mapping, controlling TAU enhancing RRC SR
- Handling RF VIP complaints with deep analysis, justification, and recommendations.
- Initiate LTE Live trace for customer issued number using U2000 to confirm his experience
- Checking License needs, Alarm, Diversity and Cross Feeder Audit using R2% Values
- Features needed for user Experience and full auditing for the below:
 Idle Mode, Connected
 Overshooting, PCI Mod3 Audit, Modify PCIs because of Confusion and Conflict issues
 ANR, DRX, RLF, CA and CSFB
 (Frequency Priority), (Service Based Over TDD and L900), (Balancing with Fixed Proportion), (UL Quality
and Uplink Experience), (MBOCS) and (SFN Feature enhancing SINR and DL quality achieving more user
throughput)
 VOLTE and related Features (ROHC, TTI, UL RLC Segmentation, SPS)
 Enhancing Volte Quality decreasing packet loss ( UL PRB Reservation, HO based on Packet losses)
 Auditing for SRVCC and Enabling Flash SRVCC

 Excellent Project (Testing New Features and Hardware Equipment with Site Solution Team)

- Testing Power Sharing

- Testing RRU 5818 200Watt with 8T8R Single Layer increasing Capacity with keeping main KPIs in normal trend
/ gain with Traffic and number of users up to 60% as covering more CEU
- UL CloudAir and GL CloudAir (dynamic and Static)
 TDD Project “Team Leader for Acceptance SSV and auditing parameters”

- Team leader for (Coordinator – 5 Post Processing – 12 DT) // Contact with Rollout, Integration Teams to fast all
process ((Achieving provide more Than target “300 SSV and accept more of 280 of them/ month
- Auditing for all new Sites for TDD (Parameters -- strategy -- DT SSV) and Diversity and Cross feeder
- Creating a Macro to modify all Parameters for all new integrated Sites using Python – excel Macros
- Checking Legacy network’s mean KPIs and take needed Actions
- Modify Strategy and check TDD Parameters to meet our needs
- Cell configurations as well as alarms using U2000.
- Manage and arrange how to utilize all team resources to match all our targets
- Contact with Rollout, Integration Teams to fast all process
- Know how to convince customer with all our steps and needs and putting a plan to achieve Targets which is
achieved
- Checking legacy network KPIs and take needed actions to keep all KPIs in normal trend
- Identify the cross feeder issues rectify it through the PCI DT
- CSFB, CA., Volte, inter mobility and auditing for all relations and solving all issues meet Field teams

 Cloud Air Project “Team Leader” for Excellent Project

- Team leader of GL” GSM and LTE Spectrum concurrency feature” Cloud Air project and responsible for all its
steps including 2G and LTE
- Understood to do all steps of GL implementation including Band design and all drawbacks expected and how to
reach the gain with all needed optimization Actions for it
- Testing GL Cloud Air Dynamic and static solutions for more than 3 band design solution
- PCI planning audit using U-Net
- Signaling Traces – checking GSM Parameters to able to reach to using all resources which meet and achieve
user experience
- Create a tool to count all target RBs during cloud sharing and how to plan a solution to match our target
however is it
- LTE Instructor for LTE (overview – IDLE- CSFB – CA – Mobility – Channels)

 Normal tasks

- Doing all tasks needed for it using Wins Space tool and reaching to check available PCIs which is fine for PHICH
and PCFICH locations as advised by Hedix
- GL & UL Cloud Air spectrum sharing feature implementation and parameters tuning
- testing M-MIMO and 4T6S (capacity solution)
- Monitoring and troubleshooting special events such as feast & Ramadan events and Database/NBR audit
- testing UL “UMTS and LTE Spectrum sharing” achieving the efficient utilization of resources.
- Testing features of VoLTE and applying DRX parameters as recommended by Apple
- New sites activation, Network audits, WCL KPIs analysis and optimization actions, VIP Spots log file analysis,
field optimization, events handling and customer complains handling
- Overshooting, power assessment study
- PCI planning audit using U-Net and MLB, CA and CSFB strategy audits
- Check signaling traces and CHR using FMA
- Perform analysis of network key performance indicators (KPIs), Stats & Parameters for 2G, 3G&4G networks
using PRS&BO.
- Communicates with the other teams (wireless, transmission, Core, field maintenance, etc...) for
troubleshooting.
- Purposing and Contribution to features & Parameter adjustment trials Such as MLB (Mobility Load Balance,
Coverage and load based handover parameters tuning, etc...
- 2G KPIs Monitoring and analysis for Main KPIs (CDR, Cong “SDCCH, CFR, TBF” and HO KPIS)
- 2G Health Check ( TRX Diversity, TX Congestion, Path Imbalance, ..)
- Overshooting, NBR audit and Capacity study
 LTE / 3G / 2G Radio Network Engineer at Project Ooredoo, Kuwait at Huawei
Technologies Co (September 2016- Oct 2018)
 Normal tasks
- 2G &3G and LTE Monitoring to avoid KPIs degradation or HW failure
- Handling RF VIP complaints with deep analysis, justification, and recommendations.
- Initiate LTE Live trace for customer issued number using U2000 to confirm his experience
- Tracing the customer through NASTAR & SMART CARE to know his previous RF history.
- Responsible of analyzing customer complaints and closing all tickets with respect to the SLA.
- Perform analysis of network key performance indicators (KPIs), Stats & Parameters for 2G, 3G&4G networks
using PRS&BO.
- Communicates with the other teams (wireless, transmission, Core, field maintenance, etc...) for
troubleshooting.
- Implement recommendations for network optimization improvement & undertake networks performance
improvement (KPIs) and optimization tasks.
- Network Audit for QOS (neighbor, coverage & capacity) audits
- Interfacing with the customer regarding worst cells and critical cases of degradation.

 Normal tasks LTE

- Checking Main KPIs, solving Degraded Sites and worst Cells and keeping it under monitoring
- Network Audit for basic settings (Idle mode, HO, CA, CSFB) parameters
- CSFB, CA., Volte, inter mobility and auditing for all relations and solving all issues meet Field teams
- Overshooting, PCI Mod3 Audit, Modify PCIs because of Confusion and Conflict issues

 Normal tasks 3G
- 3G KPIs Monitoring and analysis for Main KPIs
- Checking Rejection Causes and take needed Actions to solve ( Code, Power, CE and IUB Cong)
- Overshooting, NBR audit and Capacity study
- RTWP Study and Optimize by checking Ovrshooting , NBIS…)

 Normal tasks 2G
- 2G KPIs Monitoring and analysis for Main KPIs (CDR, Cong..
- Freq. changing and Neighbor relations audit to enhance KPIS
- Overshooting, NBR audit and Capacity study
- 2G Health Check ( TRX Diversity, TX Congestion, Path Imbalance, ..)
- Parameter audit and Retunes on BSC/Cell Level
- Preparing Reselection strategy to 3G/4G

 3G Post processing and RNO Nokia; Orange Egypt Project (Feb 2014- September 2016)

 Normal tasks
- Network Audit for basic settings (Idle mode, HO ...etc) parameters
- Network Audit for QOS (neighbor, coverage & capacity) audits
- Daily report for top worst cell list on main KPIs
- Finalize the daily checks such as check transmission, H/W problems and Down Sites and send cases to the
concerning teams at Orange
- Benchmarking 3G sites after swap in terms of main KPIs
- Responsible for “The Excellence sub project”; project aim is to define network’s severe bottlenecks and pointing
out to the urgent needed upgrades (IuB, IP, power …etc)
- Neighbor Audit in the area including: inter-frequency, intra-frequency 2G NBRs and removing one-way
relations.
- National Events preparation to avoid any degradation during events and keep good customer perception in
addition to reporting network performance during the event to customer
- Periodic DT Campaigns in the Cities to maintain the network quality and solve major complaints
- Responsible of analyzing customer complaints and closing all tickets with respect to the SLA
- Monthly cluster reports submission to customer directly.
- Handling 8 DT engineers with full technically and personally support.
- Responsible for all DT teams tracking and tasks.
 3G Drive Test Engineer Alcatel-Lucent; Orange Egypt Project (Jun 2013 - Feb 2014)

- Field optimization, analysis reports – including physical recommendation, neighbor audit and parameter tuning
– for 2G and 3G sites – including Single Sites Verification
- Drive test analysis reports for Upper and Red Sea Clusters (voice 3G – HTTP download) including analysis for
dropped
- call, HO failure, blocked call, poor coverage and bad quality areas for voice from TEMS log
- Make Post analysis for any cluster, detect the problems and recommend the solutions by using (Actix, Mapinfo
and TEMS)
- Use TEMS Investigation (Data Collection & route analysis)
- Identify problems, propose solutions to improve the QOS and making reports
- Diagnose all RF related problems such as “Interference, Drop calls, HO failure, Missing neighbors, Cross feeder
- Site Acceptance, Clusters Check “Voice, Video & Data”
- Handling all types of Data cards “HSDPA/HSUPA Cards
- Perform and Analyze drive test 3G for problems like dropped call, handover failure, blocked call, poor coverage
and bad quality areas
- Handling customer complains, suggesting and recommending optimize action and the possible way to overcome
the problem

 3G Drive Test Engineer for Nokia (NSN) 3G project - Orange – Egypt (Dec 2012 - Jun 2012)

- New site acceptance for both 3G and 2G sites

- Customer Complaints handling and reports preparation
- Night actions and site visit
- Bench mark and Swap and Clusters and major roods
- Drive testing, field analysis, log file analysis, report problems and recommend solutions

 3G Drive Engineer for HUAWEI –Vodafone (MULTI VENDOR)-Upper, Egypt (Jul 2012 -
Dec 2012)

- Global for 2G & 3G and HSDPA

- Site visit 2G & 3G (get audit, check cross sector and cross feeder)
- Customer Complaints handling and take actions
- Bench marking voice and data
- Use TEMS Investigation (Data Collection & route analysis)
- Identify problems and propose solutions to improve the QOS and making reports
- Diagnose all RF related problems “Interference, drop calls, HO failure, Missing neighbors, Cross feeder
- Perform and Analyze drive test 3G for problems like dropped call, handover failure, blocked call, poor coverage
and bad quality areas, report problems and recommend solutions

 3G Drive Test Engineer for Nokia (NSN) 3G project - Orange – All OVER Egypt (Dec 2011 - Jul 2012)

- Make voice call as test for Orange

- Make intensive cluster using 6 mobiles (Bench Mark) 8 villages per day
- Achieving the target of needed villages per week
- Coordinate Drive Testers
- Providing live feedback on all Failures (Drops/Blocks/Low rates).
- TEMS Expert – Command Sequences (Voice/Data) and fault Finding.
- 2G/3G Post Processing.
- Overshooting Cells Investigations.
- Site Physical Parameters Investigations - X Feeders/Azimuth
  EDUCATION
2005 to 2010: Communication & Information Engineering Mansoura
(Credit hours)
University;

Main Subjects Included: -

- Analog & Digital Communication

- Digital Signal Processing
- Mobile Communication System
- Communication Network

Graduation
Project: -
"CDMA" Spread spectrum. (General Cumulative Grade "A" 95%)

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE:

- NSN Net Act for 3G

- NSN Net Act Plan Editor
- Probe & Assistant
- TEMS Investigation
- TEMS Discovery Device
- MapInfo
- Actix Analyzer
- Unet prediction tool
- FMA analysis
- LMT-Offline Tool
- OMstar Tool
- Excel – Macros
- U2000, PRS, NASTAR, BO, Wins Space, U-Net, QGIS, Discovery and smart care

Skills

- Experience in 2G/3G/LTE RAN network elements

- Network service / performance focused
- Rich Knowledge in LTE/RAN

EXTERNAL COURSES

- CDMA - UMTS
- 3G Planning & Optimization
- LTE Planning & Optimization
- LTE deep dive optimization “online course”
- Volte
- 5G
- Studying Java programming “self-study”
- Python