Muhammad Farhan

Contact # 0092 315 2091605

Email farhan.shaikh2007@gmail.com
Address House # 260-A, Block D, Usmania Colony, Unit # 09, Latifabad,
Hyderabad, Pakistan.
Product Highlights
 Mini-link Craft
Objective  ML 6692
To acquire a responsible position in highly reputed organization, in order to fully utilize my  ML 6691
skills for the profitability and growth of the organization.  ML 6693
 EBand
 PT-2020
Professional Summary  Moshell
 09 years of professional experience in MW transmission.  CLI
 Worked & achieved monthly assigned task timely in tough deadlines.  SOEM Network
 Microwave
 Hands on experience with mini-link craft tool.
 Troubleshooting
 Able to perform as part of team and as an Individual.  Integration
 Coordination with customer & strong follow up.  Commissioning
 Strong troubleshooting skills.  Transmission
 Capable of working under pressure.  XPIC
 Have vast experience of mini-link craft tool.  BB 5212
 Have upgraded various links from 8Mbs to 32Mpbs and 32Mpbs to STM level.  BB 5216
 BB 6620
 Have completed CMPAK Rollout Project with in limited timeline in South-02.
 BB 6630

Employment History
Highlights
 Good Communication
Transmission Engineer Level 1 July 2020 – Dec 2022
 Strong Presentation
LCC (Ericsson)
 Customer Interaction
Roles and Responsibilities:  Customer Support
 Modernized Ericsson ML 6000 series, 6352 & PT2020 deployment in South-II region  Interactive skills
KARACHI and Remote.
 To perform modernized Hardware MMU1002, NPU1003, NPU1002, NPU1005 Education
commissioning and troubleshooting.  BE (TL) - MUET
 Performed key role in improving the low throughput in overall region with
modernized Ericsson 6000 family MW Links installation.
 (2+0), (2+2) & (4+0) XPiC Link alignment, configuration with in a best possible XPI and Driving License
 KSA
SNIR values.
 PAKISTAN
 Have experienced the HRLB configuration in ML modernized E-BAND ML6352 &
NPU1005 on sites where FON or PTN solution was not possible.
 Traffic shifting and PTN cutover on field. Languages
 To perform link acceptance activity with customer as per standards and customer  Urdu
requirements.  English
 To provide 24/7 field and remote support to customer for O&M services.
 To perform region BW Utilization test on highlighted sites by RAN team or customer
complaints, and report to planning department in case expansion require.
Cluster Owner Aug 2019 – June 2020
CMPAK (Zong)
Roles and Responsibilities:
 24/7 remote and field technical support.
 Provide support to filed engineers for transmission related issues.
 Collecting SOM reports on monthly basis and provide solution for Critical and Major
Alarms.
 To monitor choking and BW reduced cases and escalate to Ericsson Planning team if
expansion require.
 To check the BW utilization on South-2 (HYD) region on weekly basis.
 To conduct monthly meeting with the field engineers and analyze for their respected
MW link cases.
 Inventory management.
 Generate spare requirement according to fault ratio analysis.
 Coordination with other departments (IP CORE, transmission core, BSS AND RF) for
fault localization.
 Vendor management.
 Maintaining Microwave network’s KPIs.
 Maintaining MW network availability and visibility.
 Maintaining planed RSL for installed MW links.

NFO June 2018 – May 2019

Seder Group (KSA)
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Operations and Maintenance Services for Mobily Network KSA.
 Sites PMR.
 Responsible for clear the outage with in a limited SLA.
 Responsible for sites HW testing.
 Troubleshooting, Commissioning and Configuring of Ericsson Mini-link Traffic Node
6691, 6692, 6693 includes MMU1002 Link.
 Responsible for collecting sites complete data under cluster.
 Responsible for RAN internal alarms clearance for all technologies.
 Responsible for HO5 under cluster sites.
 Responsible for clear the performance issues on sites which escalated by
optimization team.
 Responsible for MW links rectification escalated by SOM.
 Responsible for coordinate and escalate the issue to E&M if issues under there
domain.
 Support for evolution / dimensioning of future capacity needs.
 VSWR & Return loss testing.
 Responsible for team and own safety as per OHS standards.
 Responsible for highlighting choking issue escalate by BO.
 Responsible for HW inventory handling issued from WH with proper safety and
handling.
RAN Supervisor December 2013 – May 2018
Relacom Pakistan Pvt Ltd.
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Configured E2E Packet for 3G sites in South Region, connecting traffic node with PTN
for transport packet network ,Coordination with core transmission team for E2E
packet media verification, preformed troubleshooting faults and alarm.
 Monitor the alarms of all Network Elements throughout the operations and Network
Management software of Microwave transmission Ericsson Equipment.
 Worked on Transmission up-grade on CM-Pak project, Karachi Pakistan, which
includes 32xE1, STM-1 and 2xSTM-1 (XPIC) links.
 Commissioning of Ericsson’s PDH and SDH Microwave Transmission Systems.
 DCN Implementation in Traffic Node (20P, 6P, 2P). Visibility of sites on NMS.
 Hands on experience of Transmission Node configuration and links upgrade from
1xSTM to 2xStm.
 Have Performed Traffic Shifting from SDH To PTN.
 Have experience of various microwave links and sites integration.
 Have experience of Radio link configuration through Mini-link Craft.
 Have experience of E1 through SOM on CM-PAK Project.
 MW links health & quality testing.
 MW XPIC links XPD adjustment.
 Performed site survey for MW links.
 Rerouting for LOS blocked links.
 Monitoring and rectification of faults on transmission nodes.

Internee RAN May 2012 – November 2013

Ericsson Pakistan Pvt Ltd.
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Worked for RAN transmission at CMPAK ZONG project.
 ZONG E1 expansion project for EDGE and its trouble shooting.
 Participated in maintenance and failure clearance when needed.
 Participated in commissioning for the transmission network.
 Participated in maintenance of network elements.
 Participated in Links traffic shifting through SDH.

Trainee Engineer January 2012 – May 2012

Relacom Pakistan Pvt Ltd
Roles and Responsibilities:
 Operations and Maintenance of Network elements.
 Troubleshooting and Fault finding.
 Health’s checkup of Network elements.

References
Will be furnished upon request.