Zia Ul Haq

Address: Justice (retd.) Sher Afzal khan

Email: zia2000@live.com
house Diamer colony Near Serena hotel,
Cell phone: +92-331-5076655
Jutial, Gilgit, Pakistan
SUMMARY
I aspire to track a career in Telecommunication, RF Planning and Optimization, converting my
past studies into hands on experience, thus adding value to your organization by utilizing my
innovative abilities and technical skills. I have more than 3 years of Experience in RF Department
of Telecom that includes, RF Drive Test, RF Planning and Optimization. Currently working as a
Drive Test Manager at Ericsson Pakistan.
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Sher Afzal Khan

February 16, 1989
71501-7866395-5
Un-Married
Diamer, Gilgit Baltistan
Pakistan

WORK EXPERIENCE
ERICSSON PAKISTAN

Period: December 13 To Present

Ericsson Moblink Swap Project

1st June To Present

Drive Test Manager (2G/3G)

Daily KPIs monitoring (DCR, CSSR, HSR, TCH congestion, SDCCH congestion) and
troubleshooting of the worst cells.
Purposed parameter changes wherever required for KPI improvement.
Monitoring swap activities and troubleshooting worst cells at the time of swap and after
wards.
STATS Monitoring and Update by Using BO,citrix.
Managing Team of 20 Drive test Engineers Nationwide in Pakistan.
Pre-Swap DT Reports Approval from customer.
Handling Customer Complaints at the Cluster/BSC level regarding Coverage and overall
user experience.
Responsible to escalate hardware related issues to operations support team during
Cutover.
Trouble shooting for customer complain and making reports.
DT Log File Analysis, identification and reporting of issue promptly from field.
Reporting on Cluster/Site/Network Level using MapInfo, Actix.
Making swap plans SSVs, PRE-DT & POST DT and handling troubleshooting on swapped
sites
Analysis of Drive Test log files and Report generation (MapInfo plots).

3rd December To 1st June 14

RF Drive Tester

Worked as Drive Test Engineer using TEMS 15.1 and NEMO OUTDOOR 7.1.1, performing
MOS test.
Pre and Post Cluster Drives.
BSC Testing including speech codec test, inter BSC Handovers.
Single Site Verifications.
Customer Complaints.
Joint Visits with Sales and Customer Care Representatives.
Reporting on MapInfo and Actix.

LCC PAKISTAN

Period: August 13 To December 13

Ericsson Moblink Swap Project in Faisalabad Region

GPRS/EDGE Drive Test.
Using the TEMS Investigation and NEMO to observe the particular cell parameters such as
MOS,Rx-level, Rx-Qual, C/I, C/A, SQI.
TRX testing of the sites with voice degradation issues.
To drive test the sites having customer complaints and report the issue.
Checking the handover performance between cells (Incoming / Outgoing HO).
To check the signal strength of a particular site and accordingly changing the tilts and
orientation of the GSM Antenna to improve the coverage area.
Performing Night activities like Migration BSC Migrations (software up gradations).
PRE and POST Drive Test.
Physical audits of the sites to collect the physical data.
SMART CUBE TECHNOLOGIES

Period: March 13 To August 13

ZTE Telenor Swap Project in Sargodha Region

Drive Testing of Telenor Swap sites in Central (II) region.
NETKOM TECHNOLOGIES

Period: July-11 To Feb-13

Huawei Zong CMPak TSS planning project South

Done Technical Site Survey of Normal and Sharing Sites by,
Collecting panoramic,
Measuring Nominal Distance,
Determining RF sector heights,
Analyzing coverage area and obstructions.
Huawei Ufone Swap project in Lahore Region
Drive Testing of Ufone Swap sites in Lahore region.
Huawei Ufone HBA project North
Done Drive testing of HBA sites, north region.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
BO.
Citrix.
Winfiol.
TEMS Investigation 8.0.3, 10.05, 14.0.1, 15.2.
MapInfo Professional 8.5, 10.5, 11.0.
Actix 4.0.
Packet Tracer (Networking Simulation Tool).
Microsoft Office.
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

Passing Year

Major Subjects

HSSC

Class of 2011

2008

SSC

2006

BS
(Telecom
Engineering)

Dvision/Grade

Institution

Telecom Systems.
Data Communication and Networks.
Wave Propagation & Antenna Theory.
Microwave Engineering.
Fiber Optics Communications.
Pre-Engineering

1st

FAST NUCES
Islamabad

1st

Science

1st

Public School &

College, Gilgit
Public School &
College, Gilgit

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMETS

Coordinator Hardware Projects Nascon 2009, FAST-NU, Islamabad.
Participated in Robo race competition Nascon 2010, FAST-NU, Islamabad.
Senior Concierge Essay/ Fictional Writing Competition Tamasha 2010.
FINAL YEAR PROJECT
Simulating physical-layer of Wlan 802.11a on Matlab
SEMESTER PROJECTS / RESEARCH WORKS
DIGITAL COMMUNICATION Implementing an AM/FM radio Transmitter-Receiver.
SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS Implementation of Modulation techniques in Matlab.
WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION Detailed study of GSM and CDMA.
MICROWAVE ENGINEERING Dipole Antenna Design.
COMPUTER PROGRAMMIN GUI GSM Simulation & Developed own shell (terminal) in Linux.
MICROPROCESSORS To perform the line-trekking from a Robot using Microprocessor interfacing.
ELECTRONICS II Designing and Implementing an Audio Amplifier employing LM358 Op-Amp.
LANGUAGE
Can speak, read and write Urdu, Shina and English fluently.
REFERENCE
Will be given on demand.