ABSAR TAQVI
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Over 1200 published articles on telecom networks, companies, careers and technicalities
Was declared as the best Engineer Presenter by Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET),
UK
Was recently interviewed by CIO Pakistan on ‘Everything 3G in Pakistan’
WORK EXPERIENCE
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July 2011 till Present:
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Radio Network Engineer at Alcatel-Lucent Pakistan
Monitoring issues related to QOS like CDR, HSR, CSSR, TCH and SDCCH
blocking and give recommendations to meet desired KPIs
Worst cells analysis (average & busy hour) and providing
recommendation to achieve desired KPIs
Daily reporting of Site Fluctuations, Down Cells and Down TRXs, RTC
(Remote Transcoder) drops and TRX audit to identify low efficient TRXs
Increasing utilization of 1800 band radios by changing Zone Parameters
from GSM to DCS
Neighbor auditing & planning using Map Info tool to improve HSR for
the region
Traffic Optimization for Single Band GSM, Single Band DCS, Dual band
Single BCCH or Dual BCCH cells
Periodic ATER study to improve MSC Attempt rate
Involved in enabling, monitoring and optimizing TFO feature on PMCL
BSCs
Monitoring B11 MR3 upgrades and investigating problems like TCH
Assign BSS Prep Failures and SD Assign Failures
Involved in monitoring, drive testing and optimizing South Redesign
Project for PMCL
Intensive drive testing and post-swap optimization of Motorola to
Alcatel-Lucent swapped sites for PMCL
Excellent with Excel macros. 2 out of 4 macros are in daily use of ALU
RNE department
March 2011 till July 2011: RF Planning and Re-design engineer at Mobilink Pakistan
● Design sites to improve coverage and fix existing holes
● Recommend site upgrade such as down tilling of antenna and reorientation of radio additions
● Optimize existing network by adjusting radio network parameters,
adding/deleting of neighbors and recommending possible solutions to
hardware problems
● Determine problem sites by using network key performance indicators,
drive test data and customer complaints
● Provide frequency planning for new sites install upgrades. Create Visual
Basic scripts to speed up processing of network performance data.
Conducting drive and walk tests; handling complains