OBJECTIVE
To engage myself in a dynamic working environment where, i can apply my strong technical skills, educational background and ability to work well individually and as a team.
EDUCATION
Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications)
August, 2009 December, 2011, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Karlskrona, Sweden
Bachelors Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Standard stream)
September, 2003 August, 2007, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Employer - ZTE Corporation , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Position - GSM-BSS Engineer, ZTE Part time Trainer and SBU Engineer in NNOC.
Duration - September 2007 - August 2009
Duties and Responsibilities -
As GSM-BSS Engineer
Customer technical support.
Commissioning, configuring, and maintaining GSM BTS, BSC and OMCR server equipments.
Managing ZTE OMCR (Operation and Maintenance Controller) server and software.
Analyzing alarm and performance datas from ZTE OMCR client/server software to optimize the GSM mobile network.
Identifying power, microwave or optical transmission faults and solve the problems together with
the responsible expertise.
Together with optimization engineers performing Call Quality Test (CQT) and drive test.
Performing Acceptance test with customers.
BTS maintenance team leader.
As ZTE Part time Trainer
Giving training about signaling and network architecture of UMTS, GSM, WCDMA, GPRS and CDMA network.
Training new GSM-BSS employees about GSM-BSS equipments, OMCR software and BTS maintenance.
As SBU Engineer
Managing GSM mobile network from NNOC (National Network Operation Center).
Managing GSM-OMCR servers.
Reporting TT alarms from GSM-NMS software.
Project Participated - GSM Phase I, Phase II and NNOC project of ZTE and Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC).
Award Praised 2008 high performance local employee and published in ZTE Corporation magazine
MASTERS DEGREE PROJECT
Thesis Title Evaluation of Smartphone Network Performance
Duration Mar. 3 Dec. 7, 2011
Project Aim To compare networking performance of different Smartphone platforms based on experiment. From this thesis application developers obtain a better knowledge about networking performance of Smartphone in order to design competent mobile applications.
CERTIFICATE AND PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS
Feb. Mar., 2009 Oracle 10g
Jun., 2007 Apr., 2008 CCNA-1 Networking
CCNA-2 Router and Routing Basics
CCNA-3 Switching basics and Intermediate Routing
CCNA-4 WAN Technology
Oct. 13-29, 2008 Level B ZXG10-BSS equipment & Radio Network Optimization
Nov. 03-24, 2007 Level A ZXG10-BSS (V2) and iBSC (V6) Equipment
Jun. 12-22, 2007 International New Employees Orientation (INEO)
COMPUTER, PROGRAMMING AND TELECOMMUNICAION SKILL
Operating Systems - Windows 2000/XP/Vista/07, Linux/Ubuntu and Solaris
Simulation and Protocol Tracing Tools - MATLAB, NS2, OPNET, TCP Dump, Wireshark and Iperf,
Programming languages - C++, Perl, PHP, XML, XSLT and Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Network optimization tools Call Quality Test (CQT) and TEMS
Database - Oracle and SQL
Mobile Telecommunication - UMTS, GSM, GPRS, WCDMA, CDMA and LTE
Other knowledge - VOIP, SIP, MPLS, TCP/IP, IP QOS, SNMP, Seamless Communication,
WLAN (802.11b,g), WPAN, Firewall configuration, VPN Configuration, IPSec,
DHCP server/Client configuration, SOA (Service- Oriented Architecture),
Invoking services (SOAP and REST).
LANGUAGES
Amharic (excellent), English (excellent), Tigrigna (Excellent) and Swedish (Beginner)
REFERENCES
Contact information of my references will be provided upon request.
Employer:
ZTE Corporation
Job Title:
GSM-BSS Engineer and part time trainer
Start Month/Year:
09/2007
End Month/Year:
08/2009
City:
Addis Ababa
Country:
Ethiopia
Description:
As GSM-BSS Engineer
• Customer technical support.
• Commissioning, configuring, and maintaining GSM BTS, BSC and OMCR server equipments.
•Managing ZTE OMCR (Operation and Maintenance Controller) server and software.
•Analyzing alarm and performance data’s from ZTE OMCR client/server software to optimize the GSM mobile network.
•Identifying power, microwave or optical transmission faults and solve the problems together with
the responsible expertise.
•Together with optimization engineers performing Call Quality Test (CQT) and drive test.
•Performing Acceptance test with customers.
•BTS maintenance team leader.
As ZTE Part time Trainer
•Giving training about signaling and network architecture of UMTS, GSM, WCDMA, GPRS and CDMA network.
•Training new GSM-BSS employees about GSM-BSS equipments, OMCR software and BTS maintenance.
As SBU Engineer
•Managing GSM mobile network from NNOC (National Network Operation Center).
•Managing GSM-OMCR servers.
•Reporting TT alarms from GSM-NMS software.
Education Level:
Bachelor's Degree
School Name:
Addis Ababa University
Major:
Electrical Engineering
City:
Addis Ababa
Country:
Ethiopia
Graduation Date:
25/08/2007
Description:
the courses in the degree covers the fields of communication engineering, control engineering and power engineering
Education Level:
Master's Degree
School Name:
Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH)
Major:
Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications )
City:
Karlskrona
Country:
Sweden
Graduation Date:
07/12/2011
Description:
The courses of the degree are in the fields of Telecommunication, Networking and Radio communication.
