Muhammad Adnan Khan
A-1900 BL-2, METROVILLE 3, SECTOR 14/A, SCHEME 33,
GULSHAN-E-IQBAL, KARACHI, PAKISTAN.
Email aadnankahnn@yahoo.com
adnan.kha@mobilink.net
Home 0213-4646172
Mobile 0092-302-8259541
Training
November 2011 1 week Training Institute INTEQNA
- Boot Camp JNCIP-SP
Work Experience
September-2010 - Present. MobilinkGSM South, Karachi.
Dept / Position Held Operation Core Network (IP-MPLS) / Associate II.
Responsibilities as IP-MPLS Engineer
- Strong professional level knowledge and Hands on Network Devices * Juniper M-420, M-320 Router * Juniper M-120 Router *Juniper EX 3200 / 4200 Switches * Huawei NE-80 * Cisco 800, 3700, 3800
* 7200 series routers * Cisco 3560,7600 series Switches
- strong expert level knowledge of Ethernet/layer2 switching/ Vlan, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MP-BGP, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, MPLS L3VPN/L2VPN/VPLS principle, MPLS TE, QoS, SNMP, ATM, frame relay architecture, spanning tree, protocols etc.
- Overall responsible for IP Core network (180+ Devices), (which is part of converged IP/MPLS Network)
- MPLS roll Out at Mobilink
Completed the roll out of MPLS into Mobilink's Network. 13 Services of Mobilink including Voice, Data, WiMAX, SMSC, GPRS, were migrated from traditional E1s to MPLS Backbone (Juniper Networks).
- Technical support and coordination during installation, power up and commissioning and acceptance of IPMPLS equipment.
- Fault/issue identification, trouble-shooting & resolution in coordination with internal /peer teams &vendors (as applicable). Problem synthesis & reporting, with root cause analysis.
- Network/Services modification& expansion for network segments under administration. Follow-up of issued WOs and their timely completion.
- Configure Cisco ACS, RADIUS, TACACS+ protocols.
- Schedule & perform preventive maintenance activities of all network segments under administration.
- Ensure SW/HW support through principal/support vendors, as per contractual details.
- Upgrade - HW, SW, IOS, JUNOS including all bug fixes, security updates & related.
- Documentation of change management, network diagrams & network topologies, as & where required.
- Installation, Commissioning, Testing and Operation and Maintenance of new WiMAX Core in Karachi.
- Involved in reviewing the ATP documents and conducting ATPs for IPMPLS with vendor involvement.
- Providing technical coordination and onsite support to other teams and vendor during migration of services on IPMPLS backbone.
June-2009 August 2010. MobilinkGSM South, Karachi.
Dept / Position Held Operation Core Network (IN&VAS) / Associate II.
Responsibilities as IN Engineer
- Subscribers migration from one IN platform to another
- Handling subscriber complaints
- SS7 database definitions on IN platforms
- Protocol traces and CDR analysis
- Batch creation/deletion and service provisioning of subscribers on IN
- O&M and back-ups
- Sound understanding of all types of hardware and service related alarms on IN platforms
- Sound understanding of VoMS, ReSP, & USSD architecture
- Trouble shooting for International Roaming issues
- Writing shell scripts
- ATP(Acceptance Testing Procedure) of IN platforms for commercial launch
- Sound understanding of ChrissXpress and TMD architecture
-
Responsibilities as VAS Engineer
Message Service Centre (SMSC) Version 5.0, Alpha systems running OpenVMS AXP Version 7.2-1 (Acision)
- Commissioning and installation of New SMSC node.
- Performed daily health checks.
- On requirement, SMSC backups and recovery.
- Maintain disk spaces and LOGS files on daily basis.
- Managing Large account (LA) database on OMG and their connectivity and trouble shooting with SMSC
- Handling and implemented all the configurations management on SMSC.
- Monitoring and trouble shooting SMSC.
- Managing and verified all integrated entities with SMSC.
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) (SGSN Version SG.U321 (Alcatel)
- Troubleshooting of whole Network (Nationwide).
- Connectivity verification form SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node) and well understanding of all interfaces related to it.
- Integration of new BSCs with SGSN, database definition, involvement of BSCs migration project from one SGSN to other, implementation of EDGE project and coordination with optimization team to get better throughput in EDGE coverage.
- Hands on experience of taking Gb, Gn and Gr Internal traces and SGSN management troubleshooting.
- Testing of GPRS Inbound and Outbound Roaming with more than 50 operators.
- Implementation of data of new Roaming operators as well as new IMSI levels on SGSN.
- To generate the GPRS stats Report and KPI report in terms of Stats to monitor the performance of SGSN.
- Performed IMSI level implementation on SGSN.
- Extract WAP Gateway & GPRS KPIs stats on daily basis.
- Monitoring System alarms
- Parameters restored through IMSI also find status of Blackberry.
- Implementation of data of new Roaming operators.
URP 8100 MGC O&M system-CRBT (Customized Ring Back Tone) (Huawei)
- CRBT Platform administration, maintenance and resolve of all types of complaints related to CRBT.
- Involved in troubleshooting management of Leased line.
- Involvements in RBT solution swap from Alcatel to Huawei & Coordination with vendor for issue resolution.
- CRBT System health Checks Report and Subscription/Un-subscription of CRBT.
- Performed activities on different Alcatel and Huawei platforms.
Valista Jazz Load (Utiba)
- Commissioning and installation of Swap Project EVC (Electronic Voucher Controller).
- Administration and maintenance of (Jazz Load) and generation of Valista reports for finance department.
- Involvement in Valista hardware expansion Project and troubleshooting of Valista related complaints of Retailers and Distributors.
- Coordination with vendor for critical platforms related issues and performed activities on Valista platform.
- Disk spaces controlling of application and database Server on daily basis.
- Jazz Load distributor and retailer SIMs uploaded on Valista.
- To generate a VAS maintenance Report for all VAS Entities.
MMSC (Multimedia Messaging Service Centre) (Acision)
- MMSC Platform maintenance and troubleshooting of MMS related complaints.
- Configuration on MMSC Platform for new operators and taking backup.
- Adding new rules for new NDC on MMSC.
- IMMS testing and launching with different operators
- Customer Services complaints troubleshooting.
- Provisioning and managing UPower administrator
- Provisioning and managing common subscriber information
PSA (Pre-delivery Service Agent 3.4 ) (Acision)
- Management and troubleshooting of PSA System and D2CP which is integrated with PSA and involvement in system up gradation.
- Implementation of volume base charging and troubleshooting of charging of IR SMS, MMS, Prepaid/Postpaid GPRS services and CRBT Prepaid charging.
- Provisioned and de-provisioned IN wise on PSA
- Restart HTTP Stack for WAP APN, filters on PSA and services on applications servers.
- Taking DB 9 trace for SMSC, MMSC and D2CP Filter processes on PSA.
- Migration of Subscribers on PSA from one IN to another.
- Activation of New Subscribers on PSA.
- Generating SMSC stats and taking backups of SGSN, GGSN, SMSC, OTA and MMSC platform.
- Incident opening with International & national support.
May-2006 to June-2008 Alandale Computer Network, London, UK.
Position Held Trainee Computer Network Asst.
Responsibilities
- Configuration, Monitoring & Troubleshooting of Routers, RIP, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, STP, VLANs, Access list, NAT, Wireless Internetwork, IPv6, DHCPv6, ICMPv6, Frame Relay.
- Managing LAN, WAN, Cisco Internetwork, IOS, SDM, IP Routing, Sub netting and VLSMs.
- TCP/IP, DNS, NAT, DHCP, Cisco Routers, Catalyst Switch, Server
- Analyzing and resolving faults, ranging from a major system crash to a forgotten password
24 June-2005 to 24 Sep-2005 Mobilink GSM, Pakistan, Karachi.
Position Held Trainee NSS switch Engineer.
Responsibilities
- Working on SIEMENS (APS 9.1) & ALCATEL CTL to watch activity of MCSs, HLRs & Daily Alarm Monitoring
- Configure, modify, block & looking status of LTGs & DIUs.
- Create signalling links of HLRs to MSCs or MSCs to HLRs (CCS7)
- Authentication, Deauthentication, Activation & Deactivation of IMSIs
- Generate daily report sheet of DSSR, SMSC, etc.
Education
2006 - 2008 M.Sc. Telecommunication and Computer Networking.
London South bank, University of London, UK.
Majors
Telecommunication and Computer Networking
I acquired principal knowledge of cellular network planning all aspects of GSM and GPRS ranging from physical layers to application layers UMTS terrestrial radio access network WCDMA UMTS core networks, services and applications Link Budget, Capacity estimation and Cell planning & optimization, WiMax.
Data Communication and theory
Information Theory and Error Control Techniques
Object oriented programming
Optical fibre communication
Wireless communications and Advanced networks
Final Dissertation
Integrating Multiple Antennas on a 3G mobile handset. Considered Physical size and performance and also considered the EMR on 3G MP. In this project I used Ansoft designer for antenna simulations.
2001 - 2005 B.S. Electronic Engineering
Sir Syed University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan.
Majors
Advanced Communication Systems
Radiating Systems
Computer Networking & Data Communications
Microprocessor Architecture & Programming
VLSI Principles and Applications
Object Oriented Design and Development
Final Dissertation
The project was Three-phase power factor meter. In this project we show voltages & current of every phase & finally show power factor of three phase load.
Reference
ALTAF AHMED ATHAR SAEED
ERICSSON PAKISTAN. Freelancer, IN&VAS DEPT.
Ph 0321-4775035 Ph 03028565279
PROF SAEED UZ ZAFAR KHAN BABAR TARIQ
PRINCIPAL MOBILINK GSM PAKISTAN, BSS PLANING.
GOVT COLLEGE FOR BOYS SHADMAN TOWN. Ph 0302-8266552
Ph 0300 2840827
Employer:
MobilinkGSM
Job Title:
Tier-1 IN&VAS
Start Month/Year:
06/2009
End Month/Year:
08/2010
City:
karachi
Country:
Pakistan
Description:
September-2010 - Present. MobilinkGSM South, Karachi.
Dept / Position Held: Operation Core Network (IP-MPLS) / Associate II.
Responsibilities as IP-MPLS Engineer:
- Strong professional level knowledge and Hands on Network Devices * Juniper M-420, M-320 Router * Juniper M-120 Router *Juniper EX 3200 / 4200 Switches * Huawei NE-80 * Cisco 800, 3700, 3800
* 7200 series routers * Cisco 3560,7600 series Switches
- strong expert level knowledge of Ethernet/layer2 switching/ Vlan, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MP-BGP, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, MPLS L3VPN/L2VPN/VPLS principle, MPLS TE, QoS, SNMP, ATM, frame relay architecture, spanning tree, protocols etc.
- Overall responsible for IP Core network (180+ Devices), (which is part of converged IP/MPLS Network)
- MPLS roll Out at Mobilink
Completed the roll out of MPLS into Mobilink's Network. 13 Services of Mobilink including Voice, Data, WiMAX, SMSC, GPRS, were migrated from traditional E1s to MPLS Backbone (Juniper Networks).
- Technical support and coordination during installation, power up and commissioning and acceptance of IPMPLS equipment.
- Fault/issue identification, trouble-shooting & resolution in coordination with internal /peer teams &vendors (as applicable). Problem synthesis & reporting, with root cause analysis.
- Network/Services modification& expansion for network segments under administration. Follow-up of issued WOs and their timely completion.
- Configure Cisco ACS, RADIUS, TACACS+ protocols.
- Schedule & perform preventive maintenance activities of all network segments under administration.
- Ensure SW/HW support through principal/support vendors, as per contractual details.
- Upgrade - HW, SW, IOS, JUNOS including all bug fixes, security updates & related.
- Documentation of change management, network diagrams & network topologies, as & where required.
- Installation, Commissioning, Testing and Operation and Maintenance of new WiMAX Core in Karachi.
- Involved in reviewing the ATP documents and conducting ATPs for IPMPLS with vendor involvement.
- Providing technical coordination and onsite support to other teams and vendor during migration of services on IPMPLS backbone.
June-2009 August 2010. MobilinkGSM South, Karachi.
Dept / Position Held: Operation Core Network (IN&VAS) / Associate II.
Responsibilities as IN Engineer:
- Subscribers migration from one IN platform to another
- Handling subscriber complaints
- SS7 database definitions on IN platforms
- Protocol traces and CDR analysis
- Batch creation/deletion and service provisioning of subscribers on IN
- O&M and back-ups
- Sound understanding of all types of hardware and service related alarms on IN platforms
- Sound understanding of VoMS, ReSP, & USSD architecture
- Trouble shooting for International Roaming issues
- Writing shell scripts
- ATP(Acceptance Testing Procedure) of IN platforms for commercial launch
- Sound understanding of ChrissXpress and TMD architecture
-
Responsibilities as VAS Engineer:
Message Service Centre (SMSC) Version 5.0, Alpha systems running OpenVMS AXP Version 7.2-1 (Acision):
- Commissioning and installation of New SMSC node.
- Performed daily health checks.
- On requirement, SMSC backups and recovery.
- Maintain disk spaces and LOGS files on daily basis.
- Managing Large account (LA) database on OMG and their connectivity and trouble shooting with SMSC
- Handling and implemented all the configurations management on SMSC.
- Monitoring and trouble shooting SMSC.
- Managing and verified all integrated entities with SMSC.
GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) (SGSN Version : SG.U321 (Alcatel):
- Troubleshooting of whole Network (Nationwide).
- Connectivity verification form SGSN (Serving GPRS Support Node) and well understanding of all interfaces related to it.
- Integration of new BSCs with SGSN, database definition, involvement of BSCs migration project from one SGSN to other, implementation of EDGE project and coordination with optimization team to get better throughput in EDGE coverage.
- Hands on experience of taking Gb, Gn and Gr Internal traces and SGSN management troubleshooting.
- Testing of GPRS Inbound and Outbound Roaming with more than 50 operators.
- Implementation of data of new Roaming operators as well as new IMSI levels on SGSN.
- To generate the GPRS stats Report and KPI report in terms of Stats to monitor the performance of SGSN.
- Performed IMSI level implementation on SGSN.
- Extract WAP Gateway & GPRS KPIs stats on daily basis.
- Monitoring System alarms
- Parameters restored through IMSI also find status of Blackberry.
- Implementation of data of new Roaming operators.
URP 8100 MGC O&M system-CRBT (Customized Ring Back Tone) (Huawei):
- CRBT Platform administration, maintenance and resolve of all types of complaints related to CRBT.
- Involved in troubleshooting management of Leased line.
- Involvements in RBT solution swap from Alcatel to Huawei & Coordination with vendor for issue resolution.
- CRBT System health Checks Report and Subscription/Un-subscription of CRBT.
- Performed activities on different Alcatel and Huawei platforms.
Valista Jazz Load (Utiba):
- Commissioning and installation of Swap Project EVC (Electronic Voucher Controller).
- Administration and maintenance of (Jazz Load) and generation of Valista reports for finance department.
- Involvement in Valista hardware expansion Project and troubleshooting of Valista related complaints of Retailers and Distributors.
- Coordination with vendor for critical platforms related issues and performed activities on Valista platform.
- Disk spaces controlling of application and database Server on daily basis.
- Jazz Load distributor and retailer SIM’s uploaded on Valista.
- To generate a VAS maintenance Report for all VAS Entities.
MMSC (Multimedia Messaging Service Centre) (Acision):
- MMSC Platform maintenance and troubleshooting of MMS related complaints.
- Configuration on MMSC Platform for new operators and taking backup.
- Adding new rules for new NDC on MMSC.
- IMMS testing and launching with different operators
- Customer Services complaints troubleshooting.
- Provisioning and managing UPower administrator
- Provisioning and managing common subscriber information
PSA (Pre-delivery Service Agent 3.4 ) (Acision):
- Management and troubleshooting of PSA System and D2CP which is integrated with PSA and involvement in system up gradation.
- Implementation of volume base charging and troubleshooting of charging of IR SMS, MMS, Prepaid/Postpaid GPRS services and CRBT Prepaid charging.
- Provisioned and de-provisioned IN wise on PSA
- Restart HTTP Stack for WAP APN, filters on PSA and services on applications servers.
- Taking DB 9 trace for SMSC, MMSC and D2CP Filter processes on PSA.
- Migration of Subscribers on PSA from one IN to another.
- Activation of New Subscribers on PSA.
- Generating SMSC stats and taking backups of SGSN, GGSN, SMSC, OTA and MMSC platform.
- Incident opening with International & national support.
May-2006 to June-2008 Alandale Computer Network, London, UK.
Position Held: Trainee Computer Network Asst.
Responsibilities:
- Configuration, Monitoring & Troubleshooting of Routers, RIP, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, STP, VLANs, Access list, NAT, Wireless Internetwork, IPv6, DHCPv6, ICMPv6, Frame Relay.
- Managing LAN, WAN, Cisco Internetwork, IOS, SDM, IP Routing, Sub netting and VLSMs.
- TCP/IP, DNS, NAT, DHCP, Cisco Routers, Catalyst Switch, Server
- Analyzing and resolving faults, ranging from a major system crash to a forgotten password
24 June-2005 to 24 Sep-2005 Mobilink GSM, Pakistan, Karachi.
Position Held: Trainee NSS switch Engineer.
Responsibilities:
- Working on SIEMENS (APS 9.1) & ALCATEL CTL to watch activity of MCS’s, HLR’s & Daily Alarm Monitoring
- Configure, modify, block & looking status of LTGs & DIUs.
- Create signalling links of HLRs to MSCs or MSCs to HLRs (CCS7)
- Authentication, Deauthentication, Activation & Deactivation of IMSI’s
- Generate daily report sheet of DSSR, SMSC, etc.
Employer:
MobilinkGSM
Job Title:
Tier-1 IP/MPLS
Start Month/Year:
09/2010
End Month/Year:
Current
City:
Karachi
Country:
Pakistan
Description:
MobilinkGSM South, Karachi.
Dept / Position Held: Operation Core Network (IP-MPLS) / Associate II.
Responsibilities as IP-MPLS Engineer:
- Strong professional level knowledge and Hands on Network Devices * Juniper M-420, M-320 Router * Juniper M-120 Router *Juniper EX 3200 / 4200 Switches * Huawei NE-80 * Cisco 800, 3700, 3800
* 7200 series routers * Cisco 3560,7600 series Switches
- strong expert level knowledge of Ethernet/layer2 switching/ Vlan, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MP-BGP, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, MPLS L3VPN/L2VPN/VPLS principle, MPLS TE, QoS, SNMP, ATM, frame relay architecture, spanning tree, protocols etc.
- Overall responsible for IP Core network (180+ Devices), (which is part of converged IP/MPLS Network)
- MPLS roll Out at Mobilink
Completed the roll out of MPLS into Mobilink's Network. 13 Services of Mobilink including Voice, Data, WiMAX, SMSC, GPRS, were migrated from traditional E1s to MPLS Backbone (Juniper Networks).
- Technical support and coordination during installation, power up and commissioning and acceptance of IPMPLS equipment.
- Fault/issue identification, trouble-shooting & resolution in coordination with internal /peer teams &vendors (as applicable). Problem synthesis & reporting, with root cause analysis.
- Network/Services modification& expansion for network segments under administration. Follow-up of issued WOs and their timely completion.
- Configure Cisco ACS, RADIUS, TACACS+ protocols.
- Schedule & perform preventive maintenance activities of all network segments under administration.
- Ensure SW/HW support through principal/support vendors, as per contractual details.
- Upgrade - HW, SW, IOS, JUNOS including all bug fixes, security updates & related.
- Documentation of change management, network diagrams & network topologies, as & where required.
- Installation, Commissioning, Testing and Operation and Maintenance of new WiMAX Core in Karachi.
- Involved in reviewing the ATP documents and conducting ATPs for IPMPLS with vendor involvement.
- Providing technical coordination and onsite support to other teams and vendor during migration of services on IPMPLS backbone.
