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Thierry Bodog
Antonio Bellet 90, Santiago (Chile)
Tel: (569) 84203976
bodogthierry@gmail.com
SUMMARY
Senior RF Telecom Consultant with over nine years in the Telecommunication Industry, experience encompasses a variety of projects in Cellular Systems Engineering utilizing UMTS, CDMA 2000, EVDO, GSM/800, GSM1900, iDEN, GPRS, and EDGE Technologies.

SUMMARY OF PROJECTS & EMPLOYMENT

• UMTS-HSDPA Roll-Out 3G Core & RF Optimization Project-Nokia-Siemens Networks/CLARO, Santiago, Chile 12/07-03/08 [Empressas Quenta Via]

• CDMA2000-EVDO Design/Optimization Project-Lucent/Cricket Communications, Oklahoma City, OKC 01/07-12/07 [Avenger Engineering, Senior Consultant]

• UMTS Design/Deployment/Integration/Optimization/Launch-Lucent/Cingular, New York, NY 02/06-01/07 [Nu Wave, Senior Consultant]

• UMTS/GSM 850/1900 MHz Dual Band Network Design/Integration/Performance/Monitoring -Ericsson & Siemens / Cingular, Atlanta, GA, 09/05-02/06 [Comnet, Senior Consultant]

• GSM/GPRS/EDGE 1900 MHz Single-Band Network Optimization, Performance & Monitoring-Ericsson/T-Mobile, Concord, CA, 11/04-09/05 [AIRCOM, Senior Consultant]

• GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1900 MHz Dual-Band Network Optimization, Verification, Performance & Monitoring -Nokia/AT& T, Paramus, NJ 01/04-10/04 [AIRCOM, Senior Consultant]

• CDMA PCS 1900 IS-95A Design Design/Optimization Project-Lucent/Telus Mobility, Canada, Quebec 01/03-12/03 [LCCI, Senior Consultant]

• GSM 1900 & IS-136@1900 Network Optimization, Implementation & AMR / EOTD Testing-Nokia/Cingular, Philadelphia, PA, 08/02 – 01/03 [MSI, Senior RF Lead]

• GSM 900 & 1800 Network Design, Implementation & Optimization –Nokia & Ericsson/Saudi Telecom Co, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 00/02 – 08/02 [MSI, Senior RF Lead]

• GSM1900 Network Design, Implementation & Optimization -Ericsson/Cingular, Pleasanton, CA 01/01 –00/02 [MSI, Senior RF Lead]

• GSM Network Design & Optimization-Lucent/VoiceStream, St Louis (MO) and Richmond /VA, 11/99 – 01/01 [Novawireless, Senior RF Engineer]

• GSM1900, CDMA1900/800, AMPS, iDEN, IS-136@1800/1900 Telephia Nationwide Benchmarking , 04/99 – 11/99 [WFI, Senior RF Engineer]

• iDEN – Design & Optimization, Motorola/Nextel Partners, Nebraska & Iowa 04/97 – 04/99 [WFI, Senior RF Engineer]

• GSM900 Benchmarking & Optimization – Siemens/Vodacom, Pretoria, South Africa 05/98 – 01/99 [WFI, Senior RF Engineer]

• GSM900, Design, Implementation & Optimization- Alcatel & Matra/France Telecom/Telemate, Paris & Bruxelle 11/95 – 01/97 [LCCI, Design RF Engineer]

• GSM900 & TACS800 Network Design, Implementation & Optimization – Motorola/CELLNET, London & Manchester, England, 11/94 – 11/95 [LCCI, Design RF Engineer]

SELECTED EXPERIENCE

• WCDMA-HSDPA Core & RF Roll-Out 3G Optimization Project-Nokia-Siemens Networks/CLARO, Santiago, Chile (01/07-03/08)

RF Engineer responsible for performing the optimization of Radio Access Network (RAN) of CLARO 3G Networks for Provisitional and Final Acceptance on both CS and PS Service. Daily activities involve in collecting and analyzing TEMS/ NEMO clusters data to achieve target KPIs on Video, PS R99, HSDPA , Multi-RAB AMR-HSDPA, Multi-RAB AMR-R99.,and solving Network issues(Call Drop, SHO fail, Set-Up Failure, low Throughput) using OSS counters statistics. On going activities are resolving KPI’ issues on Accessibility, Retainability, Availability, Integrity. Other activities involve in Neighbor (ADJS, ADJG, ADCE), IRAT testing, Transmission planning on Core Network, in-building testing, RET on 2G/3G polluting cells, parameters check/change (COCO, RNC, WANE, WGS, WLCSE, WSMLC,WBTS, FMCS, ADJS,..) using Nokia Plan Editor v4.5, , NectAct Planner. Familiar with MSS, MGW, MSC, HLR, SRRi, CDS, and dimensioning of the Speech, data and signaling.

• CDMA2000-EVDO Design/Optimization Project-Lucent/Cricket Communications, Oklahoma City, OKC (01/07-12/07)

RF Engineer responsible for performing preliminary RF the design, development, integration and optimization of CDMA2000-EVDO Cricket network. Responsibilities include performing morphology definition, radio propagation modeling and prediction to determine cell site location using Planet EV, determining equipment (Antennas, transmission lines, lucent 4401, Lucent 4.0B ModCell) and power configurations, population density study, Network Growth analysis, Forward/ Reverse link budget, forecasting channel capacity (Voice TRX & EVDO TRX), engineering functions (T1 , Signaling IP and DS3 testing) related to interconnect equipment and facilities. Other activities include PN & Neighbor list planning, CDMA2000 Data translation and parameter setting such as PILOT, SYNC, PAGING, Voice Activation, Thermal Noise Calculations), Hand-Off parameters (such as SRCH_WIN, T_DROP) and traffic loading effect studied, Review cluster stats(drops, blocks, carrier usage, Handoff Matrix, UNL and more. Very familiar with Voice and data architecture, including Data session Flows.

• UMTS Design/Deployment/Integration/Optimization/Launch –Lucent Technology / Cingular Wireless, New York, NY (02/06-02/07)
Senior RF Consultant, responsible for the Cingular Wireless Year 2006 UMTS Design and Optimization Launch of different Clusters in New York. Responsible of overseeing UMTS coverage design, model simulation, analysis of Ec/Io footprint, Traffic Eb/No Analysis for Forward and Reverse Link, Strongest Nominal Ec/Io Analysis, SHO Analysis, PS and CS Traffic Analysis using ASSET 3G or Lucent Airpro 4.1, equipment configuration, and co-siting issues. Responsible of overseeing optimization activities including UMTS and IRAT Neighbors implementation, generation of OMC-U CLI Scripts, import and export of XML files, Datafill, preparation of loadable UMTS Script files for network deployment, consistencies Check of OMCU-U, LRNC, and NodeB dumps. Other optimization tasks include Node B Cluster testing for Cingular Go/No-Go report, morphology, model definition under predefined DL OCNS simulation loading, RF Call trace, OCNS Calibration using SAMSUNG SGH-ZX10 and 3 scanners (850/1900/UMTS) for UMTS MOCS Voice, UMTS MTCS Voice, UMTS MO HSDPA, and Multi RAB testing. Other roles involve creation of WAMS (Wireless Application Measurement Sequencer) for Go/No-Go Lucent LDTATS and Actix log files, creation of Tera Term Mobile termination script files (for PSTN-to-Mobile calls/25 attempts with 10s set up/110s duration), FTP Throughput testing, analysis on Agilent E6474 data, implementation of network recommendations, Parameters changes (CM2D threshold, CM2F, Trigger MAHO threshold) to improve Cingular UMTS KPIs (CS set up Rate, CS Drop, PS Drop, HSDPA PS Drop call Rate, %tile DL Time…etc). Provide Network Operational Support with daily activities such as OMCUPS RF Call Trace, IOT (Inter operability Testing) with GSM-UMTS, Health check, Diversity Imbalance, Probe, and have gained good understanding UMTS architecture (Node B, RNC, MSC/VLR, SGSN, GGSN's elements), good interpretation of network performance and issues via data collected on Iub, Iur, IuPS, IuCS UMTS interfaces or related KPIs, good understanding of call Flow in RNC/ Utran Signaling. Daily activities on live network involve monitoring of Performance Stats of Cingular launched Node B, using SPATS 3G.

• UMTS/GSM 850/1900 MHz Dual Band Network Design/Integration/Performance/Monitoring –Ericsson & Siemens / Cingular Wireless, Atlanta, GA (09/05-02/06)
Senior RF Consultant, responsible of overseeing design and deployment of UMTS network. Daily work involves site visits, Ec design coverage, Monte Carlos simulations, Forward and Reverse Path Analysis, review of Link Budget parameters (such as RX Noise Power, Process Gain, BTS Noise Density), RFDS and equipment configuration review (cabinets, diplexers, TMA, MCPA, Bias-T….etc), Pilot SIR analysis, high Pilot Channel Power analysis, cell loading using Nominal Cell Plan, review of Scrambling Code planning, Soft/Softer Handovers reports, collecting data using CLARIFY for model tuning. Other tasks involve coordination, monitoring and verification after integration of 1900 Ericsson RBS (swapping 1900 Nokia), and 1900 Siemens NB580/NB581 cabinets, resolving some co-location issues such as, antennas limitation and cabinet sharing, RET(Remote Electrical Downtilt) Core Network Upgrade support , BSC Rehome in the existing Cingular TDMA/GSM 850 &1900 network.

• GSM/GPRS/EDGE 1900 MHz Single-Band Network Optimization, Performance & Monitoring -Ericsson / T-Mobile, Concord, CA (11/04-09/05)
Senior Ericsson RF Consultant, responsible for the West Bay area, from Redwood City to Mountain View. The optimization and performance work includes review of link budget, performance audit using Metrica (AMR Reports, EDGE Reports, GPRS Core Layer, Health Index, Ericsson Drop Call Analysis, MOU per Drop, Traffic Planning), Nerf Intranet Server, and TPU Radio utilization tool, Configuration of CCH and Paging parameters AGBLK, MFRMS…etc), testing of Ericsson Locating Algorithm 1 & 3 (Hystep, HiHyst, LoHyst, Offsetp, Offsetn), SDCCH Dimensioning, and AMR HR Trial, applying knowledge of GPRS/Edge to the reconfiguration of ABIS Path in T-Mobile Network, and assisting the RF design Team in tuning the Aircom Macrocell3 Model. Have gained a good understanding of different Ericsson RBS (2102, 2106, 2206, 2108 2109), with their different configurations (CDU-A, CDU-C+, CDUG…etc), CellBooster TCC Combining, Microcell Solutions fiber or IP-BTS. Daily work also include RF data analysis using TEMS, Actix, Opts PCS, response to customers complaints, and sending Work Orders using the Remedy System. Very familiar with the T-Mobile Citrix System (Remedy, Kingfisher, Asset, Insite), and proficient in creating optimization processes to meet the client’s KPI. On-going daily work consist in fixing issue such as Synchronization, antenna/feeders error, ABIS Fail, TR Fault, LAPD Failure, RF Old HO Fail, BSCU Reset Drop, working closely with the Switch and the BSS NOC. Daily work also involve in using Ericsson RNO (MRR, FOX, NCS…etc), R-PMO, CTR, MTR, Command Handler Terminal (OSS) to send BTS/BSC Commands in checking MO status, DIP hits, and fixing Digital Path, TRU Fault, TS Synch Fault, LAC Mismatch, OML Link Fault, RBLT/TG Connecting, with a good understanding of Ericsson Logical Hierarchy of BTS (RXOTG, RXOCF. etc), TMO. Comply with the client in Capital Expenditure Standards (Soft Cost/ Hard Cost). Good thinking & proactive approach and organization.

• GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/1900 MHz Dual-Band Network Optimization, Verification, Performance & Monitoring – Nokia/ AT & T, Paramus, NJ (01/04-10/04)
Senior Engineer Market Lead in the Nokia/ AWTS office in Paramus NJ. Project consisted in verification, writing upgrade verification processes, troubleshooting/optimization in the Nokia/AWTS network. The following upgrades were: 850/1900 TRX Simple Add, adding of additional T1 to existing 850/1900 sites with remapping of ABIS, 850 Overlay existing 1900 with IBBU 24V Cabinet, Metro/Edge conversion to EDGE, MBCCH Split, EDAP Resize, moving of EDGE from 1900 to 850, Antennas Swap, analysis of Traffic and Drop Calls Distribution between 850 and 1900, ARQ (Accessibility, Retainability, Quality), Parameters check (LSEG, BLT, ESI, GENA, EGENA, TLS Type, PMAX, MAL, MAIO Offset…etc), Performance Stats Check (Net Doctor Reports to access drop call rate, HO Failure rate, UL/DL Qual), power setting after MCPA integration, support of ROC team during CX3.3-2 Load (check of possible Sleeping BTS, LSEG, Alarm 2955, EDGE/GPRS issues such as bouncing channels and ABIS pool, BSC to BSC Rehoming using NMS2000. Exceptional skills in various Nokia DX200, NMS2000 applications such as Top Level User Interface, Radio Network Manager, Network Editor, and LAPD link Manager, BSS Split…etc.

• CDMA PCS 1900 IS-95A Design/Optimization – Telus Mobility, Canada, Quebec (01/03-12/03)
Responsible of overseeing the design of CDMA1900 network of 250 sites in Central Quebec and its suburbs. Daily activities involve site selection, drawing review, morphology definition, drive test, model tuning, verification for input parameters such as PILOT, SYNC, PAGING, Voice Activation, Thermal Noise Calculations), Forward and Reverse Path Analysis, and review of Hand-Off parameters (such as SRCH_WIN, T_DROP), PN Planning, and resolving some Co-location issues such as cabinet sharing, spurious emission and blocking. Responsible of overseeing Optimization testing (under simulated load) to improve KPIs such as FER, Drop Calls, Origination Failure, Handover Failures. Daily activities include data collection, Forward Transmit path Calibration, Neighbor list scrub, Output Power adjustment, Antennas tilt, Reverse Link Overload Control and mobile diagnostic monitoring using MDM equipments. Familiar with CE4, Autoplex System 1000 RF Call Trace, and Qualcomm Mobile.

• GSM 1900 & IS-136@1900 Network Optimization, Implementation & AMR / EOTD Testing– Philadelphia, PA (08/02 – 01/03)
Project Lead of Marconi Radio Network Optimization, AMR & EOTD Testing. Role consists of coordinating all Nokia RF Optimization, LMU (location Monitoring Unit), E-OTD (Enhance Observed Time Difference), and AMR (adaptive Multi-Rate) in the Nokia Cingular GSM Network Overlay (Philadelphia Market) testing activities. Work also includes, planning, Time projections, reporting and team management.

• GSM 900 & 1800 Network Design, Implementation & Optimization – Saudi Telecom Co, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (00/02 – 08/02)
BTS Optimization Manager for all the West Region (Nokia, Ericsson and Lucent) of the to direct all on-going activities of Optimization and Network performance of the Region, generation of High Management Congestion Reports for Nokia, Ericsson and Lucent, coordination with Vendors on different technical issues (review of features, Re-Homing of BSCs, Transcoder, Sector Synchronization on Hopping sites, RxQual Function, etc.), follow-up of Customer Complaints, Monitoring of Top Network Performance, Optimization Database Management, implementation of Optimization Changes, and presentation of Higher Management Bi-Monthly, Monthly or Weekly reports to the Board of Director of STC, planning and budgeting of Network infrastructures, Time projections, reporting and management using Microsoft Project 2000.

• GSM1900 Network Design, Implementation & Optimization – Ericsson/Cingular, Pleasanton, CA (01/01 – 00/02)
Project Lead of MSI design, Spectrum Reduction and optimization team in the Bay Metropolitan Area. Design work included site selection, integration of new sites in Ericsson OSS, selection of antenna systems and base station equipment, initial parameter settings, setup and analysis of CW test and drive test data, capacity, frequency and traffic planning to meet marketing objectives, daily use of Ericsson R8 OSS & RNO (NCS, NOX, FAS, FOX, MRR) for troubleshooting, tuning of Ericsson R8 parameter fine tuning including but not limited to: HCS, CLS, MAIO management for frequency hopping, Overlay/Underlay and GPRS settings, development of procedures to meet corporate engineering standards, monitoring of stats(DROP CALL, CALL BLOCK, BUSY TCH, HANDOVER), BSC/BTS Managed Object troubleshooting during Re-homes inter BSC of cell sites, interfacing with large corporate account customers on all technical aspects Implemented frequency hopping and GPRS within the San Francisco metropolitan network, FCC/FAA regulatory compliance analysis and Zoning.

• GSM Network Design & Optimization – VoiceStream Wireless/Lucent Technologies, St Louis (MO) and Richmond /VA (11/99 – 01/01)
Responsible for designing initial system for GSM network at 1900MHz in St. Louis, Missouri & Richmond VA. Duties included coverage design, coverage analysis, site identification and evaluation, link budget analysis, traffic projection, zoning, FAA analysis and filing, inter-modulation studies between VoiceStream and the other carriers, and evaluation for Lucent’ RF equipment and specifications, model tuning of Ex-Calibur and Odyssey

• GSM1900, CDMA1900/800, AMPS, iDEN, IS-136@1800/1900 Benchmarking– Telephia/Net-Q-Operation (04/99 – 11/99)
Team Leader of Telephia Network Quality. Role consists of coordinating the operations between the Director of Net-Q-Operation, the GIS group, and the testing team. Day by day duties consist of installing and maintaining Comarco Systems Equipment. The goal of the project is to evaluate the network performance, by systematically benchmarking across the United States, while placing and receiving calls using the state of art field measurement. This includes post-processing, analysis of network performance (Coverage, Call Access, Call Access Time, Voice Quality, and Call Performance), correlation of network performance to other network quality, correlation of network performance to other data (e.g. customer experience data, churn data).

• iDEN – Nextel Partners, Nebraska & Iowa (04/97-04/98) & (01/99 – 04/99)
Responsible of Nextel partners project year one to year three built out, connecting Omaha (Nebraska), DesMoines, and Cedar Rapids, Davenport trough major highways. The project started with defining coverage areas (based on subscriber demand estimates and market specific information), defining coverage objectives for in-building (IBP) and in-car (ICP) penetration utilizing “attractiveness” ranking (MapInfo layer files) categorized for Zip block and different variables, defining the iDEN Air Interface (i1000 portable). Duties also includes creating a forecast of offered traffic load (Base Radios capacity plan) out to three years after launch, prediction and testing tools evaluation, CW testing to tune the Safeco “Wizard” prediction tool, candidate evaluation and recommendations, site built specifications, frequency planning, construction drawing review, FAA analysis, in building testing and optimization using the Safeco “Walkabout” unit.

• GSM900 Benchmarking & Optimization – Siemens/Vodacom, Pretoria, South Africa (05/98 – 01/99)
Assume major role in swapping Motorola equipment (BTS, Switches) to Siemens. Duties included site survey, writing optimization and swap definitions procedures, microcell drive testing using Opas and Gyms, bracket definition benchmark report, neighbourlist analysis, Planet update, system parameter change after swap, follow up of problems using Siemens CADDIE BR4.0.

• GSM900, Design, Implementation & Optimization– France Telecom/Telemate, Paris & Bruxelle (11/95 – 01/97)
Responsible for the strategic Frequency Plan and coordination between the Luxembourg region and its borders (France and Luxembourg), and implementation of “Vienna Agreement 1993” and “Bonn Agreement 1990” which is based on CEPT T/R 20-08 Recommendation. Performed calculations of protection conditions on borders according to ITU 370 defined in “Vienna Agreement 1993” and using VHF & UHF propagation curves for frequency range from 30MHz to 1000MHz.
Using TEMS, Collected drive test data (RXQUAL, RXLEV, LAYER3-MESSAGES, etc.) analyze, identify areas and recommend solutions to address drop-calls, dragged-calls, handover failure and Ping-Pong effect in specific areas of Luxembourg where network performance is critical. Perform NMC (MATRA) parameter analysis using BDS and Parcell to optimize the performance of individual sites, create and update neighborhood list, in order to avoid dropped calls, cell resurgence, one-way hand-off and timing advance. Good execution of various phases of engineering tasks.

Analysis, Call Processing, Failure Reports, Power Level Measurement, and RF Call Trace), migration from TACS to GSM, demographics study

SKILLS, COMPUTER & TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

• GSM concepts & architecture knowledge
• UMTS concepts & architecture knowledge
• Knowledge WI-FI, WIMAX or other 802.11 Wireless LAN networks
• Radio Planning & Optimization skills: Metrica NPR, Nokia performance NMSOPT, Nokia BSSPAR, Nokia RANOP, PLANET DMS 2.2, PLANET EV, ACP, Ex-Calibur, CellCAD, Safeco "Walk-about", Wizard, Odyssey, TEMS Investigation, Grayson, Spectrum Tracker, ACTIX Analyzer, Tektronics K1205 protocol analyzer, Aircom ASSET, NetPlan, RadioPlan, Wine S, WCDMA, 3G, Quotient.
• Operations & Performance Management: Nokia NDW, Nokia NetAct OSS3.1, Ericsson R8 OSS &RNO including NCS/NOX/FAS/FOX/MRR, Ericsson TMO, Siemens CADDIE BR4.0, OPAS, Nokia’ "Tom & Sam", Procomm Telnet.
• Ericsson RBS 2000 Equipment, Nokia Ultra site EDGE
• RF Measurement Equipment including automation of Network, Site Master, BER, Spectrum & Vector signal analyzers.
• Analytical and Conceptual thinking, Attention to details, Collaboration Skills, Decision-Making Skills, Efficiency & Quality, Network Skills, Communication Skills, Technical Documentation Skills, Planning and Organization Skills, Problem Solving Skills.

Languages: C, Visual Basic
Operating Systems: MS-Dos, UNIX
Software: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project Management, Word, FoxPro, Microsoft Access, MapInfo, Map2000,

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

• BSEE, University of the District of Columbia

TRAINING

• LCC Cellular Institute (GSM Design & Optimization, CDMA Design, Fixed Network, IS-136 (TDMA), Iden, WAP, LAN, RF Propagation, LMDS, MMDS, CELLCAD, RSAT, PenCAT, Micro Cellular Network, Project Management, Leadership, Project Scheduling).

• Odyssey Planning tool, OptPCS, Metrica and MapInfo.
• Planet planning tool for GSM and CDMA at MSI.
• GSM BSS Parameters by Ericsson
• Extended Planning Introduction by Ericsson
• GSM BSS System Course by Ericsson
• Introduction to GPRS by Ericsson
• Exploring UMTS Release 4 & 5, Core Networks