Vikram Saini Email: vikram425@yahoo.com Phone - 0422971133

Australian Permanent Resident.

Six years of work experience with top Telecom Service Providers – Airtel Limited, Ericsson

Limited, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices and Idea Cellular.

Hands on experience in DWDM, SDH, Digital and Optical Cross Connects, Microwave,

Management Systems (EMS/NMS) planning, implementation, Network Integration and

Operations and Maintenance.

Experience of working in NOC Environment, handling escalations, fault management, adherence

to Trouble Ticket (TT)/ Fault Ticket (FT) SLA.

Proficient in SDH, EoSDH, OTN, Network Configuration, Capacity Planning, Designing,

Provisioning & Optimization of Bandwidth over Optical Fiber SDH Network.

Hands on experience in installation commissioning & delivery of various telecom like Ceragon

XPIC radios, Harris radio, NEC, Siemens and NSN.

Experience in handling Utility/infra and fiber related issue to – SMPS, DG, Battery banks,

Fiber,OTDR, power meters, splicing machines, fiber team management and movement, vendor

management and ROW.

Multi-Vendor & Multi-technology exposure to Nortel, Huawei, ECI, Tejas, Nokia Siemens,

Alcatel-Lucent & Tellabs. NEC for microwave.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

OSS Infotech Pty Ltd. Bankstown, Sydney November 2014 to Till Date Designation: Network Support Engineer

Providing connectivity solutions to corporate and home user for Voip, ADSL and ISDN.

Managing the LNS network and carrying out customer provisioning through Octane and IMS.

Working on the integration of IPTV network.

Knowledge of NBN, Telstra , Optus products and network architecture.

Meeting and follow-ups with ISP like Optus, Spectrum and Telstra for service assurance and delivery.

Integration of corporate IT network including Data servers and Soft-switches for Voip.

Working knowledge of 3CX Voip telephony.

Bharti Telesonic Networks Limited February 2014 to August 2014 Designation: Engineer-Transmission TAC NOC

Carrying out Transport Operations and Maintenance of Airtel Network from Network Operations Center (NOC).

Manage, coordinate and support network fault management systems for the delivery on required network service levels.

Fault Management on diverse multi vendor metro core, access and National Long Distance (NLD) Transmission network.

Rectification of faults relating to configuration issue is Huawei carrier Ethernet and Huawei metro core 8800, 6800 and Alcatel Lucent 1642, 1662, 1660.

Documentation: Responsible for documenting all the RCA’s and process for knowledge management for smooth Operation.

Troubleshooting of faults relating to Ethernet Over SDH (EoSDH), Optical Transport Network (OTN), Metro Core, PoSDH, DSLAMS, Lease Lines, MPLS over Transport.

Tracking/Analyzing Reason for outages and providing Root Cause Analysis for Critical/Major network outages.

Providing Level 2 support in Transmission Technical Assistance Center (TAC) during critical/Major outages.

Escalations and follow with vendors for new equipment/ network element enrollment into network and handling firmware upgrade activities.

Co-ordination with vendors overseas such as Ciena (USA), Huawei (China), ECI (Isreal), NEC (Japan) for support during critical outages in network.

Parallel troubleshooting on a multi-vendor transmission network consisting of SDH, DWDM, OTN, ASON, Metro Core Networks of Huawei, Alcatel, ECI, NSN, Tejas, Nortel.

Carrying out various hardware replacement activities and vendor escalations for detailed RCA for hardware failures.

Ericsson May 2013 to February 2014 Designation: Engineer-Transmission Major responsibilities include:

Responsible for Fault Management of transmission network on 24 x 7 basis for Reliance Communications account of the Circle for minimum outage & to provide maximum network

availability.

Coordinating and guiding fiber and splicing teams for quick resolution of outages.

Post analysis of critical outages to prepare a RCA Report and suggest customer ways to minimize these outages.

Provisioning & re-routing of E1, EoSDH and implementation of protection over NLD/OTN for providing robust protection to high value circuits.

Support field engineers to understand the fault and to guide them for rectification of the same.

Coordinate and support the field engineers for creating and executing plans for Network solution to augment the network capacity, and complete the assignment within the limited time to reduce Network outage.

Monitoring Transmission (SDH/PDH/MW/DWDM) Related alarms and extending them to field team for corrective action.

Providing the most suitable and lowest low cost solutions for optimization of optical and microwave transmission network.

Planning and providing wireless microwave solutions to customers where fiber delivery is non feasible.

Bandwidth capacity Optimization & VC4 level optical Circuit Provisioning on VC4, VC3, VC12 level

Commissioning the New BLSR (MSSP) & ASTN Rings for the Network capacity enhancement.

Planning and circuit creation with MSC for the Re-grooming of BTS sites from one MSC to other MSC, Provisioning of customer circuits over EoSDH.

Working for capacity creation by implementation of OTN (Optical Transport Network) in current DWDM network.

Ensuring High network uptime to meet the business requirement by analyzing the fiber fault and identifying the root cause of the fiber cuts in the circle.

Ensure maintenance of SLA’s for Network availability and Fiber MTTR as per set objectives.

Control no. of FIBER faults and MTTR within targets.

Updating and maintaining the network related documents such as network engineering drawings, fiber route drawings.

Troubleshooting faults relating to microwave radio like Ceragon XPIC, Siemens SARAL and harris radio.

Liaison with NNOC for fault clearance and other FIBER maintenance related activities.

Ensure that preventive maintenances/ calibrations of OFC equipments such as splicing

machines, OTDR, Cleavers as per defined intervals.

Resolving various OSP/Infra related faults due to weak battery banks, SMPS/rectifier misbehavior, SEB fluctuations.

Coordination with Fiber teams for the deployment of new fiber and for the rerouting of fiber routes so as to bye-pass fiber losses.

Escalation of various fiber issues like high losses, repeated fiber cuts, ROW permissions etc. and providing a suitable solution for the same.

Planning and Implementation of OME 6500 (STM64) NE's in RCOM network for Bandwidth up-gradation.

New DWDM BLSR Ring formation by propagation of new wavelength in the existing DWDM route and testing of the same.

Coordination and follow up with the fiber team for implementation of new fiber routes within SLA and time to time quality checks using OTDR and LSPM.

Reliance Communications Ltd. February 2010 to April 2013 Designation: Assistant Manager – Transport Engineer Major responsibilities include:

Responsible for transmission (optical & MW) O&M.

Planning for the creation of capacity in traffic choked transmission Network rings.

Carrying out LOS surveys for installation of new links, supervising the entire site integration, acceptance testing and handover.

Installation and commissioning of optical SDH equipments like Nortel 16x, 4x OME 6110, OME 6110 HDE, OME 6130, OME 6500.

Installation and commission of Mircowave radios of NEC, Ceragon, harris radio.

Ensure that preventive maintenances/ calibrations of OFC equipments as per defined intervals.

Coordinate with Area managers for OFC related issues of their respective maintenance point and provide resolution in coordination with NHQ team.

New OFC integration activities in coordination with field and NOC.

Bandwidth capacity Optimization & VC4 level optical Circuit Provisioning.

Commissioning the New BLSR (MSSP) & ASTN Rings for the Network capacity enhancement.

Planning and Circuits creation with MSC for the Re-grooming of BTS sites from one MSC to other MSC.

Co-ordination with different teams like EWC, SOMG, DATA, ILT, GMSC and CDMA.

RCA identification of any fluctuation/flicks on site due infra and coordination with OSE and area manager for the resolutions of the same.

Taking OTDR traces and coordinating with the fiber teams for the timely resolution of fiber cuts.

Fiber and Transmission plan for the new BTS, POI, Customer location and site survey of these location and Acceptance testing, site survey for installation and Link testing of OFC.

Coordination with Fiber teams for the deployment of new fiber and for the rerouting of fiber routes so as to bye pass fiber losses.

Escalation of various fiber issues like high losses, repeated fiber cuts, ROW permissions etc. and providing a suitable solution for the same.

Coordination and follow up with the fiber team for implementation of new fiber routes within SLA and time to time quality checks using OTDR and LSPM.

Avion Systems for Alcatel Lucent (A/c: TATA DOCOMO) December 2009 to Feb. 2010 Designation: Project Engineer

Major responsibilities include:

Installation and commissioning of Alcatel Lucent 1642, 1662, 1660 MUX.

Site installation, integration, commissioning starting from scrap.

Installation of Transmission and DDF rack.

Carrying out Acceptance Tests, BER test, Tx/Rx sensitivity tests.

Kross Infotel Limited (A/c: IDEA) June 2009 to November 2009 Designation: Project Engineer (BTS installation and commissioning)

Installation & commissioning of GSM cell sites(Nokia flexi BTS) in UP east circle for Idea cellular.

Supervising tower erection team, shelter buildings and foundation for DG and tower etc.

Installation & commissioning of SDH & PDH (NEC) Microwave links & SDH Mux for new rollout.

Hardware replacement & cause analysis of fault, in case of any failure at cell sites.

Hand on experience on site configuration for NMS.

Installation of transmission rack and DDF rack.

Integration and AT handling of new sites.

Coordinated a team of 60 Engineers and technicians. TATA Teleservices June 2008 to December 2008 Designation: Trainee

Major responsibilities include:

Installation & commissioning of CDMA cell sites.

Installation & commissioning of SDH & PDH (NEC) Microwave links & SDH Mux for new rollout.

Installation and commissioning of Alcatel Lucent MUX.

Configuring PM (Performance Monitoring) cards of MW (both SDH & PDH) MW ring on NMS.

Patching of E1's for traffic routing and ring closure.

Hardware replacement & cause analysis of fault, in case of any failure at cell sites.

Handling planned and unplanned network outages.

Network up gradation like carrier addition(Addition of hardware in BTS) & rectification of critical issues,

Corrective and preventive maintenance of POI sites.

Resolution of customer complaint & provide the indoor solutions.

CRN implementation as per guideline by the RF like Antenna orientation, VSWR measurement & BTS power measurement.

Repeater installation & survey for week signal area.

Call testing for cell sites during up gradation. Equipments Skill set: I have hand on experience on the following equipments:

Motorola SC - 4812 pBTS.

Alcatel Lucent MUX 1642, 1662 and 1660.

NEC & ceragon microwaves SDH,PDH,NEOi & NEOiC, IP Radio.

Agilent & Bird VSWR and calibration tool.

PNMT and Hyper terminal software for configuring MW.

Nokia flexi and ultra BTS, Nokia FIU, Nokia BTS and hopper manager,

Nortel DWDM, LH-4200, and Nortel HDX.

Nortel OME 6110, OME 6110 HDE, OME 6130, OME 6500,1XE, 4XE, 16XE, TN1-C.

Nortel NMS, Nortel OCM & Preside Tool for provisioning & maintenance.

Huawei OSN 8800 and 6800

Have a sound knowledge of various methods and protocols involved in the physical laying out of NLD, NBB and MA fiber routes.

Achievements

Upgraded STM 16 ring to STM 64 in a span of 24 hours

Awarded performer of the year for implementation of 2 cut not out protection on 450 BTS cell sites in Reliance Communications.

Successfully completed I&C and integration of 8 MW hops and sites in a span of 10 Days.

Successfully completed the installation commissioning and Acceptance testing 10 microwave hops in 6 days.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor’s degree in Technology – Electronics and Communications.

Skill Sets:

Tools: Optical Service Provisioning Tool, MAP info professional, Hyper terminal. Optical Network: SDH/SONET, DWDM, EoSDH, OTN, MPLS over transport. Wireless Network: Microwaves (NEC, Nokia, Siemens-Saral XD, XPIC, Path loss Tool. Infra and Fiber: knowledge about DG, SMPS, and Fiber, Splicing machine, Battery banks and vendor management.