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Operations Manager / Solution Architect
December 2006 to date
Responsibilities:
Plan, supervise and co-ordinate with personnel to ensure the running
of operations. Optimize the cost associated to operations. Improve service
levels and quality. Maintain agreements for products and services provided.
Improve relationship with clients. Develop staff potential. Draft customer
proposals for design and development.
High Level
Solution Designs: Multiplayer Gaming Solution (highly robust, redundant,
telecom grade multi-server solution), LI (for email and SMS), Alarm
Alert (linux grade failure alert system for manufacturing plants). Industrial
Automation (linux grade, geographically distributed), Freight Tracking
(robust, redundant, telecom grade, multi-server, geographically distributed
system) etc.
Technologies:
CDMA/GSM/HFC/CMTS/WiMax Core Networks (SS7, TCP/IP), Control Systems,
ASIC Design, GPS, Web Design, etc.

Tools:
Routers/Firewalls/Rack mounted servers, Storage Area Networks, Linux/Solaris/.net
servers (standalone, clusters, grids), apache, MySQL etc.

Network Planning and Optimization
Engineer
CDMA Department, Zhongxing Telecommunications
(ZTE), Islamabad, Pakistan.
September 2005 to December 2006
Responsibilities:
Spectrum Scanning, Cell site selection, Reverse Link Budgeting, PN Planning,
Frequency Planning, Cell site optimization (Drive-tests and Post-processing)
Terrain:

Hillocky, Plainer
Technologies:
CDMA IS95, CDMA 2000/1x, EvDo, EvDV
Tools: ZXPOS
CDMA Solution (A tool very similar to ASSET 3G), MapInfo, MapX, Global
Mapper, Tektronix Y400,
Achievements:
Was promoted to team lead north in just 3 months after I joined the
project Challenging Assignments:
Restricted network coverage on Pak-Afghan Border, without affecting
the quality of existing network.


Trainee Engineer
WorldCall Broadband Limited, Karachi
Pakistan.
July/August 2003 (2 months)
Responsibilities:
RF Network Design, RF Node Maintenance, Optical Network Design, Optical
Node Maintenance.
Technologies:
RF Planning, Optical Node Design, Broadband Transmission
Tools: Agilent
Technologies RF Network Analyzer, RF/Co-ax Amplifiers. Transmission
Hardware/Software

System Administrator
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute
of Engineering Sciences and Technology, NWFP, Pakistan.
Jan 2001 to Jan 2004
(3 years)
Responsibilities:
maintaining and optimization of the existing infrastructure which consists
of more than 1000 hosts. In addition, the servers available to us were
used to run game servers, audio/video streaming servers (shoutcast),
web hosting servers for local sites etc. As a hobby, it evolved me into
self learner and made me very adept with new emerging technologies in
the respective field.
Technologies:
Mail, Proxy, Routing, DNS, Web-Hosting, Dial-up server, Firewall etc.
Tools: Cisco
2200+ series router, VSat, Linux/Windows .net/FreeBSD/Solaris, Linux
Shell Scripting, iptables, fetchmail, squid, samba, zebra, mySQL, apache,
etc.

EDUCATION
Major Degree: BS
in Electronics Engineering
Year: 2005
Institute: Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute
of Engineering Sciences and Technology
EXTRA CURRICULARS



Won Creative Speaking 2004
held by LDS in spring 2004.
Won Dramatic Competition
held by CDES in fall 2001.
Judge, Uber Games 2004 (All
Pak e-gamming event held by NETRONiX).
Conducted a one week workshop
on computer networks at GIKI.

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