Krunal Darji
MW Planning Engineer | AWS Certified SAA-C03
Deesa
Summary
With 16 years of experience in positions such as Cluster Lead, OMCR Engineer, BSS Engineer, I&C Team Lead, and Project Engineer at leading telecom organizations like Vodafone Idea Limited, Nokia Networks, and Indus Towers Limited, I bring expertise in Electronics & Communication. Throughout my career, I excelled in operational and maintenance tasks, troubleshooting, as well as configuration and upgrade of Ericsson and Nokia RAN Nodes. Currently serving as a Manager in MW Planning at Vodafone Idea Limited in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, I have honed my analytical and interpersonal skills.
Overview
1825
1825
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications
3
3
Languages
Work History
Sr. Manager
Vodafone Idea Limited
Ahmedabad
04.2020 - Current
- Handling & providing Tx feasibility to fulfill sites for Relocation & New Built sites and New OFC Pop planning as per RAN Sites topology with BW Requirement as per CIR
- Link budget designing of Ericsson & Huawei MW OEM link 1+0, 1+1, 2+0, XPIC & 1G
- E2E Material mapped as per available stock and shared to Project Team
- Maintaining MW database (Live and Not-live) for material re-deployment for different Projects Like High Utilization, Pop loading/Off-loading, Roll out of New Built & capacity addition sites (FDD, TDD and MIMO)
- Maintaining VLAN database for E2E Service provisioning
- Identify KPI degraded Link (MW RSL, Error, Modulation degraded) & shared to BSS Team for further rectification to improve quality of NW
- Releasing Traffic shifting Plan for Mobility & E2E follow up with Operation/Project & OFC Team to complete Traffic shifting on newly installed Hops & New OFC Pop for better customer Experience
- Releasing Traffic shifting Plan for MPLS, ILL, NPLC & PRI Services & E2E follow up with Enterprise Team to close Traffic shifting activity for better customer Experience
- Support to VIBS Team for converting services into IP
- Deployment of new HW for different Project as per availability Ericsson - TN (TN2P, TN6Pc/6Pb and TN20P), ML66xx (ML6692 & ML6654)
- Huawei - Huawei RTN (905/910/910A/950/950A)
- IP Planning of Txn equipment, allocate IP for new node insertion in NMS, GNE, Non-GNE IP, Shared to Optics & DCN Team for further provisioning
- On time support to Operation team for MW Re-engg
- Of LOS Obstacle or other Infra issue
Asst. Manager
Idea Cellular Ltd.
Mehsana
09.201 - 03.202
- Operational & Maintenance, Project Works, E2E readiness, New Site Integration, Mux & Fiber Maintenance
- Expertize in Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei Technology
- Operation & Maintenance of MW Equip
- Like Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia-FPR & FIU, NEC Paso & NEC IP etc
- To implement proactive monitoring of MW links like Ericsson Traffic Node, Huawei & NEC Paso link & NEC IP and improve network visibility through under centralized server for faster fault rectification
- Operation & Maintenance of the network to ensure NWA of 2G, 3G & 4G, Exceeding defined level by redundancy buildup of Media, Hub location & NMS Implementation of all network
- Liaison with BSNL & other Telecom Operators for all POI related activities
- Manage available resources to bring down BTS MTTR through innovative solutions every month
- Update & maintain network to ensure accurate O&M data in the data bank and to make reference for any element/parameter/loading reconciliation / Track the corrective and preventive maintenance carried out by IP Providers to Site Passive Infrastructure
- To maintain Media details & Performance of operational POIs & Intra/inter-Circle WAN links for BER 99.9%, AT for the new link
- Undertaking the Configuration and Management of Switches, Routers, CBC Servers, etc
- Associated with BSS Network
- Coordination with circle NOC team for new augmentation, commissioning and end to end testing for all intra/inter circle transmission links with physical connectivity along augmentation of ILL/MPLS/P2P with respective SPOC & TX NOC stability checks as per standards
- Manage vendors / resources to complete 2G, 3G & 4G BTS/MW site installation /swapping/ upgrades of BTS/MW/TRX etc
- & 3G&4G IP/ATM migrations etc
- To achieve efficiencies & complete the Acceptance Testing to ensure quality of rollout
- To ensure 2G, 3G & 4G media availability to new sites get completed as per plan
- Reconcile Asset / Spare to streamline asset and spare management and to have right track of installed and idle assets at sites, every month
- Support sales team to reduce repetitive complaints from site/ town through effective implementation of necessary changes within TAT
- Participate in TQM activities/Projects in line with business requirements to bring out benefits of project & replications of successful projects
- Ensure that the IP Companies are charging IP Fee and Energy costs accurately
- Facilitating regulatory compliance such as EMF audit, MRO drive & other siting clearances
- Prime Responsibility to maintain NW up to Service requirement of Customer
- Integration, Commissioning & Troubleshooting of Ericsson, Nokia BTS RBS 2K,6K Series,RBS5216 & RBS6630
- Scheduled backup from OMCR for BSC database
- On field and off field BSS support (All BSS Equipment)
- Generates Trouble tickets of site down or under outages
BSS Engineer
Nokia Networks
07.2011 - 09.2015
- Fault rectification of NOKIA, Siemens and NEC Microwave Radio, Tejas Mux, Ceragon (IP-10), Huawei RTN-950 & 905
- BSC & BTS alarm monitoring
- Fault rectification of Ultra, Flexi BTS and Flexi Multi Radio BTS
- Health checkup of BSC (LC BSC3I & LC BSC3) units (BCSU, MCMU, OMU)
- BTS integration and commissioning, TRX addition / deletion, RTSL Reconfig., site recreation, expansion / segmentation of ULTRA & Flexi BTS
- Alignment, integration & maintenance of NEC, Nokia Flexi hopper
- Tributaries management for site ETs
- Co-ordination with ABTS & BTSOL engineers for optical media
- Follow-ups with site technicians for power alarms
- Checking status for Restoration of signaling links (Ater), GB links
- Rectifying of quality degraded alarms on TRX like 7601, 7606, 7604, 7745, 7743
- Rectifying major traffic affecting(Call Drop)alarm like 2992,2993 to maintain KPI
- Regular monitoring of Block-TRX and make them working from BSC
- Analyzing root causes of BSC & BTS outages
I&C Team Lead
BHARTI MAXTEL PVT LTD
01.2011 - 07.2011
- Working for Huawei (3G&2G) PROJECT of TATA COMMUNICATION
- Technically Support for Project Engineer
- Vendor Co-ordination & Management
- Required associated Co-ordination with the all Teams
- Expertise in BTS 3900 & BTS 3900 A
Project Engineer
VCC INFRA. PVT. LTD.
11.2010 - 01.2011
- Significant Experience in Executing & Managing Telecom Projects
- I&C MW & BTS
- And Also Swapping Process for Microwave Link
- Expertise in ZTE (ZXSDR 8800, ZXSDR8900), Ceragon & NEC (1+0,1+0) Link I&C
- PDH to SDH Link swapping in NEC
OMCR Engineer
Indus Towers Ltd.
09.2008 - 11.2010
- Alarm monitoring of BTS and BSC sites on Nokia Siemens Citrix OMC-R (24
- 7)
- Support to field Engineer & Technician in resolving problem
- Daily IUTR (Indus Up Time Report)
- Following up with TOC for smooth operation of alarm monitoring, trouble Ticket Generation
- Site Maintenance of Nokia BTS for Bharti Airtel
- Co-ordinate with NSN OMC team to resolve the issues of critical alarms and site outage
- Preventing Outage
- Co-ordinate with both OME & OPCO for the outage related issue
- Monitoring and escalation of alarms of entire Airtel network of Gujarat from Airtel OMC (Ahmedabad) by using citrix and exceed tools
- Prepare Cell outage analysis report on daily basis and circulate in all networks engineers
- Proficient in MML commands for alarm monitoring
Trainee
Reliance Communications
01.2010 - 05.2010
- Provisioning, Fault Rectification, Installation of DLC, Network of Reliance Communications, MSC (HLR, VLR, EIR, AUC), BSC and CDMA, DLC, UBR and LMDS
Education
B.E. - Electronics and communication
North Gujarat University (Government Engineering College, Patan)
06.2004 - 06.2008
12th - Science stream
G.H.S.E.B
03.2002 - 03.2004
10th -
G.S.E.B
Palanpur 03.2000 - 03.2002
Skills
- AWS
- Linux
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- SOEM
- Path Loss 5
- Path Loss 51
- MapInfo V2021
- Google Earth
- ECI NMS
- Huawei NCE
Certification
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 24-Jul-1987
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above mentioned information is true to the best of my knowledge.
Best Regards,
KRUNAL P. DARJI
Timeline
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03), 01/01/24
01-2025
AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials
01-2024
Sr. Manager
Vodafone Idea Limited
04.2020 - Current
BSS Engineer
Nokia Networks
07.2011 - 09.2015
I&C Team Lead
BHARTI MAXTEL PVT LTD
01.2011 - 07.2011
Project Engineer
VCC INFRA. PVT. LTD.
11.2010 - 01.2011
Trainee
Reliance Communications
01.2010 - 05.2010
OMCR Engineer
Indus Towers Ltd.
09.2008 - 11.2010
B.E. - Electronics and communication
North Gujarat University (Government Engineering College, Patan)
06.2004 - 06.2008
12th - Science stream
G.H.S.E.B
03.2002 - 03.2004
10th -
G.S.E.B
03.2000 - 03.2002
Linux basic
Docker
Kubernetes
Asst. Manager
Idea Cellular Ltd.
09.201 - 03.202
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