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Sandeep Ravi Lohit

Sandeep Ravi Lohit

Specialist Engineer
Noida,India

Summary

Dynamic & accomplished senior telecom professional with 15 years of experience in RF planning & optimization of NR (5G), LTE (4G) and legacy networks globally, currently functioning as Design Team Lead (Network Planning & Optimization) with Ericsson India Global Pvt Ltd.


Network Optimization, Management, Green field, expansion & Swap network project of LTE, 3G & 2G technologies with scope of planning, optimization & network benchmarking of Ericsson LTE & 3G network parameters, PIs and KPIs & performance management tools.


Efficient Team Leader & Player, combining communication, interpersonal & problem-solving skills with analytical, decision making and leadership capabilities to enhance organizational objectives

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
1
1
Language

Work History

Specialist Engineer

Ericsson India Global Services Private Limited
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
07.2019 - Current


Planning and Design

o Planning and design experience on NR 5G/ LTE / NB-IOT/ CAT-m Network design and simulation.

o Simulation and testing for spectrum and product deployment scenarios to realized maximum throughput by Carrier aggregation for NR 3.5 C-Band and LTE Advance (800 B-20, 1800 B-3, 2300 B-40)

o Generation of different services plots SS-RSRP, CINR, Throughput DL/UL.

o Link Budget calculation for indoor outdoor services for guaranteed user throughput and coverage for LTE and 5G.

o Work on vendor swap design project, cluster level design with vendor product swap and modernization and simulation of deployment method in planning tool.

o Good experience 5G (SA/NSA) and LTE planning on Atoll and Mentum Planet Tool.

o Carrying out Model Tuning by using the drive test data to propound propagation model for different morphologies in Cross Wave tool.

o Handle responsibilities of developing and reviewing RF network and site designs to ensure that the design meets corporate business, technical and operational objectives.

o CDD/CDR Preparation for 2G, 3G, LTE and 5G Technology.

Senior Engineer

Ericsson India Global Services Private Limited
Noida, Uttar Pradesh
01.2013 - 06.2019

Ø Planning of new 2G 3G and LTE sites by using Atoll and Mentum Planet tool.

Ø PCI planning using Atoll and Mentum Planet AFP.

Ø Rach root sequence planning using Atoll and Mentum planet.

Ø BCCH, BSIC, TCH Plan (HSN, MAIO Planning) using Atoll and Mentum Planet AFP.

Ø Neighbor Planning using Atoll Mentum Planet ANR.

Ø WCDMA PSC using Mentum Planet.

Ø All the changes made in design and violations are incorporated in delta report. Wherein we have checklist for azimuth, heights, tilts, antenna type.

Ø Design is based on providing good coverage & quality in existing and new areas.

Ø CDD/CDR Preparation for 2G, 3G and LTE technology.

Generate KPIs for Baseline and Optimized project.

Senior RNO Consultant

Metro Wireless Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Jakarta, Sumarta (Indonesia)
01.2010 - 12.2012

➢ To analyze KPI reports for Call drop rate (CDR), HOSR, HO drop and provide the solution to match the customer requirements.

➢ RF Acceptance Test of Voice Quality, Signal Strength, Hand Offs & Calls for all new site.

➢ Optimization of cells having TCH/SDCCH drop, TCH/SDCCH Congestion, High HO failure Rate.

➢ KPI analysis via CSSR, CDR, TCH/SDCCH blocking, HSR, HFR etc. ➢ Analysis of coverage and capacity, Frequency, BSIC, HSN, MAIO planning and Traffic calculation Statistic.

➢ Handling of interference issues by change of frequency, BTS power, antenna configuration, and fine tuning for functioning of the N/W at optimum levels Traffic optimization which includes monitoring daily & busy hour traffic, Cell Utilization.

➢ Rehoming, TRX addition, TRX deletion, MAIO & HSN Planning, BSC Boundary creation, LAC Planning, LAC splitting

➢ Physical optimization based on post processing log, TA reports, TRX quality/ Rx Qual report, and daily KPI trend.

➢ Analysis of Drive test Log files, completely analysis of call drops, BCCH interference, MAL Freq interference, Handover Issues, sector swap, hardware issues, escalation of hardware issues to BSS team

➢ To rectify Customer Complaints by providing proper Solutions

Senior Engineer

Metro Wireless Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
Jakarta, Sumarta (Indonesia)
11.2008 - 12.2009

Ø Tuning various RF parameters to maintain the KPIs of the network.

Ø Worked on Common ABIS feature, GEMINI Technology.

Ø Responsibility for RF team building and successful completion of RF roll out in all respect (RF Design, RF Planning, RF Surveys, RF Optimization, and RF Acceptance Test) with in the given time frame.

Ø Work closely with the other operational team (BSS, NSS, O&M and Project) and customer, utilize relationships to ensure that project roll out are met in time.

Ø Monitoring network TCH Drop Rate, SDCCH Drop Rate, TCH Blocking, SDCCH Blocking, Handover Success Rate, TCH Assignment Success Rate, CSSR, RAB Success rate, RRC Connection Setup Rate, Cell Availability, TBF Establishment success rate, TBF Completion rate, TBF drop Rate etc.

Ø BTS-BSC Re-homing Plan, preparation of the necessary BTS parameters, and parameter audit after every re-homing activity.

Ø Daily analysis of Nokia cell doctor reports for proper functioning of the network.

Ø Technical support on Optimization and planning to team to achieve desired targets for KPI.

Ø KPI Maintaining. Monitoring daily stats and optimizing the network to increase the Call Setup Success rate and Call success rate and Handover success rate.

Ø Frequency planning, Neighbor list Planning, BSIC Planning, Location area definition.

Ø Parameters fine-tuning, Handover parameters and Power control parameters, Optimization to increase the network quality and Grade of Service.

Ø Preparing Drive test report and coverage report and weekly network performance report.

Ø TCH and SDCCH Reconfiguration to minimize the TCH blocking and SDCCH blocking.

RF Drive Test Engineer

ADA Cell works Wireless Engg. (P) Ltd.
Kolkata, West Bengal
09.2007 - 10.2008

Ø Perform TRAI Drive Test (Voice & Data).

Ø Drive Test (Voice & Data), & logfile file analysis to find Coverage, Interference

problems.

Ø Optimization (physical) to resolve coverage issues.

Ø Proposing new sites to overcome the coverage patches & filling capacity areas &

providing In- Building Solutions.

Ø Data & Voice complaints handling.

Ø Frequency Planning, HSN and MAIO Planning and Neighbor Planning.

Ø Preparing Cell Design Data (CDD) for integration of new sites.

Ø Network Tuning and Optimization & Verifying network performance

Ø Handling Data & Voice complaints.

RF Engineer

Leadcom Integrated Solution Pvt. Ltd.
Bhubaneswar, Orissa
02.2007 - 08.2007

Ø Perform RF and Transmission Survey.

Ø Site option searching within the 100 M nominal radius.

Ø Route Track for transmission link with the help of GPS.

Ø Measurements for existing site.

Ø Propose height for RF and Transmission Antenna.

Ø Propose azimuth for RF antenna according to the clutter.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
06.2002 - 07.2006

Skills

Radio Network Planning and Design

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Software

Planning Tool : Atoll, Capesso, Arieso ACP, Frelon, Mentum Planet

Performance Analysis Tool : BI, MS Office, Tableau, ITK, STK, BO, ENM

Drive Test & Analysis Tools : TEMS, MapInfo Professional, MCOM, MIPT, Google Earth

RAN Equipment vendors : Ericsson, Nokia, Seimens

Accomplishments

DOne

Affiliations

Done

Additional Information

Done

Certification

RNO

Interests

Book Reading

Movies

Timeline

IP

05-2021

RNO

03-2021

RND

01-2021

Specialist Engineer

Ericsson India Global Services Private Limited
07.2019 - Current

Senior Engineer

Ericsson India Global Services Private Limited
01.2013 - 06.2019

Senior RNO Consultant

Metro Wireless Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
01.2010 - 12.2012

Senior Engineer

Metro Wireless Engineering Pvt. Ltd.
11.2008 - 12.2009

RF Drive Test Engineer

ADA Cell works Wireless Engg. (P) Ltd.
09.2007 - 10.2008

RF Engineer

Leadcom Integrated Solution Pvt. Ltd.
02.2007 - 08.2007

Bachelor of Technology - Electronics And Communication Engineering

Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College
06.2002 - 07.2006
Sandeep Ravi LohitSpecialist Engineer