SHOAIB IQBAL

40640 High Street Apt #610, Fremont, CA 94538

Phone: (408)-991-4916
Email: shebiqbal@gmail.com

OBJECTIVE

Looking for a career advancement and professional growth as an RF/LTE Engineer where I
can utilize my skills, team-work effort for researching, learning and developing new high-
tech products to serve the organization better.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:
• M.S, Computer Science, Silicon Valley University, San Jose, CA, USA
• B.E, Electronics & Communication, Osmania University , India

WORK EXPERIENCE:
3S Network, Inc., Sacramento, CA
October 2010- Till Date
Drive Test RF/LTE Team Lead
Responsibilities:
• Promoted to being a Market Lead Tech for 3S Network, Inc.
• Successfully Completed LTE Project in Las Vegas, Nevada for a week performing
Retain ability and Accessibility Tests, Stationary Tests.
• Performing Accessibility/Retainability tests, Site Shakedowns and On-Site
troubleshooting
• Currently working on LTE project as a Team Lead with MetroPCS in Sacramento, CA.
• Experience with LTE Standards, LTE network architecture, wireless networks, and
architecture and interface protocols.
• Knowledge of LTE Architecture, Optimization and Layer 3 messages.
• Successful Capacity and Handover demonstration to the Customer, notifying
customer with parameter changes and recommendations for optimized network
performance.
• Survey Team Coordination of 7 members and Reports generating.
• Was involved in preparing the training manuals and necessary documentation of the
projects after the development.
• Troubleshooting the issues of TEMS investigation and all other Major and Minor
Issues of all the teams involved.
• Maintaining Daily Trackers and meetings with Ericsson Engineers and UTRAN
Support.
• Experience and expertise in LTE, CDMA, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, IMS technologies
and RF tools like LLDM,TEMS, AGILENT and MapInfo.
• Strong planning, organizing, decision making capability.
• Good leadership and communication skills.
• Good understanding of Design principles.

3S Network, Inc., Los Angeles, CA

August 2010- October 2010
Drive Test LTE Technician
Responsibilities:
• Expert knowledge of wireless technologies CDMA, EVDO and LTE and protocols.
• RF system performance analysis with RF engineering tools with measurement from
Layer1, Layer2 and Mac layers.
 • Experience with Mapping tools like MapInfo, Microsoft Maps and Streets (2007,
2010), SQL and database scripting.
• Confident in making independent sound decisions and possess the ability to take
responsibility for specific projects or definable portions of larger projects.
• Leadership skills: commitment to excellence, accepting responsibility for results, and
making quality decisions.
• Experienced in using MS Streets and Trips, MS Excel and MapInfo for creating and editing drive routes.
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to deliver individually as well as in a team.

3S Network, Inc., Dublin, CA

February 2010- August 2010
Drive Test RF Technician
Responsibilities:
• Experience in Drive test performing Drive test RF data collecting and post-
processing for AT&T, mostly 2nd Carriers and 3rd Carriers.
• Brief knowledge of UTMS technology, Architecture, UTRAN interfaces-Iu, Iur, Iub and
Uu.
• Created sample plumbing diagrams in MS PowerPoint for UMTS sites and color coded
them as per the market specifications.
• Strong knowledge of parameters like CPICH Ec/No, CPICH RSCP, BLER,
Soft/Softer Handover, IRAT, HSDPA Throughput etc.
• Worked and experienced with Ericsson Engineers on Node B site sheets and how to
create RF datasheets from different markets in US
• Interacted with customer and coordinated with team members and team leads.
• Working knowledge of RF identity parameters LAC/SAC/RAC and UARFCN
assignments in UMTS technology.
• Drop call Analysis- Drop call causes due Missing Neighbors, Handover issues, DL
Coverage issues, UL Coverage issues, Overshooting pilots, Cell reselection issues, SC
collisions, Inter RNC Handover issues and Hardware Issues.
• Knowledge of adding add-on site, remote site information and parameters to
the live network RND.
• Knowledge of calculating baseline delay, CPICH, TX Power and loss of
transmission and reception by studying RFDS.
• Proficient Knowledge in compiling RNDCIQ information and submitting data to
scripting team for integrating UMTS sites in the network.
• Performed various drives such as the HSDPA, IRAT and R99 drives.
• Proficient in SQL MapInfo, MS Office (Excel), Planet Net Act, MS Maps and
Streets
• Was involved in stationary testing of various UMTS sites.
• Log analyzing drop calls, blocked call, access failure, Handovers, SHO, IRAT
HO failure, HSDPA throughput (Layer 3 messages)
• Missing neighbor analysis using the drive test tools:
1) TEMS investigation operating both in Scan mode and in dedicated Mode
2) DTI Clarify GSM Scanner with roof mount antenna
3) Agilent Multi-band Multi-carrier Scanner with roof mounted antenna.
• Experienced in using MS Streets and Trips, MS Excel and MapInfo for creating and
editing drive routes.
• Strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills.

Aplia Inc, Redwood City, CA

Dec 2008 – March 2009
Web Developer Intern
Responsibilities:
 • Creating XML sheets and CSS Webpage for the Website Aplia.com.
• Creating a Student Interface Website with Exam and Practice Question Papers.
• Creating XML sheets by converting PDF Textbooks to XML format in Arbortext.
• Reporting Bugs and Fixes to the Lead.
• Creating Question Papers in XML format.
• Bug Fixing and Testing of the XML Webpage.
Environment: Windows XP, Arbortext, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Photoshop

SKILLS / TOOLS:
• RF TOOLS: TEMS 8.0,9.0.10.1,11, AGILENT, MS Streets and Trips, Agilent,
MapInfo
• Software Testing: WinRunner, Loadrunner, QTP, Quality Center
• Database Designing : SQL–Oracle/MySQL, PL/SQL,
• RDBMS: Oracle 11g, 10g, 9i , 8i
• Operating System: Ms-Dos, Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP/ Vista, Linux-Red
Hat
• Web Designing : HTML AND HTML TESTING, XML USING ARBORTEXT, OXYGEN, PHP
• Languages: C, C++, Verilog HDL, VHDL, MATLAB
• Software: Ms Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), Adobe Photoshop
• Hardware: Hardware maintenance, software installations and trouble shooting of all
PC compatibles.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS:
REMOTE CONTROL USING DTMF TELEPHONE LINE
• A DTMF (dual tone multi frequency) telephone line was used to control objects
remotely.
• This project was designed and debugged on Embedded C using AT89C52
microprocessor in a group of two members.

DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF SINGLE FEED COMPACT MULTI-BAND FREQUENCY

FRACTAL ANTENNA
• Used EMPIRE (Electromagnetic field simulator for the analysis of Packages,
Interconnects,
Radiators, waveguide Elements and EMC problems) for design of antenna.
• Designed 6 different antennas with different frequencies, thicknesses and dielectric
constants.
• Studying the application of antenna on the surface of jet airplanes.

CERTIFICATIONS:
• ORACLE 9i CERTIFIED DEVELOPER ASSOCIATE (OCA).

REFERENCES: Available on request