Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
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TOOLS KNOWN
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Programming Languages
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References
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Mian Shah Rukh

Merrylands,Australia

Summary

Network Integration Engineer with 19 years of experience in telecommunications, excelling in field operations and NOC environments. Expertise in Radio Access Networks (RAN), IP transmission, and network monitoring across multi-vendor platforms such as Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, and ZTE. Skilled in Python scripting, configuration management, and real-time network performance analysis, driving operational efficiency and performance improvements.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Integration Engineer

RF-Industries
Seven Hills, NSW
01.2021 - Current
  • Integration and commissioning of Ericsson BBU6630, 6648, 6651 (LTE & 5G), and 6610 basebands for Optus, creating scripts from scratch and commissioning the eNodeB and gNodeBs for integration as per the latest Ericsson baseline.
  • Requesting licenses for the upcoming sites with the vendor.
  • Troubleshooting and helping field teams with integrations.
  • Integration of Nokia AirScale 4G/5G eNodeB and gNodeB, troubleshooting, and CM data fill.
  • Installing the whole Airscale system, GPS, and backhaul connections.
  • Troubleshooting complex faults by collaborating with Core, Transmission, and OSS teams.
  • ABIA - ABIO conversion, L9, 10 MHz upgrade. Updating baseline parameters for 23R3, 24R1, and 24R3.
  • Collecting snapshots and analyzing. Escalating to Nokia Care where needed.
  • Software upgrade, analyzing alarms, troubleshooting faults if any, followed by the SW upgrade.
  • Implementing new solutions as required by the operator.
  • Signing off on tasks after verifying site parameters and call/speed tests.
  • Software upgrade, analyzing alarms, troubleshooting faults if any, followed by the SW upgrade.
  • Checking performance KPIs and validating the pre- and post-traffic trend.
  • Troubleshooting performance-related issues post hardware and software upgrades.
  • IPSec low-to-high encryption upgrade.
  • Analyzing and troubleshooting the packet loss issues.
  • Collecting snapshots and analyzing.
  • Escalating to Ericsson Care where needed.
  • Call testing of the newly integrated site, and submit the HOP for acceptance.
  • Cleaning up obsolete, cutover site data from OSS after the site upgrade.
  • Performing triage and spare suggestions for the field team by analyzing the design and as-built diagram of a site to fix the faults in the network.
  • Assisting the field team to commission the CISCO NSC540 router.
  • Maintained existing integrations, troubleshooting issues and providing support.
  • Responding to integration outages and emergencies to keep service uptime 24/7.

National Support Engineer

RF-Industries
Seven Hills, NSW
01.2020 - 12.2020
  • Requesting Ran network cell IDs for upcoming sites.
  • Ordering FIM for sites according to design.
  • Creating engineering orders for end-to-end backhaul transmission.
  • Arranging approved outages (PTW) for sites, as per the site works schedule.
  • Assisting the design team with designing active and passive DAS and in-building coverage solutions.
  • Initiating and finalizing RFNSA/EME compliance.
  • Following up with the Transmission team to complete the TX and IP-Sec provisioning.
  • Desktop study for ACMA compliance, and providing the highest radiating antennas information to comply with Australian standards.

Field Engineer

Comcell Technologies
Chatswood, NSW
03.2018 - 01.2020
  • Installation, testing, and troubleshooting of Huawei BTS 3900/5900 and Nokia BTS for U9, U21, L7, L18, L23, L26.
  • Commissioning and integration of Ericsson and Nokia Air Scale 5G-ready base stations.
  • Software upgrade for Huawei and Nokia base stations.
  • Supporting RIC in ongoing site integration.
  • Call testing for post-site integration.
  • Prepare site materials for dispatch according to the BOQ for Greenfields and site upgrades.
  • Co-ordination with team members and stakeholders involved in site equipment delivery, installation, and integration.
  • Installation of fiber cables from fiber patch panels to BTS in the RRU solution.
  • Ensure the availability of a proper testing environment, and report any issues.
  • Meet implementation deadlines for the RAN sites.
  • Preparation of handover packs.
  • Installation, termination, testing, and labeling of cables, i.e., Cat6, hybrid trunks, feeders, and fibers.
  • Troubleshooting antenna lines and circuits by performing VSWR, PIM testing, and BERT.
  • Transmission RFC testing and transmission cutovers.
  • Working with the installation and commissioning of Huawei PSUs, Eltek, and Netsure rectifiers.
  • Install and commission the Ericsson 6675, 6471 routers, and BBU6630.
  • PIM, sweep test, and RTWP/RSSI/VSWR analysis are used to precisely identify the location of the fault rectification using Site Master.
  • External interference check with the spectrum analyzer.

TXM BO/NOC Engineer

NOKIA
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
08.2013 - 12.2017
  • Configured routers, switches, access points and other networking devices according to best practices.
  • Conducted regular maintenance activities on all networking equipment.
  • Analyzed and resolved technical issues related to network operations.
  • Working with a team of 8 NOC engineers and 16 field engineers for the O&M of the MOBILY cellular network in the central and northern regions.
  • The provision of technical support to NOC teams and field engineers for the MNS project is served by 4,500 multivendor microwave links.
  • Performing health checks and maintaining NMS clients for Ericsson, Huawei, Nera, and ALU clients.
  • Coordinating with the SOC and Firewall teams in case of any blockage of ports, or new policy application.
  • Hands-on expertise in different Ericsson products (Mini-link-CN, 2p, 6P series, 20P series, and Hicap and OMS 1410 nodes) and performing configuration of different types and capacities of cards (MMU2 4-34, MMU2B, MMU2C, MMU2D, MMU2E, MMU2F, MMU2H, ETU2, ETU2B).
  • Hands-on experience with Nera-MW Metro nodes carrying traffic for Data-Network TDD nodes.
  • Maintaining a database for MW nodes to have backup configuration, circuit IDs, traffic routing connectivity plans, and cascaded site lists.
  • End-to-end configuration of any new services on the Ethernet backhaul network.
  • Ensuring 100% visibility of the MW network to be available all the time by applying different methodologies using PPP, DCN over E1, and DCN over VLAN, as per the given DCN/IP plan.
  • Applying SORs for any change requests in the connectivity plan, and implementing the new design from the planning department.
  • Using BMC Remedy and BOOST Ticketing Systems for incident reporting.
  • Handling TTs and WOs, dispatching field teams, and assigning to related teams using the BOOST tool.
  • Responsible for both planned maintenance (during MDTs) and unplanned maintenance (during TTs and outages).
  • Fault management and coordination with field teams, and dispatching them to the site for the resolution of any issues that couldn’t be solved remotely.
  • Coordination with the customer and management, as per the escalation matrix of the NOC.
  • Identification of any bottlenecks in the MW network with 100% utilization, rain-affected MW, and links affected by fading in order to improve network availability.
  • Hands-on experience with the Ericsson SO-EM server and extracting different performance reports.
  • Preparing daily, weekly, and monthly reports, such as MTTR, visibility, problematic links, etc.
  • Alarm management and dispatching to appropriate teams for the alarms appearing in SO-EM, Net Master, SAM, and U2000 Network Management, and alarm systems.
  • Preparing SLA relief requests to the customer.
  • Actively involved in discussions, and providing suggestions and input to circuit design, capacity checks, and planning teams to optimize the network.
  • Monitored network performance to ensure high availability of services.
  • Diagnosed complex problems across multiple technologies such as routing protocols, DNS and DHCP services.
  • Ensured compliance with industry standards, such as ITIL.

MW NOC Engineer

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
07.2010 - 07.2013
  • Worked with Huawei as a MW FO Surveillance/NOC Engineer for the MOBILY MNS project (Southern and Northern Regions), and I was later promoted to MW BO Engineer.
  • Responsibilities included entertaining outages and queries from the 2G and 3G NOC, and taking the required action by either troubleshooting remotely or escalating to the concerned department or field engineers, if required, in order to have minimal outage time and achieve the agreed SLA as per the contract.
  • Working in rotating shifts.
  • Coordination and technical support to the on-field engineers during outages for troubleshooting of MW links.
  • Daily clearance of alarms, or performance issues related to MW link availability, is necessary to ensure the MW network is free of alarms and to increase the availability and reliability of links.
  • Spare parts management for different regions ensures that spares are available to handle any kind of outage and recover the services as per the agreed SLA.
  • Responsible for managing the operations of three different monitoring NMS systems: T2000/U2000 for Huawei, SOM for Ericsson, and PNMS for NEC PASOLINK series.
  • Hands-on experience in working, troubleshooting, and managing equipment from three different vendors, such as Huawei (RTN 600 and 900 series and OSN 1500), Ericsson (Mini-link TN, HC, and OMS 1410), and NEC NEO, Paso V4, and Paso+.
  • Configuration, operations, and maintenance of all TDM, EoPDH, VC trunks, and full IP services.
  • Escalating the TTs and WOs as per the workflow process using the BOOST tool, and following it up until the end in order to avoid any SLA breach.
  • Organizing and performing approved MDTs within the specific allotted time frame.
  • Organizing the planned activities with other stakeholders, if required.
  • Ensuring visibility of MW nodes and DCN troubleshooting to allow remote access to the MW NOC.
  • PATs for new MW links should be alarm-free and free of any performance issues.
  • Traffic flow management and optimizing the network by deleting the fake E1s and WANs after migration or changes to new FONs and BSCs in the MW network.

Transmission Engineer

GTL Saudi Arabia Company LTD
Tabook, Saudi Arabia
05.2010 - 07.2010
  • Performing duties as an Operations Engineer and responsible for the operations of all MW-related outages in the region.
  • Hands-on experience with Ericsson nodes, such as Ericsson Traffic Nodes and Hi-Caps.
  • Carrying out maintenance downtime activities in my region for any upgrades, performance issues, or troubleshooting of pending issues during outages.
  • Performing periodic preventive maintenance of the sites in my region.
  • Corrective maintenance on sites, when informed by the NOC for trouble tickets.
  • Conducting PAT for newly installed sites.
  • Software upgrade/downgrade of transmission indoor/outdoor modules.
  • Keeping the network nodes upgraded according to the latest software releases provided by BO.

NFM Transmission Engineer

ERICSSON-AB
08.2009 - 11.2009
  • Performing duties as an NFO Engineer on the Hajj project and responsible for ensuring the availability of services during the critical Hajj period.
  • Performed troubleshooting, operations, and management of Ericsson Mini-Link traffic nodes (with AMM types 2p, 6p, and 20p), Hi Caps, and RBS models like 2206, 2216, 2106, 2107, Micro 2308, and 2111.
  • Entertaining any TTs or WOs escalated by NOC, and troubleshooting the issue by replacing, rerouting, or reconfiguring different types of cards as per requirement.
  • Configuration of different types of MMU, NPU, and LTU (e/o), TRU (e/o and XPIC links).
  • Acceptance of new sites and MW links by ensuring that all installation and configuration are as per Ericsson standards and design.
  • Creating IDBs according to the design configuration and uploading them to RBSs.
  • Hands-on experience for using Site-Master, VSWR, and DTF tests.

O&M Transmission Team Lead

ARAB TURK MAINTENANCE & CONT COMPANY (ATMC)
03.2009 - 08.2009
  • Managing a team of field engineers and riggers/technicians located in different cities in the southern region.
  • Reporting directly to the project manager and serving as the customer interface for MW technical issues.
  • Supervising any outage, TT, or WO received from NOC by escalating it to the concerned field engineer and providing remote technical support to recover the services in minimal time.
  • Managing faulty spares, consumables required, and timely escalation of spares in zero stock.
  • Working on preventive and corrective maintenance of Mini Link 2P, 6P, and 20P Traffic Nodes, Hi-Capacity Nodes, and XPIC Links.
  • Working on the configuration and maintenance of NPU 8.2, NPU1B, NPU1C, NPU2, NPU3, and NPU3B, MMU2 4-34, MMU2B, MMU2C, MMU2D, MMU2E, and MMU2F.
  • Making cross-connections and defining new paths for cell sites in BSC rehoming activities.
  • Software upgrades of TNs and Hi caps to releases that were recommended by BO using BPFTP and TFTP.

SERVICES ENGINEER I

ERICSSON PAKISTAN
07.2007 - 12.2008
  • Performing commissioning and integration of Ericsson ODU and IDU bts.
  • Performing configuration of Ericsson Modem Multiplexing Units MMU2, MMU 2 4-8, MMU2 4-34, MMU2 B, MMU2 C, MMU2 E and Hicap Links as per the parameters mentioned in TND.
  • Worked on MW nodes like 2P, 6P, 20P and Ericsson Classic (Minilink E).
  • Dealing with ASPs (Approved Service Providers) and Supervising Installation of new sites according to the site layout plan.
  • Performing Antenna sweep testing i.e. checking VSWR/DTF/Return Loss for all sectors using Anritsu Site Master.
  • Clearing the TX media for new site by routing E1 from assigned ADM node until local site.
  • Making visibility of local TX node on NMS by assigning the designed IP/Gateway/Subnet mask/OSPF.
  • To verify complete transmission path with integration room by providing them the correct RBLT/BSC ID and by looping E1 on local site towards BSC.
  • Making daily progress reports for each week target schedules and identifying the missing gaps.
  • Software upgrades for TN, MMUs and RAUs to make them compatible.

BSS Engineer

ZTE Pakistan
Islamabad
09.2006 - 07.2007
  • Managing the installation of BTS and BSc.
  • Supervising the installation, power-on, and commissioning of the BTS site.
  • Worked with OB06 outdoor BTS, ZXG10BSC.
  • Call testing, SCFT, STP links monitoring, in Paktel MSC.
  • Supporting the transport team for media availability through fiber and microwave.
  • Guide the team according to the quality requirements of the customer, with EHS policy.

Education

B.Sc - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

University Of Technology
Peshawar
09-2006

Skills

  • Routing and switching
  • MPLS, L3 VPN
  • Nokia NetAct, Mantaray
  • Microsoft Office
  • Network integration
  • Fault analysis
  • Problem solving
  • Project coordination
  • Configuration management
  • Software upgrades
  • Script development
  • Integration testing
  • Security protocols
  • Hardware troubleshooting
  • Incident response
  • VMware
  • Network protocols
  • MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, and Macromedia Flash
  • Knowledge of PSPICE, EWB, and MATLAB
  • Ericsson OMT, Minilink Craft, SPO CRAFT, Huawei U2000, PNMS, SO-EM, Netmaster
  • Operating systems: Windows 11, Linux

Certification

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Microsoft Certified Python Professional
  • CCNA routing and switching
  • CCNP Route
  • Training on ZXG10 BSS
  • Training related to the HUAWEI BSC 6000
  • Training about the ERICSSON RBS2000 family installation
  • PMP (Project Management Professional) training
  • CCNA training for Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • Huawei RTN 3rd level support and configuration
  • Huawei RTN basic configuration and troubleshooting
  • Ethernet concepts and configuration in Ericsson Minilink traffic nodes
  • Ericsson TN basic configuration and troubleshooting
  • Ericsson RBS 2216 installation and installation verification

TOOLS KNOWN

  • Nokia Netact, Nokia 5620 SAM
  • Huawei M2000/U2020
  • Ericsson SIENM, LIENM, NetAn, ENIQ,
  • Commscope AIMOS 3.65
  • Wireshark, Putty, Reflection
  • Grafana, Actixone, Nokia NPM, Mavenir McNMS, COMBA CMS, Huawei PRS, MS Office, XCAL, and IBWave 6.0
  • Mavenir McNMS, COMBA CMS, Huawei PRS, MS Office, XCAL
  • IBWave 6.0

Hardware

  • CISCO NCS 540
  • Huawei MPLS router NE40E
  • Cisco ASR 900 Series
  • Ericsson BBU BBU6630, 6648, 6651
  • Nokia Airscale, ASIL, ASIA, ASIB, FSMF, Flexi Multi Radio
  • Ericsson Traffic Node
  • Anritsu, Bird, Site Master, Spectrum Analyzer, JDSU Optical Power Meter, Ethernet Tester
  • Huawei BTS Huawei SRAN DBS 3900,3910,BTS 3900, BTS 3900AL, BTS 5900, RNC RNC6900, UMPT

Programming Languages

  • Python
  • C++, C, Visual Basic, and GW-Basic
  • Shell scripting
  • MOSHELL

Languages

English
Full Professional
Hindi
Native/ Bilingual
Urdu
Native/ Bilingual
Pashto
Native/ Bilingual
Arabic
Professional

References

Fahad Khan | RFI Program Manager Optus

fahad.khan@rfi.com.au

+61 410 422 690

Haider Siraj | Senior Performance Manager RFI

haider.siraj@rfi.com.au

+61 448 737 996

Declaration

I hereby declare that the above particulars, furnished by me, are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Date: 04/08/2025

Place: Sydney 

Mian Shah Rukh

Timeline

Integration Engineer

RF-Industries
01.2021 - Current

National Support Engineer

RF-Industries
01.2020 - 12.2020

Field Engineer

Comcell Technologies
03.2018 - 01.2020

TXM BO/NOC Engineer

NOKIA
08.2013 - 12.2017

MW NOC Engineer

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
07.2010 - 07.2013

Transmission Engineer

GTL Saudi Arabia Company LTD
05.2010 - 07.2010

NFM Transmission Engineer

ERICSSON-AB
08.2009 - 11.2009

O&M Transmission Team Lead

ARAB TURK MAINTENANCE & CONT COMPANY (ATMC)
03.2009 - 08.2009

SERVICES ENGINEER I

ERICSSON PAKISTAN
07.2007 - 12.2008

BSS Engineer

ZTE Pakistan
09.2006 - 07.2007

B.Sc - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

University Of Technology

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