Specialties Telecommunication-BSS, RF, TXN, Network Performance & Optimization, Infra-Active & Passive, Project management, Quality, Team Management, Material Management / Spare Parts Management, Cost & Budget Management

1. MUKESH L. SAO
Tel.: 8083477089, 9631338699 ~ E-Mail: mukesh.sao@rediffmail.com
Aspiring for managerial assignments in Maintenance Operations / Project Management with a growth
oriented organisation Preferably in Telecom sector
SYNOPSIS
 Bachelors of Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Raipur professional with nearly 6.5 years of
rich experience in Operations & Maintenance, Installation & Commissioning, MW/Optical transmission,
Network performance and Optimization, Materials & Spare Parts Management and Team Management for
BSS & RF in Telecom Domain.
 Currently associated with ZTE Telecommunication India Pvt. Ltd. in Patna (Bihar) as Cluster Manager
(Cluster Team Lead) for BSS & RF
 Demonstrated abilities in working on utility handling and machine maintenance initiatives, thereby bringing down
equipment breakdown & achieving annual costs savings.
 Expertise in managing troubleshooting functions for reducing breakdown / downtime & enhancing operational
reliability of equipment and systems.
 An effective communicator with excellent relationship management skills and strong analytical, leadership, problem
solving & organizational abilities.
PROFICIENCY FORTE
Maintenance & Operations / Troubleshooting
 Responsible for corrective Operation, Maintenance and up gradation of ZTE BSC, BTS, NEC MW, Transmission Mux
( STM-1 to STM-64) with optical fiber and MW links and other related Equipments for Darbhanga, Patna and its
outer region (373 sites ) in Darbhanga Cluster and Partly Patna Cluster.
 Proactively identifying areas of obstruction / breakdowns and taking corrective steps to rectify the machines through
application of troubleshooting tools.
 Providing technical support to all projects, ensuring performance of various equipment and providing
troubleshooting support for the machines & systems.
 Providing technical support Improving network performance and optimization.
Installation & Commissioning/Project rollout
 Managing the Project rollout for TTSL with ZTE telecom India Pvt. Ltd.
 Management reporting on BSS Project
 Conducting regular tests to ensure the optimum performance capacity of various process control equipment.
 Performing on site installation & commissioning of high productivity electrical system and equipment.
Material Management / Spare Parts Management
 Identifying the material requirements and conducting advance planning of procurement functions, involving cost
estimation, contract negotiations & finalization for purchase of all equipment, & spares.
 Overseeing the spare parts planning for identifying the quantity of material requirement and material procurement
with an effective planning and control.
 R&R process/Spare Part Management.
 Sending request for new required material by MRN
Team Management
 Conducting regular periodic meetings & trainings with subordinates for discussing current work issues and devising
solutions for enhanced operations.
 Leading and motivating workforce; imparting continuous on job training for accomplishing greater operational
effectiveness / efficiency.
 Document, Vehicle management
CAREER SCAN
Since May’09 with ZTE telecom India Pvt Ltd, as Cluster Team Lead (MS) – BSS & RF
Key Deliverables
 Daily monitoring the KPI for GSM & CDMA like CSSR, TASR, HOSR, DCR, SD, TCH congestion/Blocking, RF
loss rate, DL/UL quality, TASR Qos, cell/site utilization report,path imbalance etc.

2.  Daily monitoring NQI, BBH, NBH, Cell/TRX Health report, BTS OUTAGE, FM Alarm, GSM FAULT, BER, site
Fluctuation, History alarm, service effecting alarm report to maintain Network up-time, performance & Network
health & quality.
 Daily basis TRX addition, Cabinet expansion to maintaining cell/site utilization in network.
 Handling Activities like Sites, BSC E1, ATER Rehoming, E1 cascading/Decascading, BTS Swap.
 Daily basis site preventive maintenance and joint visit for related IP (Infra) vendors/OSP/ISP vendors to
maintaining uptime and resolving site related issues.
 Accountable for roll-out of the new sites with the help of different vendors like infra vendors and BSS, TX I&C
vendors.
 BSNL, Aircel, Airtel POI Maintenace, New POI Augmentation , A/T and coordination with BSNL, Aircel for POI
 Install and Configuration BSS Cisco Routers.
 Managing monitoring of alarms and N/W statistics to look up of any problem and take remedial actions. Take BSC
backup on regular basis keeping in view of different fault management, reports to maintain the KPI of the network.
 Alarm logging, troubleshooting, fault localization and taking subsequent preventive and corrective actions as per
GNOC/OMCR instructions.
 Supervising project work of Tata tele services Ltd (TTSL) from initial to final stage i.e., RFE1 RFE2 &finally RFR. (From
land survey to day to day progress to final radiation.)
 Integration, commissioning, power calibration of BTS, BSC of ZTE & 1st level support of IDU and ODU for PDH & SDH
transmission.
 TRX up gradation & degradation for BTS, extension of external alarm for BSC & BTS to GNOC/OMCR.
 Network analysis by using the Map Info & MCOM.
 Experience in LOS (Line of Sight) to decide the actual tower height so that there should be no contour between the
two towers by using GPS (Garmin), Survey by Maps (Topo Sheets) & Using Software (Radio, RLT)
 Coordinating with ISP/OSP team(TTSL, TCL, Bharti, railtel & GTL) in condition of fiber cut restoration and outdoor
utility team for minimize the down time.
 Coordinating with vendors like of DG, Power Plant, Battery Bank, PAC for quick rectification.
 RF planning and optimization.
 Responsible for VSWR, BER, PM activities, Customer Complaints E1 Patching and Fluctuation in E1,alarm Logging for
ZTE BTS and BSC.
 Weekly meeting with client for customer complaints and network related issues.
 Weekly meeting with IP(Infra) ISP/OSP and BU team for minimizing network/site related issues.
 Daily basis cluster BSS Activity report submitting to the circle.
 Weekly/Monthly basis cluster performance analysis report submitting to circle team
 Weekly basis IP Infra Performance/MOM_JWC meeting/joint visit/ Individual visit report submitting to circle team.
 Weekly review meeting at Zonal level regarding for Network and quality.
 Weekly Issue tracker submission and Review
Significant Highlight
 Integrated 110 new sites in Rainbow town project rollout.
 Finalized the best sites (For BTS, FSR, OR) by physical survey using tool GPS. And MAP INFO Software, TEMS software
for Radio Network Design and supervision of under construction of new sites till RFR.
 Surveyed the land for tower acquisition from RF point of view for Tata teleservices Ltd...The target was given three
months foe 100 site but done within 2 months by using GPS, Compass, Binocular and LOS survey also done.
 Took initiatives in various troubleshooting for good KPI enhancements and also in Projects.
 Proposed for the new capacity sites where there was low coverage Zone, resulting secured additional
Business.
 Well versed with testing and measuring equipments like E1 tester, power meter(ANRISTU),GPS handling
(Garmin),Site Master(BIRD,ANRISTU) for V.S.W.R
Jun’06 – May’09 with Nokia-Siemens Networks (Pay roll of GTL India Ltd)., as Sr O&M Engg. –BSS ONM & TX
BSS-
 EXPERIENCE OVERALL 700 BTS COMMISIONING OF NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORK.
 RESPONSIBLE FOR OPERATION, MANTENACE AND MANAGEMENT OF 4 BSC & more than 350 sites.
 As a BSS engineer responsible troubleshooting of NOKIA BSC 2i and 3i (2000) Functional Units, Plug in Units, Processor
Unit, Packet Control Unit Mass, Memories, GSW2KB, Clock unit, ETS units, BSC Cabling to Environment & BSC Site
Solution. Experience of Nokia BSC2i/3i and BTS Software gradation & monitoring system alarms of Nokia DX 200
platforms.
 Handling Activities like Sites, BSC, ATER Rehoming, BTS Swap, and PDH to SDH Conversion etc.
 Responsible for installation, commissioning, integration, Optimization and Troubleshooting of NOKIA-SIEMENS
NETWORKS BTS, BSC of Nokia (Ultra site: Indoor & Outdoor, Metro Site, Flexi) BTS & installation and commissioning of
flexi-Edge BTS (Indoor, outdoor, FTT & Stack Configuration).

3.  Nokia-Siemens Networks. (GSM), Air Combining (Sector Addition- 8+8+8), TRX addition for NOKIA-SIEMENS
NETWORKS
 Responsible for installation and test the RF cables and antennas by Using (SITE ANALYZER AND SITE MASTER,
ANRITSU) to measure the VSWR & DTF values and enhance these values by fixing the faulty cables and connectors,
which affect on TX power Quality on Air interface.
 Handling Activities like Sites, BSC, ATER Rehoming, BTS Swap, and PDH to SDH Conversion etc.
 Coordinating with Electrical Supervisor, Technicians & Riggers, and Project Engineers & Vendors.
 Monitor the normal functionality of the system (Ultra indoor, out door and Metro BTS with BSC 3i)
 Troubleshoot the faults arising during the operation.
 Monitor the regular alarm and the traffic.
 Execution of transmission and RF plan (E1, ATER and TRAFFIC)
 Monitor the functionality of transmission equipment (MUX & IDU)
TRANSMISSION:
 Installation, Commissioning, Integration & Optimization of Transmission equipments SDH Mux (Tejas, Alcatel, ECI) MW
Tejas,
IDU equipment (NEC, Ceragon) NOKIA FLEXI HOOPER & METRO HOOPER, Siemens MW Radio equipment SRAL-L, SIA
etc.
 Transmission Planning and PCM management By Mux Tejas, ECI, Nokia FXC RRI, E1/T1, FIU-19, Siemens SRAL-L, SIA
etc.
 E1 provisioning, E1 bypass, Sites Upgrade, Link Design, Network Planning, PCM Provision and Expansions.
TEJAS NETWORK, ECI, NEC MW NETWORK, CERAGON MW SYSTEM:
 Real Time Alarm Monitoring with visual alarms for the links/NEs.
 Historical alarms for circuit availability data and analysis.
 Sectionalize faults through alarm filtering.
 Provides configuration, performance monitoring, fault isolation & management functions.
 Responsible for all type of Protections through Bharti BTSOL( Optical fiber), TATA optical fiber, DWDM , SDH (Tejas,
Alcatel- lucent) System, Metro Hub Protection system for Nokia-Siemens Network.
 Planning for Transmission Protection & route for new sites through many sites by using different types of MW
Transmission Equipments (TEJAS MUX , Alcatel-lucent, NOKIA, CERAGON, NEC)
 Commissioning of TEJAS Network & FIBCOM, NORTEL (MUX) and troubleshooting, cross connection, PCM Provision.
 Commissioning, troubleshooting & alarms of NOKIA, CERAGON, NEC, AIRCOM Transmission Equipments.
 Operations and maintenance of SDH equipment in optical systems.
 Integrations of new network nodes of RAN, microwave and optical transmission..
 Transmission Protection Check periodically
 BSNL, Aircel A/T and coordination with BSNL for POI related areas on respective areas
 Ater Augmentation
 Rehoming plan, Resource Analysis as per the work load
 POI Maintenace, New POI Augmentation
Jan’2006 – jun’2006_Connected with Magnum networks as I&C Engineer
 Installation, Commissioning, Integration & Optimization ZIP Phone, PPA Antenna, IDR, ODR, MW IDU/ODU installation,
NOKIA FLEXI HOOPER & METRO HOOPER, Siemens MW Radio equipment SRAL-L, SIA etc, NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORK
BTS etc.
PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS
 15 days training in ZTE Telecom India Ltd for optimization & planning for GSM network
 7 days training in ZTE telecom India ltd for BTS/BSC architecture
 7 days tranning in GTL India Limited for GSM technology & Architecture
ACADEMIA
 Master Of Business Administration(Project Management) with 74%
Sikkim Manipal University.Gangtok, Sikkim
 Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical in 2006 with 65%
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, RAIPUR, C.G.
(Formally Govt Engg Collage, Raipur, C.G.)
 Diploma In Electrical Engineering-2003 with 76.68% (Honours)
Govt. Polytechnic Durg (C.G.)
SOFTWARE SKILLS: Software Applications: MS-Excel, MS-PowerPoint, MS- Word, Tally
Operating Systems: Windows-95, 98, 2000, XP, vista, Windows -7
PERSONAL SNIPPET
Date of Birth: 08th February 1982
Linguistic Abilities: English & Hindi
Marital Status: Married

4. Passport Detail: E 2124754