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Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information
 Name Afm Mahbub Alam
 Address 17 Denys Street
Fawkner VIC 3060 Australia
Phone (work): +61 3 9664 3913
Phone (Home): +61 3 9324 0433
Mobile: +61 417 114 874
E-mail: mahbub.alam@nokia.com
 Date of Birth 24 June, 1979
 Sex: Male
 Citizenship Australian
Professional Summary
 11 years of work experience in world-class telecommunications industries across multiple
telecom equipment vendors and global and regional network operators
 Experience of working in multi-vendor and platform based Test and Integration
organization on different roles, such as Defect Manager, Test Coordinator, IP, Access and
OSS test engineer
 Areas of expertise include both wired and wireless communication engineering in Access
and IP based aggregation network as well as in OSS
 Strong educational background in Electrical and Communication engineering in leading
academic institutions such as University of Tohoku, Japan and University of Melbourne,
Australia enriched by industry collaborative research such as with Alcatel-Lucent Bell
Labs
 Continuous professional development in cutting edge technologies supported by industry
sponsored training and conducted by Alcatel-Lucent University Canada, Rohde & Schwarz
Germany, Anite Telecoms UK, Sony and Anritsu Corporation Japan
 3 years of researchexperience with leading Researchand Development departments both in
Japan and Australia

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Educational Qualifications
Period School, Location Major, Diploma and Comments
Apr 2003
～
Mar 2005
Graduate School of Engineering,
Tohoku University,
Sendai, Japan
Master of Engineering in the Department
of Electrical and Communication
Engineering, GPA of 3.88 out of 4.0
Apr 1999
～
Mar 2003
School of Engineering,
Tohoku University,
Sendai, Japan
Bachelor of Engineering in the Department
of Electrical Communication with a
position in the top 20 among
approximately 250 students in the Faculty
of Electrical, Electronics, Communication
and Information Engineering. GPA of 3.74
out of 4.0
Training
1. Completed four class-room training on Alcatel-Lucent Scalable IP Networks and Interior
Routing Protocols, Service Architectures and MPLS under Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing
Certification (SRC) program in Alcatel-Lucent University, Melbourne, during January
2012 – June 2013.
2. Completed several courses on ethics, integrity and compliance conducted by the Global
Corporate department of Sony Ericsson based in London, UK.
3. Completed a two days training on the LTE signalling testing conducted by
telecommunication equipment vendor Rohde & Schwarz in Tokyo, October 2009.
4. Participated in trade fair CeBIT 2008 which took place in Germany, March 2008, as a
promoter of Sony Ericsson’s GSM/UMTS phone products
5. Completed a two weeks training on inter-operability testing of GSM/UMTS mobile phones
conducted by Anritsu Corporation in Tokyo, 2007.
6. Completed a one week training on the methodology of conformance testing of mobile radio
network signaling conducted by test equipment vendor Anite Telecoms in Tokyo, June
2006.
7. On-the-job training for about a month at one of the production facilities of Sony
Corporation in northern Japan, focusing on mobile phones manufacturing techniques,
October 2005.
8. Completed a 3 weeks training on the computer programming languages based on C and
Visual C++ conducted by the human resource development division of Sony Ericsson in
Tokyo, May 2005.
9. Completed a one year intensive course on Japanese language conducted by Tokyo
University of Foreign Studies in Tokyo, April 1998 to March 1999.
10. Completed a semester in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of
Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET) focusing on advanced &
applied mathematics, September 1997 to March 1998.

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Work Experience
Period Dept, Institution and Location Position
Jan 2016
～
To date
Nokia Australia Ltd, Level 4, 215 Spring St,
Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia
iTVT Coordinator for FLS
platform
Roles & Responsibilities
1. Currently I support and co-ordinate iTVT (Integrated Technical Verification Testing)
activities in which the verification of connectivity and integration of all the OSS platforms
that participate inOSS Integrated Releases is conducted. Prior to iTVT, as for FLS platform
that I represent, I conduct TVT (Technical Verification Testing) to make sure that all the
Comptel based components such as IL, OM, Catalogue and LNI/SRI are correctly
configured and talking to each other. Under my management to deal with FLS issues, FLS
has become one of the best performers among other platforms.
Jan 2015
～
Dec 2016
Alcatel-Lucent, Level 4, 215 Spring St, Melbourne,
VIC 3000 Australia
FLS Defect Manger
1. For almost a year I worked as a Defect Manager representing FLS platform. My primary
role in this position was to triage, manage and report defects to the responsible team
(architect, development and test) and to co-ordinate with NBN Co, the client for which
Alcatel-Lucent provided State of the art end to end network infrastructure solutions. Under
my defect management role, for the first time FLS platform exited the network upgrade
project with only 19 functional defects which was lot less if compared with 100 + defects in
previous such projects.
Jan 2011
～
Dec 2014
Alcatel-Lucent, Level 4, 215 Spring St, Melbourne,
VIC 3000 Australia
IP, Access and OSS Engineer
(Integration Testing
Professional)
1. Between July 2013 and December 2014, I was engaged with OSS testing in Comptel based
Fulfillment and LNI systems customized for and delivered to National Broadband Network
(NBN), an Australia wide project to upgrade the existing fixed line phone and internet
network infrastructure.
2. My past experience in Radio Access Test and recent experience in IP traffic testing
equipped me with the know-how to work on Telstra’s “Mobile 2012 Interim Solution”
project during Feb-Jun 2012 period. In this project, I conducted wireless access testing for
different services in the Radio Access Network environment of Telstra collaborating with
engineers from Ericsson, Tellabs and Telstra. I also took part in the Test Admin activities by

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supporting the Test Manager with regular test report through HPQC.
3. As a member of IP engineering team in Alcatel-Lucent, I was actively involved in end to
end System Integration Testing (SIT) for multi-vendor based mobile backhaul network
(Metro and Regional Ethernet Aggregation Network) during Mar-Aug 2011. “Mobiles
2011” was one such project where I was involved in SIT phase 1 and phase 2 which dealt
with testing increased bandwidth of backhaul network and testing upgraded Node B’s of
access network respectively.
4. During Nov-Jan 2011-12, I was involved in developing MOPS and Guides for Active
Network Releases (ANR2 and ANR3) for NBN Co which dealt with configuration
instructions for Multicast Connectivity Virtual Circuit (M-CVC) in the NBN Ethernet
Aggregation and GPON Access Network.
Apr 2010
～
Dec 2010
Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks
(CUBIN), Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Eng.,
University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia
Graduate Researcher
1. As a graduate researcher my primary responsibility was to conduct research on various
projects undertaken by IBES (Institute for a Broadband-Enable Society). Network
Deployment and Economics was one such project where I looked into energy efficiency in
communication networks.
2. I also worked on developing new project proposals for CEET (Centre for Energy-Efficient
Telecommunications), a collaboration of researchers between the University of Melbourne
and Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. I was directly involved in the
formulation of the project proposal entitled “Energy Efficient Wireless Networks”. The
theme of the project was to undertake a detailed analysis of the power consumption of the
various wireless access network technologies with the aim of identifying any common and
specific strategies that could be used to improve their energy efficiency.
3. Apart from research, I also took part in graduate coursework related activities in order to
further develop my knowledge and skills base in optimal network design and network
management for modern telecommunications systems and networks. “431 -633 Mobile &
Wireless Network Design” was one suchcourse which enabled me to design mobile cellular
networks optimally for any operator providing wireless services.
Jul 2008
～
Mar 2010
Global Type Approval,
Product Business Group of GSM/UMTS,
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan, Inc.
Type Approval Engineer
1. I worked for Japanese conformity certifications, e.g. TELEC and NPT as stipulated in the
radio law of Japan by testing the software part of Sony Ericsson products where the basic
protocol features of mobile phones such as voice and packet calls, handover and SMS were
checked using network simulator Anritsu MD8480B.
2. Another Japanese conformity certification called ‘JATE’ is required for UMTS products
(Japan has no GSM networks) launching in Japanese market. JATE stands for Japan
Approval institute for Telecommunications Equipments which provides technical
conditions compliance certifications for telecommunications terminal equipment. I was in
charge of the internal verification process of our prototype phones for JATE testing. I had

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set up a JATE system that was comprised of a network simulator (MD8480C), a spectrum
analyzer (MS2681A), a digital oscilloscope (TDS 1001B) and a control PC. I maintained
the system and using it I verified the target phone internally before the on-site test.
3. I conducted internal type approval testing in collaboration with global Sony Ericsson sites
so as to ensure that phone products get type approved by external test house such as
CETECOM complying with Global CertificationForum (GCF) and PCS Type Certification
Review Board (PTCRB).
4. Signaling between mobile terminal and network forms the core of wireless technology,
which had been the field of my interest and expertise since my graduate school. As such, I
primarily took care of the UMTS signaling part of conformance testing around W-CDMA,
HSDPA and multi-RAT (2G-3G) technologies which was based on the test specification
34.123-1 developed by 3rd Generation Partnership Project known as ‘3GPP’. On the other
hand, I also took part in GSM/GPRS/EGPRS as well as SIM/USIM conformance testing
which was based on the test specification 51.010-1 also developed by 3GPP.
5. I played an active role in setting up and maintaining protocol conformance test platforms
such as Rohde&Schwarz CRTU-W, Anite SAT(A), Anritsu ME7873F and Orga IT3 by
upgrading them to their latest GCF validated version.
Jul 2006
～
Jun 2008
Radio Access Test,
Launch Support & Management,
Radio Access Test Engineer
1. DMS, a web based tool developed by Sony Ericsson’s global tool team was the common
platform to file all the issues for all phone projects being undertaken across all the Sony
Ericsson sites. I tracked down the issues from DMS and assigned them to respective
function group as the issue related to. Then I worked on the protocol issues and conducted a
basic analysis of some issues where logs were available using the mobile station log
analyzer.
2. Ona daily basis I used to work on the outcome of our regular meeting which were the issues
demanding an in-depth analysis. In addition to this, there were some issues filed in DMS
that did not contain any log. These two kinds of issues I had to reproduce in an in-door
facility which was based on network simulators and could simulate the real network as
such.
3. Field testing plays a vital role in ensuring the quality and interoperability of new mobile
handsets. However, due to its costly nature, field trials are supplemented with network
simulationsolutions which make it possible to carry out detailed, repeatable interoperability
tests in the laboratory. Rapid Test Designer (RTD) is a software tool with a comprehensive
and intuitive user interface that runs on Anritsu network simulator MD8480x. By using
RTD I created, imported and modified real-life network scenarios and thus tested mobile
phones as part of the system test or interoperability test during the development phase of
mobile phones.
4. Agilent 8960 and Anritsu MD8470 are two products of Agilent and Anritsu respectively,
that I used mostly in testing basic protocol features of mobile phones as well as in the
reproductionof simple issues suchas voice call and short messaging services (SMS) in both
2G and 3G networks. However, for checking complicated protocol issues such as cell
reselection and hand-over, I used multi-cell network simulator like Anritsu MD8480B.
5. I conducted a training course entitled “Wireless Networks & Signaling Protocols” for the
newly recruited graduate engineers during May-June 2008.

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Apr 2005
～
Jun 2006
Radio Access Protocol Group,
GSM/UMTS Division,
Radio Access Protocol
Engineer
1. I worked on the project for developing mobile station log analyzer which is a software tool
with graphical user interface (GUI). I applied my knowledge of GSM/UMTS signaling
protocol stack to incorporate the function of decoding binary data which were retrieved by
the tool. An engineering background had equipped me with the skill of computer
programming languages such as C which was used in the development of this tool.
2. I developed test scenarios by using test simulator such as Anritsu MD8480 to reproduce
problems and provided an in-depth analysis of radio access protocol issues raised during the
development phase of phone projects.
3. I maintained a full set of test platform so as to realize an environment of real networks
internally. We had to buy test equipments from vendors not only based in Japan but also
from across the globe. Using my communication skill both in Japanese and English, I acted
as a window person for our group to interface with the test equipment vendors such as
Agilent and Anritsu. On a regular basis, I had to take actions to upgrade the existing
equipments to their latest versions and organize meetings with those vendors to align our
test capabilities with the technology roadmaps available at their end.
Technical Skills
 3 years experience in System Testing in Comptel based OSS Suite for Fulfillment and LNI
System (FLS – OM/SRI/IL/Catalogue) as well as System Integration Testing before
launching multi platform based OSS integrated releases in the production network
 Experience with Ericsson Node B’s configuration through OSS Radio Core
 2 years experience in GPON Access network and 7450 EAS based Ethernet Aggregation
network
 Practical experience with the lower-layer signaling protocols for wireless communication
technologies such as GSM, GPRS, WCDMA/UMTS and LTE
 In-depth knowledge of RRC (Layer 3) protocol stack entity standardized by the 3rd
Generation Partnership Project (3GPP)
 2 years experience of developing test cases for inter-operability testing in different wireless
technologies
 Experience of Tree and Tabular Combined Notation (TTCN) language
 2 years experience of 2G/3G conformance testing on different validated test platforms such
as Anite SAT(A), Rohde&Schwarz CRTU-W, Anritsu ME7873F and ORGA IT3
 Strong troubleshooting skills in complex OSS or IT systems comprised of more than 10
system components

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Certification and Professional Accreditation
 Alcatel-Lucent Network Routing Specialist I (NRS I)
 International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Foundation
 ISTQB Advanced Test Analyst (Planned to be completed by May 2016)
 Integration Testing Professional (Alcatel-Lucent tailored Professional Accreditation)
Computer Skills and IT Systems
 Language and Software: C, Visual C++, MATLAB, XML, SOAP, HTML, Microsoft Office
 Operating System: WINDOWS, UNIX, MACINTOSH
 Network management tools: Alcatel-Lucent 7302 AMS, 5620 SAM
 Test and Defect Management tools: RQM, RTC, HPQC, RTC Dashboard
 IP Traffic generating tools: IXIA, SPIRENT
 OSS tools and products: Order Manager, Service and Resource Inventory, Physical
Network Inventory, Catalog, Instant Link, Feature Manager, Splunk
Communication and Non-technical Skills
 A high level of competence in communication in 4 languages (English, Japanese, Bengali
and Urdu) and an elementary level of competence in Arabic language
 Strong working skills under tight schedule and multi-tasking environment
 A pro-active, self-motivated and independent working style while being flexible
 Excellent presentation and interpersonal skills with proven experience in dealing with
major ALU and Sony Ericsson customers (Telstra, NBN Co, NTT DoCoMo, KDDI,
Vodafone, Hutchinson etc)
 Highly developed organizational and management skills while being resilient
Awards
 I went to Japan as a recipient of the Monbukagakusho (Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology, Government of Japan: MEXT) scholarship. Under this
Japanese Government (MEXT) scholarship program, I received one year intensive
Japanese language course and then completed my four year undergraduate study.
 Upon successful completion of my undergraduate study with an outstanding result, I was

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awarded with the Monbukagakusho scholarship for post-graduate category. I completed the
two years master’s degree under this program.
 I also had been awarded the Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) which was funded by
the Australian Federal Government in order to conduct research in telecommunication
domain at the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department of University of
Melbourne.
List of Publications
A. Journal Paper
 Mahbub Alam, Eisuke Kudoh, and Fumiyuki Adachi, “Theoretical Study of Site Selection
Diversity Transmission in DS-CDMA Cellular Mobile Radio,” IEICE Transactions on
Communications, Vol.E88-B, No.5, pp. 2202-2206, May 2005.
B. Conference Papers
 Mahbub Alam, Eisuke Kudoh, and Fumiyuki Adachi, “Forward Link Performance of Site
Selection Transmit Diversity with Antenna Diversity and Rake Combining in DS-CDMA
Mobile Radio,” The Conference of Radio Communication Society (RCS) of Japan, March
2004, Yokosuka Research Park, Kanagawa, Japan. The research paper can be found in the
‘Technical report of IEICE, RCS Vol.103, No.680 (20040225) pp. 13-18, RCS2003-305’.
 Mahbub Alam, Eisuke Kudoh, and Fumiyuki Adachi, “Reverse Link Performance of Site
Diversity based Transmit Power Control with Antenna Diversity and Rake Combining in
DS-CDMA Mobile Radio,” The IEICE General Conference, March 2004, Tokyo Institute
of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. The research paper can be found in the ‘Proceedings of the
IEICE General Conference, Vol. 2004 Comm. No.1 (20040308) pp. 636’.
C. Thesis
 Mahbub Alam (2005), “Site Selection Transmit Diversity in DS-CDMA Mobile Cellular
Network,” Master’s Thesis, Department of Electrical & Communication Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan.
 Mahbub Alam (2003), “A Study on Link Capacity of CDMA Cellular System in the
Presence of Macro & Micro Diversity,” Undergraduate Thesis, Department of Electrical
Communication, School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan.
References
1. Md Tawhidur Rahman Bhuyan, Senior IP Engineer, Customer Delivery Department,

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Alcatel-Lucent, Level 4, 215 Spring Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 Australia
Phone (work): +61 3 9633 3056
Mobile: +61 431 499 866
E-mail: tawhidur.rahman@alcatel-lucent.com
2. Rajiv Kumar, Lead – Operations Acceptance, Ops Network Enablement, NBN Co, Level
42, 360 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia
Phone (work): +61 3 9624 6450
Mobile: +61 400 038 000
E-mail: rajivkumar@nbnco.com.au
3. Sumihiro Tateishi, Section Manager, Type Approval & Radio Access Test, Sony Mobile
Communications Japan, Inc. W Building 1-8-15, Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 108-0075
Japan
Phone (work): +81 3 5782 5411
Mobile: +81 80 3503 0337
E-mail: Sumihiro.Tateishi@SonyEricsson.com
4. Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, Department of Electrical & Communication Engineering,
Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8579 Japan
Phone (work): +81-22-795-7082
E-mail: adachi@ecei.tohoku.ac.jp

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