1. Name: MuhammadAsif Siddiq
Contact No.: +92-333-6090868 , +92-300-6388330
Postal Address: House Al-Ahmed1902/15D Opposite C-3Wahdat Colony
Multan.Pakistan
Email: asif.siddik@gmail.com
Skype ID: asif.siddik
Objective: To work in a competitive environment and excel professionally.
Key Experience
I have 19 yearsof experience in PTCL out of which the last five and half years i.e. since May 2010, it
has beenona managementposition.Duringthe entire tenure Ihave gainedexperience in diffierent
fields of Telecom from O&M, Planning to Project Management. Brief is as under
 I have extensive experience in LegacyTDMswitchingof differentvendorsincludingAlcatel E10B,
SiemensEWSD,ZTE ZXJ10 and Huawei C&C08 as well as NGN (VOIP) setup of ZTE including Soft
Switch, ZTE MSG9000 and ZTE MSAG5200. DSL/Broadband working, SIP Trunks and SIP
telephony.
 I have alsoexperience of Transmission systemsincluding DRS systems (Huawei, ZTE, SRAL, NEC,
NERA), VHF, UHF with adequate knowledge of SDH, WDM, DWDMand MPLS IP/TP
 I have also experience of Wireless Local Loop (WLL) Core network including Huawei MSC CSoft
X3000 and BSC 6800, 3G EVO (Rev-A and Rev-B) and LTE 4G data services
 I have complete understanding of MSC/MSS, HLR/HSS and NMS systems
 Understanding of protocols - GSMMAP, SS7/SIGTRAN (SCCP and TCAP), MEGACO and SIP
 I alsohave teaching/trainerexperience where Ihave trainednewlyhired BSc Engineers and DAE
Engineering Supervisors in the field of IT and Transmission.
 I alsohave extensiveexperience of conductingService QualityTests and Provisional Acceptance
Testing which result in issuance of PAC and FAC to the vendors
 Project management and coordination.
 Budgeting and costing of project.
Project Experience
 Managed andsupervised upgradingof 79, 3G EVO(Rev B) BTSs to LTE 4G in Multan city in March
2015.
 Managed and supervised as team lead for installation, commissioning and testing of first ever
GPON network in Multan region in 2015.
 Worked as team lead for upgradation of 29 ZTE ONUs into ZTE MSAGs in 2014.
 Workedas a team leadin113 K projectfor deploymentandcommissioning of 60 outdoor MSAG
in 2012-13.
 Managed and supervised as a group head of cross functional team for migration of 29 TDM
exchanges into 65 indoor ZTE 5200 MSAGs in 2011. This includes 05 ZTE 9000 MSGs and 01 ZTE
Soft Switch.
 Workedas a team leadinPhase Iof migration of 05 NEC TDMexchanges into 07 Huawei MSANs
in 2008.

2. Work Experience
PakistanTelecommunicationsCompanyLimitedisconstituentcompanyof EtisalatInternational.
Senior Manager Network Operations Multan May 2010 till date
Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Pakistan
Fostering an environment that is conducive to enhance productivity and business skills thereby
meetingthe KeyPerformance Indicators(KPIs) setforthe zone andassociateddivisions in the zone.
ConstantlyworkingforCustomerSolutionInnovationandcontinuous improvement. Mentoring and
knowledge sharing with the new inductees in the company
As SeniorManagerI am responsible to manage andsupervise,operationandmaintenance of Core
SwitchingNetwork aswell asAccessNetworkincludingmore than300 NEscomprisingof Alcatel E-
10B, Huawei HCTE,ZTE ZJX10, SiemensEWSD,ZTE OLTs,100+ MSAGs in FTTC formationandZTE
NGN includingone SoftSwitch,nine MSG9000 and 87 MSAG 5200. I am alsolookingafterWLL core
networkincluding01 Huawei MSC CsoftX3000, 02 BSCs and 100+ BTSs alongwithits microwave
(DRS) system. Iam alsoteam leadformanagingthe powerplantequipmentof the entire region.
 ImprovingBusinessskillsof the teambyidentifyingfunctional competencies,analyzingskill gaps
and furtheralignmentwiththe functionalcompetenciesbyarrangingTechnical Trainings as well
as enhancing Soft Skills
 Mentoring and knowledge sharing.
 Member focus group for Customer Solution Innovation and Continuous Improvement
 External and internal customer handling for improving their experience with the company.
o Ensuring Maximum Network Availability.
o Ensuring Redundancy as per topology (ERPS, STPs, LACP, HSRP, VRRP)
o Supervising the Operation and Maintenance of NGN
o Migration of Voice services from circuit switching to packet switching (NGN)
o Migration of DSL and IPTV services from DSLAMto MSAGs (NGN)
o Auto Service Provisioning integration of voice and DSL services of NGN
o Subscriber administration, Database administration and traffic management of ZTE SS
Multan
o Voice, DSL, IPTV and complete configurations of MSAGs ( Multi services access gateways)
o OFAN Integration (OLT, ONUs) in NGN
o GPON integration in NGN
 Triple play services (Voice, Data, Video) configurations and Troubleshooting
 Analysis of 4G LTE data services using standard tools and monitoring bandwidth utilization
 Arranging resources for corrective maintenance for the field units.
 Controlling field units to achieve their KPIs
 Leading the team responsible for technical evaluation in the tendering process
 Providing Level II support to the field units for TDMswitching and for NGN.
 Traffic analysis of TDMexchanges, ASR, CFR and take corrective measures
 Analyze TRGPs for MSAGs and DSLAMs to ensure proper bandwidth utilization.
 Planning preventive maintenance of switching and power plant equipment.
 Supervising of fuel topping activities ensuring maximum fuel saving

3.  Supervising of O&Mactivities relating to switching and power plant.
 Formulation of service level agreements (SLAs) with different vendors/suppliers
 Conducting SQT and PAT for the newly installed equipment in the company
 Managing a human resource of more than 230 members including 05 senior engineers, 30
engineers
Senior Engineer NOC/Network Management Center Oct 2003 to May 2010
Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Pakistan
 Monitoring alarms of 29 Alcatel E10B, 04 EWSD, 02 Huawei HCTE, 01 Huawei MSC, 02 BSCs and
360 WLL BTSs in the zone Configurationmanagement of CDMA2000 base stations through MML
and OSS scripts.
 Integration of CDMA2000 base stations to MSS, BSC, RNC and OSS using MML and XML scripts.
 Creation of Abis, MAP and SS7 links to integrate WLL MSC with BSCs, WIN and TDMswitches.
 Executionof networkoptimizationchange requests from planning wing using MML and MACRO
scripts.
 24/7 Alarm monitoring, troubleshooting and escalations of TDM/NSS/BSS.
 Trouble ticket generation, follow-up and Coordination for switching alarms.
 Remote support for field operation and maintenance personnel.
 Daily health check of complete network.
 Provide technical expertise and support to NOC staff in doing fault management and
configuration management activities of Switching Network.
 Ensuringthat systemrequirementshave beenproperlyimplementedandprocedurescarefully
followedbythe staff at shiftduties
 Monitoringandintimatingall concernsregardingsite networkperformance andservice
availability
 Routing,zoning,chargingandSS7 signalingdatabase creation
 Managementof A linksandF links
 Categorizationof alarms,alarm monitoringandrectification
 Software uploads,database backupsanddatabase uploads
 Securitymanagementincludingpasswordmanagementand useraccessrestrictions
 Performance datacollection,processingandpresentationtoPTCLheadquarters
 Core networkplanningandoptimizationdependingonthe resultsof the performance data
 SS7 call tracingfor findingreasonsforunsuccessful calls
 Planningandexecutionof preventivemaintenance programtoavoidfaultsoccurrence
 Timelyexecutionof corrective maintenance therebyreducingmeantime torecover(MTTR)
 Coordinationwithdifferentwingswithinthe companyandwithotheroperators
 Successfully implemented New Numbering Plan in all NEs of Multan region
 Successfully implemented Mobile Number Portability database in Alcatel E10 B exchanges of
MTR
 Implementation of TLV2 billing patch in all Alcatel E10 B exchanges in MTR
 One of the pioneer in executing XATR/XATX file expansion in Alcatel E10 B exchanges

4. Senior Engineer Transmission / Wireless Nov 2002 to Oct 2003
Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Pakistan
 Delivered lectures on Intelligent Network, OSI model, data communication to 180 newly
inducted B.Sc. Engineers in 2002-2003
 Conducted full length course on mobile communication and GSM architecture to 180 newly
inducted B.Sc. Engineers including RF planning, large scale and small scale propagation
models/techniques, types of fading, Control Channel architecture, radio optimization, Core
network dimensioning and mobile traffic analysis
 Conducted 3 week course on Working principles of GSMto Supervisor Class
 Conduced 3 week on job training course on DRS systems to a batch of Engineering Supervisor
 Deliveredlecture,heldtrainingsessionsonWirelessCommunications and GSMimplementation
 Membercourse developmentteam
Engineer Core / OMC Switching Aug 1999 to Nov 2001
Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Pakistan
 Creationof routing, zoningandchargingdatabase of SiemensEWSDexchangesinthe region
 PreparingRoutine andQuarterlybackupsof EWSDexchanges
 Subscriberadministrationandcomplainthandling
 Generatingtrafficreportsandanalyzingthese tocheckforASR,CFR,CCR takingremedial
measurestoensure company’sKPIsare met
Engineer Phones / Business Oct 1997 to Aug 1999
Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited Pakistan
 Installationof newtelephone connectionsincludingwireline connectionaswell asVHF
connections
 Maintenance of 4000 line OSPincludingMDFs,CabinetsandDPs
 Firstand frontline interface toreceive customercomplaintandredressitwithinthe prescribed
time limits
 Workingand supervisionof the DRSlinksusedtoconnectthe Remote exchangeswith main
exchanges.
Executive Engineer Aug 1992 to Sep 1996
TNT Electronics Multan
 Installationof ComputerNetworks
 Repairand Maintenance of PowerEquipment
TechnicalTrainings
 16 days PMP TrainingWorkshop conductedatTelecomTrainingCenterMultan (Dec2013)
 TekelekTK145/155/175/300/310 Eagle STP O&M at ZTE DevelopmentCenterin NanjingChina
(03 WeeksinMay 2008)
 NGN architecture andImplementationtraining atAlcatel DevelopmentCenterinIslamabad(01
WeekinApril 2006)

5.  CDMA SystemTraining(Huawei),TELLIN/MMS/SMC/WAPGW/PTTFundamental and O&M
Manager Training(Huawei) and PSPowerSupplyEngineerTraining(Emerson)atHuawei
TrainingCenterShenzhenChina(03WeeksinAug2005)
 C&C08 (Huawei) 128 Module SwitchingSystemEngineerTraining atAl-Karzami TrainingCenter
UET Lahore (03 weeksinDec2005)
 TrafficEngineering&ForecastingTraining atLahore TrainingCenterPTCL(01 WeekinApril
2005)
 In-Service trainingencompassingvariousfieldsof Telecommunications includingFiberOptics
Transmission,AnalogandDigital Microwave transmission,SwitchingatTelecomStaff College
Haripur for01 year fromSep1996 to Oct 1997
Qualifications
01/2009 – 01/2011 BahauddinZakariyaUniversity Multan
Major focus: Business Administration
Degree: Master inBusinessAdministrationMBA
11/2001 - 11/2002 Universityof EngineeringandTechnologyTaxila/Pakistan
Main focus: 3G Mobile System
Degree: M.Sc. TelecommunicationEngineering
02/1987 – 05/1992 University of EngineeringandTechnologyLahore/Pakistan
Main focus: Communications
Degree: B.Sc. Electrical Engineering
Certification
 03/2001 Oracle CertifiedProfessional (Developertrack)