This document is a curriculum vitae for Said Athumani that provides details about his personal information, education qualifications, work experience, project experience, professional tools used, skills attained, references, and declaration. It outlines his Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from St. Joseph University of Tanzania from 2008 to 2012. It also lists his work experience including positions at TTCL, Benson Informatics Tanzania ltd-SMART, and FourCom Company Ltd in roles such as Network Planning & Optimization Engineer-RAN and RF Planning & Optimization Engineer working on 4G, 3G, 2G, and other telecommunications networks and projects.

1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Data
SURNAME: ATHUMANI
FIRST NAME: SAID
DATE OF BIRTH: 13/01/ 1987
MARITAL STATUS: Single
SEX: Male
CITIZEN: Tanzanian
MOBILE NUMBER: +255713323214/+255738211278
E-MAIL ADDRESS: said7243@yahoo.com
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: English and Swahili
CURRENT WORK PLACE: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Education Qualifications
NAME OF INSTITUTION: St. Joseph University of Tanzania.
PERIOD: 2008 up to 2012
AWARD: B.eng. in Electronics and Telecommunications
Engineering.
NAME OF INSTITUTION: Iyunga High School, Mbeya, Tanzania
PERIOD: 2006 up to 2008
AWARD: Advanced Level Secondary Education (ACSSE),
Tanzania
NAME OF INSTITUTION: Dodoma Secondary School, Dodoma, Tanzania
PERIOD: 2002 up to 2005
AWARD: Certificate of Secondary Education (CSSE),
Tanzania
NAME OF INSTITUTION: Mlezi Primary School, Dodoma, Tanzania
PERIOD: 1995 up to 2001
AWARD: Certificate of Primary Education, Tanzania

2. Work Experience
POSITION: Network Planning & Optimization Engineer-RAN
PLACE: Tanzania Telecommunication Company Ltd. (TTCL)
PERIOD: Jan 2015 to present
DEPARTMENT: Network Development
VENDOR: HUAWEI
TECH: 4G, 3G & 2G.
Major Tasks:
 Ensure that all rollout sites’ Radio Network KPIs of his assigned area of
responsibility based on BSS Statistics and Drive Test coverage analysis are
meet.
 Preparation of technical responses to HUAWEI and / or TTCL, on all regional
rollout RNP/RNO related queries / issues.
 Provide RNO/RNP support to the Regional Manager during regional technical
meetings.
 Propose and Implement RNO/RNP guidelines and produce/present regional
RNO/RNP reporting (QoS, DT reports).
 Perform regional BSS feature and parameter analysis and tuning.
 New site/Expansion/re-homing/re-farming/cutover activity planning and
monitoring to make sure a smooth and no degrading after these activities
 Site/Cluster optimization activity and network troubleshooting
 Final site/Cluster report review and approval.
 Signaling trace of node and interface to locate and resolve problems.
Proposing and tracking sites audit, verification and physical optimization
 Preparation of RF parameters for the integration of new sites
 HW expansion/degradation planning to:
 cater available and future traffic trends
 make efficient usage of resources
 New Sites Acceptance from Contractors
 Worst Cell Analysis and Resolution
 Preparation and maintenance of Sites RF databases
 KPIs Trends Preparation for routine KPIs analysis skills

3. POSITION: RF Planning & Optimization Engineer
PLACE: Benson Informatics Tanzania ltd-SMART
PERIOD: March 2013 to Jan 2015
DEPARTMENT: Network Planning and Optimization (Technical)
VENDOR: ZTE
TECH: 4G & 2G.
Major Tasks:
 4G(LTE TDD):
 4G capacity and coverage dimensioning
 Optimization of all 4G sites
 4G Quality of Experience(QoE)
 Timely and efficiently Customer Complaints Resolution(Customers
satisfaction)
 Managing routine, cluster, benchmarking and hotspots drive tests including
post analysis and action plan
 Daily4G (LTE TDD) performance monitoring, troubleshooting, analysis and
resolution for KPIs & KQIs enhancement
 4G Features recommendation, activation and post-tuning
 4G Fault and alarms management
 Conducting sites audit, verification and physical optimization
 New Sites Acceptance from Contractors
 Worst Cell Analysis and Resolution
 KPIs/KQIs reports generation and distribution
 2G:
 2G Capacity and coverage sites planning
 GPRS/EDGE Planning and Optimization
 In-building capacity and coverage solution planning(IBS Solution)
 Conducting RF Site Survey for both Coverage and Capacity
 Customer Complaints Resolution(Customers satisfaction)
 Conducting RF Drive Test and defining corresponding RF Drive Test routes
for:
 New site verification/acceptance
 Routine Network Optimization for KPIs maintenance
 GPRS/EDGE Performance and Optimization
 New Coverage Sites Planning
 Customer Complaints satisfaction(attended and resolution proposed)
 Fault Hardware Troubleshooting
 Locating and resolving network problems in problematic areas such as
Drop calls,
 Handover failures, coverage holes, and interference
 Roaming purposes (Capturing and Retaining Roamers)
 Post processing/Analyzing drive test Log files and take appropriate actions to
resolve the observed problems
 KPI Troubleshooting for Hardware Fault
 Maintaining Daily Network KPIs like SD Drop, TCH Drop, CSR/CSSR,
HOSR, SD Blocking, TCH blocking, GPRS/EDGE Performance by:
 Fine tuning of BSS parameters
 Timely audit on cell data
 performing routine Drive Test
 immediate response to customer complaints

4.  Proposing and tracking sites audit, verification and physical optimization
 Preparation of RF parameters for the integration of new sites
 HW expansion/degradation planning to:
 cater available and future traffic trends
 make efficient usage of resources
 New Sites Acceptance from Contractors
 Worst Cell Analysis and Resolution
 Preparation and maintenance of Sites RF databases
 KPIs Trends Preparation for routine KPIs analysis
POSITION: Drive Test Engineer
PLACE: FourCom Company Ltd
PERIOD: December 2012 to April 2013
DEPARTMENT: Network Planning&Optimization (Technical)
Major Tasks:
 In-building capacity/coverage solution planning(IBS Solution)
 Conducting Technical Sites Survey for both Coverage and Capacity
 Customer Complaints Resolution(Customers satisfaction)
 Managing routine and cluster drive tests including post analysis and action
plan
 Conducting sites audit, verification and physical optimization
 New Sites Acceptance from Contractors
 Worst Cell Analysis and Resolution

5. Project Experience
Date (from – to): Aug 2016
Occupation or position held: RF Planning & Optimization Engineer.
Name of Project Owner: Tanzania Telecommunication Company Ltd
Type of business or sector: Telecommunications
Type of the project: Permanent member WRC-19 national preparatory council.
Date (from – to): Jan, 2014 to Dec, 2014
Occupation or position held: RF Planning & Optimization Engineer.
Name of Project Owner: Benson Informatics Tanzania Ltd-SMART
Type of business or sector: Telecommunications
Type of the project: 4G Network Rollout.
Date (from – to): Jan, 2015
Occupation or position held: Network Planning & Optimization Engineer-RAN
Name of Project Owner: Tanzania Telecommunication Company Ltd. (TTCL)
Type of business or sector: Telecommunications
Type of the project: 4G, 3G & 2G Network Rollout.

6. Professional Tools
 Planning Tool :
 Atoll Planning Tool
 Unet Atoll Planning Tool.
 Application Tools :
 TEMS Investigation 11.0.1– Drive Test Tool
 TEMS Investigation 15– Drive Test Tool
 Pilot Pioneer-Drive Test Tool
 Genex Probe & Genex Assistant.
 MapInfo Professional- Mapping Tool
 MCOM Tools-Frequency&Neighbors planning/Optimization
 Net Numen/U31- BSS Parameters
 U2000/M2000-Network OSS & Service.
 Pathloss5 / Pathloss4-Transmission planning tool.
 Google Earth Pro- Mapping Tool
 Radio Tool- Site audit/Physical optimization/Coverage estimation
 GPS-Drive Test and Technical Site Survey
 MS Excel Macros-KPIs Processing&Analysis
 IT Tools:
 MS Office 2003 and 2007(MS Excel, Power Point, etc)
 Microsoft Professional
 Microsoft VISIO
 Programming languages C, C++, Java, Turbo Pascal
Projects Skills Attained
 Project Management
I attended the project management course during my university studies and still
getting practical experience from my work place:
 Projects Planning: Ability to plan projects especially in Telecommunications
Industry.
 Project Execution: Ability to supervise projects from initiation stage up to the
implementation stage.
Individual Strength
 Ability to work under pressure and dynamic environment
 Ability to work under minimum supervision
 Ability to supervise others in a team
 Open-minded
 Easy and fast grasping skills to know and gather new things
 Positive Thinking
 Hard working
 Creative and innovative

7. References
Eng. Vicent David
Snr Network Optimization & Quality Engineer
Airtel Tanzania LTD
Mobile: +255784670594
E-mail: Vicent.David@airtel.co.tz
Eng. Abuu Selemani Mohamed
Planning & Optimization Engineer
Huawei Tanzania
Mobile: +255784670674
E-mail: abuu.mohamed@huawei.com
Eng. Emmanuel Temu
Tx Planning Engineer
TTCL
Phone: +255754096818
E-mail: emmanuel.temu@ttcl.co.tz
DECLARATION:
I am confident of my ability to work as individual as well in a team. I hereby
declare that the Information furnished here is true to the best of my knowledge.
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(Said H. Athumani)