J.P. Resume

Hello! I am J. Prado. I am an Accomplished professional with 15+ years of experience across various Engineering and Leadership roles. This includes serving as RF Engineer Team Lead, RF Rollout Acceptance Lead for UMTS/LTE/5G NR RAN Design, Optimization, Roll-Out projects and Technical Support lead for Cisco/HCL SON/ANA platforms deployed for Tier 1 US and International operators, with vendors such as Nokia, Ericsson, and Alcatel-Lucent. Adept at managing cross-functional teams, ensuring successful network deployments and seamless operations, compliance with SLA contractual obligations, generating comprehensive customer delivery reports and providing high-level technical support for complex telecommunications and virtualized distributed systems.

Professional Experience

SON/ANA Senior Technical Specialist - Team Lead

Cisco Systems / HCL Software

Jan 2016 - April 2024

Senior Customer Experience Engineer for Cisco Self-Organizing Network (SON) and Technical Specialist Lead for HCL Augmented Network Automation (ANA) Platform, focused on UMTS/LTE/5G NR RAN automated optimization, configuration and capacity improvement for major US and International Wireless Operators: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, US Cellular, Telcel Mexico, Claro Brazil.
Troubleshoot, support and outage recovery for over 20 SON/ANA Production/FFA clusters with over 25 HP/UCS/Virtualized servers per cluster for SON/ANA platform backend based on Linux Debian/Ubuntu distribution, MongoDB, Studio 3T, Python, Dockers, Kubernetes, mySQL. Code management using Jira, Bitbucket, Git, GitHub. Assist on troubleshooting and configuration of haproxy, develop ansible playbooks.
Customer Delivery reports and project progress using Power BI.
Organized, trained and supervised a team of 5 engineers on North America, Europe, India, Israel for Tier 2 ANA/SON technical support.
Supported SON/ANA RAN close loop Optimization and Capacity Management Applications for UMTS/LTE/5G NR: FRM5, DPO-L, RACO-L, PAE-L, CICO-L, DSH-L
Configuration and troubleshooting of ANA Containarized Hoster FFA solution based on dockers/kubernetes.
Work and support multiple project stakeholders for planning and delivery new SW Releases: work with NPI and RnD Team to streamline solutions using Jira/Bitbucket/Confluence platform.

4G RF Optimization Engineer

Nokia

May 2015 - Dec 2015

800/1900/2500 MHz LTE Cluster Optimization for Sprint Austin Market, 380 eNB’s, Tri-Band LTE Network.
Analyze LTE Layer 3 Messaging using Windcatcher for DCR/CFR/HOSR troubleshooting.
Use of Tableu, Eniq, Netact, AMOS, Web Intelligence tools for cluster level and worst offenders optimization.

3G/4G RF In Building Solutions Optimization Engineer

Ericsson

Nov 2012 - May 2013

In charge of AT&T ASG Phase 3 RFO and Acceptance process for 16 UMTS/LTE iDAS/oDAS Venues and Systems in Charlotte, NC market
Member of Special Events Teams for American Airlines Arena. Monitor and optimize in real time the iDAS system in the American Airlines Arena in order to minimize subscriber impact due to congestion and maximize iDAS system capacity.
Ensure that the NodeB/Cell level parameters are audited per AT&T Gold Standard (GS) during validation & prior to the optimization phase according to Hi-Cap, Mi-Cap & BAU Parameters standard, UMTS-LTE Site Launch checklist, analyze walk test data and generate reports using Actix Analyzer, verify that stationary test meets pass criteria for venue according to AT&T Phase 3 requirements, configure and coordinate OCNS/AILG testing, prepare CA (Conditional Acceptance) and FA (Final Acceptance), present and discuss Exit Criteria with AT&T Local ASG, National ASG and RAN teams.
Use of RNDCIQ, RFDS (Head-end System Configuration and RF Plumbing diagram, Antenna ERP table, IBwave tool to validate walk test result against RF Design.
Review of High-Capacity Parameter that will guarantee the maximum traffic handling by the RAN system during high load conditions.

3G/4G CDMA2000/LTE RF Design and Optimization Engineer

MetroPCS

Feb 2012 - Nov 2012

RF Evaluation of candidates from site acquisition team and SCIP generation on San Fernando Valley for 80 new Macro Sites and Outdoor DAS Nodes sites.
Evaluation and approval of 60 candidate sites during formal Site Walks with Construction, A&E, Leasing teams. Define coverage objectives, Antenna location (height, azimuth, tilt), Antenna type, number of sectors, feeder type, etc. according to MetroPCS CDMA Macro site Design Guidelines.
Initial Tuning, Optimization and troubleshooting of 80 new CDMA/EVDO/LTE sites for North LA cluster (San Fernando Valley).
Development of PERL and AMOS scripts for parameter audit/update on ALU CDMA and Ericsson LTE Radio Networks

3G UMTS/HSPA Multicarrier RF WPLO Optimization Engineer

Ericsson

Mar 2011 - Feb 2012

Post Launch optimization Engineer for 3G 850/1900 UMTS Radio Network on Pennsylvania & Indiana AT&T Markets for more than 500 sites/carrier. Create daily and hourly Business Objects report for new cluster/SSV launch (single and multi-carrier) and update UTRAN daily report file.

GSM/UMTS/HSPA RF Network Rollout and Optimization Lead

Ericsson

Nov 2007 - Feb 2011

Network Rollout Engineer Lead for Ericsson 3G 850 UMTS/HSDPA P7 Network in Dominican Republic, during the new implementation phase of new 97 Nodes B and rehoming of 30 nodes B to new RNC.
Optimization Team Leader for Ericsson 3G 1900 UMTS/HSDPA P6/P7 Network of 206 Nodes B in El Salvador, responsible to maintain the 3G Network KPIs on BBH on targets: PS Int. Drop < 2%, Speech Drop < 1%, PS Int. Accessibility > 98%, Speech Accessibility > 98%.
Initial Tunning RF Engineer of Phase 4 (120 Nodes B) for an Ericsson 1900 UMTS/HSDPA P5/P6 Radio Access Network for Claro Guatemala.
Analysis of drive test 3G 850 UMTS Ericsson with TEMS, Netimizer-DML and ZK Celltest Scanner for Phase 3 (100 nodes B) in order to detect and solve coverage issues, Pilot Pollution, Interference, Missing Neighbors, Overlapping, Overshooting, IRAT HO optimization, Channel Switching, UE HSDPA Modem performance.