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Muralidhar Malreddy

Overland Park,USA

Summary

Excellent knowledge of wireless technology, RF design, performance, and optimization. Comprehensive background leading and managing RAN design, development, RAN testing, validation, deployment, and operations in telecommunications industry. Demonstrated success designing end-to-end RAN products from requirements stage to launch solving network issues and improving network performance resulting in retention of high ARPU customers. Continuously exceeds expectations delivering superior results, developing creative solutions, identifying problems, and driving to resolution. Works well with cross-functional teams, building relationships at all levels of an organization including stakeholders, senior management, vendors, and customers.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Pricinpal Engineer/Senior Technical Project Manager

HIGHWAY9 NETWORKS
10.2023 - Current
  • Lead Project Manager responsible for RAN performance, RAN optimization, Site Validation and New Deployment management, RAN KPI repository Design, Debug and Troubleshooting automation
  • Create feature design documentation, validation, proof of concepts, field trials, and deployment
  • Led and Optimized Network profile parameters met operators KPI targets and improved over network performance and end user experience
  • Presented status updates to executive level leadership at regular intervals, addressing key issues in a timely manner avoiding delays and getting resolutions quickly
  • Led internal tool development activities to deliver KPI monitoring platform helping operator to easily monitor network on periodic basis
  • AI based KPI automation to help identifying and troubleshooting network issues in timely fashion

Senior System Architecture Engineer

T-MOBILE USA
01.2019 - Current
  • Lead design engineer responsible for new5G RAN Design and new features
  • Create RAN feature design documentation, MOP validation, proof of concepts, field trials, and deployment
  • Met network performance goals by managing OEM vendors for continuous feature delivery, troubleshooting, and resolving issues
  • Prepared and presented executive level leadership status updates at regular intervals, addressing key issues in a timely manner reducing risks and avoiding delays in getting resolutions from OEM or internal teams
  • Reduced network maintenance costs by de-commissioning500K+ legacy small cells across3 different vendor products as part of network upgrade and merger migrations, collaborated with cross functional teams ensuring no impacts to end customers

Telecom Design Engineer III

SPRINT CORP
01.2008 - 01.2019
  • Led end-to-end design of residential4G femtocell starting with RFP stage to design, development, launch and managed product through lifecycle
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams and business partners, launching product on time helping retention metrics
  • Deployed over100K VOLTE Small Cells, meeting planned timeline to solve in-building coverage quality issues, resulting in helping improve customers churn metric and saving revenue
  • Designed and developed RF features and algorithms for better overall network performance, Improved cell reselection and mobility within network new methods solving coverage problems and achieving best network performance
  • Driven field issues to resolution by reproducing the issues in lab environment, study the solutions, recommend and drive the issues to closure.
  • Tested and optimized parameters to improve network quality defining Golden Parameter standards for nationwide network

Senior RF Engineer

NEXGEN WIRELESS INC
01.2005 - 01.2008
  • Led drive team to launch EVDO network, introduced new technology to regional markets
  • Collaborated with national team on test plans and executed on several sites, driving performance issues to resolution before launch
  • Planned network testing activities helping validate EVDO Site launch, ensuring new radio was performing as expected without harming existing network
  • Launched EVDO network in2 markets Cleveland and Cincinnati, on time and with good performance metrics
  • Optimized network parameters improving Throughput, reducing drops and blocks
  • Led internal tool development activities, building in-house KPI performance monitoring platform
  • Provided thorough requirements and worked with IT team to build and validate the monitoring tool to be used by RF Engineers across all regional markets

Education

M.S. - Electrical Engineering

Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio

B.S. - Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Skills

  • RF Design, Performance and Optimization
  • Lab Environment setup and management for testing, validation and issues resolution
  • Project Management, Product Management & Vendor Management
  • Analyzed RAN hardware & software related issues as well as provided technical support
  • Break / Fix troubleshooting, developing creative solutions and driving issues to Resolution
  • Trained and created processes for front office tiers, field technicians and RF Engineers as well as job aides to troubleshoot common hardware / software issues, helping automate system tools to reduce RAN equipment down time

Accomplishments

    20+ Approved US patents by USPTO and several other new ideas implemented to improve network and solve several issues with new innovative ideas.

Timeline

Pricinpal Engineer/Senior Technical Project Manager

HIGHWAY9 NETWORKS
10.2023 - Current

Senior System Architecture Engineer

T-MOBILE USA
01.2019 - Current

Telecom Design Engineer III

SPRINT CORP
01.2008 - 01.2019

Senior RF Engineer

NEXGEN WIRELESS INC
01.2005 - 01.2008

B.S. - Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

M.S. - Electrical Engineering

Cleveland State University
Muralidhar Malreddy