TARUN AGARWAL

B-503, Country Park, Ph: +91-9930191069

Dattapada Road, Borivali (East) +91-22-65002631
Mumbai, India Email: agarwal.tarun@yahoo.com

Career Objective

To become successful professional in Telecom Domain and participate in organizational growth by working
on innovative and challenging projects which will involve continuous learning.

Work Experience Summary

• Core Specialist – CS Core Mobile Stream: Nokia Siemens Networks Sep 08 – till date

Responsible for Emergency support (24x7) support and Helpdesk Support (Remote & onsite)
for NSN Core Nodes (HLR, MSS, MGW & MSC). A part of Central Support Care Team
supporting all operators where NSN Core nodes are implemented. (Airtel, Vodafone, Idea,
Aircel, BSNL, Tata Docomo, Datacom).
• Have also leaded a team of 4-5 engineers on various implementation & onsite activities
onsite and remotely along with product line engineers.
• Have worked on implementation & care project in Vietnam and have lead team of 8
engineers from different countries
• Core Network Engineer (Commissioning & Integration): Huawei Telecom Feb 08 – Sep 08
Working as Core Networks Commissioning and Integration Engineer for Huawei MSOFTX3000
MSCs and UMG 9820 MGWs on Reliance GSM project.
• NSS Engineer (O&M) : Nokia Siemens Networks, Mumbai. June 07– Feb 08
Was working on Nokia Circuit Switching System (DX-200 & IPA2800) as NSS Engineer.
Responsible for Operations and Maintenance of HLR, MSCs, MSS and MGWs.
• NSS Engineer (O&M) : Kelly Services (Contractor for Nokia Networks), Mumbai. Jan 07– June 07
Was working on Nokia Circuit Switching System (DX & IPA2800) as NSS Engineer. Responsible for
Operations and Maintenance of HLR, MSCs, MSS and MGWs
• TSG Engineer: Kelly Services (Contractor for Nokia Networks), Mumbai. Sep 06 – Jan 07
Was working as escalated technical support engineer. Responsibilities involved solving escalated
IN and VAS technical customer issues.
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Have done MSc. In Communication Technologies from University of Sussex (UK) Sep 04 – Feb -06

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Field Engineer: Nutek (Contractor for Airtel), Mumbai. Sep 03 – Aug 04
Was responsible for supervising BTS / BSC site construction and BSC / BTS integration.

Email: agarwal.tarun@yahoo.com Mobile : +91 9930191069

Skills Summary

• Complete knowledge of all the protocols used in CS Core nodes like ISUP, MAP, CAP, INAP, BICC etc.
• Integrated and Commissioned Nokia & Huawei MSS/MSC & MGW in new Gray Field networks.
• Have done and Supported software and hardware up gradation in HLR and MSS/MSC & MGW in live
network within maintenance window.
• Planning of circuit rearrangement based on the analysis of traffic pattern, including planning of new
connectivity with other POIs.
• Acceptance Testing and directed test calls.
• Capturing and analysing SS7 signalling traces (including IN protocols) from protocol analyser to rectify
the issues.
• Have done many BSC re-parenting from one MSC to other.

Education History

• M.S. in Modern Communication Technologies with Business Management.

University Of Sussex (Brighton, UK) Oct 04 – Feb 07

Projects:

MSc. Research Project – High Capacity Multiple Access Techniques.

The project was aimed to develop analytical and software models to obtain the capacity limits and
performance of CDMA in different wireless communication environment. To achieve the conclusions, tasks
completed were, evaluation of SNR and BER of CDMA receiver system using different spreading
sequences and different types of receivers by varying noises in transmission channel.

• B.E in Electronics and Telecommunication.

Mumbai University June 99 – Mar 03

Personal Information

Permanent Address: - B-503, Country Park, Dattapada Road, Borivali (E), Mumbai, India. 400066.

Contact No.: - +91 9930191069 (mobile), +91 22 65002631 (residence)

Email: - agarwal.tarun@yahoo.com

Email: agarwal.tarun@yahoo.com Mobile : +91 9930191069