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Kevin Howley
currently working on a short term project and looking for
new opportunities and available in 1 weeks
Reading, Berkshire, United KingdomTelecommunications
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ent
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Nokia Networks
NSN, Ericsson, Penta
Consulting

Educ
ation

Royal school of signals

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Summary
Nokia BSS/RAN Engineer with skills ranging from commissioning,
integrations, fault finding, performance monitoring, SW rollout/upgrades,
feature/parameter testing, W BTS rehoming, Network audits.
BSC2e/BSC2i/BSC3i/RNC196,450,2600/WBTS/AXC/TCSM2e/TCSM3i.
RAS06/RU10/RU20/RU30 and now RU40 experience
Last 14 years providing technical support (incl CARE) for all of above as
well as project managing many rollouts and SW/HW upgrades using
performance measurement tools, protocol analysers, technical specs
and release notes.
Specialties: Nokia RNC196/450/2600, BSC2e/I/3i, TCSM2/3,
WBTS,UMTS technologies. Commissioning, integrations, fault finding,
Technical 3rd and 4th Line support, RU10-RU40 (RNC and WBTS),
S11.5-S14 SW and HW upgrades. AXC,SAXC,Flexi Wbts, rehoming,
performance monitoring

Experience

Senior Technical Support Engineer

Nokia Networks
September 2014 Present (6 months)huntingdon, solihull

NSN Care consultant

NSN
June 2014 October 2014 (5 months)huntingdon
Nokia care support engineer supporting customer BAU issues, rollout
projects and SW testing

3G Back Office RAN and Performance Consultant

Ericsson
December 2009 May 2014 (4 years 6 months)Reading, Coventry,
Bucharest, Bangalore
Supporting the Operations and Rollout teams in performance issues of
Network, RNC and WBTS fault resolution currently at RU30. RNC,

WBTS SW upgrades. Dealing with "MORAN" performance and fault

issues. Incident management support. Assisting Field Engineers
remotely, Technical training and support for the Front Office (1st and
2nd Line Engineers). Assisted in the improvement program for GSC
Romania and EGI India (specifically change request systems and
procedures, BAU faults, performance and Network monitoring,
HW/SW/config. technical fault investigation on RNC/ WBTS).
(Open)3 recommendations, including:

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Marcel BarclayOSS Consultant at EricssonKevin is a professional

and valuable colleague, who consistently delivers both technically and
behaviourally. Kev is very...View

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Mick DelavereTest and Acceptance Engineer at SamsungKevin is a

very confident and capable colleague with a wealth of knowledge, which he

was able to share with the group with...View
1 more recommendation

2G/3G technical Consultant

Ericsson - du EITC

October 2009 November 2009 (2 months)

Short term project to support the change over from NSN to ESL
(Open)1 recommendation

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Richard Torley, PMPTechnical Program Manager at Synergy

Wireless SolutionsKevin joined the project at a critical time during a managed
service swap project. With his skills and can do attitude he single-handedly
managed and maintained the UMTS network, whilst providing on the job

training to other engineers. Not the first...View

Principle 2G/3G Technical Support Engineer

Penta Consulting

September 2008 September 2009 (1 year 1 month)

Based in Rome providing Technical Care support for Vodafone Italy on
radio Access network as well as training for customer and other Group
members.
(Open)4 recommendations, including:

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Davide GrionManaging Consultant at CapgeminiKevin is a strongly

skilled RAN engineer and an absolutely reliable person. Extremely
professional and always keen on...View

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Davide ToppettaCustomer Technical Advocate for Alcatel-Lucent

Kevin is a brilliant engineer, he is a very good person to work with, he is able

to work in team and he is very experienced....View
2 more recommendations

3G Consultant for RAS06 upgrades and testing

NSN - Morroco

August 2008 September 2008 (2 months)

Providing Technical support for HSDPA testing on RAS06 upgraded
RNC's. Carrying out full end to end testing and auditing of new network
in order to complete procedures for formal use and documentation.
RNC/site measurements implemented and tested. HSDPA working and
tested to 1.4Meg over Ethernet transmission.
Eventual fault found with QoS from second vendor resulting in speeds of

5.7 Meg downloading on completion of work.

BSS/RAN Technical Support Manager Dubai

Nokia Siemens Networks

February 2007 July 2008 (1 year 6 months)

Providing technical support for BSC/RNC/BTS/NodeB/TCSM
commissioning and integrations as well as upgrades, expansions,etc.
Also provide TI for new BSS/RAN integrations as well as writing all
implementation, upgrade procedures. RAN/BSS capacity management
and expansions.
(Open)1 recommendation

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Maik BraunTechnical Sales at HeliocentrisKevin is an effective,

focused manager who develops outstanding solutions, thrives under pressure,

and has a formidable technical knowledge paired with the ability to deliver
quality under difficult circumstances and with scarce resources. Kevin...View

RAN Support Consultant

Nokia Siemens Networks / Du Managed Services Dubai
February 2007 August 2007 (7 months)
Brought in to support the integrations of 3G sites and RNC's as success
rate was down to average of 50-60% per day. After implementing
various technical procedures and training this increase to 85-90% per
day. Also created some auditing processes for sites as well as dealing
with performance issues and fault finding.
(Open)2 recommendations

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Ahmed SoltanDirector Commercial Roadmap & Planning at duKevin

was one of the most intelligent engineers working in NSN project , he was
dedicated to his job and always deliver on...View

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John DoolanatI'd gives me great pleasure to recommend Kevin,

During my time at Du (UAE), Kevin was instrumental in getting the

project...View

3rd Line RAN Technical support

Ericsson Services Ltd

2003 2007 (4 years)

RNC/WBTS performance fault finding. RNC SW testing and upgrades.
Remote Field Engineer support. Front Office (first line) technical
training.
(Open)3 recommendations, including:

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Jonathon AndrewsField Service Engineer at NGIS LimitedHaving

worked with Kevin over the past few years I have found him to be nothing but
a consummate professional in every...View

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Kevin BremnerExperienced RAN Operations Analyst and Manager

Siemens NetworksVery highly motivated Senior engineer and is willing always

to go that extra mile.View
1 more recommendation

RAN/BSS Commissioning engineer

Nokia

2000 2003 (3 years)

Commissioned, integrated a variety of equipment a within the mobile
industry, working on 4 of the mobile service provider networks. BSC2-3i,
TCSM2-3i, ultra sites, supremes, flexibts, RNC 196-450.

Senior Technical Engineer

Military
1986 2000 (14 years)
Army career spanning 14 years working in varied environments
providing/repairing communications ranging from secure data to HF to
Satellite.

Systems Engineer
HM Forces
1986 2000 (14 years)