Venkata Ramkumar, PhD

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

14 years of experience in Wireless domain.
PhD in Network Management from Aalborg University.
Leading IMS Performance team at Qualcomm.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications expert with extensive experience in wireless network performance and testing.

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Skills

Core Skills

Wireless NetworkingPerformance TestingSoftware DevelopmentNetwork ManagementResearchTesting

Other Skills

IMS PerformanceVoice and Video calls4G/5G/WLAN RATsMobile CommunicationsLTEPerformance validation3GPP release 93GPPLTE protocol stackTest case developmentLTE standardsTest framework developmentTest scriptsMobility managementResource management

About

Having 14 years experience in Wireless domain. Currently working as IMS performance lead in Qualcomm Done PhD from Aalborg university in Network management and Masters from IIT Madras

Experience

20 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 7 mos

Average Tenure

11 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Qualcomm

Sr Staff Engineer/Manager

Sep 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 7 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Leading IMS Performance team ensuring quality of Voice and Video calls across 4G/5G/WLAN RATs for different operators like Verizon, ATT, TMO, CMCC/CT, RJIL etc. of Qualcomm devices delivered to different OEMs catering Mobile, Automotive markets
Prior to that worked as Integration team lead for Smallcell

IMS PerformanceVoice and Video calls4G/5G/WLAN RATsMobile CommunicationsWireless NetworkingPerformance Testing

Broadcom

Principal Engineer

Nov 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr · Bangalore

Project: LTE Performance testing
1) Understanding PHY, MAC, RRC specifications of 3GPP release 9
2) Performance validation of LTE modem

LTEPerformance validation3GPP release 9Performance TestingWireless Networking

Mediatek

PC Software engineer

Feb 2012 – Oct 2012 · 8 mos · Ålborg Area, Denmark

Project: LTE protocol stack and testcase development
1) Undestanding of LTE standards such as 36.211, 36.212, 36.213, 36.523 etc
2) Design and development of test framework for LTE UE
3) Design and development of LTE MAC and PHY layer
4) Development of test scripts, interfaces and script interpreter

LTE protocol stackTest case developmentLTE standardsWireless NetworkingSoftware Development

Aalborg university

PhD student

Feb 2009 – Feb 2012 · 3 yrs · Ålborg Area, Denmark

Project: PhD on “Mobility and Network management
1) Proposed methods for Radio resource management, Dynamic Resource allocation, Admission control, MAC layer scheduling, Self-optimization, Self-healing etc. for LTE and next generation networks
2) Optimized Network throughput, QoS, Cell edge throughput, number of users, Interference etc. using Heuristic, Markov, Fuzzy approaches
3) Design, Develop and Simulate the methods in MATLAB, OMNET on a LTE based platform and demonstrated the improved performance in Network throughput, QoS etc.
4) Published in International journals and conferences e.g. Globecom, ICC, Springer etc. and project deliverables
5) Participated in FUTON project, NICT research project, CTIF-Princeton university collaboration
6) Develop prototype for Common Radio resource management with Access points/Routers
7) Supervised Master projects

Mobility managementNetwork managementResource managementNetwork ManagementResearch

Client: infineon technologies

Software Consultant from L and T infotech

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr · Ålborg Area, Denmark

Project: UMTS test case development and automation
1) UMTS test case development
2) Blackbox testing of various mobile chipsets like Nokia, Samsung, Apple etc
3) Test case automation using Win32 and COM and on Infineon Calibration tool.

UMTS test case developmentBlackbox testingTest automationSoftware DevelopmentTesting

Client: qualcomm india

Sr Software engineer from Land T Infotech

Jun 2005 – Jun 2007 · 2 yrs · Hyderabad Area, India

Project: CDMA 1X Compliance Testing and development
1) Design and development of Automation test scripts for compliance testing of CDMA
2) Testing of IS98D test cases on different MSM targets with different builds
3) In Depth Analysis of the test case results from the logs obtained
4) Design of LAC layer using use case diagrams in UML with Airvana

CDMA compliance testingAutomation test scriptsIS98D test casesTestingSoftware Development

Midas communication technologies

Sr Development Engineer

Jun 2004 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr · Chennai Area, India

Project: Development of PHY algorithms for WiMAX
1) Worked on understanding of OFDM standard
2) Development of algorithms for uplink ranging and channel modelling in C and MATLAB.

PHY algorithmsWiMAXChannel modelingSoftware DevelopmentResearch