Stella Mensah

Experience

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  Globacom

  Nov 2010 - Aug 2015

  Radio Frequency (RF) Planning Engineer

  Responsible for the initial system design, coverage planning, site identification and the deployment of the GLO network.Conducts site survey to verify site accessibility, good visibility of the terrain, antenna height, antenna orientation, equipment and antenna location and other site selection.Prepares Reports, Work Orders and Materials Request to facilitate sites installation during deployment.Responsible for initial network monitoring and KPI optimization using Huawei iManager.Performed regular 3G PSC & Neighbor optimization to improve call drop rate, soft/softer and IRAT handover success rate.Conduct extensive routine drive test to look for patches with bad quality and poor coverage and subsequent proposal of new sites or optimization of serving sites Show less

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  Airtel

  Aug 2015 - May 2018

  2G & 3G RF PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION ENGINEER

  Optimization of BSC, BTS, Handover, Power and Adjacency level parameters for fine tuning of network together with adjacency and frequency tuning, parameters audit and rectification.Network optimization by drive tests, antenna tilts, antenna orientation changes, antenna height increment and tuning the cell RF parameters.BTS capacity expansion with Mentum Planning tool to run prediction.Carrying out EDGE/GPRS optimization by drive tests, coverage confinements, changing antenna tilts and orientation, increasing time slots for better throughput.Regular traffic analysis of the network and issue plan for hardware additions & deletions i.e. 1800 BTS expansion and TRX addition as part of capacity optimization and unlocking of halted cells.Offloading BSC’s with high GSL utilization by the migration of sites to different BSC’s.Analysis of drive test files for taking care of external and internal interference in network, re-planning of frequencies in problematic areas.Parameter planning which include Frequency Planning, HSN Planning, Neighbour Planning, MAIO Offset, MAIO Step, BSIC PlanningOptimization of 3G KPIs to optimum levels through daily monitoring and deep analysis of network performance in Accra-West zone. Show less

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  2CUFI

  Aug 2018 - May 2019

  RF Planning Engineer

  Conducts planning, designing, configuration and estimating scope of Wi-Fi networks of radio installation for the 2CUFI project.Conducts site surveys for the acquisition of site locations for radio devices.Work in hand with the 2CTV team to test the 2CTV app on the WI-Fi network

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  DataCore Africa

  Nov 2020 - Oct 2021

  Technical Project Consultant
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  Newmont Corporation

  Oct 2021 - now

  Technology Project Specialist