Carriculum vitae

Personal data: Name: Shimelis Tamrat Debella

Date of birth: June 12,1975
Place of birth: Debrezeit, Ethiopia

Educational Background:

 I have attended secondary high school in Yekatit 12 Comprehensive high school

from 1988 to 1991 in Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA
 I have joined the Addis Ababa University in the Faculty of Technology and I
have got my B.Sc degree in Electrical Engineering in 1998.
 I have taken the following courses on post graduate diploma program study :C+
+, Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, Elass(an assembly language), and Java from
HiLco, school of computer science.

Trainings:

 In 1999 I have got a certificate in Basic communication from the institute of

Telecommunications in Addis Ababa after attending a 4 month course
 Basic Hub operator course in Telaviv, Israel on the Dial@way ip VSAT system
 I have taken the following courses on Cisco systems:
 Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND)
 Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI)
 Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (BCRAN)
 Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN)
 Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting (CIT)
 MPLS and VPN Architectures (MPLS VPNs)
 Cisco Internetwork Design (CID)
 attended basic satellite courses with KDDI in Japan for three months
 course on the NERA SDH radio system
 course in High power Amplifier (HPA) from MCL
 Training on link budget calculation, line up and new related techniques in the
Hague as well as in Luxemburg.

Work experience:

I have been working in the Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation in the Satellite

Division starting from staff engineer to senior Team leader and then deputy division
manager and as well as division manager position of VSAT and Hub service division for
11 years. My main responsibilities were:
1) Configuration of the earth station equipments
2) Configuration of the Hub station equipments
3) Configuration of VSAT equipments
4) Operation and supervision of the earth station
5) Maintenance of the earth station and VSAT equipments
6) Designing and building a new Earth Station for the IP backbone through satellite
7) Upgrading existing VSAT system both the hub system and remote terminals
8) Broadcasting twelve TV channels both for educational purpose and for the public.
9) I am also involved for live TV broadcast whenever it is necessary.

For the last two years and six months, I have been working in South Sudan for Network
Of the World (N.O.W) company commonly known as Vivacell Mobile Network as a vsat
engineer in the position of supervising the vsat system as well as related satellite
network.

My main responsibilities are:

 Design & Plan the VSAT Infrastructure Topology needed for various network
nodes & elements to be connected with each other.
 Anticipate on the needs VSAT capacities, and design of the networks.
 Assures a high Quality of Service.
 Supervise & Follow up the VSAT Survey and implementation activities.
 Comparing & Evaluating Design versus installed
 Communicates clearly and directly with staff concerning performance
expectations and productivity.
 Assigns objectives and performs employee's evaluations.
 Interfaces with Core, VAS, Radio and BSS to revise and set Section objectives
and plans in accordance with current conditions.
 Confers with different department engineers to review common activities.
 Develops department employees for future advancement when possible.
 Define and solve existing problems, absorb and respond to staff questions,
provide department planning, motivate employees and follow up on project
progress.
 Preparing the VSAT BoQ.
 Frequency Planning.
 Usage of different techniques for BW optimization.
 Dealing with suppliers concerning different specs needed for equipments.
 Memotec Installation, operation and maintenance.
 Supervise Antennas & BUC Installation, testing, commissioning, operation and
maintenance activities.
 Set Troubleshooting Procedure and solve VSAT problems
 Prepare section reports
 Travel when needed to remote sites for troubleshooting and installation

For three years and six months, I have been working in SES (New Skies) which
is a satellite operator and have around 53 satellites in three orbital positions
which are in LEO, MEO and GEO.
My position in the company was Sales Engineer and this covers the following
assignments:

 Increasing broadband penetration in Africa

 Servicing the video value chain
 Preparation of the technical support as needed like Link Budget, Line Up
 Giving advice to our customers as well as new customers on the satellite
service and its usage
 Govsat-1 which will provide satellite capacity for both institutional and
military purposes
 Installation of VSAT system and giving service
 Supporting related case study
 Introducing unique services given by the company, to mention some like
O3b, MX1

Work detail:
  rehabilitation of existing earth station with NEC company (32 meter antenna)
 Installation of a new earth station with NEC company (18 meter antenna)
 Installation and commissioning of a new hub system for the Faraway VSAT
system which supports 300 remote stations giving voice and data services
 Installation and commissioning of a Dialaway VSAT hub system which supports
220 remote station giving voice and internet service
 Installation , operation and maintenance of both faraway and dialaway remote
VSAT stations
 Installation of a TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) terminal for satellite voice
gateway with Hughes Network Systems (HNS) and running the system as well
 Installation of an ISBN system with Hughes network systems for broadband
data service for the VSAT system
 Installation and commissioning of an HN hub system which supports a
broadband service for the VSAT system consisting of all kind of services
consisting of voice , data , internet and video conferencing services which has
over 500 remote terminals
 Operation and maintenance of an HN hub system and the remote VSAT sites
 Installation and operation of a TV broadcasting system over satellite
 Designing of all types of VSAT and satellite systems
 Installation of a satellite internet gateway and running the system
 Installation of a vsat system and interfacing to the BSC and MSC for a mobile
network service
 Operation and maintenance of the roaming gateway on the mobile network
 Configuration of the bandwidth usage on the satellite for data, internet or video
usage
 Monitoring of the video service quality on different satellite and working as a
remote monitoring station

Systems on which I have been working includes the following

products :
1. I have been working on four earth station (ES) on the following products:-

 Different types of high power amplifiers which are

 MCL 750 watt TWTA high power Amplifier
 CPI 750 watt TWTA high power Amplifier
 Klystron 3000 watt high power Amplifier

 Different solid state power amplifiers which are:

 Paradise 750 watt SSPA
 Codan 10- 145 watt BUC
 Gilat 2- 10 watt BUC
 HNS 2-5 watt BUC
 TERRASAT 40W ,80W & 100W
 Mitec 80W & 400W

 Modems of different brands:

 COMTECH EF-DATA Modems of model CDM600 and
CDM700 models
 Paradise modems of different models
 NEC modems of different models
 High speed IP Satellite Modem_EL470
  COMTECH CDM-QXL and CDM-625 modems

 Encoders and multiplexers of Harmonics /Scopus/ products for video

service:
 E1000 and
 E1200 models
 Mux3000 model

2. Compression equipments of different types:

DCME 10 & DCMC 100
DTX 600
MEMOTEC CX-U1240,CX-U1280
I-GATE 4000

3. The above system works on the following basic satellite communication methods
using different modulations:
DVB-S
DVB-S2
DVB-S2 ACM
TDMA
FTDMA
PAMA
SCPC
CnC

4. In addition I have involved and have been working using the following products
for IP services:
 Cisco 2900 switches
 Cisco 1700 routers
 Cisco 3500 switches
 Cisco 3600 routers
 Cisco 3700 routers
 Cisco 7200 gateway routers and in addition to this
 Nokia 710 Firewall and
 Allot traffic shapers have been used

5. For all this service we have been using C-band and extended C-band satellite
segment.

6. For instant live TV broadcasting we are also using a Flyaway VSAT system which
is movable as it is needed.

7. I have been working with the following satellite service providers: intelsat,
newskies, Arabsat and skyvision to operate and run the satellite system which
uses
IS901 intelsat satellite
NSS12 newskies satellite
A5/C003 & C008 of Arabsat satellite
HGS satellite of skyvision
 8. The following antenna types have been used for the above satellite service
NEC standard A 32 meter antenna
NEC standard A 18 meter antenna
ANDREW 7.3 , 4.5 & 4 meter antennas
Prodlin 1.8 meter, 2.4 meter, and 3.8 meter antennas for the VSAT
system
Patriot 3.8 meter antennas
ASC signal 2.4 meter antenna for the VSAT system

These are part of the system I have been working up to now.

Address: SHIMELIS TAMRAT DEBELLA

EMAIL: shimitiabay@gmail.com, shimelist@hotmail.com

TELEPHONE NO: 251984716163,251911228181

P.O.BOX 13811
ADDIS ABABA,
ETHIOPIA