About the Author

Saad Z. Asif has twelve years of experience in evaluating telecommunications standards, state-of- the- art wireless technologies and engineering of fiber optic systems.

He began his career in 1998 as an engineer in Sprint Nextel (formerly Sprint) Transmission Engineering group where he engineered DWDM systems. A year later he moved to the Radio Access Development (RAD) group within Sprint Technology Development (formerly Technology Research & Development), an organization situated in Overland Park, KS, USA. In RAD, he accessed and conducted POC (proof-of-concept) trials on a number of wireless technologies including 3G (CDMA2000), interference cancellation, antenna diversity and smart antennas. He also led a team in conducting POC tests for EV-DO technology and played a major role in designing Sprint’s wireless high speed data strategy.

In 2006 he joined Technology Development (TD) group of Mobilink (an Orascom Telecom Company), Pakistan as a Manager TD. In that role his primary focus was on WiMAX where he led a team to conduct POC tests and fulfill regulatory requirements.

Since 2008 he has worked as a Manager Transmission Strategy in Telenor Pakistan in Islamabad. His current focus is on Gigabit Ethernet radios and Carrier Ethernet technologies and providing long-term strategy (direction) for the transmission network. He also led a team to launch the first Village Connection system in Pakistan. He also actively contributes to Telenor Group’s CONTEST (Common Technology and Strategy) program.

Mr. Asif is the author of the book Wireless Communications Evolution to 3G and Beyond published in 2007 by Artech House, USA. He has also published ten papers on wireline and wireless technologies. He, as a co-patentee, holds four US patents and has additional patent applications pending with the US Patent and Trade Office. He is also listed as a scientist in the ‘Productive Scientists of Pakistan – 2009’ directory, published by Pakistan Council for Science and Technology. He is also a senior member of the IEEE.

Mr. Asif received a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1996 and 1997, respectively. He also received an MS in Engineering Management from the University of Kansas in 2001.