Next Generation Mobile Communications Ecosystem: Technology Management for Mobile Communications

Saad Z. Asif is a Transmission Strategy manager at Telenor Pakistan in Islamabad, Pakistan. His current focus is on Millimetre Wave microwave radios and Carrier Ethernet technologies. He previously worked for Sprint Nextel in Overland Park, KS for several years. At Sprint's Technology Development he accessed and conducted proof-of-concept (POC) trials on a number of state-of-the-art 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.
Mr. Asif holds four US patents as a co-patentee and has additional patent applications pending with USPTO. A Senior Member of the IEEE, author of ten technical papers, he holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Oklahoma State University and an MS in Engineering Management from the University of Kansas