Development and instrumentation engineer

Hamid R. Yazdi

Address: **** ****** ***** ****, **********, IL 60565

Cell: 734-***-****

Email: *****.*****@*****.***

Career Objectives

Seeking an opportunity to fully utilize my technical skills such as Project Management, signal acquisition and processing, Instrumentation and lab automation, control and sensor technology, data processing and algorithm design, machine vision, image acquisition and processing, computer science and software engineering (LabVIEW and C++). Ideally within an industrial or research organization, where drive, commitment and working within a team would be essential.

Work experience

Sr. Hardware and Software Engineer, Arryx (Haemonetics), 2009- Present

Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD)

• Design and deployment of complete Automation for various signal acquisition for detection of special cells in a novel medical device

• Development of various advanced signal processing software for evaluation of laboratory results

• Development of high speed image acquisition units for test and monitoring of micro fluidic sub-systems (Chips)

• Design and automatic of motion control system for optical trapping equipped microscope

• Development of special algorithms for detection of fluorescent signal generated by UV and IR laser source.

• Development of various prototype lab equipment and integration in conjunction with other research staff

Member of Technical Staff, Sarnoff Corporation, 2007-2009

• Design and deployment of automation for test of CCD and CMOS sensors

• Automatic measurement of monochromator signals using GPIB and USB interfaces.

• Design and development of automatic test system for imaging units using HP-Parametric analyser

• Development of mathematical models and algorithms for identifying the dynamic behaviour of the device under test using HP Curve Tracer and control software using Labview, C++ and Matlab.

• Design of automatic characterization system for imaging sensors

• Extraction of parameters such as quantum efficiency signature, charge transfer Efficiency, photon transfer curves, Modulation Transfer Function using optical engineering and statistical image processing techniques

• Development of automated report generation that entails the key results of the automated test, validation and verification procedure.

Senior Test Development Engineer, Fairchild Imaging, 2006-2007

• Design and development of automatic test and inspection system for digital Focal Plane Arrays using various GPIB, RS232, USB, NI-DAQmx, interfaces.

• Development of various algorithms for identifying the dynamic behaviour of the device under test (special digital camera), using Labview, C++ and Matlab.

• Classification of Electro-optical performance of the digital cameras

• Extraction of parameters such as quantum efficiency signature, charge transfer Efficiency, photon transfer curves, Modulation Transfer Function, etc.

• Development of automated report generation that entails the key results of the automated test, validation and verification procedure.

Senior Development Engineer, Federal Mogul 2000-2006

• Management of various automation, machine vision and image processing projects regarding, development of novel technologies to test, detect and eliminate defects in automotive components

• Controlled research budget allocated for technology development

• Designed and built electronic, mechanical, and pneumatic laboratory systems to evaluate prototype systems

• Oversaw factory installation of final products and training the users/operators

• Presented my research to Federal Mogul’s CEO, vice presidents, and factory engineers

• Traveled to companies in other states and countries to share expertise and know-how

• Expert in Data acquisition and condition monitoring

• Expert in Signal Processing such as FFT, filtering in time and frequency domain, Linear and non-linear curve fitting, statistical properties of the data, Normalization of the data, Thresholding the 1D and 2D data (adaptive and dynamic), etc.

• Expert in image processing, both in spatial domain and frequency domain. Blob analysis, statistical analysis, edge detection, morphological filters, classification, pattern matching, (correlation based and feature based), Hough transform, convex closing, etc.

• Expert in sensors and interfacing with various sensors, such as displacement, pressure, current and voltage, optical sensors, eddy current and, angular encoders, etc.

• Experienced Electronic engineer, analogue and digital circuit design, microprocessors and assembly languages

• Expert in image acquisition using CCD and CMOS Area Scan camera, Line scan camera, IR imaging, using IEEE1394, USB, Camera Link, or digital interfaces (RS-422)

• Expert in Labview and C (Certified LabVIEW developer), familiar with Matlab

Patent (Pending) Approvals: Image processing algorithm for defect detection, Optical measurement technique

Trade Secret (awarded): Novel optical inspection techniques using concave and convex mirrors

Research Fellow, The University of Birmingham (UK), 1998- 2000

• Designed and development of Remote Condition Monitoring system for Railway assets using various sensors such as hydraulic pressure, displacement, current and voltage, A/D conversion units, etc. for predictive maintenance and modelling of anticipated failure in future, based on acquisition of the present data.

• Designed and development of a driver for distributed Fieldbus technology for communication between various data acquisition nodes.

• Implementation of data analysis and graphical user interface using Labview and C++

• Designed and prototype of a digital and analogue signal conditioning and acquisition unit

Qualifications & education

PhD The University of Birmingham, UK.

Mechatronics (Automatic Visual Inspection Systems and Image Processing)

Masters (MSc.) Loughborough University of Technology, UK.

Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM).

(BSc.) Tehran University

Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Automation Siemens Training Centre, Manchester, UK.

Various courses regarding robotics, CNC controllers and PLC's.

International Centre For Theoretical Physics. Trieste, ITALY.

Fifth College on Microprocessors: Technology and Applications

Second Workshop on Telemetric

Certified Labview Developer (CLD)

Spoken Languages:

1- English (Expert)

2- Persian (Expert)

3- Russian (Familiar)

4-German (Familiar)

5-French (Familiar)

US Citizen eligible to work for any company in USA

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