Fereidoon Tavassoli

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D.O.B. **/23/1968

Gooding

Full Clean Driving License

Idaho

83330

Telephone: 1-208-***-****

Cell phone: 1-208-***-****

Internet Phone (VOIP): +44-147*-******

Email Address: ab1utq@r.postjobfree.com

Personal Profile:

A degree qualified electrical engineer (BSc), a member of IET (MIET), Ifl

(Institute for Learning) and also a member of Grimsby Institution of

Engineers and Ship-builders (GIES) with a practical and flexible approach

to work.

With vocational competency in Programmable Logic Controllers, I have a

proven track record of hands-on Engineering Management in both car and food

industries, and also teaching a variety of students ranging from BTEC

National Certificate to Higher National (HND / HNC) and Degree students at

some well recognised further and higher education institutes in the UK.

I am methodical in my approach to tasks and believe in the completion of

all projects I am involved in.

Employment History:

Full time

7th February 2011-30th April 2011 Lecturer

Grimsby College

Responsibilities and achievements:

. Developing course materials for Engineering Science, English and Maths

for Level 2 NC Students.

. Developing lesson plans and schemes of learning for overseas Colleges

and Universities.

. Delivering the above mentioned subjects.

Full time

23rd November 2008-30th September 2010 Lecturer

Lakes College

Responsibilities and achievements:

. Developing and delivering courses including the theoretical

knowledge and practical skills for both full-time and part-time

learners at a range of levels in accordance with the college's

conditions of service in order to achieve high quality learning

experiences and high success rates.

. Undertaking all course administration such as lesson plans, schemes

of learning, student tracking, registers etc. and other course

related duties to ensure efficient delivery of the curriculum and

accurate course administration.

. Teaching the following subjects:

. Electrical Power and Machines (BEng Degree Level)

. Digital & Analogue Circuits (HND Level)

. P.L.C "Programmable Logic Controllers" (HNC Level)

. Utilization of Electrical Energy (HNC Level)

. Engineering Science (Electrical Part) (HNC Level)

. Electrical Principles (NC Level)

. Further Electrical Principles (NC Level),

. Industrial Process Measurement (NC Level),

. Electrical and Electronic Measurement and Testing (NC Level),

. English literacy (NC Level)

. Preparing, writing, and producing teaching materials and tools,

including handouts, books, questions, power point presentations,

Flip Charts, building sample circuits.

. Assessing the students' work and their answers to the questions of

each assessment.

Full time

27th February 2006-23rd October 2008. BTEC Lecturer HETA

(Humberside Engineering Training Association).

Responsibilities and achievements:

. Responsible for teaching the following units:

. Electrical Science,

. Electronics,

. Electrical Principles,

. Three Phase Systems,

. Three Phase Motors and Drives,

. Further Principles,

. Parts of 2330 City & Guilds,

. Projects and Review Tutorials,

. Undertake all course administration such as lesson plans, schemes of

learning, student tracking, registers etc and other course related

duties to ensure efficient delivery of the curriculum and accurate

course administration.

. Preparing, writing, and producing teaching materials and tools,

including handouts, books, questions, power point presentations,

Flip Charts, building sample circuits.

. Ordering components and devices required for teaching.

. Assessing the students' work and their answers to the questions of

each assessment.

. Filling the matrices of students' achievements and archiving them.

. Coordinating with the rest of the staff in BTEC (Business and

Technology Education Council) team.

Full time

1stMarch2005-24thFeb2006 Multi-skilled Engineer Key Country Foods ltd

(Scunthorpe)

Duties and responsibilities:

. Responsible for all electrical and Mechanical Faultfinding, Repairing,

Service and maintenance of the machines such as Multivacs,

. Check-weighers,

. Metal Detectors (Graiseby, Loma, Ishida),

. FPS s (Flexible Packaging System robots (Ishida)),

. Press (Hoegger),

. Conveyors,

. PLC s (Siemens S7, Mitsubishi),

. Slicers (Vision 2020).

. Setting up, Programming, installation and commissioning of all the

equipment and machines as they get installed including but not limited

to setting up and programming (ifm) ASi gate ways, variety of ifm

Temperature and Pressure transducers, Tuchenhagen valves.

. Reporting directly to the project manager and communicating

effectively with automation engineers and sub-contractors.

. Writing instruction manuals for each device and machine as to how they

work and should be used or programmed.

. Teaching the new staff as to how to work with the machines and

devices, and how the system works.

Full time

Sept. 2001-Feb. 2005 Engineering Manager Deli Fresh

(Scunthorpe)

Duties and responsibilities:

. Starting afresh as a multi-skilled Engineer, I moved on to managing

the Engineering and Maintenance department after about six months.

. Responsible for all Electrical and Mechanical Faultfinding,

Repairing, Service and maintenance of the machines such as

Industrial Mixers, Blenders, Polar- Cup ( Sandwich Filling two axis-

robot)

. Engineering the problems out, ensuring that all the machines and

equipment are in good working condition.

. Preparing the Planned Preventive Maintenance (PM) schedule of each

machine and making sure they get implemented on a regular basis.

. Modifying the operation of the sandwich-filling robots to minimize

the waste of fillings when cups were missing.

. Overall supervision of the engineering department.

. PLC (Mitsubishi) Faultfinding, editing, modifying or programming

when and if necessary.

. Preparing purchase orders and coordinating with suppliers to get the

components and devices delivered on time.

Full Time

Sept. 1996- Sept. 2000 Engineering Manager Peugeot (Car

Manufacturing factory)

Duties and Responsibilities:

. Starting as a multi-skilled Engineer, I moved on to a hands-on

management position of a large Engineering and Maintenance

department of about 36 engineers of various biased including

Electrical / Electronics and Mechanical degree qualified engineers,

during which period I managed to achieve the followings;

. Installing and programming an automated car production line from

scratch including 10 Spot-Welding Robots (Natchi / Hyundai type),

shuttle line, conveyors, and all the peripheral equipment such as

P.L.Cs (Mitsubishi A3, Siemens S7 & S5), A.F.M s (Automatic Feeding

Machines), Manual spot-welding guns, Hemming Presses, and A.C Motor

Drives (Inverters).

. Optimizing the production line so the maximum production and minimum

downtime were achieved.

. Preparing the Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM) schedule for each

individual machine and the system as a whole and implementing them

regularly.

. Ensuring that all the machines and equipment are always in good

working condition.

. Having the responsibility of all the electrical and mechanical

installation of machines and equipment, faultfinding, repairing,

calibrating, editing, modifying and programming the Robots and P.L.C

s when and if necessary.

. Having the responsibility of the above mentioned project management

as well as executing the tasks physically.

. Developing a training manual for the whole line as a system for

operators and engineers to follow.

. Developing and producing a step-by-step instruction for operation of

each machine individually and the whole line as a system. (These got

laminated and installed on the machines)

. Training the Engineering Maintenance team and trainees as to how to

operate, maintain and repair each individual machine and the system

as a whole including; Faultfinding, Repairing, Calibrating, and

programming of the Spot-Welding Robots, faultfinding of P.L.Cs,

Conveyors, Hemming Presses, and all the other equipment in the

workshop.

. Training the operators as to how to operate the system and how to

handle minor faults indicated by signal lamps and sirens.

. Preparing reports of projects progress and handing them to the

direct manager.

. I was also responsible for supervising and overseeing a sub-

contracted operation for BMW in Germany involving overall

supervision of members of staff and responsibility for the

same.

Educational Qualifications:

. PGCE (Postgraduate Certificate in Education) from the University of

Huddersfield (2006-2008), (This is equivalent to a master's degree

from the USA, according to Education International, an American

corporation specializing in evaluation of foreign education and

training, established in1977).

. BSc Degree in Electrical Engineering (1992-1995)

. HND (Associate Degree) in Electrical Engineering (1988-1990)

. I have also achieved "A1" Assessor's Award Certificate while

at HETA.

Additional Training Courses:

. IT Software Troubleshooting,

. Safety Passport,

. Hygiene,

. 16th Edition (UK Wiring regulations)

. P.L.C Programming (Siemens).

. ISO 9000 (Quality assurance).

. Maintenance of important electrical equipments.

. DC Drives

. AC Drives

. Welding quality control

References:

Available on request.

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