Electrical Engineer Design

SALMAN NIAZI

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EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Engineering, Mechatronics September 2006- May 2011

McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

Completed five year engineering degree with co -op

Major areas of interest include:

Electrical Engineering, Instrumentation and Controls Systems, Electronics, HVAC, Safety Critical Design,

System Design, Building Management Systems, Project Management

Final Year Project:

Designing safety critical control system for self guided autonomous car

Awards and Scholarships:

Scholarship for academic excellence 2006, McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario

Queen Elizabeth Scholarship 2006, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario

ENGINEERING PROJECTS

Implemented control strategy for heat recovery system by reusing waste heat (2011, Toromont)

Designed HMI interface and control program to monitor real -time power consumption (2011, Toromont)

Supervised construction of automation cell (2010, GM Canada)

Integrated automotive sealer tracking system for Fanuc Robots to prevent water leaks (2010, GM Canada)

Wrote safety critical software specifications for human pacemaker project (2008, McMaster University)

EXPERIENCE

May 2012– Current

Controls Engineer

Edson Packaging Machinery, ProMach Inc, Hamilton, ON

Completed electrical commissioning of high speed packagin g machinery for clients such as Kimberly Clark,

Procter, Gamble and Georgia Pacific

Validated automation equipment and safety control circuit according to client's specification.

Implemented plc program for automated industrial conveyor system meeting design criteria

Integrated packaging machinery with other plant floor automation system and SCADA system

Managed construction project which involved upgrading end of the line automation equipment resulting in

higher throughput and safety standards

May 2011– May 2012

Electrical Engineer

CIMCO Refrigeration, Toromont Industries Limited, Toronto, ON

Developed a distributed IO system in Industrial Refrigeration plant resulting in modularity, higher uptime and

low wiring cost

Reduced fossil fuel and power consumption by 28% for HVAC system by designing control system to recover

waste heat

Decreased kilowatt usage of large sports complex by installing power monitoring system

Developed control system with HMI to monitor equipment runtime hours and delive red alarms remotely to

maintenance staff’s cellular devices resulting in lower downtime

Developed DDC panel and automation design in retrofit project of condominium building by introducing VFD

control on cooling towers which resulted in lower energy us age and higher equipment life

May 2009 – August 2010

Electrical Engineering Intern

GM Canada, CAMI Plant, Ingersoll, ON

Instrumentation and HMI programming for industrial conveyor s ystem which improved downtime by 80%.

Improved fault detection system of Stanley tool guns, minimizing downtime with net saving of $20,000/day

Developed SCADA application for real time monitoring of throughput and identification of bottlenecks which

resulted in throughput improvement of 20%

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Created equipment specification for Allen-Bradley Variable Frequency Drives (PowerFlex 70), Allen -Bradley

Servo Drives (Ultra5000) and utility transformers.

Participated in engineering, procurement and construction management of welding floor expansion project

with a CAPEX budget of $10 million.

Sized cables, circuit breaker and low voltage transformers for assembly line equipment

Generated single line diagrams, schematics and wiring diagrams in AutoCAD

Conducted field survey for Arc-Flash studies

Maintained and operated voltage stabilizer, circuit breaker, PLC’s transformer, 3 -phase induction motor,

welding transformers, bus plugs

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Electrical / Controls Engineering

Knowledge of motors, generators, single and polyphase power circuits, synchronous and induction motors

Detailed engineering design, material requisitions, technical bid evaluation, project specifications

Control panel design, cable routing, cable sizing, cable tray design of low and medium voltage circuits

Configuration, installation and programming of Rockwell PowerFlex VFD, Ultra3000 servo drive

Safety control circuit design with Safety PLC, safety relays, light curtains, scanners and safety sensors

Electrical schematics in AutoCAD in accordance with electrical codes such as CE, OESC

Design, configuration, installation and programming of Rockwell Control Logix and Delta Control System

Design and configuration of HMI and SCADA with RSView32, OrcaView, Panel View Plus, GE Cimplicity

Communication panel design, networking protocols such as DeviceNet, Ethernet/IP, TCP/IP, BACnet

Networking infrastructure: network design, switches, routers, hubs, LAN/WAN infrastructure

Commissioning of control systems, hardware selection, safety relay logic design

Design of close loop PID control, Floating Head Pressure control, VFD pump control

HVAC Control System, Access Control, Lighting Control with BACnet MSTP protocol

Sensor selection: RTD, leak detectors, flow sensors, pressure sensors, limit switch es, thermocouples etc.

Troubleshooting with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, multimeters and debugging techniques

Calibration of analog sensors, sensitivity/accuracy analysis, signal conditioning and filter design

Embedded Systems and Software Engineering

Firmware development for various hardware with low level languages such as C and Assembly language

Embedded system design using micro -controllers such as AVR, Intel 8051 and PIC

Programming with GCL + with Delta Control System and ODBC Database

Object orientated programming in C#, C++ and scripting in Python

Software design, module specifications, module interface, portability and software testing

Hard and soft real time systems, fail-safe design, hazard analysis, scheduling and synchronization

Design and implementation of database system, SQL, IBM db2

Cryptographic protocols, ciphers, symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystems (SSL, DES, RSA, IDEA)

Mechanical Engineering

3D CAD modeling, assembly drawings, detail part design in AutoCAD and Solid Edge

CAD/CAM, CNC path control, robot design, robot programming (Fanuc)

Pneumatic circuit design, pneumatic actuators, solenoid valves, hydraulics

Concepts of thermodynamics and its engineering applications

Familiar with principles of Refrigeration, Heating and Ventilation

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

EIT member of Professional Engineers of Ontario 2011-Present

Student Member, Mechatronics Engineering Club – McMaster University 2007 - 2011

Student Member, IEEE 2007 - Present

Volunteer, Hamilton Health Sciences – McMaster University Summer 2005/2006

2007 – Present

Developing hobbyist electronics and open source software libraries

Sculpting and shaping of Silicone facial and somato prosthesis

Learning foreign languages

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