Project Manager Engineer

KARIM TARAZI

***** ***** ****** **. **** . Rancho palos Verdes, CA 90275

CELL 562-***-**** . HOME 310-***-**** . E-MAIL *****.**@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

TO OBTAIN A FULLTIME POSITION AS A HANDS ON HARDWARE DESIGN ENGINEER AND

FIRMWARE DEVELOPER FOR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS.

SKILLS

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE DESIGNING/DEBUGGING: SOLDERING, OSCILLOSCOPE,

MICROSCOPES, LOGIC ANALYZERS, SIGNAL GENERATORS, IN-CIRCUIT

DEBUGGER/EMULATORS, USBEE-ZX, MULTI-METERS, SELF-WRITTEN LOGGERS AND

DECODERS, REVERSE ENGINEERING, PCB/CIRCUIT ANALYSIS, PCB ROUTING/COMPONENT

PLACEMENT, SCHEMATIC DESIGN AND ANALYSIS, MICROCHIP MPLAB IDE,

ACTIVE/PASSIVE COMPONENTS, PIC, ARM, 8051

Engineering Software: Cadence Design Package, MultiSim, Keil uVision-51,

MATLab, Oracle 9.1i, Xilinx Foundation Series 3.1i, Altium Designer

Programming Languages: C/C#/C++, Verilog, VHDL, Java, SQL, MySQL,

assembly.

Operating Systems: Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/Vista/7, Linux/Unix

Experience

Independent Projects:

Developed the hardware and firmware for an automotive company which needed

an interface between an aftermarket fuel tank and the factory fuel gauge.

Designed, from concept to production, a conversion module for an

aftermarket traction control unit for automotive use including design,

schematics, PCB layout, PCB fabrication & assembly, parts sourcing,

resource management, and cost evaluation.

Nov '05 - Sept '12 Dice Electronics, LLC Lakewood, California

Hardware/Firmware Engineer: November 2005 - Sept '12

Implemented the entire USB control & audio& playback capability into the

Dice line of car integration kits.

Completed 2 BMW/Mini Cooper iPod/USB/Sat Radio Integration kits to market

over BMW protocol.

Completed Subaru iPod/USB/Sat Radio Integration kit to production.

Completed VW/Audi/Porsche/Lamborghini iPod/USB/Sat Radio Integration kit

to production over CANBbus and VW proprietary communication protocol.

Implemented a universal iPod/USB Integration kit over FM modulation with

RDS text display.

Implemented various sections of the BlueTooth protocol for the Dice line

of car integration kits.

Designed and implemented custom loggers for vehicle specific applications

(logging/debugging/decoding).

Identified, interpreted, wrote and distributed project specifications;

Designed schematics & PCBs, layout and routing; Cable definition and

design.

Project Manager: May '10 - Sept '12

Supervised four engineers. Distributed workloads equally and efficiently.

Mediated with company owners.

Proposed/applied problem solving approaches in order to meet deadlines and

complete projects.

Education

Spring '06 - Fall '07 California State University, Long Beach Long Beach,

California

Master of Science: Option in Computer Engineering

GPA: 3.636

Fall '99 - Fall '05 California State University, Long Beach Long Beach,

California

Bachelor of Science: Option in Computer Engineering

Double Minor: Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

President's List fort Fall 2000

GPA: 3.232

Summer '98 Stanford University Stanford, California

Introduction to university life & C/C++ Programming Course

Fall '95 - Spring '99 International School of Geneva Geneva, Switzerland

Bilingual International Baccalaureate (French/English) with an emphasis on

math and science

Projects

Graduate:

ASIC - Designed a 5-Stage pipelined RISC processor. Structural hazards,

Data hazards and Control hazards were all observed and resolved using

techniques such as stalling, forwarding, scheduling, flushing, resource

replication, resource pipelining, and various branch predictions. Fall

2006

C++ Programming simulation of the Traveling Salesman problem using

concurrent programming. The object of the simulation was load balancing,

bus contention, and efficient load distribution. Fall 2006

C++ Programming simulation of Raymond's Tree Based Algorithm in order to

show the possibility of mutual exclusion, proper handling and execution of

critical sections, and resource sharing in a distributed systems

environment. Fall 2006

C++ Programming of various games in order to use artificial intelligence

to challenge opponents as well as other AI systems. Fall 2006

Undergraduate:

ASIC - Designed a serial UART, an 8-bit MAC and Sine Wave Generator /

Resonator in VHDL and SoC. Developed full life cycle (coding, timing,

gate level simulation, custom chip layout. Spring 2005

Verilog - Designed a complete CPU capable of addition, subtraction,

multiplication and division of real numbers, complex numbers, vectors, and

other complex instructions. Complemented design with 624 pages of

thorough documentation including Rationale, ISA, Source Code, Design

Layout Diagram and Test Bench Outputs. (Top grade to date). Spring 2003

Designed Custom Integrated Circuits in .18( technology. Fall 2004

Hardware/Software designed projects using 8051 Microprocessor with

peripheral devices (A/D, D/A, LCDs, RAM/ROM, DC Motors, Infra-Red

Emitter/Sensor) programmed in assembly and C. Spring/Fall 2003

C++ Programming simulation of several casino black jack tables. Automated

simulation with random plays. Gathered statistics included, win/lose

ratios, amounts, averages winnings and time play per player, average table

play time, winnings/losses, overall casino winnings / losses. Fall 2002

Languages & CUlture

Excellent written and verbal proficiency in both English and French.

Extremely familiar with the European and Middle Eastern cultures.

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