Engineer Sales

Akram Syed Phone: 251-***-****

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

Website: www.linkedin.com/in/akramsyed

Address: *** ***** **. *******, *****

Prairie, TX - 75051

Objective

Seeking a financial analyst position in the financial industry that lets me

utilize my excellent problem solving, communication, and business management

skills

Summary of Qualifications

Over four years of experience in embedded engineering, product testing,

marketing and sales support

Supported global channels of account managers and application engineers by

providing insight into product line

Experienced in demonstrating products at customer sites and trade shows

Experience working individually and with global teams

Extensive knowledge and experience with Microsoft Office Professional and

SharePoint

Programming languages: C, C++, Java, HTML, XML, MATLAB, SAS (Novice)

Experienced in formulating test specifications and implementation planning

Application development experience using suite of embedded system software

products

Certified training in Pragmatic Marketing

Academics

Financial Modeling - Excel (VB scripting and macro development), portfolio

optimization, pricing and analyzing derivative stock options, amortization,

project valuation, Black-Scholes option pricing model, Merton model.

Investments - Solving investment problems for individuals and firms, time

value of money, Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), financial statement

analysis.

Mathematical Finance (in discrete and continuous time) - Binomial model,

stochastic integrals, Ito's lemma, Martingales and Girsanov's theorem.

Portfolio and Security Analysis - Portfolio management, probability

distribution and measures of risk/return, valuation techniques,

diversification, options analysis.

Microeconomic Theory - Game theory, utility maximization, income and

substation effects, uncertainty and information, profit maximization, partial

and general equilibrium, labor and capital, externalities and public goods.

Real Options - Option approaches to evaluate firm's capital budgeting

decisions. Techniques for making investment decisions involving physical

assets of nonfinancial firms.

Financial Derivatives - Nature and functions of the various futures and

options markets, hedging for risk reduction, speculative trading for profit,

the role of futures and options in overall portfolio strategy, concepts such

as basis, spreading, normal and inverted markets and money management.

Skills and Experience

MENTOR GRAPHICS CORPORATION (June 2005 - April 2009)

Mentor Graphics (NYSE: MENT) is a technology leader in electronic design

automation (EDA), providing software and hardware design solutions, and has

the broadest industry portfolio of best-in-class products and is the only EDA

company with an embedded software solution. (www.mentor.com/esd)

PRODUCT MARKETING ENGINEER (May 2008 - April 2009)

Created demonstrations application that integrated several Nucleus middleware

products such as USB, file system, networking stack and kernel. These

applications were shipped to potential customers and used at trade shows

resulting in thousands of quality leads.

Presented and manned booths at trade shows, interacting with potential

customers and identifying potential leads - successfully turning over 600+

quality leads.

Designed and managed a SharePoint site which served as an information center

for all global application engineers and technical marketing engineers. This

site housed document repositories, project management tools for managers, and

bulletins to keep the global team updated on the industry and our products.

PORTING ENGINEER (January 2007 - May 2008)

Key point of contact in North America, Europe and Asia for technical and

product related questions from internal application engineers, sales managers

and product marketing managers.

Resolved issues for key global accounts such as Motorola, Brother and

Blaupunkt related to USB, Compact Flash Cards and Ethernet drivers.

Customized Nucleus products for customer evaluation to demonstrate the

features requested.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT/SPECIAL PROJECTS (April 2006 - January 2007)

Designed and developed the first automated serial driver testing suite. The

testing suite was also the first of its kind to be architecture independent

(ARM, PPC, MIPS, and ColdFire) and allowed engineers to cut testing time to

1/10th of the original time taken, saving valuable engineering resources and

money.

Performed quality tests for Nucleus kernel ports on a plethora of

architectures, these test results were used by application engineers and

became a part of marketing collateral.

Wrote test code for interrupt level testing on hardware for over 20 unique

ports, which accounted for over $5 million in sales.

ENGINEERING ASSISTANT (June 2005 - April 2006)

Configured suite of Nucleus (real-time operating system) products including

middleware to test hardware level code for networking, file system, and USB

applications.

Installed and configured numerous embedded development tools including

Metroworks, RealView Compilation Tools (RVCT), ARM GNU, and EDGE.

Education

Masters in Quantitative Finance Aug 2009 - May 2011

University of Texas, Arlington, Texas

Masters of Business Administration Aug 2006 - May 2009

University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering Aug 2000 - Dec 2005

University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

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