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Fouad Freiha
co-nnec-tor - craving to put two things together to deliver outstanding results
e-mail - *****.******@*****.***
Objective
Seeking a position where my software development skills and experience will add value -
Accustomed to long hours in pursuit of company goals - Passion for competitive analysis
and the visual display of quantitative information to facilitate accurate and fast
business decisions.
Awards
Patent: "Method and apparatus for mobile velocity estimation".
Motorola Bravo: Designing an admission control algorithm for voice on packet networks
and guiding the developers in its implementation phase.
Technical Skills
Languages
Visual Basic, Android Java, SQLite, C++, html5, Javascript, PHP, MySQL
Opnet, MLDesigner, J2ME, J2SE, JNI
Operating Systems
Android, Mac, Unix, Linux, Windows
Development Process
Agile Methodology, Scrum meetings, Waterfall Approach
Typography, Visual display of quantitative InformationExperience
AT&T
Software/Radio Engineer20112012
Created a Visual Basic (VBA) test tool for excel from concept to code.
That tool extracts test cases from 100s of spreadsheets and display them in
one tablet format in order to make accurate and fast pass/fail decisions.
Developed Android Applications with Eclipse and Java for mobile devices automated testing
purposes using the telephony and web view APIs. Used AT commands on development boards.
Nokia Software Engineer20092010
Resolved bugs on the Symbian platform of Nokia products using C++, Qt, Javascript and
HTML. Trained new team members to come up to speed. Wrote mobile application as a widget
that sits on the phone and talks to the web runtime environment. Was part of a Scrum team
using Agile.
MotorolaSenior Systems Engineer20002008
Patented a method to detect mobile velocity. Designed software systems with Java Mobile
Edition, Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. Helped with the J2ME reference implementation for
Motorola seamless mobility. Wrote an automated WiFi authentication in native code C++ that
interfaces with Java. Wrote a performance test tool on the mobile device in Java to
interface with a web app and the native libraries of a network emulator from Agilent
Technologies. Had to learn fast Java Native Interface (JNI) to link those two systems
together. Conducted software simulation and modeling for system architecture. Wrote Perl
Scripts to extract dispatch profiles from Nextel s push to talk system. Resulted in a
model to understand the behavior of the Push to Talk traffic.
Education
New England Institute of Art, 2011
Visual information design enabling accurate and fast business decisions
University of Massachusetts, 2000
Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tau Beta Pi
Saint Joseph University, 1997
Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering
Reviews
Wow! I am impressed., Marvin Fuller at AT&T for my work in VBA.
Fouad is very diligent, reliable, and detail oriented person. Fun to work with, Ilya
Katsnelson at Motorola, recorded on linked-in.
Volunteer at a start-up
Dash Volunteer 2011 2012
Helped the account manager build a visual basic tool. It saved him 30 hours a week of
manual processing. It generates statements automatically from a database of transactions.
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