Software Engineer

Ali Ghorashi

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Colorado Springs, CO 80198

719-***-**** (Home)

e-mail: *******@*****.***

web: home.pcisys.net/ aghorash

To create.

Objective

Education

The University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado

8/2000-5/2003

Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering, Circuit Design Option (GPA 3.8/4.0)

Thesis title: Post SPICE Simulation Tool For Deep Sub-Micron Transistors.

Completed courses in the following subject areas:

Digital Circuit Design and Synthesis using VERILOG (6hrs)

Analog, VLSI, RF, and Mixed Signal Design (12hrs)

Digital Signal Processing (3hrs)

Advanced Electromagnetic (3hrs)

The University of Southwestern Louisiana,Lafayette, Louisiana

1994-1998

Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Option(Cum Laude)

Major GPA 3.92/4.0 (Cumulative GPA 3.69/4.0)

Member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society),IEEE, ACM.

Louisiana School for Math Science and the Arts, Natchitoches, Louisiana

1993-1994

High School

Recipient of Lockheed Martin s STAR award (June 2002)

Honors And

The Instrument Society of America Scholarship (Fall 1997)

Achievement

Second place in MAA Southern Math Competition

Competed in IEEE Fire Fighting Robotics Competition

Experience

DRS Signal Solutions, Colorado Springs, CO

1/2005-Present

Senior Member of Technical Software Sta

Developed drivers and software for data distribution on a VME chassis based

Linux cluster capable of 1.7TFLOPS in a cross-compile (x86/MIPS)

development environment.

Designed and implemented several Linux Drivers for interfacing with a high

speed (16Gbps) switched fabric back-plane (VME).

May 16, 2006

Designed and implemented drivers for data transfer over SPI4.2, Hypertransport

(HT), and Packet over Hypertransport (PoHT) ports.

Developed software utilizing a 3-node Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory

Access (ccNUMA) system.

Developed code on Linux for a 4-CPU core 1GHz 64-bit MIPS based

Symmetrical-Multi-Processing System on a Chip (SMP SoC BCM1480).

Architected the data ow mechanism over a back-plane (VME) integrated

Giga-bit Ethernet using Broadcom StrataXGS (BCM5690) and Broadcom

Multi-port HiGig Switch Fabric (BCM5670) chips.

Designed, developed and debugged several C++ application under Linux using

BOOST libraries.

Developed and Maintained the delivery schedule (MS Project) for 10 Engineers

during the initial software release cycle.

Organized and created the initial list of deliverables and requirements for the

rst article of delivery.

Developed a detailed system test plan and procedure base on the requirements

for the rst article of delivery.

Lockheed Martin, Houston, TX/Colorado Springs, CO

5/1998-1/2005

Hardware Engineer, Software Lead (4/99-1/2005)

Using SNMP, developed Control and Management modules under Windows NT

for Wide Area Network Interface Unit (WANIU)

Designed, developed and maintained several extensive GUI/MFC based

applications for controlling the WANIU.

Designed and developed software using Winsock 2.0 to establish ATM

connections (SVC point-to-point and point-to-multipoint, PVC) through a

FORE ASX-200BX switch.

Developed various device/NDIS drivers for cards connected to a CPCI bus .

Developed rmware applications under QNX.

Developed multi-processor distributed applications to emulate an Ethernet

network on a CPCI backplane.

Microelectronics Research Laboratory, Lafayette, LA

1/1997-9/1997

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Designed and assembled PC Boards and other circuitry for a Magneto Resistive

Credit Card Reader under the supervision of Prof. M. R. Madani.

Debugged and modi ed programs for signal frequency measurement on an

MC68HC11 microcontroller.

Technical Software

Skills

C/C++, JAVA, FORTRAN, Assembly(x86, z80, 68HC11)

C#, .NET Technology, ASP.Net

NDIS and device driver development under Windows NT

Visual C++, MFC

May 16, 2006

SNMP agent and manager development

QNX (RTOS) application development

UML, XML

SQL, Relational Database, Microsoft Access

Linux Device driver development

ClearCase, Source-Safe, CVS

Eclipse CDT

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Hardware

Design and Assembly of microcontroller based systems

VERILOG, SILOS III, PSPICE

ModelSim, Cadence Design tools, MATLAB, MathCAD

Department of Defense Secret Clearance

Clearance

FAA Certi ed Instrument Multi-engine Land Flight Instructor

Certificates

References available upon request.

References

May 16, 2006

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