Engineer Assistant

ROBERT KARAM

Current Address: **** *. **** **., ********* 2 Cleveland, OH 44106

Permanent Address: 5710 Killiney Lane Dublin, OH 43016

614-***-**** abqd49@r.postjobfree.com

Resume Current Through November 2012

EDUCATION

Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH

Ph.D., Computer Engineering May 2017, expected

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering May 2012, Major GPA: 3.3/4.0

Case Alumni Association Senior Scholarship recipient

Dean s High Honors (Fall 2008)

Programming Lead, Advanced Game Development Project

President, Case Lego Robotics Club

Webmaster and Systems Administrator, Engineers Without Borders

EXPERIENCE

Cleveland VA Medical Center Biomedical Engineer Cleveland, OH 08/2012 to present

Worked in the Advanced Platform Technology Center, Urological Biomechanics Laboratory

Developed PIC code for use in a micromanometer implant experiment.

Currently evaluating a variety of signal processing techniques for their utility in analyzing the data from a

Wireless Implantable Micromanometer (WIMM) device, a bladder pressure sensor to be used in the

treatment of incontinence.

NanoScape Research Lab Graduate Research Assistant Cleveland, OH 01/2012 to present

Implemented a reconfigurable memory-based computing (MBC) framework using Quartus II and the Nios II

soft processor system on an Altera FPGA (Stratix IV), and mapped applications from the signal/image

processing, and security domains to the framework to validate system functionality

Developed a multi-FPGA prototype to emulate an off-chip memory-based computing framework.

Created a custom assembler to combine several MBC kernels into one binary image file that may be written

to the onboard flash memory for any Nios CPU with appropriate bridges and FPGA pins mapped.

Established the assembly language used to program the MBC framework (hand-mapping applications), and

developed the assembly language compiler

Wrote several benchmark programs in C to test the energy cost of executing various computation kernels on

a CUDA-capable GPU

NanoScape Research Lab Undergraduate Research Assistant Cleveland, OH 09/2010 to 12/2011

Gained research experience through the design of hardware and software systems

Developed diagrams and charts used to model software processes and hardware architectures

Designed a compiler for use with a memory-based computing framework

EZShred LLC Student Software Developer Chesterland, OH 05/2009 to 08/2011

Explored new .NET solutions as possible replacements for existing ASP.NET data-driven web applications

Gained experience interfacing MS Office and third-party applications using C#.NET and external APIs

Peace Thru Education Website Administrator Dublin, OH 12/2009 to 12/2011

Designed and maintained a website to support a charity raising money to build a school in Afghanistan

SKILLS

Computer

C#.NET, WPF, XNA, Java (desktop, Android), C, HTML, CSS, MySQL

FPGA-based development with Quartus II and Verilog; the Nios II soft processor system

Microprocessor programming experience with MIPS and PIC assembly

Compiler development with Flex and Bison

Language

Some proficiency in French and spoken Arabic

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