Software Engineer Project Management

ABDEL HERMAS, PMP®

Ottawa-Canada

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Mobile: +1-613-***-****

WORK EXPERIENCE

Ciena Corporation - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Senior Software Engineer 2008-Present

Played a leadership role in the design, development and testing of leading-edge DWDM and OTN optical network software on broadband cards

●Supervised all stages of software development life cycle (SDLC) of software projects

●Experienced in C development on the Real Time Operating Systems(RTOS) VxWorks

●Scripting languages like Python, Perl, and TCL etc.

●Experience in Java development and Object Oriented Programming (OOP) on the Network Management Application

●Project management including planning, effort estimation, execution and status reporting to upper management (Using Project/Agile JIRA and other PM tools)

●Unit and integration testing of the cards on real systems in the lab

●Experience in optical telecom protocols (DWDM, SONET/SDH, ITU-T OTN, 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet, GFP, TL-1 …)

●Customer interaction and working with several teams to assist and address customer needs and concerns

●Prepare demos and presentations to customers and work closely with PLM and management

●Work on projects with major customer accounts such as AT&T, British Telecomm etc.

●Experienced in building, provisioning, configuring and troubleshooting of 6500 networks in customer labs

●Network end-to-end system testing, traffic testing, switching, robustness and network verification

●Technical consultant for broadband and transport products (40G/100G client and mux cards etc.)

●Optical telecommunications knowledge: Broadband OTN, DWDM, Ethernet, FC Packet, SONET/SDH, Photonics systems (ROADMs), etc.

●Own a local customer mirror systems used for customer demos/presentations and issue reproduction

●Strong understanding of telecom concepts, technologies and topologies

●Basic knowledge in Carrier Ethernet concepts

Nortel Networks - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Software Engineer - NMS team 2007-2008

●Responsible for software design, implementation, documentation and testing of end-user network-wide troubleshooting application which is part of the NMS for Optical Networks

●Applying the Agile software development (SCRUM) and software development methodologies

●Technicalities: JAVA, SWING, Hibernate, Object Oriented Programming (OOP), UML, Eclipse, Clearcase

Merck – Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Software Engineer- Intern 2005-2006

●Designing, implementing and testing a Java/J2EE web-based application used by the corporation internationally

●Developing J2EE and Struts-based (MVC model) web applications and web services

●Agile software development life cycles, Object oriented programming

●Technologies: JAVA/J2EE, SQL, Struts, Servlets, EJB, JDBC, JSP, JavaScript, UML, IBM WebSphere

EDUCATION

2002-2006 McGill University

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Engineering- Internship Program

Distinction

ADDITIONAL

Fluent in English and Arabic. Familiar with French

Project Management Professional (PMP) certified (#2036563)

Member: Golden Key International Honour Society (Top 15% of the faculty of Engineering)

Reliability Security Clearance. Eligible for Top Secret - Canadian Secret Security Clearance

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