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Mohamed S. AlJerjawi

**-**** ****, ******** ****, Galali, Muharraq, Bahrain. Phone: +973********, Email:acxl6f@r.postjobfree.com Summary

Acquired more than 7 years of applied experience in RF design for wireless systems, including both physical-layer and system level designs.

Attained extensive experience in design, simulation, integration and measurement of RF wireless systems including 2G, 3G and 4G standards.

Profound knowledge in different aspects of technical network design and optimization activities including cell planning, neighbor list, site selection, antenna selection, KPIs, parameter optimization, RNC coordination for joint optimization practices and field surveys.

Working experience on different RF testing/measurement equipment such as Oscilloscopes, Vector Network Analyzer, MIMO Channel Emulator, Spectrum Analyzers, CW testing, NEMO and TEMS investigation.

Proven technical writing and presentation skills.

Proven analytical and problem solving capabilities with excellent organizational and communication skills coupled with strong work ethics.

Work Experience

RF In-Building System Design Engineer (Apr. 2011 – Aug. 2013)

– Rogers Communications Inc.

Designing In-Building DAS systems of projects in Québec and Ontario for several venue scenarios including high-rise buildings, shopping malls, industrial facilities using GSM, HSxPA and LTE technologies to meet specific design criteria KPIs.

Providing cost estimate of projects for Network Planning/Implementation teams.

Working with Network Optimization team to perform site surveys to enhance/optimize in-building DAS system design.

Utilizing iBwave Design to obtain link budget analysis, prediction results and optimize performance of designed in-building DAS systems.

RF Software Support Engineer (Oct. 2010 – Apr. 2011)

– iBwave Solutions Inc.

Providing assistance for DAS RF engineers in designing wireless indoor systems for different technologies including but not limited to IS-95, UMTS, GSM, 1xEvDO, HSxPA, iDEN, WiFi, WiMAX and LTE.

Providing recommendations for DAS RF engineers to run and optimize wireless indoor system performance link budget analysis, prediction results for signal strength, soft-handoff, data rate, field strength, best server, LTE RSRP, LTE RSRQ, LTE overlapping zones.

Assisting DAS RF engineers in designed wireless indoor systems in various environments including typical building structure, stadium venues, tunnels, university campuses, cruise ships.

Creating and modeling RF passive and active components required for the design of DAS systems.

Providing in-class training and web-demos for DAS RF engineers on best practices to design indoor wireless systems.

Designed wireless indoor systems for several projects worldwide.

Performing indoor/outdoor RSSI/RSCP measurements and employing them for network performance optimization.

Research Assistant (Jan. 2008 – Present)

– Polytechnique Center for Advanced Telecommunications and Microwave Research, University of Montréal, Québec, Canada.

PCB design and fabrication of a dual-layer multiport transceiver over the frequency range 3.1-4.1GHz by the integration of surface-mount chips and Microstrip line technology.

Generation of IEEE 802.15.x standard channel model and utilizing it in the channel emulator to validate the performance of the transceiver in a real-time test bench.

Implementation of an OFDM baseband module using Altera FPGA board.

Integration of the OFDM baseband module with the fabricated RF multiport circuit to design an RF transceiver that was tested in a MIMO system test bench.

Providing assistance to other researchers in the design and implementation of other DSP and control modules using FPGA and microcontroller development kits.

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Research and Teaching Assistant (May. 2004 – Apr. 2006)

– Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Design of a new space-time block code transmission scheme.

Performance study for the proposed scheme for single and multiuser environments in a DS-CDMA system.

The performance for a multiuser system was investigated using the conventional, decorrelator and both centralized and adaptive MMSE multiuser detectors.

Derived analytical results to benchmark the performance of the proposed space-time block code scheme for single and multiuser environments in Rayleigh fading channels.

Teaching Assistant for the courses: Fundamentals of Telecommunication Systems, Complex Variables for Electrical and Computer Engineers, Probability and Statistics in Engineering.

Teaching Assistant (Sept. 2003 – Apr. 2004)

– Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt.

Conducting tutorials for the senior undergraduate level courses: Wireless Telecommunications, Mobile Telecommunications, and Switching and Data Networks.

Preparing lab documentation, demonstrating lab experiments and providing grading for student reports.

Intern in WLL and CDMA divisions (Jul. 2002 – Aug. 2002)

– Egypt Telecommunications Company, Cairo, Egypt.

Shadowing and providing assistance to the company’s engineers while performing their day to day work duties. Technical Coursework

iBwave Certified Expert (Dec. 2010 – Jan. 2011)

– Level II certification program from iBwave Solutions Inc., qualifying certified candidates to work with iBwave Design’s advanced modules: Collection, Propagation and Optimization. Learn the fundamentals of in-building propagation models and make propagation predictions. Perform in-building radio testing using the Collection Module and work with advanced AutoCAD and floor plan features to characterize building partitions. Learn how to leverage information about outdoor coverage to plan indoor coverage.

iBwave Certified Professional (Oct. 2010 – Nov. 2010)

– Level I certification program from iBwave Solutions Inc., qualifying certified candidates to master the usage of iBwave Design to better manage in-building network design projects. Understand in-building wireless network projects, floor plans, site surveys and the fundamentals of testing. Create picture plans, design plans, layout plans and generate system reports.

3G Wireless Communications (Aug. 2002 – Sept. 2002)

– An advanced course held in Cairo University in cooperation with Lucent Technologies providing a comprehensive overview for 3G wireless multiple access standards, including UMTS and CDMA-2000 mobile communications technologies.

GSM Mobile Communications (Jul. 2002 – Aug. 2002)

– An advanced course for 2G and 2.5G mobile communication standards that included TDMA, GPRS and EDGE technologies, held in the National Telecommunications Institute in Cairo, Egypt.

MCSE/Windows2000 track (Jun. 2001 – Sept. 2001)

– Earned Microsoft Certified System Engineer certification for installing, configuring and troubleshooting Microsoft Windows2000-based networks.

Hardware and Software Skills

Lab Equipment: DC Power Supply, Digital Multimeters, Signal Generators, Vector Network Analyzer, Vector Signal Generators, BER Test Equipment, MIMO Channel Emulator, Oscilloscopes, Spectrum Analyzers, Pattern Pulse Generators, Xilinx and Altera FPGA boards, Arcom VIPER-Lite development kit.

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows (95,98,NT,ME,2000,XP,Vista,7), Linux (Redhat, Mandriva, Fedora, Ubuntu), Unix

(Solaris).

Text, Spreadsheet and Photo Editing: MS Word, MS Power Point, MS Excel, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, Adobe Photoshop, Scientific Work Place, LaTeX, Emacs.

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Internet and Email: Internet Explorer, MS Outlook, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, Google Chrome.

CAD and Simulation Tools: Mentum Planet, Mapinfo, iBwave Design, MATLAB/Simulink, Maple, Mathcad, Mathematica, ADS, SystemView, LabView, FPGAdv, ModelSim, QuartusII.

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Perl, VHDL, Assembly. Education

Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (Jan. 2008 – Dec. 2012)

– University of Montréal, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montréal, Canada.

– Thesis: “Design and Implementation of an IR-UWB and OFDM-UWB Transceiver for Positioning and Communication Applications”.

M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (May. 2004 – Jun. 2006)

– Concordia University, Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Montréal, Canada.

– Thesis: “Space-Time Spreading and Transmit Diversity for DS-CDMA Systems over Fading Channels”.

B.Sc. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Major: Telecommunications (Sept. 1998 – Jul. 2003)

– Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt. Recognition and Awards

B.Sc. Degree GPA: 3.98/4.00 (first-class honors).

Received AASTMT partial tuition exemption award along five years of my Bachelor's degree study.

NSERC financial support along the two years of the Master's Degree research project.

NSERC financial support for the Ph.D. Degree research project. Publications and Presentations

Published

M. AlJerjawi and W. Hamouda, “Performance Analysis of Multiuser DS-CDMA in MIMO Systems Over Rayleigh Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, pp. 1480–1493, 2008.

W. Hamouda and M. AlJerjawi, “A transmit diversity scheme using space–time spreading for DS-CDMA systems in Rayleigh fading channels,” in Proc. IEEE Veh. Technol. Conf (VTC’05)., pp. 147–151, Sep. 2005.

M. AlJerjawi and W. Hamouda, “Performance of space–time spreading in multiuser DS-CDMA systems over fast-fading channels,” in Proc. IEEE Global Telecommun. Conf.(GLOBECOMM’05), pp. 1525–1529, Nov./Dec. 2005.

M. AlJerjawi and W. Hamouda, “Performance Analysis of Space-Time Diversity in Multiuser CDMA Systems over Fading Channels,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC ’06), pp. 5622–5627, June 2006.

M. AlJerjawi and W. Hamouda, “Performance Analysis of Transmit Diversity in Multiuser DS-CDMA Systems Over Quasi-Static Fading Channels,” in Proc. IEEE Veh. Technol. Conf. (VTC’06), pp. 1–4, Sep. 2006.

M. AlJerjawi and W. Hamouda, “Performance Analysis of Multiuser MIMO CDMA Systems in Fast-Fading Channels,” in Proc. IEEE Global Telecommun. Conf.(GLOBECOMM’06), pp. 1–6, Nov./Dec. 2006.

M. AlJerjawi and W. Hamouda, “Multiuser Detection in MIMO DS-CDMA Systems Over Slow-Fading Channels,” in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC’06), pp. 1–6, 2006.

S. Tatu, M. AlJerjawi, R. Bosisio, and K. Wu, “Multi-port Receiver and Transmitter state-of-the-art and Applications,” in Proc. IEEE International Northeast Conference on Circuits and Systems (NEWCAS’08), pp. 371–374, 2008.

M. AlJerjawi, Y. Xu, C. Nerguizian, C. Caloz, K. Wu, and R. Bosisio, “UWB Wave-Radio,” Software-Defined Radio Forum (SDR’08), 2008.

Y. Xu, M. AlJerjawi, C. Caloz, K. Wu, C. Nerguizian and R. Bosisio, “Multiple Access Coding Interferometers in Wave- Radio,” IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, pp. 1007–1010, 2009.

M. AlJerjawi, C. Nerguizian, R. Bosisio, Y. Xu, C. Caloz and K. Wu, “Wave-Radio Interferometer Transceiver for UWB,” in Proc. IEEE International Microwave Symposium Digest(MTT’09), pp. 13–16, 2009.

M. AlJerjawi, Y. Xu, C. Nerguizian, and R. Bosisio, “Wave-Radio Transceiver in Realistic UWB Fading Channels,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC’10), pp. 457–460, 2010.

H. Alaeddine, M. AlJerjawi, C. Nerguizian, and R. Bosisio, “A New Processing Hardware for Six-Port Receiver in Wave- Radio,” in Proc. IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’11), pp. 102–106, 2011. 4

M. AlJerjawi, Y. Xu, C. Nerguizian, and R. Bosisio, “OFDM-UWB MIMO Transceiver Implementation in Realistic Fading Channels,” to appear in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications

(PIMRC’2011).

In Preparation

M. AlJerjawi, C. Nerguizian, and R. Bosisio, “Performance Analysis of UWB MIMO Transceiver in Realistic Fading Channels,” to be submitted to IEEE Communication Letters.

Submitted

M. AlJerjawi, C. Nerguizian, and R. Bosisio, “IR-UWB and OFDM-UWB Wave-Radio Interferometer Transceiver Implementation over Realistic Fading Channels,” submitted to IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.

Presentations

“Performance of Space-Time Spreading in Multiuser DS-CDMA Systems over Fast-Fading Channels”, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference(GLOBECOM), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Nov./Dec. 2005.

“Multi-port Receiver and Transmitter State-of-the-Art and Applications”, IEEE International Northeast Conference on Circuits and Systems(NEWCAS), Montréal, Canada, Jun. 2008.

“UWB Wave-Radio”, Software Defined Radio (SDR)Technical Forum, Washington D.C., USA, Oct. 2008.

“Wave-Radio Interferometer Transceiver for UWB”, IEEE International Microwave Symposium(IMS), Boston, USA, Jun. 2009.

“Wave-Radio Transceiver in Realistic UWB Fading Channels”, IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications(ICWMC),Valencia, Spain, Sept. 2010. Professional Activities and Affiliations

Student Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Communications, IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, IEEE Communication Letters.

References

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