Electrical Engineering Engineer

Selvakumar Tharranetharan ********@*****.***

SELVAKUMAR THARRANETHARAN

Email: ********@*****.***, Tel: +1-250-***-****

Linked in Profile: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/tharrane PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

An electrical engineering master’s graduate who specialized in wireless communication, has two years of various telecommunication projects experience and two years of research experience in addition to excellent analytical, problem solving, interpersonal and communication skills. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Wireless modeling

Testing

Solution design

Research

Convex optimizations

Signal processing

Beamforming

Pre-coding

Cognitive radio

Cooperative comm.

Algorithms

MATLAB

C++

GSM, 3G, 4G, LTE

PHP

EDUCATION

• Master of Applied Science, Electrical Engineering 2015 University of British Columbia, Canada

GPA: 4.00 out of 4.00

Thesis: Data rate fairness cooperative beamforming for cognitive radio systems in presence of asynchronous interferences

• Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering 2011 University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

GPA: 3.85 out of 4.00

Final year project: Compensation for non-linear phase noise in fiber optics

• CCNA 2010

Successfully completed Cisco CCNA training with hands on labs RELEVENT EXPERIENCE

● Research Engineer Nov., 2015 – Sep., 2016

University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

Developed a wireless traffic model for two way radio communications in oil and gas industry operations which enables better planning, maintenance, operations and utilization of radio resources with Tridon communications, Fort McMurray, AB

Designed a low cost and energy efficient tracking solution for long period container rental services for BigSteel Box, Kelowna, BC

● Research Assistant Jan., 2013 Aug., 2015

University of British Columbia, BC, Canada

Improved the performance of distributed cooperative beamforming by 5 times and eliminate the impact of interference at primary users in the cognitive radio system by proposing new optimal and suboptimal beamfoming techniques

Selvakumar Tharranetharan ********@*****.***

Achieved a 1.2 dB peak gain in the bit error rate performance of an asymmetric relay system by introducing a hierarchical modulation and network coding assisted BICM transceiver compared to a conventional BICM transceiver

Accomplished performance analysis and optimization of wireless systems via simulation platforms with C++, IT++, MATLAB and CVX, and wrote technical publications, reports and proposals

● Research Associate - Wireless E-Stop Project Jan., 2014 Jun., 2014 Helios Global Technologies Ltd - UBC, Kelowna, BC, Canada

Identified the cause of malfunction in some wireless environment and provided solution that assure 99% functionality for a wireless emergency stopping mechanism by analyzing the frequency spectrum in field and emulated laboratory environment with network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, oscilloscope, measurement and automation explorer, MATLAB, etc

● Trainee Engineer Jun., 2010 Nov., 2010

Dialog Axiata PLC, Sri Lanka

Learned the fundamentals of GSM, 3G and WiMAX network planning, monitoring and optimization

Resolved a frequent call dropping problem in a GSM network area due to shadowing via drive testing with TEMS, analyzing test data, changing antenna alignments

Done frequency planning for a newly establish base station and calculated the transmission parameters to establish a microwave link

SNMP Based WiMAX Data Retrieval Project - Cut the cost of licensed software and reduced the time consumption of updating WiMAX network monitoring system sever by 60% via developing a software program based on PHP programming language by using the efficiency of SNMP protocol and formulating optimal algorithms and mappings to reduce time consumption based on the given requirements

HONORS AND AWARDS

• University of British Columbia Okanagan Graduate Fellowship 2013 and 2014

• Special University of British Columbia Okanagan Graduate Award Jan, 2014 PUBLICATIONS

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=cgJtUE0AAAAJ EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

• Volunteered in children and educational courses

• Like adventure, making arts, paintings and sports and games (swimming, ping pong and cricket)

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