Ahmed A. Ismail

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Personal Data

Date of birth Nov 23, 1971

Cell phone# +201*********

Citizenship Canadian

Education

Sep 2001 Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Thesis: On Dual Control and Adaptive Filtering with Applications in the Pulp and Paper Industry

March 1996 M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering

Thesis: Fuzzy Control of Nonlinear Systems

Cairo University, Egypt

July 1993 B.Sc. with honors in Electrical Engineering Cairo University, Egypt

Cumulative GPA: 3.92

Current Position

Process control specialist

July 2016 –

present

Schneider Electric Process Automation

Engineering Excellence Center - Egypt

o Carrying out controller tuning, control loop troubleshooting and commissioning at various sites

o Driving the organization change towards an industry-focused specialization via teaching “Basic process engineering principles” to control engineers

Lecturer

Oct 2001 –

present

Electrical Engineering Department

Cairo University, Egypt

Teaching "PID control" and "Advanced process control" for senior undergraduate students, "Control systems engineering" for junior students, and supervising student graduation projects in DCS configuration

Ahmed A. Ismail

Work Experience

Process control specialist

July 2016 –

present

Schneider Electric Process Automation – EEC Egypt

o Tuning and troubleshooting control loops at various sites, including three-element drum level, cross-limiting combustion loops, and other advanced regulatory control loops (ratio, override, split-range, interacting, valve-position control, auto-tuning, etc) o Debugging and fixing control loop misconfiguration, reset-windup and/or initialization problems

Projects included:

West Damietta combined cycle power plant, AC Boilers Italy, Sep 2017

– Mar 2018

AlShabab combined cycle power plant, Ismailia, AC Boilers Italy, Jan – Feb 2018

South Helwan auxiliary boiler, Giza, AC Boilers Italy, April – May 2018

Talkha thermal power plant, Mansoura, Aug – Oct 2018 South Helwan super critical power plant, Giza, Dec 2018 – Dec 2019 KNPC refinery, Kuwait, Feb 2020 – present

Principal application engineer

Dec 2006 –

July 2016

Schneider Electric Process Automation – EEC Egypt

Supervising project software development and working towards expanding the center technical capabilities

o Conducting regular technical audits to verify (Foxboro I/A and Triconex) software design & implementation, utilization of global tools, and to promote reusability and best practices o Providing support and guidance to project leaders o In charge of knowledge management

o In charge of client and engineers’ training, devising internal training plan based on incoming project profile and skill matrix data o Representing EEC Egypt in the global engineering team o Technically interviewing potential candidates

o From Oct 2008 to Oct 2013, acting as the technical leader for SE EECs (Egypt, India, Slovakia, China and Algeria) with the objective of building and enhancing the technical strength of all centers

o Developed the “Distributed Engineering Interface Process” as a unified global framework for all SE front offices on how to effectively work remotely with EECs

Projects included:

Hannibal–Hasdrubal gas plant, Tunisia, BG

Kashagan offshore/onshore oil field, Kazakhstan, Agip KCO SAMREF refinery, Saudi Arabia, Worley Parsons

Hawiyah gas plant, Saudi Arabia, JGC / Saipem

Yansab petrochemical complex, Saudi Arabia, JGC / Toyo Ahmed A. Ismail

Lead engineer

Dec 2001 –

Dec 2006

Invensys Engineering and Services – Egypt

o Leading the software development for Foxboro I/A Series DCS, and Triconex SIS to implement process control strategies

(regulatory, sequential & interlock), safety control, communications with third party packages (Modbus & OPC), and operator HMI o Leading the development team in Factory Acceptance Test in testing the software with the client

o Duties also included training control engineers

Projects included:

Oryx GTL plant, Qatar, Technip

Dalia FPSO, offshore Angola, Technip

Amenam–2 oil & gas platform, offshore Nigeria, Technip UGD NGL plant, Egypt, ENPPI

PIC petrochemical plant, Kuwait, Cegelec

Shell Bonga FPSO, offshore Nigeria, AMEC

R&D engineer

Feb 2000 –

July 2001

Honeywell-Measurex Devron Inc., North Vancouver, BC, Canada Implementing an adaptive cross-directional controller for paper coating on bent blade coaters using MATLAB, C++ and LabVIEW, and performing industrial trials of the developed controller in a paper mill Research assistant

Sep 1996 –

Sep 2001

Pulp and Paper Center, The University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada

Conducting research in various adaptive control and signal processing areas of interest to the pulp and paper industry

Software engineer

Aug 1994 –

July 1996

IBM WTC, Cairo, Egypt

Designing and implementing a client/server object-oriented application for information indexing and retrieval under OS/2 using IBM CSet++ and IBM VisualAge C++, and enhancing the graphical user interface with a drag-and-drop functionality

Awards and Scholarships

May 1996

Scholarship for Ph.D. studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada

June 1995 Best teaching assistant award, Department of Electrical Engineering, Cairo University

Sep 1993 Graduate fellowship for M.Sc. studies at Cairo University, Egypt 1988 – 1993 Merit award, Cairo University, Egypt

Ahmed A. Ismail

Training

Dec 2015 Leadership skills, Schneider Electric EEC Cairo, Egypt Oct 2012 FCS 4.0 training course, Invensys LifeTime Learning center, Boston, MA, USA

April 2007 FSIM & TRISIM training course, SIMSCI-ESSCOR, Dusseldorf, Germany

June 2006 Project management fundamentals course, International Institute for Learning, Crawley, UK

March 2006 Tricon/TriStation comprehensive course, Invensys LifeTime Learning Center, Cairo, Egypt

Feb 2006 I/A Series V8.0/V8.1, Foxboro EMEA TAC, Baarn, The Netherlands May 2005 Introduction to Foxboro A2 configuration, Invensys LifeTime Learning center, Boston, MA, USA

Feb 2000 Cross-directional control, Honeywell-Measurex Devron Inc., North Vancouver, BC, Canada

March 1996 IBM Visual Age C++, IBM Educational Center, Egypt Aug 1995 Using AIX, IBM Educational Center, Egypt

Oct 1994 Object-oriented programming with C++, IBM Educational Center, Egypt

July 1993 8086 assembly language, Cairo University Continuing Studies June 1992 The C programming language, ICL Educational Center, Egypt June 1991 Programming with Pascal, ICL Educational Center, Egypt Publications

2003

A. Ismail, G. Dumont and J. Backstrom, “Dual Adaptive Control of Paper Coating,” IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, v. 11, no. 3

June 2001

A. Ismail, G. Dumont and J. Backstrom, “On CD Coat Weight Control," American Control Conference 2001, Arlington, VA, USA April 2000

A. Ismail, G. Dumont and J. Backstrom, “Dual Adaptive Control of MD Coat Weight on Blade Coaters,” Control Systems 2000, Victoria, Canada

July 1999

A. Ismail and G. Dumont, “Dual Adaptive Control of Chip Refiner Motor Load,” 14th IFAC World Congress, Beijing, China June 1999

A. Ismail and G. Dumont, “Wood Chip Refiner Control,” 7th Mediterranean Control Conference, Haifa, Israel

Technical Skills

C, C++, MATLAB, LabVIEW, UNIX shell programming, QBE, SQL Ahmed A. Ismail

Management Skills

Leading and motivating people, time management, customer management, conflict management

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