Engineer Design
Resume:
Imran Ahmed Choudhry
ca.linkedin.com/in/imranchoudhry1/
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Ottawa, Ontario, K2T 0E8 addl3z@r.postjobfree.com
Hardware Engineer with Procurement and systems Engineering background. Specializing in New and existing Product Development, Product Cost Improvement, Procurement Strategies and Product Management. Over 24 years combined experience in Telecom and Defense industries. Wide-ranging expertise in HW Design, Support, System Analysis, Board Design, Procurement, Architecture, Board Power-up, System Integration/Configuration, Verification, Compliance and Fault Diagnosis. Consistently meets customer requirements within given time frames and utilizes broad knowledge base to solve problems and eliminate repeat issues. Effective team player that works collaboratively with all team members to achieve measurable and significant results.
Security clearance: Secret
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nokia
Advance Procurement Manager 09/2018- Present
Responsible for Advance Procurement, Product Cost and Cost Improvement needs of the Cable and Broadband Access (BBA) business units of Fixed Network within North America. Monitor supplier and technology selection for new products under development, meeting cost, time to market and quality targets.
§ Engage suppliers at the early stage of new products development.
§ Execute and Monitor RFQs for new products
§ De-risk the BOM (via BOM Health tool and KPI)
§ Drive yearly CI (cost improvement) plan and reduce the Total Cost of ownership (TCO) along the PLC
§ Monitor Supplier Performance and Quality
§ Foster innovation via suppliers
§ Validate and implement Category Purchasing strategy
§ Supported and resolved component shortages in Nokia for Research and Development and at Nokia EMS’s.
§ Resolved revenue impacting Shortages in Supply Chain
§ Analyzed product transportation costs and implemented the cost affected solutions to transportation product to north America from China and Mexico.
Customer Success Engineer 12/2015-09/2018
Responsible for supporting Canada Telco’s (Bell Canada, Bell MTS, TELUS and Sasktel). Represented as Nokia maintenance customer facing prime within North America, Canada region for fixed network. Supported 7360, 7342, 7368 and 7367 products in operations and in Lab.
§ Intimate knowledge of the North American Customer’s Network, Processes and people, supporting PON, DSL and ONT equipment of Nokia.
§ Participated and contributed actively in the Nokia sponsored visits, building customer relationships within the scope of technical support.
§ Handled the most critical and highly visible issues that require personal local attention for critical revenue impacting North American Customers
§ Interfaced with the RBC and other stake holders, providing proper communication and escalation of all customer issues.
§ Acted as the stewards of the Maintenance organization within the SBU to defend the CARE business and look for opportunities to increase the revenue and service footprint.
§ Worked very closely and collaboratively with CTA and customer PM team on jointly delivering on SLA’s and prepare for business review with the customer.
§ Priorities and moved Customer AR’s on time, to TEC and R&D, facilitating the timely solution of the AR’s.
§ Facilitated in Improving the RTS Respond metrics for TELUS in Q1, Q2 and Q3 of 2016/17/18 to, 92.11%, 99.93% and 100.00% respectively
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Espial
Senior Product Support Engineer 11/2014- 12/2015
Responsible for supporting tier 1 and tier2 customers for Video distribution services platforms, servers and client software. Supporting state of the art software products for video storage and distribution of streaming videos.
§ Fault diagnosing, recovering and providing solutions to the customer on deployed products.
§ Training customers and new hires on the deployed product.
§ Releasing new software loads to the customer and helping them deploy new solutions and features in a live system.
§ Following up customer requirements and taking them to design teams and help prioritizing the new feature.
§ Advocating customer needs and priorities.
§ Providing Support to worldwide customers on server and client software products on HP and IBM server.
§ Testing new products on customer side in staging environment.
§ Testing new release of the software as a test engineer.
§ Help size up the servers for new deployment for video streaming products
§ Participating and organizing weekly customer update meetings.
§ Product support prime for a large customer and providing updates with respect to new software release and tracking of their issues.
§ Supporting sales team to setup systems for demos.
§ Training sales teams on the new products.
§ Working very closely with Product line managers and the design engineers to provide new solutions in market place.
Matek System Inc (Alcatel-lucent Contractor)
Senior Hardware Engineer 04/2014 – 06/2014
Provided services to Alcatel-lucent Wire-line Access group as contractor. Tested next generation vectoring solution for compliance in internal Alcatel-lucent labs and in external lab.
§ Configured HW test equipment in internal lab conducting de-risk testing
§ Conducted testing of DSL Vectoring and Vector Processing card for accelerated thermal testing, shock testing and EMC testing at third party lab.
§ Conducted RoHs6 Reliability testing for AT&T for a new vectoring card and line card at third part external lab in compliance with ATIS0600019
§ Completed upgrade of Spirent test center and another test equipment
§ Tested and configured line cards, control cards and vectoring card in OFLT
§ Provided failure analysis, fault isolation and diagnostic of issues on very complex HW
§ Prepared cards with thermal sensors for testing and prepared thermal sensors and test equipment
§ Supervised lab tech and students for test gear upgrades and configuration of the test equipment Alcatel-Lucent (previously, Newbridge Networks) 2000 - 2014 Senior Hardware Designer, Mobile Back Haul (2011-2014) Provided hardware design, analysis, verification, project management and system analysis expertise with innovative engineering and architectural solutions to reduce the cost of the Service Aggregation Router. Subject Matter Expert (SME) for new designs and architectures of the boards and systems. Managed team of design engineers, verification, testing and compliance engineers.
§ Optimized high speed PCB design of the Multi-layer PCB by reducing layers and introduced new technology
§ Performed Signal Integrity simulation of high-speed interfaces, wrote and supervised HW testing procedures
§ Participated and conducted design trade off studies of IEEE 1588 and Sync E solutions from different vendors
§ Evaluated various TCXO, VCXO devices/vendors for stratum3 application
§ Provided PCB layout guidelines and tradeoff for high speed design rules, Crosstalk, low noise decoupling, trace spacing, grounding strategies for low noise and edge rates
§ Assessed and analyzed conversion of a legacy ASIC to a FPGA
§ Planned and implemented DDR2 to DDR3 switch on high volume hardware assemblies
§ Investigated and analyzed impact of newer version of network processor on legacy hardware and on software
§ Supervised and performed compliance de risk testing (EMC, EMI, Shock, Vibration, Thermal and Network Attach)
§ Reported and tracked hardware projects and negotiated the priority of the development tasks during execution Imran Ahmed Choudhry
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§ Investigated and analyzed and performed feasibility G.703 interface input output card for SAR-8
§ Completed RS422 distribution module schematic and bill of material
§ Developed Hardware verification plan and conducted verification testing on multiple assemblies
§ Conducted de risk testing of the network synchronization circuit on line cards and on control cards Product line Manager Cost Improvement, GPON (2010-2011) Technical and Business Lead for North America managing cost improvement projects of Fiber to The Home (FTTH) access system. Achieved cost savings of $2 to $3 million for the business unit. Hardware and system SME for FTTH cost and design optimization projects
§ Assessed, Analyzed and Identified technology gaps of FTTH system cost and functionality
§ Authored high level product requirement documents
§ Investigated the cost analysis of competitors DSLAM and fiber access systems
§ Managed and strengthen procurement and commodity management teams in Shanghai, Antwerp, Raleigh, and Kanata to provide the best cost for high cost commodities
§ Initiated and completed project to improve cost of the residential and business Optical Network Terminators
(ONT) and associated power supplies
§ Negotiated and initiated the cost improvement projects within the limited budget of the BU
§ Reduced the introduction time of cost improvements in the hardware supply chain by involving operations, material planners and buyers early in the project execution
§ Managed the life cycle of the product development
§ Transitioned legacy hardware assemblies to newer and cost affective assemblies
§ Represented the North American team at the design improvement workshop held in Shanghai Senior Hardware Design Engineer, Wire-line (2005-2010) System and design expert for North American cost improvements of Fiber to The Node (FTTN) and FTTH systems. Designed and optimized the legacy and new hardware of the DSLAM, Fiber access, IPD and MSWAN systems. Accomplishing $2 to $3M of savings year over year for 4 years. Hardware Designer for SONET/ SDH OC- 192 ATM line cards and OC12 input output card
§ Tested and verified backplane interfaces, SERDES and high-speed links
§ Qualified Small Form Factor Pluggable (SFP) modules, SX, LX, EX, ZX, BX and DWDM.
§ Led discrete design of the power system on the line card resulting in significant savings per assembly
§ Initiated and led trade off studies for FPGA selection. Tested and verified FPGA on line cards and I/O cards
§ Hardware prime for next generation network processor selection
§ Performed hardware verification and testing on 8 port STM1_electrical and optical I/O cards
§ Co-authored product specifications for FTTN system
§ Analyzed and introduced new architecture for Network Termination (NT) card
§ Initiated projects, and development proposals of telecom equipment, NT cards, line cards and splitter cards
§ Actively participated in trade off studies for network processor and IEEE 1588 parts selection
§ Introduced new vendors (ODM) of the splitter card and NT card, resulting in significant savings
§ Captured board level hierarchal and flat schematics
§ Captured high speed design implementation rules
§ Performed design reviews, system simulation and signal integrity simulation
§ Performed HW compliance de-risk testing (EMC, EMI, Shock, Vibration, Thermal, Safety and Network Attach)
§ Represented North American hardware development team for design improvement workshops in Antwerp, Belgium two years in a row
§ Mentored junior members of the team
Systems Support Engineer, Reliability Engineer (2000-2005) Lead hardware designer for the reliability improvement of the VDSL 2-line card. Supported hardware assemblies in the field for very critical customer issues. Provided Reliability engineering expertise to the business unit.
§ Assessed, analyzed, managed and provided solutions to the issues in field and in production
§ Re-created field issues and provided timely and technical solutions to customers
§ Performed fault diagnostics, Isolation, correction, escalation and prevention strategies for DSLAM
§ Performed system configuration and training
§ Performed FMEA, FMECA and Markov modeling of the IP Router
§ Closely collaborated with customers like AT&T, TELUS and SaskTel for their filed issues
§ Worked closely in conjunction with Alcatel-Lucent 2LS, 4LS, PLM, and marketing teams
§ Represented the North American team at the design optimization workshop in Antwerp
§ Authored technical manuals and procedures for AT&T, TELUS and SaskTel Imran Ahmed Choudhry
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General Dynamics Canada Ltd 1996 – 2000
Intermediate Hardware Engineer
§ Defined and designed hardware for Surveillance System Trainer and Built in Tester for Canadian Department of National Defense
§ Captured schematics, EPLD design and code
§ Designed cables and performed system integration design
§ Supported hardware development during production and testing
§ Authored hardware and systems requirement and specification documents
§ Actively contributed toward ILS plan and Canadian Forces Training Manuals for PCBT and LAVRECCE
§ Wrote system level requirements for the COTS ruggedized PC for the tester
§ Defined, reviewed and documented procurement requirements for COTS equipment like hard drives, electrical components power supplies and mechanical boxes
§ Supported and repaired complex military hardware at customer site working independently
§ Interfaced with MCAD, ECAD, technical publications, test engineering and manufacturing during design, testing and production
§ Updated and tracked systems requirements using DOORS
§ Supported documenting Integrated Logistic Support procedures and technology publication as SME
§ Performed environmental testing including vibration, shock, humidity, EMI and EMC EDUCATION AND TRAINING
§ Masters in Electrical Engineering, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A
§ Bachelors in Electronics Engineering, NED University, Karachi, Pakistan Professional Training
§ CNA, CNF and CNP certified (Fixed Network) 2016/17
§ PMP EXAM preparation Workshop 2014
§ Network Routing Services Certificate (NRS1), Alcatel – Lucent, Kanata, Ontario 2012
§ English Literature Course, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario 2010
§ Advance Reliability Course, University of Maryland, U.S.A. 2005 Technical Skills
§ Software Languages: Perl, C, VHDL, Tcl
§ Procurement Tools: GPMA, CQMS, BOM analysis
tools.
§ Hardware Tools: DX designer, da-lms, Cadence
Allegro, to-layout, proto-layout, ICX, ORCAD
§ Simulation: ICX, SPICE, IBIS
§ Operating Systems: Unix, MS Windows
§ Access Standards: GPON, ADSL, VDSL, VDSL2,
MoCA
§ Testing Platforms: FTTN System, DSLAM
supporting IPTV services, FTTH system, Routing
Service, Service aggregation Router, IP Router
§ Component Qualification: Power supplies, DDR2,
DDR3, RLDRAM, PCB, Transformers, Line Drivers,
Optics, PON Optics.
§ Hardware Testing: Lab verification, Thermal, EMC, Vibration, Optical testing
§ Protocols and Standards: IP Routing Protocols,
TCP/IP, SONET, IP, Ethernet, Spanning Tree, ATM,
Frame Relay, VPLS, MPLS, MPLS-TP, IEEE 1588, IEEE
802.1, XUAI, UTOPIA, SGMII
§ Interface standard: RS232, RS422, Gigabit
Ethernet, DS-1, DS-3, T1, E1, OC12, SONET/SDH
OC48 and SONET/SDH/OC192, I2C, 10GBaseT, PCI-
E
§ Testing Equipment: Logic Analyzer, High Speed
Oscilloscope, ANT 20, Surge Simulator, In-circuit
Emulators
§ Firmware: FPGA Programming and Simulation
(Altera, Xilinx)
§ Project Management: Agile, Kanban, ISO 2000,
CMMI level2, Processes improvement
§ Microsoft: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Schedule, VISIO
§ Applications: Oracle, DOORS, SAP, Clear Case,
Remedy
§ Telecom Standards: GR63, GR1089, ITU-T G.783,
SR332, G.703, G.8262, G.813, G.823, GR1244
Mil Standards: Mil-STD-810, Mil-STD-461, Mil-
HDBK-217
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