Software Engineer

Farooq Jabbar

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Frisco, TX 75035

Summary

Full stack development of windows and web applications using Microsoft technologies. Application

Development

• Experience in WPF, WCF, Web API, and ASP.NET Core software development.

• Experience in SQL queries, index consolidation and execution plan optimization.

• Experience in ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript (ES6 and newer), jQuery.

• Cognizant of the S.O.L.I.D. software programming principles in OOP. Embedded

Software

• Expertise in implementing real-time algorithms in digital communications for RF front ends and bit pumps.

Professional History

J. C. Penney Corporation, Plano, Texas 2019-Present Software Engineer 2, Pricing & Signing Group

• Analyze T-SQL queries and consolidate indexes to optimize execution plans and improve server performance. Maintain/enhance SSIS packages for data migration and integration.

• Develop RESTful API for a legacy app in ASP.NET Core & EF Core for reuse by enterprise applications.

• Maintain and enhance C# .NET framework Windows applications to create, manage, and communicate various pricing tiers. Develop Oracle PL/SQL procedures for backend support. RealPage, Inc., Richardson, Texas 2015-2019

Developer IV, Payments Group

Primarily responsible for maintaining, updating, and enhancing a WPF MVVM application for processing payments through credit card and check scans.

• Resolved software issues by modifying the view, view model, and/or the underlying WCF, Web API services along with T-SQL queries for data access. Developed UI pages in ASP.NET Web Forms & MVC, JavaScript and jQuery for various web apps on .NET Core and .NET framework.

• Developed business logic and data access layer in C# to connect the pages to the data store. Designed necessary tables and created pertinent stored procedures. Starkey Hearing Technologies, Austin, Texas 2013-2015 Software Engineer I, Hearing Aid Firmware Group

Developed driver layer to interface with hearing aids and an SDK for customers to build various applications based on .NET 4.5 framework. Wrote feature sample apps in WPF. Wrote each feature user guide to document class structure using UML diagrams. Developed audio processing firmware on ON Semiconductor’s DSP and ARM Cortex-M3 controller core in C/C++.

Implemented digital unit test framework in Python 2.7 based on Python driver interface. Broadcom Corporation, San Diego, California 2012-2013 Sr Staff RF Firmware Engineer, Mobile & Wireless Group Developed routines in C++ to calibrate blocks in the RFIC. Worked with the tools team to code data processing methods in C# to enhance a .NET application used for calibrating devices at the factory. Implemented RF driver APIs for 2G and 3G cellular radios based on ARM Cortex-R4/R5 modems. ******.******@*****.*** Page 2

Research In Motion, Irving, Texas. 2009-2012

Software Developer, Product Delivery & In-Market Teams Product specific integration and testing of RIM layer over Qualcomm protocol stack. Root-cause analysis for voice and data call processing for 3GPP and 3GPP2 systems. Texas Instruments, Inc., Dallas, Texas. 2006-2009

Software Design Engineer, DRP Group, Wireless Terminals Business Unit Firmware development for quad band GSM, GPRS, EDGE, single chip cellular phone products using TI's Digital Radio Processor (DRPTM) technology.

Team member responsible for standard compliant transmitter functionality. Developed code on ARM Cortex-M3 for configuring digital frequency synthesizer, transmit signal processing core, RF DAC, power control, transmitter linearization.

iBiquity Digital Corporation, Warren, New Jersey. 2005-2006 Senior DSP Engineer, IC Software Group

Implemented physical layer algorithms for HD Radio application. Duties involved code development for OFDM block processing in C and assembly on Texas Instruments TMS320C64x and Tensilica Vectra LX DSP cores. Conexant Systems, Inc., Red Bank, New Jersey. 1993-2005

(Formerly: Globespanvirata, Inc.)

Project Leader, DSP Firmware Group

Embedded, real-time DSP firmware development for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) products. Timing Recovery Implemented symbol timing recovery using an all digital, 2nd order phase-locked loop. Timing tone was generated using squaring or band edge techniques for suppressed carrier modulations.

Modem

Functions

Implemented standard compliant protocols for G.SHDSL, HDSL2, HDSL4, and other baseband and passband symmetric products. Experience with hybrid DFE equalizers, echo cancelers, Tomlinson exchange for QAM/CAP modulated systems. System

Simulations

Developed floating- and fixed-point simulation in Signal Processing Worksystem (SPW), Matlab, and C language to establish the numerical resolution and architectural requirements for the digital signal processor.

Computer Skills

Languages C#, C, C++, Python, jQuery, JavaScript, DSP Assembly. Frameworks ASP.NET Core 2/3, EF Core, WPF, WCF, MVC & Web API, Docker for Windows. Tools Visual Studio, Eclipse, MS Office, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Perforce, Atlassian Confluence, JIRA Agile, Matlab.

Certifications Machine Learning, Stanford University, June 2020. MCTS in ASP.NET applications, May 2009.

Education

MS in Electrical Engineering, May 1992

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

BE in Electrical Engineering, May 1987

NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan Patents

• “Method and Apparatus for a RADSL Transceiver Warm Start Activation Procedure with Precoding”, Langberg et al, Patent No. 5,852,630, Globespanvirata, Inc., December 22, 1998.

• “System and Method for Timing Recovery in a Discrete Multi-Tone System”, Jabbar et al., Patent No. 6,985,548, Globespanvirata, Inc., January 10, 2006.

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