Engineer Assistant

Taher A. Dameh

Phone: +1-604-***-****

http://www.sfu.ca/~tdameh

Email: l0ls98@r.postjobfree.com

School of CS, Simon Fraser University

*** – 13450 102nd Ave

Surrey, BC, V3T 0A3, Canada

Education

MSc in Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada [GPA:3.5] Jun 2012

BSc in Computer Engineering, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan [GPA:86.2%] Jun 2008

Experience

Research Assistant, Simon Fraser University / Prof. Mohamed Hefeeda Jan 2010 - Present

Distributed Kernel Matrix Approximation and Implementation using MPI.

o Reduced the quadratic complexity of the kernel function and designed a distributed approach to compute it.

o [ http://nsl.cs.sfu.ca/wiki/index.php/hpc ].

Teaching Assistant, Simon Fraser University / Prof. Petra Berenbrink, May 2010 – Aug 2011

CMPT300 Operating Systems.

o [ http://www.sfu.ca/~tdameh/teaching/11/300/ ] .

Web Development Engineer Intern, ALZ-Inc, Jordan Nov 2008 – Aug 2009

Worked in maintaining EMR solutions (Electronic Medical Records) built on LAMP stack.

o [ http://www.alz-inc.com/ ].

Projects

Simon Fraser University / Prof. Sasha Fedorova Spring 2011

Performance and Energy Consumption of Real Applications on Asymmetric Multi-core Systems.

o Evaluated energy-efficient scheduling algorithms for a Nutch search engine on Apache Tomcat servers.

Jordan University of Science and Technology / King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau 2007 - 2008

Smart Surveillance Systems.

o Collaboration between two teams (Computer and Mechanical) of 6 students.

o Led my team of 3 students to implement real time motion detection and object tracking algorithms.

Skills

Programming languages: C/C++ and Java.

Web and Database: LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, PHP/JSP), JavaScript, HTML and XML.

High Performance: MPI, openMP, pthreads. Platforms: Linux and Windows.

Tools: latex, matlab, eclipse, gdb and subversion.

Soft skills: problem solving, analytical thinking, communication skills and time management.

Awards and Honors

Invited to a Funded Summer School on HPC, National University of Defense Technology, China July 2011

Faculty of Applied Science Fellowship, Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada Fall 2011 King Abdullah II Fund for Development Graduation Project Grant, Jordan 2007 - 2008 Dean’s Honor List, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan 2003 - 2008 Ranked 2nd among peers in Jordan (~300 students) in the Computer Engineering Qualification Exam Feb 2008

References

Available upon request.

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