Enginnering - Electronics and Electrical

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

* Excellent oral and written communication skills

* A quick-learner and a highly self-motivated team player quick to adapt to new situations

* Strong analysis and problem solving skills

* Brilliant project management skills with strong work ethics and values

AREA OF EXPERTISE

* RF/Microwave Hardware Design

* Programming (C++, JAVA, Visual Basic)

* Instrumentation Engineerign and Distributed Control Systems

EDUCATION

Masters of Engineering (GPA: 97%)

Electrical Engineering

Carleton University

September 2006 – December 2008

Instrumentation Engineering Training

Yokogawa Corporation

June 2005

Distributed Control Systems Training

Yokogawa Corporation

June 2005

Bachelor of Engineering (GPA: 87%)

Electrical Engineering

Carleton University

September 2002 – April 2006

WORK EXPERIENCE

Carleton University, Teaching Assistant

September 2005 – December 2007

* Created and administered weekly lecture sessions and quizzes for the basic electronics course for engineering students.

Wi-Sys Communications, Electrical Engineer

June – August 2006

* Created an automated program using SQL and Java used to analyze traffic information including low reception sites, credit card authorization, trip information, and emergency reports gathered from taxi cabs in Chicago.

* Developed a GPS user interface for a client company in C++ Microsoft Visual Studio.net using the NMEA standards.

Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Systems Engineer

May – August 2005

* Coordinated with Yokogawa’s project management team during the factory acceptance testing (FAT) phase on the gas/oil separation plant (GOSP) projects alongside the customer.

* Tested, verified, and programmed PLCs to ensure the DCS system was in accordance to piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) and ensured that the interface worked with other subsystems including vibration monitoring system (VMS) and emergency shutdown system (ESD).

* Created and modified plant graphics, revised mapping list, and added and modified new DCS tags including alarms, status indicators, and bypass logic HMI development.

* Progress report composition for the client.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems

* Windows

* UNIX

* DOS

Programming Languages

* C++

* Visual Studio.net

* JAVA

* x8086 Assembly

* Verilog

* Visual Basic

Applications

* Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, MS Project)

* Cadence

* Matlab/Simulink

* Advanced Design System (ADS)

* IntelliCAD

* SQL

ENGINEERING SKILLS

Nonlinear Microwave Circuit Design

* Currently developing an experiment comparing the results of predistortion and feedforward linearization techniques for power amplifiers.

* Designed power amplifier using Advanced Design System (ADS) for and RFID transmitter.

* Analyzed, designed, implemented, and debugged various circuits on a breadboard using different semiconductors including diodes, operational amplifiers, bipolar transistors, MOSFETs.

Antennas and Arrays

* Conducted a literature review on mobile satellite communication antennas.

* Studied array fundamentals, radiation integrals and wire structures, image theory, mutual coupling, frequency independent structures and various antenna types including loop antennas, phased arrays, reflectors, horns, feeds, slotted waveguide and microstrip arrays.

Wireless Communications

* Studied multiple access methods (TDMA, FDMA, CDMA, OFDM), interference characterization and the different generations of cellular networks.

* Studied propagation and link budget as well as wireless channel characterization.

* Conducted a literature review of sensor networks with focus on the problem of localization.

Computer Communication and Distributed

* Analyzed different network topologies and LAN/WAN routing protocols, including ATM and Frame Relay.

* Designed and monitored various communication networks.

* Programmed client-server systems using TCP and UDP and designed middleware layers including RMI and CORBA.

Digital Signal Processing

* Studied discrete time signals and systems including A/D and D/A conversions, representation in time- frequency- and z-domains, DFT/FFT transformations, and FIR/IIR filter design.

Software Project Management

* Conducted a literature review of Integration of Agile Methods into Traditional Organizations.

* Studied effort, duration and cost estimation; scheduling and planning; monitoring and control; analysis of options; management of risks, change, and expectations. Process and product metrics, post-performance analysis, process improvement and maturity.

AWARDS

Carleton University Dean’s List (2002-2008)

Carleton University Graduate and Undergraduate Scholarship (2002-2008)

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