I am electronic design engineer involved with research and product development at ENERG Group Ltd which enables me to exercise the innovative side of my personally. I am self-motivated and take great pride in all activities that I am involved in, be it work or leisure, completing each pursuit with up most conviction. I have ambition and am keen to build on the knowledge and experiences I have already acquired to further develop my career and myself.

Key Skills

Project Management, Managing budgets, Embedded and Electronics Design, Protel Designer, OrCad, RF and Microwave PCB Design, Schematic Capture, Prototyping, PCB assembly, Testing and validation, Microcontrollers, Motion control (Stepper), Technical Drawings (AutoCAD), HFSS, C/C++, HDL(Verilog)

Employment History

Sep 2006 to Present Hardware Design Engineer

ENERG Group Ltd

Dec 2004 to Sep 2006 Electronics Design Engineer

Randox Laboratories Ltd Randox Laboratories Ltd is a fast growing multinational organization focusing on high-tech healthcare technology. Randox develops and manufacture fully automatic diagnostic solutions used in over 30,000 laboratories in 130 countries around the world.

Projects Details

· I manage engineering research, development and commercialization of a point of care, medical detector system with a primary function of quantifying seriousness of cardiac patients within several minutes. The project requires RF, computer control electronics and embedded circuit design in order to achieve the finished product ready for market. There is also a requirement for close communication between biochemists within Randox and project experts at the University of the West of England to realize a product with such a pioneering and unique operation.

· I designed and developed a digital heater control board to control the temperature of incubator in automatic chemical analyzer EVIDENCE™ to +/-1% of a degree. The heater control board was using pulse width modulated signal to control the heaters and can be set to eight different temperatures from 31˚C to 39˚C. An eight bit I/O port was used to communicate with a PC.

· A QC system was needed in the production facility, to measure and check the uniformity of Threhalose deposition on the Biochip surface. I develop a prototype system based around a Hohner surface roughness optical sensor. The Hohner sensor was fixed and the 100 cells ceramic plate moved in a measured and repeatable manner to various set positions. Two single axis IMS motion controllers with a system of handshaking were set for smooth operation of the system. An input was also available to a PC to control the movement of the system and to record the data from the Hohner sensor.

· I designed and build a complete test system for Cavro stepper motor control boards.

· I manage research and development of a liquid level detection system for automatic chemical analyzer to aspirate and dispense control amounts of samples. The system was based on capacitance change principle and using 555-timer, AD650 frequency to voltage converter and Atmel AT90S8535 8-bit microcontroller.

· After a three months research on blood clot detection I invented a novel method of clot detection in blood or serum sample using a 100-psi press-

www.randox.com ure transducer (26PCFF6G6) and some discrimination circuitry.

Jul 2000 to Aug 2002 Telecom Engineer

Next Era Communications I worked as a Telecom Engineer in technical support division which was responsible for all technical solutions and their implementations. I got hands on experience on DSL technologies, Mux-DMux installations and commissioning, telecommunication power systems, optical fibre fusion splicing and manufacturing of different types of fibre optic patch cords

www.nextera.com.pk and pigtails with FC, SC and ST connectors.

Jan 2002 to Mar 2002 Trainee Engineer

Carrier Telephone During eight weeks internship at CTI I worked on test system design

Industries Ltd (CTI) (SRAL JAGS) to test Microwave transmitters and receivers and to make

www.ctipak.com.pk it ready for final testing.

Mar 2002 to Sep 2002 Lecturer in Electronics

Allama Iqbal Institute of Six months teaching experience at AI institute of information technology

Information technology I was teaching Electronics, Digital logic design and C language to DIT and BIT students.

Education and Qualifications

Sep 2003 to Sep 2004 MSc in Communications Engineering

The University of Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics.

Manchester The course was a broad-based study of the theoretical aspects of Communication and Microwave Engineering, from the realization of practical systems through to the design of their constituent parts. The course covered digital transmission systems, radio frequency devices and design techniques to millimetric wavelengths.

Research Project Characterization of EBG Transmission Lines on high resistivity

www.manchester.ac.uk silicon substrate.

1997 to 2002 BEng (Hons), Department of Electronics, University of Peshawar

The University of Peshawar With distinction 73% marks and second position at the department.

Technical modules covered the full range of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, including Electronic Communications, Industrial Electronics, Computer Networking, Laser & Fibre Optics, Digital logic design, Digital signal processing, Microprocessors & Microcontrollers, Control Systems, Embedded C.

Research Project Designed a miniature Robot. The Robot was able to sense Light/Sound signals and was walking towards the Light/Sound signal with the help

www.upesh.edu of four legs.

1994 to 1997 FSc (Pre-Engineering)

Govt: Jehanzeb College Swat. Maths, Physics, Chemistry, English

1998-1994 SSC (General Science)

Govt: High School Shagai Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English

Personal Skills

Teamwork: Working for the last six years with different teams has greatly increased my understanding of the importance of team spirit.

Decision-making From practical project experience I have learnt that problems need to be approached logically, calmly and looked at from a variety of different angles and viewpoints. Decisions should always be justified, with implications at a holistic level considered and made at appropriate times to allow suitable actions.

Logic and planning considerable project management experience has improved my logical thinking and planning skills.

Sport I have a strong interest in exercise and keeping fit, something that I complement using cricket, where I am committed to an amateur cricket club and play matches with other local cricket clubs.