Abdel Rahman Elsayed Email & Phone Number

Ontario, Canada

Worked with GeoSpatial data including data processing in ETL and nearest neighbor analysis using PostGIS and Python. Set up backend API for a data analytics dashboard to keep track of service level agreements.

- Currently working with a SaaS start-up that is building a tool to help companies improve their alignment with global sustainability standards- Providing both back-end and front-end recommendations relating to data analytics that aim to improve business value and reliability of their software tool- Assisting with Project Management related tasks including organizing and monitoring tasks on kanban board (Trello, Jira)

• Teaching Statistics, Data Analytics, Project Management, Algebra• Motivate students and professionals through hands-on instruction, coaching, and consulting• Successfully guided a professional to deliver an impactful presentation to senior management on Rapid Improvement change management which helped her get a promotion• Teaching students fundamentals of statistics, how to perform statistical tests, and how to analyze data using Excel, R, and Python• Develop customized videos for students with step-by-step guides how to solve their problems• Received an average of 4.9/5 star rating from over 100 tutoring sessions at TutorMe platformTestimonials:"Abdel Rahman has tutored me in my college level statistics class and has helped me immensely by providing great feedback, and taking me step by step to help me understand the assignment at hand. His encouraging attitude really prompted me to strive to do better for each assignment he has helped me with. I would recommend him to anyone who is struggling in a math or statistics course.""You saved me from failing this course!"

Toronto, Canada Area

• Enhanced my leadership and management skills through building an early stage start up company; took charge of administrative tasks, assembled team, organized resources, and facilitated daily scrum• Helped develop company’s value proposition for inspection automation in hydroelectric stations• Developed strategies to engage stakeholders through the project to improve team’s knowledge of end-user needs, enabling team to pitch a solution that was ‘exactly what they were looking for’• Team was one of six finalists among 35 entries at MaRS & OPG’s Generate Innovation challenge

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

• Enhanced attention to detail through detailed quality auditing on every stage of the production process; utilized engineering drawings, specifications, FMEA process, and Statistical Process Control• Conducted process audits, root cause analysis, and maintained documentation to conform to ISO requirements• Contributed to Continuous Improvement initiatives; recommended fixes necessary to improve the efficiency of workflow, to improve coordination of QC resources, and to improve communication between shifts• Outstanding problem-solving abilities were demonstrated through introducing a new method to diagnose, fix, and prevent a recurring mechanical distortion defect while under pressure to meet product shipping schedules, resulting in eliminating $2000/day of rework costs and production delays. Received recognition award.

Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

• Led project to resolve technical challenges with Converde’s coal beneficiation process for inexpensive, high energy density, ash-free hydrocarbon sources; got promoted to Chemical Process Engineer within 6 months• Co-led design and planning activities for conversion of hydrocarbons & steam power generation Pilot Plant Project for a government of Botswana subsidiaryo Co-Developed business and technical documentation for Pilot Plant Project proposal; secured $2.5M contract

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

• General Motors-sponsored project to develop novel composite materials for Li-ion batteries• Synthesized silicon nanowires, carbon nanotubes, graphene nanosheets using various techniques• Characterized materials using XRD, TGA, SEM, TEM, and Raman before and after battery testing• Assembled cells, ran battery tests, processed data, analyzed results and completed reports• Performed data analytics on data collected from Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy tests • Conducted weekly presentations with senior scientists to discuss research and commercial scale-up • Coordinated multiple research projects for the development of high performance battery materials• Presented research data to project sponsor and academic publications; used MatLab, MS PowerPoint & Excel, and OriginPro for validating, analyzing, modelling, and visualizing data• Redesigned laboratory scale process which resulted in 500% reduction in cost of material production and establishing a new standard procedure that was scalable for roll-to-roll manufacturing

Waterloo, On, Canada

University Of Waterloo, Waterloo, On, Canada

Part of a team that developed cancer-targeting drug delivery using starch Nanoparticles and DNA Aptamers.I created the animation in the following link to illustrate our project at the Design Symposium: http://uwnano.aareet.com/Animation_v2.swfTeam was awarded 2nd place overall at the symposium.

Cairo, Egypt

Research topic: Carbothermal reduction of amorphous silica using microwave heating.• Designed and built my own microwave-safe system for heat insulation and argon flow.• Introduced a new field of research to the institute• Built a new relationship between the institute and a vendor• Achieved “outstanding” evaluation at the end of the co-op

Worked in the Advanced Battery Group at the Institute for Chemical Process and Environmental Technology (ICPET).• Designed and synthesized porous tin material for efficient, high capacity Li-ion battery electrodes• Prepared and tested water-soluble, eco-friendly polymer binders for silicon based electrodes• Tested batteries using Arbin battery cyclers and Cyclic Voltammetry and analyzed data• Independently operated XRD and TGA characterization tools after rigorous safety training• Presented research outcomes at the intstitute and completed work report

Waterloo, On, Canada

• Tested browser performance of Blackberry handheld devices • Processed test data using VBA Macro programming in MS Excel with statistical analysis• Improved the Visual Basic code which made the data processing to run five times faster

• Optimized procedure for synthesis of silica nanoparticles from economic precursors for use in nanocomposites and material corrosion resistance applications• Extracted critical information from relevant research publications to assist me in the project• Compared particle properties (particle diameter, particle size distribution, agglomeration) using TEM with those from research publications and particles made with different synthesis conditions• Processed ceramic material by compressing to discs, sintering, and heat treating to be used for testing material properties such as porosity, densification, and mechanical and thermal properties

Master Of Applied Science, Chemical Engineering (Nanotechnology)

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Nanotechnology Engineering

Activities and Societies: Robotics competition - Team won 1st place