Akram Syed, Mba Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, Alabama Area

- Championed Risk Management by evaluating model risk by highlighting the impact of potential deficiencies and weaknesses in model construction and usage.- Managed and lead internal teams and contractors.- Defined Model Validation Group’s policy and procedures by reading, understanding, and interpreting the Fed’s model validation guidance (SR 11-07).- Designed and developed a SharePoint site that serves as a centralized location and houses the model catalog (inventory management), line of business information, validation schedule/cycle, validation activities (dynamic project management), validation documents (version-controlled library of validation reports and workpapers), interactive version-controlled issue and model error tracker.- Researched and helped implement a comprehensive and complete spreadsheet management tool to be employed throughout the company for risk management.- Developed archiving methodology and network structure to house digital records of validations.- Designed validation report and workpaper structure and templates.- Perform validation activities independently and systematically by: researching relevant theory; defining scope of validation; prioritizing validation activities; analyzing surrounding governance and policies; exercising rigorous mathematical/statistical analysis; documenting tests performed and recording observations; organizing and communicating recommendations to the model owner; documenting and presenting succinctly to manager, Line of Business, Executive/Risk Management Committee, and the Federal Reserve.

Mobile, Alabama Area

Created demonstration applications that integrated several Nucleus middleware products such as USB, file system, networking stack and kernel. These applications were shipped to potential customers and used at trade shows resulting in thousands of quality leads.Presented and manned booths at trade shows, interacting with potential customers and identifying potential leads – successfully turning over hundreds of quality leads.Designed and managed a SharePoint site which served as an information center for all global application engineers and technical marketing engineers. This site housed document repositories, project management tools for managers, and bulletins to keep the global team updated on the industry and our products.

Mobile, Alabama Area

Key point of contact in North America, Europe, and Asia for technical and product related questions from internal application engineers, sales managers, and product marketing managers.Resolved issues for key global accounts such as Motorola, Brother and Blaupunkt related to USB, Compact Flash Cards, and Ethernet drivers.Customized Nucleus products for customer evaluation to demonstrate requested features.

Mobile, Alabama Area

Designed and developed the first automated serial driver testing suite. The testing suite was also the first of its kind to be architecture independent (ARM, PPC, MIPS, and ColdFire) and allowed engineers to cut testing time to 1/10th of the original time taken, saving valuable engineering resources and money.Performed quality tests for Nucleus kernel ports on a plethora of architectures, these test results were used by application engineers and became a part of marketing collateral.Wrote test code for interrupt level testing on hardware for over 20 unique ports.

Mobile, Alabama Area

Developed training material and procedural documents for incoming interns and engineering assistants.Configured suite of Nucleus (real-time operating system) products including middleware to test hardware level code for networking, file system, and USB applications.Installed and configured numerous embedded development tools including Metroworks, RealView Compilation Tools (RVCT), ARM GNU, and EDGE.

Mobile, Alabama Area

Masters, Quantitative Finance

Mba, Business, 3.86

Activities and Societies: Golden Key (Honor Society), Phi Beta Delta - Delta Eta Chapter (International Honor Society)

Computer Engineering, Engineering

Activities and Societies: Student Government Association, Council of International Students Organization, Dean's list