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Mississauga, Ontario

• Collaborated on designing Turbo Charging Lithium ion batteries for Forklifts.• Developed scalable telemetry stack to gather data analytics on lithium batteries in the field (IoT).• Implemented safety features and core battery functionality by utilizing CANbus protocol in C.• Developed web dashboard for internal and client reporting.• Investigated failure modes and documented standard operating procedures for production.• Defined procedures for Quality Control checks for production line.• Utilized Docker and Chef/Ansible to quickly generate test bed environments.Technical Environment SQL, Docker, CANbus, Python, Redis, C.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Supported Citrix/UNIX/SQL/C# based software running in automated warehouses spanning 8M sq ft across Canada.• Wrote automation scripts for database validation and integrity checks.• Developed web dashboard for internal reporting and SLA management integrating with ServiceNow.• Performed server maintenance/upgrade tasks on a weekly basis and solved many time sensitive technical issues.• Collaborated on Change and Incident management tasks and prepared detailed documentation and incident logs.

Mississauga, On

• Setup hosting for WordPress and RTMP/HLS Streaming using Apache and Nginx on CentOS.• Created custom responsive WordPress pages for clients.• Automated web data scraping using Python scripts and performed data analysis using R.• Point of contact for tech support and other technical inquiries.

Waterloo, Ontario

• Developed novel drug delivery mechanism involving stimuli-responsive release of gold nanoparticles and liposomes.• Independently created experimental design involving free radical polymerization, UV-Vis and gel electrophoresis in order to fully characterize hydrogels and stimuli-responsive release mechanism.• Publication: El-Hamed, Firas, Neeshma Dave, and Juewen Liu. "Stimuli-responsive Releasing of Gold Nanoparticles and Liposomes from Aptamer-functionalized Hydrogels." Nanotechnology 22.49 (2011).

Abu Dhabi, Uae

• Successfully presented proposal for an imaging device to the Chair of R&D and received funding for project.• Initiated and led a team to simulate and develop an imaging device to detect pipeline contamination. Part of $20M+ project.• Modeled and simulated using COMSOL a magnetic induction tomography device to be used in cross section imaging of petroleum pipelines.

Markham, Ontario

• Managed a team of 4 students and optimized daily data center maintenance tasks.• Handled multiple RFCs (Request for Change) and other services on client site in a professional manner.• Participated in implementation of ERP solutions and provisioning of UfT’s OneMail servers.• Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.• Utilized Remedy and SQL for data migration and queries for extraction.• Hardware Maintenance: including power grid optimization, deployment, break fix and move/add/change for servers, network equipment, and other devices.

Kanata, Ontario

• Demonstrated hardware and software product functionality to potential and existing clients.• Developed data acquisition, management, and reporting systems with daily reliable automated updates, received by senior administration members and key stakeholders.• Increased validation efficiency 25% by writing automation scripts using Pearl and Matlab.• Setup of Libra VSAT seismic data acquisition network comprising of satellites, seismometers, digitizers, and data processing.

For Bachelor Of Applied Sciencehonours, Nanotechnology Engineering

Activities and Societies: EngSoc, Resume Critiques, Intramural Squash • Queen Elizabeth II: Aiming for the Top Scholarship for exceptional.

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