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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.

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.

Education record