Walid Farid A. Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Canada Area

▪ Building and managing multiple teams of highly skilled engineers and researchers to develop the company's line of software products:- Profound-DR (Dead Reckoning through fusing GNSS, INS and auxiliary sensors)- Profound-Radar (Radar Fusion with DR sensors and Maps for Automated Valet Parking Applications)- Profound-IP3 (Instant Precise Point Positioning Engine)▪ Project management of Profound-DR and Profound-Radar C/C++ software navigation librariesstarting from gathering the customer's requirements to delivering real-time products that satisfy the design specifications under strict deadlines.▪ Gathering and analyzing requirements for the Profound-DR prototype hardware system and workingwith third party design houses to finalize the system design and development.▪ Leading the software design and development of an Android application built with Java, JNI and C/C++ to showcase the performance of Profound-IP3 engine with raw GNSS observations acquired from the device and corrections delivered over the Internet.▪ Leading the software design and development of Profound-DR and Profound-Radar navigationlibraries such as API design, packet structure, file format, navigation algorithms, and coding guidelines.▪ Driving all team members to deliver on time to the required quality standards.

Kingston, Ontario

Working on projects that involved embedded systems design, sensors’ evaluation, GNSS/INS algorithm design and development.

Calgary, Alberta

Resumed the same responsibilities as a Software Development Manager after InvenSense acquired Trusted Positioning Inc. in August 2014.

Calgary, Alberta

▪ Leading and directing the software team towards the products and projects assigned to the team.▪ Allocating resources and ensuring the team has the appropriate direction at all times to remain on track to product commitments and deadlines.▪ Tracking and reporting the status of software projects, and providing regular updates to the VP of Engineering.▪ API design, implementation and maintenance for the T-PN (Trusted Portable Navigator) and T-MN (Trusted Machine Navigator) products.▪ Overseeing the design and implementation of various software products: T-PN, T-PN ME (Multi-Device) and T-MN on various platforms: Desktop/Windows, Mobile/Android, Web-based/Python-Flask.

Calgary, Alberta

▪ API design and library implementation for the T-PN and T-MN products.▪ Design and implementation of prototype navigation systems for evaluating different sensors and GNSS receivers. The work included hardware schematics review; design, and debugging; firmware development for interfacing with sensors, GNSS receivers and other wireless components; navigation application development on Linux-based distributions; host software development to analyze the navigation solution on PC.▪ Working on the post-analysis software for navigation solution: code maintenance and adding new features.▪ Research and development of specific navigation modules for T-PN and T-MN products, including magnetometer calibrations.▪ Providing training and aid to new software developers.

Calgary, Alberta

▪ Developing firmware to interface with various sensors and GNSS receivers.▪ Application development for embedded-Linux based distributions.▪ System level design for prototypes and new customer products.

▪ Involved in designing and implementing embedded software on ARM Cortex-M3 based µControllers to acquire and synchronize measurements from various sensors.

▪ Member of the Navigation and Instrumentation Research Group (NavINST) located in the Royal Military College of Canada.▪ Working on projects related to embedded systems design and navigation algorithms realization.

ELEC-470 - Computer System Architecture (Winter 2008/2009)ELEC-371 - Microprocessor Systems (Fall 2009/2010)

Maintaining and developing C code for the DVB-H “Digital Video Broadcasting for Handheld” Integrated Chip.

▪ Testing various Verilog/SystemVerilog features on ModelSim.▪ Testing the Unified Coverage Data-Base (UCDB) feature on ModelSim.

M.A.Sc., Electrical & Computer Engineering

Thesis: Real-Time Embedded System Design and Realization for Integrated Navigation Systems

B.Sc., Computer & Systems Engineering, Distinction With Honor

Graduation Project: Controlling an unguided robotic vehicle using a CAN-based Embedded System. ▪ Designing and implementing a CISC.