Profile

A self-motivated electronics design engineer with experience in the field of telecommunication through the work at Siemens. Able to work in and manage multicultural teams. Qualifications in technological business management and marketing strategies besides the skills in innovations and creativity techniques

 

Skills

Technology & innovation management

-          Business plan & market research mainly in technological B2B field

-          Scenario development, technology forecasting and innovation strategies

-          Creativity techniques (mainly De Bono’s methods)

-          Negotiation, Intercultural communication & business management in different countries

-          Intellectual property rights & international trade laws

-          Strategic planning through IT and product life cycle

 

Hardware design

-          FPGA design using VHDL language

-          High speed board design

-          Telecomm and Datacom protocols like (ATM, SDH/SONET, E1/T1, Bluetooth, Ethernet

-          Hardware design tools: Modelsim, Leonardo, Altera Quartus, and Design Architect

-          Hardware technologies: Altera’s APEX & ACEX and Xilinx’s Vertix devices

 

Software design

-          ATM/POS chip driver & Embedded OS kernel design for chip testing

-          C, Assembly, Visual Basic, Java and HTML languages

-          Java based connectivity with Oracle Database

 

Training

-          Responsible for training new hardware and FPGA engineers and students

-          Lead and support of several open source projects under Handasa Arabia & opencores

 

Achievements

-          Establishment of Handasa Arabia and international electronics design contest for students

-          Starting partnership between Handasa Arabia & Islamic development Bank (SDN)

-          Scenario and specification development for wearable computing system

-          Scenario development for WiMAX establishment for developing countries

-          Business plan development for adopting open source hardware design tool

-          Presentation of a paper and project proposals in ALECSO open source workshop

-          Published articles in Technology fields and Open source Hardware concepts

-          APS protocol implementation on FPGA on a limited size FPGA

-          AAL5 for ATM protocol implementation on FPGA with the use of the external cores

-          Adopting PC software techniques to embedded software design for low memory and system

-          Design of high speed Gigabit Ethernet Switches board

-          Several independent software projects

-          Several OpenSource free designs (floating point unit, Bluetooth, ISDN, TDM and HDLC)

 

Experience

 

Handasa Arabia Organization	Virtual organization	03–	General Coordinator
Siemens ICT currently Exalt-Tech	Rammalla, Palestine	98–04	Senior FPGA designer
Siemens Data Communication	Karmail, Israel	98–99	Hardware design engineer
Arab Turnkey Systems (ATS)	Ramalla, Palestine	97	Internship

Education

M.Sc. of Technology and Innovation Management, FH-Brandenburg Germany: award expected 10/2006

Attended some courses of MBA program at Birzeit University: 2002-2003

B.Sc., Major: Electrical Engineering, Birzeit University: 7/98

           Minor: Computer Science, Birzeit University: 7/98

 

Relevant educational experience

·         Master Thesis: "Free Open Source as a Technology Transfer tool for the Arab world"

·         MSc. Graduation Project: "Driving Innovation through Research & Design incubation"

·         BSc. Graduation Project: "A complete set of PC based Measurement Tools" Full design of the Conditioning, Digital circuits, DSP, PC Interfacing and software drivers

·         Computer seminar entitled: Games, Multimedia and graphics software design

 

Interests

·         Creativity techniques and adaptation to management

·         Technology market trends and forecasting

·         Innovations and their effects on the economic systems

·         Run-time reconfigurable logic applications and related tools

·         DSP, CPU and arithmetic IP cores design and implementation on FPGA

·         Open hardware design concepts

 

Affiliations

·                     Member of IEEE Computer and Engineering management societies since 1998

·                     Leader member of OpenCores.org & OpenTech project since 2000

·                     Co-Founder  & general coordinator of Handasa Arabia organization since 2003

·                     Member of Program Committee of the IEEE IOST3 Workshop, April 2006, California

 

Personal Details

Date of birth: 12/7/1975

Marital status: Married

 

Languages

 

Arabic	English	German	Hebrew
Mother language	Excellent	Good	Working knowledge

 

Courses, trainings & workshops

• Intermediate Digital design and verification using VHDL.
• Expert digital design using VHDL.
• Digital communication protocols E1/T1, SONET & SDH.
• General Course on Intellectual Property administrated by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
• Management courses: Innovation management, Technology management, Innovation controlling, Investment & finance, Technology market research, B2B marketing, Economics of Industrial Innovation, IT-consulting, Organizational Behavior
• Open source workshop organized by Arab League (ALECSO), Tunis

 

Articles and publications: Please refer to the website for complete list