Safwan Qasem, Assistant Professor

Safwan Qasem

Assistant Professor

King Saud University

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Project Management Institute Certification - PMI
Experience
25 years, 11 months

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Total years of experience :25 years, 11 months

Assistant Professor at King Saud University
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since March 2009

Assistant professor in Computer and Information Sciences at King Saud University - Department of Computer Science:
- Leading development activity in order to achieve ABET accreditation.
- Expert in Academic program accreditation and institutional Accreditation
- Confirmed International program evaluator.
- Member of the institutional board of assessors.
- Teaching graduate and under-graduate courses
- Supervising graduation projects.

Previous courses for graduate level:
Advanced Software Engineering
Project Management
Design and Implementation of Real-Time Systems
Expert Systems And Knowledge Engineering Applications

Previous and current courses for under-graduate level:
Computer Networks
Systems Programming
Advanced Java Programming
Project Management

System Architect at Texas Instruments Inc.
  • France
  • September 2003 to March 2009

- Define optimized power Management System Architecture,
to increase battery life in Chipset design (for mobile phone manufacturers)
- Fill Customers' RFIs / RFQs with regards to Chipset battery life capabilities.
- Capture Customers' requirements and Marketing Teams' requirements
- Define SW & HW Requirements for optimized power consumption.
- Propose necessary SW / HW optimizations to meet the program targets.
- Define Power Management System Architecture aligned with requirements.
- Estimate and set targets for specific use cases to be achieved with regards to the a platform HW and SW architecture plans
- Write Detailed Architecture Documents directed to HW and SW Development Units.
- Provide training and support to SW developpers and Solution Delivery Teams.
- Support Program Director on Battery Life Topics.
- Play the role of a Program Director for Battery Life Management by coordinating a workgroup with all SW & HW power management stakeholders to ensure convergence towards targets and prevent regressions over execution time.
- Hold Workshop with customers' technical staff to explain the platform capabilities and constraints.
- Follow-up on power consumption measurements and improvements until targets are successfully reached.

Sofware Engineer at Cap Gemini
  • France
  • September 2002 to September 2003

Within the Telco Expertise Center team, I helped Hewlett-Packard customers to install, customise, integrate HP OpenView TeMIP (see a description below)..
This TelcoEC team is at a central position, interacting with many other: customers, HP Consulting & Integration, support level 3, Development, Specific Development, Marketing, Product planning, etc.
I also participated in exploring new business development opportunities with highly demanding accounts such as Hewlett Packard and Texas Instruments.

TeMIP:
HP OpenView TeMIP Fault Management and Real-Time Operations is an industry-proven, alarm-handling, event-logging network visualization solution. It supports network operations centers (NOCs) of all sizes-independent of the communications infrastructure. HP OpenView TeMIP Fault Management distributes highly filtered and correlated alarms across secure GUIs to the operators that need them through microsoft windows, UNIX or the Web.

Sofware Engineer at Opteway
  • France
  • July 2000 to June 2002

Design and Development of software components of a electronic Maps platform with Location based Services, Points of Interests, optimal road calculation, car guidance through GPS ....

Software Engineer at Gentech
  • France
  • May 1998 to July 2000

Design and Development of a Simple and stereoscopic 3D molecular representation and exploration module for Biotechnix 3D": a DNA/protein sequence analysis & protein 3D viewer.
Implementing DNA and Protein analasys algorithms and techniques.

Education

Master's degree, Project Management Institute Certification - PMI
  • at Project Management Institute - PMI
  • September 2005

PMP - Project Management Proffetional. All aspects of Project Management Skills: Initiation, Cost Management, Schedule Management, Procurement, Quality Management, Team Management...

Doctorate, Computer Science
  • at Universite Joseph Fourrier - Grenoble 1
  • December 1997

Doctorate in Computer Science, obtained with mention: Very horable. Thesis prepared in the French National Center of Scientific research and Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Cabri-geometry team of Leibniz Laboratory Work partially sponsored by Texas Instruments Inc.

Master's degree, Master Degree in Computer science applied to social sciences
  • at Universite Pierre Mendes France - Grenoble 2
  • September 1995

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Computer Science
Team Management
Software Design
System Architecture
Project Management
Software Research and Development Engineer
System Software Architect

Languages

English
Expert
French
Expert
Arabic
Expert
Spanish
Intermediate

Memberships

PMI - Project Management Institute
  • member
  • September 2005