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Mukdad Alwaw, Industrial Automation Engineer and consultant

Mukdad Alwaw

Industrial Automation Engineer and consultant·Self employed

Syria

Master's degree, Control and Automation

Work experience

Total years of experience: 33 years, 7 months

Industrial Automation Engineer and consultant

November 2020 - Present

Self employed

Damascus, Syria

November 2020 - Present

1. Maintain manufacturing machines.
2. Provide advice and support, help in choosing
automation components.

Company industry:
Industrial Engineering & Automation
Job role:
Engineering

Maintenance Manager

April 2019 - November 2020

Omnik limited

Lagos, Nigeria

April 2019 - November 2020

- Responded to breakdowns of different types of plastic manufacturing machines, that involved working
on automation components such as PLCs, SCADA systems, HMIs, VFDs, controllers and Industrial
communication protocols, in addition to maintaining UPS’s, switchgears and distribution boards.
- Organized preventative maintenance and controlled spare parts stock by developing softwares for
managing these tasks, performed preventative maintenance and provided required spare parts.
- Installed and commissioned new machines, designed and implemented electrical distribution boards.

Company industry:
Manufacturing
Job role:
Maintenance, Repair, and Technician

Lecturer

January 2006 - March 2019

H I A S T & Arab International University

Damascus, Syria

January 2006 - March 2019

 Lecturer in computer skills at Arab International University (AIU). \[6/2016 - till now\]
 Lecturer for Electronic Systems Engineering Students (5th year) in Industrial automation at HIAST. \[2009 - 2010\]
 Lecturer for Engineers in training course on PLC and PLC based automation at HIAST. \[2006 - 2016\]

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Teaching and Academics

Automation Engineer, Consultant in control and Automation

October 2016 - December 2018

Drink production Company

Syria

October 2016 - December 2018

- Automation specialist and Consultant at Afamia Beverages Company LLC -Damascus:
1. Manage the automation system of the company factory (components: S7 300 and S7 1200 PLC, Profibus, Profinet, Wincc, Danfoss and Nordac drives…). \[1/10/2016 - till now\]
2. Engaged with the Implementation Company (DIO Hradec Králové s.r.o) during commissioning and trial operation of the factory.
3. Provide recommendations to solve problems, improve performance and to reduce risks or downtime.

Company industry:
Food & Beverage Production
Job role:
Electrical Engineering

Head of sub Labaratory

January 2007 - May 2016

H I A S T

Syria

January 2007 - May 2016

 Head of industrial automation and industrial communications networks sub laboratory at HIAST

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Management

Automation Engineer

January 2000 - May 2016

H I A S T

Damascus, Syria

January 2000 - May 2016

 Participated in the design and Achievement of several automation projects at HIAST

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Engineering

 Engineer R&D

November 1992 - May 2016

H I A S T

Damascus, Syria

November 1992 - May 2016

 Work in Metrology, Calibration and Data acquisition.
 Reduced the calibration time of measurement devices by automating this process using GPIP (general purpose interface bus) and increased the quality of the calibration.
 Electronic circuits design (Control, display, address generation and scanning systems).
 Microprocessor aided control system:
 PLC aided Control and automation.
 Developed a pedagogical industrial automation laboratory by Designing and implementing new experiments platforms (Simatic and Twido components).
 Developed a pedagogical industrial networks laboratory by Designing and implementing new experiments platforms (Profibus-CAN-CANopen-Citect SCADA).

Company industry:
Primary, Prep, & Secondary School
Job role:
Research and Development

Education

Bauman Moscow state technical university

June 2000

June 2000

Master's degree, Control and Automation

Russian Federation

H I A S T

June 1995

June 1995

Higher diploma, Informatics

Syria

University of Damascus

June 1992

June 1992

Bachelor's degree,  Electronic Engineering

Syria

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Skills

Industrial Automation
Expert
Industrial Automation
Expert
Instrumentation
Expert
Instrumentation
Expert
Training & Teaching
Expert
Training & Teaching
Expert
Project Development
Expert
Project Development
Expert
Programming
Expert
Programming
Expert
Matlab
Expert
Matlab
Expert
C++
Expert
C++
Expert
Simatic Step7
Expert
Simatic Step7
Expert
Visual basic.NET
Expert
Visual basic.NET
Expert
MS Office
Expert
MS Office
Expert
Citect and Wincc SCADA
Intermediate
Citect and Wincc SCADA
Intermediate

Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
German
Beginner
Russian
Intermediate
French
Intermediate