Engineering & Operations
ACE Solar
Total years of experience :18 years, 4 Months
- Provide specification development for residential and commercial Solar PV design packages including solar array layouts, electrical one-line, inverter and cable sizing, and equipment mounting details.
- Design complete residential and commercial Solar PV system using Helioscope and Aurora software.
- Check customers quote requests for residential and commercial PV systems and provide quotations based on best system design, available state and federal policies, and customer economic advantage.
- Perform site visits to gather site’s specific information including pictures of existing conditions to aid in design.
- Review site visit details to determine interconnection requirements and PV system
potential issues.
- Draft and review energy yield calculations using tools such as PVSyst and PVWatts.
- Size Solar PV systems and create detailed material lists.
- Establish and maintain client working relationships
- Generation of engineering requirements documents
1- Project: Scholarship Management; developed a project to streamline automated management of scholarship programs.
2- Mobilized & led a project team that developed and executed an implementation plan.
3- Developed detailed work plan for requirements and prioritized tasks to ensure milestones were met.
4- Socialized and obtained approval for the plan with long-term vision of enabling electronic scholarship management.
5- Identified tracked and mitigated risks; also escalated issues to ensure minimal impact to quality & budget.
6- Led requirements management including deliverable preparation, review, approval & sign-off.
7- Performed analysis of business rules, business and system process flows, user administration to be used for the new merged platform.
8- Gathered, documented and analyzed the medical records of new scholarship students.
9- Identified, researched, defined and documented user problems and automated/manual business processes.
10- Managed enhancements and defects promptly to assist the operations in resolving issues.
11- Assisting students to independently monitor their progress toward achieving their educational and career goals.
12- Being accessible and available to students to respond to their questions and concerns.
13- Helping students define and develop educational plans; assisting in the selection of appropriate coursework and opportunities to achieve students’ goal.
14- Clarifying pertinent information regarding Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) rules and discussing implication toward students’ academic success.
15- Maintaining professional integrity, confidentiality, respect, and sensitivity in advising.
* Providing SPI, wiring design, I/O input list, vendor document review, loop drawings, and system design description (SDD) input for the following systems:
- Main Power Generation and Transmission
- Chilled Water
- Demineralized Water
- Circulating Water
* Participate in reviewing and checking designs, drawings, and data from suppliers
* Walk-down of existing plant equipment
* Generation of walk-down packages
* Generation of design packages
* Origination of calculation
* Specification of instrument and control valves
* Design of digital and analog logic
* Digital upgrades of existing plant equipment
* Allocation of DCS I/O, location arrangement of DCS and other control cabinets
* Application of tubing and instrument installation design
* Review of supplier documentation
• Responsible for facility radiological air monitoring systems and instrumentations
• Interacted with engineers, maintenance personnel, and planners to carryout day-to-day activities such as preventive and corrective maintenance
• Planned and developed engineered solutions to technical tasks and project objectives
• Responsible for the design, application, testing, and/or preparation of specifications for systems, materials, equipment or components
• Applied technical knowledge toward the reduction of cost and improvement of the product and incorporate new ideas resulting from engineering/scientific progress in the field
• Acted as a design authority (DA) to interact with the design agency to develop, review, and approve new designs before implementation
• Prepared cost and schedule estimates on projects/tasks in assigned area
• Provided major project design solutions for support modifications to resolve new scope issues
• Ensured coordination of design inputs from plant engineering, operational and maintenance organizations to facilitate optimal design solutions
• Performed owner reviews of vendor deliverables
• Performed engineering evaluation on all Out-of-Calibration (OOC) notices of plant’s Measurement and Test Equipment (M&TE) for potential facility impact
• Worked with the application engineering group to prepare quotations, BOM, and Price Sheet and provided technical support to customers for MVC and MVS.
• Kept track of available jobs in monthly basis and followed up with other application engineers for new updates.
• Provided marketing support for MVC and MVS and helped in creating a catalogue for a new product (SDV 6).
• Joined a group to design an Optical Link Chip set to carry HDMI data over fiber media by utilizing the least number of fiber channels
• Calculated power budget, board layout, parts ordering and testing of the final design demo
• Evaluated the Spartan 3 FPGA I/O cell voltage reference capability by developing a FPGA design to implement I/O voltage reference standards and demo the system capability
Notable Coursework: Computer Networks. System Control Engineering. Digital Signal Processing. Digital Signal Processing Architecture. Digital Communication. RF Design for Wireless. Wireless Communication Systems. Electromagnetic Fields. Design of Electronic Packaging and Interconnect. Photonics. Mechatronics. Linear Algebra, Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists I & II. Course Projects: Alternate Energy Systems Jan 2015 – May 2015 Designed a 3.1 kW stand-alone Photovoltaic (PV) system which provide the necessary energy to electrify a residential household in a remote area in the northern region of Sudan. The load size of a single household is prepared and sized as well as the battery and PV array. Wireless Communication Systems, Raleigh, NC Aug 2008 – Dec 2008 - Designed wireless communication system to support voice telephony service using TDMA system. Specifically, the design based on determining the cell layout, frequency reuse factor, number and location of base stations per unit area, user capacity per cell, cell coverage area, transmit power of the base stations and mobiles, and modulation scheme. DSP Architecture, Raleigh, NC Jan 2005 – May 2005 - Modelled Adaptive Equalizer using SystemC which design used the Least Mean-Square Algorithm to filter the noise out of a system. Mechatronics, Raleigh, NC Aug 2004 – Dec 2004 - Designed an unmanned vehicle to travel along a predefined path using C codes along with the design of PID controller. System Control Engineering, Raleigh, NC Jan 2004 – May 2004 - Designed an unmanned vehicle to travel along XY-plane using MATLAB and Simulink models.
Graduated with Magna Cum Laude Honors