Ahmad Faraz

Current

Principal Consultant, Engineering at Confidential

Past

Consultant at Palmchip
Senior Design Engineer at RWR
Consultant at Convergence

Firmware Engineer at TVIA
Software Engineer at Philips Semiconductors
Software Developer at Lucent Technologies
Software Engineer at CresSoft

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Education

Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad

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Industry

Consumer Electronics

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Ahmad Faraz’s Summary

System architect, entrepreneur and developer with 14 years of product development experience.

Ahmad Faraz’s Specialties:

- Product architecture and design from concept/specification

- Embedded hardware design, development and bring-up

- RTOS porting to new platforms

- Firmware design and development under various RTOS
environments

- Digital image/video processing

- Network & VoIP protocols

- Embedded user interfaces

- Familiar with consumer electronic products manufacturing including procuring parts and low to medium volume production

Ahmad Faraz’s Experience

Principal Consultant, Engineering

Confidential

(Telecommunications industry)

August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

- Ported Linux to ARM11 platform along with Adeos-Ipipe + Xenomai as RT extension.
- Responsible for porting and performance optimization of LTE stack on target platform under RT Linux. (iMX31, LTE)
- Ported eCos to ARM9 (ARM926EJ-S) platform.
Consultant

Palmchip

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 1 month)

Contributed to development of solid-state hard drive (S-ATA, SSD, LZ).
Senior Design Engineer

RWR

(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

October 2002 — October 2006 (4 years 1 month)

Architected and lead design and development of a real-time radar signal processing system (Nucleus, ARM7TDMI, VxWorks, PowerQuicc II, PowerQuicc III, EW/ESM).
Consultant

Convergence

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 2003 — December 2004 (1 year 7 months)

Architected, designed and developed hardware and software for an IP phone based on TI TMS320C54CST DSP.
Firmware Engineer

TVIA

(Public Company; TVIA; Semiconductors industry)

2001 — 2002 (1 year )

Firmware for media SoC (ThreadX, MicroSPARC).
Software Engineer

Philips Semiconductors

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; NXP; Semiconductors industry)

November 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 7 months)

Contributed to design and development of digital video codecs (MPEG-1/MPEG-2) targeted to 32 and 64-bit VLIW processors for consumer electronics applications (pSOS, TriMedia).
Software Developer

Lucent Technologies

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)

November 1998 — October 1999 (1 year )

Contributed to software development for Packet Voice Gateway (pSOS, PowerPC).
Software Engineer

CresSoft

(Computer Software industry)

October 1996 — November 1998 (2 years 2 months)

Contributed to design and development of a video conferencing system (pSOS, TriMedia).