PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND (EXPERIENCE)
TECHNICAL TRAINING AND SHORT COURSE/S ATTENDED
1983-85: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals,
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Received M.S. degree in Mechanical Eng., with a GPA of
3.875 on a 4.0 scale and specialization in Thermal Sciences.
1977-81: Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India. Received B.Sc.Engg. (Hon's.) degree in Mechanical Eng. with second rank in order of merit in Mechanical Engineering with a GPA of 8.6 on a 10.0 scale.
1974-77: Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India. Received B.Sc. (Hon's.) degree in Physics with first rank in order of merit, and scored 70% of marks.
1973-74: Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, U.P., India. Received Pre - University School Certificate with first division and obtained 67% of marks.
1971-73: U.P. Board of High School and Inter mediate
Education, Allahabad, U.P., India. Received High School Certificate with first
division and obtained 68.8% of marks.
April 2005 – to Date: Research Engineer-II (Associate Professor), Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
April 1999 – March 2005: Research Engineer-III (Assistant Professor), Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
September 1991 – March 1999: Engineer-I, Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
April 1986 - Aug. 1991: Engineer-II, Research Institute, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
December 1982 - Nov. 1985: Research Assistant Mechanical Engineering Department King Fahd University Of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
November 1981 - Dec. 1982: Design Engineer, N. C. Gupta A/C. Consultants, New
Delhi, India.
WindFarm: - Good experience working with wind farm design software for optimal energy yield from a wind farm having cluster of wind turbines.
HOMER: - Hand on experience on HOMER software used for the design, optimization and cost estimation of hybrid power systems for isolated and grid connected small and large systems. The hybrid power system may include but not limited to Wind-Diesel, Wind-Photovoltaic, Wind-Diesel-Photovoltaic with or without battery backup.
RetScreen: - Have very experience working with RetScreen software used for the sizing and economical analysis of hybrid power systems for bothe isolated grid and central grid connected systems.
ORACLE: -
Have been working on design, development and to certain extent management of
ORACLE RDBS since 1993. During this period, I extensively used ORACLE* FORMS,
ORACLE*REPORTS, ORACLE*GRAPHICS, PLSQL*PLUS, and other tools. I have also
developed a Management Information System for the Research Institute of the King
Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, using ORACLE, a relational
database software, as a team member. I have also developed applications using Microsoft
Access as back end and Visual Basic
as front end.
Extensively used IBM 360/158, MVS3033, VAX 8350 and
HP9845, in developing software in languages FORTRAN, BASIC. I have developed an
interactive graphic facility, which utilizes DCL, Fortran and the SAS Graphic
Package on VAX 8350.
TECHNICAL
TRAINING AND SHORT COURSE/S ATTENDED
Attended a weeklong short course entitled Introduction
to ORACLE: SQL and PL/SQL offered by ORACLE at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia during
January 31 to February 4, 1993.
Attended a short course entitled Personal
Computer Networking offered by the
Computer Engineering Department of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and
Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia during April 03 to April 07, 1993.
Attended a short course entitled Introduction
to Java offered by the Information
and Computer Science Department of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and
Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia during November 08 to November 12, 1997.
Attended a technical training course offered by VIZ
Manufacturing Company, Philadelphia, PA, USA, on the ZEEMET WL-9000 LORAN
Meteorological Processing System during November 28 - December 02, 1988.
Following is the description of the course contents covered during a weeklong
training:
An introduction to the Company's history, Radiosonde
and Ground equipment. System overview, Sonde overview, Theory of operation,
System operation, Technical description of each module, Test procedures on each
module, LORAN filters, Troubleshooting, Set-up and installation of interconnect
system, Initialization of the system, Software diagnostics of system and sonde
launch.