COVER LETTER
Manager,
Human Resources
Dear Sir/Madam,
This is to express my interest in seeking a challenging and interesting engineering opportunity at your Company. An opportunity where I could apply my software design background for embedded electronics involving C/C++ and assembly programming languages, and my familiarity with the hardware components that constitute a typical embedded microprocessor operational environment. My resume is attached for your viewing and consideration. Alpha Technologies in Pittsburgh, PA most recently employed me as Firmware Engineer.
Since initiating my industrial journey in 1985, I have throughout been a software design engineer for a number of microprocessor based complex embedded electronic products. During my early career years, I designed software using assembly programming languages, and in recent years, my focus shifted to using the C programming language. As a design engineer within the development engineering departments of various companies, I routinely worked on multifaceted aspects of various electronic products’ internal software. These assignments required that I be reasonably familiar with the electronic hardware’s internal architecture/schematics, from a software developer’s perspective, while undertaking additional responsibilities such as debugging and testing of my software in a laboratory setting. Working in the laboratory environment required that I be comfortable with the use of test instruments and development tools. In some of my software related tasks, I provided current product software maintenance support such as software improvements, adding new software features, significant software test/validation activities followed by new software version releases. As may be obvious to you, I have been in a software development environment involving embedded products all these years since becoming a part of the industrial establishment. My understanding of software design concepts including particularly embedded systems forms the basis of my interest in seeking a position at your Company. I have a knack for learning new programming languages rapidly from books and instruction manuals thereby becoming productive. Furthermore, I willingly accept new assignments, which may or may not be quite structured in terms of final requirements. Consequently, given my varied engineering experience spanning complex electronic products and knowledge of product internals, I am confident your Company would find me in the best of roles if they were to offer me a challenging and interesting engineering position worthy of what I have to offer.
I look forward to meeting with the staff members of your Company for discussing a position of interest, and the relevance of my experience and qualifications to this position. For your convenience, I have provided my contact information in my resume, and I am available for telephonic and in-person interviews at reasonable notices. I am hopeful of a favorable consideration by you with regard to my interest in seeking employment at your Company, and I await your response.
Thanking you,
Sincerely,
Rashid Zia Khan
RESUME
Rashid Zia Khan
(United States Citizen)
Resides in Greater Philadelphia, PA, USA
TECHNICAL SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE AREAS
MS Visual Studio C/C++; assembly programming languages; real-time embedded software design experience for modems; infrastructure software (C) module re-usability; 16-bit micro controller (8051); RS-232 serial data transmission utilizing UART; some familiarity with embedded RTOS concepts; software development life cycle familiarity; knowledge of I2C link protocol; some exposure to Matlab/Simulink/Stateflow/Dspace’s Targetlink code generator; some familiarity with CAN bus protocol; some familiarity with Subversion (SVN) source code control repository; working knowledge of Clearcase source code control system; familiarity with Siemens C167CR microcontroller software design using C; some familiarity with UNIX; familiarity with MPEG-2/4 telemetry video-audio transport stream decoding; NXP PNX1700 video processor familiarity.
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Alpha Technologies Inc. (www.alpha.com)
Pittsburgh, PA
10/6/2014 – 8/3/2015 Firmware Engineer
• Designed and tested digital and analog channel identification (full-band diagnostics) digital signal processing firmware module written in C/C++ for a DOCSIS® compliant status monitoring transponder device.
• Re-coded and tested an existing non-volatile storage C/C++ firmware module according to modified firmware architecture for an existing fiber optics status monitoring transponder device.
Cheetah Technologies L.P. (www.cheetahtech.com)
Pittsburgh, PA
9/16/2013 – 10/5/2014 Firmware Engineer
• Re-coded and tested various existing C/C++ firmware control modules according to modified firmware architecture for two fiber optics node status monitoring transponder devices.
CNH (Case New Holland) (www.cnh.com)
New Holland, PA
11/21/2011 – 10/11/2012 Electrical and Electronic Systems Engineer
• Provided continuing engineering C language based embedded software (microcontroller firmware) modifications design support for use in cotton harvester vehicle’s control Electronics.
• Modified C language embedded software (microcontroller firmware) for automating (using Electronic control) an existing cotton harvester vehicle’s mechanical operation.
OCLARO, Incorporated (www.oclaro.com)
Horseheads, NY
4/19/2010 – 2/24/2011 Firmware Engineer
• Made modifications to the GUI (Graphical User Interface) C/C++ source code of an EDFA optical amplifier system modeling simulator for displaying amplifier’s noise figure statistics.
• Designed GUI test tool scripts for system verification of an EDFA optical amplifier’s control module using RS232 and I2C link protocols.
• Developed a test plan for FPGA circuit fault insertions within an optical amplifier’s hardware utilizing a software API (application programming interface.)
• Utilized and suitably modified a PC based C/C++ software utility for sanity testing of an optical amplifier’s transmission control module using I2C protocol.
• Made C/C++ firmware (real-time embedded software) modifications for an optical amplifier’s firmware upgrade releases.
Teletronics Technology Corporation (www.ttcdas.com)
Newtown, PA
6/12/2006 – 4/16/2009 DSP Engineer
• Designed C language software modules for extraction of embedded high resolution (1280x1024) and standard resolution MPEG-2 video elementary bit streams from fiber channel payload frames.
• Designed preliminary real-time C software modules for Silicon Laboratories embedded 8051 micro controller-FPGA based flight recorder control panel product.
• Linked an ADPCM (adaptive differential pulse code modulation) audio decoder software C module to the MPEG-2 transport stream demultipl...
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