PERSONAL
Birth date 1966
Marital Status Married, two children
Languages English – Arabic – French (basic) Malaysian (Good)
Personal Interest Soccer, Cars & Computers
VISA Status UAE Residence
EDUCATION
M.Sc COMPUTER SCIENCE
(USM, Penang – Malaysia 2000-2002)
B.Sc. CONTROL & SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
(University of Technology, Baghdad-Iraq 1984 -1988)
WORK EXPERIENCE
2002 – 2007 COGNEX Intellectual advisory Services Sdn. Bhd - Malaysia
FRIS Robotics Institute Sdn. Bhd. - Malaysia
R & D Manager, Designing & implementing Client/Server with wireless PDA/Smart Phone applications for educational & industrial sectors, those salable software brought good profit & strengthen the company’s position in the market as pioneer in developing PDA/Mobile devices applications and granting the Malaysia MSC status
2000 – 2002 (USM) University Science Malaysia, Penang - Malaysia
Systems Engineer & Senior Research Officer at school of Computer Science, mainly developing multi-media client/server video conferencing system under the R & D department of Mlabs sdn. Bhd. This software has awarded as best IT product of the year and many other awards as the best outstanding local product from the ministry of science & others.
1998 – 2000 First Robotics Industrial Science, Penang - Malaysia
IT Manager. Planning, implementation and administrating company’s networks and infrastructure applications, plus software development. Senior lecturer for training advance diploma students.
1988 – 1998 (NOC) North Oil Company, Kirkuk – Iraq
Start with assistance communication engineer, followed by maintenance engineer and finally senior engineer. In the early years, the job was mainly on communication and control systems and ended with software developer & network engineer manager. Proud to be awarded by the PM for the work done in rebuilding the company after the war. Also awarded from the ministry of oil for developing the salary & payroll system for the company (10000 employees) & the software sold to other Petroleum companies. Finally, senior engineer In charge of the installation, maintenance & management of the company PC LAN & cable/telephone link PC communication
OTHERS
Projects Done
Below is listed among the important projects that I have carried out and/or involved:
- [2006] Integration of various database systems under one centralize platform with PDA access & real time synchronization for the purpose of SHRDC applications. (Project Leader)
- [2005] Designing & implementing a multi-user, Multi-task students & Staff Management System, managing all the resources under one platform with PDA access technology (Team Leader)
- [2004] Designing systems & models for competency based education and skills programs
- [2002] Wireless PDA & Mobile software applications for educational & training centers – its commercial software used for managing occupational skills [SKILLS], for early childhood education [INFOGARDEN] & for school & collages [NEWSCHOOL] at COGNEX Sdn. Bhd.
- [2000] Multi-Media Video Conferencing System at MLABS sdn. Bhd. With USM for designing the document conferencing part. This product was awarded as the best IT product of the year.
- [1999] Computers Networking designing, configures and managing the company PC & wireless networking at FRIS (First Robotics Industrial Science Sdn. Bhd.) Penang.
- [2003] Training for bachelor graduates at Selangor Human Resource Development Center for designing software to control the Robotic kit at Shah Alam.
for bachelor engineers at FUJI electric at High-Tech Kulim, Globotronis factory at Bayan Lepas Penang in Control Systems, Computer Hardware, Programming & Electronics Courses.
- [2001] ATM Switching Networking with closed loop deflection routing and multi-buffer. This project was done to fulfill the requirement for the MSc award to be granted.
- [1993] Maintain NEC computer control for North Oil Company/Iraq Pipelines , this project includes adding more programs for Oil pipelines computer control
- [1991] Installing new PID controllers, this project held at the dept. of control & systems, North Oil Company/Iraq for pipelines & Pump stations.
- [1992] Designing new program for PDP11 Mini Computer , this project done for the control & systems dept. at North oil Company/Iraq
- [1994] Installing new wireless & remote communication systems for the purposes of the North Oil Company/Iraq operation and outstation works
- [1995] Maintenance & Re-Configure IBM mainframe computer at North Oil Company/Iraq Computers Dept. after the war.
- [1996] Systems Integration, this project done to convert all the software systems [payroll, salary, fixed assets, accounting,.. etc.] from the old Mainframe systems to PC systems at North Oil Company/Iraq.
- [1992] PC Network Installation, this project done to setup a PC networking & telephone PC linking for all the dept. of North Oil Company/Iraq.
- [1996] Designing Salary & Payroll System, this project done to design new salary & payroll software for North Oil Company/Iraq. This software also sold to other Oil Companies in Iraq.
- [1989] Maintain Stock Control System involved in this project for the Iraqi Air Force.
Proficiency in the following PC languages:
- PDA Programming (PocketPC, Palm & Smart Phone)
- Crystal Reports
- SQL, MySQL
- VB.Net, C#.Net, Visual Basic/Foxpro
- Pascal Lang.,C/C++ Lang.
- Assembly Lang.
- Applications programs (windows XP, windows NT & most its programs under it,
- Novell , Internet applications, UNIX, HTML, .ASP, Php)
LECTURING (TOTALLY 7 YEARS)
- Networking
- Programming Languages (Visual basic/FoxPro, Pascal, C, and Assembly).
- Computers hardware & Computer maintenance (PC, mainframe).
- Control Systems, Sensors, Electronics, Power Electronics, Electrical Machine, DSP, Digital electronics and software engineering
Training courses Attended
Title duration venue
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1- Introductory to telecommunications 3 months N.O.C Kirkuk - Iraq.
2- LAN/WAN 2 weeks do.
3- Pascal programming lang. 1 week do.
4- C programming lang. 1 week National center for computers
5- Assembly lang. 1 week do.
6- PC data/communication security courses 1 week do.
7- IBM Main Frame maintenance 3 months N.O.C Kirkuk - Iraq By IBM
8- AutoCAD application 2 weeks N.O.C Kirkuk – Iraq
9- PLC, PDP11 Mini Controller 2 weeks N.O.C Kirkuk – Iraq
10- NEC Computer/Process Control (Pipe Lines) 3 Months N.O.C Kirkuk – Iraq
11- Radio Frequency Tx Rx (Communication) 3 weeks N.O.C Kirkuk – Iraq
Training Courses, Seminars & Workshop Conducted
Title duration venue
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1- Networking LAN/WAN 2 weeks N.O.C Kirkuk - Iraq.
2- MainFrame Maintenance 2 weeks do.
3- FoxPro/VB Programming Language 2 weeks do.
4- PDA Developing Application 1 week SHRDC Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia
5- Advanced Diploma Program at FUJI Electric 3 months Kulim Kedah - Malaysia
6- Diploma Program at Globotronics Semiconductors 3 months Penang – Malaysia
7- PDA/Smart Phone Developing Software 1 week USM, Penang – Malaysia
8- PDA/Smart Phone Developing Software 1 week KUKUM – Malaysia
9- New Control Protocol for Document Conferencing 1 Day Phukit - Thailand
ORGANIZATION
- Iraqi engineers union (since 1988) Member (licenced)
- Iraqi union for computers (since 1990) Member.
- APAN Asia Pacific Advanced Network Member.
- APNG Asia Pacific Network Group Member
- International Society Of Iraqi Scientists.
- Who’s Who Asia 2007
AUTHORITIES
- Head of computers training center (Kirkuk - Iraq) 1992-1998 activities include training, programming.
- Manager of the table tennis team in (1 huzairan) sport club, which play in the primer league in Iraq
PUBLICATIONS
1- A. Shakir and A. Samsudin, "Switching Networks With Deflection Routing Based On Kautz Digraphs," International Conference on Communications in Computing 2000 - CIC’2000, pp. 259-261, Las Vegas, Jun. 2000.
2- A. Shakir, A. Samsudin, "Multi-Buffer Switching Networks With Deflection Routing Based On Kautz Digraphs," International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques And Application PDPTA’2001, Vol. 1, pp. 292-298, Las Vegas, Jun. 2001.
3- I. A. Malik, A. Shakir, and Azman Samsudin, "Multiple Kautz Interconnection Networks With Parallel Loading," 4th World Multiconference On Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics-SCI 2000, vol. IV, pp.267-271, Orlando, Jul. 2000.
4- A. Shakir, A. Samsudin, and Azam O., "Non-Blocking Switching Networks Based On Kautz Networks With Close-Loop, Multi-Buffer, And Deflection Routing," World Multiconference On Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, SCI 2001 vol. V, pp. 312-317, Orlando, USA, July. 2001.
5- Ahmed Shakir, Clare Sammons., “Applications Of Mobile Technologies In Competency And Skills Education” National Conference On Skills And Competencies In Education. USM, Penang. Malaysia, November 2005.
REFEREES
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