Resume for Sameh Ragheb

1. Name: Sameh Ahmed Hamdy Ragheb
Location Giza, Egypt
Tel: Home: +202 36997779 / Mobile: +20 10 69328907 /+20 11 11356248
Email: samehragheb@gmail.com
Occupation: PHY Implementation Technical Manager, Axxcelera Egypt.
Objective: Full-time Technical Manager or Sr. Member of the technical staff.
Personal Data:
Birth Date 28/11/1982 Military Service Status Exempted
Birth Place Cairo, Egypt Marital Status Married
Nationality Egyptian
Education:
Enrolled in Wireless Communication M.Sc. program,
Wireless Intelligent Networks Center (WINC), Nile University. (expected 2017)
Completed 27 Credit hours out of 36 grade (A-
), July 2014.
B.SC in engineering,
Department of electronics and electrical communications, Cairo University.
Very Good grade with honors, July 2005.
General Certificate of Secondary Education,
Orman Experimental Language School, Dokki, Giza, Egypt.
98%, June 2000.
Experience:
Professional
1. Title: PHY Implementation Technical Manager, Axxcelera Egypt, June 2011 –
Present.
1. Leading Architecture design of dual-sector LTE R11 eNB PHY.
2. Member of the technical staff working on the strategic planning for Moseley.
3. Leading the implementation and integration of L1 SW/HW with the L2/L3 SW/HW of
a multi-sector LTE release 9 eNB.
4. Multilayer Integration of an LTE (3gpp release 9) eNB on a custom platform based
on Freescale’s platforms {a DSP PHY (1 Startcore 8157 DSP having 6 cores + HW
Accelerators) with MAC Stack (a P3041 having 4 cores + HW Accelerators)}
5. SW Architect for Axxcelera Egypt.
6. 4G world Americas – Chicago 2011 – Evaluation for test equipment.
2. Wireless Communication Instructor, ITI, 2013 – 2016 (Course-based)
Teach Wireless communication concepts and make workshops for Embedded systems
and Wireless systems tracks in ITI in Cairo and Ismailia.
3. Senior Embedded Software Engineer, Valeo Interbranch Automotive SW,
Nov. 2009 – June 2011.
1. Development and testing of the hardware interface layer for the control panel
software for one of the projects implemented by Valeo for Renault.
4. Senior Embedded Software Engineer at SySDSoft, July 2008 – Nov. 2009.
1. Multilayer Integration of a mobile WIMAX (802.16e) MS on a Freescale’s Mezzanine
card {a DSP PHY (2 Startcore 8126 DSPs having 4 cores each + FPGA Accelerators)
with MAC Stack (a PowerQUICC + FPGA Accelerators)}.
2. WIMAX World Americas – Chicago 2008 – Presentation of Mobile Wimax MS MAC.
5. Embedded Software Engineer at SySDSoft, July 2005 – June 2008.
1. Implementation of the LLC convergence sublayer for the Mobile WIMAX Mobile
Station.

2. 2. Implementation of the Physical layer convergence sublayer for the Mobile WIMAX Mobile
Station.
3. Implementation of the Security sublayer for the Mobile WIMAX Mobile Station.
4. Various testing activities (validation and verification).
5. Implementation of the LMAC-PHYD layer for fixed and mobile WIMAX for both the BS and the
MS.
6. Providing about 5 formal presentations to top management of our customers; e.g. CTO of
WaveSat (Canada) and CTO of MediaTek (Taiwan).
I also have some research activities in the field of scheduling and resource allocation algorithms for
the BS of OFDMA based Systems.
Graduation Project
Development of a software solution for the Physical layer and a part of the MAC layer of an IS-95
CDMA based Wireless Local Loop using Texas Instruments’ TI6416 DSP Kit.
Skills:
Personal Skills
 Leadership and excellent team work.
 Hard work, even under pressure.
 Creativity and Effective Problem Solving.
 Handling efficiently more than one task at a time.
 Excellent presentation skills.
 Good negotiation skills.
 Flexible personality able to deal with different cultures.

3. Technical Skills
 Very Strong Real-time embedded Programming capabilities using C and C++ and Low level
implementation of algorithms.
 Experience in the design, implementation, verification and validation of Embedded Software.
 Understanding of memory management including overlays, buffering, DMA access, bus latency
and internal memory assignment, threads, thread priorities, ISRs
 Experience with code vectorization and SIMD instructions.
 Low level implementation of algorithms on an embedded processor.
 Familiarity with programming in resource constrained environments (MIPS, Memory).
 Communication systems, communication theory, digital signal processing (DSP).
 Fixed-point programming
 Programming and building GUIs using Matlab.
 Solid Knowledge of the 3GPP Release 8, 9, 10 and 11 Specifications (LTE and LTE advanced).
 Porting and optimization of embedded Software solution to different platforms (Processor +
OS) with good experience in using Power architecture based processors and ARM.
 Experience in using various DSP Boards, made by well-known manufacturers
e.g. FreeScale, Texas Instruments and Analog Devices.
 Good Knowledge of 802.11 STANDARD (WLAN).
 Solid Knowledge of 802.16e STANDARD (Mobile WIMAX).
 Good Knowledge of the Physical layer of IS-95 and CDMA2000 (CDMA mobile System).
 Good Knowledge of the GSM System and the PSTN network.
 Experience in using Linux as a RTOS and writing Linux device drivers.
 Experience in multithreading.
 Experience in configuration management software like SVN, CVS and PVCS.
 Experience in issue/bug tracking software like Jira and Bugzilla.
 Experience in static analysis (lint) tools like splint.
 Experience in system examination tools like valgrind.
 Experience in UML.

4.  Experience in using different tool chains (e.g. gcc) and IDEs (e.g. Eclipse).
 Knowledge of the various software process models like the waterfall, V-model and the Agile
concepts.
 UNIX shell scripting.
Language Skills
 English: Excellent (spoken and written).
 French: Fair.
 Arabic: Mother tongue.
Professional Interests:
 Communication Systems
 Programming for Embedded Systems
 IoT
 Scientific research
 Helping undergraduate students with their projects
Volunteer Work:
 Member in the judging committee of the Made In Egypt (MIE) Competition for 6 years
(2009 - 2016)
 Member of Misr AlQaweya Political party (Present)
 Participated in Dr AbdulMoniem AbulFotouh Presidential Campain (2012)
 Volunteer English teacher at Resala Charity (2004, 2005)
 Design and Implementation of the publicity CD for Resala Charity for three
successive versions (2002 - 2005)
Personal Interests:
Reading, Politics, Driving, Swimming, Soccer and Volleyball.