1. Bassam Rida Saed
18204 Sandy pointe drive Tampa, Florida 33647, 813-842-2647, bsaed@mail.usf.edu
OBJECTIVE
To obtain professional growth and seek new experiences at an entry level position in hardware/software
development, to apply all of my knowledge, skills and passion to apply my leadership.
EDUCATION
Bachelors in Computer Engineering 2.7 Expected December 2015
University of South Florida Tampa, Florida
RelevantCourses / Projects
Key Specialized courses: Operating Systems, Algorithms, Computer System Design, Hadoop big data, CMOS
VLSI Design, Data Structure, VLSI low power, Automata, FPGA Design
“MP3 Audio Recorder”
 Programed a Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA to display a menu in Verilog with record, playback, and delete
options
 Designed, wrote, and synthesized FPGA board to use audio codec, and memory connected to a 12 state
finite machine (FSM) requiring 1200 lines of code
“3- Story Elevator”
 The objective of this project was to design a functioning 3-story elevator control. This elevator control
had 6 inputs. We simulated this circuit in Logisim, Verilog, and on a breadboard. The purpose of this
project was to use all of the logic design knowledge we had accumulated over the semester to make a
complex real-world sequential circuit, and also to learn about and implement a 7-segment display with a
Binary-BCD Decoder.
“ASIC for Digital Thermometer”
 Worked with two partners to design the transistor-level layout of an Application Specific Integrated
Circuit (ASIC) that could be interfaced with off-the-shelf components to build a digital thermometer.
“Prototyping of an audio message recorder”
 Prototyping an audio/recorder player using an ATLYS FPGA Board. implement using picoBlaze or
verilog. the audio recorder should have the features to play/pause/delete an audio recorder selected by
the user from the audio library.
“Measuring the performance of page replacements”
 Provided trace files to read from, in which we had to scan the file, convert the to a memory location,
store in a pointer array, then run a page replacement algorithm on frames using LFU (Least frequently
used), CLK(Clock), VMS, or Optimal.
SENIOR PROJECT
“Wireless IOS Application in a Secure Environment”
 Worked with CAE to create a secure environment on their IOS devices which is originally connected to
their flight simulators through Ethernet cord. We had to simulate the design with out the Ethernet cord.
 Had to comply with the DoD stigs to make sure that the environment is secure through the government.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating systems: Windows (XP through 10), Macintosh, Linux
Programing Language: C, C++, Java, Verilog
Other: FPGA, Microsoft Office, Cadence, Virtuoso, Hadoop and Big Data, Hive, Sqoop, HTML, SQL,
PicoBlaze Microcontroller, LTSpice, Bilingual (English, Arabic)