MAHER SHAFIQ AL-shoukairi

801 Spring Loop St. APT 2308                                                                                                          e-mail: alsh32@neo.tamu.edu

 

objetive

To obtain practical experience in telecommunications while seeking an internship, a co-op or a part time job.

 

Education

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering (expected August 2007)

Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas

GPA(3.86/4)

 

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, February 2005

University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

GPA (3.76/4) (Top of 2005 Class)

 

General Secondary School Certificate, July 2000

National Orthodox School, Amman, Jordan.

Grade (93.2%) (Top of 2000 Class)

 

EXperience AND Practical training

·   Research Assistant at the wireless communications lab, Texas A&M (7/1/2005-Current).

 

·   Graduate Assistant of the Assistant Dean for Recruitment and International Programs at Texas A&M college of Engineering (9/1/2005-6/30/2006).

 

·   Lab Instructor (University of Jordan, Spring 2005).

          Supervised Circuits and Electronics labs where duties included:

-Explaining lab experiments to the students and clearing out any theoretical concepts the experiments include.

-Familiarizing the students with measuring instruments and measuring techniques involved in the experiments.

-Grading lab reports handed in by the students.

-Preparing and grading midterm and some final exams.

 

·   Technical Training (MOBILECOM, Jordan, 06/2004-08/2004).

Internship at a local GSM operator where tasks performed included:

-Good study of cellular systems, including introduction to various communication servers and protocols used.

-UNIX scripting to solve problems and automate daily tasks performed on various communication servers.
-Monitoring communication servers and performing statistical analysis of their outputs

 

·   Completed an A+ certification training course of 40 hours (09/2003)

 

 Honors

·   Honored by the University of Jordan for graduating on top of 2005 Electrical Engineering class.

·   Recipient of Nabil Barakat’s Prize for outstanding students in Electrical Engineering.

·   Listed on the Dean’s honor list at the University of Jordan.

·   Recipient of a tuition waiver award granted by the Jordanian ministry of higher education (2002, 2003).

·   Honored by the National Orthodox School for academic achievement in the general high school certificate tests (1^st place among all students)

·   Honored by the Jordanian Ministry of Education for participating in the basketball tournament for Arab school teams in Lebanon (2000).

·   Played for the Jordanian national basketball team for youths (2000 –2002).

 

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

·   High Level Programming languages: C++, Visual Basic, JAVA.

·   Hardware Description Languages: Verilog.

·   Assembly Languages:x86

·   Software packages: MATLAB, MULTISIM, MODELSIM.

·   Basic Knowledge of the UNIX operating system.