Ovais Ahmed
Henrietta,New York
Summary
CAM certified Project Manager with experience in RF engineering and manufacturing, seeking to be part of a mission-focused team with strong core values and business ethics. To secure a challenging position in a dynamic organization where my skills and experience in leadership, strategic planning, team building, and project management can be fully utilized to drive growth.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Services Project Manager
Northrop Grumman
08.2021 - Current
- Manage the performance of tasks on schedule, at cost, and achieving all requirements as a Cost Account Manager on multiple fast-paced programs totaling more than $35 million.
- Successfully accelerated builds by several months, saving the program from cancellation.
- Direct and lead cross-functional teams to successfully manufacture prototype and production units.
- Identify and mitigate project risks, ensuring project execution within a defined timeline.
- Utilize Earned Value Management (EVM) to adhere to budget baselines.
- Track, monitor, and control materials and manufacturing processes based on set guidelines.
RF Test Engineer
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
08.2020 - 09.2021
- Act as a support engineer to a group of technicians and perform testing, verification, data collection, and analysis
- Set up test benches, including designing cables, installing software, calibrating test equipment, troubleshooting fixtures, etc
- Validate new design with bench testing at wafer & package levels for RF Microwave & Mixed Signal Design Verification group
- Develop and maintain appropriate documents that detail the most up to date information for upper management to review.
- Assessed problem severity to determine corrective action, recommending resolutions to technical problems through fault isolation techniques.
- Guided program staff, junior engineers and technicians in navigating complex technical questions arising in course of regular operations.
Manufacturing Test Technician
L3Harris Technologies
08.2019 - 07.2020
- Use programs such as LabView, Tera Term & MATLAB to perform various tests, including RF on Harris RFCD products
- Troubleshoot circuit cards on board level and radio (unit) level down to the component using testing equipment, i.e., signal generator, network analyzer, power meter, spectrum analyzer, digital multimeter, thermal camera, etc
- Read and understand schematic diagrams including block diagrams and layout of both Lowband and Highband boards
- Generate and analyze test data for both analog and digital fields to better understand the error and find a solution
- Established new skills in a short time to accurately troubleshoot a variety of RF and digital printed circuit boards.
Electrical Engineer
General Dynamics Electric Boat
08.2018 - 08.2019
- Developed a program to automate testing of military equipment, including co-writing test scripts for DIT-MCO in compliance with the schematics, wiring list, and the Production Test Document
- Manually tested military equipment, down to component level, using Digital Multimeter, Megohmmeter, Dielectric Strength Tester, etc
- Examples of tests performed; Continuity, Isolation, Leakage, and HI-pot
- Led a project redesigning a circuit card to increase accuracy by replacing components
- Updated Manufacturing and Assembly drawing accordingly
- Coordinated a team of engineers to peer review all modifications
- Organized and placed the purchase order for the drawing and the prototypes of the new circuit cards
- Performed tests on the new prototype circuit cards
- Analyzed, verified, and documented the results
- Assisted other project leads by researching and procuring military-specified materials
- Updated databases, wiring tables, engineering drawings, etc
- Performed Quality Assurance inspection on more than 130 sets of cables.
Education
Master of Business Administration (MBA) -
The College at Brockport SUNY
Brockport, New YorkB.S - Electrical Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
West Henrietta, New YorkAssociate of Science - Mathematics
Monroe Community College
Rochester, NY2018
Associate of Science - Electrical Engineering
Monroe Community College
Rochester, NY2017
Skills
- Hardware:
- Oscilloscope, Digital Multimeter, Function/Signal Generator, Power Meter, Altera FPGAs, Triple Output DC Power Supply, Network Analyzer, Spectrum Analyzer, DITMCO, Data Acquisition
- Software: Embedded C, Assembly Language, MATLAB, SolidWorks, LabVIEW, CodeWarrior, Quartus II, PSpice, Mini IDE, Multisim, Photoshop CS, Minitab, Ansoft Designer SV, Microsoft Office, Teamcenter, DITMCO, Xilinx Vivado, SAP GUI
- Machines: Manual & CNC Mills, Lathes, Drill Press, Grinder, 3-D Printer
- Team Development
- Performance Testing
- Collecting Data
Languages
Urdu
Hindi
Punjabi
Timeline
Technical Services Project Manager
Northrop Grumman
08.2021 - Current
RF Test Engineer
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
08.2020 - 09.2021
Manufacturing Test Technician
L3Harris Technologies
08.2019 - 07.2020
Electrical Engineer
General Dynamics Electric Boat
08.2018 - 08.2019
Master of Business Administration (MBA) -
The College at Brockport SUNY
B.S - Electrical Engineering
Rochester Institute of Technology
Associate of Science - Mathematics
Monroe Community College
Associate of Science - Electrical Engineering
Monroe Community College
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