Experience

MoniRail Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Jan 2019 - Present



University of Birmingham

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Fellow

  • Sep 2009 - Present

  - Design and implementation of low-cost and low-power wireless nodes to measure track movements. - Design and implementation of a condition monitoring system to evaluate air quality at the Birmingham New Street Railway Station - Ride comfort monitoring system on HS1 using bespoke IMU. - Microchip PIC32MZ based control system includes: signal processing, GPS input, an LCD output and SPI, I2C USART - A Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA signal processing unit, pipelining and digital signal conditioning. - A low-power and low-cost bearing vibration monitoring device to work with energy harvesting elements using the Microchip PIC32. - Design of microphone arrays for acoustic monitoring systems. - Moving object beamforming algorithms to monitor train axle boxes. - An NI based data acquisition system for sound and vibration signals for condition monitoring of bearings and gearboxes. - A Matlab-based program to analyse the condition of bearings and gearboxes using acoustic and vibration signals. - Acoustic monitoring systems for automotive bearings using conventional and instrumentation microphones, NI compactDAQ data acquisition and Matlab. - Acoustic, vibration and temperature monitoring systems for three-phase induction machines. - A sensor-less system for condition monitoring of three-phase induction machines. - An automatic data logging device, using Agilent high-speed data acquisition systems, Labview and C33 MPLAB, for recording vibration of the track rail for condition monitoring of train axels. The system is also equipped with a dsPIC-based processing unit to measure the speed of the train and count the number of axles. - A risk analysis system to assess a business case for London Underground undercarriage automatic inspection. - Support and supervision on the electronic design and system monitoring of the first UK hydrogen-powered train. - Access to Birmingham (A2B) student tutoring - Teaching assistance and tutoring: o MSc and PhD students supervision



Emerge Power Solutions - Smart Power Systems

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Firmware Developer

  • Dec 2007 - Sep 2008

  Design, implementation and development of a condition monitoring device for AC power lines, the Smart Event Recorder system; it is employed to log AC line conditions (deviations in voltage and frequency, detection and measurement of spikes and transients) using high-speed Analog Devices microcontrollers and Xilinx CPLD (using C/C++ and VHDL). This enabled the company to examine different faulty power line conditions and select a suitable solution to address the problem. Design, implementation and development of a condition monitoring device for AC power lines, the Smart Event Recorder system; it is employed to log AC line conditions (deviations in voltage and frequency, detection and measurement of spikes and transients) using high-speed Analog Devices microcontrollers and Xilinx CPLD (using C/C++ and VHDL). This enabled the company to examine different faulty power line conditions and select a suitable solution to address the problem.



Faratel Company

• Hardware Design

  • Dec 2004 - Nov 2007

   Design and development of embedded devices for Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) automation and online condition monitoring. This provides the ability to remotely monitor and control the power and enables the user to receive warnings in critical power conditions such as brown outs and power cuts.  Research and development of a UPS interface system for monitoring purposes, using 8-16 bit high-speed microcontrollers, Xilinx CPLDs, LCD systems, SMD elements and USB-Serial-TCP/IP protocols, and programming of embedded devices using languages such as VHDL, C51, HC08, VB, Pascal and ST7. This accomplished new low-cost, reliable and user-friendly products competitive in the market.  Design, simulation and assembly of electronic circuits and their PCB prototypes, using Proteus and Protel. Simulations and prototypes used to achieve a better level of trustworthiness of the system to be presented to the market.



Tafsirgaran System Ltd

• Computer System Design

  • May 2001 - Dec 2004

   Design and implementation of a call monitoring system to send Caller-ID from phone lines to PC serial ports to manage incoming and outgoing calls using C51 Microcontrollers. The product is used in call centres and provides a more flexible and lower cost system compared to the existing products on the market.  Testing of condition monitoring software for UPSs in different operating systems including SCO UNIX, FREEBSD, LINUX, WINDOWS, OS2, NOVELL NETWARE and DOS. This improved the software packages’ reliability and user-friendliness.  Design and implementation of Novell Netware 4.11 based LAN with diskless clients, reducing the cost for the company by over £200,000.  Design and implementation of monitor data switchers between two PCs and a monitor, reducing the cost for the company by over £20,000.