Ali Ghorashi

                                                 6350 Fallriver Dr
                                            Colorado Springs, CO 80198
                                              (719)268-1694 (Home)
                                       e-mail: aghoras@gmail.com
                                         web: home.pcisys.net/aghorash




  Objective       To create.

  Education
                  The University of Colorado in Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado
  8/2000-5/2003
                  Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering, Circuit Design Option (GPA 3.8/4.0)
                  Thesis title: Post SPICE Simulation Tool For Deep Sub-Micron Transistors.
                  Completed courses in the following subject areas:

                     ·   Digital Circuit Design and Synthesis using VERILOG (6hrs)
                     ·   Analog, VLSI, RF, and Mixed Signal Design (12hrs)
                     ·   Digital Signal Processing (3hrs)
                     ·   Advanced Electromagnetic (3hrs)

                  The University of Southwestern Louisiana,Lafayette, Louisiana
      1994-1998
                  Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Option(Cum Laude)

                     · Major GPA 3.92/4.0 (Cumulative GPA 3.69/4.0)
                     · Member of Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society),IEEE, ACM.

                  Louisiana School for Math Science and the Arts, Natchitoches, Louisiana
      1993-1994
                  High School


                     ·   Recipient of Lockheed Martin's STAR award (June 2002)
Honors And
                     ·   The Instrument Society of America Scholarship (Fall 1997)
Achievement
                     ·   Second place in MAA Southern Math Competition
                     ·   Competed in IEEE Fire Fighting Robotics Competition



 Experience
                   DRS Signal Solutions, Colorado Springs, CO
 1/2005-Present
                  Senior Member of Technical Software Staff

                  · Developed drivers and software for data distribution on a VME chassis based
                    Linux cluster capable of 1.7TFLOPS in a cross-compile (x86/MIPS)
                    development environment.
                  · Designed and implemented several Linux Drivers for interfacing with a high
                       speed (16Gbps) switched fabric back-plane (VME).
                  · Designed and implemented drivers for data transfer over SPI4.2, Hypertransport
                    (HT), and Packet over Hypertransport (PoHT) ports.
                  · Developed software utilizing a 3-node Cache Coherent Non-Uniform Memory
                    Access (ccNUMA) system.
                  · Developed code on Linux for a 4-CPU core 1GHz 64-bit MIPS based
                    Symmetrical-Multi-Processing System on a Chip (SMP SoC BCM1480).
                  · Architected the data flow mechanism over a back-plane (VME) integrated
                    Giga-bit Ethernet using Broadcom StrataXGS (BCM5690) and Broadcom
                    Multi-port HiGig Switch Fabric (BCM5670) chips.
                  · Designed, developed and debugged several C++ application under Linux using
                    BOOST libraries.
                  · Developed and Maintained the delivery schedule (MS Project) for 10 Engineers
                    during the initial software release cycle.
                  · Organized and created the initial list of deliverables and requirements for the
                    first article of delivery.
                  · Developed a detailed system test plan and procedure base on the requirements
                    for the first article of delivery.


                Lockheed Martin, Houston, TX/Colorado Springs, CO
5/1998-1/2005
                Hardware Engineer, Software Lead (4/99-1/2005)

                  · Using SNMP, developed Control and Management modules under Windows NT
                    for Wide Area Network Interface Unit (WANIU)
                  · Designed, developed and maintained several extensive GUI/MFC based
                    applications for controlling the WANIU.
                  · Designed and developed software using Winsock 2.0 to establish ATM
                    connections (SVC point-to-point and point-to-multipoint, PVC) through a
                    FORE ASX-200BX switch.
                  · Developed various device/NDIS drivers for cards connected to a CPCI bus .
                  · Developed firmware applications under QNX.
                  · Developed multi-processor distributed applications to emulate an Ethernet
                    network on a CPCI backplane.


                Microelectronics Research Laboratory, Lafayette, LA
1/1997-9/1997
                Undergraduate Research Assistant

                  · Designed and assembled PC Boards and other circuitry for a Magneto Resistive
                    Credit Card Reader under the supervision of Prof. M. R. Madani.
                  · Debugged and modified programs for signal frequency measurement on an
                    MC68HC11 microcontroller.



Technical       Software
   Skills
                 ·   C/C++, JAVA, FORTRAN, Assembly(x86, z80, 68HC11)
                 ·   C#, .NET Technology, ASP.Net
                 ·   NDIS and device driver development under Windows NT
                 ·   Visual C++, MFC
                 ·   SNMP agent and manager development
                 ·   QNX (RTOS) application development
                 ·   UML, XML
                 ·   SQL, Relational Database, Microsoft Access
                 ·   Linux Device driver development
                 ·   ClearCase, Source-Safe, CVS
                 ·   Eclipse CDT
                 ·   LATEX


               Hardware

                 · Design and Assembly of microcontroller based systems
                 · VERILOG, SILOS III, PSPICE
                 · ModelSim, Cadence Design tools, MATLAB, MathCAD



               Department of Defense Secret Clearance
 Clearance

               FAA Certified Instrument Multi-engine Land Flight Instructor
Certificates

               References available upon request.
References




                                                                              May 16, 2006