Karim AZOUAGH July 26th 1979 (27 years old)

13 place des CercladesNationality: French.

95000 CERGYFRANCEMarried

 + 33.6.62.83.69.20 E-mail:

Telecom Engineer - M.Sc.E.E

Objectives: Seeking a challenging position in telecommunication industry, where technical skills, involvement and flexibility are essential.

Professional Experience

From Sept. 2002- Current:Research and Development Engineer at SAGEM COMMUNICATION

(SAFRAN group). France

Sept 2002-March 2004: Software development (in C language) of the application-modem interface of 3G handsets. Development compliant to the different 3GPP standards (24.007, 24.008, etc…) and in collaboration with the manufacturer FUJITSU (located in Japan)

April 2004-Jan 2005: Interface in charge of the follow-up of FUJITSUcompany:

Technical support

Review of actions list and bugs

Specifications, tests and validation of the received software deliveries

Generation, integration and software delivery to FUJITSU

In charge of campaign tests, IOT and final validation

2005-2006: In charge of the follow-up of several suppliers delivering 3G chipsets for UMTS Sagem handsets (world well-known semiconductor suppliers that cannot be disclosed here due to NDA restrictions).

Responsible of the software delivery coming from the supplier and responsible of delivering it into internal database

Preparation, set up and follow-up of the conference calls and workshops with all project managers and all transverse teams (writing of minutes report, synthesis of the actions list and management of the statistics)

Program review with the supplier

Internal coordination with all managers and in charge of setting up monthly technical steering and steering committee with the supplier

In charge of the communication and the reporting between the supplier and the R&D Center

Follow-up of the bugs database linked to the supplier

Administration, management and diffusion of the technical documentation

Febr. - June 2002:Master thesis project in the development of a Distributed Radio Resource

Management (RRM) for UMTS. CPK Aalborg Denmark.

Sept. 2001 - Jan. 2002:Project of design and building a GPS antenna for mobile phone and PDA, in

relationship with Danish Wireless Design (DWD) company.

May – Aug. 2001 :Internship as a Networks Engineer in ELONA company at Strasbourg (France)

Installation and configuration of a wireless LAN (802.11) with Orinoco products for French Customs

Configuration and tests of the computers and networks

1999 – 2000 (3 months): Technician in electronics at ALCATEL BUSINESS SYTEMS at Illkirch (France)

In charge of following through the production of electronic cards and handsets.

Diagnosis of the electronic card breakdown.

Repairing the cards and mobile phones.

Education

1999-2002: Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, in Mobile Communication passed at

Aalborg University, Denmark

Graduated of the Ecole Centrale d’Electronique (ECE), Paris.

1997-1999: Preparatory courses of entrance examination for Engineering School

1997 :Baccalaureate in sciences diploma

Technical skills

Telecom: GSM, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA.

Networks: Ethernet, Token-Ring, X25, Frame Relay, ATM, ad hoc networks, TCP/IP.

Education in GPS technology and receivers , passed at Aalborg University.

Programming language: C/C++, database (Oracle, SQL).

OS : Unix, Linux, Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP.

Software: Matlab, Visual C++, Visio.

Others: Office, MS Project.

Languages

French: native speaker

English: Bilingual.

  • 10 months stay in Denmark (Sept. 2001- June 2002).
  • 2 months English language program and study (October-December 1998) at Stafford University UK

Arabic: Read, written. Dialect spoken.

German: basic.

Others activities

Clean driving license.

Leisure :

11 years of practicing football.

Cycling, swimming.