Curriculum vita

Profile:

Laith Awda Kadhim received the B.Sc, M.Sc and Ph.D. degrees in communication engineering from University of Technology, Iraq, in 2000, 2002 and 2007 respectively. He joined Asiacell Telecommunication Company as Core Network NSS Planning Sr. Professional Engineer, Iraq, in 2005 till 2014 and Lecturer in University of Baghdad AL Kawarzme collage for engineering (Megatronic Department) in 2008. Since 2014, he has been working at their University of Ottawa, SEECS, Centre for Research in Photonics Laboratory as Postdoctoral Researcher in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and has been engaged in research on design guidelines enabling a better understanding of the propagation limitations in high bit rate transmission systems and gives useful in sights needed for the capacity upgrade of existing transmission lines.

Home institute: University of Baghdad/ AL Kawarzme collage for engineering/ Megatronic Department.

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Host institute: University of Ottawa, SEECS, Centre for Research in Photonics Laboratory, Postdoctoral Researcher in Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

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Personal Information:

First Name: Laith / Second Name: Awda / Family Name: Kadhim
Date of Birth: 1/9/1978 / Place of Birth: Baghdad / Gender:Male
Marital status:married / Nationality: Iraqi / No of Child: one

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Education Background:

# / Degree / Specialization / Name of University/Institute / GraduationYear
1 / B.Sc / Electronic & Communication Eng. / University of Technology / 2000
2 / M.Sc / Communication Eng. / University of Technology / 2002
3 / Ph.D / Communication Eng. / University of Technology / 2003- 2007
4 / Postdoctoral / ICT / University of Ottawa / 2014-2015

Employment Record:

Employer / Position / Duration
From / To
  • University of Technology
/ Academic Staff / 12/9/2000 / 8/12/2002
  • Al_Fawas for computer services
/ Computer Engineer / 3/3/2000 / 5/4/2003
  • Asiacell Telecommunication Company for mobile
/ Core Network NSS Planning Sr. Professional Engineer / 17/4/2005 / 31/12/2013
  • University of Baghdad AL Kawarzme collage for engineering (Megatronic Departments)
/ Lecture / 25/11/2008 / 30/01/2014
  • University of Ottawa (SEECS, Centre for Research in Photonics Laboratory)
/ Postdoctoral Researcher in ICT / 31/01/2014 / 31/01/2015

Research:

  • Prepared research paper in my special field as graduation requirement in B.Sc. In Satellite Communication.
  • Prepared research paper in my special field as graduation requirement in M.Sc.InComputer Network Communication.
  • Prepared research paper in my special field as graduation requirement in Ph.D. In Optical Fiber Communication.
  1. Papers published:
2002
  • Laith A. Al-Mayahi, Dr. Walid Ameen, Dr. Jasm AL-Samiraa“Design of A metropolitan Computer Network Reliability study”, is published in Iraqi Magazine of Computer Engineering, Communication, Control and Systems, 4-11-2002.
  • Laith A. Al-Mayahi, “Design of A metropolitan Computer Network”, is published in Iraqi Magazine of Computer Engineering, Communication, Control and Systems 4-11-2002.
2006
  • Laith A. Al-Mayahi, “Design of A metropolitan Computer Network”, is published in Journal of Applied Electromagnetism of the Trans Black Sea Union of Electromagnetism, Microwave and Fiber Optics Laboratory, Athens, Greece, 20-07-2006 Vol 8 No 1,2 ISSN 1109-1606.
  • Laith A. Al-Mayahi, Dr. Ali Y. Fattah, "Bit Rate & Losses Limitations in Single Mode Fiber", published in Iraqi Magazine of Computer Engineering, Communication, Control and Systems, 11-07-2006, Vol 6 No 3 ISSN 1811-9212.
  • Laith A. Al-Mayahi, Dr. Ali Y. Fattah, "Design Ultra Wideband using Raman Amplifiers in WDM Systems", published in Journal of Applied Electromagnetism of the Trans Black Sea Union of Electromagnetism, Microwave and Fiber Optics Laboratory, Athens, Greece, June 2006 Vol 8, number 1,2 ISSN 1109-1606.
  • Laith A. Al-Mayahi, Dr. Ali Y. Fattah, "Ultra wide 83-nm 3 dB Gain-Band using Raman Amplifiers in Long Distance Transmission", published in “Innovations in Information Technology” Conference Proceedings,Dubai, November 19, 2006,and published in one of Journal of College of Information Technology UAE Universityand IEEE Xplore and IEEE Communication Society, ISSN:1-4244-0674-9/06/$20.00 ©2006 IEEE .
  • Laith A. Al-Mayahi, Dr. Ali Y. Fattah, "Performance Analysis of Optical Ring Network", published in Journal of Applied Electromagnetism of the Trans Black Sea Union of Electromagnetism, Microwave and Fiber Optics Laboratory, Athens, Greece, 12-2007 Vol 2, number 2.
2007
  • Laith A. Al-Mayahi, “Performance Analysis of A metropolitan Area Network”, is published in Journal of Applied Electromagnetism of the Trans Black Sea Union of Electromagnetism, Microwave and Fiber Optics Laboratory, Athens, Greece, June 2007 Vol 9, Number 1, ISSN 1109-1606.
  • Laith A. Al-Mayahi, Dr. Ali Y. Fattah, "Flatten Gain Ultra-wide Band EDFA in WDM Optical Communications Systems using C & L Bands", is published in Journal of Applied Electromagnetism of the Trans Black Sea Union of Electromagnetism, Microwave and Fiber Optics Laboratory, Athens, Greece, June 2007 Vol 9, Number 1, ISSN 1109-1606.
  • LaithAwda Kadhim Al-Mayahi,Salih Salih, Nikolaos Uzunoglou, Laith Al-anzy"A Proposed Model for MC-CDMA Based In-Place Wavelet Transform", is published in Third International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (ICST), Nafpaktos, Belgium, August 27 - 29, 2007 (ISBN: 978-963-06-2670-5).
  • Salih M. Salih, N. Uzunoglou, and Ahmed A. A., Laith Awda“ExtendedAnalysis of Clutter Map-CFAR,” Journal of Applied Electromagnetism of the Trans Black Sea Union of Electromagnetism, vol. 9, no. 2, (12-2007).
2010
  • LaithAwda Kadhim, Usama Mohammad Saeed“Improved of nonlinear equalizer for telephone circuit channels", is published in International Conference on Trends in Information Technology and Applications 2010,Ajman,UAE,December, 11-13, 2010.
2014
  • LaithAwda Kadhim, Salah Mohammad Salah and Usama Mohammad Saeed“Performance Improvement of Telephone and Mobile Channels Equalizer” as presented in IEEE Canada IHTC 2014 (International Humanitarian Technology Conference “Humanitarian Advancement through Technology”), Montreal, Canada.

  • Salah Mohammad Salah and LaithAwda Kadhim “Effect of Tilt Angle Orientation on Photovoltaic Module Performance”, published in ISESCO JOURNAL of Science and Technology Volume 10 - Number 17 - May 2014 (19-25).

  1. Paper Accepted and ready to publish:
  • Laith Awda Kadhim “16/64QAM Modulation Technique for Free Space Optical Communication System”, accepted by the International Journal of Advancements in Computing Technology (ISSN: 2005-8039).
  • Laith Awda Kadhim “Indoor Distributed Antenna System for the University of Baghdad Building”, accepted by the Journal of Communications and Information Sciences (ISSN: 2093-9671).
  1. Book published:
  • Optical fiber WDM/DWDM transmission.

  • Design and Analysis of a Metropolitan Area Network.

  • Communication Networks.

Training and Certificates:

1-GSM NSS Engineer Specialist Training (MSOFTX3000), HuaweiTrainingCenter, Sulyimaniya – Iraq.
2-GSM NSS Engineer Specialist Training (HLR8920), HuaweiTrainingCenter, Sulyimaniya – Iraq. GSM NSS Engineer Specialist Training (UMG 8900), HuaweiTrainingCenter, Sulyimaniya – Iraq.
From 14 November To 31 December 2006.
3-GSM NSS Engineer Specialist Training (MSC61), Huawei training centre, Sulyimaniya – Iraq
4-GSM NSS Engineer Specialist Training (HLR 36), Huawei training centre, Sulyimaniya –Iraq
From 14 May 2005 To 22 June 2005.
5- BaghdadUniversity – College of Education, certification of success in English Language
Test for higher education.
From 2 November 1998 To 11 December 1998, Baghdad – Iraq
6- University of Technology – Computer center, certification of success in computing and computer software test for higher education.
From 22 September 2003 To 7 August 2003,Baghdad – Iraq
7- TADRIB Iraq and the international Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group, Course ofMaking and taking decisions Promotion, Managing Time, Solving Problems as a part of the Business Edge Training Series, IACCI Training Center on Feb 2008.
8- Certificate of Attendance, Leading Change-a Choice or a Must, IEEE Conference on Nov. 20th 2006 Dubai, UAE.
9- Certificate of Attendance, Smart Environment-Technology, Protocols and Applications Tutorial, IEEE Conference on Nov. 20th 2006 Dubai, UAE.
10- Certificate of Attendance, Best Practices in Web Services “Paving the way to SOA Success”, IEEE Conference on Nov. 21th 2006 Dubai, UAE.
11- Certificate of Attendance, Information Security, IEEE Conference on Nov. 21th 2006 Dubai, UAE.
12- ProjectManagementInstitute Certificate,Effective Project Management training(EPM) on 8 October to 13 October 2008, Suly.
13. GSM NSS Engineer Specialist Training (STP Operation and Maintenance Training), Huawei Training Center, Sulyimaniya – Iraq.
From 31 Jan 2010 To 4 Feb 2010.
14. GSM NSS Engineer Specialist Training (GSM/UMTS HLR9820 Routing Operation and Maintenance Training), Huawei Training Center, Shenzhen – China.
From 1March 2010 To 9March 2010.
15. GSM NSS Engineer Specialist Training (GSM/UMTS HLR9820 Advanced Operation and Maintenance Training), Huawei Training Center, Shenzhen – China.
From 10 March 2010 To 16 March 2010.
16. GSM NSS Engineer Specialist Training (MSC Pool), Huawei Training Center, Shenzhen – China.
From 21 January 2013 To 25 January 2013.
17. Training and Certificates for laser safety “Hazardous Materials Information System for office workers” 12 February 2014.
18. Training and Certificates for laser safety “Hazardous Materials Information System for laboratory workers” 21 May 2014.
19. Training and Certificates for laser safety “Principles of Laser Safety” 23 May 2014.

Computer Skills:

1 / Microsoft Office
2 / Networking
3 / Data Base
4 / Hardware Maintenance
5 / Internet Applications

Language Skills:

Mother Tongue: Arabic
Other Languages: / 1.English / 2. / 3. / 4.

SS anies as Core Network1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE, Skills & HISTORY

  • University of Baghdad AL Kawarzme collage for engineering (Megatronic Departments) 25/11/2008 till 30/01/2014.
Titles:
  • University Teaching
From -To / The (Institute / College) / University / No.
25/11/2008 to 30/01/2014 / AL-Kawarzme collage for engineering megatronic Departments) / University of Baghdad / 1
  • Courses Which I Teach:
Year / Subject / Department / No.
2008-2009 / Logic / Megatronic Dep. / 1
2008-2013 / Electronic II / Megatronic Dep. / 2
2009 - 2010 / Mathematic I / Megatronic Dep. / 3
2009-2010 / Software Eng / Megatronic Dep. / 4
2010-2011 / Matlab Programming / Megatronic Dep. / 5
2011-2013 / Digital System Design / Megatronic Dep. / 6
  • Scientific Activities:
Outside the College / Within the College
Scientific committee reporter
Higher education reporter
  • Telecommunication Company for mobile 17/4/2005 till31/12/2013
Title: Core NetworkTLEngineer (NSS Planning)
  1. Responsible for all Baghdad & Mid-Euphrates plan.
  2. Familiar with Huawei equipments (MSC61,HLR36,MSOFTX3000,UMG8900,HLR9820), hardware and software installation,
  3. Operation and Maintenance, including daily maintenance and signaling protocols configurations, ITPC connection configuration, connection configuration with other operators and troubleshooting solutions.
  4. Core Network including data preparing, numbering plan, network management, KPI analysis, and improvement.
  5. CDR’s archiving and query system.
  6. Core Network capacity and traffic planning, hardware dimensioning and network optimization
  7. Traffic load analysis and traffic projection for new and expansion projects
  8. Logistical support and co-ordination of network development projects with vendor and other Telecommunication user departments
  9. Conducting system tests, acceptance tests and commissioning of new and expansion NSS installations
  10. High level support to Operation and Maintenance Department for all installed Core Network Elements
Duties and Responsibilities
  1. Support and maintenance of MSC, VLR, HLR and AUC for both (G9 and G6) HUAWEI equipments.
  2. Planning and configuration of MSC interface and HLR interface.
  3. Supervising of any new equipments (MSC, VLR, HLR and AUC) installation.
  4. Management of NSS teams in Baghdad city/ Karkh side.
  5. Control of Links, Trunks and MSC CPU modules load distribution by monitoring the load distribution and making rebalance for them.
  6. Monitoring and Collecting of Billing CDRs.
  7. Installing of software for servers and clients.
  8. Excellent knowledge with the following fields:
-Huawei MSOFT X 3000 administration system 3G which contains:
1-Alarm
2-Maintenance
3-Client
4-Performance measurement
-HLR administration system 3G which contains:
1-Alarm.
2-HLR operation and maintenance system
3-Performance management system
4-Trace viewer
-HLR 9820 Subscriber Management unit 3G (SMU client)
-M900-M1800 MSC-SSP-IP administration system 2G which contains:
1-Alarm
2-Client
3-Maintenance
4-Performance measurement.
-Huawei HLR manager 2G (SMU client)
-Huawei HLR local maintenance terminal 2G(SAU client)
-iManager M2000 which contains
1-Local WS.
2-Integrated network management system.
Title: IREG Engineer
  1. Configure Roaming Service for Telecommunication clients roaming abroad and vice versa besides performing the needed test.
  2. Solved Roaming Configuration problems (Trouble shooting solutions).
  3. Configure Roaming service for Telecommunication clients roaming abroad besides the new live roaming partners.
  4. Responsible for ordering the signaling links and opening the network to testing, and later to commercial Roaming.
  5. Performing trouble shooting for network problems and make sure that the service is running properly
  6. Perform the actual Roaming test which is made according to the plan in the GSM Association document IR.24 for each new launched MSC or operator in Baghdad.
  7. Undertake periodical roaming tests and troubleshooting after the commercial Roaming is in place besides performing the needed tests.
  8. Responsible for solving roaming subscriber’s problems which includes both Telecommunication roaming abroad and international subscribers roaming in Baghdad.
  • Al-Fawaz for computer services 3/2000 - 4/2003
Title: Computer Engineer
  1. Design, programming, and implementing of databases for customers.
  2. Technical assistant and trouble-shooter for the Bureau customers.
  3. Lecturer in number of software packages and operating systems.
  4. Maintenance
  5. Network service including LAN & WAN
  6. Software, database service and windows applications.
Member ship in scientific associations:
Full membership in Iraqi engineering union No. 92152 since July 12 2000.
IEEEmembership on September 2006.
Hobbies:
  • Computer software and programs
  • Music
  • Reading about almost everything
References:
NAME / Job Title / Company / E-mail
Prof Dr. Walid A. Mahmoud / Department of Electrical Engineering/ College of Engineering/ University of Baghdad,Iraq. /
Dr. Mutaz Abdul. Wahab / Electrical and Electronic EngineeringDepartmentUniversity of Technology Baghdad,Iraq. /
prof. N. Uzonoglou
/ National Technical of UniversityAthensSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering Microwave and Fiber Optics Laboratory, Athens, Greece /
Dr. Ali Yasaf Fattah / Electrical and Electronic EngineeringDepartmentUniversity of Technology Baghdad,Iraq. /
Prof Dr. Hussain / Electrical and Electronic EngineeringDepartmentUniversity of Technology Baghdad, Iraq. /
Prof Dr. Hall / University of Ottawa /

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