HICHAM ICHKANTANA

1431 Brook road

San Marcos, CA 92069

858.500.6151

PROFILE

An accomplished Software Engineer in Telecomm specializing in Object­Oriented Design and Analysis with

extensive experience in the full life cycle of the software design process including requirements definition,

prototyping, proof of concept, design, interface implementation, testing and maintenance.

KEY SKILLS

● Excellent technical, communication, interpretive and analytical skills

● Development experience on Windows Mobile 5/6, Windows CE, Pocket PC, Windows XP and Windows

2000 platforms. Languages used C and C#

● Experience of the most popular IDE Visual studio 2005/2008, SlickEdit, and Eclipse

● Strong structured experience in variety of programming languages such as DSP, MCU Assembly, C++,

Java, VHDL and Handel­C

● Experience of simulation and analysis packages such as MatLab, MathCAD and LabView

● Familiar with many protocols like TCP, UDP, SCTP and M3UA

CAREER SUMMARY

QUALCOMM INC/ ENTERPRISE SOLUTION

Software Applications ­ IMS\VoLTE ­VoLTE

June 2015 to Nov­2015

Interfacing with external handset software developers and Qualcomm Engineers to do due diligence, design

and develop common software modules, debug failures, suggest fixes, improve the software, enhance test

procedures, develop scripts to automate debugging and document various procedures, and debug techniques.

Assist OEM to perform carrier compliance PTCRB and Wi­Fi Alliance testing for voice and data centric

wireless devices. Help maintain lab operation. Perform in depth analysis and debugging on issues occurred

during testing. Report test results in concise and timely manner.

QUALCOMM INC/MANPOWER

Modem Processor Software Integration and Triage Engineer

hicham.ichkantana@gmail.com

2012 to Nov­2014

Designed and implemented high level processes that interacted with custom Qualcomm applications, scripts,

web pages, automated email distributions, operating systems, servers, and databases to support a fully

automated Meta build Continuous Integration and Test (CIT) systems to build and qualify mobile computing

product code for wide distribution to customers. Languages used for tools development included C/C++,

Python, Perl, JSON, HTML, and XML scripts. The Android Debug Bridge (adb), a command line tool was

heavily relied upon to communicate with an emulator instance or connected Android­powered device via

automated scripting languages. Other responsibilities include planning, integration of features and bug

fixes, generating software builds, validating builds by executing test cases using mobile device

prototypes and test equipment in the lab, troubleshooting across a wide range of interdependent

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technology areas, and releasing the software using version control tools, and involves coordination

with members of many different software and test engineering teams.

Motorola PLC

Software Engineer

2008 to 2009

Managed the EMEA Solution Centre in order to provide the Motorola Partner community with pre­sales

technical assistance and software certification on the Motorola family of Handheld Windows Mobile

computers and wireless (802.11x) network products.

● Assisted the Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s), Partners and Customers with technical and

software guidance in their solution development on the Motorola Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA)

terminals running Windows Mobile and CE operating system utilizing WLAN, GPRS and Bluetooth

connectivity.

● Collaborated on the development of the application by the Partner/Customer and also liaised with

other Motorola engineers to aid in developing acceptable solutions.

● Consistently involved with all Partner and Customer engagements, initially documenting the solution,

developing and writing the test plan, preparing for and certifying, finally writing the validation report

and archiving the validated solution. On successful certification the ISV had a competitive edge and a

more robust solution.

● Developed test applications to assist in the overall solution validation and demonstration in order to

make the Partner application robust and error­free.

● Reviewed and provided feedback to the internal Product Development Teams on end user

documentation and application development tools.

● Participated in software design and code reviews with Solution Centre Customers.

● Provided pre­sales technical support for Solution Centre Partner/Customer on software and GPRS or

Bluetooth connectivity issues.

Symbian Software Ltd

Software Engineer

● Attended most of Symbian internal training e.g. Symbian OS essential

Aeroflex

Protocol Software Engineer

2005 to 2006

● Designed and developed UMTS protocol stack HSDPA & HSUPA L3 for a 3GPP compliant test

mobile.

● Job involved all aspects of software development life cycle from the initial Design stage, Coding,

Testing and support.

● Drew the Messages sequences between L2 and L3 using Visio

● Modified and updated existing code to include the new protocol using C

● Tested and debugged new release against script and live Network.

● Documented all codes and test findings

Marconi PLC

Junior Software Engineer

2004 to 2005

● A member of the Signalling Gateway team implemented protocol conversion of M3UA “SS7

Messages to IP Network”, on SoftSwitch using C/C++

● Developed Test Harness using Perl, C, CGI, and TCL

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2006 to 2007

● High­level design for the Function Driver Framework (FDF) part of the USB Host and On­The­Go

solution

● Installed new Linux to perform back end testing

FIE Ltd

IT Assistant Manager

● Run and maintained the computer labs

● Installed new Hardware/Software

● Aided customers with technical issues

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

● King’s college (MSc) in Digital Signal Processing Telecommunications (pass). Final Year Project:

Design implementation of adaptive joint equalization and interference cancellation for MC­CDMA

systems Study of multi­carrier CDMA systems, theory of equalization and interference cancellation.

Designed an efficient adaptive method for joint equalization and interference cancellation for a

MC­System.

● University of North London (BEng) in Electronics and communications (2.1). Final Year Project: A

hand held, battery operated heart rate monitoring system: developed circuitry that turns a finger or ear

pulse into electrical signal capable of driving the timer circuit, project based on PIC microcontroller.

1999­2003

Professional Courses:

● Secure Code: This course uses code examples to introduce and illustrate common insecure coding

patterns. By learning from real examples. Discover how the attacker finds and exploits errors, and

learn how to recognize and avoid vulnerabilities in our own software. Gain insight into the nature of

attackers and software compromise, and how best to go about writing code that is hardened against

malicious activity

● LTE RF Planning and Design Certification Workshop: This course covered, air interface, the

RAN and EPC network architectures, LTE­Advanced enhancements, Self­Organizing Networks

(SON), IMS and VoLTE operations, RAN troubleshooting and optimization techniques, RF design,

and network planning.

PERSONAL SUMMARY

I am a fundamental believer in hard work and try to combine this ethos with an active social life; I also enjoy

mixing with different people, and a keen team player with excellent customer facing skills.

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