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Presentation about "Study at University of Warwick" organized by KPCS

2010-11-21T07:23:00.000-08:00

On 25th October 2010, Kalamoon Placement and Careers Services center (KPCS) at the University of Kalamoon organized a visit and presentation by Mr. Charlie Szybiak; Director of recruitment and scholarships at the University of Warwick to and give a presentation on post graduate study and funding at Warwick and the new scholarships and bursaries for Syrian students.

The University of Warwick is a top ranked UK university (No. 3 Guardian Newspaper 2011) and it has a variety of MSc programs in all fields (Medicine, Dentistry, Ph

armacy, Engineering, Management and IR).

The schedule of their visit started by a meeting between Mr. Szybiak and the UOK president and vice president to discuss potential collaboration in the near future between the two universities then they moved to deliver their presentation to UOK students.

The presentation started with a panoramic view about the University of Warwick and its programmes in general; then Mr. Szybiak gave an overview about WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) and the Master programmes offered there (Focusing on Business and Engineering studies).

Dr. Sada Daoud (the local representative of University of Warwick) were there to help the Syrian students especially UOK students in their applications and inquiries to be able to apply for post graduate study at University of Warwick.

After the presentation, there was an open speech between Mr. Szybiak and students to answer their questions regarding pursuing their study at the University of Warwick.

The visit was ended by a tour at the campus of the University of Kalamoon.

For further information, prospectus or to contact Dr. Sada please contact the KPCS (Omar Al Assil or Dania Ayarah) to provide you with the required.

First Career Day at the First Syrian Private University

2010-04-21T07:33:00.000-07:00

On 10th April 2010, Kalamoon Placement and Career Services center (KPCS) at the University of Kalamoon in co-operation with the Syrian Business Council (SBC) organized the first Career Day at all the Syrian Universities.

Through which we were trying to deliver our social message by building highly qualified human capital for the country, reducing the number of unemployment and thus helping the Syrian economy.

More than 20 companies (the most important leading companies in Syria) participated in this event; with more than 400 students with different majors from all faculties applied for Job/Internship opportunities.

That was evaluated by the participated companies as a very good event and should be enhanced by the Syrian lab market.

The following were offered during the event:

On campus interviews
On campus recruitment
Internship opportunities
Job offers
Delivering workshops about career skills development, career counseling and the job market needs

Reviews about the KPCS Career Day:

It was a very successful event; the organization was exceptional and your team was very helpful and cooperative. Looking forward to having future events with you --- Transtek
Better than “Job Fair” in terms of applications --- Omrat

For those who are interested/ looking for good opportunities do not hesitate to share us our events in the near future. BE READY…

Kalamoon Placement and Career Services center (KPCS) at the University of Kalamoon

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SBC2008

2008-09-15T03:51:00.000-07:00

We were honored to be the first to represent our country in such a congress or in IEEE event.
SBC the biannual IEEE Region 8 Student Branch and GOLD (Graduates Of the Last decade) Congress is the biggest event in the world for young engineering professionals and students.
What one can imagine if 300 young engineers or students, the most active, most enthusiastic and most diligent among their peers are all together in one place… what can they do? They can do a lot; they can be alone as powerful as any huge organization. They can give birth to the life.
All of those keen people were there, gathering in one place to learn new useful skills, meet, socialize and share professional experience with each other. Side by side with the first row people of the world’s largest non-profit professional organization and the most important for all engineers IEEE.
The life was there, youth from more than 40 countries and three continents with different cultural came to join their brothers in engineering.
Everything was prepared for us; accommodation was in campus of the Queen Mary University of London. This city has been part of many important movements and phenomena throughout history such as the Industrial Revolution. London which boasts many world heritage sites such as the historic settlement of Greenwich where people from all over the world set the time according to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
As the first representatives from Syria, many members were gladdened to meet us and to get to know more about Syria. We had the chance to show them the bright side of our history and to prove that we are able to keep up with new technology.
During the sessions, discussions and workshops we told them about difficulties that encounter the technological progress and improvement in our country nowadays and the challenges facing young engineers there. We also carried our demands to them and asked about our needs and requirements as new branch.
What was really interesting and astonishing in the congress is the nature of the region 8 where the attendees came from; Middle east together with Africa, Asia and Europe.
At last we seized the opportunity to meet industry in the career fair that took place in the campus of Queen Mary University of London and as all things there, it was marvelous because of the diversity of the companies came there to meet young engineers and students, research centers and institutes and companies from different countries specialized in many different fields. They all were looking for engineers to join their teams. That special event helped to bridge the gap between academia and industry and gave the attendees a new horizon.

Curriculum Vitae

2008-09-01T14:17:00.000-07:00

Omar Al-Assil

‘PO BOX: 12230, Damascus, Syria’

Mobile: +963 966 00 08 46 , Email: omar.assil@gmail.com

IEEE Gold member, ID: # 90327539

Qualifications

· Have strong knowledge in both Software and Hardware

· First student in my class Received 2 scholarships for training abroad

· Finished the final year project 3 months earlier and got the highest mark

· Founder and active member in many committees and clubs

· Have multi cultural experience

Work experience

Nov 2009 – Present Solution Engineer, Nokia Siemens Networks. MEA Region

· Charge@Once mediate (CMD 3.0) project with MTN Syria, commissioning (HW & SW Installation) customization and implementation with MTN Syria

· Mediating CDRs from all network elements including MSS, IN, SGSN, GGSN (Flexi ISN), SMSC, MMSC

· Heavily customized according to the needs and requirements of the customer

· Require knowledge of the connected network elements and all call scenarios

· Integrated with Billing system

· NT-HLR implementation with MTN Syria

· Pre sales activity for VAS in a Box project with Syriatel

· Lawful Interception project with STE

· Packet core date lawful interception with MTN

· Prepare solution architecture for Charging mediation with STE account including all the details, effort estimation and pricing

· Centralized OSS platform with Syriatel for monitoring, performance management, trouble ticketing, inventory management and reporting

Apr 2009 – Oct 2009 VAS Engineer, HUAWEI Technologies Co., Ltd. Syria Office

· CRBT project of MTN Syria, commissioning (HW & SW Installation) and maintenance

· Require Integration with many network elements

· With separate IVR, SMS and Web portal

· Integrated with I2000 Huawei monitoring system

· IMS of Syriatel, Preparation and planning

· RBT system of Syriatel, maintenance

2009 –present Post graduate education counsellor, UOK, Syria

Advising and helping students pursuing post graduate study

Correspondence with desired universities to get admissions

2008 –2009 Research Internship, Electronic Department, Telecom Bretagne, Brest, France

· Embedded Multiprocessors System on a single Chip

· Turbo code and digital communication using FPGA “Virtex5”

· Optimization and automatic generation of the System on chip

Education

2010-present M.Sc. in Engineering with Management, University of Brunel, UK

As part time distance learning.

2003-2008 B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Kalamoon UOK, Syria

Total: 169 Credit Hours with GPA about 3

2002 Al Mohsineah School, Damascus, Syria

· Graduate with a Scientific Secondary Certificate (Baccalaureate) 83%

Certificates and Awards

Mar 2010 "CMD 3.1 commissioning, operation and maintenance", Nokia Siemens Academy, Finland

Apr 2009 "FPGA Prototypes for Turbo Communication Applications", demonstration at the University Booth of the IEEE/ACM Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE’09) conference, Nice, France

Sept 2008 Participant in SBC congress 2008, by IEEE, QMUL, London, UK

Apr 2008 Participant in ICTTA’08 conference, Syria

Aug 2007 Intensive training, LD Didactic Training Centre, Germany

Covering subjects such as Mechatronics and Automation and Modulation.

Aug 2007 Course of training, HAMEG Instruments, Germany

Including features, functions and operation of HAMEG products.

Jul 2007 Training at COMEC for Automation& CNC Systems, Syria

Technical Skills

· Professional in computer and server assembling, installation and troubleshooting and have solid knowledge in variety of operating system, like: Windows Server, Linux Redhat/Suse and UNIX (AIX/Solaris).

· Excellent programming capabilities using many programming languages, such as: C, C++, Visual C# with ADO.NET Connection, Visual basic, Perl and Java with Eclipse

· Designed and developed many websites including the official website of UOK and able to use efficiently HTML, Java Script, PHP, MS SharePoint Designer, Macromedia

· Capable to use data base commands to create, alter, join and query tables in Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, PL SQL, TOAD

· Wide experience in hardware programming and FPGA Chips configuration using Assembly, VHDL, MultiSim, Modelsim, Quartus, Xilinix, Nios II, Eagle, Matlab, Synplify

· Strong IP knowledge with Cisco “configuration of Ethernet Switches, Routers and Firewalls”

· Professional in using office and document management software like MS Office suit, Project, Visio and others in order to reflect professional documentation and customer & Internal communication format.

Voluntary Work

2006 - 2007 President and founding member of the Social Club UOK

2005 - 2008 An Active Participant in many activities at University of Kalamoon (Events Planning, Coordination, Management, and Execution).

2004 – 2005 President of the executive committee of the Environment and Life Club UOK

2004 Doing some surveys about students’ habits and behaviors UOK

2003 - 2004 Member in Students' Government Association UOK

Languages

· Arabic (Native)

· English Fluent, Holder of 6.5 in IELTS test (Academic module)

· French (intermediate)

· German (Beginner)

· Spanish (Beginner)

Note: Letters of Recommendation and References are available upon request