1205 Rue Ouimet, Apt. 12 Montréal, Québec Canada, H4L 3P8 Fakher OUESLATI oueslati.fakher@gmail.com (+1) 514 465-6800 Website: www.fakheroueslati.com LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/fakheroueslati EDUCATION Master of Science in Telecommunications (CGPA=4.1/4.3). INRS (University of Quebec). National Diploma in Telecommunications Engineering. Equivalent to a B. Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Higher School of Communication of Tunis (SUP’COM). 2013 - Jan. 2015 Montréal, QC, Canada 2009 - 2012 Tunis, Tunisia PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Ericsson Canada Montréal, QC, Canada Junior innovation Professional, Internship Sep. 2014 – Dec. 2014  Improved the performance of a Cloud IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)  Reduced the call establishment latency by more than 80% by adding a new feature inspired from the Thread Pool Pattern, by correcting some bugs and by improving several parts of the implementation.  Keywords: IMS, SIP, C++, Distributed Systems, Git. INRS in collaboration with Summit-Tech Montréal, QC, Canada Research assistant Jan. 2013 - Sep. 2014  Improved the quality of the Video of WebRTC and a VVOIP application developed by Summit-Tech by proposing and implementing a new congestion control and rate adaptation algorithm.  Keywords: WebRTC, Gstreamer, x264, JavaScript, C, C++, RTP/RTCP, SIP, SDP, RCS. QoS Design (Software company specialized in telecommunications products) Oct. - Dec. 2012 Software engineer, Contractor Tunis, Tunisia  Led and trained a small team of engineers.  Started the design and the development of an optical fiber network automatic planning solution.  Keywords: FTTx, Network planning, GIS, JEE, Openlayers, Vaadin. Université du Québec à Montréal Montréal, QC, Canada R&D Engineer, Internship Feb. - Aug. 2012  Optimized the needed time to configure OpenFlow switches by 31% and reduced the used bandwidth by 17% by designing and implementing a network management solution based on NETCONF and OF-Config protocols.  Keywords: SDN, Openflow, NETCONF, OF-Confg, YANG, Network Processor (EZchip). NGI Maghreb (Software company specialized in Geographical Information Systems) Tunis, Tunisia Software Engineer, Internship Summer 2011  Proposed an efficient solution to integrate the interactive map of the company in android and iOS devices.  Designed and developed a mobile application (Android) that provides location based services and GPS navigation.  Keywords: Android, Java, Adobe Flex Mobile, OpenScales, WMS, SOAP, Webservice, GIS, LBS. NGI Maghreb (Software company specialized in Geographical Information Systems) Tunis, Tunisia Software Developer, Internship Summer 2010  Designed and developed a Rich Internet Application that displays the interactive map of the company and provides location based services.  Keywords: Java, Adobe Flex, OpenScales, SOAP, Webservice, GIS, LBS. ACADEMIC & PERSONAL PROJECTS Distributed Multimedia Test Bed:  Implemented a prototype of a Distributed Multimedia Tet Bed that allows to perform automated voice and video quality measurements.  Keywords: Distributed Systems, Java, Gstreamer, x264, Opus, RabbitMQ, Git, JSON, XML/XSD, QoS. 1/2 Smart Mobile Radio:  Developed a prototype of a smart radio.  Proposed a new algorithm to recognize the type of the surrounding environment using machine learning.  Keywords: JEE, Android, Gstreamer, Tomcat server, REST, Jersey, Machine Learning. Project of course MGR840 - Mobility and IP telephony:  Deployed and established the architecture of an IP network supporting VoIP and DASH services.  Installed and configured an Asterisk server, VoIP softphones, and the network emulator Dummynet.  Performed several quality of service and quality of experience tests.  Keywords: Asterisk, MPEG-DASH, Dummynet, Apache server, FreeBSD, Linux. (For older projects, please visit my website) CERTIFICATIONS Cisco: CCNA Exploration (4 certificates) TOEIC: Score 870/990 NETWORKS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SKILLS Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, SIP/SDP, RTP/RTCP, IPv6, OpenFlow, OF-Config, NETCONF. Networks: IMS, Cellular networks (LTE/EPC, UMTS), WLAN, Software Defined Networks (SDN). COMPUTER SCIENCE SKILLS Application Lifecycle Management: Agile Methodologies (SCRUM), Microsoft Project. Web development: Flex, HTML5/ CSS3, JavaScript, Django, Symfony2. Languages: Java, C++, C, Python, C#, PHP5, Ruby, Matlab. Web services: REST, SOAP. Mobile application development: Android. Databases: MySQL. Operation System: Linux (Ubuntu, OpenSuse), Windows. HONORS & AWARDS African Social Venture Prize (Entrepreneurship competition organized by Orange)  Selected as one of the top 10 projects out of 436 from all over Africa. Challenge MED In Tunis Sup'Com (INRIA in Sophia Antipolis - France)  2nd prize. Nov. 2012 Jul. 2011 Imagine Cup 2011 (Software development competition organized by Microsoft)  Developed with my team a mobile application that uses augmented reality.  3rd prize and selected as the best project for improving the economy. May 2011 Challenge Entrepreneurship project 2011 by Sup’Com (Entrepreneurship competition)  Winner team. Apr. 2011 CONFERENCE AND TRAININGS Savoir Affaires, Lanaudière et Les Laurentides Québec, Canada -Entrepreneurship trainings, teamwork and business plan competitions (1 week) 2014 IMPACT! Youth Conference for Sustainability Leadership (4 days) Ontario, Canada -Among 175 college and university students chosen from more than 730 applicants across Canada. 2014 LANGUAGES English French Good Fluency (TOEIC, score 870) Fluent Arabic German Native language Beginner 2/2