Saad Essahli

My last two years of self-development and entrepreneurship experience served me mainly for human self-development. During my entire life, I was focused on technical development only. Then, at some point, I realized that I need to tackle intensely my social skills and all other aspects of my human development. I can't conceptualize my life and my career without this experience. It was inevitable. I am amazed, specially that I succeeded it very largely. It was going to be much better if it didn't influence my scientific career. I did my ultimate maximum to keep my scientific career up while taking this human experience, but on the 1st of Mars 2021, I was forced to leave my scientific career and jump into this experience, not just partially but entirely. I am so much happy and grateful after all.

As for now, I feel very confident that I have all the hard and soft skills needed to succeed in both, personal and professional life. I wish to get valued and rewarded for my efforts. I believe there are many professional leaders out there who would offer me an opportunity that will enable me to demonstrate my full potential. Yes, I truly wish a job where I can "demonstrate my full potential". 

Only if you allow, otherwise my apology, I wish to say that my goal IS NOT AT ALL to identify with a valuable professional position so that I can sell myself better in the society or compensate my inner worth. Yes, still, me or any common sense person would enjoy a valuable position that corresponds to his/her studies, for the benefits it brings with it. However, my main goal, for the third time I wish to say it, is to have an opportunity where I can demonstrate my full potential. A position where I can feel I am truly relied on to produce value for my team through my full potential.

I am quite selective about the job opportunities, because I wish to make sure I will be strongly motivated and engaged so that I can rise my professional value intensely, through high level of productivity, strong integration and mental/physical investment into learning the needed skills.

As for technical tools, for the sake of focusing my energy better, once I know the position requirements, I would need couple of weeks to update my knowledge appropriately. I left engineering around five years now. I became far more oriented toward soft skills and scientific communications than coding. Technical tools, including programming languages, are not the core of my profession or passion, but I can learn them quite easily as I did before, whenever a job activity requires that.

My scientific research produced a novel methodology to gain control over the mean square error for PMOR, which is a tool used to improve model simulation efficiency. Before my work, PMOR had no feature to control the mean square error. The conference paper I published in early 2021, present to solution to that relies on multi-fidelity technique, in particular MLMC, in order to gain error control back while benefiting from the PMOR efficiency. This experience improved my analysis significantly, as well as my articulation and work valuation skills.

During my engineering studies, I could develop diverse technical skills. These skills were taught in
different courses, of which, one was on embedded hardware-software programming. As part of this
course, a variety of practical knowledge on co-design (software-hardware design), logical modeling and
VHDL design were taught. In addition, another course was devoted to DSP implementation. It had
focused on signal-processing programming techniques. And as project, we have developed a software pipeline for floating-point computations, in assembly code, and then implemented it on a multicore architecture. Furthermore, another course was on embedded system testing, during which, we studied different skills on the V-model development of embedded software, and then we implemented different unit tests on IBM tool, RTRT. Finally, another course was on the repetitive tasks automation used in the time optimization of the design, the verification and the test of the integrated circuits, digital circuits as well as the embedded software. And at the end, a project was accomplished using TCL language. 

As for my graduation project, it was titled «Design of an embedded acquisition-storage system for high-frequency multi-sensor data». The goal was to design a high-frequency acquisition-storage system that enables to acquire data, process it and then save it on a non-volatile memory in real time. However, the higher frequency acquisition comes with more storage latencies (e.g. when writing an actual block, or erasing the memory-card internal buffer) and significant energy consumption. To Fulfill the specifications, a dual-mcu architecture was implemented with a buffer that absorb the NVM latencies. This was accomplished in half of the period agreed only.  In the second half, a second version of the system got implemented, which integrated more advanced specifications. These advanced specifications implied the need for FPGA implementation. This implementation included an FSM that controls the system as well as two 18bits SPI cores that allow to improve the acquisition resolution (i.e. instead of the 16bits SPI used on the dual-mcu version). Moreover, other channels were added and managed in real time (e.g. encoders, digital signals). These added channels require more buffering memory, that was implemented on SDRAM, to absorb the latencies. Furthermore, a wireless communication was established so as to evaluate the stored data in real time. Finally, different design automations and data extraction were developed in Python along with the project.

My career journey started by an engineering graduation project that is focused on embedded systems. Following that, I succeeded two years of scientific research in stochastic modeling and simulation of electromagnetic and electrical systems. My work was published in IMS2021. Following two years of self-development, Re-initiating my career through the opportunity you offer fits my professional interests perfectly.