Kais - Consultant COREL DRAW

2005 – Present: Research and Studies Telecommunications Centre, Tunisia (CERT), EMC department
1. Setting up the EMC laboratory CERT-LABs
• Participation in preparation of a profitability study of the EMC laboratory
• Participation in launching international tenders for the purchase of the 10 m semi-anechoic room, test setups and measurement equipments
• Participation in technical acceptance of equipments and setups
• Participation in working groups concerned with the transposition of European directives
• Participation in the development of several EMC technical procedures (CISPR 22, EN 61000-4-X series, EN 61000-3-X series, BCI, CISPR 25, etc)
• Participation in the development of quality manual for laboratory management according to ISO 17025
• Participation in the development of quality procedures and forms according to ISO 17025
• Participation in developing software utilities for test equipments manipulation via GPIB/LAN/USB/RS232 ports and SCPI commands (programming spectrum analysers, generators, audio analysers, etc using NI 488 or Agilent IO)
• Participation in developing a software utility for quality management
• Preparation of test report template and measurement sheets

2. Practical laboratory experience
• Management and coaching of technical EMC staff
• Vast experience working with EMC Test Facility: EMI receivers, generators, wattmeters, antennas, ESD, transients, etc.
• Proficient with EMC emission and immunity standards (IEC 61000-4-X, IEC 61000-3-X, CISPR22, CISPR24, CISPR 25, ISO 7637-2, …)
• Proficient with EMC/EMI softwares, EMTest softwares and Winkratos (ATT climatic chamber software)
• Analyse EMC problems: detecting excessive radiated emissions with current probe, radiated emissions at the level of PCB and cables, common and differential modes problems, good practices for shielded cables, clock radiations problems and solutions, investigation with near-field probes, …
• Knowledge of EMC for installations
• PCB Design: grounding, filters, transorbs, varistors, X and Y capacitors, ferrites, shielding, …
• EMC automotive testing: CISPR 25, ISO 7637-X, ISO 11452-X, ISO 10605, automotive tender books (SCANIA, Ford,...), Reverberating chamber (IEC 61000-4-21), e/E marking, automotive directive, ...
• Participation inside the Tunisian TC77 comity to IEC standardisation activity (77/456/CD, 77/457/CD, 77/418/CD, 77/450/CDV)
• Collaboration with ITU: regional laboratory project for African and Arab regions, joint workshops organisation, several theoretical and practical EMC courses given to ITU delegates, knowledge of ITU EMC K-recommendations
• Test reports writing or validation
• Capacity of making EMC tests in extreme climatic conditions (ATT Discovery climatic chamber) for some automotive tender books
• Semi-anechoic chamber, shielded rooms, reverberating chamber
• Knowledge about metrology for EMC equipments: Gamac software for equipments management, component test software (cable loss, coupling factor,...), antenna factor, VNA (S parameters), ...
• Participation in laboratory equipments inventory
• EMC Standards monitoring and technical procedures update
• Technical and management coordination with customers and development of commercial quotes.
• Vast knowledge of CE marking process, European directives

3. Relational inside EMC community
• Vast knowledge of EMC equipments’ brands and prices (new or used equipments)
• Establishing links with renamed laboratories (Emitech & LCIE in France and AT4Wireless in Spain)
• Establishing links with EMC equipments providers (SIEPEL, Frankonia, ETS, Accsys, Hemera, EMTest, Alava, TTM/Agilent, R&S, AR, Würth, MasterTech …)
• Good relationships with several EMC experts
• Active inside EMC specialised web forums

2002 – 2005: Research and Studies Telecommunications Centre, Tunisia (CERT), Multimedia and computer vision department
Research engineer at the department of multimedia and computer vision:
• Development of a video surveillance applications for road traffic management & license plate recognition
• Opportunity study for smart camera
• Multimedia libraries: opencv, directshow, montivision, matlab, etc
• Publication of some scientific papers (IEEE, SPIE, TAIMA, etc)